Hello and welcome everybody to episode 19 of the podcast.
I'm Michael, and we are the Knights of Entertainment, a podcast covering topical news and deep dives
into your favorite and unknown comic books, movies, games, and more weekly.
We appreciate you tuning in and hope you enjoy the show.
This is what we are covering tonight.
We are covering a list put together here by IGN, the top 25 anime, according to them,
and they're experts of all time.
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Now let's get into this.
So after Noe's dive into the list episode that we did last week of the highest grossing
conglomerates, we had me looking at different things throughout the week.
And rabbit holes deep.
It is.
And I had something else planned for today that I was going to go into.
But honestly, in this list, you couldn't get out IGN and they claim this is the top 25
anime of all time, according to their experts.
And God forbid, I'm scared to know what their experts watch because it's not anime.
And just by looking at the list now, the fact that one of these is at the very bottom and
not at the top three is already like, yo.
Yeah, it was shocking.
And it proves to me that they do not watch anime and they have no idea what they're actually
talking about.
So yeah, if you ever see articles on IGN for anything, you kind of doubt it.
With a face tag with a grain of salt.
Just a little bit.
So all righty.
Number 25, we have Haikyuu.
This is, I don't know how they chose this for number 20.
It's some volleyball shit, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
The summary of this show is ever since having witnessed the little giant and his astonishing
skills on the volleyball court, Shouyo Hinata has been bewitched by the dynamic nature of
the sport.
Even though his attempt to make his debut as a volleyball regular during a middle school
tournament went up in flames, he longs to prove that his less than impressive height
ceases to be a hindrance in the face of his sheer will and perseverance.
When Hinata enrols in Karasuno High School, the little giant's alma mater, he believes
that he is one step closer to his goal of becoming a professional volleyball player.
Although the school only retains a shadow of its former glory, Hinata's conviction
isn't shaken until he learns that Tobio Kageyama, the prodigy who humiliated Hinata's middle
school volleyball team in a crushing defeat, is now his teammate.
To fulfill his desire of leaving a mark on the realm of volleyball, so often regarded
as the domain of the tall and the strong, Hinata must smooth out his differences with
Kageyama.
Only when Hinata learns what it takes to be part of a team will he be able to join the
race to the top in earnest.
So IGN labels this as number 25.
Don't get me wrong, I know it's a very popular anime in general.
According to MyAnimeList, it's ranked number 151.
God dang!
They sure, they sure, that's quite a difference in junket.
The popularity number, so how popular it is among users of MyAnimeList?
It's like, my picks are number one, they pick it 547.
Oh my god dang!
Haikyuu's popularity number is number 36, so it's a little bit closer.
It's viewer rating score is an 8.44 out of 10, so not horrible.
They love that shit, man.
Don't get me wrong, I know it's a popular show, but top 25 of all time?
That's a bit of a stretch.
And they have a member count on MyAnimeList of 1,841,238.
People that watch it?
Regularly?
Yeah, that's part of the forums and stuff.
So don't get me wrong, it's not a low number, but 25 of all time?
Jesus.
Next we got number 24, Trigun.
Trigun?
It's got Vash the Stampede is a man with a 60 billion bounty on his head.
He's a merciless villain who lays waste to all those who oppose him and flattens entire
cities for fun, garnering him the title of the humanoid typhoon.
He leaves a thrall of death and destruction wherever he goes and anyone can count themselves
dead if they so much as make eye contact.
Or so the rumors say.
He's just really clumsy.
In actuality, Vash is a huge softy who claims to have never taken a life and avoids violence
at all costs.
With his crazy donut obsession and buffoonish attitude and toe, Vash traverses the wasteland
of the planet Gunsmoke, all the while followed by two insurance agents, Meryl Streiff and
Millie Thompson, who attempt to minimize his impact on the public.
But soon their misadventures evolve into life or death situations as a group of legendary
assassins are summoned to bring about suffering to the trio.
Vash's agonizing past will be unraveled as his morality and principles pushed to the
breaking point.
They rank this number 24.
So apparently, if I remember, this is actually, it's a colony, like from Earth, that ended
up on this planet.
And I think they lost their memories about it or something.
So it's just like, it's an interesting trope to like, they're technically from Earth, but
they decided to set it into a completely distant planet.
Right.
And I think Vash and someone else, like his brother, are the two that actually remember
what happened.
Really?
I can't remember.
It's been a long time.
And don't get me wrong, again, Trigun is.
It's gold.
It's a really good anime.
And to be honest, I'd probably move it up a little bit.
I wouldn't leave it at number 24.
Yeah, put it to number 23.
No, it's good.
I mean, compared to Haikyuu, I mean, Haikyuu is not really, I don't think it's, it hasn't
like proven itself yet.
I don't think.
They added that Ukrainian woman, you know, that football chick?
She's like six foot two.
And she was all over TikTok.
Yeah.
They put her on the show.
Then I'd watch it.
They rank Trigun number 24, my anime list puts it at number 318.
Damn.
Popularity, number 247.
Has a rating of 8.22 out of 10 and has a member list on my anime list of 714,651.
So less.
Yeah.
So why get higher?
Next up.
Here we go.
Everybody fucking brace yourselves.
