Name A Single Better Year

Anime Releases:
>Black Lagoon & Black Lagoon: Second Barrage
>Code Geass
>D.Gray-man
>Death Note
>Demonbane
>Ergo Proxy
>Fate/Stay Night (DEEN)
>Gintama
>Ghost Hunt
>.hack//Roots
>Higurashi
>Ouran Host Club
>Paprika
>Tales From Earthsea
>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
>The Wallflower
>Tokyo Tribes
>Welcome to the N.H.K.
>xxxHolic

Manga Releases:
>Black Butler
>Fairy Tail
>Franken Fran
>Future Diary
>Hetalia Axis Powers
>Highschool of the Dead
>Mitsudomoe
>Mysterious Girlfriend X
>Nichijou
>To Love Ru

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I wanted to post this, but looks like you beat me to it.
Anyway, yeh I agree with you on this. For me, this is where I feel like "modern anime" truly began (if at all). You had blu-rays first coming in, digital animation was getting a lot better with a couple of shows being superbly well-done in that department. There were pretty amazing looking shows before in the 2000s, but from here it gets consistently good each year after. Also something about the "anime bubble burst", but idk too much about that. Even though people are gonna trash how you put Code Geass and F/SN there, it's kinda true as they helped shape the year. What I wanna know is how it happened.

Like, what led to this year being so overly great. Compared to how you hear people saying pop culture in general reached a somewhat "golden age" in 2007 with music, films and games; anime's best year was a year out, which I find interesting. Another thing, you missed out a few of anime in your list:
>The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
>Kemonozume
>Kanon (2006)
>Le Chavlier D'Eon
>Strawberry Panic
>Nana
And I know you didn't want to mention sequels but:
>Major S2
>Aria the Natural (S2)
>School Rumble S2
>Honey & Clover S2

Honestly, this year is absolutely amazing
>Name A Single Better Year
idk, but there are a few other years which I've seen people say are the best. I'll do that in the next post

2011, and it's self explanatory why.

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In terms of years which rival 2006, there's only really 2011 followed by 2007 for me:

2011
>Madoka Magica
>Gosick
>Tiger & Bunny
>Nichijou
>Steins;Gate
>Anohana
>YuruYuri
>Penguindrum
>Usagi Drop
>Fate/Zero
>Hunter x Hunter 2011
>Chihayafuru
>Mirai Nikki

2007
>Hidamari Sketch
>Nodame Cantabile
>Gurren Lagann
>Claymore
>Darker Than Black
>Lovely Complex
>Seirei no Moribito
>Lucky Star
>Dennou Coil
>Mononoke
>Baccano!
>Clannad
>Ef: A Tale of Memories

Others say 1998, 2002, 2016 and even 2018. I like '98 quite a bit too.

1998
>Outlaw Star
>Record of Lodoss War
>Trigiun
>Cowboy Bebop
>Yu-Gi-Oh!
>Cardcaptor Sakura
>Princess Nine
>Initial D
>Yokohama Shopping Trip
>Serial Experiments Lain
>Kare Kano
>Master Keaton
Take you pick, really

I figured I had missed a few, like I also forgot to include the release of the first Hellsing Ultimate OVA that year.

>idk, but there are a few other years which I've seen people say are the best.
2006 is my personal favorite, but a lot of those years in the late 00's were amazing, so many good releases, and a ton that were long haul too, 24+ episodes. Now you pray for more than one series this season to be good, and pray for more than 12 episodes.

2005, you faggot

Another good year that hasn't been mentioned yet is 2003

I'm glad you mentioned Priness Nine for 1998. I really liked it, but not a lot of people know about it. I also like Lodoss more as TV than OVA, so I can agree with that too.

Some other anime that may be worth mentioning are Fancy Lala, which is very unengaging and hard to get yourself to watch but feels extremely realistic so a very specific type of person will love it, and a couple I haven't seen but are on my radar and seem to have at least some popularity, Neo Ranga and Getter Robo Armageddon.

I think this year is the best.

ID:Invaded
Great Pretender
Appare
Deca-Dence

And everyone is unemployed so we have time to watch stuff.

>Beck
>Black Jack
>Bleach
>Desert Punk
>Elfen Lied
>Flame of Recca
>Gantz
>Midori Days
>Monster
>Samurai Champloo
>School Rumble
>Yakitate
>Yu-Gi-Oh! GX
uh oh i guess 2004 is kino

I should add a bit more in my response to you, because I've paid some attention to 2011 too.
I really want to add Tamayura Hitotose. Maybe it doesn't count because it's a sequel to a short OVA, but it was the first major entry for the franchise.
Hanasaku Iroha is another important one.
Hourou Musuko seems to remain as popular as it was when it first released, but I have a hard time judging it because it was too embarrassing to watch.
Hyouge Mono seems to be a cult classic, but I haven't seen it and it isn't talked about enough to have a clear consensus among people other than its fans.
Ikoku Meiro no Croisée and Level E are pretty neat, but they may be too average to be worthy of such a list.