Top Ten Iconic Adult Swim Anime

[@F1ghtGam3r]

A couple of years ago, my wife & I got married at an anime convention while cosplaying as Inuyasha & Kagome. It's one of the few animes we both love

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

GREAT MR.TOPTENLIST TOP TEN ADUIT SWIN ANIME VIDEO.

[@F1ghtGam3r]

@@BrandonScott-mi5pz I'm not Mr. Top 10 list

[@DIESEL-SAVES-LIVES]

Congrats ❤

[@JudgmentMeter]

#couplegoals

[@TheBatman582]

Another honorable mention should be Death Note. That show was such a huge deal within the anime community when it came out, & it's run on Adult Swim definitely had a hand in that. It's still super popular to this day, too, probably had some of the most enduring relevancy of any anime from the 2000s to this day.

[@MrTopTenList]

I realized I left off Death Note when I was mentioning how Shin Chan was on before or after it. Definitely another anime I associate with Adult Swim since, as with Wolf's Rain, it was only on for about a year, but it seemed like they reran for much longer.

[@TheBatman582]

@MrTopTenList Cool to see you comment back to me! BTW, with your mention of Inuyasha on this top 10 (& knowing Judgement Meter is a HUGE fan of that series & of Rumiko Takahashi in general) did she enjoy Yashahime? I personally thought it was better then I expected, but still felt it was pretty unnecessary, though I was happy to hear David Kaye back as Sesshomuru after losing him in Final Act, tragic about what happened to Kirby Morrow, though, & I still miss Moneca Stori and forever wonder what became of her. Them making Sesshomuru & Rin a couple when she was only like 8 when he adopted her was fucked up, though. Just curious if she enjoyed it, & if you enjoyed it, for that matter, since you didn't make any comment about it unlike when discussing the FLCL sequels.

[@M_Alexander]

Who else is old enough to remember Toonami Midnight Run? And Morning Sun for that matter

[@MrTopTenList]

Loved them! I spoke about both in my Toonami videos from last year.

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

EXCELLENT WORK. MR.TOPTENLIST

[@MugenYomi]

I feel so old

[@Vulkypsin]

Lol Shin Chan was a treat growing up on AS. Good times. Ah, 2000's- early 2010's AS anime time, good memories

[@MT-or3kz]

Adult Swim toonami legitimately changed my life. Great video Mr. Top Ten! Also you're right about Eureka Seven, I thought I made that show up. No one ever talks about it.

[@MrTopTenList]

Thank you! I'm sure a lot of what I talk about on this channel wouldn't be around if they weren't so persistent at showing us the hottest and obscure anime of the 90s and 2000s.

[@TheBatman582]

@MrTopTenList Eureka Seven is a weird case of a series that came out & was a fairly big deal at the time, but has sadly never managed to replicate that success in continued efforts to revive it or even have ongoing relevancy & popularity on its own terms. I remember it getting a lot of buzz when it first premiered & a lot of coverage by anime press at the time like Anime Expo, Anime USA magazine, Otakon, & Newtype magazine, & by all accounts it seems like it did really well at the time ratings wise, dvd sales, & critical reception, but stuff like AO, Pocket Full of Roses film, & the Hi-Evolution films feel like they were swings & misses that everyone barely took notice of. A strange case of them trying to turn something that did well originally into a franchise but it failing to take off.

[@KaiIzuki]

Inuyasha was my first big anime experience. It where I started to learn about WHAT anime was. As in, Anime was a thing. It wasn't a cartoon. It WAS Anime. IT was the first step into a very, very deep rabbit hole. I remember sneaking into the living room at night and watching Inuyasha in secret cause my mom and dad would shout at me to go back to sleep.

