It's always going to be Cowboy Bebop for me but one less people have watched that is absolutely hilarious is Detroit Metal City.
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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".
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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.
OPM is so refreshing. In other animes, it's stressful to watch sometimes even though you know the main character is going win in the end but with OPM, it's a fun ride the whole way through.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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
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:
- Code Geass: Ridiculous plot and Lelouch is such a well written character
- Initial D: I love cars, the soundtrack, and the added dynamic of relationships on top of racing and dreams.
- FLCL: Soundtrack, animation, and how it makes 0 sense as a plot device
- Vinland Saga: Season 2 (and the Vinland Arc in the manga)
- Samurai Champloo: I like hip-hop, cool samurai, and long journeys. The ending was one of my favorites in any anime because of how simple it was
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
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
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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.
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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.
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Steins;Gate definitely
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!
I have a lot of favorites, I'll just leave a short list here.
- Steins Gate
- Jojo's
- Chainsaw Man
- One punch man
- Solo leveling
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Space Battleship Yamato 2199 slaps so hard
- Violet Evergarden
- Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken
- Overlord
- Code Geass
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.
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.
Akame ga Kill. Totally not what I was expecting.
Editing to add: STAY AWAY FROM BEASTARS.
My favorite is Hunter x Hunter. I love the explanation of their powers and growth. The way things are thought through and broken down is so cool. The plot is full of intrigue and surprises. And it's a really fun world to get lost in.
My absolute favourite is definitely The Ancient Magus' Bride but close second and third would be Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke.
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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Sailor Moon and Ronin Warriors! The former sparked my love of short-haired pixie cuts on women (Sailor Mercury, I think) and the latter sparked my love of redemption arch in storytelling!
(In know these are not the type of anime referenced in the question, but these were my first experiences with anime and stick with me like my first lay.
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