The end of the year is always a good time to reflect on what we’ve seen these past four or so seasons. I’m still in the process of writing up my opinions on the Best of Anime 2006, but I was wondering what everyone else thought. And so, listed below are 99 series that aired in the year 2006 (plus “Other” at the very bottom to make an even 100). I have my suspicions on how people will vote, but I’m very curious to see how this really turns out. Choose your favorite and the winner will get included in next week’s post!
Disclaimer – The methodology that I chose was to include series that:
Even with these requirements, there were still a few minor/kiddie/unpopular shows that I didn’t include. If for some reason you felt that Sasami Mahou Shoujo Club was the best series this year, then you can always vote under “Other.”
Note: This poll will close Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 at 11:59 PM.
The poll is now closed. Official tallies will be announced soon.
haruhi !
Hard to Choose. -_-“””
zegapain :/
Ah crap, voted for the wrong one
Even i know who will win this…. HARUHI OF COURSE!
agrees with cereal…
Suzumiya Haruhi FTW! xD
What can I say? Haruhi’s already influencing the poll results. 😉
This is a tough one, since i’ve watched more than half on the list, picking just one would be an injustice.
haruhi for sure :3
Here’s my “A list” for 2006, according to your ground rules:
Nerima Daikon Brothers
Sugar Sugar Rune
Black Cat
Noein
REC
xxxHolic TV
Zegapain
Kamisama Kazoku
Welcome to the NHK
Kemonozume
I voted for Zegapain on your list, but Kemonozume is a close second for me.
I don’t know if the following series should be on the list, because I don’t know how long they are running, but they are also on my “A list” :
Ghost Hunt
Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
Bakumatsu
Dave B
Tough choice…
Haruhi vs. Ouran
Ouran made me laugh more, Haruhi was cuter though…
I can’t make up my mind!!!
Suzumiya Haruhi. VERY closely followed by Shana and Utawarerumono, for me.
Haruhi vs. Ouran vs. Zegapain for me… I think I’ll just roll a dice or something 🙁
For Suzumiya Haruhi!
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu is the one an only choice!!
like everybody says, cannot decide between Ouran and Suzumiya Haruhi…
but I chose Haruhi anyway.
O__o wow almost impossible to choose for me
black cat vs, Air Gear vs, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu vs, ouran high school host club, vs school rumble -_-‘
Are polls even allowed to have 100 choices? If I had started mass downloading at the beginning of the year or end of last year, then this would be incredibly hard. However, I only started downloading anime during the summer, so there are only few shows that I’ve actually watched. So the choices are limited for me, but still difficult. Suzumiya Haruhi? Mai-Otome? Zero no Tsukaima? Utawarerumono? Fate/Stay Night? Canvas2?
But I’ll pick Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuu’utsu on this one because of the awesomeness of episode 12 😀
It was a little hard to actually choose between Suzumiya, REC, Hatakari Man, and Bartender.
The runaway favourite is probably The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi despite there being other gems, like Noein. 😛
Shana first for me, Haruhi close second, hard to choose between them actually. but if I had to choose for a third it would be even harder, so many that could fall in third place.
i abstained. too hard to decide one winner. a better way to vote should be a ranking system, like rank your top 3 favorites (or probly top 5 cuz of the number of choices). I have a hard time choosing between: haruhi, fate, zegapain, xxxholic
Even though I chose Haruhi, I’m very disappointed on how Mushishi is doing
i really like haruhi..but i have to go with the other haruhi (ouran) cuz i personally think that suzumiya’s gonna win anyways…
Haruhi is the hot favorite among internet yahoos; certainly a cult classic.
However, it seems that NANA is the show most likely to stand the test of time.
I voted for Asatte no Houkou, by the way.
There are a few I like:
Mai-Otome
Simoun
Fate/ stay night
I also liked Suzumiya Haruhi, Strawberry Panic! and .Hack Roots.
All in all I really don’t know what to choose^^
For me it’s a run between Mai-Otome and Simoun^^
Haruhi is the best show in recent 3 or 4 seasons!
wow so hard to just choose 1 …
suzumiya and black lagoon for me 🙂
…tough, but I went ahead with Ouran=D
NOEIN is by far the best show of the year. i cant believe that people still like the ridiculously overrated suzumiya… ~sigh~
wish it’s a multiple voting system. Guess that’s why the question ask for favourite rather than favourites.
I’m not; Suzumiya is one of those shows that will gather an extremely rabid following in a small part of the population.
Other shows may not have as many zealots on their side, but have the advantage of wider appeal.
