What Anime Should I Watch?

[Mickey Mouse]

As I told Luffy in the chatbox, my experience with anime is limited. I will take any recommendations you people have since you are much more experienced with it than me.

For reference, I have seen all of Dragonball Z and Dragonball GT, about half of Dragonball, the good parts of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, and a movie called Perfect Blue. I've seen an episode or two of other ones, but I'm not going to include those because yeah. So I would love recommendations because the above is literally all I have seen.

To Watch

[Strazio Rockwell]

Yo aight lemme recommend my favorite anime. Deadman Wonderland. It is a bit of a brutal anime, but the story is fantastic and all the characters are interesting. The only issue with it is that it got the Firefly treatment, there is only one season that covers two arcs whereas the manga covers four arcs. If you're down to read some manga I would recommend reading it because it has one of the most unique and amazing sotries I've ever experienced. Easily the best manga I've read and by extension the best anime I've watched. If you do watch it, watch until episode four because that is the episode that everyone gets hooked into the series on. I cannot recommend this series enough, simply amazing.

Lemme know if you watch it and what you think

Lemme know what you think!

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I had to go through FUnimation's website to watch it online, but I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find it.

[Gilgamesh]

Just watched Parasyte-Epic

[Trixie]

Claymore

[Gilgamesh]

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[Belle]

For light comedy and a lot of silly martial arts action, try Ranma 1/2. It's classic, probably Rumiko Takahashi's most well-known work.

For sports, you're kind of spoiled for choice. Hajime no Ippo is a boxing series that has been around longer than most people on this site have been alive. The anime is very short compared to the manga, but it captures those high points very well. I've never watched Prince of Tennis, but it's apparently also pretty good, and insane with how they portray some of the moves.

For Shonen series, I'd be remiss if I didn't recommend One Piece. It's simply a fantastic anime. The only minor critique I can level at it is that it takes a while to get started. I feel that the series doesn't really get its formula going until Luffy has four crewmates, which takes about twenty episodes. Arlong Park is the first big arc, at episode 30. I wouldn't call the series bad before then, it's just that there's a lot more comedic potential once there's more characters to play off of. In the scope of things, though, that's an extremely minor quibble. The anime is something like 700 episodes long at this point and it's been a fucking blast. I really can't recommend it enough.

If you know anything about magical girl shows, Madoka is pretty cool. It's a series that deconstructs the tropes of the genre and asks: what would creatures that press little girls into fighting monsters really be like? What if violence wasn't taboo, but a fact of magical girl life? There's all kinds of dark twists and turns in this story, and at just 12 episodes long, it's a modest investment of one's time for what is one of the best stories to come out of Japan in years. Only advice I can offer is that you should watch to the end of episode 3 before making a judgment. That candy-coating opening that might make you slightly uncomfortable to watch at points because of how cliche it is? That's deliberate.

[Blackfire]

YuYu Hakusho
Bleach
Naruto
One Piece

[Monkey D. Luffy]

YuYu Hakusho
Bleach
Naruto
One Piece

^

Also:

Hunter x Hunter
Attack on Titan
Blue Gender (Mature)
Flame of Recca (Manga > Anime)
Death Note
World Trigger (New)
Toriko
Hellsing (Mature)
Trigun
Rurouni Kenshin
Full Metal Alchemist (2003 Series or Brotherhood Series)
Claymore (Manga > Anime)
Soul Eater
Psyren
S-Cry-Ed
Basilisk (Mature)
Outlaw Star
InuYasha
Fairy Tail
Magi
Black Cat
Blue Exorcist
G Gundam
Zoids
Buso Renkin
Shaman King (Manga > Anime)
Samurai Champloo
FLCL (For the Lulz)

. . . ahem, just to name a few. :omnip:

[Lubbock]

Akame ga Kill!...

Just do it

[Blackfire]

YuYu Hakusho
Bleach
Naruto
One Piece

^

Also:

Hunter x Hunter
Attack on Titan
Blue Gender (Mature)
Flame of Recca (Manga > Anime)
Death Note
World Trigger (New)
Toriko
Hellsing (Mature)
Trigun
Rurouni Kenshin
Full Metal Alchemist (2003 Series or Brotherhood Series)
Claymore (Manga > Anime)
Soul Eater
Psyren
S-Cry-Ed
Basilisk (Mature)
Outlaw Star
InuYasha
Fairy Tail
Magi
Black Cat
Blue Exorcist
G Gundam
Zoids
Buso Renkin
Shaman King (Manga > Anime)
Samurai Champloo
FLCL (For the Lulz)

. . . ahem, just to name a few. :omnip:

In other words. Luffy's your 'go to' anime guide.

[Trixie]

Ikkitousen Xtreme Xecutor

I'm episode 3. So good.

[Jack Frost]

If you are looking for a movie, I suggest howl's moving castle

[Guu]

Hare+Guu, if you want to laugh/be horrified

[Dean Winchester]

These are some of the ones I remember a friend making me watch that I liked.

Psycho Pass
Cowboy Bebop
Durarara
Ben-to
Bakemonogatari
Stiens;Gate
C the money of soul and possibility control
Black Lagoon
Toppa tengen gurren lagann


I also second Trigun. The other one I liked was Sword Art Online, but that seems to be hit or miss with people.

[Gildarts]

These are some of the ones I remember a friend making me watch that I liked.

Psycho Pass
Cowboy Bebop
Durarara
Ben-to
Bakemonogatari
Stiens;Gate
C the money of soul and possibility control
Black Lagoon
Toppa tengen gurren lagann


I also second Trigun. The other one I liked was Sword Art Online, but that seems to be hit or miss with people.

Dean you have some excellent taste!

[Magus]

Death Note is the only anime I could ever stomach from start to finish. Pure excellence. Not just good 'for an anime' but really, genuinely, extremely good, period.

[Proto Man]

Gantz
Berserk
Tenchi Muyo
Cowboy Bebop