Top 20 Anime of the 1990s

By YPB TeamSep 13

Ten years that gave anime its arthouse wing and its biggest toy line at the same time. Some of these still get argued about weekly.

1
Cowboy Bebop
A 1998 space-western about bounty hunters, scored like a jazz record.
1000pts
2
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Hideaki Anno's 1995 series that put teenage pilots and clinical depression inside giant robots.
856pts
3
Yu Yu Hakusho
A 1992 shonen about a delinquent who dies, comes back, and works cases for the spirit world.
694pts
4
Princess Mononoke
Hayao Miyazaki's 1997 epic about a war between forest gods and an iron-working town.
642pts
5
Revolutionary Girl Utena
A 1997 series that turned school duels and fairy-tale roles into a study of power.
642pts
6
Cardcaptor Sakura
CLAMP's 1998 series about a girl recovering magical cards, famous for its costume design.
592pts
7
Trigun
A 1998 gunslinger western on a desert planet, led by a pacifist with a huge bounty.
513pts
8
Rurouni Kenshin
A 1996 Meiji-era samurai story about a killer who swore never to kill again.
513pts
9
Ghost in the Shell
Mamoru Oshii's 1995 cyberpunk film about a cyborg officer chasing a hacker through a networked city.
513pts
10
Perfect Blue
Satoshi Kon's 1997 psychological thriller about a pop idol losing the line between roles and life.
513pts
11
The Vision of Escaflowne
A 1996 series mixing mecha, high fantasy and shojo romance in one world.
434pts
12
Dragon Ball Z
The 1989-96 shonen juggernaut of power levels, transformations and week-long fights.
342pts
13
Hunter x Hunter
The 1999 adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's manga about a boy hunting for his absent father.
342pts
14
Great Teacher Onizuka
A 1999 comedy about an ex-biker who becomes the worst-behaved teacher in the school.
342pts
15
Pokemon
The 1997 series that turned a Game Boy pair into the biggest media franchise on earth.
342pts
16
Serial Experiments Lain
A 1998 series about a schoolgirl dissolving into the early internet.
342pts
17
Sailor Moon
The 1992 series that defined the magical-girl team and exported it worldwide.
342pts
18
Berserk
The 1997 adaptation of Kentaro Miura's dark-fantasy manga, ending on its cruellest turn.
233pts
19
Outlaw Star
A 1998 space adventure about a salvage crew and a ship nobody else can fly.
233pts
20
Slam Dunk
The 1993 basketball series credited with making the sport popular in Japan.
0pts

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Comments

Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Princess Mononoke and Perfect Blue all landed inside four years of each other. The decade Evangelion has to survive: https://youpick.best/articles/evangelion-ranked-many-ways

ypb-team·14h ago·