So,i just saw the Ghost In The Shell MMO trailer,and i got really interest in the anime,mostly because it was font of inspiration for the Matrix movie.But,after going looking for more of it,i just perceived i never saw any anime,being some episodes of One Piece and Bleach the most i ever saw.So,guys,recommend me great animes,i'm open to any recommendation.
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Must watch animes to a newcomer ?
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TheDarkKnight774
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Cowboy Bebop is a great start
Personally I hate all the new animes because of their artstyles. Should start from the 90s and early 2000s animes first.
m_shortpants
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I haven't watched it but I really want to. I'm just waiting for the blu rays though.
I recently got into anime again and I'd recommend
FMA Brotherhood for a good plot and great characters
Gurren Lagann for over the top fun
Samurai Champloo
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well since you got this from the Ghost in the Shell MMO try watching the movies and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1st and 2nd Gig.
EightBitNate
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Cow Bebop and Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood are worth your time.
Livingskeletons
If I pulled that off, would you die?
darkwing-buck
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Berserk
Cowboy Bebop
Neon Genesis Evangelion (tv series)
hunter x hunter
Cowboy Bebop
Neon Genesis Evangelion (tv series)
hunter x hunter
bob_arctor
Tough_Smooth
Some quick faves:
Bubblegum Crisis original OVA
Dirty Pair original OVA
Vampire Princess Miyu original OVA
and a personal favorite:
Rose Of Versailles
Some more!
Giant Robo (LOVE THIS)
GunBuster (so good)
Bubblegum Crisis original OVA
Dirty Pair original OVA
Vampire Princess Miyu original OVA
and a personal favorite:
Rose Of Versailles
Some more!
Giant Robo (LOVE THIS)
GunBuster (so good)
MaschinenZimmer
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LOL, OP will hate you forever if he tries to watch ANYTHING on those lists. He wants something in the vein of Ghost in the Shell and you recommend him K-On - the movie.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
If OP has such narrow tastes then let him decide on whats pass-worthy but for the most part those that made top billing are pretty good. (Except Kill la Kill why is that there?)
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
Watch Vision of Escaflowne, gorgeous art style, great story, AMAZING music, it's got romance as well as action and medieval mechs so you're covered no matter what you're into. It's also only 26 episodes so it doesn't outstay it's welcome. Still one of my faves:
You need an anime with great action and story. My votes also go to Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. There are tons of other great ones but these two are the basics and a couple of the absolute best. The director of these shows, Shinichiro Watanabe, has a serious eye for pleasing both Japanese and western fans. I feel like Cowboy Bebop is more relatable to those in the West than to those in Japan to be honest.
If you're going to watch Bebop, do yourself a favor and watch the Bebop movie where it falls sequentially in the series. It takes place right after episode 22 and before episode 23. I feel like if you treat it like a normal but longer episode then you get more out of the ending of Bebop, but I'm not sure how popular that opinion would be with other fans.
My other recommendation would be to watch the NEW Evangelion movies. If you can pallet the old series then totally do that! But I find the newer movies(which tell the same story but quite a bit differently) to be faster paced with greater action sequences. Plus, the final movie isn't out yet so you'd get to watch some anime history unfold with everyone else once it comes out.
If you're going to watch Bebop, do yourself a favor and watch the Bebop movie where it falls sequentially in the series. It takes place right after episode 22 and before episode 23. I feel like if you treat it like a normal but longer episode then you get more out of the ending of Bebop, but I'm not sure how popular that opinion would be with other fans.
My other recommendation would be to watch the NEW Evangelion movies. If you can pallet the old series then totally do that! But I find the newer movies(which tell the same story but quite a bit differently) to be faster paced with greater action sequences. Plus, the final movie isn't out yet so you'd get to watch some anime history unfold with everyone else once it comes out.
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Also going for things kinda in a similar vein of The Matrix, Serial Experiments Lain would be good to check out.
nckillthegrimace
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He should watch only k-on.
MaschinenZimmer
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Hey, hey, I like K-On. In fact my first ban was because of K-On in a Sailor Moon thread, Gaf can't deal with my love for K-On, but that is another story. I'm just being realistic, OP would probability have waaaay more fun with stuff like Armitage III, Lily C.A.T. or Patlabor.
I heard reading every entry might be useful.
Nikodemos
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Inb4 Black Lagoon.
Oh, and you should watch Cowboy Bebop, Baccano! and Black Lagoon English-dubbed. The voicework is amazing.
Jormungand OTOH, I'm a bit iffy on. They really missed the mark on Koko and Jonah's voices. See whichever fits better, Japanese or English.
EDIT: Oh, and Spice and Wolf. Again, see whichever voices suit you best. I've seen it only in Japanese, so can't comment on the dub, but it's apparently pretty good as well.
Oh, and you should watch Cowboy Bebop, Baccano! and Black Lagoon English-dubbed. The voicework is amazing.
Jormungand OTOH, I'm a bit iffy on. They really missed the mark on Koko and Jonah's voices. See whichever fits better, Japanese or English.
EDIT: Oh, and Spice and Wolf. Again, see whichever voices suit you best. I've seen it only in Japanese, so can't comment on the dub, but it's apparently pretty good as well.
Spieler Eins
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Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo.
Shadowninja100
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If you're only going to watch one watch Brotherhood. But if you intend to watch both I would say that you should watch the original first. I feel like it adapts the beginning portion of the story better than Brotherhood.