I just saw the picture for this one.
Hold onto your seats.
They put Dragon Ball Z at number 23.
Jesus.
I don't even have to go in to tell everybody about Dragon Ball Z. Everybody knows what
Dragon Ball Z is.
Dragon Ball Z pretty much, unless you count Akira, Dragon Ball Z was what spun or grew
the anime obsession in America.
Yeah.
Everybody knows who Goku is.
Goku is one of the most-
I guess Pokemon too.
Fuck.
I forgot about Pokemon.
Yeah.
Dragon Ball Z came out before that though.
Yeah.
When it started showing on Cartoon Network.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pokemon was like the king.
And then I kind of just went over one day to Cartoon Network, right?
And I was like, what is this shit?
And every day I'm like, I gotta watch more of this shit.
And then before you know it, here we are.
And then my friend, every day after the show, they were back to back on each other.
They were head to head.
They'd be like, hey, you see Pokemon today?
I'm like, bitch, I'm watching Dragon Ball Z. They got time for Pokemon.
Just the one thing I remember is one of the very first shows I had ever seen.
I remember being a kid before I even knew what anime was.
Yeah.
I remember him running down the dragon's back road or whatever.
Oh yeah.
On the commercial.
Or not when he died.
Yeah.
I remember the 57 episode of him fighting Frieza, the longest fucking buildup to a fight
I've ever seen in my life.
And he went super saiyan.
They put it at number 23 though.
And my anime list, it's ranked number 390.
390?
That's even worse.
Popular number is 109.
What the hell?
It's got a score of 816.
And its members are within my anime list or whatever.
One million one hundred and sixty two thousand one hundred and two at the time of this recording.
Huh, that's weird.
So I guess it's been a long time with Dragon Ball Z.
But I'm going to give it some credit here.
My anime list and like the popular numbers and stuff like that for my anime list specifically,
a lot of it is by user ratings and the numbers.
So it's like a weighted score.
So it's a little bit different.
But if we're going top 25 anime of all time, we're not going by popularity.
It's at least at number three.
Top five for cartless.
Next up we have My Hero Academia.
Everybody knows what My Hero Academia is.
We have Deku trying to be a hero.
Yeah, with no powers.
Like I don't even have to elaborate.
They all got that meme where he's like, this is it.
This is the moment I'm going to change my whole future.
I'm going to be a hero.
And then he trips like it's over.
Everything's lost.
And then Bakugo beats the shit out of him constantly.
But everybody knows of my name.
What's that one guy's name?
The big American guy?
Oh, All Might.
That's my boy right there.
All Might.
He beats the shit out of all of them.
But everybody knows what it is.
Being ranked number 22 is actually quite surprising because it does have a huge following right
now because it's so easy to piss off the My Hero Academia fandom.
Hey guys, I hear you guys are awesome.
You guys are the best fan base of all time.
Don't come after me.
They are ranked on the My Anime list 732.
What?
I don't understand what this My Anime list is.
How many?
Again, it goes by scores.
Oh.
So it's, but in the popularity side, like what actual people watch, it's number six.
Okay.
I'm like, Jesus.
The My Anime list number is always going to be lower than the actual.
By a tremendous amount.
I say that, but in general, like it's a, it's a pretty common trend.
Another number, they're ranked number six score.
They get a 7.9.
I think the reason the number is so low is because there's so many people that watch
it and rate it.
It lowers the number averages.
Oh, they just like fucking a rate bomb.
They do some stuff.
They ruin some games doing that.
Their member list for my, my anime list is 2,837,39,673.
Nice.
So it is quite a bit higher than everything else.
And it almost doubles Dragon Ball Z on that.
Next one.
Hold on.
Let me see.
Let me turn the page.
Let me see.
What the fuck is this?
Go ahead.
What the fuck is this top one?
The next one we have is a anime called Made in Abyss.
I should mention that he, Michael gave me a bunch of pictures of it.
He gets at least an idea of what you, yeah.
Cause there's some that you just know what they are.
Look at this next one.
God, my cousin loves this shit.
Alrighty.
Synopsis, the, the abyss, a gaping chasm stretching down into the depths of the earth, filled with
mysterious creatures and relics from a time long, long lost time.
So the next girlfriend, how did it come to be gaping abyss?
How did it come to be?
What lies at the bottom?
Countless brave individuals known as divers have sought to solve these mysteries of the
abyss fearlessly descending into the dark realms, the best and bravest of the divers,
but the white whistles are held as legends by those who remain on the surface.
I don't know why I'm laughing.
Rico, daughter of a, of the missing white whistle, Eliza, the annihilator aspires to
become like her mother and explore the furthest reaches of the abyss.
However, just a novice red whistle herself, she is only permitted to roam its most upper
layer.
Even so Rico has a chance to encounter with a mysterious robot with the appearance of
an ordinary young boy.
She comes to name him reg and has no recollection.
He has no recollection of the events preceding his discovery.
Certain that the technology to create reg must come from deep within the abyss.
The two decide to venture forth into the chasm and recover his memories and see the bottom
of the great pit with their own eyes.
However, they know not of the harsh reality that is the true existence of the abyss.
So they put this at number 21.
This is not that old of an anime.
