>>77473
Well, that's off to a good start at least.

Here's my entry:

Although every other episode is a STRONG CONTENDER.

Sora invents HARDCORE EXTREME DIABLO BATTLE and beats the world champion. With less than a week of training.

And then they make out on stage.

No part of this episode wasn't spectacular.

Episode 9.

EPISODE. FUCKING. NINE.

>>77483
aka the episode that blew my brain right out of the back of my head

Stopping an impending armed revolution with a burning field full of ganja.

Episode 6 of both Gunbuster and Diebuster.

Episode 4 for a close second, also for both series.

Every episode of Stand Alone Complex was the best episode.

>>77502
Wrong, the best episodes were the Tachikoma episodes.

Episode 8 for Season 1, 12 for R2.

>>77504
Are either of those episodes with Jeremiah Gottwald in important roles?

>>77505
R2 12 is asshat episode so yes, at the end, and S1 08 is the hotel hijacking.

>>77492
Episode 9 of Samurai Champloo, right?

Also, pic related. They should have just ended the Soul Eater anime there.

>>77508
...I still remember the spider castle making screeching-tire noises as it skidded around. So dumb, but I just couldn't quit laughing!

>>77492
>>77507

I see your Weed Episode and raise you a Baseball Episode

>>77526
>pig disgusting foreigners beat best America at baseball

>Not the worst episode of anything ever.

>>77545
I kind of agree. The whole "ra ra japan will show those filthy foreign devils" vibe felt super uncomfortable to me.

Probably how Russians feel about playing every modern shooter nowadays.

>>77555
You though that was sincere?

This is a show about hiphop culture in eighteenth century Japan.

>>77502
2nd GiG finale is probably the best of the lot though. (And by best i mean worst for the enormous range of emotions it made me experience in a very short time. CRYING OVER HOW BEAUTIFULLY THE TACHIKOMA DIE, RAGING AT GOUDA, CHEERING WHEN THE MAJOR VENTILATED HIM, CRYING HYSTERICALLY OVER KUZE)

why do the things i love hurt me

Mawaru Penguindrum Episode 16

>>78567

Mr. President! Watch out!

>>78567

Mr. President! Watch out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HijMAax4N-Q
The music, the buildup, it was just a huge fuck yeah moment

Not exactly on topic, but the best arc of Berserk is almost certainly the Lost Children arc.

>>78655
The one with the demon butterfly?

I mean, it got pretty dramatic, but I wouldn't call it the best.

>>77483
Oh yeah. Series was pretty cool up to that point, you were starting to make sense of things, then EPISODE FUCKING 9 AND OH MY FUCK DID THAT JUST HAPPEN FOR REAL.

<3

>>78675
Yeah, the best Berserk arc is unquestonably the Golden Age. I'd say Lost Children follows after, though.

>>78655
>>78677
>Lost Children
>Golden Age
Ya'll are crazy.

>>78655
>>78697
I'll also vote Lost Children arc, where Guts constantly fluctuates between incredibly sympathetic and OH GOD HOW IS HE NOT THE VILLIAN. On a scale of 1 to 10, his "anti"-hero rating starts at 9 and finishes around 20.

>>78702

Lost Children was pretty much as dark as Gothic medieval fantasy gets without it going into the realm of parody.

I think what makes it so shocking is that it was still in the time when Mirua was basically all like "What you think purity and innocence survives? You think children are immune from the horrors of this world? FUCK YOU! They either become amoral fairy monsters for the rest of their lives or get squashed by a huge slab of iron."

I honestly don't think Berserk has quite gotten THAT dark in a while. It's certainly cut it close, but never really THAT far.

I just don't think being the darkest Berserk has ever gotten means it's the best arc. The story just wasn't that memorable. I remember a girl who lived with a shitty dad, the demon-butterfly kids, and that the main demon was mildly sympathetic. That's it. It just didn't stick around in my memory aside from a vague recollection that "oh yeah, that was pretty good." Berserk is always at least "pretty good."

Golden Age definitely gets the most exposure, but it's for a reason. Griffith's sacrifice was one of the most visceral gut-punches I've ever read, because I knew all the characters well, and the build-up was handled so perfectly. It's easily the best arc.

I just don't think being the darkest Berserk has ever gotten means it's the best arc. The story just wasn't that memorable. I remember a girl who lived with a shitty dad, the demon-butterfly kids, and that the main demon was mildly sympathetic. That's it. It just didn't stick around in my memory aside from a vague recollection that "oh yeah, that was pretty good." Berserk is always at least "pretty good."

Golden Age definitely gets the most exposure, but it's for a reason. Griffith's sacrifice was one of the most visceral gut-punches I've ever read, because I knew all the characters well, and the build-up was handled so perfectly. It's easily the best arc.