Top 15 Greatest 90's Anime That Shaped A Generation - Explored

[@crayveonmiller3869]

Not to sound like im ass kissin or anything lmmfao this is hands down the best anime list i have ever seen like seriously hands down!! Great job guys!!

[@Invidente7]

Berserk is an unforgettable classic that outclasses many so-called current adult-oriented stuff nowadays.

[@yowspisaac6113]

Just finished watching that the other day, impressive.

[@DanielAspajo9930]

Agreed

[@MrGrimjaw]

@@yowspisaac6113 the manga better by 100% the whole anime is filler

[@MrGrimjaw]

@@yowspisaac6113 don't even. Follow the manga

[@sargonixofur1234]

RIP Kentaro Miura. We won’t see your like again.

[@mindbreaker2415]

The live action Cowboy Bebop is a disappointing piece of crap

[@The_Greedy_Orphan]

I absolutely refuse to watch anymore of the live action Beebop remake, it's an absolute unessecary travesty that no one asked for.

[@yakshakingu]

The 90s was a golden era for everything.

[@mo6live]

It really is

[@bavingates2502]

Except rock music most of the lead singers od'd on heroin

[@yakshakingu]

@BavinGates I'm a metalhead who's been into extreme metal since the early 90s. The grunge stuff wasn't something I was into. For me the 90s was black and death metal.

[@LotsaJelloChannel]

probably just bc you grew up at that time, im sure every generation feels that way about their childhood era

[@yakshakingu]

@LotsaJello Of course every generation does however more predominant things happened for our culture in the 90s. It was also the last decade before all these entitled confused people took over. Now we live in a society full of individuals who were picked on in school and never got over it whom are now the majority. Everything popular now is a mix of what happened before there are no original ideas or anything just look at all the reboots that are happening. The 90s were original and it matters not how old one was during that time everyone who was around unless they were in diapers will agree. We also knew how to use grammar. These boards have spell check and there's people like you who use "bc." I know that's just the norm for people now but that's an example of my point. We didn't get offended by everything back then either. It was definitely a different time and it's sad it's gone. But I guess lifelong victims need their turn 🤷.

[@najimmohamed3914]

90s anime aesthetic is beyond beautiful berserk is probably the best example of that or even shows like inuyasha or perfect blue are just gorgeous

[@reyllanes5908]

man thats fucking true

[@jonathananderson5990]

Great list overall, but could you please provide some sort of spoiler warning. Evangelion was laid out entirely, you explained the ending to the Ghost in the Shell movie, and you spoiled the HELL out of Perfect Blue (a movie that hinges on the big reveal). This vid could serve as a great way to introduce fans, old and new, to a few of these shows/ movies, but it falls apart if you explain the entire thing ahead of time.

[@elevated_engineering6515]

Ninja Scroll Can also be put up there with the classics as well.

[@HautaAntero]

Oh c'mon! Where is The Slayers!! You know Lina Inverse, Gourry, Amelia & Zelgadis! Dragon Slave!!!!!

[@JayJayTheJetPlane95]

This man butchers the name dragon ball and we just supposed to skip that? 😂

[@paulinadelao3259]

He butchers a lot of things in this video. It’s very distracting 😵‍💫

[@JayJayTheJetPlane95]

@@paulinadelao3259 it's all good, I was only joking cause I'm a DB head 😂 we only human at the end of the day and we both watched homies video 😎

[@Noveliss]

90's anime changed my life man. Nothing like it. The animation style is untouchable. 1. Cowboy Bebop 2. Berserk 3. Ninja Scroll 4. Yu Yu Hakusho 5. Ghost in the Shell 6. Rurouni Kenshin 7. Dragonball Z 8. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 9. Neon Genesis Evangelion 10. Record of Lodoss War 11. Outlaw Star 12. Mobile Fighter G Gundam 13. Flame of Recca 14. Spriggan 15. Cyber City My favorites ❤🔥

[@FrosteryGaming]

SPRIGGAN!! Thank you for mentioning it! I've been finding that anime for so long

[@lukejones7164]

Great list

[@akmalshabazz9497]

You consider Pokemon anime?

[@AdarshSingh-ey2bn]

Where's great teacher onizuka ? One of the best 90s anime❤

[@martinpadilla5224]

It literally is​@@akmalshabazz9497

[@jakeb9674]

um...Ninja Scroll?!

