Here’s a bunch of top six anime lists starting from present-day and going back to whatever year I can remember enough about to do a list.

Anime is categorized by the year based on when they ended – or in a film’s case, when they were first made available for the English-speaking anime community. Also, whilst I know that series and movies and OVAs and such are different from each other and all that, I can’t be assed to make separate categories for them and I wouldn’t have enough anime to make a top six list for any given year if I did that anyways. No sequels/spinoffs/continuations unless they’re different enough (in a good way) from the original to be worth spotlighting.

2016
1. Your Name
2. Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak Academy
3. Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
4. Mob Psycho 100
5. Planetarian: The Reverie of the Little Planet
6. Yuri on Ice!!

2015
1. Concrete Revolutio
2. When Marnie Was There
3. Sound! Euphonium
4. Noragami Aragoto
5. Garo: The Carved Seal of Flames
6. Attack on Titan: Crimson Bow and Arrow/Wings of Freedom

2014
1. Terror in Resonance
2. Ping Pong: The Animation
3. The Wind Rises
4. Kill la Kill
5. Samurai Flamenco
6. Tokyo Ghoul

2013
1. Aku no Hana
2. Psycho-Pass
3. Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo
4. Garden of Words
5. Danganronpa: The Animation
6. Wolf Children

2012
1. Guilty Crown
2. Sakamichi no Apollon
3. Natsuyuki Rendezvous
4. Persona 4: The Animation
5. Lupin III: A Woman Named Fujiko Mine
6. From Up on Poppy Hill

2011
1. Mawaru Penguindrum
2. Un-Go
3. Tiger & Bunny
4. Level E
5. Steins; Gate
6. Hourou Musuko