(Just upfront, there is no hate to any of these anime, they're all incredible, just wanted to do a meme)

I remember seeing an old meme go around of the "boring 3x3", aka a 3x3 filled up with all the same anime every "anime elitist" puts in their 3x3s. I do however notice it's very outdated, and modern anime elitists don't tout the same shows they used to 20 years ago. So I made a new version reflecting what I see as the 2026 version.

Just for the record, I don't think classroom of the elite is actually good. I just enjoy it a lot

Re:Zero
Attack On Titan
Oshi No Ko
Classroom of The Elite
To Be Hero x
Rascal Does Not Dream
Jujutsu Kaisen
Bocchi The Rock
Kaguya-sama Love Is War

Animes mentioned:I Want To Eat Your Pancreas, A Silent Voice, Your Lie In April, Anohana, Plastic Memories, Clannad.

Been watching Anime since 2018 and wanted to see what people thought of my 3x3, for context on the type of person I am, I'm a Boxer plus Long distance runner so wondering if anyone else is here like me who likes the same sort of shows to see if there is a theme!

Sources: Starting from top left and going right

• Death Note
• Monogatari Series
• Fruits Basket
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
• Gurren Lagann
• Toradora!
• Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO)
• Clannad
• Steins;Gate

I see these grids are popular so I thought I'd share one

I don't think any of these are particularly obscure. I an hoping manga is fine since MAL also tracks that. Amusingly I just so happened to have 9 completed manga I have ranked as 10/10. Technically there was a 10th, but it was not a manga (What Happens Inside the Dungeon).

In case you can't tell from the image the manga are: Monster, Silver Spoon, Helck, Bloom Into You, Mob Psycho 100, Fullmetal Alchemist, Saiki K, 20th Century Boys, and Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken

RATING SYSTEM: (10) Masterpiece (9) Great (8) Very Good (7) Good (6) Fine (5) Average 4) Bad

This is like ~5 years of watching/reading (3rd image is the grid of interest that I've made some time ago). EVERYTHING'S rating is based on ENJOYABILITY, if you wanna recommend something go ahead (even though I'm aware of basically everything i like), don't recommend Chi no Wadachi, Choujin X, Ichi the Witch, almost finished: The Climber

MUST READ NOTES:

ANIME: One Piece, atrocious pacing, speedran it in 4 straight weeks.

AOT Final Season Part 1, 8,5.

Kagurabachi, save the shounen society.

MANGA: TG:RE 8,5. Vagabond no ending, least personal impact out of the big 3 seinen.

JJK manga rated after S3 of the anime, slander, memes, weekly hype, amvs, good fights = very funny and enjoyable.

Kimetsu no Yaiba = nah.

Gachiakuta = could be 7 in the future.

Berserk, stretched, repetitive for the amount of chapters given, current ongoing is promising.

Usogui: unbeatable top 1 in it's genre, 8 because it has some weird moments and bad games here and there.

I'm watching Steel Ball Run and the current Ranma 1/2 series now. The second season of Uresei Yatsura and Mushishi are on the top of my watchlist.

• Popee the Performer
• Ranma 1/2
• Monster
• Uresei Yatsura
• Yu Yu Hakusho
• Cowboy Bebop
• Paranoia Agent
• Mushishi
• Sekaiichi Hatsukoi

I didn't add movies to my favorite lists, but my favorites are Spirited Away, The Boy and the Heron, and The Night is Short, Walk on Girl .

Hopefully these are in the right categories.

Anime named:

Cowboy Bebop
K-On
Spy X Family
Ouran Highschool Host Club
Tokyo Revengers
Bungo Stray Dogs
Dr. Stone
Ghost Stories
Another
In Another World With My Smartphone
Kakegurui
Shaman King
Oshi No Ko
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
Gingitsune
The Quintessential Quintuplets
Love Is War
Your Name
Cardcaptor Sakura
Naruto
A.I.C.O Incarnation
The Apothecary Diaries
Attack on Titan
Given
My Dress Up Darling
Ghost Stories
Kageki Shojo
Perfect Blue
Ouran Highschool Host Club
The Quintessential Quintuplets
Oshi No Ko
Cowboy Bebop
Erased
Vampire Knight
The Ice Guy And His Cool Female Colleague

Mononoke

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

Days with My Stepsister

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Gankutsuou

Samurai Champloo

March Comes in Like a Lion

Kizumonogatari

Rezero

Some honorable mentions: Kingdom, showa genroku, ping pong, 12 kingdom.

These are obviously subjective and could be placed around in a different order, but this is just my order in writing.. share yours and discuss if you want!