Top Manga and Anime - Take Two

Repopulating this earlier list of top anime and manga.
Here be the latest ordering:

1. One Piece [Manga + Anime]
2. Berserk [Manga + Anime]
3. Bleach [Manga + Anime]
4. Naruto [Manga + Anime]
5. Death Note [Anime]
6. Full Metal Alchemist [Manga + Anime]
7. Lone Wolf and Cub [Manga]
8. Monster [Anime]
9. Samurai X: Rurouni Kenshin [Anime]
10. Code Geass R1: Lelouch of the Rebellion [Anime]
11. Code Geass : Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 [Anime]
12. Gintama [Anime]
13. Black Lagoon [Anime]
14. Black Lagoon 2: The Second Barrage [Anime]
15. Ubel Blatt [Manga]
16. Vagabond [Manga]
17. Detective School Q [Anime]
18. Trigun [Anime]
19. Cowboy Bebop [Anime]
20. Kenichi [Anime]
21. Gun X Sword [Anime]
22. Nodame Cantabile [Anime]
23. Gantz [Manga]
24. Eden [Manga]
25. Akira [Manga]
26. Nodame Cantabile Paris [Anime]
27. Seirei No Moribito [Anime]
28. Fruits Basket [Anime]
29. Hunter x Hunter [Anime]
30. Avatar [Anime]
31. Zero No Tsukaima [Anime]
32. Zero no Tsukaima: Futatsuki no Kishi [Anime]
33. Fate Stay Night [Anime]
34. Elfen Lied [Manga + Anime]
35. Melody of Oblivion [Anime]
36. Macross Zero [Anime]
37. Hellsing [Anime]
38. Samurai Deeper Kyo [Anime]
39. Full Metal Panic [Anime]
40. Busou Renkin [Anime]
41. Blame! [Manga]
42. Bitter Virgin [Manga]
43. Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei [Anime]
44. Serial Experiments Lain [Anime]
45. Afro Samurai [Anime]

In the list:
Underlined ones are continuing, and still going good and strong.
Bold ones are new additions to the list.

Special Mention:
Watchmen - [English/Comics] - would have tied with Rank 7 in the list above.

Along the way while cooking up this list, came across these titles too:

• Full Metal Alchemist - Brotherhood
• Claymore
• Hajime No Ippo
• Samurai Champloo
• 20th Century Boys

Any of these worth watching?

Random:
Black Lagoon - Third Season is confirmed.
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'Hello', he lied

For about a week now, a majority of the daytime has been spent in documenting stuff already done, stuff that needs to be done, and the way to do the stuff. Since I have been creative writing for days on end, and also as this blog is somehow turning out to be a place where I report what I have watched in the recent remember-able past, herewith lies one more in the same vein:

In reverse chronological order, here goes:
[Start date - 19/4/2010]
1. Saw Eddie Izzard's - 'Definite Article' (1996) because of a comment about this post - Top Stand Up Comedians - in Buzz. This dude will make the top 15 in the list. Easily. Had forgotten how good he was since the last stand up bit I'd seen of him was years and years ago.

2. Watched 'Like Totally' and 'Melbourne International Comedy Festival' by Dylan Moran. Added respect for the dude. Bumping this guy two places up in the original Top Stand Up Comedians list. One of the few guys who do not re-use 90% of their material from their first show in all their acts.

3. Watched the latest episodes of One Piece. This still remains as the best anime on the Top Anime list. Eiichiro Oda has still a God status. Berserk is up 50% or so from last week too. Mostly because I realized that Kentaro Miura has restarted drawing Berserk, after a long hiatus where he up and left to professionally learn to play Guitar Hero.

4. Watched the whole series of - The Wire - which according to Wikipedia "has been described by critics as the greatest television series ever made". And I must say, it is worth every single decimal point in the 9.7 rating in IMDB.

5. Discovered that the DVD release of FRIENDS has some decent amount of un-aired footage in every episode. And this realization after having watched the aired version over four times completely. /facepalm

6. A bunch of decent movies - will try to make a honest post out of this.

7. Briefly tried to continue watching Samurai Deeper Kyo. Still does not seem to show any more promise than the usual action anime.

8. IPL. On and off.

9. Simulation Waveforms. In VCS by Synopsys.
[End date - 19/3/2010]

Action Items:
a. Re-populate this anime list.
b. Do something about Point 6.

Random information:
Presently listening to - 'Breath of Life' by Shamindra from the Album: Secrets Of Zen - "Japanese Chill Out" Volume.1

Guess with the picture added and all this post may be of a decent length by now.
/kthxbai