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NHMK Anime Reviews
The color key is as follows:
Bold Green - Actual A/A+ anime. A highly recommended purchase.
Yellow - Enjoyable anime... probably not a regretable purchase.
Orange - Borderline bad/tolerable anime... but it's like a trainwreck... probably don't want to buy this without watching it first.
Red - Pretty bad anime. Watch with caution and definitely do not buy these without first seeing them!
Bold Red - Mental Self-Mutilation. If someone even asks you to watch this, question their motives. Avoid this at all costs.
Special - Anime that deserves special attention as it crosses the fine line between garbage and greatness.
* - An anime I have not seen completely for whatever reason.
| Anime Name | Rating | Reason |
| Afro Samurai* | Alright | Lots of action and Samuel Jackson. Not much else. |
| Air Gear* | Meh | |
| Akira | Excellent | Do I really need to explain this one? |
| Alien Nine | Pain | Awfully boring girl incapable of overcoming anything... |
| All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku | Alright | Crazy robotic cat girl. |
| Amazing Nurse Nanako* | Meh | |
| Amon Saga | Suffering | Horribly bad story and animation. |
| Angel Cop | Special | Watch it in English. They blow the dub out of the water. It is horrid. |
| Aquarion* | Pain | |
| Arcade Gamer Fubuki | Suffering | Why is the main character floating upside down to play arcade games? |
| Aria* | Pain | |
| Arjent Soma* | Meh | |
| Arjuna | Alright | |
| Armitage III | Alright | It has decent action but it isn't perfect. |
| Assemble: Insert* | Meh | |
| Azumanga Daioh | Alright | Goofy and generally fun... but dry at times. |
| Baccano!* | Meh | |
| Banner of the Stars | Alright | Epic space story! |
| Banner of the Stars II | Alright | More epic space story! |
| Bastard | Meh | Urk, it's a fantasy anime that is a bit too immature. |
| Beck | Meh | Blah this was nothing like it should have been. Music is awesome. This anime is not. |
| Berserk | Excellent | If only it had a better animation treatment... incredible anyway. |
| Big O | Meh | Bruce Wayne runs a big robot? Sign me up! |
| Big O II | Meh | Spoiler: It's stupid. |
| Big Wars | Suffering | Stab your eyes out bad. |
| Birdy The Mighty* | Meh | |
| Black Heaven | Meh | This web page has more animation that this show. Slow as dial-up. |
| Blood | Alright | Entertaining little action romp. |
| Blood+* | Meh | The potential for this show was so great... I guess it just could not cut it. |
| Blue Gender* | Alright | Aliens rip-off, it must be good?! |
| Blue Seed | Meh | Alright story and characters but just meh in the end. |
| Blue Submarine No. 6 | Meh | Great animation backed up by a weak and boring story. |
| Boogiepop Phantom | Meh | Hype |
| Brigadoon | Meh | Awfully bland story of a girl and her robot. |
| Burn Up Excess | Meh | Crazy cop lady with little clothing brings the laughs... sometimes. |
| Burn Up Scramble | Pain | Crazy cop lady with little clothing brings the laughs... never. |
| Burn Up W | Meh | Crazy cop lady with little clothing brings the laughs... sometimes. |
| Burst Angel* | Meh | No action and bland story. |
| Castle In The Sky | Alright | Interesting adventure per usual. |
| Cat Soup | Meh | Crazy but not worth re-watching. |
| Chobits Persocom* | Meh | Robotic girl falls in love with dude. This dude stops watching due to boredom. |
| Claymore | Meh | Potential lost. Utter failure. |
| Code Geass | Excellent | Why are you even reading this? The dude mind controls people and makes them shoot themselves in the head. |
| Code Geass R2 | Excellent | |
| Corrector Yui* | Meh | |
| Cowboy Bebop | Excellent | Episodic show that delivers well in absolutely every way. |
| Cowboy Bebop - Knockin' on Heaven's Door | Excellent | Slightly slower than the show but still enjoyable. |
| Crest of the Stars | Alright | First part of the epic space story! |
| Crusher Joe | Pain | |
| Crying Freeman* | Meh | |
| Cutey Honey* | Meh | |
| Cyber City OEDO 808 | Excellent | |
| Daphne In The Brilliant Blue | Alright | An anime with women with little to no clothing somehow delivers an entertaining and interesting show. |
| Darker Than Black* | Alright | |
| Dead Leaves | Alright | Crazy action and madness comes through! |
| Diamond Daydreams | Alright | |
| DNA2* | Alright | |
| Doomed Megalopolis | Pain | Bland and never seems to be as sinister as it should be. |
| Dragon Half | Alright | |
| Eat-Man '98 | Meh | He eats metal but does not deliver a rivetting tale. I went there. |
| Eden of the East | Meh | |
