Here’s a bunch of top six anime lists starting from the year this blog was formed to present-day. Won’t go higher than “six” because finding good anime is like shooting fish in a barrel and I’m already being nice by extending the list past “five”. And I won’t go further back than 2012 for these lists because I wasn’t watching anime religiously before I started the blog and honestly it’s too much of a bother to remember everything before then that’s not amongst my favorites. Hell, it was hard enough to remember what anime from 2012 still held up.

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. Planetarian: The Reverie of the Little Planet
5. Mob Psycho 100
6. The Boy and the Beast

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. Mushishi 2
4. Kill la Kill
5. Samurai Flamenco
6. Tokyo Ghoul

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

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