Even if the show turned out to not be prescient at all, it would still be one of the top classics. Combined with the fact that it was, it's really something special.
Evangelion came out in 1995, Lain came out in 1998.
This category only exists in the minds of Westerners who were pirating shonen manga at the time. It's not the most popular anime in Japan at any point.
It's also funny Bleach made this list since it was frankly terribly written and not as popular as the other two. The author had no control over his story and would try to get out of plot holes by introducing another 20 characters every so often (he liked designing them but not writing them). And for some reason his main strength was fashion but then he moved the plot to a world where everyone wears the same plain black and white robes.
And then let’s finish the series by having their king, and all his powerful vassals, very blatantly fight only using swords.
Very consistent.
I found it became much more enjoyable when I decided to "finish" it (after ignoring it for a while) by watching every 5th episode. It was very rare that I missed any story elements because half of each episode was a recap of the recap of the recap from several episodes prior. Stupid completionist tendencies.
Avoid placing Americans as "westerners", because we the Europeans already finished Dragon Ball by 1994 for sure.
Hopefully there'll be more like that on the horizon. Maybe we're only going to get 1 - 3 per decade, though.