Poll: which is the best anime, Dragonball, One Piece, Naruto or Bleach?

[SatuMitsumi]

That list is a little skewed.
Maybe it should include:

Serial Experiments Lain
Gunslinger Girl
Ghost Hound
Dennou Coil
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

Not saying these are "by far the best" but they're pretty up there.
Yeah, that list is kind of lacking. When you ask which mainstream animes are good, and all you have listed are mainstream animes featured on Cartoon Network, there's a problem.

 

[rayman 101]

I've only ever watched Dragonball Z out of those that you've choosen.

 

[Dahemo]

Bit limiting on the choices and my favourites aren't up there but:

1. Naruto
2. Bleach
3. One Piece
4. Dragonball Series

Bleach should be winning had it followed the manga, but the anime directors are in love with filler, and during fights characters just won't shut up. I've only just got into One Piece and I'm warming to it greatly, it's high energy and quite silly fun, but it has a lot of heart in terms of fresh ideas and relatively well realised characters. I've never liked Dragonball, the artwork isn't great, the humour seems to have been aimed at 7 year olds which contrasts pretty starkly with the violence, and the show is riddled with "Oh no, we're doomed!" "No wait, it's a long shot but it just might work: the convenient plot device".

Naruto wins because I love the arcs in the shonens, and while the Rescue Rukia and ongoing Arrancar arc are both examples of why Bleach is great, it doesn't offer much beyond that. Whereas Naruto has The Land of Water, Chuunin Exams, Sasuke Retrieval in the original series and Shippuden, a much better realised and written show, has the Akatsuki battles throughout, all of which are very well done...

 

[flare09]

I'm not really into anime, I barely watch it. But I suppose DBZ because it's the only one I could watch without wanting to kill myself.

 

[TDM]

I absolutely like One Piece best, its situations are sometimes bizarre and absurd, but always fun

 

[velcthulhu]

Even if we only count Shonen action anime with episode numbers in the triple digits, your list is still incomplete...
best anime ever is Evangelion. Best anime in the same genre as the above choices is Yu Yu Hakusho.

 

[Yoshemo]

They're all good but no where near the best

 

[resultsmayvary]

Strictly speaking about anime Full Metal Alchemist is a work of art in my opinion. There are main characters in Academy Award winning movies that I didn't care about as much as I did Ed and Al.

If I can make a statement based purely on manga though, Naruto is fantastic. I know he gets a lot of flack from people, rightly so based on just the anime, they made him quite annoying. The manga however is phenomenal.

 

[Zacharine]

Naruo had perhaps the most potential, but has gotten screwed up since about the wave-bridge arc. I better not start ranting of this one, because then I'll be writing an entire novel of the things gone wrong.

Bleach also had great potential, but got screwed a bit differently: Adding a hundred new charactes when we can barely keep track of the old ones. A deep, well thought out plot for further character development for the few core-characters would have done a lot, but instead it has gotten to the points where every character gets a chapter or two and that's it, time for a yet another, previously barely mentioned character to get their life-sobstory out. And let's not forget the completely illogical fights, even for anime standards. It's like the writer hasn't ever even met someone who knew anything of tactics or strategy. A 10 year-old who has played a single RTS for 30 minutes could devise better stratagems and these shinigami liutenants and captains are supposed to be expert fighters with age measured in centuries, not to mention the captain-commander who is several millenia old.

Dragonball Z... let's summarize: "Gyyaaah! Power-up from nowhere! Feel my planet-destroying wrath"

7 episodes later, still in the same single fight, planet intact(or not).

"Hahaaa! Looks like I can't defeat you power-up without powering myself up! HAIR GROW AURA TECHNIQUE!"

Repeat ad infinitum, the fighters always pulling out a 'I'm not left handed' or 'Eleventh-hour superpower'-trope, followed by 'I'm not left handed either!'-countermove. Sure, this happens in many anime, but Dragonball is built around this and repeats this more than any other anime I've seen. Add to it the ability to counter any loss or damage by simply making a wish and restoring any damage done (including destroyed planet), we have a bland and boring anime that gets old after the first 4 or five episodes.

Never seen One Piece. And from what I've been told of it, I'm glad.

So, a hard choice between four bad anime, but the final contestants on the merit of sucking less, are Naruto and Bleach. I'm going to give this one to the Bleach, as it had more episodes done well / decently before it began to suck. But none of these four is the best anime.