I still stick by my original prediction; NANA will be the most remembered among the bunch (Honey & Clover doesn’t count; the 2006 run was a sequel).
So hard to choose, forgeting the “haruhi” thing, i choose jyu oh sei, seems not many people saw it. Ouran close enough too.
Tough. Chose BLOOD+ though 😀
Definitely Ouran. ^_^
I chose Mai-Otome, but for me, Haruhi came in close.
I did enjoy Haruhi, but after the 7th episode I started to lose interest. For Otome, I enjoyed it all the way and I’m also enjoying the OVAs.
Stargazer was too short, both the episode number and the length-per-episode, and because of that, it fell out of my A-list despite the better-than-average good storyline and excellent, in my opinion, animation.
Also, with all the titles mentioned in the poll, it just made it harder to choose the anime series I loved the most.
Chose Higurashi…wait only 1%?!
Pyscho lolis ftw anyday…
Tough decision…sukuran nigakki 😀
Its tough but I say Fate/Stay Night. The posters, and playing cards I bought at Conneticon vouch for that. Plus its in fourth place right now. Saber FTW!
simoun, noein, and Solty Rei doesn’t seem to have a huge following
i watched it and liked it but i personally only watched the eps only once.
i really want to not say that haruhi was the best of the best but i can honestly say i watched more than 1 ep more than once, especially ep 12 and i’m sure everyone knows why.
I will have to sit down and actually watch this series again by the ep count that they list via the preview but i’ll do that later
and boy has time flown by, i was looking for Air, too bad kanon isn’t on the list
But due to slow fansubbing (i’m not dissing them, i’m glad it’s subbed at all and i waited for it)the first two shows i mentioned as well as others probably caused these and a few other’s popularity to drop or not even gain motivation. Zegapain is also part of this. now that all the eps are out, i haven’t felt like i wanted to finish the series yet.
then there’s also the 50+ ep shows, i stopped watching blood at around ep 30 and only finished after the last ep was subbed. it was great and all but the length of it made me lose interest
mai otome is pretty high up there, it’s what everyone was expecting what mai hime was going to be.
I am going to go with Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu because right now i can feel like i could watch every single ep over and over if forced too, especially if they show ep 12
Haruhi, but Haruhi of Oran High School Host Club! 8)
Haruhi will win by a landslide.
For me, I’ll break down into seasons.
Fall 2006
Best – Mai-Otome (if only Rozen Maiden was 26 episodes…)
Worst – Blood+ (Style over substance? I don’t think so. Though I did pummel through all 50 episodes for the hell of it)
Winter
Best – Magikano (lol I watched it just 2-3 weeks ago)
Worst – Fate/Stay Night (absolute bomb. damn game fanboys)
Spring (asides from Haruhi)
Best – Ouran High School Host Club
Worst – Tsubasa Chronicle 2 (dropped it half-way through)
Summer
Best – Welcome to the NHK!
Worst – Zero no Tsukaima (entertaining at best)
Fall (asides from Kanon and Death Note)
Best – Asatte no Houkou
Worst – Mamoru-kun (watched the 2 subs released this past week, and I’ll conclude that it’s worse than Happiness!, which I just watched an hour ago)
Honorary mentions: Galaxy Angel-rune, CODE GEASS, (upcoming) Rozen Maiden: Ouverture.
Um, do you mean that polls end Wednesday 20th or Friday 22nd?
It’s okay if it’s Friday, gives me more time to think about it. Anyways, my top nominations are:
– Ouran HSHC
– Suzumiya Haruhi
– Fate/Stay Night
– Mai Otome
– School Rumble Nigakki
– Tsubasa Chronicle
^_^ Looks like Haruhi was the obvious choice here; but my feelings are with Fate/Stay Night thanks to Ayako Kawasumi. Since September last year, Fate was one of my most anticipated series of this year. Then when I found that Ayako would be Saber, my heart begins to beep a little faster and faster. Maybe at the end I was a little disappointed with the outcome, but we all knew “that end” was coming.
Right, Haruhi Suzumiya no Yuuutsu was a great hit, yet for me Fate/Stay Night was a… GREATEST HIT
I choose Black Lagoon… Apparently it’s not a popular favorite anime of choice. The reason I didn’t choose Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu is simple. It was the harem-esque element of it… Despite being a girl anime viewer, I greatly prefer awesome gun-fu and mindless action found in Black Lagoon over cosplay rape, a delusional meglomanical god, a possibly gay esper and so on found in SHnY…
I could think of a couple of series that I enjoyed as much or maybe even more than Haruhi, but let’s face it: For quality, Haruhi has it, hands down.
i picked something that was rather mellow, aria the natural, even though i know no one else will probably choose it. Peaceful, enduring and a feel-good anime, there’s nothing else to dislike about this series that is humbly presented this year.
the choice of suzumiya haruhi vs inukami is very hard : (
i know suzumiya haruhi no yuutsu is better, but its just so hard to not vote inukami!