[@davy209]

I was instantly hooked on “Inuyasha” as a kid when I first watched it on Adult Swim back in 2002. For me, it was the first anime that really took off guard because of the violence. Back then, I was so used to watching the heavily censored episodes of “Dragon Ball Z” and all the anime shows on Toonami and “Inuyasha” had scenes that showed a lot of blood and decapitations! As a kid, that really took me by surprised because I’ve never witnessed any of that on Toonami! Sure there was “Cowboy Bebop” that aired first on Adult Swim, but it wasn’t as violent as “Inuyasha”, and it felt more like a mature show for adults, while “Inuyasha”, being a shonen anime, appeared to be more of a “kid-friendly” show that could’ve been better suited for Toonami! As a kid, the violence in “Inuyasha” made the show a lot more edgier than all of the other shows on Toonami and being on Adult Swim made it “cool” to watch it without parental approval!

[@MCguy52]

Wolf's Rain, Samurai Champloo, Shin Chan, Bleach, Inuyasha, FMA, Bebop, and Trinity Blood. These are the series that stood out to me.

[@JudgmentMeter]

I have the Trinity Blood manga

[@kitsune_heart]

Fun fact: the bleach anime seems to have a weird thing against Orihime as they removed/replaced every scene with her and ichigo being even friends until the soul society. Examples being turning her introduction from worrying about ichigos safty and having a strange day dream about him she is scared, they dont bring up her carrying her dying brothrr to the kurosaki clinic, they have her just reject ichigo on walking her home without the extra scene of her lamenting saying that and how he didnt insist on it(she had a bruise, from her hollow brother, on her leg which they saw happen in the anime so they didnt have to talk about orihime always bringing ichigo up at her brothers shrine), and the list goes on. Tldr: the anime hated orihime/loved rukia and ichigo so cut out a bunch of small orihime moments so she didnt fit with ichigo

[@neogotham2k39]

My favorite is Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass, Death Note, Bleach, Durarara, Wolf's Rain, Big O, and Iron Blooded Orphans

[@Chaosic]

The shows I remember watching were Inuyasha,Fullmetal Alchemist 2003,Lupin the Third. My best friend at the time was into Eureka Seven.

[@lightyearpig12]

If it weren't for my art therapist introducing me to FLCL, I wouldn't have gotten the crazy idea of writing a FLCL crossover with Gravity Falls where Dipper and Mabel effectively fill in for Naota and Mamimi and started writing crossovers ever since. Heck, as of right now, I'm working on a prequel focusing on my spin on Haruko's origins where she travels with Rick Sanchez, Birdperson, and Squanchy across the multiverse before eventually betraying them because of her crush on Atomsk while catching the attention of a more outright villainous Medical Mechanica out to destroy all free will and individual thought in the multiverse. And that's not even getting into how I adapted FLCL Progressive to take place twenty years into the future and focus on Dipper's daughter & son and Mabel's son interacting with Haruko and Jinyu before following it up with a Christmas special. Seriously, Haruko just fascinates me so much. What was her backstory, how did she first discover Atomsk, what was she like before then? I have a feeling Haruko was a lot like Naota when she was younger.

[@michaelaburns734]

Funny thing about FLCL is Episode 1 I was hooked on it and wanted more chaos from my Girl Haruko. She was crazy and I love her for it.

[@MrTopTenList]

I couldn't quite tell why I liked it back in the day, but the whole vibe of the series got me hooked, and it was helped that Adult Swim just loved telling us it was the greatest thing ever!

[@michaelaburns734]

I knew staying up late for Adult Swim was worth it.

[@AlexIn_ThaCosmos89]

No hentai

[@michaelaburns734]

​@@AlexIn_ThaCosmos89 Yeah I know. Staying up for FLCL (The early series in 2000) Inuyasha was murder for my eyes just to get to it oh Cartoon Network East and Cartoon Network West. I could go on.

[@blackjacksetzer7748]

as an out of us viewer, its so alien to me how many and and how eclectic the toonami block was, such fascinating subject, love the list about it

[@MrTopTenList]

Always cool to hear an outsider perspective! I really credit the people at Cartoon Network for making sure we got an great array of anime beyond the staples.

