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I'm not really that into anime (which is probably hard to believe given my pfp), but I kinda wanna get into it. Any recomendations for a newcomer?
 
Mr. Awesome Man said:
I'm not really that into anime (which is probably hard to believe given my pfp), but I kinda wanna get into it. Any recomendations for a newcomer?
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It's difficult to recommend without knowing what you like. Do you watch shows not for enjoyment, but to consoom? Watch One Piece. Is your idea if a good anime completely dictated by what other people say? Watch Frieren. Do you like cool animation and nothing else? Demon Slayer is perfect for you.
FMAB is pretty good and has a lot of general appeal.
 
Mr. Awesome Man said:
I don't have any genres in mind. I just want something that's easy for someone who's new to anime to watch.
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That's kind of weird bro.
>Recommend me a movie. No, I don't have anything in mind, just give me something easy to watch for someone who's never watched movies before.
>Recommend me a book. No, I don't care what kind of book, so just long as it's easy to read.

Fuck it, I'll just recommend Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood too, I guess.
 
Mr. Awesome Man said:
I don't have any genres in mind. I just want something that's easy for someone who's new to anime to watch.
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Kari Kamiya said:
Just look up "Gateway Anime", then. They're gateways for a reason.
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Like Kari said, gateway anime are your friend. Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, Digimon, Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Studio Ghibli films.
 
Mr. Awesome Man said:
I don't have any genres in mind. I just want something that's easy for someone who's new to anime to watch.
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It is pretty hard without any guidelines. Genres transfer pretty well from other forms of media really. But here's a variety of genres and settings with lower anime weirdness.

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood: as others have said is pretty universally loved.
Cowboy Bebop: space and action. It's a long standing favorite despite it having some aspects that didn't age that well. It does the episodic visit a new planet thing a lot.
Psycho Pass: a psychological cop thriller type.
Steins;Gate: as a sci-fi/drama/mystery story.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagan: pretty friendly if you like giant robots and manly spirit.
Mob Psycho 100: usually well received as a supernatural, action coming of age story.
Mushishis: adventure, supernatural, mystery, slice of life.

Unfinished series:
Apothecary Diaries: historical fiction, mystery, drama.
Natsume's book of friends: slice of life, supernatural story. Primarily revolving around different supernatural entities and learning a bit about them. Pretty slow and relaxed, lots of episodes.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: fantasy, adventure. Starting after the Hero's victory.
Spy x Family: spy, action, comedy. Opposing secret agents live together and have to pretend to be a family, while doing their secret work with an adopted daughter pretending to not know their secrets.
March Comes in Like a Lion: drama... Protagonist is a highschool aged shogi prodigy, it mostly explores his struggles of isolation, and the struggles his friend has with family life and school bullying.

(no promises on dubs, I don't remember which ones have them)
 
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Mr. Awesome Man said:
I'm not really that into anime (which is probably hard to believe given my pfp), but I kinda wanna get into it. Any recomendations for a newcomer?
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Well, the most obvious answer would be some kind of gateway anime that a lot of people have watched or recommend to watch.
So either that would include the massive genre that is Shōnen which includes stuff like Dragon Ball, Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, My Hero Academia, Hunter X Hunter, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Demon Slayer, Full Metal Alchemist etc. Or other recent popular shows like Delicious in Dungeon.

There are other popular shows that not really fall into that category / genre, which would be for example Death Note, Attack on Titan. There are of course a lot of older shows that people enjoy like Cowboy Bebop, Berserk, Sailor Moon, Digi-Pokemon.

You could instead try getting into anime via movies, so anything from Studio Ghibli, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Jin-Roh, Redline etc.

The best way of getting into it is trying to find a genre or something that you enjoy yourself such as cooking, reading, history whatever which you could use to search for interesting shows.

As for a concrete recommendation, I would suggest watching : https://myanimelist.net/anime/12815/Shirokuma_Cafe
It's an innocent and funny show that omits a lot of the typical tropes that might throw off someone who never really watched anime before.
 
