It's always going to be Cowboy Bebop for me but one less people have watched that is absolutely hilarious is Detroit Metal City.
Same here after all these years and a whole slew of anime. Haven't seen Detroit Metal City, tho. Will check it out.
Death Note was my first non-Toonami anime (dbz/voltron/etc). It's the only anime I could get my wife to check out. Truly awesome. I was 20 when I first watched it and thought Light was awesome. Watching it now 16 years later and man does it hit different. I now view Light as a complete psychopath and actively root against him. Love that my view of the characters is a complete 180 from my early years.
Legend of Vox Machina is freaking incredible and is probably my most re-watched "anime".
yes, Death note is truly awesome but I quit watching if after L's death. I really hated Light from the beginning and loved the character of L. when after killing L Light goes to L's grave and he laughed at his grave it was painful to watch it was a very dark scene.
One Punch Man as a deconstruction of an entire genre and dissection what occurs after the achieving power storyline common in so many shows.
One punch man is super interesting to me. It takes the shounen genre and turns it on its head. How can the main character possibly improve, when they are already the strongest in the whole universe? Well, turns out raw strength is not all that matters. And OPM is a funny way of looking at this conundrum our society has prepared for young men. Definitely one of my favorites as well.
Much less popular than most: Trigun Check it out and thank me later.
Trigun is a fucking classic. I need to start Trigun Stampede and see how that is... I'm skeptical, but it deserves a shot.
Probably Cowboy Bebop.
I liked S1 of Darker Than Black but S2 was very meh.
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
But then I'm a sucker for cyberpunk.
Serial Experiments Lain is also great anime cyberpunk.
Dragonball: if you're a millennial you either unironically tried to shoot a KameHameHa once or you're lying
Fusion dancer checking in.
Tried with my besties but his power level was much higher than mine and didn't work
I would recommend Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Madoka Magica, as well as Planetes if you’re into sci-fi. Girls Und Panzer is super fun as well.
Elfen Lied
Dr. Stone. It's not for everyone, but if you're into STEM, it's probably the closest you'll get to media accurately portraying science and technology.
It also puts into perspective just how much knowledge, expertise, and experience went into basically everything that we take for granted today. Makes you at least a bit hopeful for the future of humanity
Dr Stone had some really great moments and I enjoyed it greatly. I finished the manga, and I'll say at some point most of the science kinda goes out the window as far as them explaining stuff, and people seemed split on if they liked or hated the ending. Was good overall, but kind of lost some of the charm for me when they started building modern tech.
The biggest tragedy of the anime vs the Manga is the art. Boichii is fucking world renowned for how he draws anatomy and it's a huge focal point in his works and they just missed the whole mark there. Reminds me of how they fucked up junji itos works too. If anyone is interested in actual good low budget animations check out komicant communicate, they do so much with so little that you don't realize it's lower budget.
I'm conflicted when it comes to mine so I'm just going to throw a few out. It'd take me forever to make a definite choice:
Gotta be the first half of Death Note, before that one guy dies, trying not to spoil it lol but if you know you know
Steins:Gate - best Story
OPM S1 - most hype animations ive seen in any anime
Grand Blue - Absolutely hilarious comedy
FLCL, OPM, Bebop, GITS, Macross.
FLCL has to be watched multiple times. Once to enjoy the ride, again to figure out what was going on the first time, a third time to connect all the dots and realize how deep it actually is, and a 4th time to spot all the Easter eggs.
Steins;Gate definitely
When I saw the post title, I was going to say One Piece. I checked out some random episodes years ago, and it was too weird just jumping in the middle (where they met Chopper at the time) so I gave up on it, and then it got too big to get into. My friends finally pressured me into picking it up, and I read the manga in about 6 months and now I'm 3/4 through the anime and love it so much after over 20 years of anime watching. It's just such a fun world and I love all the characters, good and bad alike. How it's still so exciting after all this time is amazing and it's so awesome that all the plotlines keep intersecting like it's been planned out all along.
Since we've already got that one checked off, I love Steins' Gate as a sci fi fan. Go in blind for the best experience.
Gintama is amazing, but it starts pretty slow and doesn't seem like it's going anywhere, but then you really get hooked on the characters and the world like with One Piece. Eventually though, it turns into something HUGE and it's like it's gradually evolved into something epic. It's got a ton of anime/manga references, which will make it even funnier once you've seen more shonen stuff. I love it, but it's totally not a show for everyone, but I watched it all through Covid lockdown and it was one of the best rides of my life. It's One Piece-ish, but in a very smartass way. They break the fourth wall, make fun of you for watching, there's many disgusting bits, the reuse animation on purpose, the characters are totally insane. Replace One Piece's pirates with aliens, the MC is a mix of Luffy and Zoro, and instead of searching for a treasure, they're fighting an epic space war.
your friend is a legend for pushing you to watch One Piece. It's a great anime and Oda really made this anime the best anime. I don't know that you have caught up to recent manga chapter so I won't give you any spoilers but I want to tell you so much about what happened in the story.