If the vote button actually did anything, I’d vote Mushishi.
It was a toss up between fate stay night and haruhi.. I had to go w/ FSN thouhg.
i choose ouran high school host club
i choose this because i like the ending and funny
i didn’t watch haruhi so i don’t know the story is
haruhi is probably going to win regardless of how i voted, so i voted for school rumble instead XD
although there were some unexpectedly good ones like mushishi
Shakugan no Shana
Canvas2
Zero no Tsukaima
Ouran Host Club
How the hell can you choose i can see 4 awsome ones on theres omg.
Mushishi for Best anime of Life.
All hail Ginko-sama!
I say Mushishi was the best anime of 2006, but closely followed by NHK and Suzumiya..
I absolutely cant stand the bandwagon effect on Haruhi…90% of the time, people will respond as to why the series is good using the exact same rationale as the person whom blogged before them. The joke works well the first few months, but honestly…at least come up with some more original responses…other than “its an original series and Mikuru is uber moe!!!” or “Shes God, how dare you?!?!?!”
::prepares for a rain of pitchforks, torches, and dirty boxers::
Voted for Shakugan no Shana…original plotline, great artwork, smooth action, tickled my philosophical bone, world class voice talent, and plenty of lolicon. All the same reasons I like Haruhi as well coinfidentally, but I think Shana had more balance. Plus, KOTOKO does the OP/OP2…you just cant touch that.
Uta-mono with Fate/stay night trailing
SHnY for its mode of storytelling and re-arrangement of episodes. Terribly brilliant and post-modern. Besides the genki-ness of Haruhi is oh-simply-so-amazing. A+ for mise-en-scene. A+ for narrative. A+ for direction.
FSN for its tragic ending and character designs.
Haruhi.. the best !!
My favorite was fate stay/night. Angel Heart was pretty good to.
i just watched Ergo Proxy and thought the world of it. perhaps i’m biased, i don’t know… but i feel that it was fairly underated. maybe it’s the cyberpunk too, but that doesn’t explain why Ghost in The Shell SAC keeps coming back for more 😀 ah, well…
i know no one else will vote for it but i’m going with Gintama. I never watched Haruhi, nor did i see Blood plus XD but Gintama always brings a smile to my face and after a long day at work or school thats what i need.
I voted for Haruhi because it’s the most enjoyable series I had this year 😀
Honey & Clover, Haruhi and Mushishi are the top 3 for me, with Akagi (noticable absentee, considering I’m almost certain it qualifies given your conditions) and Ouran rounding out the top 5 and Higurashi and ARIA the Natural deserving honourable mentions. I guess it’s no surprise what’s number 1 on your poll and H&C is approximately where I’d expect it, but I am a little disappointed that Mushishi is so low. Makes me suspect not nearly enough people saw it.
Ooops!! Please change my vote from Suzumiya Haruhi to Solty Rei.
Ouran for me. It made me laugh way more than Suzumiya did. I guess it’s because it’s more straightforward than the sometimes confusing storyline of Suzumiya (credits given to Suzumiya for unique story telling though!). Ouran appeals to a wider range of audience than Suzumiya (my guess), but Suzumiya has a larger fanbase. But I’ll vote for Ouran anyday! Kudos for making viewers feel warm and fuzzy inside besides providing a lot of laughter!
we can only choose one? erm I’d go for Strawberry panic..not like I’m a fan for it or anything but I love everything they got there.
Never been too fond of these kind of “pick your favorite” polls, as unfortunately, when you only get to pick once, especially when there’s one choice (coughharuhicough) that you can pretty much guarantee is going to win, some choices which would be #2 or #3 on most people’s lists don’t get the representation they deserve. That said, I voted for my #2 choice, considering my #1 is pretty much guaranteed to win with or without my vote.
I was going to post a personal top ten, but considering I had a hard time finding 10 series on this list that I’ve seen most the episodes of, and there waa a pretty decent drop off in quality and enjoyment around #6 or #7, here’s my top five instead.