My preferred introduction to anime would be travelling back in time to the mid 1990s and getting heavily involved with ordering VHS tapes of "Japanimation" titles from mail-order movie and TV companies that advertised in magazines with names like "Science Fiction Express" or whatever. Not that I think the experience would be "better", just interesting.
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Commander X said:
My preferred introduction to anime would be travelling back in time to the mid 1990s and getting heavily involved with ordering VHS tapes of "Japanimation" titles from mail-order movie and TV companies that advertised in magazines with names like "Science Fiction Express" or whatever. Not that I think the experience would be "better", just interesting.
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If you have a time machine I recommend my late 90s introduction to anime of watching syndicated anime at really odd times on local broadcast television (Sailor Moon at 5a [right after Kennith Copeland's televangelist program or Big Bad Beetle Borgs, depending] Ronin Warriors at 2p)
 
evilkog said:
Do you watch shows not for enjoyment, but to consoom? Watch One Piece.
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Not really related but I still don't get the appeal of One Piece. Do people only like it because of the fight scenes, aura farming and, "the series has been running for 30 years"? I don't like the art style or the characters, and from what I've seen, people always glaze the world building aspect mostly because of the series' length.

One Piece has been running for 28 years now and no member in the Straw Hat crew dies is so stupid to me, God forbids OP fans from reading AoT or JJK lol.
 
Blazeuser56 said:
Not really related but I still don't get the appeal of One Piece.
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One Piece is for autists - not the self-diagnosed ones, but the properly diagnosed hyperfocused ones. From what I've heard about it, it's repetitive and somewhat "safe". Kinda like Sonic, but instead of animal people we get weird-ass ugly freaks. Everytime I ask about what's so good about it I never receive a good answer. I use One Piece as a filter: an OP fan is not a good source of recommendations.

Mr. Awesome Man said:
I'm not really that into anime (which is probably hard to believe given my pfp), but I kinda wanna get into it. Any recomendations for a newcomer?
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If you like romance: Kaoru Hana (Fragant Flower) and 'Toradora'.
 
Blazeuser56 said:
I don't like the art style or the characters, and from what I've seen, people always glaze the world building aspect mostly because of the series' length.
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I'll put it this way, Eiichiro Oda is a competent writer in a genre filled with incompetent writers. He actually has a plot and mostly sticks to it which enables him to actually set up payoffs that most shonen writers are completely incapable of.

As an example of someone who is a shit writer fumbling a layup, in Naruto the 8 gates is set up in the chunin exam arc as 8th gate makes you basically unstoppable at the cost of your life. Might Guy actually does it in the final arc and it's mostly inconsequential (he occupies the big bad long enough for Naruto to get his breath for his next mid fight power up) and he doesn't die (because Naruto said nah). You get the feeling Kishimoto only even did it because he said the words for cool-factor in chunin exam so he felt he had to bring it up again not because he ever had any idea what he would do with it.

When Eiichiro does set up a plot point and it's relevant 10 years later it's actually relatively impressive but it's not because of the length it's because he is disciplined enough to do it at all.
Blazeuser56 said:
One Piece has been running for 28 years now and no member in the Straw Hat crew dies is so stupid to me, God forbids OP fans from reading AoT or JJK lol.
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I'll agree that maybe One Piece doesn't have death enough on the table. One Piece doesn't kill off characters because there isn't some retarded mechanic or plot convenience that makes death inconsequential so deaths will only really happen to advance the plot. Everyone (except Usopp) has a legitimate reason to be on the crew so they are probably ultimately safe.

But lol at implying JJK does it better. Gege kills people all the time on a whim to fuck with fans because he's spiritually a nigger that kicks puppies. All it does is teach you to not care about the plot or the characters because fuck you. Which is easily enough done because it was only ever Naruto but with Nen Users that fight Arranacar that put people in Reality Marbles anyway. OK artist, absolute shit writer.
 
Oddjob OTP said:
Eiichiro Oda is a competent writer in a genre filled with incompetent writers.
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This is just glazing, Oda is not immune to writing flubs and nothing in timeskip OP matches the peaks of the pre-timeskip OP. Maybe in the 00s this was true because he was up against some of the worst titles in Jump's lineup but in the last decade he wrote two of the worst arcs in the series (Fishman Island and Dressorosa) and a lot of underwhelming ones and its obvious now he's just cutting things short just so he can finish it before he dies. Still a great manga but its long passed its peak.
 
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