Story is not bad either.

This is why DxD is still my favorite anime. Still waiting on season 5 😅

I wish the whole 'devil' part was a lot more flushed out. Like Issei died and transformed into a devil (pawn) but he never does anything. He only uses his dragon powers.

@@ceshmate1953 agreed. Specially since devils are all about desires. So would have been nice to see him combine the desire of a dragon with the desire of a devil. Or just have a funny moment ware his devil side was stronger for a while.

Power scaling is questionable

Yeah, To Love Ru is _the_ ecchi anime that created a whole generation of degenerates

The peak of having tea maybe.

​@@hundvd_7I can vouch for that. My first exposure to to love ru was the anime but the subtitles were in Spanish. Luckily I had a very tiny grasp on the Spanish language.

The peak of music anime is Beck. Closely followed by On-gaku.

Yeah, I thought the same lol

.Hack and Digimon did isekai before SAO, and the genre has existed in the west for decades: Alice in wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, Army of darkness, The chronicles of Narnia, Last action hero, Tron, The neverending story, Labyrinth, and a long etc

​@@AvoCamilonah the Isekai fucking explode after Sao it's like every season there will be Isekai somehow

@@AvoCamilo.Hack and Digimon are isekai and indeed other examples you have listed also qualify, however, it is SAO that more or less popularized the term and brought about the wave of other isekai works in its wake. Much like how fables and fantasy have been a staple of our history; but it is Tolkien who is called the Father of Fantasy.

@@AnakinSkyobiliviator The use of the word "isekai" is a modern thing, yeh, but we've been watching the genre for decades, and it's always been popular, we just didn't give it a name before. Technically, we've all grown up on western isekais

​@@AvoCamilo I guess it comes down to the realization of the subgenre existing instead of the new world of the story just being treated as a setting?

BRO COOKIN' 🍳

It gets points for groundbreaking and setting a standard, but having set the standard has been probably surpassed by Kaguya-Sama in the years since. Purely subjective, of course, but Kaguya’s icy sarcasm is a bit more entertaining than Taiga’s violence outbursts. I also rate Insomniacs After School as one of my top top anime, but might not be to everyone’s taste because of the lack of what Gigguk calls “anime bullshit,” and was over far too quick, at least in comparison to a marathon like From Me To You (which still didn’t have a satisfying resolution after all that time).

@@entropybentwhistle -It gets points for groundbreaking and setting a standard It did? What standards?

Toradora! made me from anime hater to a full-on weeb. It also made me have an existential crisis/depression for 2 weeks straight. So yeah, it's high up there.

​@@Jepze158i guess not being fanservice-filled with a believable romance, and without those stupid "WhAt iS tHiS wArM fEeLiNg iN mY cHesT?" moments every 3 minutes.

Toradora and Chuunibyou

Lupin III is one of my favorites.

So yes I am one of the genuine few who watched high school dxd on accident but 100% still a degenerate

The hopium for season 5 in general anime fans is unreal MAN Everyone is wishing for it

if dxd is your favorite anime u need to be watching better anime bro 😭

@@vaibhavh599 it doesn't matter if I watch "better" anime. DxD will still be my favorite and I have seen anime that many would consider better than DxD but I don't care

@@marcorodriguez8792 Damn. U got a girlfriend bro?

Same lmao

The Manga actually becomes a pretty good Shonen about halfway through. I wish it had a continuation that the author set up for then just didn't make.

Death Note was the anime that my friend suggested me to watch in high school and it changed everything to me. I watched DBZ when i was kid that was my first anime but years past by and i was like a lot of you "No i don't want to watch Japanese cartoon, not for me". Then i give it a try because i love mystery movies more then anything and to this day didn't watch better thing maybe "Monster" is up there. Now i watched like 300 Animes after that and im proud to say Death Note was the one that got me in this anime world. So maybe it is normie but it influenced me..

Facts

I have never heard of haruhi before this video and i probably will never hear of it again and no one i ever have known has ever heard of it either. Obviously it probably had some impact on the industry but its slot isnt compatible with death note. It should probably replace gundam or dragon ball, since both also have the same role of defining a genre and changing the internal anime landscape. Garnt and Joey are like old-heads in basketball, they're not wrong but they only consider their generation.

​@@nickygian The Haruhi Anime is only ~5-6 months older than the Deathnote Anime, and the Haruhi Movie released 3-4 years after deathnote finished. It's a key landmark in the slice of life genre, and is pretty much the epitome of mid-early 2000s anime. Anyone who's ever looked through the history of anime as a whole has run into Haruhi. It may not have aged with the Shounen Jump & Isekai meta, but it was incredibly influential when it was airing and you can see the run on effects in how we adapt media to this day. Deathnote is definitely one of the best introductory shows in Anime history, but it didn't really shake up the game and it certainly wasn't the first or last good show from the shounen jump catalog. If anything, I'd say it should be fighting with another shounen jump style show for the spot rather than Haruhi. As far as them being old-heads, I'd have to counter with the fact that we simply cannot fairly evaluate shows which haven't had a chance to leave a long lasting mark yet. Haruhi and Deathnote both finished over a decade ago, and the Effects of both are fairly easy to observe and compare against eachother. We can go ahead and make assumptions about the most popular shows from the last 5 years, but we won't be able to judge them on the same level as older shows until we can step back and look at everything that comes after them. Believe me, there are newer shows that I'd love to hold up and praise as generation defining masterpieces, but IDK how they'll be looked at in another 5-10 years.

