Animes Seen and Recommended

[Sain4847]

Well, after recently watching and reading the Great Teacher Onizaku series, awesome by the way, I was wondering about what the other members have watched and what they recommend.

This thread is to discuss all anime, not just those being released on Blu-Ray.

[Batman1980]

The plural of anime IS anime.
Death Note
Dragon Ball Z
Robotech
Inuyasha
Yu Yu Hakusho
Gunbuster and Die Buster
Ronin Warriors
To name a few.

[deckardp]

Death Note
Bleach
Shigurui: Death Frenzy
Samurai 7
just to name a few.

[Rik1138]

Death Note definitely... Even the live action movies are great...

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Gurren Lagann

And some 'must watch' movies:
Akira

ANY film by Miyazaki:
Nausicaa
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle

And these 3, which are a little more kid-oriented, but still great:
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (coming out in theaters this month I think, in the U.S.)

Naturally, for every 10 listed, there's 100 I didn't mention... Generally, if you like some anime, you will like a lot of anime, it just depends on the genres you are interested in...

Rik

[iori]

Gundam is all I pretty much watch, too many different series to list.
Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
Char's Counterattack
Gundam F91
Gundam Wing
and Gundam 00 are some of my favs.



Tried to watch Neon Genesis but the characters were to annoying.

[Sagacious Koreo]

Akira
Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2 & series and Solid State Society (Pretty much anything to do with Ghost in the Shell)
Patlabor 1 & 2
Sword of the Stranger
Tokyo Godfathers
Paprika
Millenium Actress
Steamboy
Cowboy Bebop (Movie and series0
Samurai Champloo
Anything by Studio Ghibli

That'll do for now.

[Batman1980]

Oh right
Final Fantasy(both movies)
Appleseed(both movies)
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Samurai Champloo
Gantz

[Elandyll]

Gundam 0083 Stardust Memories (series of OAVs) is still amongst my all time tops

As per Evangelion, you have to give it a chance for a while.
At first, it's very annoying, then it gets better, then they are really annoying again, but by then you have learned to love them with the annoyances
Overall I think (like countless others) that the series was a landmark in anime TV series (like Akira was for Anime movies), but it is not a given that everybody will like it.

Loved Eureka 7 recently, and in the classics I'd put Ghost in the Shell & Lodoss Wars (awful animation but the story & design are great, if generic, specially for fans of D&D).
Miyazaki movies are a no brainer (can't wait to see Ponyo), but the Satoshi Kon ones are really good too (Perfect Blue, Paprika) and I'm a big fan of Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor, Patlabor 2, The Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence).

Recently, I have re-immersed myself in Macrosss (relabelled and re-edited as Robotech in the US) thanks to Macross Frontier, but Macross Plus & Zero are definitely to check out too.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Elandyll

Gundam 0083 Stardust Memories (series of OAVs) is still amongst my all time tops

As per Evangelion, you have to give it a chance for a while.
At first, it's very annoying, then it gets better, then they are really annoying again, but by then you have learned to love them with the annoyances
Overall I think (like countless others) that the series was a landmark in anime TV series (like Akira was for Anime movies), but it is not a given that everybody will like it.

Loved Eureka 7 recently, and in the classics I'd put Ghost in the Shell & Lodoss Wars (awful animation but the story & design are great, if generic, specially for fans of D&D).
Miyazaki movies are a no brainer (can't wait to see Ponyo), but the Satoshi Kon ones are really good too (Perfect Blue, Paprika) and I'm a big fan of Mamoru Oshii (Patlabor, Patlabor 2, The Ghost in the Shell, Ghost in the Shell: Innocence).

Recently, I have re-immersed myself in Macrosss (relabelled and re-edited as Robotech in the US) thanks to Macross Frontier, but Macross Plus & Zero are definitely to check out too.

I can't wait till Frontier comes out over here, looks like it may actually live up to the first 3 Robotech series.

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by Rik1138

Death Note definitely... Even the live action movies are great...

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Gurren Lagann

And some 'must watch' movies:
Akira

ANY film by Miyazaki:
Nausicaa
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle

And these 3, which are a little more kid-oriented, but still great:
My Neighbor Totoro
Kiki's Delivery Service
Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (coming out in theaters this month I think, in the U.S.)

Naturally, for every 10 listed, there's 100 I didn't mention... Generally, if you like some anime, you will like a lot of anime, it just depends on the genres you are interested in...

Rik

I cannot stress how insanely brilliant this anime is. Especially if you are familiar with some of the characteristics of anime. There is so much fan service and cliche things but done in such a unique way. This gets my highest recommendation.

Try to avoid the Shonen Jump stuff. It's not very deep and tends to follow the same basic ideas in all of them.

[Sain4847]

Sorry about that. Don't know what I was thinking while typing that.

[Sain4847]

There are a few I absolutely think are great:

Akira
Princess Mononoske
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop
Serial Experiment Lain
Full Metal Alchemist and FMA Brotherhood
GTO
Evangelion (To an extent, I'm not like a crazy fan, but I definitely enjoyed it when watching it)
Gundam Wing (Don't remember a thing, except liking it as a small child)
Grave of the Fireflies

Any reccomendations?

[Lepidopterous]

Outlaw Star

[MOONPHASE]

Any anime based off a Key/Visual Arts PC dating sim game which include Air, Kanon, and Clannad
Moonphase
Tenchi Muyo
Elfen Lied
When They Cry
Tsubasa
Saiyuki
Lupin the 3rd
Black Lagoon
Cardcaptor Sakura
Ah! My Goddess
Hellsing
Witchblade
Fullmetal Alchemist
Rozen Maiden
Fate/Stay Night
Ikki Tousen
Romeo X Juliet
Heroic Age
My-Hime
Shuffle(as long as you can get used to the fact that it's 1st half comedy and 2nd half drama)
Sakura Wars
Pani Poni Dash
(would like to say Ar tonelico but that anime version was horrible)
.....and yes I have many more I haven't mentioned

[cathexist]

These are some no brainers that have probably been mentioned many many times already...but, my list:

Akira
Grave of the Fireflies
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
Escaflowne
Jin-Roh
Samurai Champloo (Which I nicknamed Samurai Shampoo)

Bebop is just amazing, animation, voice acting (amazingly both in original Japanese and English), story, music. It's just a very good show overall.