Anyone here watch Anime? If yes recommend some good Anime here :)

[Jodell88]

I definitely agree with everyone's suggestion of the two Ghost in the Shell series. Hell, even my avatar comes from it. Also, the tachikomas are some of my favourite characters in any anime.

 

[poofyhairguy]

If you are new to Anime watch Cowboy Bebop. It is by far the best series to start with.

 

[SagaLore]

Fullmetal Alchemist (the original, not that redone crap).

Death Note.

 

[gorobei]

Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
seirei no moribito
macross F
basquash
tenga toppa guren lagaan
monogatari bake, nisei, neko, neko2
katanagatari
flcl
diebuster
kyosougiga
gundam 00 s1 s2
Kyoukai_Senjou_no_Horizon(horizon in middle of nowhere) s1 s2
SAO
star driver
uchuu senkan yamato 2199
psychopass s1 (s2 coming)
robotic notes
steins gate
gatchaman crowds
bakuman
tsuitama
suisei no gargantia + petit gargantia
girls and panzer
akb0048 s1 s2
sakurasou no pet
scryed
big O (s1 only)
zoids shinseki zero
vandread

 

[Aikouka]

Fullmetal Alchemist (the original, not that redone crap).

Whaaaaat? That "redone crap" was actually done correctly. It doesn't need some terrible movie to add a terrible ending. :\

gundam 00 s1 s2

Eh... 00 is probably my second least favorite Gundam series of all time as the least is AGE, which holds the distinction of the only Gundam series that I refused to finish. ...and that's coming from a huge fan of mecha anime! Although, I think some of my dislike for 00 comes from the awful, awful movie.

star driver

I'm pretty sure I watched an episode of that, and it was pretty much sailor moon with dudes and robots. When your main character's alias is "Galactic Pretty Boy", you know things are probably not going to go well. Amusingly enough, it was Star Driver that almost kept me from watching Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince simply off the name alone.

bakuman

I finished this one off as a manga so I wouldn't have to wait for season 3, but you know what bugged me about it? I really just wanted one more chapter/episode. Consider me a sappy completionist, but

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the manga ended with the proposal after the anime aired. I want to see them living all happily ever after!

:'(

sakurasou no pet

Ugh. I like comedy, and awkward situations in anime can create some rather good comedy. Sakurasou definitely had a lot of that, but it was the story of

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the school planning on demolishing the Sakurasou dormitory

and

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the main character being a big, whiny baby about him failing and Shiina succeeding

that really screwed this series up. All you really ended up with was a bunch of worthless, groan-worthy drama.

vandread

Oh, man... I haven't seen Vandread in forever, but awkward situations + (light/suggestive) ecchi + harem + MECHA?!? That's a formula for success!! :awe:

 

[MontyAC]

Fullmetal Alchemist (the original, not that redone crap).

Death Note.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is better.

 

[gorobei]

Eh... 00 is probably my second least favorite Gundam series of all time as the least is AGE, which holds the distinction of the only Gundam series that I refused to finish. ...and that's coming from a huge fan of mecha anime! Although, I think some of my dislike for 00 comes from the awful, awful movie.

There is a spectrum of gundam series, whiney wishywashy protagonist children pilots throwing tantrums every other episode: 79/Z/ZZ/seed/age/etc on one end. More serious sci-fi military pilots on the other end: 0083/0080/00/08th/etc. With maybe unicorn and wing somewhere in the middle.

00 is distinctly harder core sci fi, way more futurist, and way more politically savvy. If nothing else it is 10x more original story wise than the half dozen re-tellings of the original 79 story. The movie is meh and skippable, but it doesnt invalidate what they accomplished with the 2 seasons.

I'm pretty sure I watched an episode of that, and it was pretty much sailor moon with dudes and robots. When your main character's alias is "Galactic Pretty Boy", you know things are probably not going to go well. Amusingly enough, it was Star Driver that almost kept me from watching Ginga Kikoutai Majestic Prince simply off the name alone.

Im not a fan of the CLAMP-ish school of character designs, but star driver is some of the best pure plot and character development in a while. The biggest issue is that most of the mecha action has to fall back on some repeated intro sequences but the mecha fights are less pivotal to the plot so short doesnt hurt. I originally was following this online streaming, but after 3 episodes i knew this was going into the archive.