It can't be labeled as like a, um, a historical anime top 25.
Oh, all time.
Yeah.
In fact, if it just came out yesterday, all of a sudden it broke the internet.
Right.
I've never even heard of it.
I I've seen it come up through.
I've heard everything else so far.
I've heard it come up through like crunchy roll and stuff, like as a recommendation for
different things.
But it's not like, I don't know, just to me, it doesn't look like something.
There's a bunch of kids just go diving in like cave diving.
So so they decided to call them divers and little kids.
It was like they didn't, they didn't, they didn't decide to do what I would have done
and called the miners miners.
How dare they?
Uh, my, uh, my anime list, it's ranked number 61 popular.
It's even lower than that at number 93.
So it's, it's popular, but not, it's like top 100.
And just in popularity, which is crazy.
I guess I mean, shit, when the pool is $72 billion, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
She's wild.
Uh, it's an 8.66 on the score.
Its members list is 1,267,681.
And I'm going to assume a lot of those are women because you never know.
Yeah.
Got them bronies out there.
Uh, next one, next one, my cousin's fairy jacks off to the stuff practically.
Yeah.
Everybody knows what this is though.
It's Jojo's bizarre adventure.
We have the, where all the memes come from.
Nothing.
No, no, that wasn't, was it?
That wasn't, that wasn't holy.
Holy shit.
Is that from Jojo?
I think it is.
Might be.
I know that they're like the one of the most famous characters is Dio.
Yeah.
Dio.
It's literally where most of the memes come from that we get.
There's a lot that are from Jojo's bizarre adventure.
They rank it number 20.
Oh yeah.
I know what the hat that is him.
That's the holy shit guy.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's him.
And if it was me, I would think that it would be higher because it's, it's so well known.
I wouldn't stay on this show.
I just, I completely dismayed.
I wouldn't give a shit about it.
I'm quick.
I dismissed it.
Well, to be honest, it does get hate or like, so.
Yeah, either you hate it or you fucking love it.
There's no in between.
That's why I'm saying I would assume it would at least be within the top 20, like a little
bit.
I guess it could sit in 20 where they put it, but they're considering the entire series
as 20.
So that's including all the spinoffs and everything.
They've had spinoffs.
Good God.
My anime list ranks at number 742 popular number 69.
Let's see you give me 61.
Number 7.9 and this member's list is 1,544,338.
Punch off breaks in their stands.
Yeah.
Next one.
I assume would be much higher.
Yeah.
I'd be at least a top five as well.
Naruto Shippuden.
Not even the original Naruto.
The second part that was even more popular.
Shippuden.
I don't even have to explain what Naruto is.
Everybody knows what Naruto is.
Yeah.
I'll let you know.
Madara.
See the Madara fights came in Naruto Shippuden.
Yep.
Like how's it number 19?
This actually pisses me off a little bit.
I can't wait to get to the top five to be honest with you.
Just to know what the fuck's going on.
One deserves there.
Just one out of five?
Yeah.
I would say one.
Is it Hamtaro?
No.
It's a billion dollar franchise too.
It is not Hamtaro.
Hamtaro when you work together it's much better.
So Naruto is ranked number 19 on their list.
MyAnimeList ranks it as number 295.
Popular though number 15.
So at least they put it as number 15.
Yeah.
Its score is an 8.25 and its members are 2,309,750.
So it's got a gigantic MyAnimeList base.
Next one.
Again I would have thought this would have been higher.
Death Note.
One of the most popular noir type anime.
Limited series too.
They've never done much else.
No.
I think they've done a couple of extended graphic novels lately.
But that's about it.
I believe so yeah.
Like if you ask somebody what is a give me five anime that I have to watch if I've never
watched it.
What's the Death Note yo?
There was a trend of people using that for Halloween costumes going into school with
that kind of stuff where they had their Death Note binders and stuff for a long ass time.
And again if you ask somebody named top five anime that differently like genres so they're
not all like shonen or something like that.
This is usually in the top five if you've never watched anime to watch.
So I would assume it would at least be a little bit higher than number 18.
You gotta watch One Piece, Bleach, Dragon Ball Z, Death Note.
Naruto.
Naruto that's pretty much it.
Yeah I mean like.
That's the foundation of anime.
Yeah.
Death Note is ranked number 79 on the My Anime list which is pretty damn high compared to
a lot of the others.
Somehow it's behind Made in Abyss though on My Anime list.
Popular though.
It's popular number is number two.
God dang.
Number four is an 8.62 out of 10 and its member base is 3,658,725.
So it is very very well known.
This is another one.
Number 17.
Hold on.
That should be much higher because it is beyond beyond popular.
Attack on Titan.
They put his number 17.
Let's get one thing clear.
He's a war criminal alright.
Let's get that out of the way.
He's a war criminal.
I don't want to hear nothing about you defending.
He's a war criminal.
He's Hitler basically now.
Number 17 though.
Hey man.
As popular as this anime is I would have assumed it would have been top 10.
Somewhere in there.
It's in my ear.
Eren Jaeger.
Everybody has.
Fucking TikTok blew up when the new episodes came out.
You don't even have to have watched anime to know what Attack on Titan is.
If you only watched the anime right and you got to that scene where it's like remember
what he did to your sister.