All Ghibli Movies
Cowboy Bebop
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
Baccano
Steins;Gate
Evangelion + EoE
That should be good enough of a start, I haven't seen the original FMA so I can't recommend that but Brotherhood was a masterpiece. Brotherhood is the faithful adaptation, the original splits off from the manga about half way through. Some people might recommend the evangelion rebuild movies but after seeing them, you won't want to watch the original since they differ quite a lot so give the original tv a series a try and make sure to watch End of Evangelion afterwards.
Cowboy Bebop
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
Baccano
Steins;Gate
Evangelion + EoE
That should be good enough of a start, I haven't seen the original FMA so I can't recommend that but Brotherhood was a masterpiece. Brotherhood is the faithful adaptation, the original splits off from the manga about half way through. Some people might recommend the evangelion rebuild movies but after seeing them, you won't want to watch the original since they differ quite a lot so give the original tv a series a try and make sure to watch End of Evangelion afterwards.
Brotherhood is the faithful adaptation and the superior version.
Yeah this is a great start for most folks, very accessible. A show Fullmetal is an easy watch as well, I prefer the original over Brotherhood.
This is honestly the best answer for a newcomer. It is the peak of the medium.
Great show but it is extremely dry and slow paced. Nothing wrong with either of those if done right, but one have to really appreciate those elements in LotGH. If one is down with it, then it is one of the finest written shows in the medium. I really need to continue watching it. Stopped halfway.
SigmasonicX
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To explain, both are adaptations of the same source, but the former, FMA, was made before the source manga was complete or even really started its main plot, and thus creates its own ending. Brotherhood was an adaptation made as the source manga approached its end (though even then it only ended a month or so after the manga, which is crazy when you know about cartoon production times), and thus accurately adapted it. However, Brotherhood was made under the assumption that a large part of its audience would have already watched FMA, and thus goes through the events shared by both at a faster pace and in less detail than they deserved. Thus, people say that the first anime, FMA, handles those events better than Brotherhood, but the later events that Brotherhood adapts are generally considered more interesting than the path the first anime takes after it deviates from the manga.
For the sake of simplicity, though, I recommend just watching Brotherhood.
Anyway, one difficult thing about generally recommending anime is that it covers a huge variety of genres, so it's comparable to recommending books or movies without any genre being specified. For example, Fullmetal Alchemist is a young adult action adventure fantasy serialized series, Cowboy Bebop is an adult sci-fi episodic series that can adapt different genres in different episodes, Black Lagoon is basically an adult 80's action movie in episodic (in arcs) anime form, Death Note is a young adult murder drama serialized series, and Spice and Wolf is a young adult romantic medieval economics episodic series in arcs (yes, really).
WhiskerFrisker
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The lack of Code Geass recommendations is palpable. Watch Code Geass, Steins;Gate, Fate/Zero, Baka and Test (Both seasons. It's quite funny), and Mirai Nikki (Future Diary is the English name. Awesome opening and an interesting show.)
Seriously. I wasn't on Gaf at the time so I can't voice my complaints now. HxH at 8th place? Criminal.
Since you said you were open to any recommendation I just made a list of whatever came to my head lol. Not a comprehensive list, but I liked all these:
Sci-fi
-Ghost in the Shell: Arise
-Cowboy Bebop
-Puella Magi Madoka Magica (trust me just stick with it)
-Noein
-Summer Wars (film)
-Bokurano
-Serial Experiments Lain
Drama
-Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
-Anohana
-Kids on the Slope
-Millenium Actress (film)
-Haibane Renmei
-Tokyo Godfathers
-Jin-roh (film)
Fantasy Drama/Action
-Tekkon Kinknreet (film)
-Princess Mononoke (film)
-Escaflowne
-Noragami
-Fate Zero
-Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works
-Attack on Titan
-Monogatari Series
-Mononoke (series)
Cray Action
-Sword of the Stranger
-Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
-Kill la Kill
Comedy
-Nichijou
-And Yet the Town Moves
-Minami-ke
-Love Lab
Doesn't fit anywhere but watch this
-Girls und Panzer
I personally liked the manga of MONSTER better but I read it before watching, so you might not have that issue
It's a faithful adaptation though, if you're worried about deviations from the source material.
Sci-fi
-Ghost in the Shell: Arise
-Cowboy Bebop
-Puella Magi Madoka Magica (trust me just stick with it)
-Noein
-Summer Wars (film)
-Bokurano
-Serial Experiments Lain
Drama
-Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
-Anohana
-Kids on the Slope
-Millenium Actress (film)
-Haibane Renmei
-Tokyo Godfathers
-Jin-roh (film)
Fantasy Drama/Action
-Tekkon Kinknreet (film)
-Princess Mononoke (film)
-Escaflowne
-Noragami
-Fate Zero
-Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works
-Attack on Titan
-Monogatari Series
-Mononoke (series)
Cray Action
-Sword of the Stranger
-Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
-Kill la Kill
Comedy
-Nichijou
-And Yet the Town Moves
-Minami-ke
-Love Lab
Doesn't fit anywhere but watch this
-Girls und Panzer
I personally liked the manga of MONSTER better but I read it before watching, so you might not have that issue
It's a faithful adaptation though, if you're worried about deviations from the source material.
SigmasonicX
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Eh, for Code Geass, I like the show well enough, but it feels like anime fans don't quite realize how weird that show would be to someone new to anime. Remember that it prominently features mechs, a bizarrely extravagant high school, girls in improbably short skirts, silly school comedy, weird plot twists, and tons of fanservice, while still asking the audience to take it seriously.
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