1 – Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
2 – Black Lagoon
3 – Mushishi
4 – Muteki Kanban Musume
5 – Ouran High School Host Club
Please note a couple of things. First, this is only representative of my personal enjoyment, as Mushishi would be a resounding #1 if my choices were based on quality. Second, I’d like to note my disappointment at being unable to vote for a series that will have aired 50-odd episodes this year but isn’t on the list. If Keroro Gunsou qualiifed for this poll, it’d probably be my #2.
Voted for Higurashi. No other anime has made me say “fuck” a lot of times while watching. Not even Haruhi. Sorry. I’d like to defy god this time. 😛
hey! where are the Shakugan no Shana fans???
well i voted Shakugan no shana!! i dont know why….
as ‘starcaptor’ said its a great anime of the year! well i dont know why would everyone voted for haruhi…well for some reasons that maybe i just dont know why…
but i’m still loyal to shana!! go shana!!
sigh… Haruhi has got to be one of the most overrated animes i’ve seen. Not to say it isn’t good, because it’s great, but the amount of popularity it’s gotten despite being only 14 episodes with only a few really good ones just boggles my mind.
For me is between Tsubasa Chronicle Vs Zegapain Vs Fate/Stay Night >.
Haruhi.. DUUUUUUH!!
Zegapain or Ergo Proxy. Hard choice.
Ouran High School Host Club was the best for me! 🙂
i had a hard time choosing between the two haruhis :/ But i chose Ouran at the end because of its ending. Ironic because im currently rewatching suzumiya haruhi >.> But ouran was more consistently funny IMO. Though suzumiya haruhi had some good comedy like the baseball episode as well as episodes with blowaway animation quality like the nagato vs class president one.
For me NANA, dEATH NOTE, jIGOKU shoujo, top 3
for me, im torned between ouran and blood+.
but knowing that many will vote for ouran, i’ve decided to choose blood+ =)
still, i think higurashi (talking from the point of a non-higurashi-gamer view) and zegapain also deserves compliments for storyline…
Wow….this may be one of the hardest choices I’ve had to make in my entire lifetime. I think I’ll go with BLOOD+ or Strawberry Panic, since SHnY will get enough love without my vote.
I don’t think this is meant to be a competition, so let’s try not to make it into one :p
A really tough choice betweeen Black lagoon, Simoun an Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu but in the end God knows best 🙂
MOHS, Ouran, Mushishi, NANA and Noein are my favorites on the list. Hard to choose one. I’ll probably go with Ouran, cause that made me laugh the most.
Haruhism Desho Desho?
Of course Ouran High School Host Club. ^-^
Hard choice for me between Ouran and Haruhi…..chose Ouran in the end. =O
Haruhi vs Haruhi!!!
Go Ouran!!!
Hachikuro II here.
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu of course!! I liked Shakugan no Shana too though 😛
A hard choice between H&C and Ouran…. H&CII finally.
haruhi, with nana as a close second.
It wasn’t really easy to pick between Haruhi and ZEGAPAIN… But I ended up going with the least popular one (it surely deserves more attention). Here’s hoping it gets a special spot in your year rankings which I’m looking forward to see 🙂
Well, Shakugan no Shana, I guess. It’s a pretty tight battle for me for MoHS, F/S N, Utawarerumono, Mai-Otome among others, but SnS has left the best impression on me so far. It’s exactly because of it that I’ve been more active in watching anime. Even though I’m convinced that hyped series like MoHS will probably take the cake, my vote goes to what I think is the best anyway.
Cheers.
My favorite of the year must be Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu!!!
This was already foretold that Haruhi would win over everyone after the last episode aired in June. BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!
i wish i could vote more than one ..
hmm .. Mushishi deserve the best anime of the year ..
it was better than haruhi imho ..
Hot news! I think Suzumiya Haruhi is licensed, so here´s the site that could be interesting.
http://asosbrigade.com/
I really hope it´s true. ^^
Hnoey & Clover II for me 🙂
Such a hard question.. but it’s still Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (I actually chose Suzumiya Haruhi however because I missed the Higurashi option at first @_@).
Suzumiya Haruhi CAN EAT IT!!!!!!!!!!! BLACK LAAAAAAGOOOOOOONNNN!!!!!! BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Juuuuuushiiiiiiiiii!!! Akazukin deserves more love.
Suzumiya haruhi for me.
I based my favorites on how well an anime ended. Since, it is such a rarity for Japanese animation to have good endings.
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru got my vote. Its a surprise hit for me, as I usually pass up on this genre. This anime is a reverse Ouran (also better written than Negima), so fans of both series should check out this sleeper hit :p
Haruhi for great justice!
pfft…
that’s the sound I made when I went through the ‘Haruhi’ line.
