Best Anime of 1988
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Grave of the FirefliesTakahata gives away the ending in the first line, then makes you watch it happen anyway.Read the review
My Neighbor TotoroTwo sisters move to the countryside and almost nothing happens, which turns out to be the achievement.
AkiraDecades on, still the benchmark for what hand-drawn animation is physically capable of doing.
Legend of the Galactic HeroesA hundred and ten episodes of politics, fleet tactics and rival ideologies, barely animated and brilliantly written.