Q's Wall of Fame Inductions - Anime Series
The following are anime series that have met the specific criterion detailed in our rating index, and are placed here based on how balanced their merits are as a story, their characters, and the respect for it's production values such as good cinematography, animation, art & sound direction. They'll be categorized based on the ratings which are calculated by 3 basic categories -
Production Aspects | Story | Characters
On the other hand our Q's Favourites is based more so on how I intuitively feel about & enjoy it - Which has alot to do with how unique & rewatchable it is, the purity of it's intent & of course my personal experience in enjoying it.
The following are anime series that have met the specific criterion detailed in our rating index, and are placed here based on how balanced their merits are as a story, their characters, and the respect for it's production values such as good cinematography, animation, art & sound direction. They'll be categorized based on the ratings which are calculated by 3 basic categories -Production Aspects | Story | Characters
On the other hand our Q's Favourites is based more so on how I intuitively feel about & enjoy it - Which has alot to do with how unique & rewatchable it is, the purity of it's intent & of course my personal experience in enjoying it.
Welcome To Our WOF ~ Sincerely MADNEWS
(II seasons 48 episodes Ongoing) 9.07 /10
A poetry card game called Karuta played in a competitive manner, with exciting velocity, nuance and transient dynamism, we have Chihayafuru. See this is one of those anime you might just write off because it looks far too bubbly or gooey in terms of idealism and sentimentality. Fret not, this an Ace production from Madhouse, with a high gear sound track and beautiful animation, regarding both art style as well as production style/quality.
Monogatari Series -
A poetry card game called Karuta played in a competitive manner, with exciting velocity, nuance and transient dynamism, we have Chihayafuru. See this is one of those anime you might just write off because it looks far too bubbly or gooey in terms of idealism and sentimentality. Fret not, this an Ace production from Madhouse, with a high gear sound track and beautiful animation, regarding both art style as well as production style/quality.
This absolutely radiates the childhood innocence of competitive play and it's magnetic allure, and the progressive nature to want to constantly improve and strive to be the best. We see interesting rivalries between a prodigy of an eternal grand master Arata and a dedicated guy with an iron wit Taichi. It also has characters biding their romantic feelings for each other, for those of you interested in a Romance sub plot...
Welcome To Chihayafuru ~
Welcome To Chihayafuru ~
Monogatari Series -
(4 seasons 84 episodes 12 Ova's + a Film Trilogy) 8.85/10
The Monogatari series is very loved anime here at RedQStudios, to me it's a series that's infinitely rewatchable & satisfyingly long . It's light heartedly comical, intuitively funny, and unexpectedly fragile, with tender moments. Also with subtly introduced mystery that's alluded to but not exactly defined. Instead of telling a story of happiness, I feel, it's a story of actually trying to find and fight for it, which to me really seems to what the first season Bakemonogatari (Monster story) was all about, and of course the tribulations and tumultuous events that occur in conflict with that goal.
Which brings me to Hitagi Senjougahara, the signature Tsundere impostor that's the poster girl for this series. like Araragi I feel both of them are somehow really sort of damaged as human beings, and coming out of those experiences, it feels like they're searching for something and/or for happiness, and that's why I think Bakemonogatari made me feel this sense great sense of optimism and happiness, not only for this series of course, but for just life in general.
Welcome To The Monogatari Series ~
Shinsekai Yori -
(25 Episodes Single Season) 8.82 out of 10 Stars
Shinsekai Yori (From The New World) is a deeply personal memorandum that covers Saki's raw, unfiltered & spotted story in navigating through friendship, love, tragedy. Where the story is compelling, unique and beautiful in it's sense of culture & adventure - It is equally terrifying, disturbing and heartbreaking. In that beneath the utopic & pleasant offset is an underlying mystery & the horrifying evils necessary to preserve it.
The sense of Karma is unmistakable as Yusuke Kishi's masterwork which took 30 years of planning is brilliant, being that for the initially pleasant & hopelessly innocent childhood Saki & her friends are able to enjoy and even what the entire foundation that the archipelago of Japan is built upon in this post modern society, was rudely founded upon the horrifying sacrifice of countless innocents and the backs of many more countless slaves, along with a millennia of meaningless slaughter.
