1. Hunter x Hunter (2011)
2. Neon Genesis Evangelion
3. Monogatari Series
4. Welcome to the NHK
5. Mob Psycho 100
6. Fate/Zero
7. Re:Zero
8. Chainsaw Man
9. Frieren
10. Sonny Boy

Look, I don't like it either, lol. It's surprisingly charming. Not my fault it's good.

In no particular order:
Ghost in the Shell. Nausicaa. Samurai Champloo. Cowboy bebop. Neon Genesis Evangelion. Akira. Ninja Scroll. Trigun. One Punch Man. Chainsaw Man. Totoro. Princess Mononoke.

For whatever reason most of the comedy in KonoSuba doesn't land for me like 100 Girlfriends does.

That do be like that sometimes. Entertainment is subjective; humour even more so.

Kazuma isn't very likable, he just seems selfish and gross.

He is. IMO he follows the trend of anti-hero protagonist who behaves like a dick (e.g. Deadpool). I can see why people dislike him.

I dunno, maybe I'll get back to it at some point.

Personally, I hardly give dropped anime second chances. I don't have a lot of time, but there are so many anime out there. Every minute I spent trying to make it work is time I could have spent watching another show, anime or not. Or reading another book or manga, or doing something else in my life.

I'd imagine it'll be the same for most people. Of course, if we have all the time in the world, it will be a different story.

I should really pick up QQ. I heard that the protagonist is the only decent one in the harem subgenre aside from Rentarou.

i don't watch much so here's a top 5 instead:

• Serial Experiments Lain
• Revolutionary Girl Utena
• Nichijou
• Bocchi The Rock !!
• Toradora

Hunter x Hunter is excellent

1. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
2. Neon Genesis Evangelion
3. Psycho-Pass
4. Cowboy Bebop
5. Dirty Pair
6. Sailor Moon
7. Ghost in the Shell: SAC
8. One Piece
9. Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
10. Blood Blockade Battlefront

Special shout outs to DanDaDan, Solo Leveling, Sakamoto Days, and Kaiju #8. They're all pretty good, but they're all still ongoing, and I usually gotta rewatch an anime in full once or twice before I'll consider it a favorite.

Well my only real exposure to harem MCs are these two, lol. I liked QQ a lot, it's a little slow at first but it's very charming. Fuu-kun in QQ is a good guy, he's not a saint like Rentaro but the show also isn't batshit insane like 100 Girlfriends, so he's more of a real person. You always like him though, at least I did, and you believe he cares about all of them. At the very least it's a fun light watch.

Interesting that you have the Megumin spinoff higher than the main series. I really liked the spinoff, but my impression is that a lot of people missed having the main cast and the chemistry that they bring. I get it though...I love me a good chuuni character (you have excellent taste with your Eminence in Shadow rankings), so I had a ball with the Crimson Demons.

Oh Dandadan is great, if you liked the first season you'll like the rest even more.

The megumin spinoffs get better once the gang is sort of involved, pre gang (which is I think fully adapted? I still haven't actually watched it yet lol) as for why ::: spoiler Main series S2 spoiler
Iris gets involved in the shenanigans
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Lol yeah, I could've said SAO but I think I'd have gotten boatloads of hate for that hah.

1. Fate Zero
2. Fate Stay Night Unlimited Bladeworks
3. Garden of Sinners
4. Neon Genesis Evangelion
5. Attack On Titan
6. Future Diary
7. Code Geass
8. Death Note
9. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
   10: Fullmetal Alchemist

1. The Dangers in My Heart
2. Frieren
3. The Apothecary Diaries
4. FMA:B
5. Violet Evergarden
6. Princess Mononoke
7. Spy x Family
8. 100 Girlfriends
9. My Hero Academia
10. Skip and Loafer

Dangers is seriously underappreciated by romance enjoyers dissuaded by the premise, but its one of the best coming of age stories I've seen. I'm watching and liking Blue Box and Solo Leveling right now.

1. Haibane Renmei, Gurren Lagann, and GitS: SAC share first place. Ghost in the Shell changed how I rate shows, because I can't rate a show 10/10 if it doesn't stand up to Ghost in the Shell. Haibane Renmei and Gurren Lagann may lack the technical perfection that earned GitS its place, but they affected me on an emotional level more than any others. The quiet melancholy and ultimately positive resolution of Haibane Renmei puts it in first place for me, and Gurren Lagann's unabashed bombastic glorification of Humanity and complete denial of despair is irresistible to me.

2. A Certain Scientific Railgun got me into anime, so it has to be up there. Since I started the show nearly four years ago, I've maintained a streak of watching anime every single day. The Sisters Arc remains my favorite individual portion of anime I've ever seen.

3. Mushishi is one of a very few series I would call a flawless masterpiece.

4. Shinsekai Yori led to a great many discussions with both myself and others about what constitutes a "human," which is maybe my favorite philosophical topic

5. Last Exile perfectly captures my favorite world building technique of just plopping the viewer in the world and not explaining anything, plus Range Murata's character design is peak

6. Orb: On the Movements of the Earth is a series focusing on astronomers studying heliocentrism in 14th century Poland. The basic concept was tailor made for me specifically. The actual show is less about astronomy, and more about the anonymous figures throughout history who never had their names or particular contributions recorded, but were nevertheless instrumental to building both the time they lived in and the future that came after it. It has the longest review I've ever written for a show—usually I struggle to come up with more words to say. Talking about Orb, I struggle to stop writing.

7. ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Department because I really like the deliberate denial of action. A show about a federal government auditor investigating a potential coup, and there isn't a single action sequence

8. Read or Die (OVA and The TV), because Yomiko Readman is my wife I like the story and all the characters. I've never missed characters after finishing a show like I missed the Paper Sisters

9. Ergo Proxy, because it too raises questions about what is "human," it too sparked a lot of writing from me, and it raises interesting discussions about theology. I struggle to think of any other shows with a decidedly antitheist vibe.

10. Megalo Box, because the whiplash between the first and second seasons was incredible. Never seen a show go from shounen to seinen like that. I found both seasons compelling, but the second season shot it up to 10/10 for me

I hesitated to put Orb very high on my own list due to worries about recency bias, but it really was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I started it because, I mean, look at my username. A show about astronomers studying heliocentrism in 15th century Poland sounds like it's tailor made for me. But it's even better, because it's not actually about astronomy. It's about the anonymous contributors to history, whose names and faces were never recorded, and yet were instrumental to building their era, and by extension every era afterward.

Near the end of the show, a certain character makes reference to the fact that "when the people of the past or future gaze across the span of time, they'll merely see us all as people from the fifteenth century." Indeed, he feels that "we, who happened to live in this day and age, even if we hated one another enough to kill, are comrades who built an era together." Even if your name won't survive over the next five centuries, you still have laid a brick in the foundation of history.

Idunno, I can write a three page essay about this show, and it still wouldn't capture all of my thoughts and feelings. It's the easiest 10/10 I've given a show since Standalone Complex. Truly the only valid criticism of it is that it is physically difficult to watch if your room isn't pitch black. They gotta go back and turn the brightness up on some scenes.