Best Anime of 1998
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
Cowboy BebopTwenty-six sessions of jazz, bounty work and unfinished business, and not one of them is wasted.Read the review
Pokémon: The First MovieA children's franchise film that asks whether its villain should ever have been made, and has the nerve to answer with tears.
Cardcaptor SakuraClamp's magical girl series, animated by Madhouse with a patience children's television rarely gets.
TrigunA goofy space western for eight episodes, then one of the best character studies of the decade.
Serial Experiments LainThe show that predicted what being permanently online would feel like, and got the loneliness right.