Welcome To Shinsekai Yori (From The New World) ~
The Monogatari series is very loved anime here at RedQStudios, to me it's a series that's infinitely rewatchable & satisfyingly long . It's light heartedly comical, intuitively funny, and unexpectedly fragile, with tender moments. Also with subtly introduced mystery that's alluded to but not exactly defined. Instead of telling a story of happiness, I feel, it's a story of actually trying to find and fight for it, which to me really seems to what the first season Bakemonogatari (Monster story) was all about, and of course the tribulations and tumultuous events that occur in conflict with that goal. Which brings me to Hitagi Senjougahara, the signature Tsundere impostor that's the poster girl for this series. like Araragi I feel both of them are somehow really sort of damaged as human beings, and coming out of those experiences, it feels like they're searching for something and/or for happiness, and that's why I think Bakemonogatari made me feel this sense great sense of optimism and happiness, not only for this series of course, but for just life in general.
Welcome To The Monogatari Series ~
Shinsekai Yori -
(25 Episodes Single Season) 8.82 out of 10 Stars
Shinsekai Yori (From The New World) is a deeply personal memorandum that covers Saki's raw, unfiltered & spotted story in navigating through friendship, love, tragedy. Where the story is compelling, unique and beautiful in it's sense of culture & adventure - It is equally terrifying, disturbing and heartbreaking. In that beneath the utopic & pleasant offset is an underlying mystery & the horrifying evils necessary to preserve it. The sense of Karma is unmistakable as Yusuke Kishi's masterwork which took 30 years of planning is brilliant, being that for the initially pleasant & hopelessly innocent childhood Saki & her friends are able to enjoy and even what the entire foundation that the archipelago of Japan is built upon in this post modern society, was rudely founded upon the horrifying sacrifice of countless innocents and the backs of many more countless slaves, along with a millennia of meaningless slaughter.
Welcome To Shinsekai Yori (From The New World) ~
Clannad -
(47 Episodes 2 Ova's Two Seasons) 8.78 /10
Angst, heartbreak, regret, innocence, teardrops, youth.. This is Clannad. A potent part of the Kyoto and Key holy trinity and arguably the best out of the three. While I like many others continue to follow Kyoto animation as well as Key, I feel that Clannad really became a foundational staple for both both parties marking a fine eye point in both their catalogues regarding the shared success and critical reception of Clannad. Welcome To Clannad ~
Bokurano -
(24 Episodes Single Season) 8.58 /10
Bokurano Truly just about has a little bit of everything, there's a dash of a darker taboo of romance, has family dynamics, a little bit of comedy along the way, as well as being heavy in drama in it's science fiction & physiologically idiosyncratic premise. Though there's also more plush and sublime moments of happiness and peace, enough to actually bring me to tears on occasion, having the depth and urgent subject matter to sway my heart into a state of emergency.
In Bokurano we have a full cast of characters that initially had me intrigued from the first episode, you'll find yourself asking " who's he/she, there's something interesting going on there, I want to learn more about his/her story" etc. Especially since the character designs are so humanely depicted in the most ordinary sense of the word. From the lush green environments, the city gardens, to the giant robots, this is something that you just look at and accept, and I feel that's a very key component to have. Some including Mohiro Kitoh, the original creator scoff at some of the differences between the anime adaptation/manga - But really is it valid?
Bokurano Truly just about has a little bit of everything, there's a dash of a darker taboo of romance, has family dynamics, a little bit of comedy along the way, as well as being heavy in drama in it's science fiction & physiologically idiosyncratic premise. Though there's also more plush and sublime moments of happiness and peace, enough to actually bring me to tears on occasion, having the depth and urgent subject matter to sway my heart into a state of emergency.In Bokurano we have a full cast of characters that initially had me intrigued from the first episode, you'll find yourself asking " who's he/she, there's something interesting going on there, I want to learn more about his/her story" etc. Especially since the character designs are so humanely depicted in the most ordinary sense of the word. From the lush green environments, the city gardens, to the giant robots, this is something that you just look at and accept, and I feel that's a very key component to have. Some including Mohiro Kitoh, the original creator scoff at some of the differences between the anime adaptation/manga - But really is it valid?
