Best Anime of 1997
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Princess MononokeMiyazaki's least sentimental film, in which the forest, the ironworks, and the war are all right at once.Read the review
The End of EvangelionAnno answers his own television ending with the angriest film in the medium, and it is magnificent.
BerserkA tragedy about ambition and friendship that survives an animation budget it plainly did not have.
Perfect BlueSatoshi Kon's debut, and already the sharpest film anyone has made about being watched.
Revolutionary Girl UtenaThirty nine episodes of sword duels on a staircase, all of them about who gets to decide what a girl is.
PokémonAn evergreen children's adventure with a warm heart and almost no memory of its own episodes.