I had a similar reaction to code geass, too much clampy. But i still acknowledge the geass still managed to turn the screws and ratchet up the stakes plot wise.

I finished this one off as a manga so I wouldn't have to wait for season 3, but you know what bugged me about it? I really just wanted one more chapter/episode. Consider me a sappy completionist, but

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the manga ended with the proposal after the anime aired. I want to see them living all happily ever after!

:'(

the series/manga was a massive meta autobiography for the actual mangaka. they cant really write an ending when they havent lived it yet.

Ugh. I like comedy, and awkward situations in anime can create some rather good comedy. Sakurasou definitely had a lot of that, but it was the story of

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the school planning on demolishing the Sakurasou dormitory

and

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the main character being a big, whiny baby about him failing and Shiina succeeding

that really screwed this series up. All you really ended up with was a bunch of worthless, groan-worthy drama.

The first half is actually very satisfying, the second half with the dorm fate and jealousy kinda undoes what they establish in the first. I havent gotten around to reading the LN translations, but like all LN the bulk of the humor is verbal staccatto gags so i tend to forgive them since they are relying on verbal wit.

If some of the shows were more comfortable with being only 13 eps, you would see fewer of these weaker back halfs. Guilty Crown 1-13 was great, the rest of the season was utter dreck.

 

[blankslate]

Yamato 2199 is an interesting remake of the 70's anime.

they've changed the story a bit and added new characters

I like it

As for other anime that already has been mentioned


I second

Cowboy Bebop

some of the Macross series

Ghost in the Shell (both the series and the movie)

The Ninja Scroll. the 1 and a half hour movie from the 90's not the series.

Gundam 0083

also in case not mentioned

Sword of the Stranger

 

[Zorander]

Also, hell the freak 'Episode: 143-219' 50+ episodes in a row? What kind of plot in that timeline? Do you know? How the hell can you have 50+ episodes in a row? It must be important right? no? :\

That must be the 2 year-long filler period between the original Naruto run (2002-2005) and the current Shippuden series (2007-current).

Speaking of which, I highly recommend the original run. It's very well made, well-paced, etc, with the hallmark of a quality show. The jutsus and their use in combat are very well fleshed. The story itself has plenty of pleasant surprises.

Then stop there and just read the manga from then on. The Shippuden series is painfully slow (pace- and mood-wise). Even when it's not in filler mode (which is frequent btw), it is nonetheless riddled with filler-style flashbacks. It doesn't help either that the combats have become more dragon ball-like (lots of blasts/explosions), with focus shifting away from actual techniques.

 

[Howard]

Fullmetal Alchemist (the original, not that redone crap).

Death Note.

Yeah, because the "redone crap" follows the original plotline and we all know original plotlines are terrible.

 

[fralexandr]

Yeah, because the "redone crap" follows the original plotline and we all know original plotlines are terrible.

My major gripe with brotherhood has pretty much nothing to do with plot and story . Brotherhood was longer, and didn't seem as polished because of it (it doesn't help that they "rush" through the 1st half/third, since it's largely covered by the original). There was a lot of silliness thrown into the more serious story and background. It seemed to lack some consistency in quality, where some of the episodes were great, and others were somewhat fillery (worse animation quality, superfluous feeling episodes, etc). They give away too much too early (probably since they're catering towards manga readers) which diminishes suspense/surprise. So, they do a mediocre job telling a better story (sort of like gunslinger girls season 1 -> 2).

 

[bbhaag]

I don't watch a lot of anime but I did enjoy The Secret World of Arrietty. Something about it made me smile.

 

[fralexandr]

I don't watch a lot of anime but I did enjoy The Secret World of Arrietty. Something about it made me smile.

I think studio ghibli does a good job entertaining the inner child (and also children).

 

[bbhaag]

Indeed. Worth watching if you have never seen it.

 

[mikeymikec]

I recommend all of GitS except Solid State Society, though I haven't seen any of the edited versions of the first film.

GitS: Innocence is a bit pretentious IMO but there are scenes in it that I absolutely love and I keep coming back to it

I'm surprised that people are recommending Evangelion. My wife grew up with it and loves it. It had me hooked until I realised that almost nothing was going to be explained and it was nothing more than an emo soap with a "monster of the week".

