Reddit’s Top 500 Anime List is FRUSTRATING 

I love how this is a top 500 anime list and Joey is like "People must not have read the manga if they got this anime up here". Bro it's an ANIME list 😂

I am absolutely astonished that Joey has never heard of Josee, The Tiger, and The Fish. That is such a Joey anime.

WIth only 2000+ votes, a top 500 is spreading the votes pretty thin. It pretty much makes the distinctions between rankings statistically meaningless, at least at the low end.

Whenever I see the mostly forgettable & arguably mediocre shows having one person who put it as their all time favorite, it makes me happy. Someone out there found something so deeply resonant in a show that means absolutely nothing to me, and I can't help but appreciate that.

This feels like 3 different lists, each with different criteria, were smushed together

"Your favorite anime is not necessarily the best anime" Very true. My favorite anime is considered an absolute dumpster fire by most metrics.

Joey if I hear you say "can you tell I'm a 2000s anime watcher?" or "the manga was better" one more time I'm gonna cry

Bruh Joey you literally read that its favorite list not objective rating and are still surprised when you see SoL/Trashy shows higher than "real stories" lol. It seems like you have forgotten who "weebs" are. Of course there are people who enjoy Date a Live more than Howl/Beastars/Little witch lol

A 32 minute videos about anime from JOEY?

This is a FAVORITE list NOT a list where ppl list which anime is the best. Also Nostalgic bias plays as big of a role as recency bias, so idk why recency bias keeps being brought up when there as much old anime as new anime as well. No hate of course.

As a former Date A Live fan myself, I can tell you that there’s a small group of superfans of the series that basically watch no other anime except Date A Live

>this is not a ranking, there is no best or worst. Just a collection of voted on favorites with no real correlation to quality. Joey: "how could this be higher than that?! it's so much worse than that other thing" bruh

Legend of the Galactic Heroes is ranked below Tokyo Revengers!?!? fking end me pls.

Bro: for some reason you can't have an opinion in anime community Also bro: WHO EVEN WATCHES THIS SHIT? ARE YOU NEW TO ANIME!? That's why 😂

Dawg, Yu-Gi-Oh at #262 is so fucking disrespectful. I honestly can't believe my eyes.

Maturing is realising Joey has the worst anime takes

There is no such thing as "too early to decide" when the whole season of Frieren has already aired, man...And it is Madhouse we are talking about; will they really be bothered to do the second season? I guess not.

Wtf is that wall 💀💀

I love how Joey has The Anime Man channel, and then uploads an anime list reaction to his second channel. Never change Manga Lad, never change.

Joey being butthurt about Bocchi across multiple videos is the funniest shit ever. Can't understand peak

I’m saying this now; MARK MY WORDS: I’m gonna watch all of the top 100 favorite Anime (or top 100 MAL) and once I’m done, I’ll do a review and post it somewhere, see you in 5 years

Joey at the start of the video of top 500 r/anime's Favorite Anime: - Favorite anime is not the same as the best anime Also Joey when there is an anime he does not like on the list or place: - X anime has no right to be on this list/that place!!!!

I can not believe the disrespect of the 1997 Berserk anime! The music alone puts it in the top of 500 imo

21:17 GOLDEN KAMUY. YES. the fact that it's at 105 brings me joy and sets the world right. more people should watch it. it's so good, I'm so glad it's recognized here!!!

MADOKA MAGICA IN TOP 5 LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

Man watched only the first season of bungou stray dogs and is judging people who likes the show for all it’s entirety. It’s one thing to have opinions… but it’s other to look down on other people for theirs...

It surprises me Joey glanced over Chihayafuru. Started it recently, and it's a lot of fun to watch. Though I didn't expect it to be so high, since it feels relatively underground

The first season of Sousou no Frieren is the closest thing to a perfect anime I have ever seen. It elevates the source material to a fun and ridiculous degree.

Guys can you tell he's a 90s kid

Ngl seeing some really underrated shows pop up, making you happy they get some recognition is much more enjoyable than Joey's straight up repetitive commentary imo

Let me guess: there'll be a lot of recency bias

Lets goo love the video man! Always appreciate your anime content!

