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.

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

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 😂

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.

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.

A 32 minute videos about anime from JOEY?

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

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

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 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.

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

>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

Maturing is realising Joey has the worst anime takes

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

Really digging your videos, keep it real!

MADOKA MAGICA IN TOP 5 LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Guys can you tell he's a 90s kid

Wtf is that wall 💀💀

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.

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

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..."

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!!!!

,,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

Madoka based

Keep up the awesome work and videos Joey love the video

I like how people's biases can make the list look so random some times and sometimes you are happy to see the shows you love in a based placement. Nice video Joey

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

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 🤘

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 😂

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.

This felt like a mashup of three separate list of "My Favourite", "Most Popular" and "The Best".

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

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

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!!!

This hits different after the latest Trash Taste episode

i love that joey starts with the disclaimer that this isn't for the best anime, but the favorite, gets to frieren, and gripes that it's too soon to say it's the best of all time, and then ends reminding *us* that this isn't the best anime list, but just favorite. lol... look, some people's favorite is always going to be the thing they recently watched. others it's going to be one of the ones that made them appreciate the medium, again, this is a list of favorites, not all time greatest anime.

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

Sometimes you just need to know that you're not crazy or alone in liking a certain anime Edit: From this video alone it seems Sir Joey would probably enjoy 'Asobi Asobase' if he hasn't seen it already

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

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

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.

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

What happened to your survey in twitter ?

Me when I saw the thumbnail: "hol up, let em cook"

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

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

Is this the anime man channel ! ! !

familiar zero being known by oldheads is crazy to think about

About Frieren. Finished or not it's already better than most series out there, so rating it highly makes perfect sense.

I don't get Joey hype for code Geass sure top 50 I can even see top 20 but top 15 WTF lol code Geass shouldn't be that and he complains about bocchi bocchi is easily on code Geass level I know it's hard to compare very different genres but I can hardly tell any flaws with bocchi considering what it was trying to be as a show code Geass on the other hand has many questionable mistakes that you need to simply turn off your brain and pretend it's ok just so you can keep going with the story Bocchi at least doesn't make any significant basic mistake that damages the watching experience of the 12 episodes

the fact that truck kun is not the thing you remember from zombie land saga is insane

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

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

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

29:17 I don’t why Joey immediately stop finishing saying “crazy” after said “wow that’s” but it’s so funny 🤣

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

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.

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

Is Joey the Anime Man making a comeback!?

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)

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..

We want Joey's Top 100 anime list!!!!!!

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

Nah howls moving castle being that low is an actual crime

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

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).

WHERE TF IS BLUE LOCK IN!?!?! PLS SOMEONE TELL ME IF ITS THERE CUS I DONT SEE IT ITS FUCKING LIKE SHOULD BE AT LEAST IN THE TOP 50 WHERE IS IT??

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

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

Bro just skipped over Symphogear like it was nothing wtf!? (-and he's even watched the first season!)

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.

30 minutes let's goo

I mean My Dress Up Darling first season is finished why would anyone still be talking about it? 90 percent of the anime on this list that joey likes no one talks about anymore lol. Thats just normal things come and go and something new comes out and people move on.

didn't bro have his own anime survey like a couple months ago?

Now... is there a top 500 manga list for another video like this?

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?

Whenever you start talking about non non biyori, you only say it's cute. I get the feeling you never actually watched it and only talk about your feeling of previews and pictures. I mean yeah, 86 is too high but still

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.

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.