I just started watching anime in the last 6 months or so, before that I had mostly only seen Ghibli stuff and like DBZ on Toonami when I was 12. Since I started, though, I've been making pretty good progress through shows. Here's my top 10 of what I've watched since I started this project:

1. Bocchi The Rock!
2. Dungeon Meshi
3. Sousou no Frieren
4. MakeIne: Too Many Losing Heroines!
5. Dandadan
6. The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really REALLY Love You
7. K-On!
8. The Quintessential Quintuplets
9. Chainsaw Man
10. Gushing over Magical Girls 👀

I'm in the middle of Blue Box and Roshidere right now and they're both pretty good, though I don't think either will supplant anything in this list. I did not expect to like rom-com and slice-of-life stuff as much as I clearly do.

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I just started watching anime in the last 6 months or so, before that I had mostly only seen Ghibli stuff and like DBZ on Toonami when I was 12. Since I started, though, I've been making pretty good progress through shows. Here's my top 10 of what I've watched since I started this project:

1. Bocchi The Rock!
2. Dungeon Meshi
3. Sousou no Frieren
4. MakeIne: Too Many Losing Heroines!
5. Dandadan
6. The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really REALLY Love You
7. K-On!
8. The Quintessential Quintuplets
9. Chainsaw Man
10. Gushing over Magical Girls 👀

I'm in the middle of Blue Box and Roshidere right now and they're both pretty good, though I don't think either will supplant anything in this list. I did not expect to like rom-com and slice-of-life stuff as much as I clearly do.

Mine:

1. Violet Evergarden

2. Spirited Away

3. A Place Further Than The Universe

4. Gintama

5. Steins;Gate

6. Frieren

7. Fruits Basket (2019)

8. Tsurune S2

9. Your Name

10. Your Lie in April

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

Mine:

1. Violet Evergarden

2. Spirited Away

3. A Place Further Than The Universe

4. Gintama

5. Steins;Gate

6. Frieren

7. Fruits Basket (2019)

8. Tsurune S2

9. Your Name

10. Your Lie in April

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

Not in a particular order, but my 10/10s on MAL of ~500 completed are:

• Death Note
• No Game No Life
• Your Lie in April
• A Silent Voice
• Attack on Titan S3P2
• Cyberpunk Edgerunners
• Mushoku Tensei P2
• Vivy
• Odd Taxi
• KonoSuba Megumin Spinoff
• Oshi no Ko
• Frieren

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.

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.

Considering all the other 9 anime you listed, Demon Slayer getting in your list as one of the more generic shounen anime plot wise is a miracle in my opinion.

Mine:

1. Violet Evergarden

2. Spirited Away

3. A Place Further Than The Universe

4. Gintama

5. Steins;Gate

6. Frieren

7. Fruits Basket (2019)

8. Tsurune S2

9. Your Name

10. Your Lie in April

Mine:

1. Violet Evergarden

2. Spirited Away

3. A Place Further Than The Universe

4. Gintama

5. Steins;Gate

6. Frieren

7. Fruits Basket (2019)

8. Tsurune S2

9. Your Name

10. Your Lie in April

Mine:

1. Violet Evergarden

2. Spirited Away

3. A Place Further Than The Universe

4. Gintama

5. Steins;Gate

6. Frieren

7. Fruits Basket (2019)

8. Tsurune S2

9. Your Name

10. Your Lie in April

In no order whatsoever:

1. Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

2. Vinland Saga

3. Jujutsu Kaisen

4. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

5. Apothecary Diaries

6. Summertime Render

7. Oshi no Ko

8. Chainsaw Man

9. My Hero Academia

10. Dr. Stone

11 because I could decide what to ditch from the list above: Dungeon Meshi

In no particular order (maybe)

1. Ghost in the Shell (all seasons, even if they had different names)
2. Dragonball Z (you either wanted to be Goku or Vegeta, simple as is)
3. Claymore (short, and holy fuck did it go hard at times)
4. Fullmetal Alchemist (even if it went off-trial, I still loved it!)
5. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (a more-true to the manga release - also dope!)
6. Samurai Champloo (they had Dutch-speaking characters! Also made me learn a bunch of Dutch history and how we used to trade with the Japanese since 1609 because of an Englishman called William Adams (Miura Anjin)!)
7. Alfred J. Kwak (Kwak the Duck - あひるのクワック- my childhood favorite)
8. Ox Tales/Boes (a childhood classic)
9. Dommel/Wowser/Bigger and Better: Dommel & Ron (another childhood classic)
10. Moomins (a Finnish classic!)

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.

Mine:

1. Violet Evergarden

2. Spirited Away

3. A Place Further Than The Universe

4. Gintama

5. Steins;Gate

6. Frieren

7. Fruits Basket (2019)

8. Tsurune S2

9. Your Name

10. Your Lie in April

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

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