Toward the Terra (of COURSE ^^;;) - one of the 
first anime "movies" the actually move me. I saw 
it when I was 13, and it had an instrumental 
effect in my development of my personal 
philosophy, by starting me out on that road.

Tenshi ni Narumon - how much can I say about 
this? I love it; it's cute, and by the end it has 
one of the most original plots I have yet to see.

Evangelion - a classic; the lengths I went to 
just to borrow copies of these tapes (a boy on 
our street had fansubs; we worked out a deal 
where I printed hentai pictures (we had a high 
quality printer) and in return he let me borrow 
tapes...my god, that was only 6 years ago o.O). 

Hana Yori Dango - If you've seen it, you know 
why. For me, it guided me through a particularly 
dark period and helped me become strong again...

Urusei Yatsura - The original Rumiko Takahashi 
work; while I'm not a huge fan of her later 
series, this work as original and new; another 
one that was in introduction ino anime, for me. 
Still as cute and funny today as it ever was.

Grave of the Fireflies - ...::sobs::

Shoujo Kakumei Utena - philosophy philosophy 
philosophy! With gender themes!

Escaflowne - a work of art. 

I My Me! Strawberry Eggs - this anime, while 
starting off interesting, goes into gender themes 
very nicely, and since I have an obsession with 
all things gender politics, I loved it. Normally 
I wouldn't list it, but since there are so few 
anime dealing specifically and primarily on 
gender themes (usually it's a side-theme), I felt 
it played an important role on gender themes in 
anime.

Cowboy Bebop - ...does this really need an 
explanation?

Captian Harlock TV series - ...space operas, yay!

That pretty much wraps it up. Honorable mentions 
go to a few anime that I love, but that have some 
flaws I can't really overlook:

Fruits Basket - ::kills the ending:: What WAS 
that?!

Gundam Wing - I know, I know; but despite that 
fact that it was created solely for Bandai to 
market those nifty little action figures, I 
REALLY love the political tones set in this. Now 
if only we could get rid of all of the other 
sickeninigly commercial aspects, it would be a 
worthwhile anime all around.

X TV/ X movie - ...I'll admit, I'm really not a 
big X fan; Kamui is a whiny bitch ^^;; But I do 
respect it for the piece of art that it is.

Infinite Ryvius - Simply because I haven't seen 
it all, so I can't make an accurate 
judgement...but of what I've seen, I -love- it. 

-Misha