Best 2000s anime

Anime from 2000 to 2009, series and films. Ranked by community score among titles with a real audience, so a perfect score from ten votes does not make the list. Each series counts once, by its first season. A good place to find the classics later shows keep referencing.

Number one right now: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
TV · 2009 · 64 ep
4.5 / 5
"In order for something to be obtained, something of equal value must be lost." Alchemy is bound by this Law of Equivalent Exchange—something the young brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric only realize after attempting human transmutation…
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Monster
TV · 2004 · 74 ep
4.4 / 5
Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a renowned Japanese brain surgeon working at a leading hospital in Germany. One night, Dr. Tenma risks his reputation and career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy over that of the town mayor who had been…
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Hajime no Ippo: The Fighting!
Hajime no Ippo
TV · 2000 · 75 ep
4.3 / 5
Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life. Constantly running errands and being beaten up by his classmates, Ippo has always dreamed of changing himself, but never has the passion to act upon it. One day, in the midst of yet another…
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Spirited Away
Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi
Movie · 2001 · 1 ep
4.3 / 5
On the way to their new home, 10-year-old Chihiro Ogino's family stumbles upon a deserted theme park. Intrigued, the family investigates the park, though unbeknownst to them, it is secretly inhabited by spirits who sleep by day and appear…
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Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion
Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch
TV · 2006 · 25 ep
4.3 / 5
On August 10th of the year 2010 the Holy Empire of Britannia began a campaign of conquest, its sights set on Japan. Operations were completed in one month thanks to Britannia's deployment of new mobile humanoid armor vehicles dubbed…
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Gurren Lagann
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
TV · 2007 · 27 ep
4.3 / 5
In a far away future, mankind lives underground in huge caves, unknowing of a world above with a sky and stars. In the small village of Jiha, Simon, a shy boy who works as a digger discovers a strange glowing object during excavation. The…
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Howl‘s Moving Castle
Howl no Ugoku Shiro
Movie · 2004 · 1 ep
4.3 / 5
Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. The vain and vengeful Witch of the Waste, jealous of their friendship…
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Gintama
TV · 2006 · 201 ep
4.3 / 5
Life isn't easy in feudal Japan... especially since the aliens landed and conquered everything! Oh sure, the new health care is great, but the public ban on the use of swords has left a lot of defeated samurai with a difficult decision to…
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Nana
TV · 2006 · 47 ep
4.3 / 5
Two twenty-somethings seemingly share nothing in common apart from their first name, but a chance meeting on a train bound for Tokyo sets Nana Komatsu and Nana Oosaki on a collision course with destiny. Nana Komatsu, a love-at-first-sight…
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Death Note
TV · 2006 · 37 ep
4.2 / 5
Light Yagami is a genius high school student who is about to learn about life through a book of death. When a bored shinigami, a God of Death, named Ryuk drops a black notepad called a Death Note , Light receives power over life and death…