Of course Haruhi will win! >,
god dmn it! I do that everytime! that > opposite cancels my messege!!!
anyway, I wanted to say that I wanted to vote for haruhi as well, but so many others did. so personally I voted for Canvas2, because nobody will vote for it… and it’s a really good anime.
only for episodes 3 and 5 I would’ve watch the whole series again! ^^
haruhi! i didn’t like it much
Ouran High School Host Club GO!!!
Lots of great ones this year but I love Ouran the best
*votes for Ouran*
I’ve still yet to see Honey & Clover II… 🙁
omg hard to choose….. Shakugan no Shana vs Fate Stay Night?? Also Ouran highschool club vs Zero no Tsukaima… hmm… Ugh can’t decide
i guess ill vote for Fate Stay night to bump it up. Too bad i couldn’t vote for more than one=[. Besides whats so good about Suzumiya Haruhi? I admit it is a good anime but seriously was it THE BEST?
Suzumiya Haruhi was hands down the best show for me with Mushishi & Honey and Clover at close second. Runner ups would be Higurashi,Ouran,Black Lagoon, and Gintama.
I don´t like this kind of a pool because there´s alot of genres here!!you should create pools like this:
Comedy
mecha
romance
school kids
harem –
echii – H
action
parody
drama
best show for kids – hey OMNI SASAMI could be here 😀
fantasy – FATE….etc
horror
best remake – LIKE KANON for example!!
Best game anime – LIKE DISGAEA 😀
Originality – like ( Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu ) or (Yomigaeru Sora – Rescue Wing)
Fiction
and the list goes on…..Sorry i am not going to vote because i liked too many of these ones at the same degree!!And I am convicted that there was too many good ones among them!!
Best classic anime – Ah! My Goddess – Sorezore no Tsubasa 😀
I am an old otaku (30) and with my experience on animes i´d tell you that this year we had a very nice competition!!
PS: the ones i´ve posted on this topic are just for reference….because I HAVE AN OPINION BUT IT´S NOT POSTED HERE 😉
Aw tough choice,i would rather not vote or choose. Because half of the animes from the list are my favourite! 😀
GUYS!!!! check out http://asosbrigade.com/ (news about Haruhi)
what do you think?
it would be Ouran High School
I’m probably the only person who will say Canvas2, I enjoyed it to the point of buying the R2 disks since it will most likely never be released in the U.S. on R1 . . . .
the best show for 2005-2006 that makes me go AooH is Noein, I didn’t feel this stupendous feeling for such a long time..Blood+ is a good anime too, but It doesn’t has that weird story like noein
I’d have to say it’s between Mushishi and Noein. I ended up voting for Mushishi. I enjoyed those two the most. They were definitely well made and had you think afterwards and left an impression, which can’t be said about most shows 🙂
Ouran houhou hosto bu!
OURAN~ i dont know if i liked ouran or haruhi better so i just picked ouran =) haruhi seems to be getting enough votes >
Like many others I had alot of favourites from this year, but in the end I decided to vote for Zegapain. I loved the plot and characters and was certainly one of the gems from the year.
On a side note I’m curious what the polls would look like if it was genre based, like favourite comedy, mecha, etc etc. Since it was really obvious that Haruhi would win any sort of poll haha.
For .
It’s a perfect work!(^^)
2nd:.
3rd: for its mise en scene/cadre.w
And I’m watching ,
with fun.
(–;)Oh, sorry!
Vote for Higurashi.
2nd: Suzumiya Haruhi.
3rd: Galaxy Ange-Rune.
watching with fun: Otome wa Boku ni Koi shiteru,
Yoake mae yoru Ruri iro na.
(Ah! and Negima!?)
Voted for SHnY naturally, though if you had asked which was the best series of 2006 I would have voted for Mushishi(my 2nd favorite this year).
NANA
ugh… im disgusted and the votes for shana, haruhi, Zero and ouran. WTF?? wut happened to concepts like story and directing? Black Lagoon, H and C II, mushishi, NOEIN, fate stay night and utawarerumono was far superior. Why do people follow fads and trends… ~sigh~
The haruhi show was really bad lol… the story made no sense and jumped around every other episode. I just think the character was the charm for most people. I voted for fate but I think Zero definately belongs up there also. The story in zero was fairly original even if you can say it sort of had a matrix feel to it.
