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Anime Insider’s Top 10 Action-Adventure Anime:

Feel That? It’s Your Heart Pounding…

#10 Nadia, Secret of Blue Water

A Victorian inventor teams up with the daughter of an Extraordinary Gentleman on the run from evil thieves, in an action-adventure that was years ahead of its time. Where else will you find Evangelion’s Hideaki Anno directing an original idea from Jules Verne, filtered through Hayao Miyazaki himself? Submarine adventure, treasure hunting and Atlantis, the Lost Empire — well before Disney “thought up” its movie. [ADV]

#9 Ninja Scroll

For super-fast samurai action, you can’t beat Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s martial arts masterpiece, with slashing blades, nefarious ninja and just a dash of the supernatural. Not for the fainthearted, this cranks the action up to eleven with gory sword fights drenched in blood and entrails. Look out, for numerous homages to the action films of yesteryear, and some of the Madhouse studio’s best animation. [Manga Entertainment]

#8 Read or Die

Surreal bespectacled heroism as a prim secret agent from the British Library uses her magical power over paper to fight evil bookworms intent on taking over the world. Giant grasshoppers may also be involved. It’s a smart comedy that doesn’t scrimp on the chaotic battle set pieces. Practical magic as a bunch of Japanese historical figures cause trouble — like Lupin with librarians. [Manga Entertainment]

#7 Dragon ball

It’s an action-fantasy smackdown as monkey-boy Son Goku goes in search of the seven mythical ball that will grant any wish, in the first of a multi-story-arc fightfest that just won’t give up. With battles that can last for up to three whole episodes, this is a truly endless quest, with plenty of humor along the way, as well as demons, ghosts and, most of all, girls. [FUNimation]

#6 Lupin the 3rd

Anime’s very own crime caper, as international master thief Lupin steals anything he wants, including jewels, lost treasures and girls, lots and lots of girls. With a retro style courtesy of its 1960s origin, this old-school classic has a newfound trendiness, and a wisecracking, smooth-talking anarchist hero who can out-suave James Bond, outsmart the cops and charm his way out of any situation. Cohorts Jigen and Goemon, a sharpshooter and a samurai, round out his posse. A life of crime never looked like so much fun. [Geneon]

#5 Trigun

A gunslinger renowned far and wide as the Humanoid Typhoon joins together with two Insurance girls, shoots and sweet talks his way across a desert planet in anime’s sci-fi answer to the Wild West. Enough collateral damage to rival The Dirty Pair, laughs aplenty and the kind of gunplay John Woo dreams about. Bounty hunting from the point of view of the hunted, with a hero who tries not to kill anyone! [Geneon]

#4 Dragon Ball Z

When the family business is destroying the Earth, it’s gonna piss the relatives off if you forget to do it. Powerful super-warrior Goku has to team up with his greatest enemy to rescue his son from his long-lost brother. And that’s going to involve a lot of earth-shattering fights (literally), in the kick-ass anime that makes Street Fighter look like Teletubbies. [FUNimation]

#3 Rurouni Kenshin

He’s the original Last Samurai, down on his luck after the fall of the shogun, with a past that keeps trying to catch up with him in the form of vengeful warriors. Throw in a love interest whose father ran a martial arts school, a boyish pickpocket and a guy with an unreasonably large sword, and you’ve got a moody, mean anime that has picked up one of the biggest followings in fandom. [Media Blasters]

#2 Yuu Yuu Hakusho

A.k.a. Poltergeist Report, X-Files meets Dragon Ball Z, as the ghost of the school’s toughest pink is recruited by the Spirit Realm to fight paranormal crime. With 112 episodes and a new haunting every week, this is an adventure series steeped in Asian myth and magic, with sorcerous combat between the inhabitants of the human, spirit, and demon worlds. [FUNimation]

#1 Inuyasha

Time-traveling schoolgirl Kagome ends up in feudal Japan with a bickering half-demon on a quest for a sacred jewel. Fast-paced action with a touch of romance and a good slap of comedy, this tale is also the truest to the art style of Rumiko Takahashi — see, there are some rewards for being anime’s golden girl. Inuyasha is arguably Takahashi at her peak, incorporating the best elements from her past work. [Viz]

Reference: Anime Insider, Issue #11 – January, 2004.