Golden Time is 1000 times better than Fire Force. The problem with many of these anime lists is that incredible shows are shoved to the bottom because everyone watches the popular shounen. The shounen is good, but people need to watch more anime in other genres. Kaguya-sama is my favorite anime so seeing it in the top 10 makes me so happy. I recommend it to a lot of people who watch anime and many don’t even know what it is. Makes me sad.

Bocchi is a fun, lighthearted and uplifting anime that also has the music, animation, direction, and themes to resonate with big parts of the fanbase. It 100% makes sense for it to make it this high up on a "favorite anime" list, even if it could be argued to be lower on a "best anime" list.

Thank you for putting a thumbnail up for the different anime, it was a nice touch.

Keep up the awesome work and videos Joey love the video

Really digging your videos, keep it real!

Oh man, I've watched most of this list. A lot of variety which is good. Always great to see FMA and Monogatari still being loved.

Josee, the Tiger and the fish it's not only my favourite anime movie but also one of my favourite anime in general (it's in my top 5 for shure). It's absolutely shocking that no one talks about it. This movie deserves so much more recognition.

The main issue is that people can only vote for things that they're familiar with. Some people have limited exposure to anime and give a strong bias to the most popular anime. There are also people who have recently gotten into anime and don't have strong opinions about anything except what they've seen recently (which often but not always means popular anime). Older anime fans are more likely to be a bit more willing to give props to older anime, but they too fall victim to nostalgia glasses - and older anime fans might not be up-to-date with anime, making them less likely to even be on r/anime in the first place. All-anime-watching-Andys might be the most able to rank things accurately, but they're relatively rare and were limited to picking their top 20 just like everyone else. While it's admirable that they tried to give weighting to the top 20 shows people picked, it's not nearly enough to give proper weighting for shows that are universally well-regarded (top 100) but don't have diehard followings. Notably, this list is strongly affected by a sort of popularity feedback loop (which MAL somewhat mitigates with its weighting system). A lot of people who start dabbling into anime will almost always start with the most popular series, so a lot more people will be voting for those series compared to things that aren't popular. This gives a much higher weight to popular anime and a lower weight to well regarded but lesser known anime. MAL is different from the list in the video in the sense that even if most people are limiting their anime viewing experience exclusively to the most popular series, less popular series still get relatively accurate ratings based on those who have watched them - as long as there are no bad actors bombing the ratings. Popular series don't suffer as much from rating bombs because a few 1s in a sea of 7s, 8s, and 9s will do little to change the score. In contrast, a pond of 8s, 9s, and 10s can easily be weighed down by a few 1s. I'd like to think they do try to discount malicious 1s with their weighting system by discounting ratings that fall outside of the standard deviation of a score that is heavily concentrated at the top end, but it's doubtlessly impossible to give an accurate score to everything. With that said, it was never going to be possible to create a ranking with a consistent approach to scoring, whether it's MAL or not. People can only vote for what they're familiar with, and people's tastes change over time. Things that they rate highly at the age of 15 would receive a lower score from them at 30 if they were to rewatch it, but ironically nostalgia glasses tend to make scores inflate rather than go down. This is an issue that affects even MAL, and it's not going to change since zombie ratings from old fans will live on in their ranking system, giving inflated scores to things that might not hold up to today's standards. But perhaps that's fair if the goal of giving a rank to something is to indicate the impact an anime had on the culture rather than the value one would receive from watching it today. Perhaps that's the crux of the issue. What is the purpose of a ranking? If we can't even agree on that, then we can't agree on what deserves to be ranked highly. And if we're not concerned about maintaining the legacy of anime that we look upon fondly with nostalgia but wouldn't hold up to the scores we originally gave them, then perhaps a ranking system needs to allow for the decay of old ratings based on the time that has passed since it was rated - with only those that have had a strong lasting impression continuing to be ranked highly. But if that's what we're after, then the issue of this list being affected by recency bias and nostalgia glasses isn't so bad after all. Maybe it's accurate in its own way. I just wonder if having an ongoing voting process would help. If everyone was given two votes - to give -1 to an anime you think is overrated, and to give +1 to an anime you think is underrated - the list would doubtlessly look a lot different. If each vote could be withdrawn (removing the -1 or +1) and then re-used (to give the -1 or +1 to another anime), the ranking would shift over and over. You might find that the list eventually settles on an order that promotes less objectionable choices (well liked series without many detractors) and punishes more objectionable choices (series that are very popular but have many detractors).