To be honest, I watched only two of these shows this season. Nevertheless, chosing between Ouran and Nana is a really difficult task. How can I decide? Ouran was sweet and stuff, with all these jokes, funny characters and absolutely beautiful animation. What a pity they screwed the ending (which I hated). As a result, Nana wins – but those were not the only reasons. The truth is that it’s storyline, unique sense of humour and – let me say it aloud – THE BEST CHARACTERS EVER made me completely and hopelessly fall for this series. Seriousy, I adore it. And the last but not least: Ouran is bound to score high without my vote while Nana definitely deserves more attention than it receives…
Why The Third has 0%? nobody likes this show??
I dont see sumomomo.
I think it needs to be there
Wheres Bleach?
Oh I see. Nva mind:P My bad
i think this poll is too early since there was anime which is not complete aired yet ..
and that anime, should not be voted just because we dont know how the ending is going to be happened .. the ending for anime is including the part must to be aware of to be choosing as the best anime of the year … dont understand what im talking about? then DIE!
BLOOD+ all the way, blood plus for ever!
well, its hard to choose between Welcome to the NHK! or Haruhi….i love both -.-, i guess ill choose NHK.
I cant believe only a few people voted for fate/stay night…Its like the best anime ever! lol…well for me though hehe
It’s a close call between Suzumiya and Ouran for me, but there are other wonderful series as well, like Honey and Clover II, Mushishi, Blood+ and XXX HOLiC.
WAHHH!!!!!! this is impossible! but in da end i went for higurashi =D i liked them all… T.T
Suzumiya Haruhi easily stands out, but I also would have voted for Black Lagoon.
Have to admit, this was a hard one to choose. I could have picked a dozen or more, but ended up going with Mai-Otome.
I choose Ouran, because Haruhi’s going to get a lot of votes anyways (and i liked Ouran better)
I would also vote for Welcome to the NHK! but i heart ouran more
yes it’s a hard decision, I love Suzumiya, but i also loved utawarerumono too, and shakugan no shana. AHHHHHHHHHH,
I guess i’ll choice suzumiya since that one was the most funny to me.
Really tough choice. I feel Zegapain deserves more recognition, but honestly, Haruhi totally blew me away.
Oh my….this is a very difficult choice indeed. I love Fate/Stay Night….I love Utawarerumono and I luuuuuurve Haruhi. So which did vote for? Haruhi of course!
Higurashi for me. I feel in love with that. I am so happy they are going to make the rest of the arcs.
Haruhi will win most likely. It was good as well just didn’t give me the feeling like Higurashi, I hope that it too will have another go.
its so hard to choose..
If I had known no one would have voted for Saiunkoku Monogatari I would have chosen that instead. Surely I can’t be the only one who adores that series? 🙁
Such a difficult decision regardless — Haruhi, Ouran, Mushishi, HachiKuro…all so deliciously wonderful. Mmmmmm. 😀
There are so many great series – Haruhi, Higurashi no naku koro ni, Shakugan no Shana, Zero no Tsukaima, xxxHOLiC, Tsubasa Chronicles, Utawareru Mono, Zegapain, and on and on and on… (and I’m excluding running series here… without that, it would be even longer) – so hard to chose
Guess I go with the series that had the largest wow-effect/was the most touching for me – Canvas 2.
Haruhi.
But does Ichigo Mashimaro counts?
So hard to choose. I don’t see any comments mentioning Strawberry Panic.
God… Ouran or Suzumiya… Suzumiya or Ouran… A hell, both main characters are called Haruhi!
Ouran it is!
🙂
and my vote goes to SuzuHaru!
I voted for Power Puff Girls Z. lol
I can see how people voted for the other top choices and quite frankly, I enjoyed a whole variety of shows this year.
But something about PPGZ was simply lighthearted and just fun to follow. Other “mostly released in 2006” shows I could’ve voted for was Pretty Cure Splash Star.
And Black Jack 21 is another underdog mention with a lot of great drama and action.
I agree with neverwhere. I would’ve voted for Saiunkoku Monogatari if i knew that no one voted for it =/. Saiunkoku Monogatari is very underated 🙁
I’m the 2nd person to vote for Canvas 2. As good as Haruhi was, too many of the episodes followed the same formula. Canvas 2, had relatively fewer throw away episodes than Haruhi did, and serves as model for how erogames should be adapted.
Btw, throw away episodes in Haruhi, baseball and 2nd half of murder mystery island. Delaying the 2nd half to show the baseball episode, effectively killed the atmosphere. 2 episodes for a short series.
Canvas 2 – Principal episode and 24 parody episode. 2 episodes for a long series.
Suzumiya is my one of my favorites, but soukou no starin has to get my vote hands down.