[@alastor-yw7og]

Ah the 90's the era where anime skyrocketed into popularity in america and became more and more big with those who first saw it during those times and much bigger then they were when there was a selected few anime series that aired in u.s. television in the 50's to the 80's and we can thank toonami for making it possible and managed to fully introduce anime in the west fully in the first place around that time to

[@damianstarks3338]

Couldn’t have said all of this better myself.

[@alastor-yw7og]

@@damianstarks3338 indeed and anime, manga, and other Japanese media is still going strong today with alot of merch to go along with it and we can thank the 90's skyrocketing roots for that to

[@amuroray9115]

@@alastor-yw7og I used to watch anime on Toonami back in 2002 as a kid. You’re right

[@whathell6t]

@@alastor-yw7og You should get into the Tokusatsu medium, anime’s big brother in the entertainment industry, since the Japanese are hyping the Shin-fication of the top Toku franchises from Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi.

[@mrmanju6989]

sci-fi channel saturday mornings did wonders too. I saw Akira, Tank Police Dominion, Project A-Ko, Zeiram, Tenchi the Movie: Tenchi Muyo In Love, Vampire Hunter D, and more on sci-fi

[@rawhide303]

Professor Oak was not Ash's rival, it was Gary Oak is nephew. When we meet professor Oak he had already given the three starter pokemon way, Gary picked squirtle.

[@yowspisaac6113]

Just finished watching Berserk for the first time the other day, one of my favorites. Onto Mtv’s 95’ Aeon Flux for now.

[@sbojan83]

Ninja Scroll, X : the movie, Visions of Escaflowne, Outlaw Star, Macross Plus, the OVA Gundam Wing, Patlabor 1 & 2, Blue Submarine 6, .. Damn, you guys missed some of the most influential anime from the 90s.

[@mookiestewart3776]

Those are all great shows but I don’t think any but outlaw star , gundam wing or ninja scroll could replace any on this current list. It was “top 15” not “top overall” some had to be cut

[@patataboy]

I think you got something there pal. Besides Outlaw Star that I found good but not enough to be a classic, everything else is golden

[@trava4156]

Now we’re talking This guy clearly doesn’t know his shit like you do

[@ominousred]

Vampire Hunter D...

[@Iguana999]

Yeah he missed Sailor Moon.

[@megatoke]

This post lost all credibility once it said to watch the 2021 live action cowboy bebop.

[@damianstarks3338]

Thanks again for bringing me back to my childhood god I miss the 90s.

[@aaronsullivan8230]

"check out the live action bebop, you won't regret it." Regretted it.

[@disneycrazii]

I've watched and enjoyed all the anime on this list. My favs were definitely Pokemon, Dragonball Z, Kenshin, and of course Yu Yu Hakosho(best theme song ever!!!)

[@aleksandarvil5718]

No Digimon Adventure 01 (1999-2000) ?!???

[@dravenvandross8281]

Man I can't tell you how much I love Yu Yu Hakusho berserks and dragon Ball z another one was anything to do with Gundam all those animes were just freaking phenomenal.

[@lokimotive6959]

Netflix's adaptation is strait garbage that completely shits on the source material......there is nothing brilliant about it.....

[@shreddiemercury6942]

You don’t pronounce the “X” in hunter x hunter hahaha 🤣

[@caleshriver134]

Berserk is the best anime of all time

[@laneyj]

facts

[@koolBOY8323]

the pronunciation on these videos is just getting worse and worse.

[@thedemon1261]

they reuploaded a video they screwed up the info and pronunciations it got so trashed in the comments they privated the video so it couldn't be seen and get trashed more ...they are that petty they rather take it down than actually fix there issue's

[@sethheverly960]

Was thinking the same thing 😅

[@Pandita221]

Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, Evangelion, Saint Seiya, many others more, what a nostalgia trip, thanks for the video

[@channeling764]

The fact that Saint Seiya is not here is blasphemy.

[@mookiestewart3776]

Too saint seiya! Nice catch!!

[@TheOldMachines]

I grew up watching the "Toonami" playlist back in the day. IIRC it was Mobile Suit G Gundam, Zoids, yu Yu Hakusho, Dragonball z, and a few others. Good times as a kid

[@FrontlineArsenal]

Sad there wasn’t initialD but berserk will always be the best.

