While Strawberry Panic is definitely amusing in that trashy way ( ), I'd say my favorites right after SKU are Noir, Rose of Versailles and Simoun. In that order. Most probably.

...Strawberry Panic, and thought that it was pretty much what marimite should've been.

A bit off-topic, but I couldn't help but type my disagreement. d: Strawberry Panic is far from anything I'd call good (which doesn't mean it's not entertaining). Marimite, on the other hand, has some quality within it. It definitely took itself much more seriously and in the end, I feel the story wasn't intended to be about yuri in the lesbian sense, but the yuri in the best friend or person I admire way (yuri just clumps it all together). From that perspective, it delivered well. Though comparing these two anime is like saying night and day have something in common. Hmm. I've enjoyed both, but I don't find neither exceptionally excellent to recommend it.

Mine would be,Rose of Versailles,Kiddy grade,xxxHOLiC,Gurren lagan,Sakura wars and Strawberry panic.

Arki wrote:

...Strawberry Panic, and thought that it was pretty much what marimite should've been.

A bit off-topic, but I couldn't help but type my disagreement. d: Strawberry Panic is far from anything I'd call good (which doesn't mean it's not entertaining). Marimite, on the other hand, has some quality within it. It definitely took itself much more seriously and in the end, I feel the story wasn't intended to be about yuri in the lesbian sense, but the yuri in the best friend or person I admire way (yuri just clumps it all together). From that perspective, it delivered well. Though comparing these two anime is like saying night and day have something in common. Hmm. I've enjoyed both, but I don't find neither exceptionally excellent to recommend it.

I second this. I love Strawberry Panic (I've got the second volume of the light novel in front of me as we speak, and I'll be writing a book report on it eventually.) But my love for it is like how one might see a sexy, but cheap, whore. I'd like to fuck her, but I don't respect her, and I don't pretend to.

Marimite on the other hand, is a perfect, beautiful who always has something intelligent to say.


For my second favorite anime, it would have to be either Clannad, Air, or Kanon. Two of my friends have been obsessed with Utena as well at some point in time, and I'm the only one out of the three of us who hasn't lost interest in Utena to devout their love to visual novels and visual novel based anime. Not that I like these anime any less because of this. There's nothing wrong with being second to my longest lasting obsession!

Though if Fate/Stay Night ever comes out with an anime that comes even remotely close to comparing to the visual novel, SKU might have a run for it's money! Not that that will ever happen.

Noir, Slayers, Orphen, Boogiepop Phantom, Evangelion, Escaflowne.... I like a lot of varied stuff. But Utena's definitely at the top. Always.

I think i'll like hack//sign instead.

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OnlyInThisLight wrote:

Probably CowBoy Bebop, for all the nostalgic love I still carry for it.

Offtopic-ish, but I always find it so mind blowing and awesome that my art history teacher loves Cowboy Bebop. He always has a CD in his car even.
(Better yet, he's interested in Utena. Which is pretty cool, and he wants some music to listen to of it and namely Seazer. I need to get on this.)

So there is SKU.

And here's my anime top 5 that doesn't include Utena (in pretty much the same order too):
1. Haibane Renmei
2. Dennou Coil
3. Kino's Journey
4. Lain
5. .hack//SIGN / Evangelion

Augh, but it's hard to choose. I think my top three is the only thing I'm really sure of. 

Whitout Utena, my fav's look like this:

1. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
2. Perfect Blue
3. Grenadier
4. Neon Genesis Evangelion
5. Death Note
6. Detective Conan
7. Samurai Pizza Cats
8. Aeon Flux
9. School Rumble
10. Golden Boy
+1 Gantz

Naturally, with Utena included, everything moves down a notch:)

By the way:
I LOVE YOU omg_fandom, THAT SITE IS JUST WHAT I NEED!!!!

I've only ever seen one other anime in my life, and that would be Yami no Matsuei, so I suppose that'd be my favorite.

There are plenty of shows I've enjoyed, but for old favorites that still come out on top, it's hard to beat Martian Successor Nadesico and Trigun.  They both start as fairly silly shows - which means it's hard to introduce them to the sort of friends who are used to things like Haibane Renmei - but they manage to get surprising depth on some interesting and tricky topics.  Utena's still the absolute favorite, but it's been a tough call at times.

I tend to watch a lot of stuff, but the two that I'd probably put in my top three with Utena haven't been mentioned yet.  Nana is fucking awesome; the art, the music, the romance (not to mention the sexiness involved therein).  The other one I'd note is Tsukihime: Lunar Legend.  Don't judge the show by its eroge origins.  I'm still not entirely sure what the fuck happened at a couple points, cause they were cramming a lot of content into 13 eps, but I pretty much sat in my room for two days afterwards just absorbing the ending.  How do I do spoiler text here, lol?  I can't talk about it very easily without it...