What is your favorite anime?

[IronDr4g0nParticipant 46]

I know I’m new hear, but I think there are at least a few of us out there that like Anime. I don’t really know where else to post because there’s no real art or media section (understandably so, for the media aspect anyway lmfao) so I decided to post in mgtow central.

 

So..what’s your favorite anime and why?

 

 

[TheBardParticipant 974]

Over the years it has kind of changed but the one constant is always One Piece. I loved it since it began reading it back in high school and it is such a good series. The writing is great, I love how it has that over arching bigger plot in the back ground, the characters are awesome, and as a crew the strawhats are some of the coolest people. I also love a lot of Oda’s styles such as giving you a full back story on the characters or place the current story arc is in before the final battle and pretty much having almost every character appear again at some point in the story.

Some other favorites are DBZ, Love Hina, Gundam, Outlaw Star, Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan, and Kill la Kill.

[Cipher HighwindParticipant 1144]

Shin Chan is hilarious.

[HimeoParticipant 471]

One Piece is great.
Berserk (If you haven’t seen it don’t. It’s an amazing story that will never end because the author is like George R R Martin only… so much worse).
Cowboy Bebop is the quintessential classic. The pinnacle of anime as an art form.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex seasons 1 and 2 are must-see.
Great Teacher Onizuka is solid.
Golden Boy – Short and Sweet.
FLCL – excellent.

Baccano – If you’re willing to put in some effort, this unique story will pay off.
Spice and Wolf is a fun watch if you’re in the mood for some fantasy mercantile romance.
Darker Than Black (Season 1 only) – Japanese Batman crossed with X-Men. Really bad first few episodes, but one of the best series I’ve seen recently.
Gurren Lagann is a slow build to a great ending.
Trigun wasn’t bad.
Sword Art Onilne hit a lot of my MMO fan buttons. Pretty good.
Seirei no Moribito was a pleasant surprise
Suzuka hit my buttons
Kids on the Slope worked for me.

Basically anything by Studio Ghibli is worth your time.

There are a hell of a lot of amazing anime OVA’s (movies).
Ninja Scroll is classic.
Kite is basically porn with an amazing story.
Wings of Honneamise
Castle of Cagliostro
The Girl Who Lept Thru Time
Grave of the Fireflies (LOL, JK.)
Sword of the Stranger
Millennium Actress
Tekkon Kinkreet

There are so many more it’s really dependent on what interests you have.

[Zuberi TauParticipant 10606]

Baki the Grappler, Golgo 13, Guyver Bio Boosted Armor, <span style=”line-height: 1.5;”>Gungrave, </span>Cowboy Bebop, Big O, Lupin the 3rd, One Outs, Tenchi Muyo, Akira, Steam Boy, Raoh Gaiden.

[BlueToRedSpectator 23]

 

Even though I’ve only seen it till the cell saga. Otherwise I’d have to say, the original pokemon series

 

 

 

[OasidParticipant 116]

Cowboy Bebop is the only one I watched all the way through. What a great story…Bang

May the Force Be With You

[Vector VikingParticipant 413]

Death Note- I loved that storyline and the character development.

Noragami- only a few episodes in, but the artwork is next-level. If you watch it, note the detail in the way hands are drawn. It’s perfect.

Kaze no Stigma, Psycho-pass, Chaos Head, Kill la Kill were great.

There’s a really good documentary on Netflix right now about the inner workings of Studio Ghibli- too bad they don’t actually have any SG movies on Netflix streaming.

[MadmaliParticipant 36]

Wow my Four favourite have already been mentioned. Mmmmm the taste of vindication

1- Darker than black

2-Cowboy Bebop

3-Ghost in the shell

4- Psycho Pass

5- Hunter X Hunter

[BurgundyParticipant 1525]

Can’t do in just one, there are too many great ones out there man.

Cowboy Bebop

Berserk

Neon Genesis Evangelion

DBZ

Death Note

Welcome to the NHK

Darker than Black

Katanagatari

Parasyte – The Maxim

Almost all movies from Studio Ghibli

[TheBardParticipant 974]

All great anime have been listed. When FLCL first came on Adult Swim I was like “yeah this is my anime, I look forward to watching this through out the year” then my first is like “you know it is only 6 episodes right?”. As much as I love it I still don’t own it. That needs to change lol.

With Sword Art Online the MMO references were even better in the light novel.

