TV Series I've watched

This post doesn't go with the tone of the blog, but still.... I thought I'd make a list of all the TV series I've watched, and then rank them. This is my ranking of the 40+ TV series I have watched in the last 3 years.
If you plan to watch any of the anime on the list, watch the Japanese version with English subs. The English dubbed versions are not nearly as good as the subbed ones.

48. Californication
Tried watching about 6-7 episodes, didn't like it at all.



46. Breaking Bad
A chemistry teacher who starts cooking meth. Too slow. Too many annoying characters. People say it's the greatest show ever made, so I put up with it. But it sucks. After 4 seasons, I had to give up.


45. Kuroko no Basuke (Kuroko's Basketball) (Anime)
There are these freakishly good high school basketball players, and then there's this guy called Kuroko who prefers to play with a team with his own style. Wasn't too bad, but was slow and failed to take-off.



44. Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)
Huge robots. Fighting. With special powers. There were some moments when it was a bit exciting, but on the whole, it's quite boring.


43. Boondocks
About a couple of black kids (and their racist uncle). The first few seasons were awesome, but got boring later.



42. Spiral: bonds of reasoning (Anime)
About a genius kid, whose elder brother was also freakishly smart. But the elder brother leaves the house for some reason and the younger one tries to figure out why. The first 5-10 episodes were good, but they just lost it after that.



41. Gantz (Anime)
When people die, they are recruited into a game. And these people have to complete missions. The plot was good and I felt it had great potential. But the anime was filled with stupidity and the ending really sucked. 


40. Naruto (Anime)
It's based in the Japanese ninja tradition, and the ninjas have these awesome techniques. And there's a kid who was very lonely once and doesn't want anyone else to go through the same. It was okay in the beginning, but got really annoying after a while. The lead character is annoying, and the mangaka seemed to not care about consistency at all.


39.5. The Simpsons
People say it's awesome. I didn't find it to be funny enough.



39. Fairy Tail (Anime)
It's about people who can do magic, who form guilds, and then fight for their guilds. Some people like this anime, but I just can't seem to get into it. Too repetitive, boring battles, too much sentimental stuff (which is also pretty repetitive).


38. Bleach (Anime)
So there's three worlds, the regular one we know, and a couple for souls. And there are people in both soul worlds that try to either mess things up or save the world. It was pretty decent, but battles stretched on for too long. Becomes a bit too repetitive after a while. The characters don't seem to have any depth.



37.  D. Grayman (Anime)
A world where souls are turned into machines by something like the devil, and there's a group of people trying to free these souls.. I thought the series had a lot of potential. I haven't read the manga, so I don't know if it was the mangaka who messed up or if it was the animators. The plot was pretty well thought-out, but the implementation couldn't keep up.



36. VEEP
A sitcom that wasn't funny at all. Although I'm all up for commedy, the show shows some of the top politicians (and their staff) of the US to be stupid, petty, and incompetent- which starts getting a bit annoying at times.

35.5  Sayonara zetsubou sensei  (Anime)
It's about a high school teacher who's too pessimistic, and his class filled with weirdos. It's as unpredictable as a show can get. Seriously. It's the weirdest show I have ever watched. The first season was good, but then it got boring.

35. Only fools and horses
A British sitcom. It's alright, but again, not funny enough.



34. Avatar
A cartoon about a monk-kid with special powers based in a fantasy world. It was okay, felt like it was stretched a bit too much. The characters had no depth. But it was still funny enough to make me watch 3 seasons. And the spin-off that came after, which followed the next avatar, sucked (that's what I felt after 4-5 episodes and gave up).


33.5 Prince of tennis (Anime)
It's just as the title says, a new kid appears in high school tennis. It was good in the beginning, had some humour, seemed to have a decent plot. But it's the same thing going on and on.. And the sport itself is very poorly represented.


33. How I met your mother
A sitcom. Has its moments. But there's too much of nothing between funny scenes.


32. South Park
A cartoon with lots of gross scenes, but it's hilarious. At least it used to be. The new seasons suck.



31. Seinfeld
It's a sitcom. I liked it, but not as much as Friends or TBBT. And it does get boring quite often.


30. Dexter
A serial killer who only kills bad guys (with some exceptions). The story was well-paced, but has too many stupid characters in it.

29. True detective
Its about a couple of cops trying to solve some cases. There's one guy who's religious, and another who thinks religion and morality is all a load of crap. It can get interesting sometimes, but has too much drama with not much happening with the plot. 

28.  Magi (Anime)
In its universe, there are wizards who are supposed to choose someone worthy of being a king, and then help them become one. There's a lot of magic involved, and some battles. It has its moments, but on the whole, it's far from being a great show.

27. Prison Break
Sometimes too good, sometimes boring.The first season was especially good.



26. Two and a half men
First 5-6 seasons were awesome.


25. House
Liked it when House wasn't involved with the other doc. It had some humour, some satire, and a hint of philosophy. But then all of that was gone and there was just drama left, which I don't care for.


24. The Big Bang Theory
The geeky version of "Friends".But it went downhill after about 3 seasons.


23. Detective Conan (Anime)
It's quite a childish anime (it was made for kids). It's sometimes funny, and it never gets boring. Although the cases that the detective solves can get monotonous, there's still not boring. I have watched about 220 episodes now, and it has 500 more to go. Good for me.

22. House of Cards
There's nothing special about it, but it never got boring.


21. Sherlock
Need I say more?


20. Code Geass (Anime)
A bit boring some times, but awesome most of the time.
There are huge human-controlled robots, and some of the characters have superpowers. 


