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Anime fans

My favourite anime of all time are Sidonia no Kishi and Mushishi.

I would recommend Mushishi to anyone. I think it is one of those anime that leaves you feeling calm and relaxed, and is a masterpiece.
 
While I'm nowhere close to having seen all the episodes, I would say that my all time favorite anime just from the parts I have seen is One Piece. I love everything about it from the visual look of things to the music to the voice acting in the dub and the fact that it's absolutely hilarious but when the story needs to drop the humor and be serious, the serious parts are EPIC.

My second favorite is DragonBall (the original series moreso than DBZ although I love DBZ too) and my third favorite would have to be the original Digimon Adventure.

Rather than simply listing favorites or recommendations, though, let me pose a question: How did you get into anime? What was the first series or movie you saw that made you want to see more?

For me, it all started when a friend of mine wanted me to watch Kiki's Delivery Service, which had just recently had it's first US video release. I'd seen a trailer for it on some other Disney video and didn't think it looked that great. I have never been more wrong about a movie in my whole life.

The whole film blew my mind from beginning to end and I quite literally became an anime fan overnight as that same weekend I found and watched Venus Wars on the SciFi Channel. The next week I stayed up late to watch Akira (also on the SciFi Channel) and I knew then that I was hooked for life.

So what are your stories?
 
Recent things I've watched that I liked:

The Wind Rises (and also a documentary about Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli called Kingdom of Dreams and Madness)
Space Dandy (Series that was shown on Adult Swim, you can watch it for free on Hulu)
Knights of Sidonia (Series available on Netflix)
Attack on Titan (Also on Netflix, somewhat thematically similar to the above show)
 
I have something of an interest in the history of anime. I had been watching anime here and there for years, but only became obsessed with it when I started watching Crunchy Roll. It was then that I realized just how much anime is mediocre and derivative. This realization, ironically, lead me to become obsessed with finding the good stuff.

I wanted to understand the evolution of anime from the beginning and thus went back to whatever I could find from the early days of the medium. I then made up a list of influential anime in chronological order. I managed to make my way up to the seventies before my life became busier and I could no longer find the time.

Some recommendations I could make are:

Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow's Joe): The story of a teenage runaway in post-war Japan with a natural talent for fighting. He get discovered by a washed up boxer named Tenge who makes it his mission to turn Joe into a champion. This series is full of great drama, social cometary, and one of the greatest rivalries ever put to screen.

Flanders no Inu (A Dog of Flanders): A touching drama about the young grandson of a milkman. The series follows his ambitions to become and artist, his fraught relationship with the landlord's daughter, and the rescue of the titular dog from his cruel master. While dealing with themes of social injustice this series maintains a light and optimistic tone and is beautifully animated.

Anju to Zoshiomaru (The Orphan Brother): The beautiful and tragic tale of two siblings sold into slavery aver their noble father's deposition. During the time this film was made Toei Animation was trying to position itself as the Disney of Japan. They created some quality feature films during this period, of which this is my favorite.
 
I still really like "Yu Yu Hakashu" the best, certainly my favorite in the fighting genre of anime.

:Basalisk: has the best in ninja drama category with me.

"Cashern Sins" is a must watch watch for mecha/robot people anime.

"Naruto" endeared itself with me, though I am loath to admit watching them all, but yes, I watch shippuden every week as they come out still.

And I also agree, that anime has more than its share of mediocrity and rip offs, but there are so many gems to find and see as well.
 
Yes, I've seen Kobu Tori. It's amazing to see how much styles have changed since that point in history. Prior to Osamu Tzuka I don't think there was really a unified style of Japanese animation. Back in the day the styles were much more diverse, drawing alternately from traditional Japanese illustration and the western cartoonists.
 
So far my favourite is Ergo Proxy. I would strongly recommend it to everyone who likes sci-fi anime.

Here is the full version of the opening song (which I love!) and you can see what anime style is. :)

 
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"Naruto" endeared itself with me, though I am loath to admit watching them all, but yes, I watch shippuden every week as they come out still.
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I love Naruto too! I get annoyed to watch an episode a week so I had a big break waiting for more episodes to come out and now I'm catching up. :)
 
My daughter loves anime and spends a lot of time writing her own stories on fanfiction.net under her favorite shows - Hellsing, Full Metal Alchemist and several others I can't remember right now - her online name is Catsvrsdogscatswin - check it out.
 
I got into anime in high school watching Adult Swim. I didn't think I liked it before because I'd only ever seen things like DragonBall and Pokemon which didn't appeal to me at all, I had no idea how expansive it could be. I DEVOURED anime and manga, spent probably 10 hours a day doing so for many years. I distinctly like some genres and not others, so many of the suggestions I already know I don't like from seeing about 5 seconds of it or having watched them before; however, that is what I love about anime. If you don't like one, it doesn't mean you don't like anime in general. There are so many options.

My favorites are on my profile but I started with FLCL, a weird first, but I loved it. Then onto Full Metal Alchemist which really appealed to me with the brotherly love (not incest like some, mind you), the tender relationships and friendships, the way you could empathize with the "bad" guys as well as the "good", and some of the episodes are just heartbreaking. My first college friend (an amazing accomplishment) recommended Berserk to me and we would stay up late watching every episode, what an amazing anime and manga. Then another college friend who managed to be somehow nerdier than I was heard I liked anime and recommended Bleach as it had just come out, and at the time I thoroughly enjoyed it but not so much as it went on. I got so into Bleach I would write fanfiction for it and joined an anime forum to talk about it with others, where I made a LOT of anime friends and became a forum personality for a long time, but there was some drama and I was awkward, even for an anime forum. Anime blew up for me after that, I consumed everything good, bad, and the pico no pico (morbid curiosity, forever tainted, can never scrub my soul clean, why do these things even exist?!). I've since distanced myself from the obsessive but I recently did fall in love with the anime "The Devil is a Part-Timer" which had me peeing myself laughing.
 
I started watching anime in 2013 and have been hooked ever since. A few of my favorites are Black Butler (the first one I ever watched), Kimi Ni Todoke, Non Non Biyori, Clannad (& After Story), Barakamon and One Week Friends (which I just recently finished). Right now I'm watching Blue Spring Ride.
 
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I used to watch quite a bit... but my interests have changed over the years. Some of the series I watched are still running new episodes several years later, sadly enough.

The only one I'm following at the minute is Parasyte. I don't see a lot of serious anime that's well-paced, so I'm enjoying that plus some of the clever twists.
 
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