[@mr.alucardrules4956]

Yu yu hakusho was actually the first anime that I watched from begining to end when I was 15 before that I only watched a few episodes of Pokemon and yugioh as a kid

[@Jutto958]

Before I even finish the video you get an automatic dislike and discrediting for saying the live action of Cowboy Bebop was brilliantly executed. Second is the mispronunciation of some of the characters names. Definitely need to do more research on the name pronunciation

[@ashotofwhiskey219]

How in the hell did Tenchi Muyo not make this list? I'm not surprised that my top 2 90s anime aren't here, though. Blue Seed and Slayers didn't get as much love as they deserve.

[@marieparrish3366]

Omg Blue Seed was excellent!

[@The-P-iz-Free]

Bro yes...I had the manga and watched the series it should have made it

[@valkirie19]

The world of Berserk does have magic, the anime just didn't get that far yet. Hopefully it'll make a comeback in the future

[@dancewithyourcorpse281]

It's been trying.

[@Zeela47]

@@dancewithyourcorpse281 and it keeps dying because of its shtty animation I can't believe such a masterpiece is getting the dogsht treatment..

[@dancewithyourcorpse281]

@@Zeela47 The Three part movie was so so at best, at that point i wanted to take whatever they give. But the new series...yah that really didn't cut it at all. R.i.p Miura. The manga is continuing, so I'll probably check that out

[@yugantbainwad_17]

Inuyasha could have been a great addition too ❤️

[@romangunter621]

They left out a few like Sailor Moon, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure OVA, Ninja Scroll, Outlaw Star, and Mobile Suit Gundum Wing.

[@ladyhawk7408]

I started on vampire hunter d on vhs.

[@Jaxvidstar]

3:48 Talks about Space Lion then plays scene with the song, Piano Black instead. 4:17 It is because disgraceful portrayal of Vicious and many various cringe moments. 22:00 Hiei's name is pronounced He-eh and not Hiya smh...

[@icecube4521]

An honourable mention, Goldenboy

[@carlamariecadizon9101]

this is a huge nostalgia trip for me! thank you for featuring these titles~

[@MJBBo]

Ninja Scroll!!!!!!!!

[@margaretchayka6878]

Lordy, I thought Cowboy BB was a real sleep-inducer. And Dragonball Z - if you watched the dubbed version, you've been cheated. I actually had the original movies on VHS in subtitled Japanese. Tried to watch the Americanized version series when it came on TV and it was pretty awful, and I had to turn it off forever when Goku shouted "RIPPIN'!" OMG, I cringed into the next dimension. Thankfully it all came out on DVD in subtitles and I was able to return to our dimension to watch it.

[@communist-hippie]

Back in the days when the movie-renter put ultra violent animes together with disney children movies, good times. Loved Macross and especially Cobra Space Adventure.

[@mookiestewart3776]

Fun fact macross plus was watanabes first gig in anime and then he went on to create bebop dude is a legend

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Ninja Scroll Record Of Lodoss War R.O.L.W. Tales Of The Heroic Knight Bio Hunter

[@UncleReamus]

Cowboy Bebop live action is “excellently executed”?!?!? Are you REEEEEEE(woke)tarded? The show is absolute garbage.

[@megazone2337]

Im glad you included the Great Teacher Onizuka,my favourite sensei ever.Much much appreciated you here.

[@CyberLance26]

It annoys me when people say that Anime is now mainstream because it obviously is not in most of the world and i think the people that say that dont understand that anime fans on the internet and the mainstream audience is not the same. Mainstream means that even if people have not seen it they still knows what it is and Anime is not like that. Like with Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Star Trek, Spiderman, Batman, Superman, Super Mario, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, James Bond, Indiana Jones and other similar stuff even if people have never seen those things they still knows what they are but most people in the world have never heard about Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, Cowboy Bebbop, Death Note, Gintama, Hunter X Hunter, Berserk, My Hero Academia and other popular animes. If you would talk about those animes to most people in the world they would have no idea what you are talking about. I think many people think that only because its easy to find other anime fans on the internet nowadays it means that anime has become a big thing to everybody now but no anime fans are still a small minority in most parts of the world. If anime really was mainstream you would see it often in western mainstream media but no its almost only on nerd stuff on the internet that you hear about anime. To see and hear about anime you must search for it yourself but if it was mainstream you would see and hear about anime even if you dont search for it just like the stuff i mentiond before. Many people never search for those things i mentiond but they still hear about them and see them sometimes. They never see or hear about any animes. And not only in the west most people dont watch anime in most of the non western countrys too. Its only really in Japan that Anime is mainstream.