Welcome To Bokurano: Ours ~
(37 Episodes 2 Seasons 5 Ova's) 8.56 /10
Attack on Titan skyrocketed into ethers of popularity, penetrating pop culture after it's anime debut & with good reason because it's Jam packed with stimulating and excellently choreographed high action animation scenes. Being absolutely fearless when it comes to the acrobatic like camera movement & tracking, as Attack on Titan being adapted from the popular and well off manga illustrated and written by Hajime Isayama.
On the surface Attack on Titan seemingly is an eventful roller coaster of brutal violence, eye blinking impact & neurotic intensity, where humanity lives in fear of these towering humanoid cannibals - dubbed the Titans/Kyojin - An innumerable horde which dedicate their existence to solely prey on their much smaller human counterparts, which makes for plenty of failed heroics and desperate sacrifice. Though later on Attack on Titan begins to allude to the mysteriousness of the Titans origins and the Secrets of Humanity & possibly how a larger conspiracy may be at play, leaving a lot more than initially meets the eye...
Attack on Titan skyrocketed into ethers of popularity, penetrating pop culture after it's anime debut & with good reason because it's Jam packed with stimulating and excellently choreographed high action animation scenes. Being absolutely fearless when it comes to the acrobatic like camera movement & tracking, as Attack on Titan being adapted from the popular and well off manga illustrated and written by Hajime Isayama.On the surface Attack on Titan seemingly is an eventful roller coaster of brutal violence, eye blinking impact & neurotic intensity, where humanity lives in fear of these towering humanoid cannibals - dubbed the Titans/Kyojin - An innumerable horde which dedicate their existence to solely prey on their much smaller human counterparts, which makes for plenty of failed heroics and desperate sacrifice. Though later on Attack on Titan begins to allude to the mysteriousness of the Titans origins and the Secrets of Humanity & possibly how a larger conspiracy may be at play, leaving a lot more than initially meets the eye...
Welcome To Attack On Titan (Shingeki No Kyojin) ~
(12 Episodes Single Season 1 Ova) 8.55 /10
Death Parade in Winter 2015 was heartfelt, vivid & thrilling, with some occasional laughs & smiles along the way - Padding on even more juicy content to aide Madhouse's comeback montage from the grave. After Madhouse's exodus of both long time in house staff, founders and animators alike, many were left to quietly ponder what was next for the future of the animation giant Madhouse, loosing key creative talent Satoshi Kon after passing away in 2010 due to pancreatic cancer, leaving Co Founder and Key producer Masao Murayama with Kon's incomplete film - "Dreaming machine" which still remains 1/3rd done to this day due to financial difficulties, eventually leaving Madhouse to create studio MAPPA in hopes of one day completing it.
Death Parade stands testament to that - A story about Death, Regret & Loss,
A Parallel to what Madhouse as a studio has had to deal within these past few years.
Welcome To Death Parade ~
Steins;Gate -
(24 Episodes Single Season + 1 Ova + 4 Ona's 1 Movie + ) 8.51 /10
A Progressive Grind Through Okabe & Makise Kurisu's Thrilling Journey Through Time, With Confrontational, Subtle Yet Robust Drama. The heart of what is at Steins; Gate's core is a story about mystery and doubles down as something also resembling a thriller, as well as a romance. Steins; Gate is Okabe's journey to save his friends as he and other "Future Gadget" lab members are caught within the terrible repercussions of their time travel experiments - Toying and altering time when the Future Gadget lab gets a bit too curious.
I absolutely understand how the premise of it can be off putting, since many have tried yet failed to make a well fleshed out story with time travel mechanics that we're easy enough to understand and at least had something resembling continuity - Without a ridiculous amount of unmotivated expository dialogue. Though to my knowledge no one else asides White Fox has made an anime including time travel since and better.
