Top 50 Best Anime Ranking

Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (results are by a poll) for The Best 50 Anime Ranking:

1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
2. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
3. Laputa: Castle in the Sky
4. Mobile Suit Gundam
5. Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
6. Mushi-shi
7. Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex
8. My Neighbor Totoro
9. Fullmetal Alchemist
10. Ghost in the shell
11. Dragon Ball
12. Princess Mononoke
13. AKIRA
14. Spirited Away
15. Doraemon
16. Fullmetal Alchemist-Conqueror of Shamballa
17. Porco Rosso
18. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
19. Crayon Shin-chan
20. Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
21. Card Captor Sakura
22. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
23. Kamichu!
24. Mobile Police Patlabor 2: the Movie
25. Z Gundam
26. Voices of a Distant Star
27. Mobile Police Patlabor
28. Galaxy Express 999
29. Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
30. Manga Nippon Mukashi Banashi
31. Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Appare! Sengoku Daikassen (movie)
32. Grave of the Fireflies
33. Conan, The Boy in Future
34. Howl’s Moving Castle
35. Space Battleship Yamato
36. Wings of Honneamise
37. Slam Dunk
38. Sailor Moon
39. Gundam SEED
40. Sgt. Frog
41. Gunbuster
42. Doraemon (Movie Series)
43. Brave Series
44. Cowboy Bebop
45. Samurai 7
46. Martian Successor Nadesico
47. Heidi, Girl of the Alps
48. Urusei Yatsura
49. Astro Boy
50. Lupin III (original TV series)

The poll was apparently one in which voters could choose from a list of anime, but there was a write-in section as well. Here are the top 10 series for write-in votes:

1. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. The Twelve Kingdoms
4. Planetes
5. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
6. Rozen Maiden
7. AIR
8. ARIA
9. Eureka Seven
10. S-CRY-ed

Source of this top 50 manga can be found in Japan Probe website.