CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

It is time for the ultimate Studio Battle Royale! Which studio produces the best anime, in your opinion?

That's kind of hard to judge. With all the joint efforts, all of these companies have produced both good and lame anime.

For example, Gainax produced some good stuff... Nadia, Wings of Honneamise and Otaku no Video come to mind. But they also inflicted Mahoromatic and Oruuchuban Ebichu and FLCL on us.

Bandai has to apologize for their contribution to creating Lodoss TV

Madhouse has done some truly good and truly foul stuff.

So I think I'd have a hard time picking one that didn't balance out at "Meh" overall

i like my animes weird. For me, gainax hands down.

Gonzo by far.

J.C. Staff. Regardless of any blemishes on their record, they created Honey and Clover, and that makes them awesome.

i would say either bee train or toei. tokyo pop has some good ones to but i cant think of them at the moment. lol

You left out ShoPro Entertainment, which made Hamtaro and InuYasha. But I voted for Ghibli.

tough choice - voted Studio Deen since they were responsible for a good number of series that I've enjoyed. Artistically, it'd probably go to Ghibli or Gainax, and Bones probably wouldn't have been a bad pick either. *shrugs*

I vote Ghibli. EVERY title is a masterpiece!

rocklobster wrote:I vote Ghibli. EVERY title is a masterpiece!

cough chough coughMononoke cough cough

It's a toss up between GAINAX, Production IG, and BONES.

Granted, GAINAX and Production IG have collaborated on numerous series' together.

Gonzo does *some* good stuff, but I mean, come on, look at half the episodes of Hellsing. That's some awful animation.

And I'm pretty sure Bee Train is part of Production IG.

Gonzo because they made last exile

bones all the way

the other 2 who voted madhouse. I salute you! They did Monster

I just happened to have voted for Madhouse. While I would have considered Gonzo for a favorite, I just thought that Madhouse is able to have astounding animation without trying to over-do it (like with Gonzo's sometimes misplaced usage for CGI).

Some of my favorite series (Cardcaptor Sakura and Gunslinger Girl) happened to have been animated by MH.

I think I'll make up my mind and say GAINAX, because they can do some amazing stuff on a really low budget.

A lot of it is art-direction. I don't care how great the animation is, with bland art-direction it's not impressive. Even the really well animated episodes of Trigun just didn't have very good art-direction.