I have watched a lot of the studio Ghibli stuff but not sure what series to start on, looking for recommendations
Best to start is series that are finished with one season (24 max). My recommendations
- Charlotte
- Odd Taxi
- Gurren Lagann
- A Place Further than the Universe
- Cyberpunk Edgerunners
- Ping pong the Animation
- Lycoris Recoil
- Tatami Galaxy
My recommendations:
- Sazae-san
- Soreike! Anpanman
- Doraemon
- Chibi Maruko-chan
- Case Closed
- Crayon Shin-chan
- One Piece
(I woke up today and chose violence.)
Good lord, 2640 episodes with a total runtime of over 37 days.
I also just checked, and these shows (the ones still airing anyway) are able to have episode discussion threads requested from the bot if there are people that want to discuss them. Not sure how big the Chibi Maruko-chan audience might be in this community, but the capability is there if they exist and are looking for a home.
…these shows (the ones still airing anyway)…
I specifically listed only shows still in production to preclude any possibility of OP being able to finish, even if they did spend 37 days trying! 😈
(Also, Case Closed and One Piece are the only ones I’ve ever watched any episodes, of, LOL.)
Gurren Lagaan is a parody of mecha anime, it’s not really something you can recommend to normies.
Yes. It doesn’t look like normal mecha anime but I don’t see it as a parody anime. I believe it can be a good anime for starter since Gurren Lagann shows how crazy and stupid anime can be sometime.
Sure, but the show is explicitly a deconstruction of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
NGE was a deconstruction of ordinary mecha anime.
I’m not saying someone with no experience with anime couldn’t enjoy GL, but it’s wrapped in so many layers of meta, most of the themes and inside jokes would be missed.
My all time favourite anime is Steins;Gate. It’s a really cool take on a time travel story and it’s an emotional rollercoaster. I just finished rewatching it recently and it has some cringy scenes but I still love it :D
Full metal alchemist Stein’s Gate Violet Evergarden Legends of the galactic heros Pluto Vinland Saga Planetes Jojo’s Bizzare Adventure Initial D Code Geass Dragon Ball Naruto Cowboy Bebop Dororo Death Note
Dunno about all of them, but the first three are very solid representations of their genres.
Maybe throw in a comedy, like Food Wars to round it out.
Do you like fantasy? Check out Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End; it’s what recently got me to watch anime. It tells a great story with compelling characters, has some awesome action scenes, and keeps all of the things I hate about anime (excessive melodrama and fanservice) to a minimum.
It’s just a great show, and not merely a great anime.
Another fantastic fantasy being produced right now is Dungeon Meshi aka Delicious in Dungeon.
15 episode are out on Netflix.
It’s a bit more on the comedic side than Frieren, but also keeps the weirdness typical in a lot of anime to a minimum. It also comes with fantastic characters and gorgeous animation.
People who like Frieren are likely to enjoy Dungeons Meshi vice versa. I certainly do.
And also [email protected]
Its a masterpiece.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
It’s an anime that I recommend to people who already dislike anime, and it’s a great starting point
Spice and wolf, both the old and currently airing one.
There’s a new one?!
It really depends on what genres of other media you’re into. If you like super hero stuff then My Hero Academia might be a good choice. It’s set in a world where most people have super powers, so it’s kind of an interesting take on that whole thing. It’s still being made, but there’s enough to keep you busy for a while.
My jumping off point for anime was Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. It’s an action anime with solid characters and a good plot, and there’s not really any filler. It’s about 80 episodes and is a complete story. Definitely worth checking out even if it’s not your first.
It’s a lot of pressure imagine someone saying, “Recommend me a book”.
You’ve got some good suggestions already. Here are a couple that I think are good for somebody that is fairly new to the deep rabbit hole of anime tropes/conventions:
- Mushishi - My personal favorite anime of all time. Very contemplative and melancholy. Don’t binge this, just watch an episode before bed or something like that, and let it sit in your brain.
- Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End - This just recently finished airing its first season and was excellent in every respect. Classic high fantasy story (think Lord of the Rings) which follows the near-immortal elf Frieren in her travels. Very approachable for previously non-anime watchers.
- Cowboy Bebop - An all-time classic space western following some bounty hunters.
- One Punch Man - A humorous take on the superhero genre. If you are looking for something more comedy oriented, this is a decent starting point.
The problem with recommending opm as a starter is that it parodies a bunch of shows and Manga that OP probably won’t have the references for. I would worry that OP might miss most if not all of the jokes without the context.
I’ve been wanting to get into OPM myself. What would you recommend to watch first to understand at least 80 % of the references?
Just watch it, you really don’t need to know much about the stuff its parodying
They don’t “need” to know the stuff they are parodying, true, but it’s a lot less funny without that frame of reference. It’s like listening to a Wierd Al song without knowledge of the original.
Oh no, he might not understand that Saitama’s shirt says boobs? How will he ever enjoy the show?? I watched OPM as one of my first anime, got almost no references and its one of my favorite anime of all time.
Not what we’re talking about.
Just making a point, you can enjoy without getting every little detail
Evangelion. Your brain will thank you for it!
I loved “The Disastrous Life of Saiki K”, fell down the never-ending “One Piece” rabbit-hole and also really like “Spy X Family”
I love absurd anime like Saiki K.
Other masterpieces are Nichijou, Hinamatsuri and Asobi Asobase.
However, nothing has really topped the utter chaos of Sabagebu for me.
Check out the Mother’s Basement youtube channel for some good seasonal recommendations. He also covers trashy anime in seperate videos from his ones-to-watch or best-of videos, if you wanted to avoid (or deliberately delve into) that.
I can’t tell you where to start, but I can tell you where not to start.
Death Note is utter garbage. Anyone recommending it hasn’t watched it in ten years, and is forgetting how contrived it is.
For example:
The main characters play tennis while trying to win a mental game of rock, paper, scissors.
They turn a scene about looking inconspicuous into one of those over-edited Indian soap operas (I’ll take a chip… AND EAT IT!).
Misa is annoying as hell.
My spiciest anime hot take is that the Netflix adaption of Death Note was actually pretty good.
The problem was that anyone who liked the anime would hate it and vice versa, so it had no audience.
But if you disliked the anime, then I highly recommend checking out the Netflix adaption.
It answers the question “what if Light were cringe”.
What do you mean “what if”?
I have never seen Death Note, and don’t intend to, but the primary target audience for like, 99.8% of all anime is teenagers. So hearing that it tries to appeal to that isn’t all that shocking, honestly.
It all depends on the anime itself, really.
You can say the target audience for Ghibli films are kids, but the ones who get the most out of them are adults.
Many of the anime I would consider the best, would include themes I couldn’t really understand the nuances of as a teenager, or even as a young adult, yet are published in Shonen/Young Jump.
Naww. Your numbers don’t track.
- Kids (6,487)
- Shounen (1,950)
- Seinen (1,015)
- Shoujo (490)
- Josei (151)
FCLC, Cowboy Bebop, Sword Art Online, and Frieren would be good ones to start with.
FCLC: modern setting with absurdist and Sci fi
Cowboy Bebop: future setting, Sci fi meets western
Sword Art Online: modern characters in a fantasy setting, fantasy with a tinge of Sci fi
Frieren: fantasy setting, plays with tropes of the genre so maybe leave this one until you’ve watched a couple of more traditional fantasy set series. Hard not to recommend it to everyone though.
How’d SAO make that list?
I would argue that there is a reason it has become such a huge success. It’s the vanilla flavor of isekai anime.
That’s why I recommended it. It’s baby’s first isekaia, basically.
FCLC
I thought it was FLCL, “Fooley Cooley”? Or am I thinking of something else?
Nope, that’s correct. I misremembered.
What kind of interests do you have? Genres, settings, etc. Is there anything you don’t have interest in? There are a lot of anime out there, and it would be better to suggest anime kknowing your interests rather than suggesting you something you may not be interested in.
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