Animation Revelation's Top 65 Cartoons (includes anime)

How is it a stretch? The creators themselves have said that they based TT's animation on FLCL. And I'm pretty sure they didn't mean to imply that Eva and PSG are indistinguishable.

Generally, I don't care about such "Top whatever" lists, since I really don't see any point and value in them. This one is certainly no exception. This doesn't have anything to do with the anime they listed, they seem to be fine (as much as I can judge it, as I don't know everything). Of course, they wouldn't include the most obscure shows in existence. And of course, it's obvious that this list was composed by people who are knowledgable about western animation, but not that much abuot anime. But that's exactly why I think that the anime they chose are fine.

But putting The Flintstones, South Park and Rocko's Modern Life above Animaniacs and Freakazoid? What where they thinking? I have expected Ren and Stimpy to be #1 (it's a pleasant surprise that it's not even on this list, though).

The criteria for this list seem kinda strange. They talk about including or not including series based on objective criteria like how important or influential they are or how well they can be enjoyed by the average person, but they're also making plenty of subjective value judgements about the quality of the series. It seems to me that a list of this sort should either be objective or subjective, not a weird mish-mash of the two.

They mentioned FLCL in that last post, yet Excel Saga was on the list. While I do love both of them, FLCL really is bigger then Excel Saga.

It is? That's not what I would've guessed. But then, I'm kind of biased against FLCL, as I see no value in it whatsoever.

I thought their saying FLCL wasn't "big" enough was about it being only six episodes long, and so more of a mini-series than a series series.

Not a big deal that many anime were left out, it just means that haven't watched that much. Of all the anime they had seen but didn't make the cut, their leaving out Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex was the only one I didn't agree with. I didn't agree with putting Excel Saga over FLCL either, but I can forgive that as a difference of taste. But GITS is really just too awesome to be left out like that.

edited 24th Jun '12 9:08:16 PM by shiro_okami

Podcast where they go over their choices for the list, what they would change about it, what shows they'd add, etc.