[@alastor-yw7og]

I get what you saying and the only people that are usually mostly into anime and manga are the younger generations like you and me while it's not much for the older gens like our parents and grandparents but ofcourse there are a select few that don't mind it especially both they whiched it with us when we were little and certain series having stuff in them that they actually like

[@sonofccn]

I see what your saying and would even agree things like LOTR or Batman or Star Trek are more mainstream in the West/US being decades older in terms of Western culture. But in a world where Manga outsells US comics in the US, where anime films like Dragonball can be released in theaters and make a respectable box office, where animes from Battle Angel Alitia to to Ghost in the Shell have received Western adaptations I can't agree that's nothing has changed since the 90's. There are likely people who have seen an anime or its adaptation without even realizing it what it was or where it came from. Pretty much any streaming service you can name includes anime of some caliber so the idea that you have to specifically go looking for it is untrue. And of course things like Pokemon were and still are hugely popular with the general audience to the point you would be hard pressed to find someone in the US who hadn't at least heard of them.

[@zahidulislamimran5664]

GTO, Yu yu hakusho, Samurai X, Ghost in the Shell actually shaped the generation

[@pierceblazer]

Thank you! Yu Yu Hakusho definitely deserves its flowers!

[@ShardFalcorsGaming]

Tell me you haven't seen an anime, without telling me you haven't seen the anime... Otherwise, good job on detailing some of the best anime available!

[@jamesm9560]

Are you telling me you've actually never heard anybody say aloud, the words Carl Jung or ancillary before?

[@anthonyjohnson9088]

I love MV...thier anime videos are fn fantastic 👏 👌 🤜🤛🤘👍

[@shonuff7612]

What was the first anime show you saw as a kid? For me it was a show called "Techno man" and then It was a series called "Guyver: bio boosted armor".

[@migsmigs2425]

Great starter list, but lots of foundational anime are glossed over, specially those released as OVAs only. The 80s and 90s are the heyday of that media.

[@RAYZ4039]

Professor Oak ISN'T Ash's rival

[@mrmanju6989]

why did he plug for the shitty netflix cowboy bebop series lol

[@p.b.6170]

Horrible SPOILERSNINSIDE THIS VIDEO

[@michaelford1504]

Man I thought Ninja Scroll would've made it

[@fiacradoyle7474]

OG evangelion neon genesis was the best anime ever made I have to say I don't care for the new ones at all what made the old ones good was the abstract ability of the writers the ending was perfect no matter what anyone thought and if you didn't the end of evangelion clears up 90%

[@magicalwisp1489]

Damn if you not see Rurouni kenshin, GO WATCH IT, i Just watched it myself and can't belive how good it is... Skip all fillers tho, they terrible

[@MrGrimjaw]

My favorite from the 90s

[@dpyxl]

HxH is the greatest.. i wish i can live long enough to finish this manga/anime.

[@floatingcloud94]

Amazing list and would love it if there was hellsing , ninja scroll , claymore , vampire hunter D, Darkside blues

[@ebagentj]

Vampire Hunter D is from 1985, Hellsing started in 2001, and Claymore started in 2007. Only Ninja Scroll (1993) and Darkside Blues (1994) are actually 90s anime.

[@floatingcloud94]

@@ebagentj what about vampire Hunter D blood lust movie ?n well those are old animes so I figured .

[@ebagentj]

@@floatingcloud94 Came out in 2000.

[@floatingcloud94]

@@ebagentj yup just checked . Ty

[@Mrkti]

Chill out with the spoilers man!

[@DKNY88fan]

I regretted the live action Cowboy Bebop.

[@canadian_american84]

Ranma 1/2 very underrated I see 🤔

[@YukiTSnowyOwl]

Sailor Moon isn't on the list :(

[@DarkLadyAthena1]

Great times. 👍 I grew up with these animes and read most of the mangas; it brings back good memories. My friends and I would discuss these animes and it was the one common thing we could relate to the rest of our classmates. Long live the 90s. 🙂

[@Slappaccino]

Ghost in the Shell is without question the greatest animated film ever.

[@shkdgg]

Its a great world to escape to.

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

I am so confused about Ghost in the Shall. I heard after the original artist went from this masterwork straight to only producing smut.. which is really weird.. its like going from Hollywood movie blockbuster to cheap every-day porn video production.