Studio Ghibli is worth watching out for but not all of their works were decent. I was surprised to spot that GitS: Innocence is a Studio Ghibli production though. Arriety was a little too generic (it's basically 'The Borrowers' as I understand it). I loved Spirited Away. Princess Mononoke is pretty decent as well.

If you haven't seen Akira then you should.

 

[videogames101]

Here are a couple of my favorite animes.

Gurren Lagann (most badass anime, period)

Neon Genesis: Evangelion (just be ready for some mindfuck)

Stein's Gate (modern setting allows the characters to develop really well)

Katanagatari (best ending in any anime)

 

[JoetheLion]

I feel that recommending a good anime to someone who prefers dumb shonnens is kind of a waste...

 

[xeledon20005]

Fullmetal Alchemist (the original, not that redone crap).

Death Note.

Although the brotherhood series I feel is not as good as the orignal the art is still overall better in brotherhood, and it is a nicely done adaption of the manga.

Death Note- I did like this series, but overall it just got stupid after like episode 20 and they wanted to make money on it more then have a decent storyline.

 

[dawp]

black lagoon
devil survivors
samurai girls & samurai bride
girls bravo

 

[Juddog]

Here are a couple of my favorite animes.

Gurren Lagann (most badass anime, period)

Neon Genesis: Evangelion (just be ready for some mindfuck)

Stein's Gate (modern setting allows the characters to develop really well)

Katanagatari (best ending in any anime)

My favorite part, very roughly translated, of Gurren Lagann was the "Big Bang attack - taste the fires of creation!" at the end. I've seen "Big Bang" attacks performed in comic books before, but this was the first I'd seen where it was performed in an anime.

 

[Aikouka]

Speaking of which, I highly recommend the original run. It's very well made, well-paced, etc, with the hallmark of a quality show. The jutsus and their use in combat are very well fleshed. The story itself has plenty of pleasant surprises.

My favorite part about the first series is the music. Even when I read the manga now, I still turn on music from the first OST. How can you beat reading a fight scene with some Strong and Strike or Raising Fighting Spirit playing!? Hint: There is no answer!

My favorite part, very roughly translated, of Gurren Lagann was the "Big Bang attack - taste the fires of creation!" at the end. I've seen "Big Bang" attacks performed in comic books before, but this was the first I'd seen where it was performed in an anime.

The end of Gurren Lagann was pretty much my least favorite part about the show. I mean... I enjoyed the absurd mockery of mecha anime, but the whole

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spiral vs. anti-spiral

aspect was just way too... stupid. I can imagine someone sitting there, "Ah, crap! We

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killed Lordgenome

too quickly! What are we going to do now?" "Well, we could have it so

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he was actually protecting the humans by keeping them locked underground away from the scanners of an evil alien consortium that thinks 'spirals' are too dangerous to the universe

?" "That's so damn ludicrous... I LOVE IT! We'll be the next Evangelion!"

Why does everyone try to become the next M. Night? Have they seen his recent movies!?

Death Note- I did like this series, but overall it just got stupid after like episode 20 and they wanted to make money on it more then have a decent storyline.

Given how everyone always recommends the series, I thought I was the only person that hated where Death Note went. :'( I started reading it back as a manga, and I really, really disliked the part where

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the Death Note fell into the hands of the corporation

as a means to keep the plot going. I took a peek at an episode listing, and that appears to occur in episode 17.

There is a spectrum of gundam series, whiney wishywashy protagonist children pilots throwing tantrums every other episode: 79/Z/ZZ/seed/age/etc on one end. More serious sci-fi military pilots on the other end: 0083/0080/00/08th/etc. With maybe unicorn and wing somewhere in the middle.

I normally just separate Gundam series into the age monickers (i.e. AC and UC), which tends to cover most of that pretty well. Although, what bothered me the most about AGE was that the characters just fell into one-dimensional stereotypes, which got significantly worse as they introduced the last generation of the Asuno family. Wing sort of holds a special place for me... mostly because it was the first Gundam series that I ever saw, but other than the usual AC vs. UC complaints that I see, it did just about everything right... including the music. I really like Wing's soundtrack. :$

00 is distinctly harder core sci fi, way more futurist, and way more politically savvy. If nothing else it is 10x more original story wise than the half dozen re-tellings of the original 79 story. The movie is meh and skippable, but it doesnt invalidate what they accomplished with the 2 seasons.