@vectorviking Have you seen the live action Death Note movies? There are 2 like how Kill Bill was and they are amazing. They are how do you do live action anime movie right.

[ElamshinParticipant 30]

My favourites mostly come from more mature series and movies.

 

Favourite anime movie has to be Jin-Roh – The Wolf Brigade. Story revolves around 60s alternate Earth Japan where Axis won WWII.

Visually the best anime tv series in my memory must be Gankutsuou, loosely based on The Count of Monte Christo in a sci-fi setting. Another sci-fi in more realistic setting that I like is PlanetES. Two favourites in musical anime series: Beck for rock and Nodame Cantabile for classical.

Not that much into historical series, even though there are some real gems out there. Samurai Champloo, Rurouni Kenshin OVA come to mind. Mushishi is my favourite series in supernatural settings; it’s full of amazing small stories. Great Teacher Onizuka for comedy, Usagi Drop for lighthearted drama and Monster for psychological horror.

Anything by Hayao Miyazaki, Makoto Shinkai and especially Satoshi Kon can be recommended without reservations.

[JollyMisanthropeParticipant 3356]

Hard to say, especially given I’ve pretty much written off the genre for awhile. The 80’s and 90’s were the golden era for anime. It’s gone to crap since with the billion different DBZ clones making up a huge percentage of the market.

The Children of Doom... Doom's Children. They told my lord the way to the Mountain of Power. They told him to throw down his sword and return to the Earth... Ha! Time enough for the Earth in the grave.

[нσтησσвParticipant 830]

Parasyte!!!! YEAAAHHHHH!!!!

just had to make a whole post for that one 😛

My Goal: To Leave Society.

[AlmostNiceGuyParticipant 210]

Full Metal Alchemist and Attack On Titan.

FMA: I feel it has a pretty great story, mostly focusing on redemption and brotherhood.

AoT: Feel it’s so powerful because of the animation style and story, I prefer it over DBZ

[coolthingy450Participant 1223]

Yahari Ore No Seishun Love Come Wa Machigatteiru That show is literaly full of ideas that are similar to what you guys already talk about.

Kamisama Hajimemas~~~a Funny comedy more or less.

Kiseijuu: Sei No Kakuritsu

Steins;Gate

The anime I can think of that I like and watched recently. Although I’m watching the second season on Yahari Ore No Seishun Love Come Wa Machigatteiru.

And last Zetsuen No Tempest.
 

 

 

Actions have consequences and consequences have prices. Cause and effect at work.

[anjinParticipant 1]

A manga more then a anime… But “Blame!” Is surely worth the reading.

[ChromestarParticipant 101]

I used to watch Bleach but the Anime broadcasts stopped.

For Now its Just Naruto.

I need to find other deep epic action packed Animes like these.

[JollyMisanthropeParticipant 3356]

Chromestar wrote:

I used to watch Bleach but the Anime broadcasts stopped.

For Now its Just Naruto.

I need to find other deep epic action packed Animes like these.

“Deep”? 🙂

Naruto is a DBZ clone and nobody ever accused that show of being deep. 😉

Check out Fist of the North Star. Old school but worth watching.

The Children of Doom... Doom's Children. They told my lord the way to the Mountain of Power. They told him to throw down his sword and return to the Earth... Ha! Time enough for the Earth in the grave.

[HimeoParticipant 471]

JollyMisanthrope wrote:

Chromestar wrote:

I used to watch Bleach but the Anime broadcasts stopped.

For Now its Just Naruto.

I need to find other deep epic action packed Animes like these.

“Deep”?

Naruto is a DBZ clone and nobody ever accused that show of being deep.

Check out Fist of the North Star. Old school but worth watching.

By “deep” I assume he means “lots of episodes”.

If not, yea that’s… really not applicable to either franchise. Although, to be fair, Naruto has a few moments of “deepity” if I can borrow Dan Dennet’s word for things that seem really deep but upon reflection aren’t at all deep.

JollyMisanthrope wrote:

Hard to say, especially given I’ve pretty much written off the genre for awhile. The 80’s and 90’s were the golden era for anime. It’s gone to crap since with the billion different DBZ clones making up a huge percentage of the market.

You’ve probably already seen the following, but if not they might satisfy you:

Darker Than Black (Season 1 only)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1 and 2
Baccano
Kids on the Slope
Tenga Toppen Gurren Lagann (This one surprised the hell out of me with how good it was).
Spice and Wolf

Cheers.

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