I think it's alright for a favorite list. It's not an objective ranking or anything. Just what anime people like so I'm not surprised to see many slice of life and Iyashikei or just CGDCT being very high up.

I know you have strong opinions on them. You should watch some before forming those strong opinions tho...

Katekyo Hitman Reborn not in top 50 or even 100 is crazy

just love the fact that maison ikkoku made it to top 500, absolute Takahashi sensei classic that isn't talked about much now like her other works unfortunately

Rose of Versailles is a very well regarded show, so I’m not surprised that r/anime likes it.

Of course, Joey doesn't know how great Mushoku Tensei has recently been.

I was legit gonna hit you up about your top 10 but didn't get around to it 😂 good to see your thoughts on this 🤘

I would love to see your opinion on the TAAF top 100 ranking, the outcome is not what you'd expect and very different to other ranking lists

I am eighty six fan but lol I am a confident jjk has more exposure than eighty six so it is surprising to me.

,,Your favorite anime is not the best anime'' That's true......so why did you forget about it a minute later and you're rating it as a ranking list? This is a list of people's favorite anime, and not everyone has watched all the anime. You keep asking questions "Why is it higher than this one?" I don't know, maybe it's because the person hasn't watched the second title? Have you thought about it? I won't even mention how irritated I was with your approach to the slice of life anime. Is it so hard for you to understand that people might prefer pleasant and ordinary anime instead of complicated stories? Is it so difficult? I don't know how old you are, but you act like a child in this video who doesn't accept any other approach to anime

"all in all its not bad" Yeah cause this is horrendous

I listened to the "kids on the slope" medley scene so many times, well deserved. "Arcane" not under the top 10? Josh the anime dude should watch it and make a video about it ;)

I love how Joey completely forgot that this list is not indicative of how good a show is but rather the subreddits favourite anime 😂

I don't understand why you never put anime content on your anime channel.

Re zero is one of those stories where you are so heavily rewarded for both watching the anime and then reading the light novel. The novel has some of the best world building ever. There are 55+ side stories going from some characters back stories to some character's POV while the main story takes place to get to know their inner thoughts to crazy big revalations in the side stories(especially arc 6 onwards). Highly recommend people to go read it. Gives me the same vibes as going in for a deep dive in dark souls lore.

Love how Fate Zero is rated everyone's favourite fate. Y'all are BASEDDDD

As someone who thinks LOTR is top tier movie-making, if not THE best movie trilogy of all times, I do believe that Frieren deserves that No.1 spot, regardless of recency bias. It's THE best fantasy anime ive ever watched, THE best anime of its genre for sure. Whether you think it deserves no.1 anime of all time would then depend on what your favourite genre is. Because if your fav genre is romance, you wouldnt think AOT or One piece or FMAB are No.1 animes of all time. If your fav genre is isekai, you'd agree that Mushoku tensei deserves that high spot. If your fav genre is mecha, you'd think Code Geass should be no.1 All these shows have different genres, some are so different from one another that they shouldnt even be comparable in 1 list, but Frieren is not only the best in its category/genre, it's also flawless in a multitude of criterias/categories; its character dynamics have so much heart and humor and realism, its characters tehselves each hold so much depth, its world building hold no plot holes, its so fluid and makes so much sense, its story/show form of adventure-esque episodes amidst the larger plot is brilliantly, enjoyably done. The pacing is like a movie, the music is a masterpiece in itself with Evan Call making it 2 years in advance, and 2 whole years of production time, beautiful animation and voice acting; what more could you ask for? It's so hard to objectively criticise Frieren as a show, be it in terms of story-writing or story-telling techniques or its various components in its production; hence its no.1 spot as a perfect show so far.