[@neogotham2k39]

Top 10 Judgment Meter moments

[@JudgmentMeter]

I am hilarious

[@treydenwatterson2217]

Inuyasha was my first anime (outside of yugioh, bakugan, pokimon), and i realised i love this sort of thing. It was my first anime as far as im concerned

[@JudgmentMeter]

Number one, number one

[@treydenwatterson2217]

@@JudgmentMeter NICE

[@crimson90]

Stand Alone Complex is number one. The heavy philosophical undertones mixed with action, justice, corruption, and intrigue carry it to the top.

[@MrTopTenList]

I plan to cover it in another upcoming video, which is what ultimately led to me putting it on Honorable Mentions, but I was kind of regretting not giving it credit here too when I was rewatching some of it for the video.

[@SerenitySpiderMonkey]

Inuyasha is pretty much the only one of these I've watched. I love Rumiko Takahashi's work

[@BarrikB]

Hi Mr List, big fan. I was disappointed by Champloo's placement but Number 1 & 2 made up for that! Anyways, Fun Fact time: Episode Nine of Samurai Champloo (MJ field burning ep) featured some notable guest animators such as Masaaki Yuasa (of Mind Game & Ping Pong the Animation fame). Yuasa also contributed to the 'trippy' sequences in S2 Ep3 ("Slow and Steady Wins the Race") of Space Dandy.

[@MrTopTenList]

Hello Mr Rick. I'm glad I could balance my poor ranking with my high rankings. If you want to hear Champloo get proper recognition, check out my Top Ten Baseball-Themed Episodes of Non-Baseball Anime list to see a high ranking. As for why Champloo was 8, the rankings were based on airtime attention rather than how much I liked them, with shows with similar schedules having their tie being broken by how much the network liked them, plus how much I liked them. Champloo only ran for a little (about a year including reruns), so it got beat out by anime that ran for multiple years. However, on terms of quality, I'd definitely put it above Bleach and probably FMA. Judgment Meter would probably not let it surpass Inuyasha, so it may have had a shot for a cool Number 4 if I just went solely on personal bias. Also, thank you for name-dropping the animators and their other contributions. That is something I think I should start doing more in future anime videos since there are so many unique styles that don't get enough recognition.

[@neogotham2k39]

Top 10 anime healers - Fuu Hououji (Magic Knight Rayearth), Orihime Inoue (Bleach), Lime Bell (Accel World), etc.

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

Never grew up with Toonami or Adult Swim. I was one of the few people back in the day that experienced a lot of anime by torrent sites and general pirate sites. That's also where I found fan subbing and a lot of shows were better in the fan subs cause the dubs even at that time were notorious for losing context and change in dialog.

[@TheEphemeralEternity]

Absolutely sick video as always. Being able to stroll down memory lane made me so happy growing up as a 90s kid. Pushing my curfew to sneak episodes of FLCL was my intro to anime as a whole. Thank you so much for your content. ❤

[@MrTopTenList]

Thank you! Glad I could invoke the nostalgia!

[@JudgmentMeter]

You heard it, viewers. We make sick videos

[@HeartAino193]

Well Judgement Meter, Inuyasha sure intrigued you right? Speaking of Toonami that's mentioned in this video, here's more of my ideas for future Toonami-related topics: What if Toonami was a Fighting Game Top Ten Toonami Next Anime

[@mrmeteor64]

Back when I was on holiday in America I remember seeing ads for Inuyasha the final act. All good things must come to an end but we say to hell what that.