Don't you remember?
Don't you want to get like when he finally talked his dad into murder.
I was like everyone blew up.
Broke the internet for a day.
My anime list puts it at number 110.
Popular number though.
Number one.
I didn't like the fucking salute they do.
Like I gotta curl my arm up and break it in half.
Like come on now.
Have you seen the last parts so far?
I missed them.
You haven't seen them yet?
No.
They're pretty good.
Score is an 8.53 out of 10 members.
3,687,454.
Jaeger.
I'm in high school host club.
The fuck is that?
Alrighty.
It looks like a knock off of Harry Potter.
Alrighty.
This anime.
Haruhi Fujioka is a studious girl.
Wait.
Wait!
Wait.
I can already.
Let me guess.
She wants to be thought of as intellectual so she becomes a boy and she ends up in a high
school with a little boy.
Is it?
Isn't that bullshit?
Similar.
She has recently enrolled in the prestigious Oran Academy.
One day while looking for a quiet and peaceful place to study, she stumbles across a seemingly
unused music room upon entering Harui, welcomed by the members of the well-known Host Club,
a club in which attractive boys amuse girls from across the entire school.
However, when Tamaki So, the founder and president of the club, startles the bride scholarship
student she accidentally breaks an expensive vase.
With repayment looking difficult for her, the Host Club members come up with the perfect
solution to the girl's problem, work for the club, and ultimately become a host herself.
So she had to pretend to be a dude?
Mistaken for a boy by her peers.
She has to entertain various female students while coping with her fellow hosts' extravagant
personalities.
They put this as number 16 of all time.
You ever heard of this?
I had not either.
My anime list ranks it at number 395.
And the popularity, the popular vote, is only 126.
And the fucking ages look outrageous.
She looks she's 16.
The guy hugging her looks he's 45.
The guy in the back with the glasses looks he's 20.
Those two teenagers look like teenagers.
There's a little kid with a teddy bear or a rabbit.
This is only a show that I would assume females watch because this is not something I could
think of any dude seriously without watching it ironically maybe?
You ever seen that?
I've been looking for this but I cannot find it.
There's a live action series where it's a guy.
And you know those yaoi?
Oh yeah.
It's meta because he knows he's in a yaoi and he's doing his damnedest to stay away
from every there's all the troubles right?
Like him looking into another guy's eyes and he's like no no no and I cannot find it.
It looks fucking it's like a satire of yaoi and I cannot find it anywhere.
It's so fucking funny.
I've seen tik toks.
I watched like eight clips of it and it's like it's so goofy in a good way.
He's trying so hard to escape hooking up with a dude.
I'm trapped in a yaoi world.
I'll be damned if I hook up with a guy.
It's so funny.
This show gets a 8.16 and its members are 1,068,623.
Again how it's number 16 for best anime of all time.
Maybe it's just that good.
You never know.
Maybe it's just that good.
The next one.
It takes a weird fuck.
It turned quick but from high school to hell.
I don't know how this could be.
This right here seems to me more of like a you know what astroturfing is?
You know what grass roots movement is?
Something that comes up from the bottom.
It's got fan support.
Started from the bottom and now we're here?
Astroturf means that you put so much money into it basically and you force it to become
popular.
By force?
That is what I think of whenever I see number 15 on their list which is Devilman Crybaby.
You think it's because Netflix just threw money at it?
I think that Netflix put too much money into it.
They got no choice now.
Imagine spending so much money to go on vacation and then you have to go on vacation and you
don't want to.
But I've at least heard of it and I know what it is.
But number 15 of all time?
That's a little high I think.
If you wanted to put it in the top 30 maybe I could see that.
But there are so many.
Dragon Ball Z should be ahead of this.
We're forgetting this point.
We should be ahead of a lot of stuff.
We're forgetting that Dragon Ball Z and Naruto Shippuden should be both ahead of this.
This is not a better anime than those.
I keep forgetting Dragon Ball Z is way down there.
23.
And we're seeing a bunch of random shit.
Right.
Devilman Crybaby on my name list is ranked 1012.
God dang.
Popularity 129 which is still extremely low.
Because the 7.76 on the score and its member list is 1,063,662.
So it's at least over a million on their anime list members.
Number 14.
I could at least see it.
Yeah it's in the billion dollar franchise.
This should at least be top 10.
Just because of how much money it's made.
Demon Slayer.
The Hinokami Chronicles no less.
Demon Slayer is extremely popular.
It's on the same par of Attack on Titan.
Everybody knows what it is.
You've seen merchandise for it.
You've seen everything associated.
It is the most popular.
You see everyone dressing that weird ass pig costume face all over TikTok with no shirt
on.
Like look at my fucking titties yo.
Yep.
It's if I remember right it is the highest selling of anything in Japan ever.
Of all shows of everything.
Which is crazy.
I don't know.
One Piece.
It's even higher than One Piece on sales.
In sales?
Yes.
But One Piece is like 11 something billion dollar franchise.
Yeah.
And the Demon Slayer is like a quarter of that.
You sure?
Yeah it's above Demon Slayer.
And it's below Dragon Ball Z.
Dragon Ball Z is the highest.
You know?
I think Sailor Moon is the highest anime.