Where is KANON ?
Hmm… very nice. But I think that Black Cat also deserve some vote too. Same with Hanbun.
–a better way to vote should be a ranking system, like rank your top 3 favorites (or probly top 5 cuz of the number of choices).
–wish it’s a multiple voting system. Guess that’s why the question ask for favourite rather than favourites.
–Never been too fond of these kind of “pick your favorite” polls, as unfortunately, when you only get to pick once, especially when there’s one choice (coughharuhicough) that you can pretty much guarantee is going to win, some choices which would be #2 or #3 on most people’s lists don’t get the representation they deserve.
I agree it would be a better way to do it, but I’m limited technologically. If you can show me a WordPress plug-in that does this, then I’ll be glad to use it. Otherwise, I don’t have the time or motivation to code one myself.
–If the vote button actually did anything, I’d vote Mushishi.
Not sure what your problem is, but I believe this voting plug-in doesn’t work for certain browsers. I tested it and it was fine for IE and Firefox, but not Opera.
–On a side note I’m curious what the polls would look like if it was genre based, like favourite comedy, mecha, etc etc. Since it was really obvious that Haruhi would win any sort of poll haha.
That’s too big of a logistical nightmare. Each series can potentially have multiple genres that it belongs to and I’d have to go through all 99 series and figure out what it best represents (and even then I’m sure there’d be tons of controversy). That’s a ton of work that I don’t have time to do.
–I dont see sumomomo.
I think it needs to be there
Did you read the eligibility requirements I wrote up top? Sumomomo Momomo doesn’t qualify because it’s 26 total eps and will have only aired 12 before the end of the year.
–i think this poll is too early since there was anime which is not complete aired yet ..
and that anime, should not be voted just because we dont know how the ending is going to be happened .. the ending for anime is including the part must to be aware of to be choosing as the best anime of the year
Again, read the eligibility requirements I posted above. This is the inherent difficulty of multiple season anime coupled with deciding the best anime of a certain year.
–Where is KANON ?
This was a personal oversight, my apologies. Based on syoboi, I was under the impression Kanon was 26 total episodes, not the 24 it’s supposed to be. If Kanon had indeed been 26, it wouldn’t have made the list because series would have aired exactly 13 episodes, qualifying for the next year (that was the decision I made when I put Shana into this year’s list since Shana was in the same situation last year – though technically Shana has an OVA and several shorts working in its favor too). It’s too late to add it now, but you can vote for Kanon in the favorite Fall 2006 anime poll coming later this week.
Wait, no Musashi? :
Suzumiya Haruhi is totally owning the chart lol
Omni, it would have been easier if we were asked to pick 1 out of 10, but to pick only 1 choice out of 100 is just too hard a task. You should always consider giving people at least 10 choices in a shortlist of 100.
I would be forced to pick just Suzumiya Haruhi and ignore other good and entertaining series like Mai Otome, Honey and Clover II, Strawberry Panic and Shakugan no Shana to name but a few.
As a result, I’ve decided to abstain. I just can’t choose like that.
Too many to choose from. There were quite a few nice titles.
Omni do not bother what the rest suggest to you! I view it as a form of critize instead of advice! People Omni already is very busy and yet he still substain this website! He is a great Guy so don’t give him anymore Suggestion where he do not have the time to do!
Omni I support you all the way =)
C’mon Canvas2! I know you can do it. I’m pullin’ for you. It’s not over till I say it’s over 😀
can’t believe there is only 3% for Utawarerumono
so sad -_-
personally haruhi was a good anime but i thought it was to random and they should have had more episodes
well, haruhi supposed to be better in the 2nd season, but i think for the title ‘the best’ itself will be for the most enjoyable which is haruhi ^^ (as for aesthetics in storytelling and life-lessons, mushishi may be the best, but it’s not a back2back enjoyment, like haruhi or ouran or zegapain) but still.. i chose mushishi lol
Omni, it would have been easier if we were asked to pick 1 out of 10, but to pick only 1 choice out of 100 is just too hard a task. You should always consider giving people at least 10 choices in a shortlist of 100.
I would be forced to pick just Suzumiya Haruhi and ignore other good and entertaining series like Mai Otome, Honey and Clover II, Strawberry Panic and Shakugan no Shana to name but a few.
As a result, I’ve decided to abstain. I just can’t choose like that.
It’s a complete trade-off of how many people I have complaining and what I’m technologically limited to. If I could give people the option of choosing their top 10 out of 100, I would. But as I said before, there’s no plug-in to do that, and I’m not about to write one. Asking people just to write out their top 10 would be hellish to tally and I just don’t have the time for that (never mind the fact that not everyone would speak out).