(24 Episodes Single Season + 1 Ova + 4 Ona's 1 Movie + ) 8.51 /10
A Progressive Grind Through Okabe & Makise Kurisu's Thrilling Journey Through Time, With Confrontational, Subtle Yet Robust Drama. The heart of what is at Steins; Gate's core is a story about mystery and doubles down as something also resembling a thriller, as well as a romance. Steins; Gate is Okabe's journey to save his friends as he and other "Future Gadget" lab members are caught within the terrible repercussions of their time travel experiments - Toying and altering time when the Future Gadget lab gets a bit too curious.I absolutely understand how the premise of it can be off putting, since many have tried yet failed to make a well fleshed out story with time travel mechanics that we're easy enough to understand and at least had something resembling continuity - Without a ridiculous amount of unmotivated expository dialogue. Though to my knowledge no one else asides White Fox has made an anime including time travel since and better.
Welcome To Steins;Gate ~
(24 Episodes II Seasons) 8.35 /10
Jormungand is a fast paced, high octane anime, with lots of Gun Porn, Gun Fu, Bullets, Blades & Babes. Jormungand is Jonah's tale of his journey with Koko's brigade of mercenaries, all from various international backgrounds. Slowly unravelling the ambiguous/mysterious personality of Koko Heckmatyar, what she, an arms dealer is plotting in complete secrecy. It's a simple premise, though because of that it's also packed with stimulating and excellently choreographed high action scenes.
Jormungand is a fast paced, high octane anime, with lots of Gun Porn, Gun Fu, Bullets, Blades & Babes. Jormungand is Jonah's tale of his journey with Koko's brigade of mercenaries, all from various international backgrounds. Slowly unravelling the ambiguous/mysterious personality of Koko Heckmatyar, what she, an arms dealer is plotting in complete secrecy. It's a simple premise, though because of that it's also packed with stimulating and excellently choreographed high action scenes.
Each of the given mercenaries serving under Koko have their own collective back story, and throughout the anime, arc by arc, in time such details are revealed about each character - Follow Koko Hekmatyar's Squad's Invective & Seductive Tale, With Magnetic Excitement & Dynamic Action.
Welcome To Jormungand ~
Samurai Champloo -
(26 Episodes 2 Seasons) 8.35 /10
There's something that's to me that's so openly nostalgic about Samuria Champloo, it's something about it's relatively conservative film grammar, emphasizing diegetic continuity, in addition to a comical spin on it - With plenty of dry gags, jump cuts and a character first priority on scriptwriting. 13 years later, Shinichiro Watanabe's Samurai Champloo, while still decently popular, I feel is one of Watanabe's most slept on works along with Sakemichi No Appollon (Kids on The Slope), being that for a 2004 T.v animation, in terms of character animation & art direction, Samurai Champloo is a production at a fine eye point, the apex of it's era - A masterpiece given the time of production and circumstances.
