Mine:
Your Lie in April - April
A Place Further Than The Universe - August
Violet Evergarden - December
Single episodes:
Little Witch Academia - the original OVA. There isn’t a single wasted frame - it’s just 23 minutes of pure genius. (And as a matter of fact, I just rewatched it again last night).
Sword Art Online S01E04 - The Black Swordsman. The introduction of Silica and Pina and just a great, warm, funny, satisfying standalone episode, and particularly because it’s sort of an antidote to S01E03, The Red-nosed Reindeer, which is arguably better, but so emotionally devastating.
YuruYuri S01E05 - When Akari and the Cicadas Cry. Kyouko drags Ayano to Comiket, Chitose discovers yuri doujins, and Chinatsu kisses Akari. Funny and cute even by YuruYuri’s lofty standards.
86 Episode 23 - the last third of this episode is quite simply the most beautiful and touching thing I’ve ever seen, and it brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.
Akudama Drive Episode 12 - It seems like it should be tragic, but it just kicks so much ass. " Serves you right."
Non Non Biyori S01E10 - We Watched the First Sunrise of the Year - I just love the dynamic between Kaede and Renge
Movies:
Spirited Away Duh. How could I not?
Ghost in the Shell (1995) Still the most concise visit to that universe. I like much of the rest of the franchise too, but that movie stands above them all.
The Disappearance of Suzumiya Haruhi Just a great movie from start to finish. “John… Smith!”
Redline Buried under the stylish carnage and sensory overload is a satisfying tale of honor and redemption, and a surprisingly cute love story.
Series:
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Even after all these years and all these rewatches, it just grabs me by the throat and drags me along.
Kemurikusa - Low budget done right. Great mysterious setting, good characters and satisfying story.
FLCL - I especially like episode 1 and episide 3, but it’s short enough and there are enough other good moments that I figure I might as well watch it all, so I do.
And a couple of recent additions: Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! and Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! Eizouken is an unabashed love letter to anime with wonderful characters, and Makeine is a great multi-genre whatever-it-is, and Anna in particular is a terrific character.
Mushishi is extremely re-watchable.
Mushishi is one of my favorites. It’s been a while, and probably overdue for a rewatch.
TFS Hellsing abridged and TFS Dragonball Z Abridged
Usagi Drop, Interview With Monster Girls, The Ancient Magus Bride
Jobless Reincarnation has several rewatches, but the last rewatch begin missed me. It may be a general mood.
There are a few others I did rewatches on. But I guess nothing I can mention as regular rewatches (yet).
I’m on the 9th rewatch of Bocchi the Rock and the 4th rewatch of Yuru Camp.
Blue Period is mine. I can’t quite name why, but it just resonates with me every time. I’d love a second season, but the anime nearly caught up to the manga when it was released.
A Certain Scientific Railgun yearly. It’s what got me into anime back in 2021, started a >4 year long streak of watching anime every single day. It’s not a set date, I just start the rewatch 365 (366 on leap years) days after I last finished it. I’ve seen it four times now: first subs, then dubbed, then again in '23, then again in '24.
Haibane Renmei roughly every spring. Part of a discord server that did a group rewatch in '24 and '25. Looking forward to next year
Blue Submarine no.6 is nice and short, only 4 episodes.
Loved that one. Range Murata has some… questionable tastes, but I love his character designs in Blue Submarine No. 6 and Last Exile
Oh, Last Exile is one of my favorites too!
FLCL is a quick, fun six part jaunt I love to revisit.
Cowboy Bebop is so episodic you can just throw any one of them on out of order and have a good time.
And anything Miyazaki. I’ve watched Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Princess Monanoke half a dozen times each.
FLCL is a quick, fun six part jaunt I love to revisit.
FLCL is now an 18-episode series. They dropped a season 2 and season 3 in 2018. But personally I don’t feel like they were as good as the original series.
FLCL is now an 18-episode series.
Okay, yes. But the new stuff is mid at best.
I don’t feel like they were as good as the original series.
Feels like they jumped on the Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone bandwagon and did a remake nobody asked for.
Bebops soundtrack alone is to hard to pass on. Chefs kiss.
Seitokai Yakuindomo That anime is very nice, recommended watching it alone (because of dirty jokes)
I read the manga from time to time. Learned about it from this group too. Can also recommend it for the dirt jokes lol
Too bad all the chapters were removed in Mangadex. Author’s new manga also recommended.
Evangelion
I rewatch Evangelion every time they make it
I rewatched violet evergarden twice, but only watch certain scenes/clips regularly
Welcome to the N.H.K! and Kara no Kyoukai
The former I watched during a time in my life I was very sad and it was pretty emotionally fulfilling, the latter has a hot lady (and a hot femboy) that kills people.
I’m not really an anime person, but I rewatch Death Note every few years. There are other shows I’ve enjoyed, but those were all forced on me by various friends over the years.
These days, I only manage to rewatch about one series a year unless I’m convalescing from something, but here are a few series that have made it to the head of the rewatch queue over the years:
- Shoujo Kakumei Utena
- Escaflowne
- Cowboy Bebop
- Trigun
- Ergo Proxy
- Pumpkin Scissors
- Zegapain
- Zipang
- Madoka Magica
- Kill la Kill
- Gurren Lagann
- The Skull Man
- Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi
- Utawarerumono (original series only—the other two are weaker)
- Concrete Revolutio
- Princess Tutu
- Noein
- Mawaru Penguindrum