Don't be smirking about One Piece.
I'll be damned.
Top selling manga in Japan.
Demon Slayer finale sells a record 5.17 million.
Well damn it.
Damn it One Piece.
You can get on it.
Drop some fire Oda.
And they sold 11 million copies in 2022.
Hmm.
It's up there.
It's extremely high.
I could at least make the justification for it being on the list though.
Like that's something that would make sense.
It should be on this list somewhere.
Yeah?
Like regardless of what number you want to put it at it should be on the list.
Next one.
It actually makes sense for it to be on here as well.
Hey look at that.
Code Geiss is one of those OG from like the early 20 teens area.
The specific one that is their ranking is number 13 is La Loush of the Rebellion.
It's a specific arc that they're ranking.
Not the entire Code Geiss but just the one part.
Which okay sure.
I think it's the one that's most well known.
So I can at least see it being somewhere in the top 30.
People know what it is.
It's not an unknown anime.
It's ranked number 52 on the MyAnime list so pretty high.
Popular is ranked number 20.
So again really high.
It's got an 8.7 which is extremely high for an anime.
Mostly one that has I'm sure a lot of viewers.
It's members on the MyAnime list is 2,123,455.
Again high fan base.
Everything.
So I can at least make a reasonable assessment that yeah it should be on the list.
Like that's one that they got on here that makes sense.
Next one is Samurai Champloo.
I love that damn show.
Should it be on the list though?
Yes.
At number 12?
That damn good.
Better than Dragon Ball Z?
Well hey that already fucked Dragon Ball Z over.
It's got nothing to do with Dragon Ball Z.
Better than Naruto?
It needs to be on the list though.
Well I like it.
In the top 25?
Or the top 30?
I'm not really going by like what they did because they fucked up this whole placement
anyway.
But I'm just saying on the list.
On the list somewhere.
Yeah it should be.
Okay.
The anime list ranks it as 121, popular 106, score an 8.51 and the members list is 1,171,533.
So again makes some sense.
The next one I've never even heard of this anime.
Yeah I'm looking at the page and I'm like who the fuck are these people?
I have never heard of it.
Bakano is the name of the anime.
I can already tell the one in the middle with that goofy ass hat the main character.
Okay the synopsis for it is during the early 1930s in Chicago the transcontinental train
flying pussyfoot is starting this legendary journey that will leave a trail of blood all
over the country.
At the same time in New York the ambitious scientist Slyzard and his unwilling aide Ennis
are looking for missing bottles of the immortality elixir.
In addition a war between the mafia groups is getting worse.
On board the Adena Avis in 1711 alchemists are about to learn the price of immortality.
Based on the award winning light novels of the same name, Bakano follows several events
that initially seem unrelated both in time and place but are part of a much bigger story
one of alchemy, survival and immortality.
Merging these events together are the kind hearted would be thieves Isaac and Maria.
Contacting various people all of them with their own hidden ambitions and agendas and
creating life long bonds and consequences for everyone involved.
Again I've never heard of this anime.
Ever.
Man no.
Like it doesn't sound horrible but again we're going off of the top 25 anime of all time
and I've never heard.
I guess well I mean shit there's what almost 8 billion people in the world?
There has to be something out there that's you know like if everyone in China liked a
specific thing right it would vastly outnumber our like of it.
Yeah but they're not the ones that created anime so.
Yeah but.
We're going to I mean you could have at least added Akira into it like that's at least something
that's noteworthy.
I thought it was the top series.
It is the top anime of all time.
Oh anime.
The top 25 anime.
I don't know I think they're like looking at like the entire scope of the world viewing
I guess I don't know.
My anime list ranks it as 198 popular 176.
So it's nowhere even near the top.
8.37 score so not a horrible score.
Members 869,000 so this is one that doesn't even have an anime list fandom over a million.
It's under that.
Weird.
It's got that Winnie the Pooh situation going on.
Well you at least know who Winnie the Pooh is.
Yeah but not 72 billion dollars worth of that motherfuck.
This is the kind of anime where I look at it and it's like okay it doesn't sound like
a horrible anime and it sounds like it might be okay to watch but to me whenever you think
top 25 anime of all time as soon as you hear the name you know what it is.
Yeah.
And again I don't I don't know what this is.
Same thing goes to the next one.
Oh you don't know this?
FLCL.
Yeah it came on all the time in cartoon.
You know you see the pedophile by the way come on all the time during uh I know the fuck
if I watched every episode of this it's like five of them.
Ranked number 10.
Yeah.
Of all time.
Yeah I guess it's a it's a classic yeah.
I mean I didn't like it but yeah.
Could you make an argument for it being at least in the top 25 somewhere?
Yeah.
But not number 10.
It was revolutionary but it's fucking weird yo.
Ranked number 543 on the my anime list.
219 unpopular.
Yeah.
8.03 score with a members of 776 thousand.
Man it's fucking weird.
The fucking guitar comes out of his head if I remember.
Oh god.
Next one actually belongs.
I wasn't a robot that came out of his head.
Anyway next one.
The next one actually makes sense and I agree with it.
UU Hakusho.
It's been around forever though.
I see I see what's after that and I can't fucking believe it.
Would you agree UU Hakusho should be on here though?
