Japan Fans Name The Anime Most Likely To Convert You Into An Otaku
What anime is most likely to flip your otaku switch
The protagonist of Welcome to the N.H.K. posited that Japan's semi-public NHK TV network produced high quality anime like Nadia Secret of Blue Water in a conspiracy to turn Japan's youth into pliable otaku.
In a new free-for-all Biglobe poll, almost 6 thousand readers named the anime they thought were most liable to do the trick and turn viewers into otaku.
The list of the insidious classics includes:
1. Neon Genesis Evangelion
2. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
3. Card Captor Sakura
4. K-on!
5. Gintama
7. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
8. Mobile Suit Gundam
9. Lucky Star
10. A Certain Scientific Railgun
11. A Certain Magical Index
12. Angel Beats!
13. Sailor Moon
14. Bakemonogatari
15. Yu Yu Hakusho
16. Nadia Secret of Blue Water
17. Rozen Maiden
18. Durarara!!
19. (tie) Nyarko-san: Another Crawling Chaos
19. (tie) Fullmetal Alchemist
21. Urusei Yatsura
22. Space Battleship Yamato
23. Love Hina
24. Higurashi: When They Cry
25. Digimon Adventure
26. Clannad
27. Pokemon
28. One Piece
29. Slayers
30. Saint Seiya
31. Bleach
32. Dragon Ball Z
33. Pretty Cure
34. (tie) Detective Conan
34. (tie) Magical DoReMi
36. (tie)Magical Princess Minky Momo
36. (tie) Hakuōki
38. (tie) Sengoku Basara
38. (tie) New Prince of Tennis
40. Creamy Mami, the Magic Angel
41. Yu-Gi-Oh!
42. Doraemon
43. Martian Successor Nadesico
44. (tie) Baka and Test
44. (tie) Toradora!
46. Reborn
What anime would you say is responsible for turning you an an otaku?
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
