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Last edit: 2021-12-27
I try to add enlightening commentary, but let's face it:
I'm far from perfect.
For cartoons that are not listed in the encyclopedia please click here.
    EDIT: 2020-12-31
    I have seen two three videos that examine the concept of "classics" from distinctly different perspectives:
  1. Gigguk | Garnt Maneetapho

  2. Mother's Basement | Geoff Thew

  3. Bonsai Pop | Mike ?
EDIT: 2020-04-11
In this video YouTube user Gigguk (Garnt Maneetapho) talks about SAO in the context of gateway anime.
    2 Videos That Share a Common Theme:
  1. "The Greatest Thing Anime Has Done"|Gigguk (Garnt Maneetapho)
  2. "A Love Letter to a Place Further than the Universe" | Isla McTear (Line/link added 2020-06-24)
EDIT: 2020-06-10
3 Different Perspectives On the Importance of The Ending EDIT: 2021-05-10
Geoff Thew ("Mother's Basement") has a fascinating video essay on the concept of "sakuga".
EDIT: 2021-12-27
10 Anime That Are Fantastic But Hard To Recommend
Anime only continues to get more and more mainstream, but these are 10 anime we wouldn't want to recommend even though they're great.
By Jacob Buchalter (posted on cbr.com on 2020, Mar 30)
Seen/Read All (public list)▲▼ Rating▲▼
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie Very good (dub & sub)
Revue Starlight (TV) Excellent (dub), Masterpiece (sub)

  1. Well, this is different; fantasy and reality are comingled.
  2. Well, the humor is surprisingly effective.....
    Audition #2: More is revealed about the various personalities.
  3. 07:00| mark is the paper airplane supposed to be symbolism?
    The last two seconds have interesting symbolism!
  4. So the other six try to cover for the two delinquents!
  5. Friendship & Confidence are restored.
  6. Kaorukko vs. Futaba: Their history is explained.
    • 2 students leave the academy at the end of the 1st year.
    • What is Nana Daiba experiencing?
    • Read Steve Jones' review.
  8. This episode seems to be about Hikari Kagura.
    • The play is a tragedy.
    • Nana learns from both Karen and Junna that change ─ and growth! ─ are inevitable.
  10. Hikari betrays Karen's trust.
  11. Hikari disappears; Karen eventually locates her.
  12. The giraffe breaks the 4th wall.
Ride Your Wave (movie) Masterpiece (dub & sub)
  • CON: The comment at 0:01:45 does not make sense.
  • Ambivalence: The action scene from 1:22:10 to 1:27:50 may be a turn off; you have been warned.....
  • Definitely displays influence of Lu over the wall (movie).
    Click here for image.
  • Pro: The mains are not high school students!
  • Pro: Cute couple.
  • Pro: 0:49:00 | Hinako's joy is just so infectious.
  • 1:27:45 references 0:01:39
  • Because of the last five minutes I am rating the dub at 11/11 (Masterpiece).
  • ADR Director: Stephanie Sheh
Rideback (TV) Very good (dub & sub)
Rilakkuma and Kaoru (stop-motion ONA) Masterpiece (dub & sub)
Go to Slice-of-life (public)
Ringing Bell (movie) Masterpiece
It is good! (Just not for young children, though.)
48 min.s
Robotech (U.S. TV) Very good (dub & edit.dub)
  • Would've rated it higher, 'cept it sorta' petered out during the last part of the series.
  • What sticks in my mind all of these decades later is how:
    1. The animation completely blew the animation of G.I. Joe out of the water;
    2. There were real character deaths; and
    3. Protagonists actually discussed the morality of war.
    Those things never occurred on G.I. Joe ─ never.
To observe without the prism of nostalgia.
Rocket Girls (TV) Very good
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers (TV) Good
Royal Space Force - The Wings of Honnêamise (movie) Very good (dub & sub)
I am seriously conflicted about the character Shitotsugh Lhadatt. The only reason that that I rated it as high as I did was because of the character Riquinni Nonderaiko. The animation, for it's era, is quite interesting.
Rumbling Hearts (TV) Very good
This is for people who like drama; those who need action in their anime will be turned off.
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (OAV) Very good
(The) Sacred Blacksmith (TV) Very good (dub & sub)
Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (TV) Very good
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  • It takes a certain mindset to enjoy a harem series..... Naturally, there's also fan service.
  • Ep.#11 has a rather rather strange discontinuity in the graphics.
  • Ep.#8 at the 20 min. mark employs some clever symbolism with the traffic signal that recalls the ending of Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises:
    Just as Brett voices, one last time, the dream that the two of them could have had a relationship, a policeman raises his baton and symbolically signals a halt. The car’s sudden deceleration presses Brett tantalizingly close to Jake, echoing a number of similar scenes earlier in the novel, but the barrier between them is quite clear now.
  • Some of the humor is actually funny.
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Saga of Tanya the Evil (TV) Very good (dub & sub)

Who's worse? A psychopath, or the Old Testament God?
I would have rated it higher, but the way it ends makes it nothing more than an extended commercial for the light novels.
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