[@SellavinAtoms]

I've watched it and heard of most of these some of them I still need to check out good video list can't wait do one on the best anime of the 2000s I hope to see that very soon.

[@rickgrimes3479]

I'm going to assume this guy is joking when he said the English dub of Dragon Ball Z beats the original. The English dub is the laziest and worst dub ever created.

[@HarshPTHESNAKEFIST]

So many of my classic favourites mentioned here😊

[@shady473gamingcm3]

No outlaw star tho?

[@leof3543]

4th grade in the 90’s ninja scroll, Mobile suit Gundam, vampire hunter D, Akira, blue seed, Berserk,sailor moon, yuyu hakusho, Pokémon,Baki, rorouni kenshin, fists of the North Star cowboy bebop, GTO, trigun, one piece are my first favorite anime i watch

[@rukia1216]

How do you not include Ronin Warriors?!

[@deesevsbusinesstravelworld]

I'm looking for anime idk if it's a show or movie but it's about a guy who cane to earth ... he has a mobile suit that he enters from back n his brother comes to earth to look for him please help

[@chadyenko]

Rurouni Kenshin is GARBAGE. Every episode is filler. Total WASTE. it belongs in the BIN BASURA

[@leeneey]

OK there is clewrly a lack of knowledge here about the anime being spoken about. the section for pokemon almost had me in tears laughing. "Ash finds a rival in professor Oak who already has 3 pokemon ." um... nope.

[@justinu4521]

Yu yu hakasho. Goat

[@janeb533]

Sailor moon?

[@UndergroundRose]

Good ol' Attack of Titan

[@redfox4171]

i was so close to exploding how Akira wasn't on this list, until i realised it was a list of 90s anime. My bad guys Perfect Blue though i'm glad to have seen on here, such a great film

[@frostywarrior4649]

Cowboy Bebop, DBZ, Pokemon, GTO, and Ghost in the Shell are the handful of animes where the dub either is equal or better than the sub

[@yujirohanma4089]

Shadow skill is one of my favorite. The original ova

[@officermcdankins591]

I’m sorry, I love this channel but this dudes pronunciation takes me out of it. It’s in multiple videos but this one is especially irksome. Please don’t put an s at the end of Pokémon when talking about multiple.

[@Cafferssss]

I was going to flame you hard if you missed out berserk. The Anime is good. but the Manga. Omg the Manga is true ART

[@Spengali1]

The English DBZ dub is better than the Japanese original? Lol just no 😂

[@SM-ce1uy]

I'd have taken out great teacher onizuka and inserted Sailor Moon ... I mean you had SM in the intro .. and it was a hugely popular animie at the time and still is moderately well known

[@mookiestewart3776]

Talks about space lion in bebop: doesn’t actually show an example of space lion directly after 🙄 Jesus guys

[@FelixS.]

"Berserk has no magic" --> ehhhhh, excuse me, what? "Dragonball Z has a better dub" --> 🤡

[@olajuwonspears9448]

The world of berserk does not have magic lmao guts does not have magic lmao everything else is something OP which makes guts really that much more of a boss like the demons was crazy

[@antoine1486]

I know these are decades old but a spoiler warning for Perfect Blue would’ve been nice. 😅

[@serenity3157]

Back in old days where I run fast as I can after school just to watch an afternoon anime and talk about it at the school early in the morning. Good old days.

[@mookiestewart3776]

Don’t think one piece should be on here , no one cares about that show/manga outside of Japan until the last 10-15 years

[@DarkGod66613]

One piece seriously One piece like dragon ball Z predates that. And gundam came out in the 80s not the 90s

[@SketchPaint]

Man i used to hide the fact i used to watch anime. Then i stopped and now coming back to watching anime again i can say...the animation on these new series suck. Old skool anime looked soo smooth and bad ass

[@elmalifico3708]

Wait didn’t this video get uploaded a couple of weeks ago? Did something happen? Did The video get flagged? 😡

[@mo6live]

Dbz use to be top tier til I started watching other anime and I can’t even watch super because I got tired of it being the Goku show

[@juliodreis]

for god's sake, please, PLEASE, pronouce the names correctly

[@lynnchpinoy8768]

Miss 90s anime aethetic. No fan service unlike today.

[@dancewithyourcorpse281]

Oh, they had fan service, it was just subtle. Ghost in the Shell for example. Gto and though 89, Ranma's wasn't so subtle.

[@cakeisavegatable]

I saw perfect blue and wondered if black swan had to pay for taking the story