Anime of the Decade: Preamble

Through extensive investigation of the psyche and intense discrete and statistical mathematics I have formulated my top 100 anime of the 2010s. While these are based entirely upon my own experience watching as as such pertain solely to myself, I think you'll find they are universally correct across the otaku egregore. This list is six months in the making and has gone through a dozen revisions to hone the nature of it however it is still incomplete, as I have not yet seen every anime from the decade and thus there may be some left out from this list undeservingly. I will have a list of anime I have not yet seen but I think may get on to the list at the bottom of this post.


The rules are as described:

• The Anime must be listed on the ANN Anime Encyclopaedia to qualify.
• "The decade" is defined as between 00:00 01/01/2010 and before 00:00 01/01/2019. In Unix Standard Time, where x is the time in question, this is 1262304000 >= x > 1577836800.
• The Anime must have aired at least one episode within the decade. This therefore includes anime which started airing before 2010 or will not finish until after 2020. In the former case the entire anime is considered, in the latter case only that which has aired before the decade's end is considered.
• If an anime is listed separately on ANN then it is listed separately here.
• If an anime's airing time spans multiple years within the decade, the first year in which an episode airs within the decade will be designated for its year of airing for the sake of this chart.
• Award categories being considered are:
• #1 - #3 Anime of the Decade
• #1 - #3 TV Anime of the Decade
• #1 - #3 Anime Film of the Decade
• #1 - #3 Short Anime of the Decade
• Anime of the Year 2010-2019
• Best of genre:
• Action
• Comedy
• Historical
• Horror
• Isekai
• Iyashikei
• Magical Girl
• Mecha
• Mystery
• Romance
• Sci-Fi
• Slice-of-Life
• Sports

The list will start in earnest in the next post, and a link repository will be kept updated here with a full collection of the upcoming posts:

• No posts available yet.

Here is a list of honourable mentions. I grade these anime in the low 7 range, but they did not reach the top 100 shows. These are ordered from best to worst (101st to 120th).

• Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo
• Nisemonogatari
• Arakawa Under the Bridge
• ACCA 13
• Fate/Zero
• Working
• Shimoneta
• Mob Psycho 100
• Saiki K
• Fire Force
• Steins Gate Film
• Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works
• Saint Onii-san
• Sounan Desu Ka?
• New Game Season 2
• Kiniro Mosaic
• Girls und Panzer Film
• Mob Psycho 100 Season 2
• One Punch Man
• I Can't Understand What my Husband is Saying

Here is a list of anime from the decade I have not finished or started yet, but I think have a chance of being worthy of the list. When I watch these shows I will insert them into the list and shift everything up. These are in alphabetical order.

• A-Channel
• Acchi Kocchi 
• Aikatsu
• Akatsuki no Yona
• Another
• Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
• Beyond the Boundary
• Dantalion no Shoka
• Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko
• Durarara
• Gatchaman Crowds
• Golden Time
• Hanasaku Iroha
• Heartcatch Precure
• Hinako Note
• Hotarubi no Mori e 
• In This Corner of the World
• Jashin-chan's Dropkick
• Kimi ni Todoke
• Konohana Kitan
• Little Busters
• Mari and Gali
• Maquia
• Maria the Virgin Witch 
• Macross Delta
• Mahoujin Guru Guru
• Medaka Box
• Mysterious Girlfriend X
• Patema Inverted 
• Princess Kaguya
• Princess Principal
• Sasami-san Ganbaranai
• Shiki
• Show By Rock
• Tari Tari 
• Tsugumomo 
• Uchouten Kazoku
• Witch Craft Works
• Woman Called Fujiko Mine, The
• Yuri Kuma Arashi