I know how much people love pointlessly ranking stuff so I thought, hey, why the hell not? If you’re a long time reader (do those even exist for this? hahaha) you might’ve noticed how I don’t really like to score/rank things very much, sure that doesn’t stop me doing it. I think the problem is, I can rate something pertaining to how good I think it is, but that could be totally different to how much I enjoy it. For me, those are two separate things, as such, I shall now proceed to rank my top 10 of various things I can think of. My top 10 favorites.
Kaonazhie’s top 10 Video Games:
- Dynasty Warriors series
- Super Smash Bros series
- Perfect Dark (N64)
- Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
- Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance series
- Lylat Wars (Starfox 64)
- Breath of Fire series
- Zone of the Enders series
- Dead or Alive series
- Pokemon series
Okay I may have slightly cheated there I suppose with most of them being series but whatever. I thought about it for a long time and those are probably the games I have enjoyed the most, in very rough order. You might be thinking that they all seem to be fairly modern games…and you’d be right. I’ll be honest, I never really found Megadrive games that fun. It was the N64 that got me interested in gaming, probably Mario 64 and Lylat Wars to be specific, I’ve just never been a big fan of the side-scrolling type games. Presumably because I was born in 1990. That being said, I do like Super Mario World a lot. I’m not saying these are the “best” games, rather they are the ones I have enjoyed the most. Honorable mentions would include the Jedi Knight series, X-wing VS Tie Fighter series, Gears of War and GTA.
Kaonazhie’s top 10 Films:
- Twelve Monkeys
- Hero
- The Wild Bunch
- Star Wars Original Trilogy
- Highlander
- From Dusk till Dawn
- Once Upon a Time in China
- The Legend 2 (Fong Sai-yuk II)
- Blade
- Equilibrium
I didn’t order them because they aren’t in any order, I can’t say I like one more than the other really. As much as I like watching films, it’s relatively vague for me even more so than games when it comes to liking one more than the other. Anyway sorry if you were hoping for some crazy deep list of amazing films, I know it’s fairly cliched but I love all those films and wrote them in the order I thought of them. There’s a lot of chinese films there you might notice, it’s probably because I was brought up watching them and have always loved the bizarre blend of action/comedy they had. Especially Fong Sai-yuk II, which I put on over the first film simply because of one scene that always stuck with me (the shot at 2:30 in particular). If you’ve read chapter 9 of FFID you can probably see the inspiration. Yeah, I tend to mostly watch action movies, I watch them because I want to see things that you can’t get from reading a book.
Kaonazhie’s top 10 Anime:
- Eureka 7
- Last Exile
- Akira
- Gintama
- Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
- Cowboy Bebop
- Kara no Kyokai
- Baccano
- Planetes
- Sword of the Stranger
Come on, like you didn’t see that coming. Is there really any need to elaborate upon this? Sword of the Stranger perhaps. I think the main reason I liked Stranger so much was that it was just a great action movie, uh..yeah, that’s it. Things that just missed the list? FLCL, Gurren Lagann, Serial Experiments Lain, Bleach and Moyasimon. Wait, BLEACH!? I hear you roar. Yeah, Bleach. I dunno if it’s because it was the first anime I watched when I started properly watching anime (long story short: watched DBZ as a kid. Watched EVA, Akira and Macross at 13-14. Started watching everything, beginning with Bleach at 16) or if it’s just because I really enjoyed the first 15-20 episodes or so. Yet another reminder, just because things are on this list doesn’t specifically mean I think they are the bees knees/wasps nipples etc. Last Exile in particular I know has quite a lot of flaws, but that doesn’t stop me from liking it.
I can’t think of any other relevant top 10 things, books would be too hard to think of, as would music so instead I’ll safely say that my current flavor of the week (more like several months) band is Denki Groove because they house the ability to calm me in the midst of my meg@rages. Oh what’s that you want top 10 anime characters? All right then.
- Quantum Delux Tier: Apachai, Dio, Joseph Joestar
- God Tier: Liang Qi, Mao, Katsura, Gintoki
- Everyone Else Tier: Everyone else
- Shit Tier: Sasuke and those obsessed with him
- Frahlo Tier: Frahlo
Shut up I don’t care if that’s several hundred thousand over 10 or that Frahlo’s not an anime character, he must always be at the bottom/lowest part of anything. Well, that’s it I guess.
Kaonazhie’s top 10 Kaonazhies:
- Lant
- Thes
- Thorsion
- Tresk
- Aeron
- Xeron
- C
- Java
- All the other characters
- The generic grunt/peon/minion who stabbed Thes
Don’t ask.
SAYONARAH FALL IN RABU. OOOOOOAMAAAAAAAZINGRAAAAAAACE.
(Also one more thing I noted earlier and feel compelled to note down here, why was 2007 -the year I started watching anime- such an amazingly good year in terms of shows?
<Lant> Guardian (Moribito), Darker than Black, TTGL, Moyasimon and Denno Coil
<Lant> off the top of my head
<Lant> oh it also had sword of the stranger
<Lant> and baccano
<Lant> and technically death note rewrite
<Lant> and claymore
<Lant> and hayate
All of them average or above shows, amazing when you compare it to last year or so far this year. However it’s also possible that I missed some really good shows. Haha, you never know, hahaha.)