| Eden's Bowy* | Meh | |
| Elfen Leid | Excellent | Nothing beats young women slicing each other up. This show is a bit disturbing but fascinating. |
| Ergo Proxy | Meh | Going good ... oh it's episode 4 and I see this is going nowhere. 20 episodes later I want my money back. |
| Escaflowne | Excellent | Delivers everything you need. Lots of twists and turns and a great grand adventure. |
| Escaflowne Movie | Alright | A weird remake of the show compressed to a movie. |
| Excel Saga | Alright | |
| Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture | Meh | |
| Figure 17* | Alright | |
| Final Fantasy Unlimited* | Alright | |
| FLCL | Excellent | Absolutely stunning animation coupled with an insane story. |
| Fortune Quest* | Meh | |
| Fruits Basket | Alright | Great entertaining situational comedy that does not fail to deliver. |
| Full Metal Panic (First Raid) | Meh | Awfully pathetic considering the hype. Does not deliver in any way really. |
| Fullmetal Alchemist | Excellent | Great long term adventure with some twists and turns. |
| Ga-Rei-Zero | Alright | The first two episodes are deceptive and the rest of the show just fumbles along as slightly better than mediocre. |
| Gad Guard | Meh | Boy and his robot cannot keep me entertained. |
| Gankutsuou | Excellent | Visually enticing and excellent story telling. |
| Gantz | Special | The first season dragged so badly they spent an episode arguing on a bridge. At a faster pace this show delivers and makes good on the huge amount of potential. |
| Gasaraki | Meh | |
| Gate Keepers 21* | Alright | |
| Generator Gawl* | Alright | |
| Geneshaft* | Meh | |
| Genesis Climber Mospeada* | Pain | |
| Genma Wars* | Pain | |
| Geo-Armor: Kishin Corp. | Alright | |
| Geobreeders* | Meh | |
| Ghost in the Shell (movie) | Excellent | Great animation coupled with an interesting story. |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex* | Alright | |
| Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Season 2)* | Alright | |
| Giant Robo | Excellent | Great old-style art/animation with a great cast of unique characters. |
| Gilgamesh | Pain | Awfully bland for characters that can blow out walls whenever they fight. |
| Gokudo | Excellent | Great adventure-comedy that somehow kept me entertained. |
| Gokusen | Meh | Mafia teacher lost me after a couple of very entertaining episodes. |
| Golden Boy | Alright | Fun stories with twists revealing the wonderful nature of a person. |
| GTO* | Alright | |
| Gun Frontier | Suffering | Awful. If I ever see these characters in an anime I will immediately turn it off and run for my life. (I'm looking at you Captain Harlock) |
| Gundress | Suffering | Bad movie with little redeeming quality. |
| Gungrave | Special | On the brink of excellent yet somehow drags out or comes across a bit lame at the most critical points. |
| Gunparade March* | Alright | |
| Gunslinger Girl (first season) | Alright | |
| Gurren Lagann | Special | Awesome until the final few episodes when everything completely crumbled to crap. |
| Haibane Renmei | Meh | |
| Hakkenden | Meh | |
| Haunted Junction | Excellent | |
| Heat Guy J | Alright | |
| Hellsing | Excellent | |
| Hetalia: Axis Powers* | Meh | |
| His and Her Circumstances | Meh | |
| Hyper Police* | Meh | |
| Infinite Ryvius | Alright | |
| Innocent Venus | Meh | |
| Irresponsible Captain Tylor | Meh | |
| Jin-Roh | Meh | |
| Jubei-Chan | Excellent | Great comedy with a bit of action and drama. |
| Jubei-Chan 2 | Meh | Not-so-great comedy with way too much resistance to have action sequences. |
| Jungle de Ikko | Meh | |
| Kamichu* | Meh | |
| Kaze No Yojimbo* | Meh | |
| Kiddy Grade* | Alright | |
| King of Bandit Jing* | Alright | |
| Kinghts of Ramune* | Meh | |
| Kino's Journey* | Alright | |
| Kite | Alright | Creepy story with lots of action. |
| Kite Liberator | Pain | Boring story with some action. |
| Knight Hunters, Weiss Kreuz* | Meh | |
| Kodocha* | Meh | |
| Koi Kaze* | Meh | |
| Kurogana Communications* | Meh | |
| Kyo* | Meh | |
| L/R* | Alright | |
| Labyrinth of Flames | Alright | |
| Lain | Special | Why couldn't you be less weird and move the story along a bit more without masking everything? |
| Last Exile | Excellent | Excellent flight/sky action-adventure show. |
| Legend of Crystania: The Chaos Ring | Meh | |
| Legend of Crystania: The Movie | Pain | |
| Legend of Himiko* | Pain | |
| Legend of the Mystical Ninja* | Pain | |
| Lost Universe* | Alright | |
| Love Hina* | Meh | |
| Lupin III:Castle of Cagliostro | Excellent | |
| Lupin III:Season 1* | Meh | |
| Lupin III:Twilight Gemini | Meh | |