It's a classic yeah.
Exactly.
That's what it is.
You got Goku, you got Vegeta, you got the red guy and the tall guy.
You got Joey Wheeler and you got Rurouni Kenshin.
Joey Wheeler.
That's what they remind me of.
But again you hear the name UU Hakusho you know what it is.
Like there's no there's no trying to figure out what it is.
My anime list ranks it as 144 unpopular 287.
Score of 8.45 and member list of 645 thousand.
So it's extremely low for it being recognizable.
Next one is in a ways favorite.
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Fucking disgusting.
Number 8.
Does it belong at number 8?
It doesn't belong anywhere.
And he's got it in sight of eyeballs.
I can't stand that shit.
I watched that shit four different times all the way through.
I don't know what the fuck is going on.
Never have known what the fuck is going on.
You know what to be fair even whenever you look at my anime list and you see the recommendations
and stuff most of people are mixed because it's like I don't know what the fuck is going
on.
Yeah I don't know what the fuck is going on.
Nobody does.
It gets a ranking on my anime list of 212 popular 45.
So it's at least got a an argument.
It's a classic quotation marks.
I mean everybody knows what it is by name.
Like regardless of what the story is.
They know it by name and they know it by one very particular scene in a hospital bedroom.
Score of 8.34.
Fucking nasty bastard too.
And members 1,689,257.
Number 7 is another one that I would make a huge argument that should be on here.
Hunter Hunter.
Yeah you got Goku.
You see Goku in the hoes.
You can tell who Goku is in these.
Again I don't have to give a synopsis because everybody for the most part knows what Hunter
Hunter is or at least you've seen you know pictures of it.
My anime list ranks it as number 10 popular number 10 score of a 9.04 and a member list
of 2,607,457.
So the last two Neon Genesis and Hunter Hunter at least belong somewhere in the top 25 because
again when I'm thinking top 25 of all time they're recognizable.
You know what they are and for good or bad they've left their mark.
Just the look, the noise, the face.
I hate Neon Genesis.
God I hate that annoying little bastard.
He's a pervert too.
Number 6 is Mob Psycho 100.
Have you ever heard of this one?
Yeah again I could make a case of it being in the top 25 somewhere.
Like it doesn't not this high up.
I don't hate that high.
My anime list ranks as 131 popular number 33 so again it has a popular side going forward
on this one.
You suck his one piece.
Now that I think about it.
A score of 8.49 a member list of 1,922,032 and now we go on to the top 25.
Let me see.
Hang on hang on.
Okay.
Who do you think the top 5 are?
Top 5?
Well we've been through everything.
Let's see One Punch Man is probably there.
Roni Kenshin maybe.
Sailor Moon is probably there too.
I'm digging deep.
You think Pokemon Digimon maybe?
God I hope not.
Pokemon End Digimon?
I'm just saying.
You would think.
Oh god.
They're anime but they're not like.
Okay I'll give you some credit.
All the ones that you've listed are not on there.
They're not?
Well then what the fuck yo.
So hang on.
Lift up the page so you only see the top as you go okay.
From down going down or going this way or up.
Alrighty so number 5 is Hajime no Aibo or Ippo.
Oh yeah?
Have you ever seen this one right here?
Yeah it's wildly popular.
It makes you want to be a boxer actually.
My anime list ranks it as number 38.
Popular is ranked number 368.
It's a good anime.
It's a real good manga.
But I cannot find a copy to save my life of the manga.
Again do you think it should be top 5?
Somewhere in there?
It's a classic yeah.
8.76?
I mean they already fucked up this whole list so I'm just like yeah why not.
For me I would have put this somewhere in the top 25 but not in the top 5.
To me the anime cause they're all different.
I never like a ranking system.
I'm just like I like that that that.
It's all linear.
But again the top 5 most people can agree on is not going to be most of these.
Maybe one.
It's got a member list of 533,000 so just a little over half a million.
The next one is one I have never heard of.
I'm looking at it.
It's just a dude pointing.
It's called Monster.
This is one that I've never heard of.
The synopsis for it is Dr. Kenzo Itenma, an elite neurosurgeon recently engaged to his
hospital director's daughter, is well on his way to ascending the hospital hierarchy.
That is until one night a seemingly small event changes Dr. Itenma's life forever
while preparing to perform surgery on someone he gets a call from the hospital director
telling him to switch patients and instead perform life-saving brain surgery on a famous
performer.
His fellow doctors, fiance and the hospital director applaud his accomplishment but because
of the switch a poor immigrant worker is dead causing Dr. Itenma to have a crisis of conscience.
So when a similar situation arises Dr. Itenma stands his ground and chooses to perform surgery
on the young boy Johan Liebert instead of the town's mayor.
Unfortunately this choice leads to serious ramifications for Dr. Itenma losing his social
standing being one of them.
However with the mysterious death of the director and two other doctors Dr. Itenma's position
is restored.
With no evidence to convict him he is released and goes on to attain the position of hospital
director.
Nine years later when Dr. Itenma saves the life of a criminal his past comes back to
haunt him once again he comes face to face with a monster he operated on.
He must now embark on a quest of pursuit to make amends for the havoc spread by the one
he saved.
