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  The 20 Best Anime Movies of All Time, Ranked If you're looking for a standalone anime film, these 20 masterpieces are the best there Despite existing in both film and television,  anime  is kind of its own thing. There's a tacit contract between audiences and the creators of anime, agreed upon before watching. Fans accept some of the worst impulses commonly found in anime — the suspension of logic and disbelief, the tendency to sexualize or infantilize women, the melodramatic or over-the-top voice acting — in favor of what the medium can actually provide. That's because at its best, anime brilliantly utilizes the imaginative possibilities of animation to explore existential, societal, and technological issues with a depth of maturity rarely found in animation. Unfortunately, some anime can be daunting to approach. For example,  Dragon Ball  has more than 800 episodes, and  One Piece  has over one thousand episodes. Sometimes it's just easier to get i...