An online poll was conduct in a Japanese anime site, where the frequent users of the site were asked to vote their top 100 best animes of recent times starting from 02 August 2008 to 30 September 2008, a 60 days period. After some weeks of grueling compilation and tallying of some 837, 424 votes, here are their results!
** ~ **
Top 50 Countdown
Ranked 50:
Ranked 49: Sailormoon - 1987 votes
Ranked 48: Minami Ke - 2287 votes
Ranked 47:
Ranked 46: Koihime†Musou - 2311 votes
Ranked 45: Doraemon - 2389 votes
Ranked 44: Prince of Tennis - 2441 votes
Ranked 43: Seto no Hanayome - 2446 votes
Ranked 42:
Ranked 41: Shakugan no Shana - 2779 votes
Ranked 40: ARIA series - 2875 votes
Ranked 39: Sayorana Zetsubo Sensei - 2895 votes
Ranked 38: Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn - 2904 votes
Ranked 37: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - 3006 votes
Ranked 36: Gintama - 3047 votes
Ranked 35: Digimon - 3147 votes
Ranked 34: Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - 3547 votes
Ranked 33: Macross Frontier - 4020 votes
Ranked 32:
Ranked 31: Code Geass - 4261 votes
Ranked 30: School Days - 4867 votes
Ranked 29:
Ranked 28: Dragonball Z - 5059 votes
Ranked 27: Evangelion - 5104 votes
Ranked 26: Myself Yourself - 6012 votes
Ranked 25: Slayers series - 6042 votes
Ranked 24: Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru - 6543 votes
Ranked 23: Zero no Tsukaima - 6752 votes
Ranked 22: Strawberry Panic - 6943 votes
Ranked 21: Kirby - 6996 votes
Ranked 20: Persona -trinity soul- 7070 votes
Ranked 19:
Ranked 18: Zettai Karen Children - 11 086 votes
Ranked 17: Rozen Maiden series - 11 138 votes
Ranked 16: Da Capo - 11 256 votes
Ranked 15: Yu Gi Oh! - 12 462 votes
Ranked 14: Lucky Star - 13 449 votes
Ranked 13: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - 13 656 votes
Ranked 12:
Ranked 11: Akagi - 14 471 votes
Ranked 10: Death Note - 14 750 votes
Ranked 9: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha - 15 880 votes
Ranked 8: Pokemon - 15 935 votes
Ranked 7: Gundam OO - 19 390 votes
Ranked 6:
Ranked 5:
Ranked 4: Ef~ a tale of memories - 29 574 votes
Ranked 3: Clannad - 46 358 votes
Ranked 2: Kanon - 52 289 votes
Ranked 1: Air - 455 847 votes
*Note~ Those rankings left blank are titles that I had not watched before and unable to identify them.
** ~ **
A few good titles I noticed that deserves a better ranking but have not made it within the top 50 are,
** ~ **
Ranked 52: Hayate no Gokuto - 1833 votes
Ranked 56: True Tears - 1694 votes
Ranked 57: Busou Renkin - 1688 votes
Ranked 58: Full Metal Alchemist - 1610 votes
Ranked 62: Hellsing - 1492 votes
Ranked 70: Simpsons - 1413 votes
Ranked 77: GTO - 1365 votes
Ranked 81: Happy Tree Friends - 1299 votes
Ranked 82: Full Moon wo Sagashite - 1297 votes
Ranked 97: Candy Boy - 1208 votes
** ~ **
The results are by far a bit too disappointing. Some animes disappointingly which most of the local fans here that deemed too retard to watch made it to the top 50 list! And also from the top five position onwards, a trend is noticed. With animes like 'Ef~ A tale of memories', 'Kannon' and 'Air' dominating the anime popularity list, we can expect more anime types that are more creative and artistic to follow the success of these animes.
A few of our fellow members would be going home some upset and some happy about the results.
Roy Karrde for once would be sad that Full Moon wo Sagashite has disappointingly not even quality for the top fifty. For other members...

Originally Posted by
firepokemon
Pokemon continues to rate in the top 10 anime series in Japan
Yes, an unexpected result! Pokemon is ranked eighth. 0.o;

Originally Posted by
Mikachu Yukitatsu
I told in my Japanese class that my favorite animes are Pokemon, Sailor Moon and Digimon...
Congratulations Mikachu, all of your favourite animes made it to the top 50 list. Sailormoon at 49th, Digimon at 35th and Pokemon at 8th.