What bothered me the most about 00 was the descent into the absurd, which tends to be a problem that I have with a lot of anime these days. I was fine with season one and a good portion of season two, but once they tossed in the heavy involvement of

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Ribbons and the innovators

, I couldn't help but groan!

Im not a fan of the CLAMP-ish school of character designs, but star driver is some of the best pure plot and character development in a while. The biggest issue is that most of the mecha action has to fall back on some repeated intro sequences but the mecha fights are less pivotal to the plot so short doesnt hurt. I originally was following this online streaming, but after 3 episodes i knew this was going into the archive.

Hmm I guess I can check it out again and try and ignore the silliness of the Ginga Bishounen. It hurts to even think about it.

I had a similar reaction to code geass, too much clampy. But i still acknowledge the geass still managed to turn the screws and ratchet up the stakes plot wise.

My only problem with Code Geass is that it's too long. They reference chess a lot in the series, and the whole show practically feels like a chess match with one side randomly gaining the upper hand to subsequently lose it in a well-crafted play. That's fun to see a few times, but that's pretty much what happens every 3-5 episodes... out of 52. Another negative about it is that the whole

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king trying to "kill God" thing

was a bit silly and ended up being more filler than anything given the resulting direction of the show.

The first half is actually very satisfying, the second half with the dorm fate and jealousy kinda undoes what they establish in the first. I havent gotten around to reading the LN translations, but like all LN the bulk of the humor is verbal staccatto gags so i tend to forgive them since they are relying on verbal wit.

If some of the shows were more comfortable with being only 13 eps, you would see fewer of these weaker back halfs. Guilty Crown 1-13 was great, the rest of the season was utter dreck.

I'm not sure if the show really needs to be halved, but rather, the storyline needs to remain somewhat consistent or at least be written better. I think they could have easily reworked the failure/jealousy bit to make it far better overall. Hell, I would have cheered if someone just slapped him and said, "Grow the hell up!" They all just sit there enabling him with those silly temper tantrums. :|

 

[SaurusX]

No one has mentioned what is quite possibly the greatest anime ever (at least if you throw out the last filler arc): RUROUNI KENSHIN

 

[Aikouka]

No one has mentioned what is quite possibly the greatest anime ever (at least if you throw out the last filler arc): RUROUNI KENSHIN

You could probably just watch only the Kyoto Arc and be fine. The first part is really just a ton of elongated character introductions, and by elongated, I mean that it spans around 25 episodes. Everything past the Kyoto Arc is all filler including the Amakusa Shogou part. One other thing is that Kenshin also has really good music!

If you want to see what's supposed to happen after Kyoto, you have to watch the Seisouhen movie. They also recently released a live action Kenshin movie, but meh... I don't think it was that good. The movie mixes Jin-e and Kanryu together, but it's most grievous act was how it completely ignored the Oniwabanshu! Of course, I may be a bit biased given that Aoshi is my favorite character from Kenshin.

EDIT:

They've also recently released sort of reworks of the Kyoto Arc, but they aren't nearly as good as the original series. That's understandable though as they're more like movies, so everything is abbreviated.

 

[SaurusX]

You could probably just watch only the Kyoto Arc and be fine. The first part is really just a ton of elongated character introductions, and by elongated, I mean that it spans around 25 episodes. Everything past the Kyoto Arc is all filler including the Amakusa Shogou part. One other thing is that Kenshin also has really good music!

If you want to see what's supposed to happen after Kyoto, you have to watch the Seisouhen movie. They also recently released a live action Kenshin movie, but meh... I don't think it was that good. The movie mixes Jin-e and Kanryu together, but it's most grievous act was how it completely ignored the Oniwabanshu! Of course, I may be a bit biased given that Aoshi is my favorite character from Kenshin.

I completely agree with everything you wrote. When Kenshin is good, though, it's really good. I also liked the live action movie. The fight scenes (especially Kenshin versus the blonde ninja) were really well done.

 

[SaurusX]

EDIT:

They've also recently released sort of reworks of the Kyoto Arc, but they aren't nearly as good as the original series. That's understandable though as they're more like movies, so everything is abbreviated.

I saw the first one of the these and was confused as to why they were even made.

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In the rework it's Shishio who kills Usui instead of Saito.