I'll preach for Hibike Euphonium until the day. It deserves higher than 44

I was so happy to see some of my favorite underrated/niche animes on the list (Boogiepop and Others, Gosick, Mononoke, Tokyo Godfathers, Gankutsuou, Summer Wars, and Princess Tutu).

Haha that #1 reveal was hilarious. It makes sense when you see the vote distribution. A lot more people put it in the tail end of their list, likely because it's the hot new show and all the beginner anime fans have gotten to it while the classics that more people put as their #1-5 would take them longer to discover.

I'm glad people are still loving Bocch after more than a year. Still resonates with people including me. This is a "favorites" list, right? Not the best anime. So it makes sense why most of the users voted these.

My favorite anime (3-gatsu) is number 26. I count it as a win!

I watch videos like this not for the opinions of Joey persay, but to log some shows back for later to watch as i often find shows i havent heard of or forgot to list to watch later. Feels like the ending video comment was a smidge to much but yeah, its good to throw the reminder out i guess

Amazing video Joey of the top 500 anime list out there,fantastic job. I’m shock that full metal alchemist brotherhood is in the 10 over the original full metal alchemist and I love the original full metal alchemist series then brotherhood. My favourite anime of all time is the vision of Escaflowne should have be high up at least in the 100 at least.

I absolutely love to see that there is more anime related content from you, even if your and my taste in anime are very different for the most part.

Madoka based

What happened with that anime vote Joey was doing? Is that done? Did something come out of that yet?

Is this the anime man channel ! ! !

As someone who loves both K-ON! And Bocchi the Rock, I've overanalyzed the shit out of both shows. And I'd actually say Bocchi does a lot of things better than K-ON, and yes, I do think it's slightly better. Top 20 however???? Yeah I agree that's probably too high.

Shakugan No Shana was one of my first 3 animes I watched (outside of Pokemon and Yugioh). I'm just glad it is on the list

OK I jumped ahead while you were in the 80s. Can't wait to see you scream. LOL I did but not at Bochi. I checked the full 500 to find Dennou Coil, Last Exile, Trinity Sevem. Claymoe, Kino's Journey (the original), and a few other titles. I was pleasantly surprised to find most of them. Thanks for the link.

I do think a caveat with Frieren being number 1 is that it actually is it has relatively low in the number of people who view it as their #1-3 favorite anime. However, it, by far, dominated the #4-20 favorite anime. What probably happened was a lot of people, when thinking of what to fill out their list after their top favorites, chose Frieren as it was the most recent high quality anime series they could remember. Obviously, there are still a lot people who viewed it as a their absolute favorite (like me) but it’s wide appeal combined with recency bias means that it gained a lot of points in its favor.

For the most part it goes like this: "Oh, 'insert show Joey likes' is here? I was expecting it to be higher! Has the same amount of votes as 'insert another show Joey likes'? That's good. But it also has the same number of votes as 'insert show Joey dislikes', sooo yeah..."

All my favs made to top 50 Furuba, NGE, Hibike, 3-gatsu, Yorimoi, FMAB, Bocchi (yes it's top 4 of all time sorry Joey) Special mention for Liz and the Blue Bird for 97th place (my favorite anime movie ever)

Recency bias is real. I’m not an FMAB fan, but even I accept it as a strong anime. some of these top 10/50/100/250 anime on this list seem crazy high to me. I’ve watched 2 Freiren episodes, and it’s not in my top 100. Maybe the remainder of the series can change my mind.

Im only like 3 or 4 episodes in to each, but im so happy to see Lycoris Recoil and Yuru Camp so high up. Loving both of them atm.

Am just so freaking glad that Monogatari Series & Madoka Magica is in Top 10 😭🙌

I love how joey skipps over all the yaoi and shoujo xd 23:30 Joey seems not to realize, that ppl vote for the anime not "manga" or something xd The Anime of Horimiya was rly good for example, and its only one season plus an "extras" season, so it didnt reach the lull most of my fav arent even on the list xd rip

Bocchi the Rock being at 12! lets GO!