[@JudgmentMeter]

I love IY

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

Top 10 Films and TV Shows That Aired On THIS TV 1. Breakin'/ Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo 2. Metajets 3. Original Gangstas 4. Spider Riders 5. The Extreme Adventures Of Super Dave 6. Journey To The West Legend Of The Monkey King 7. Heathcliff and The Cadillac Cats 8. Starchaser The Legend Of Orin 9. Behind Enemy Lines (1997) 10. The Rat Patrol

[@M_Alexander]

I kinda want a FMA recut that uses scenes from the original and Brotherhood to stay true to the manga the whole time

[@MrTopTenList]

That's how I've always felt. Almost like a Dragon Ball Kai where it cuts out some of the filler, but leaves in the cool parts that add to the world building or character relationships. It's hard for me to judge Brotherhood from a clean mind, but I feel it assumes that the viewer has seen 2003 when ti comes to how fast some of the plotlines go by early on.

[@M_Alexander]

@@MrTopTenList yeah if you read the manga then the latter part of the original series gets weird but the beginning of brotherhood is mostly rushed scenes and filler. I went Original to Manga to Brotherhood but if I'd done Manga first and then started Brotherhood, I might not have even finished the anime

[@MrTopTenList]

@@M_Alexander That's fair. I know Brotherhood is not a good 1-to-1 adaptation of the manga, but I haven't done a direct comparison, so I can't speak on what it adapted properly. I know most of its praise comes from that it finishes telling the story, which the 2003 anime could not.

[@M_Alexander]

@@MrTopTenList as I recall, it's very accurate once it passes the point where the original anime diverged. For examples of what Brotherhood changed, I think the series opens with a completely filler action scene but also cuts a lot out of Tucker's infamous scenes that were covered so well in the original. Also I remember there's a whole added fight to the scene with that priest early on instead of it ending with his alchemic backlash. It's a bunch of little things like that in the first dozen episodes or so but it's also been a few years since I watched it

[@MajinAsuraPath]

Accidently waking up to Inuyasha at 5AM while half conscious was dream-like. The dread my child heart felt when regular Cartoon Network came on was immeasurable.

[@JudgmentMeter]

That's what couches are for

[@neron8497]

Very fun video, showed me some awesome new series to check out. Thank you!

[@MrTopTenList]

Glad we could help!

[@JudgmentMeter]

I only want to watch new old shows

[@animefan25]

I got the third season of Shin Chan on DVD a couple of years back.

[@vonnetwork1122]

Shin Chan was so slept on as a kid

[@traigongames]

Fun fact FLCL new seasons still get played every now and then on Toonami

[@JudgmentMeter]

I can't keep up with Toonami, but I wish I did

[@meganpayette5996]

Speaking of Cowboy Bebop, did anyone watch that AMV that was made back in 2002? The fact I was able find on KZbin was pretty lucky.

[@pablocasas5906]

I find kind of interesting how some of the anime shown in [adult swim] in the U.S. were shown during day hours in other regions like Latin America, Inuyasha was broadcasted in the afternoons in Cartoon Network and Crayon Shin-chan was on Fox Kids at 21 or 22 p.m. were kids could easily watched it. To be fair, some of the anime that were shown on [as] in the U.S. are considered child friends in Japan and even in some other countries

[@MrTopTenList]

I always love hearing about the differences in Latin America vs US broadcasting of anime. We tend to get the same shows, but they sometimes get drastically different schedules. I've heard stories of Ranma being broadcast on TV in Latin and South America, but in the US, you could only rent it since certain scenes were a bit too scandalous for any TV stations we had at the time. For Shin Chan, the English dub made it a lot more adult themed and was self-aware it was more or less a gag dub, so it's hard to compare to an accurate translation of the series that was likely in the LA dub. Inuyasha was planned for daytime TV with some edits in the US, and was on par with other anime we got during the day, like Yu Yu Hakusho or the Tenchi series, so I feel the choice to put it on AS was because the network didn't want to censor it.

[@pablocasas5906]

@@MrTopTenList I think Crayon Shin-chan's LA Spanish dub was based on the English dub, though it was a gag dub as well, only that the more U.S. centric references where changed to Latin American ones, Mexican ones specifically since the dub was done there

[@buddyzilla4557]

Yay! Missed ya JM!