I didn't watch Gintama but I have seen reels on instagram of this anime. It's looks really fun to watch. I will definitely start watching it after some time. In instagram reels I see different anime references like dbz, bleach, one piece, naruto etc.
Have you watched jujutsu kaisen? what are your opinions about it? I haven't read it yet but It seems cool
I'm totally caught up on the OP manga. I'm at the end of Dressrosa in the anime.
If you know enough to get those Gintama references, you should be good to go. The first like 40ish episodes (up until the first movie) it's pretty much a Seinfeld show-about-nothing type of thing, but it sets you up with many of the huge cast of reoccurring characters and sets the baseline for all to come. By the last few seasons though you won't recognize anyone as you have so much backstory to everything going on and their mundane adventures of trying to afford their next meal have scaled up so slowly to a space epic. You really grow with them all so much along the way, and I feel the world is even more fleshed out than One Piece if you can imagine. If you know some basics of Japanese history in regard to them losing their isolation with outside countries and some basic shogun/samurai/shinsengumi history you will get some of the deeper and IRL cultural references as well. Some 10 minute Youtube videos will give you more than enough. Some characters are historical figures, parodies of course, but knowing that they were real people will make it funnier as well. I wouldn't call this historical fiction at all, but a very light alternate history wouldn't be inaccurate.
I watched season 1 of JJK, liked it enough to pick up the manga, but dropped both. I'm in my 40's now, so it has to be a standout shonen to get me into it at this point. It just felt like it went more teen than adult to me as it went on. I dropped it for Chainsaw Man and I stick by that decision.
That reminded me, I was going to say Steins' Gate is seinen so it's directed more to adults, and that reminded me of another awesome and underrated show: Golden Kamuy! It follows and Ainu girl (aboriginal Japanese) and an ex-soldier on a treasure hunt where the map is tattooed on vicious killer escaped prisoners! It is very much historical fiction, but full of gags and comedy, but you learn a lot about the Ainu people which I though was outstanding stuff I had never heard of. The story was awesome too. Lots of alliance shifting and backstabbing and plots, and nice brutal combat scenes and some great villains! If you want something more adult but still with juvenile humor (nudity jokes, poop jokes, penis jokes) this is what you want. English dub is great too IMO, that's the one I watched. It was the first manga I read because I couldnt wait to find out what happened next. Amazing storytelling and historical research. If you read the manga, each ends with notes going over the real history of the people and places in that chapter. It even earned a museum tour near the end of its run!
AKIRA and the stuff by Hayao Miyazaki, like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Nausicaä. Can't really decide between those. Most other anime look like cheap quality productions to me in comparison.
Toradora!
then I started watching blich and it was good.
Bleach?
oh, yes. my bad. :D
I have a lot of favorites, I'll just leave a short list here.
There's no "best", just the ones you like more.
If you're looking for stuff to watch, you can't go wrong with Dragon Balls or Saint Seiya. Or Ranma ½.
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 slaps so hard
Cased Closed/Detective Conan is by far my favourite anime, which is even older than me. But is far from the best for many, many reasons. I'd say FMA Brotherhood is the one i could say it's the best. And i'm currently watching Your Lie in April, which, in the episodes i've watched so far, i find awesome and it will probably end up in very close to FMAB.
My absolute favourite is definitely The Ancient Magus' Bride but close second and third would be Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke.
Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Feels like good old Asimov could have written it. The remake is also pretty good so far.
Samurai champloo is a classic and contributed a ton to anime style, but maybe doesn't hit as hard with plot as more recent creations. Fun and campy meets dark and gritty
Inuyasha is another classic feudal Japan and magic environment
May as well mention Afro Samurai if I'm gonna have a string of feudal Japan anime
Most people look like they mentioned Cowboy bebop already
I'm a huge Neon Genesis Evangelion fan, but originally watched it in the early 2000's as a teenager with divorced parents so there's probably a big nostalgia factor
I absolutely loved cyberpunk edgerunners, but it's only 10 episodes (watched this probably 5x already)
The animated witcher movie + Castlevania (not nocturne though) were really good.
Arcane + DOTA I found to be really enjoyable as well.
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