Now all we need is a Joey doing his own PROPER top 500 list. :3 Would be interesting to see a run-down of his list with scathing comments from his mates as well.

When you said frieren shouldn't be no1. I was internally screaming stfu

Grendizer and captain majid didn't make this list??? where are my middle eastern homies T_T

i needed a video to draw to... perfect timing

16:16 Maquia succeded to convert the 2hrs lenght of the film into something that even 24 eps series can't do

I'm just here to see Joey seethe whenever he sees Bocchi. Deserved at #12 btw, sucks to be him. lolkthxbai

Joey dunking on anime he hasn't even watched fully and isekai shows in general and saying they don't deserve their spot will always be hilarious

This was a fun trip. Some great memories, some cool agreements and some passionate disagreements. Overall, thanks for a wild ride, Joey.

Its always weird to hear someone say whether or not something is deserving of the number 1 spot when it always comes down to personal bias. Frieren may not have ended but its definitely up there for me in terms of anime, not to mention that it has a fantastic and memorable soundtrack by Evan Call.

Mushoku Tensei Slander is Crazy. He hasn't even seen the majority of it.

What does it even mean that it's too early for Frieren to be number one? Am I supposed to lie about my favorite show because it's new?

11:22 bro, you don’t understand why world end suka suka is some people’s favorite. Cuz it’s a lot of people’s first emotional fantasy anime and the ending is kinda peak, it’s so moving and good! The music and world building are also *chief kiss

Just to comment on Ef: Tale of Memories/Melodies, it was released in 2007 and produced at Studio Shaft with director Shin Oonuma who is a contemporary of Akiyuki Shinbo... the directing and scene composition are very similar to what Studio Shaft is known for and would be later popularized in shows such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Bakemonogatari. It's also fairly representative of directing seen in Shin Oonuma's later works at Silverlink. But yeah... aside from the whole 3-5 interwoven love story aspect there wasn't anything particularly complicated or novel from a story perspective.

Nah howls moving castle being that low is an actual crime

The bocchi hate is wild, def one of my top 10 lol

If all 2000 voters (which btw is not a lot of people to make a top 500 list with) watched all 500 shows, then sure we would probably see a voting more in line with what Joey proposed. But I'd bet many people haven't even seen much of this list, and there will be people who watched SoL for 5 years and not much else, of course they'd rate something like Gochiusa as their favorite. For a good list we'll either need a LOT more votes, or split it into genres imo.

Frieren is like Violet Evergarden for me. It's a really beautiful solemn show that's dragged down by the fact that it's an anime. I just personally think anime doesn’t lend itself well to the subtle emotional maturity those shows try to represent. Frieren is plagued by fantasy and game tropes from japanese pop culture like the original party consisting of a hero, a warrior, a mage and a priest, the simplistic and arbitrary magic system which seems almost divinely powerful at times and useless at others, and so on. Frieren is all about emotion but all immersion is ruined for me with all the incredibly on the nose pop culture references and the dull unoriginal humor. There are also the pointless shonen battle scenes. To me Frieren seems like it would he an amazing live action HBO series, but as an anime its torn between its hyperbolic and humoristic origins and the solemn tone it's aiming at. It almost feels like the author wanted to make an emotionally mature show but their editor said "no you need to add action scenes, and this kind of humor and these kinds of references or no one will be interested", which just detracts from the experience overall.

Joey never fails to say some of the dumbest shit.. How are we supposed to take the opinions of someone whos favourite shows more often then not focus on the lives pre-pubescent school girls seriously..

Casual anime fan here. The vast majority of these I've never heard of, including #1. In this long list of anime, I was surprised that some of my favorites were not listed at all. E.g., "Noein" is a great anime IMO that I never hear anyone mention at all and I thought it would be on this list somewhere but I didnt see it. Also "Basilisk" and "Blood+" are darker anime that I thought surely would be on a list like this but I didnt see them either.

The recency bias is crazy in this one, this list screams twitter engagement, marketing and nostalgia.

Had to drop a like when I saw Joey get hyped for D Frag. It's one of my favorite comedy anime. Def recommend if anyone hasn't seen it.