Kenzo So he saved a serial killer?
Johan Yeah.
Kenzo Cool.
I'll check it out.
Kenzo I like me mysteries.
Johan Again number four I would never put this at number four.
My anime list somehow ranks it at number 26.
Kenzo Not bad.
Johan Popular 144 so most people it's like a kawachi maynone.
Score 8.86 and members 98 980,332.
Kenzo God damn.
Johan The next one always gonna be happy about though.
One piece.
We get one piece.
Kenzo The one piece.
Johan Yeah my anime list ranks it as number 56 popular number 21.
Kenzo Wait till it concludes it be number one in everything.
Johan It probably will yes I agree with that.
But this is one.
Kenzo Whenever it's done 52 years from now.
Johan This is one of the ones that I could see being top five regardless.
It's super popular everybody knows.
Kenzo It's also the highest selling manga of all time.
Johan And it's got a 2 million base on my anime list with an 8.69 on the ratings so
it's extremely highly rated.
This is one that if you're going through like bleach, naruto, all the big three and stuff
like that you're gonna find a reason to put it somewhere in the top five if not top ten
regardless of anime of all time.
So this is the one that I actually do agree with.
The next one you could make an argument for but maybe cowboy bebop.
It's a classic.
Johan It's a classic classic but I don't know like as a kid I was like oh and then as I
got older I was like.
Kenzo Again I would put it in the top 25 just because of historical.
Johan Netflix sure fucked it up.
Kenzo You're telling me.
My anime list ranks it as number 39, popular number 43, score of 8.71, member list of 1,743,000.
Again I would rank it somewhere in the top 25 personally but I would not put it at number
2 like there's just no way in hell I'd put it that high.
And the last one is in no way it's favorable, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is number
1.
Johan It's an interesting choice.
Kenzo It's a very interesting choice.
Johan That's a real interesting choice.
I forgot the same Fullmetal Alchemist during my list naming.
Kenzo Yeah I would put it in the top ten but number
one.
Johan Number one of all time?
That's wild.
Kenzo Like you would have to give a good good reason
of it being number one.
My anime list ranks it as number two and popular it is number three though so it's extremely
high on both.
Johan What's number one on those?
On those lists?
Kenzo That's what I'm getting ready to get to right
now.
So this was IGN's listing.
Johan Damn IGN you sure fucked that up.
Kenzo Just a little bit.
Johan I don't know what number system you were going by.
Let's say they kept every single one on that list right?
Kenzo Right.
Johan All you need to do is rearrange the ones
that would be at top five.
Kenzo Yeah.
Johan That's it.
I'll accept all the other ones.
Kenzo Put them in order.
Johan Yeah if you put them in order.
Kenzo Put them in the top five.
Johan Put them in the right order is what we're saying.
Kenzo Maybe it's an April Fool's joke we just didn't
realize.
Johan No this came out the third of March.
Kenzo Well you fucked that up then.
Johan Yeah.
This is the actual my anime list number one through ten.
The list and then we'll have a popular list as well.
Kenzo Go ten ten now.
Johan That's all I'm doing on each one of these
and I'm not going to give in a synopsis or anything because most people know what these
are.
Kenzo Start at ten.
Johan The my anime list number ten is Hunter x Hunter.
Kenzo Okay.
Johan Number nine is Gintama.
Kenzo Don't know what the fuck that is okay.
Johan One of the few that you probably don't.
Number eight is Gintama the final.
Kenzo Don't know what the fuck that is either.
Johan So both of those.
Number seven is Attack on Titan season three part two.
Kenzo Never heard of it.
Johan See this is one over you can't say that because
you know what the...
God like some of the ones that IGN listed.
Number six is this is one that I have not heard of but apparently it is pretty popular.
Number five is the other half of Gintama.
Kenzo Jesus fucking Gintama what the fuck is you doing?
Just put your shit together.
Number four is Steins Gate.
I've actually heard of that.
Johan Yeah it's a weird game too.
Number three is Bleach thousand year blood war.
Kenzo Where the fuck is One Piece?
Number two is Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
Kenzo Where the fuck is One Piece?
Number one is Attack on Titan the final season part one.
Johan That's not fair you need to add them all at
one time.
Don't you be splitting that shit up.
Kenzo Alrighty and then when we go to the popular side
of like what people are actually watching and what they like if we go back.
Johan So we're pretty much doing like the tomato
thing where it's like the audience and the critics.
Kenzo Kind of yeah.
Johan And the critics always like that garbage
and the audience actually likes good movies.
Kenzo Yeah pretty much.
This is the popularity side.
So the number of times that people are watching stuff basically.
From number 10 we have Hunter Hunter again.
Number nine is Tokyo Ghoul which is at least one that I've heard of.
Naruto is number eight.
Number seven is Demon Slayer.
Number six is My Hero Academia.
Number five is One Punch Man or excuse me Sword Art Online.
So that's at least one that everybody knows too compared to a lot of these others.
And then number four is One Punch Man.
Number three is Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood.
Number two is Death Note and number one is Attack on Titan.
Johan Where the fuck is One Piece on these you
dirty sons of bitches.
Kenzo Now now.
Johan You've been lying to me.
Kenzo This is the last list on my anime list and
this is the most favorite ranked by the viewers.