On the other hand, if I were to personally whittle the list down to the 10 anime I thought deserved the top spot and had people vote on that, I’d get a ton more complaints from people unhappy that their favorite series wasn’t on the list. If you look at the voting, only a handful of series haven’t received at least one vote, meaning that there’s always someone out there who likes a certain series better than anything else.
I truly feel that this method is the best way given the limitations of time and technology, and there have only been a handful of complaints compared to what I could have gotten.
In my opinion, Nana is the best !!! ^^
Ouran..
though i did love Haruhi, Ouran stole my heart ^^
This was hard! I had to choose between Haruhi, Ouran and Nana, but I gave the edge to Haruhi over Nana.. but only slightly! Too bad I couldn’t pick multiple choices. :p
It’s a shame that Suzumiya Haruhi aired this year, because there’s a LOT of good shows that any other year would have been the best. I voted for Haruhi, but after that my favourite has been Otogi Jushi Akazukin, because Tamura Yukari is
fate/stay nigght =)
It would seem that it’s a battle between two Haruhis -.-‘
is it possible to see the vote in numbers instead of percentage?
multiple choices not allowed??? T.T
haruhi…haruhi…fs/n…blood+…shana…nana…mai otome…bokura ga ita…higurashi…scl rumble…T.T
i ll just go for otome, since it was the series i went overboard over when it came to theories…
>>>is it possible to see the vote in numbers instead of percentage?
2528 * .%% = voila. They’re also listed in order of votes, so currently, Otogi Jushi Akazukin (whatever this is lol) has the least votes and has votes.
As for people who’ve abstained, 2528 people don’t agree with you. 🙂
I chose Fate Stay Night…. because of… er character and the feelin i got for the last few episodes…. but still, this could be quite a biased poll. lolx.
>>>2528 * .%% = voila. They’re also listed in order of votes, so currently, Otogi Jushi Akazukin (whatever this is lol) has the least votes and has votes.
that’s not percise enough given the numbers now well over 2500…1% could range from 25-49 votes and anything less than 0% could still have votes in them
i wanna see which 1% and 0% shows are doing better lol
Too many to choose. I wish you can choose 5 or 10 more and let’s rate it from 10 points to 1 points… but oh well *close eye and think hard* Pick Fate/Stay/Night.
Saiunkoku!! Though I doubt any would vote. :p (I wanted to vote for Ouran as well but still… )
OURAN ALL THE WAY!! XD
This has turned into a pretty stellar year for anime… I have a dozen that I’ve enjoyed immensely (REC, Karin, Kanon, Ouran, Bokura, Hatakari, etc). Haruhi owns me, however (or maybe its Yuki, hard to tell) 🙂
Ouran Host club, that was the greatest, too bad no second season
My vote: Fate/stay night-it was the last episode that did it for me. It was very emotional and Saber’s one of my fav anime characters.
Second choice: Ouran Host Club-thoroughly enjoyed it but that was that-pure fun entertainment.
Last choice: Suzumiya Haruhi-very annoying main protagonist. I would’ve enjoyed it more if it weren’t for those hardcore Haruhiists trying to shove the whole ‘Haruhi is God’ business down my throat all the time.
God it was hard to choose between Haruhi and NHK, I chosed Haruhi for Aya Hirano ^^;
Other Great shows of the year were as said
NHK Ni Youkoso
Death Note
Kanon
Black Lagoon
Mushishi
Nana
Zegapain
Definitely Ouran High School Host Club for me.
Some others I liked this year were Honey & Clover II, Black Cat (since it’s on the list), Death Note, Asatte No Houkou, and Bartender.
Ouran High School Host Club just blew me away though.
wanted to pick school rumble and kanon too, but haruhi was just too good for me to overlook
SUZUMIYA HARUHI FTW!! YEAAAH!
but ouran rocks as well! xD
ah crap! i miss the vote! H&C II is numero uno for me next to Nana. Wish Bokura ga Ita was on the list though.
I’ll just rank that top 5 of what I’ve watched FINISH…
5. Zero no Tsukaima (Very likeable Characters)
4. Shakugan no Shana (Great character interactions)
3. Ouran Koukou Host Club (Superb comedy! Funniest show!)
2. Utawarerumono (BEAUTIFUL story and excellent characters!)
1. THE MELANCHOLY OF SUZUMIYA HARUHI !!!! FT-freaking-W!!!
BLOOD+!!
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