The 20 best TV ANIME of 2004

Teens on Tatsumiya Island live normal lives until Festum aliens arrive to assimilate humanity. Their island becomes a military base, and they discover only they can pilot Fafner robots humanity's sole defense.

Fuu, a waitress who works in a teahouse, rescues two master swordsmen, Mugen and Jin, from their execution to help her find the "samurai who smells of sunflowers."

Azuma Kazuma isn't terribly clever, but he's got a good heart and great skill - at baking. Since childhood, he's been on a quest to create the perfect bread to represent Japan internationally. Now, he seeks to enter the famous bakery Pantasia, in hopes of reaching his goal.

Two years after a war, tensions rise again. Shinn, whose family died, is haunted. Athrun tries to protect Cagalli while preventing conflict as ZAFT's new mobile suits are stolen.

After their deaths, two teens are transported to an apartment with an ominous black sphere and must participate in a gory alien-hunting "game."

It's a sweet but at the same time tear jerking story. It teaches you how the world can be hard and ugly at times but then again it could still be beautiful. It starts off with a high school student Takeru who works part time as a delievery boy. During one of his deliveries, he saw a bright light passing him and instantly followed it which led him to a strange forest. Confused but intrigued, he found a beautiful girl coming out from a glowing cocoon, calling herself "Hikari." While Takeru was profusely blushing because of Hikari was nude, a strange monster suddenly showed up and immediately attacked the two. Both Takeru and Hikari demonstrated their true power they didn't even know they had. They go through many hardships together, work together, rely on each other, meet some good and bad friends along the way. And in the end, all this anime has to say is "this world is ugly yet beautiful." Join them in this heart warming, tear jerking, splendid anime. For life may he hard at times, you just have to be strong but dont seal your emotions away for this world at times can also he beautiful and you realize then the good things. You might be lost about your place in the world, like Takeru, but you will meet people along and think Maybe I was born to meet this one person. And thats when you will realize the ugly things in this world but at the same time the good things. For this world really is ugly yet beautiful.

In the distant future, Earth is mostly submerged in ocean, with only small islands and floating cities remaining. Despite her exceptional skills and top grades, 15-year-old Maia Mizuki is rejected by the prestigious Ocean Agency.

The misadventures of the close-knit members of a small anime/manga club on a college campus.

Creatures called the Oni have attacked the planet earth, so a scientist creates three mecha robots. The strongest of these robots is called Getter Robo, which three men pilot it, a martial artist, criminal leader and a monk.

A boy wakes up one day to find that his hand has been replaced by a miniature version of a girl who has a crush on him.

Tenma, a brilliant neurosurgeon with a promising future, risks his career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy. The boy, now a charismatic young man, reappears 9 years later in the midst of a string of unusual serial murders.

Monkey Turn is a sports anime based around professional speed boat racing. The anime's protagonist, Tadano Kenji, is too short to follow his dream of becoming a professional baseball player, but his baseball coach recommends him to boat racing. One day Tadano-san unexpectedly meets his old girlfriend and they exchange promises: in return for her being faithful to him, he is charged with becoming Japan's best racer within three years. The eponymous Monkey Turn is a boat maneuver Kenji-san thought up while visiting his girlfriend. The Monkey Turn gives Kenji quite the advantage over other boaters, but is it enough for him become the best?

Honda Goro, son of a renowned baseball player, dreams of becoming the world's best pitcher. Despite hardships, he relentlessly pursues his goal.

This anime is about a family called Mutsu they use their fists to fight and there three heroes Mutsu Yakmu and his son Takto and Mutsu Izumi

Dandoh is a teen boy who gets entered into a golf tournament.

A young high schooler is in love with an oblivious classmate; a delinquent classmate is in love with her. Both struggle to confess their feelings and their antics lead to crazy situations.

High school student Ichigo Kurosaki, who has the ability to see ghosts, gains soul reaper powers from Rukia Kuchiki and sets out to save the world from "Hollows".

An alien frog plotting the conquest of Earth is forced to work out of a not-so-typical Japanese household.

The Japanese AEGIS Destroyer "Mirai" of the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force is on its way to Pearl Harbor for training missions when it's suddenly engulfed in a strange electrical storm.

An ongoing war takes place at Toudou Academy, where all the students and teachers are equipped in martial arts combat.