| Macross Plus | Excellent | |
| Magic Knight Rayearth* | Meh | |
| Magic Users Club | Alright | |
| Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi | Excellent | |
| Mars Daybreak* | Meh | |
| Martian Successor Nadesico | Meh | |
| Master Keaton* | Alright | |
| Megaman NT Warrior | Pain | |
| Melody of Oblivion | Pain | The writers seriously laughed at the viewers every time they released a new episode. |
| Memories | Excellent | |
| Metal Fighter Miku | Meh | |
| Metropolis | Alright | |
| Mezzo (Television) | Meh | |
| Mezzo Forte | Alright | |
| Miami Guns* | Alright | |
| Midori Days* | Meh | |
| Millennium Actress | Alright | |
| Moldiver | Alright | |
| Monster* | Alright | |
| Moribito | Excellent | Powerful woman protects young noble from baddies? Sign me up! |
| My Beautiful Girl Mari | Meh | |
| My Dear Marie | Alright | |
| My Neighbor Totoro | Alright | |
| Najica Blitz Tactics* | Meh | |
| Nazca* | Meh | |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion | Meh | |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth | Meh | |
| Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion | Excellent | |
| NieA under 7* | Meh | |
| Ninja Resurrection | Meh | |
| Now and Then, Here and There | Alright | |
| Nurse Witch Komugi | Meh | |
| Omishi Magical Theater* | Alright | |
| Orphen | Meh | |
| Orphen II | Meh | |
| Otaku no Video | Meh | |
| Otogi Zoshi: Heian Arc | Alright | |
| Otogi Zoshi: Tokyo Arc* | Pain | |
| Outlaw Star | Alright | |
| Paradise Kiss | Excellent | Realistic teen drama that kept me coming back for more. |
| Paranoia Agent | Alright | |
| Peacemaker | Meh | |
| Perfect Blue | Excellent | |
| Photon | Excellent | |
| Ping Pong Club | Alright | |
| Planetes | Excellent | |
| Please Teacher* | Alright | |
| Power Stone* | Pain | |
| Princess Mononoke | Excellent | |
| Princess Nine* | Alright | |
| Project Arms* | Meh | |
| Pumpkin Scissors* | Meh | |
| Read or Die | Excellent | |
| Read or Die TV* | Meh | |
| Record of Lodoss War OVA | Excellent | |
| Record of Lodoss War TV | Alright | |
| Reign* | Alright | |
| Requiem from the Darkness | Alright | |
| Revolutionary Girl Utena Movie* | Meh | |
| Rockman OVA | Alright | |
| Romeo X Juliet | Special | |
| Roujin Z | Alright | |
| Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise | Pain | |
| Rupan III: Fuma Conspiracy | Excellent | |
| Saiyuki* | Meh | |
| Samurai 7 | Excellent | |
| Samurai Champloo | Alright | |
| Samurai Deeper Kyo* | Meh | |
| Samurai Gun | Meh | |
| Sands of Destruction | Meh | Enjoyable adventure that fails to deliver much in the end. |
| School Rumbe Season 2 | Special | |
| School Rumble | Alright | |
| Shamanic Princess* | Meh | |
| Sin: The Movie | Pain | |
| Slayers | Alright | |
| Slayers Next | Alright | |
| Slayers Try | Meh | |
| Sol Bianca | Pain | |
| Soul Eater | Alright | Great animation and weird world. Some hit and miss episodes but generally very enjoyable. |
| Soul Hunter* | Pain | |
| SoulTaker | Excellent | |
| Speed Grapher | Special | |
| Spirited Away | Excellent | |
| Spriggan | Alright | |
| Stellvia | Meh | |
| Strange Dawn* | Alright | |
| Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie | Meh | |
| Summer Wars | Alright | |
| Taisho Baseball Girls* | Alright | |
| Texhnolyze | Meh | |
| The Girl Who Leapt Through Time | Excellent | Wonderfully fun spin on time travel with a bit of drama to keep things suspenseful and interesting. |
| The Heroic Legend of Arslan | Pain | |
| The Wings of Rean* | Alright | |
| Those Who Hunt Elves | Alright | |
| Those Who Hunt Elves II | Alright | |
| Tide Line Blue | Meh | |
| Tokyo Maijin (Season 1) | Meh | |
| Tower of Druaga (name parts) | Alright | |
| Trigun | Excellent | Fun, dramatic, and entertaining. The manga is a mess. Do not bother to read it. |
| Trouble Chocolate | Meh | |
| Twelve Kingdoms | Excellent | |
| Twin Signal | Meh | |
| Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer | Alright | |
| Vandread | Excellent | |
| Very Private Lesson | Alright | |
| Voices of a Distant Star | Alright | |
| Votoms* | Pain | |
| Welcome to NHK* | Meh | |
| Wild Arms | Meh | |
| Witch Hunter Robin | Pain | |
| Wolf's Rain | Meh | |
| Xam'd | Alright | Great adventure with weird spiritual components. Princess Mononoke married with Last Exile. Fumbles in the end as per stereotype. |
| Yugo the Negotiator | Meh | |
| Yukikaze | Meh | |
| Z-Mind | Meh | |
| Zaion | Pain | |
| Zipang* | Meh | Ship travels back in time to World War II? Sadly more bland than interesting... |
| Zone of the Enders | Excellent |