[@jonmcknight18]

The thing with shin-chan is it did the body swap episode rite where the vas don't swap characters.

[@MrTopTenList]

I love that about body swap episodes. I can barely think of other examples. There was that one Justice League Unlimited episode with Lex Luthor and the Flash, and, uh, still thinking...

[@franciscooropeza551]

Y love and I remember Shin Chan with great pleasure

[@The1AndOnlyGoldenboy]

What I always appreciated about the Adult Swim/Toonami anime was that their choices went beyond just what was popular in Japan or what was likely to be a big hit in the West. Sure, you had your Dragon Ballz, Naruto, One Piece, etc... stuff that's huge basically everywhere. Then you had the weirdo picks like Tenchi Muyo, Bobobobobobobo (however many Bobos are in there), and Space Dandy that were clearly just someone making choices from their personal tastes. Then you had ones that were pretty much put up for the art, like FLCL, Gurren Lagann, and Mob Psycho 100. It created this eclectic mix of trendy and weird and beautiful that I really wish they stuck with... since these days it's pretty much just the standard "cool anime" like DB, Naruto and One Piece alongside whatever is big at the moment, like Demon Slayer.

[@MrTopTenList]

It goes to show the people in charge of finding the anime to show really loved the medium and sought out what was niche in Japan. Hearing from the various employees that worked for Cartoon Network on social media or Q&As, they really were persistent in making deals with the licensers to get those extra anime when they were also getting the heavy hitters, which is also how they got some lesser anime that the licensers wanted them to show like Moribito.

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Very nicely done List.

[@JudgmentMeter]

Thank you!

[@takumifujiwara7160]

the samurai champloo promo song is actually a psyche origami song

[@takodacorliss5838]

FIR-wait what they had Crayon Shin-Chan?

[@seventhe7official]

All these amines are Nostalgic this is when Adultswim went hard.

[@yotaruvegeta]

4:34 Respect to the queen.

[@MrTopTenList]

I'm glad they had that bumper for her. Shows they cared about all the creative minds behind these anime.

[@JudgmentMeter]

My first thought was, ""Am I that queen??"

[@yotaruvegeta]

@@JudgmentMeter 😁

[@F1ghtGam3r]

I wonder if Judgemnt Meter has any Inuyasha themed Funko pops

[@JudgmentMeter]

I don't, but I have other IY figurines and merch!

[@F1ghtGam3r]

@@JudgmentMeter cool. Btw, did u see that video of the channel Man at Arms making a real tessaiga?

[@alexanderkleiman6366]

Yu Yu Hakisho

[@martinigirl15]

my favorite anime on Adult Swim was Family Guy

[@MrTopTenList]

Peter Griffin is a top ten anime protagonist

[@JudgmentMeter]

Me too

[@dpglounge4900]

Happiness bunny revenge of shin chan lives rent free in my head

[@GaryJojo]

FLCL is 6 episodes?! It really felt longer

[@MrTopTenList]

They replayed it so much with such few episodes, it's amazing it had staying power.

[@JudgmentMeter]

Amazing things come in small packages

[@JudgmentMeter]

Also, the nonsensical rants in FLCL are really long. I might know something about that...

[@ZRtheHedgehog77]

No talk about shins mom is voice by Chi-Chi and Shins Dad is voice by Android 17?

[@MrTopTenList]

Cynthia Cranz owns that role as Shin's mom. I wish she appeared in more modern anime dubs since she is really good at all that snappy dialogue. Chuck Huber does well as Shin's dad, too.

[@lexnoil]

I still talk about Eureka 7, i still watch on Blu-ray.

[@JudgmentMeter]

What is...Blu...ray?

[@lexnoil]

@@JudgmentMeter its like a dvd but holds more data. You never heard of Blu-ray?

[@Meadaa]

FINALLY

[@ButtersWithALoadedGun]

Code Geass, Death Note and Durarara should be mentioned too.