Champloo is an episodic classic, set in a comically idealized version of the Edo period within Japan, where characters such as Jin & Mugen are the last generation of the declining Age of The Samurai, where they randomly stumble into a restaurant & meet Fuu, a waitress - From there on, the dysfunctional bunch set out on a seemingly aimless and coincidental journey, in Fuu's search for a Samurai who smells of sunflowers, slowly realizing that Fuu's ambitions to find him are more dangerous and involved than they actually realize... The story is Shinichiro Watanabe's Fusion Frenzy of styles and cultures, that's a warm and comical journey of desiring closure -
Welcome To Samurai Champloo ~
(26 Episodes 2 Seasons) 8.35 /10
There's something that's to me that's so openly nostalgic about Samuria Champloo, it's something about it's relatively conservative film grammar, emphasizing diegetic continuity, in addition to a comical spin on it - With plenty of dry gags, jump cuts and a character first priority on scriptwriting. 13 years later, Shinichiro Watanabe's Samurai Champloo, while still decently popular, I feel is one of Watanabe's most slept on works along with Sakemichi No Appollon (Kids on The Slope), being that for a 2004 T.v animation, in terms of character animation & art direction, Samurai Champloo is a production at a fine eye point, the apex of it's era - A masterpiece given the time of production and circumstances. Champloo is an episodic classic, set in a comically idealized version of the Edo period within Japan, where characters such as Jin & Mugen are the last generation of the declining Age of The Samurai, where they randomly stumble into a restaurant & meet Fuu, a waitress - From there on, the dysfunctional bunch set out on a seemingly aimless and coincidental journey, in Fuu's search for a Samurai who smells of sunflowers, slowly realizing that Fuu's ambitions to find him are more dangerous and involved than they actually realize... The story is Shinichiro Watanabe's Fusion Frenzy of styles and cultures, that's a warm and comical journey of desiring closure -
Welcome To Samurai Champloo ~
Kara No Kyoukai -
(8 Films - 2 Shorts/Specials) 8.34 /10
Kara No Kyoukai was a incredibly breathtaking & mythical production for it's time, marking Hikaru Kondo's Ufotable breakout animation that garnered national attention with team Ufotable's dazzling post production digital effects and CGI - First alongside the rise of it's other peers such as the revamped Shaft with team Shinbo on Bakemonogatari & Naoko Yamada's K On from Kyo Ani. The story is set in Japan predominantly in the late 1990's in Mifune City consisting of a string of murder investigations, as Shiki recovers from a relapse in her memory she continues to recondition and find out who she is as a person, and what she wants from life.
In that her long time friend Mikiya Kokuto is the key to filling that void in her life, and new acquaintance Touko Aozaki who specializes in the Art (or rather mage-craft), helps unravel the mystery of Shiki Ryougi and her peculiar past with her possible involvement in serial killings that happened some odd years ago, which she remembers little about. But now that the dust has settled, and we have each of the 10 films (depends on how you count) laid out before us, has it really held up to facet of time? Does our unexpected heroine Shiki & Kokuto's story of finding identity, navigating morality & reconditioning the heart still hold it's same magic as it did once before?
Today were taking a special deep dive here to find out exactly what up - 10 years later
(8 Films - 2 Shorts/Specials) 8.34 /10
Kara No Kyoukai was a incredibly breathtaking & mythical production for it's time, marking Hikaru Kondo's Ufotable breakout animation that garnered national attention with team Ufotable's dazzling post production digital effects and CGI - First alongside the rise of it's other peers such as the revamped Shaft with team Shinbo on Bakemonogatari & Naoko Yamada's K On from Kyo Ani. The story is set in Japan predominantly in the late 1990's in Mifune City consisting of a string of murder investigations, as Shiki recovers from a relapse in her memory she continues to recondition and find out who she is as a person, and what she wants from life. In that her long time friend Mikiya Kokuto is the key to filling that void in her life, and new acquaintance Touko Aozaki who specializes in the Art (or rather mage-craft), helps unravel the mystery of Shiki Ryougi and her peculiar past with her possible involvement in serial killings that happened some odd years ago, which she remembers little about. But now that the dust has settled, and we have each of the 10 films (depends on how you count) laid out before us, has it really held up to facet of time? Does our unexpected heroine Shiki & Kokuto's story of finding identity, navigating morality & reconditioning the heart still hold it's same magic as it did once before?
Today were taking a special deep dive here to find out exactly what up - 10 years later
Welcome To Kara No Kyoukai (The Garden Of Sinners) ~
Completion pending...
Disclaimer: Entries that haven't been reviewed yet won't be placed on here, however this list is much much larger in reality, and it will grow as such when each review comes out - TLDR this is an Ongoing project that will take time and is by no means a Complete or Definitive list, as I decided it's more appropriate to go over the review process First before anything is placed on either the Stuff We Like Page or Q's Wall of Fame.
Disclaimer: Entries that haven't been reviewed yet won't be placed on here, however this list is much much larger in reality, and it will grow as such when each review comes out - TLDR this is an Ongoing project that will take time and is by no means a Complete or Definitive list, as I decided it's more appropriate to go over the review process First before anything is placed on either the Stuff We Like Page or Q's Wall of Fame.
