r/Anime's beginner recommendations

Hajime No Ippo unironically !anime

I like One Punch Man, but there's a lot of inside humor because it makes fun of so many anime tropes.

I'd start with movies like Akira and Ghost in the Shell. Then you'll be disappointed with the lower quality production of every anime afterward.

Attack on Titan is really good. Just ignore the fanbase and its sneeders (as with every anime).

Appleseed, the one from the late 80s or early 90s is good. They had a sequel I think in the early 2000s that uses that CGI, which is okay.

Knights of Sidonia is a really cool sci-fi.

If you want a short film, there's Memories, which is a collection of short films. It's the second one about space garbage collectors which is great.

There's another short film about these guys who recover nuclear weapons in a post-apocalyptic world. There's this robot they fight called GONK, I think. The battle scene is excellent. !anime, search results are such shit, so please help a neighbor out.

Just google "Hentai" and go from there.

Ghost Stories (English Dub)

are you an adult man?

Vinland Saga

fate zero

Nothing. Why would you ever want to get into anime?

Just pick something by Studio Trigger. They're all fun and over the top so you're bound to enjoy it for that alone.

One punch is fine, Tatami Galaxy and Ping Pong is what I'd suggest to a normal person with limited anime exposure.

Cowboy Bebop. Good english dub, decent slow burn, amazing soundtrack, just solid overall.

If you want more action and "magic", Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood is a loved classic for a reason.

One Punch Man is actually not a bad show to start with, especially with marvel capeshit flooding western markets making its parody relevant and relatable. A good number of parodied tropes may be missed though.

Mushishi is a very slow burn but its great. Each episode feels like a foreign folk tale from centuries ago come to life, and while character design suffers the storytelling is great and so is the background artwork.

For a modern work thats great, Sousou No Frieren is good, about a long lived elf who realizes she needs to learn to connect with people and enjoy living rather than taking time for granted since she has so much of it.

Violet Evergarden is beautifully animated and can hit the loner/neurodivergent in the feels as its about a near robotic emotionless person trying to learn how to connect with people through writing.

Obligatory: if you can find someone who loves politics and long, discussion based shows, Legend of the Galactic Heroes (the original 80s/90s version) is the unironic greatest show ever produced. Literally fascism vs democracy, with no good guys or bad guys, no moralizing, just a story that makes you think of the virtues and failures of political systems. Its very long, very old, very slow, but it is truly kino

Hentai

Monster

Full metal alchemist

One punch man (season 1)

Hajime no ippo

Ghost in the shell (Movies)

My first real anime was Kiss x Sis

DxD is a fine recommendation to a certain demographic. I remember the fights being pretty cool too.

Steins;gate

Serial Experiments Lain

Cowboy Bebop

Tokyo Ghoul

What did I miss?

what are those also I'll put the thread up in a bit

I'd love to show you my favorite anime while I laugh at the silly Shonen shit and you seethe next to me on the couch

Nooooo my favorite thing is super weird and special,

Actually, yes. My favorite anime are fricking weird.

>romantics

Rushia not pettan?

If we're talking strictly about the original Gundam setting, "Universal Century", I'd recommend these:

The original Gundam series from 1979.

Gundam Zeta

Gundam ZZ

Char's Counterattack (movie)

The original trilogy ("but there's four that's not what the term trilogy means " shut the frick up) of Gundam. The bare essentials. Some say you can skip ZZ and go straight to CCA, but those people are r-slurred and should be ignored.

War in the Pocket

A short standalone six episodes series set during the original series. Can be watched independently, but spoils the ending of the original series. Probably the single most recommended series.

Stardust Memory

A shorter series that takes place between the original series and Zeta, but made years later and intended to be watched after Zeta. Anyone who tells you to watch Gundam chronologically is r-slurred and should be ignored. Don't watch before Zeta.

Gundam Unicorn

Char's counterattack is generally seen as the finale of the original Gundam storyline with Rey and Amuro, and Unicorn is a fanservicey extra. Takes place a few decades later, ties up some additional loose ends, and is basically meant the be proper end.

Gundam: The Origin

The Origin is the prequel to the original series that shows the backstories of many of the original characters, their childhoods, how they got to where they are, what happened for the events of the original series to happen, etc. It's a fanservice series for people who really like the setting and the characters. No point in watching if you haven't seen at least the original series.

Things are a lot more complex than this when you start including "late UC" setting like F91 and Victory (my personal favorite), but I tried to keep it simple. then there's a billion alternate universe Gundam series (almost all of which are bad), which basically only share one thing in common with these is that they have giant robots named Gundams but nothing else, and then there's also Turn A Gundam (my second favorite series) which is simultaneously a sequel to every single Gundam series, and Gundam Reconguista in G, which is either a sequel or a prequel to Turn A Gundam (conflicting information).

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