It's not easy to parody something that already feels like it's parodying something else. But that's what's great about anime. It isn't a parody. Despite the constant feeling that someone out there is just messing with you, anime is nothing more than storytelling. If the story is being told by a mental patient on an acid trip, shouting through a mechanical larynx in a wind tunnel.

• 10.

  Sailor Moon Is Hot

  When exactly does one cross the line from cute innocent into slutty temptress? And why does nobody in Japan seem to even be aware that a line exists?
• 9.

  Queen Beryl Is Hot

  Note to guys: avoid wearing full body stockings until you've lost all ability to function sexually. Really, even then...
• 8.

  InuYasha

  This guy makes faking an interest in Inuyasha look easy. And believe you me, even when it's a job requirement, that is not easy at all.
• 7.

  Tentacle Monster’s First Love

  Gosh, maybe this whole tentacle monster pornography thing is just another boy-meets-girl story, and not the catalyst for dangerous, sociopathic behavior that we've all reasonably assumed it to be.
• 6.

  Spring of the Drowned Girl

  Wait, wait, wait. Okay, even in a nerd's fantasy, hot girls in a shower should not know the plot device of Ranma Nibun-no-Ichi. For that matter, neither should we.

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