 

[GloatingSwine]

None of the above, really. The only shonen fighting nonsense I've ever really been able to put up with is Reborn, and that mostly because it started off with some deeply wacky comedy, and then kept all the ten year bazookas and baby hitmen and nonsense even when it went Serious Business.

 

[KingPiccolOwned]

None of them. Ever.

Best, erm, anime ever? Yeah, none of those.

I do love the original Dragonball Z, though...up until the end of the Cell Games.

EDIT: I'd have to name Berserk as my favorite, with Samurai Champloo and Outlaw Star close seconds.

I like Bleach a lot but FLCL is the best. Sorry.

You three (as well as a few others but you were the first three) go sit in the corner. I understand that these may not be your favorites, and you are entitled to your opinion, however the question WAS which out of the four you liked most. So stick to the topic.

 

[Souplex]

Interestingly, when you think about it; Bleach is to Samurais what Dragonball is to martial arts.

 

[Magnatek]

One Piece - The strangest story transitions you will ever see shoe of Paranoia Agent (Look it up. Trust me)

You're off by one letter on that one: B. Take out the I, the P, the E's, and the N, you get the STRANGEST overall anime ever, once you multiply the B and O by seven. I happen to like One Piece out of those four, to actually answer the question (the Funimation dub, of course. In other words, the GOOD one).

 

[Another 2maro]

My vote has to be naruto because I grew up with those ninjas running around. I was so pissed when cartoonnetwork took it off! So stuck with to connections i'm stuck not being able to see new naruto :'(

 

[BlindTom]

Absolutely has to be a troll.

 

[chipmunk2510]

One Piece is the best one out of that list.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Uuuuuuuuh, neither.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Strictly speaking about anime Full Metal Alchemist is a work of art in my opinion. There are main characters in Academy Award winning movies that I didn't care about as much as I did Ed and Al.

If I can make a statement based purely on manga though, Naruto is fantastic. I know he gets a lot of flack from people, rightly so based on just the anime, they made him quite annoying. The manga however is phenomenal.

I think he gets a lot of flack 'cause the whole shippuuden thing sucks. Whenever there's a scary strong badguy, there's always an even scarier stronger badguy, oh, wait now HE'S really the badguy.............oh wait.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Naruo had perhaps the most potential, but has gotten screwed up since about the wave-bridge arc. I better not start ranting of this one, because then I'll be writing an entire novel of the things gone wrong.

Bleach also had great potential, but got screwed a bit differently: Adding a hundred new charactes when we can barely keep track of the old ones. A deep, well thought out plot for further character development for the few core-characters would have done a lot, but instead it has gotten to the points where every character gets a chapter or two and that's it, time for a yet another, previously barely mentioned character to get their life-sobstory out. And let's not forget the completely illogical fights, even for anime standards. It's like the writer hasn't ever even met someone who knew anything of tactics or strategy. A 10 year-old who has played a single RTS for 30 minutes could devise better stratagems and these shinigami liutenants and captains are supposed to be expert fighters with age measured in centuries, not to mention the captain-commander who is several millenia old.

Dragonball Z... let's summarize: "Gyyaaah! Power-up from nowhere! Feel my planet-destroying wrath"

7 episodes later, still in the same single fight, planet intact(or not)..

"Hahaaa! Looks like I can't defeat you power-up without powering myself up! HAIR GROW AURA TECHNIQUE!"

Repeat ad infinitum, the fighters always pulling out a 'I'm not left handed' or 'Eleventh-hour superpower'-trope, followed by 'I'm not left handed either!'-countermove. Sure, this happens in many anime, but Dragonball is built around this and repeats this more than any other anime I've seen. Add to it the ability to counter any loss or damage by simply making a wish and restoring any damage done (including destroyed planet), we have a bland and boring anime that gets old after the first 4 or five episodes.

Never seen One Piece. And from what I've been told of it, I'm glad.

So, a hard choice between four bad anime, but the final contestants on the merit of sucking less, are Naruto and Bleach. I'm going to give this one to the Bleach, as it had more episodes done well / decently before it began to suck. But none of these four is the best anime.

They all get scewed in the end 'cause they NEVER end!

 

[slevin8989]

Out of those four my order is
Naruto - don't watch the fillers and it's worth it
One Piece - It's really creative and interesting
DBZ - It's a classic
Bleach - It's alright but the story could be better