@@tk03_85 Still feels redundant since gundam and dragon ball had the same reasoning behind their addition too. If it were a "7 anime that influenced me" list I wouldn't mind it but I think Death Note fills the niche of "made anime more accessible to the rest of the world" and that deserves a spot on the list than another "hallmark of the genre". You can argue the influence of both for ages but I think Haruhi's spot has been filled.

@@nickygian I think the issue with a show that simply made anime "more accessible to the rest of the world" is that there are so many other shows that have done that same thing to a similar degree. Attack on Titan, Naruto, One Piece, DBZ, MHA, Demon Slayer, Sailor Moon, etc. All those shows have been instrumental in bringing Anime to the west, and I think we just come back to the argument of "this show influenced me more" or "this show was more popular" with any of those options, and it'd be odd to fill the list with shows from just that list. My argument for Haruhi is that it actually shifted the internal landscape of the anime industry. It gave us celebrity Voice Actors, the first BIG hit from KyoAni, A viral dance, and popular light novel adaptations. In addition to that, it would also be a unique genre on the list. If you wanted to go into Cosplay and convention culture, there's that too, but I don't find that nearly as important aside from showing the relative popularity at the time. I don't see why Haruhi should have to fight with DBZ, AoT, Sailor Moon and Death note for a spot. Especially when all four of those could use the exact same arguments for being there. I think death note is a fine addition on it's own, but I think Haruhi more than deserves it's own spot on the list. I think Death Note should have to fight against the other introductory / gateway anime, rather than against a show that is there because of how it changed the workings of the industry as a whole. The structure of the list doesn't work very well for this, but oh well.

Never heard of haruhi before this video lol Death note is definitely more influential than Haruhi. Its cos of death notes millions of new anime fan are born every 2 years. I myself was completely brought in to the world of anime cos i watched death note in Netflix. Dragon ball and Pokemon were just another cartoon for us as kids, death note was the first “anime” that we all watched in west

It was either Spirited Away or Akira

In influential wise it is the top sports anime since it Is the only anime who introduced power of friendship and teamwork for the first time in 80's and the inspiration u can see in every sports anime The only sports anime that can rival tsubasa in terms of influential is Ashita no joe

Bro, not just in Italy! It's also influential in most of Asia, Africa, and Latin America's countries.

most anime fans who were not "that into" anime are not big on Haruhi. Deathnote has more mass appeal.

Yeah it had such a huge effect on anime and despite not being a fan of it or it’s offsprings it’s undeniable

⁠@@spicykaraage641Haruhi proved that mass market 2.5D seiyuu idols in the internet era could work though, as well as bringing KyoAni to mainstream attention and kicking off the boom of making light novel adaptations into anime. Sure, Hirano Aya crashed and burned, but without her, a bunch of the more popular female seiyuu would not have as much of a following right now and light novels would not be getting the attention that they are now.

@@GDIGhostStalker That kinda proves my point as people who are not "that into" anime would not know/notice or care about that stuff.

@@spicykaraage641that’s fair. I guess the whole thing they were talking about wrt “normie anime” definitely applies. Looking at an overall industry impact though, Haruhi definitely had a bigger influence.

Harem as a genre to me has 3 specific anime I point to as giant influences for the genre. Tenchi Muhyo: nailed down the key points of the genre Love Hina: popularized the genre and is what most people point to for starting the 2000s harem boom. Unfortunately pretty much everything terrible about the genre came from this one Highschool DxD: pushed the boundaries for how much you can really get away with in the genre, and what I point to for being the influence to other really degenerate shit outside of harem as well.

Dude the two episodes about the detective and other guy are one of the best episodes in any anime I've seen.

How is that influential?

@@Jepze158 It does for visual novels what Harhui did for light novels. And its still being talked about even to this day.

Agreed

Agreed

Fix a girls life problem and she's deeply in love with you and is prepared to 'share' you with others. Peak harem, yeh.

Based

Exactly

that's a good number. my attempt at a list would be: Dragon Ball, Mobile Suit Gundam, Evangelion, Sailor Moon, Akira, Attack on Titan, Death Note, Haruhi Suzumiya, Rurouni Kenshin??, Cowboy Bebop, Ashita no Joe no romance or horror 'cause I haven't seen that much and not sure what I would place

I actually agree. Like it or not, Makoto Shinkai became his own genre the way Hayao Miyazaki is a genre. May not be as influential but it put a lot of attention on anime romance movies among the non-anime crowd

They already have Sailor Moon in their list. Putting Nanoha is redundant.

There were earlier cyberpunk, but yeah it's a foregone inclusion. 12 wonders would have been more fitting, and include one rep for Ghibli too

@@shawnatlast I'm aware that GitS isn't the first, but its influence is undeniable. An anime that has as much influence in a genre as Blade Runner is not something you see everyday

@@Jizukiru Yeah of course. It's a default inclusion

It takes it's time to familiarize the viewer with the many many different characters and their traits. After that's established it's kind of like a western show with a main cast and revolving guests every week in between big serious arcs and comedic arcs.

You unlocked a core memory

Also Boys Over Flowers

Inuyasha for sure

One of the first anime i watched was jojo and that scene with lisa lisa awakened something in me. When i later watched my first ecchi which was dxd my tastes were reinforced. (Akeno was my favorite). I was now into hot older girls especially hot older girls with big boobs. Then i watched akame ga kill and Esdeath was by far the best girl in that show. Now i just wasnt into hot older girls with big boobs but strong dominant hot older girls with big boobs. With time i somehow started caring less about boobs and finding myself liking thighs more. Yeah, my tastes are basically the opposite of yours.

Manga ending was awkward and wholesome at the same time

I do say it does take itself more seriously later on in the light novels which shocked me the first time i read it but it just goes to show that ecchi/harem can have a good story and be entertaining

Lol you're a brave man