So this is everybody's favorite anime of all time from number one through ten.
Number ten we have Demon Slayer.
Number nine is...
Johan Don't you say Neon Genesis God dang Evangelion.
Don't you dare.
I can see you looked at me I could tell it was going to be that garbage again.
I can't get away from it.
Number eight is Code Geiss.
Johan You just skipped it because I was it wasn't
it.
Son of a bitch.
Number nine.
Number seven is Naruto Shippuden.
Number six is Attack on Titan.
Number five is Death Note.
Number four is Steins Gate.
Johan Damn they love Death Note and Steins Gate.
Kenzo Number three is One Piece.
Johan Yeah.
Kenzo Number two is Hunter Hunter and number one
is Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
Johan What is that?
Fullmetal Alchemist?
Kenzo But these are the most favorite of all the
users for my anime list.
Johan I haven't watched Fullmetal Alchemist and they turned that little gun into a dock.
I haven't watched it since.
Kenzo Now if you notice they didn't list the original
Fullmetal Alchemist.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
Johan Yeah because Brotherhood was the actual manga
adaptation.
Kenzo Yep.
Johan And the original was like I don't give a fuck.
I'll do whatever I want.
Kenzo If I remember right, halfway through the
series they just started making shit up because they didn't have a story to go off of.
Johan I guess so.
Kenzo It's like they put like Game of Thrones
and just ruined everything.
Kenzo Basically yes.
So the most favorite of all users for my anime list at least is whenever I see number one
Fullmetal through you got Hunter Hunter, One Piece, Steins Gate, Death Note, Attack on
Titan, Naruto Shippuden, Code Guys, the one Noe really hates, Neon Genesis, and then Demon
Slayer.
Those are all the ones that I would put in the top 25 and think about how many of those
they did not put on the IGN list.
Johan Man IGN picked a weird qualification system.
I don't know.
Kenzo According to their experts.
Like these are people that basically what they did is they went on to Netflix.
Johan I bet you their experts jacked off to that neon evangelical.
Like you know what scene I'm talking about you nasty fucks.
God I hate that whole fucking series.
Kenzo Is there any that you would put on the list
that didn't even get mentioned?
Johan Yeah, Neon Evangelion Genesis.
Kenzo I'm saying add.
Add not take away.
Johan I can't in words describe to you how much I hate that government.
I gave it four full tries.
I watched every episode and the movie four fucking times in a row.
I can't stand that shit.
Kenzo So like I said if you have any complaints
blame IGN for this shit.
And again this just goes to prove do not ever.
I mean everybody's gonna have their own list on what they like on anime and stuff like
that.
Johan Here's my advice.
Watch whatever you want.
Fuck the rest.
Kenzo I know you do but whenever you label it and you knew this shit was gonna come up
and hit you.
Johan I think they did that just for fun.
Just to troll everybody.
Kenzo 25 of all time.
Johan 25 of all time.
We got Digimon number one.
We got Hamtaro number two.
Kenzo Did you notice Pokemon Digimon they weren't even on the list at all.
Johan They're not really.
Kenzo They're anime.
Johan They are but they're not like.
Kenzo Yu-Gi-Oh wasn't on there?
Johan You're move you're move you're move yeah cause it wasn't.
Kenzo No.
Johan The most popular anime cause as much as a trading
card game as all three of those are or video game whatever you want to consider them as.
Kenzo Or media.
Johan Right.
But they're conglomerates that everybody knows.
As soon as you say the word Pokemon everybody knows what it is.
You can be 90 years old and know what it is.
Kenzo It's legalized animal fighting.
Johan So whenever you say the top 25 anime of all
time by IGN and you don't even list Pokemon anywhere on there it's what got a lot of kids
into anime.
They started off that was their like gateway drawing.
They started playing Pokemon cars and they started watching other anime.
Kenzo You know you made it with South Park Makes Fun
of You.
Johan Yeah.
Ponchikomon.
Kenzo Yeah.
Johan Or Chinpokomon.
Kenzo Chinpokomon yeah.
One of them was just a fucking shoe.
An untied shoe.
And the sad thing is we've gotten so far down with the Pokemon rabbit hole that there's
like trash now as a Pokemon.
Johan They ran out of ideas.
Kenzo Yeah they pretty much did.
But that is everything for the top 25 list by our wonderful
Johan IGN staff.
Kenzo Yeah.
Don't listen to them.
Johan They put a lot of heart into it apparently.
Kenzo Bullshit.
They went to Netflix and found the top rated and that's it.
According to Netflix coworkers and stuff.
Johan God.
It's like we recommend.
Kenzo Netflix doesn't know anime either.
Dumb as fuck as well.
Johan Have you seen the selection of Netflix's anime?
Kenzo No.
I don't give them the time of day.
Johan It is bad.
Bad.
But that is everything we got for today.
If you have any questions comments or anything to add Knights of Entertainment podcast at
gmail.com.
Anything else to add?
Kenzo Yeah.
Neon Evangelion.
I can't even say anymore I'm so fucking mad.
Fuck it.
I hate it.
Johan We'll talk to you guys later.
Bye.
Kenzo Neon Evangelion Genesis.
Fuck you.