19. Game of Thrones
 Again, need I say more?


18. Samurai Champloo (Anime)
Short and awesome.
The story follows two swordsmen with conflicting personalities, who promise to help a girl find her father. 


17. Dragon Ball Z (Anime)
Follows a guy who wants to be the strongest fighter in the universe. And while he's trying to do that, he saves the earth and a bunch of other planets from bad guys. It got a bit too serious, with too many battles and power-ups. But it's still way better than a lot of TV series out there.


16. Gin no saji (Silver spoon)  (Anime)
It is what is called a "slice of life" anime. Set in a school of agriculture, it follows a kid from a city as he adapts to life as a farmer. It flows smoothly, has good humour, has no annoying characters, and could be a bit philosophical for some people.

15. Hunter x Hunter (Anime)
There are these professional people who are called hunters, because they have a range of skills and do all kinds of stuff. A kid, whose father was apparently a famous hunter, sets out to become one. Except for some episodes where it just stretched on without much happening, particularly the Chimera ant arc, the series was pretty damn good. I'm not really sure why I'm not putting this in the top 10 series, but I'd definitely recommend it for anyone who likes anime. Personally, I was more interested in the kid's friend's story.


14. Spartacus
Set in ancient Rome, where people owned slaves. And a bunch of slaves, who were also gladiators, fight for their freedom. The battles were awesome.


13. Steins; Gate (Anime)
Sci-fi. Based on time-travel. An amazing plot, beautifully animated. Especially episode 13. It was so awesome that I watched it over and over. I rarely re-watch episodes that aren't hilarious, but I couldn't stop watching this particular episode.


12. Eyeshield 21 (Anime)
A sports anime- about American football. The lead character's a wimpy kid, who I didn't care for at all. But the characters around the kid are interesting, the humour is good, and despite the length (125 episodes), it didn't get boring. I hated the way it ended though.


11. Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime)
Alchemists can make things out of raw materials, or break stuff, based on what they call "the principal of equivalent exchange". But things are screwed up when a kid tries to bring his dead mother back to life. It's a beautifully made anime. It has an amazing plot (you can't predict what's coming), the characters are well made, their back stories make sense, and the soundtrack is also very good.


10. Shingeki no kyojin (Attack on titan) (Anime)
Out of nowhere, giants appear and start eating humans. Humans build concentric walls, and live inside them. After a hundred years, the giants manage to break through the walls, and that's where the anime starts. Battles aside, human nature is so wonderfully explored in the anime- If one wants to understand morality or religion or fear or courage, forget books and discourses; watch this anime


9. Hajime no Ippo (The first step?) (Anime)
Follows a high school kid who takes up boxing, because he thinks boxers are really strong and he wants to understand what it means to be strong. The first season (76 episodes) was brilliant, on par with the best series on this list. But it went downhill afterwards. The second season was decent, and the third was a total let-down.



8. shijou saikyou no deshi: Kenichi (History's strongest disciple: Kenichi) (Anime)
A bunch of expert martial artists of different styles take in a disciple, and train him like shit. And this disciple is challenged by other people, usually bullies in school or gangs, but later by strong disciples of other teachers. It's quite entertaining- got good battles, a fine story, and tons of funny scenes. But it lacks a soul- the anime ranked better than this are all captivating, this anime isn't...


7. Death Note (Anime)
So a guy finds a book owned by a death-god. And if he can visualize a person and write the person's name in the book, they die. The first half of the series is just too good.


6. Haikyuu (Anime)
A sports anime, about Volleyball. A couple of guys passionate about the sport join a new school, one's goofy and the other's a genius. It's extremely well made- the matches, characters, back stories. It's funny, got a bit of drama, doesn't get boring- it's just perfect. I watched 25 episodes back-to-back, except for 9 hours of sleep. I would actually rate it as the best anime, except that it's too short to compare with the others.

5. Gintama (Anime)
A lazy, idiotic samurai who takes up minor jobs to earn a living, and has a wimpy kid and a super-strong, stupid girl as his assistants. Humor, parody, battles, emotional stuff- it's got everything. It's got a whole bunch of characters that keep making you laugh. Some episodes are slow, but most of them are brilliant.


4. Friends
Forget reviews. Just go for it. I watched the entire series (about 240 episodes) 6 times.



3. Dragon Ball (Anime)
It's a prequel to DBZ. It's funnier than DBZ, especially kid Goku. Although the animation was pretty bad compared to others, it gets points since it started out way before the rest of the anime on my list.


2. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Anime)
Upgraded version of Fullmetal Alchemist. The first series did not follow the manga and the plot got a little too simplified. The manga version is absolutely brilliant. But the characters don't get enough time to establish a back-story, and the soundtrack isn't as good.


1. One Piece (Anime)
Follows a kid who wants to be the greatest pirate on the planet. In his crew, one guy wants to be the greatest swordsman, one guy wants to find this place in the ocean where there's fish from everywhere, a girl wants to draw a map of the world from her experience, a wimpy guy wants to be a warrior of the sea, one wants to be the greatest doctor, one wants to build a ship that sails all the oceans, one's an archaeologist trying to figure out some secret history, and finally, there's one a musician who's trying to keep a promise he made to someone 50 years ago.
Best.TV.Series.Ever. If you haven't watched this, you've missed out on loads of fun and tons of epic battles. Zoro and Shanks- Most bad-ass characters in any story, ever. I want to say "TV series can't get better than this", but One Piece has slowed down recently. But that's to be expected when an anime has been running for 15 years. I hear the manga is still as awesome as ever.