[@TheKillerman3333]

Many honorable mentions can replace crayon shin chan

[@F1ghtGam3r]

I did not like how Samurai Champloo & Cowboy Bebop ended

[@dpglounge4900]

Heyyyy you forgot about yu yu hashuko

[@MrTopTenList]

Similar to the Big O, I didn't want to duplicate an entry from my Iconic Toonami Anime list. YYH had more episodes broadcast on Toonami compared to it's Adult Swim run, so that's why it wasn't here. I absolutely love the anime and it's one of my favorites of all time!

[@dpglounge4900]

@@MrTopTenList adult swim is how I discovered it even though it was the first 13 episodes on loop

[@JudgmentMeter]

hieixkurama4ever

[@MoxiemillionforJesus]

Outlaw star was a good one an inyuasha final arc was the good sucks adult swim didn't put it out just rerunning the first hole part.

[@ptrgiese]

Man, how can you say FLCL is the #1 iconic Adult Swim Anime? FLCL died with Grunge and Shoegaze (its worst seasons), and it led to the series ending completely. FLCL Alternative was the best season of them all.

[@MrTopTenList]

When I said FLCL, I meant just the original FLCL. Adult Swim boosted the hell out of that OVA. Them making more seasons was more a represnetation to me of how much they loved the original.

[@ptrgiese]

@@MrTopTenList Yes, until they made 3-episode seasons. The rest were 6-episodes each. Grunge killed it, when they used CGI. But yes, if you haven't seen the final two seasons, you should check it out. It was the ending of the series. Even Williams Street said that this is the ending of FLCL.

[@pupintheturdiii]

No one talks about Shin Chan anymore damn crime.

[@Zxdez37]

Code Geass was awesome.

[@JudgmentMeter]

I keep getting FB advertisements about the newest Code Geass. I didn't even watch Roze yet! I'm so behind

[@CrownlessKing88]

Aww Man I thought for a second Witch Hunter Robin was going to be Number 1. Not even an honorable mention? 😔

[@MrTopTenList]

It was an unwritten rule that I didn't think to bring up, but any anime one my Forgotten Adult Swim Anime list were not eligible for this list since this list covered the same topic, just for anime that had longer runs on Adult Swim, or ones whose shorter runs just seems extra memorable for some reason.

[@JudgmentMeter]

That theme song

[@CrownlessKing88]

@@JudgmentMeter yes! And if you look up Madonna’s music video for “Take a Bow”, you can tell they took inspiration from it for the intro.

[@CrownlessKing88]

@@MrTopTenList it’s cool. I had a feeling that’s what it was since I do remember it in that other video.

[@neogotham2k39]

Top 10 characters with ridiculous names - Kite (.hack), Dart (Legend of Dragoon), Nimrod (X-Men), etc.

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

That man from guilty gear

[@FriendlyNeighborhoodGeek99]

First!❤

[@arkdragon222]

mecha

[@Slychosis.]

Evangelion got burried

[@fishpop]

It's not Eff-Ell-See-Ell or Fooly Cooly, it's spel FLCL and pronounced Fooly-Cooly cos even the show's name makes no sense.

[@MrTopTenList]

Poor wording on my end. I plan to talk about the sequel series in the next Adult Swim video, so I'll correct my wording there.

[@chelsea6671]

It really sucks that Bleach is the least accessible of the Big 3 and the only way to watch legit is Hulu. But that eliminates people outside of the US from watching it online. Same with Full Metal Alchemist 2003 and Eureka Seven.I hope they bring one or most back for this new re revival of Toonami.

[@MrTopTenList]

FMA 2003 is such a weird one to be available to me since you'd think it would be available anywhere Brotherhood is.

[@dwainsimmons3447]

The dubs were better on adult swim than toonami.

[@AlexIn_ThaCosmos89]

Adult Swim gotten lame with trash like Aqua Teen Hunger Force