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Stoneheart said:
can we get some kind of list of animes we like?
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I'll start, going over animes from 2011:
Beelzebub - Fun concept, like most shonen like anime it goes stale after a while.
Fractale - I think it was good, only remember it has a great opening song.
Gosick - A nice mystery series. Has a great ending.
Is This a Zombie? - Absolutely hilarious.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Nuff said.
Ben-To - Retarded idea for a show, which makes it great.
C3 - Cube×Cursed×Curious - A decent LN romp,but ended on a cliff hanger.
Fate/Zero - Nuff said
Hunter × Hunter - Great but will never have an ending.
Shakugan no Shana - A really good LN adaption, or at least I think so since it got me watching anime regularly.
Squid Girl - Fucking hysterical.
WORKING!! - A nice slice of life comedy series with great comedic characters.
[C] - The Money and Soul of Possibility - Absolutely fucking recommend.
Deadman Wonderland - I should read the manga someday.
Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl - Absolutely ear rending OP. I remember liking it.
Kaiji - A good show but was too much suffering for me.
Steins;Gate - I still recommend the LN.
The World God Only Knows -As long as you don't care the ending is complete shit.
Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts - Hilarious and that's kinda it.

I didn't expect there to be so many good ones or that I remembered so many of them. Makes me feel old man.
 
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I do recommend the 'Deadman Wonderland' manga because the anime studio went bankrupt and never finished. There's been talk of Netflix finishing it up, but don't rely on it. I really like it a lot. So here are my recommendations:

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Pretty much a classic.
Ghost in the Shell: Arise - A different take on the character and more of a prequel. Make SURE you watch the movies and NOT the anime series. The anime series fucks up Arise by chopping the movies into a series and really mangling it. This is where a lot of the bad rap from. So watch the movies.
ID: Invaded - A beautifully constructed cyberpunk noir detective story about hunting serial killers ala 'The Cell'.
Psycho Pass - First series only. Amazing, amazing cyberpunk series. One of the best anime series I have ever watched with probably the best narrative development. Beautiful from an animation perspective and a narrative perspective.
Monster - Considered by some to be the best anime ever made. A detective hunts for a serial killer uncovering some shady shit. Unfortunately, for some fucking reason, you can't stream this anywhere. Don't buy the physical release, as its DVD only. Fly the high seas and hunt the remastered version.

I mean I can keep going.
 
Str8Bustah said:
and considered by the rest to be overrated shit
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Now, I didn't say I personally considered it to be the best anime ever made. I thought it was really good, but best ever made? No. My love for Psycho-Pass and Ghost in the Shell Dakimakura series surpasses it
 
I'm more of an ongoing manga type and tend to stick to shorter shows, but from what hasn't been mentioned I'd also recommend stuff like Kaiba, Girl's Last Tour, and ACCA. Shokugeki no Bahamut season 1 is also good, but only season 1.

I've been meaning to watch Fire Force because from spoilers I've seen from the manga, it gets pretty trippy with the visuals. Considering Studio Shaft is behind it, I have very little doubt they won't be able to pull it off.
 
Secret Asshole said:
Now, I didn't say I personally considered it to be the best anime ever made. I thought it was really good, but best ever made? No. My love for Psycho-Pass and Ghost in the Shell Dakimakura series surpasses it
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I was doing a really ancient bit from pre-2008 /a/. I've never actually seen monster.
 
Stoneheart said:
can we get some kind of list of animes we like?
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Azumanga Daioh - CGDCT and nothing more. It's a masterpiece.
Watamote - SOL starring a very socially awkward girl. May or may not change lanes halfway through.
Girls Last Tour - Existential stories starring two potato girls.
Hibike Euphonium - SOL involving band nerds.
Gintama - "It literally gets good after episode 2X" the anime. I love it to bits.
Made in Abyss - My favorite anime in the last decade. The author is a freak and the manga never gets updated.
Shimoneta - 1984 but with dick jokes.
Yu Yu Hakusho - Classic Shounen goodness.
Chio's School Road - A girl walks to school. One of my favorite seasonals in a long time.
Great Teacher Onizuka - Wholesome adventures starring an ex-gangster teacher.
The Promised Neverland - Pretty good show. It's a shame it'll never get a 2nd season.
Keijo!!!!!!!! - Brilliantly shameless.
Gunbuster - Good fuckin mecha anime but it only has 6 episodes. Modern anime still can't replicate its jiggle physics.
Flip Flappers - More like Flip Floppers.
Nanbaka - Had a lot of potential but took a nosedive in quality as soon as it got into something serious.
Magi - Good anime series, better manga (until the ending).
ReLife - Good until that stupid volleyball bitch hijacks the series and crashes it with no survivors.
I Want You To Make a Disgusted Face and Show Me Your Underwear - Did you read the title? (also holy shit they made a sequel what the fuck lol)

Once I start, it's hard to stop.
 
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Secret Asshole said:
I do recommend the 'Deadman Wonderland' manga because the anime studio went bankrupt and never finished. There's been talk of Netflix finishing it up, but don't rely on it. I really like it a lot. So here are my recommendations:
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I think it would be better to restart from the start, some characters and events that were omitted in the anime adaption become extremely important later on, and it would be hard to randomly insert them at a later point narratively, due to the circumstances surrounding them.
 
Stoneheart said:
can we get some kind of list of animes we like?
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FMA: Brotherhood: I was a huge fan of the original FMA anime, so much so that I went out of my way to buy the manga. When the anime started to split ways from the manga, I'll have to admit I was a bit disappointed, wasn't really a fan of the movie-tie-in ending, neither. A few years later when Brotherhood came on, I watched that and loved it. I love the animation, the OST, most of all it was nice to see the manga's ending animated so spectacularly.

Great Teacher Onizuka: This was one of my favorite anime of my high school years. The comedy still holds up to this day.

Outlaw Star: This was an anime I've only watched recently. I would have loved this anime as a kid and was kicking myself for not watching it sooner. A Space-Western action series other than Cowboy Bebop was something I didn't know I needed until I saw it with my own eyes.

Tokyo Godfathers: A fantastic movie, and one of those movies I have to watch every Christmas. I could include all of Satoshi Kon's movies in this list, honestly. His name deserves just as much, if not more, recognition as Hayao Miyazaki.

Shiki: If there's one thing I like, it's a good vampire story, and Shiki delivered for me. It was equal parts tragic and badass, and I remember enjoying every moment of it. I really liked the rules the series set for vampires, in specific.

Monster Musume: I M COOM. But seriously, the series is pretty damn funny.

I feel as if I've watched a lot of anime in my years, but those are all of the ones that stick out in my mind.
 
Given that I love my mostly real robots mecha, I have to recommend UC Gundam and Macross. Not everyone's cup of

Macross - Do you like planes? Do you like transforming space planes and Thermonuclear/Matter Anti-Matter/Fucking Foldspace bombs? Bits of Japanese pop music? If you, you need Macross. If no, you should watch some anyways. At the very least, you should watch Do You Remember Love, which is an In Universe movie retelling of the original series. For an anime movie released in 1984 the animation holds up well, it's got Kawamori at his mechanical designing best, all the Itano Circuses/Macross Missile Massacres you could possibly want, and the VF-1 is the future F-14. There's also a Fade to Black scene and I always give an anime points when they actually acknowledge that people do more than hold hands.

Macross Plus - If you only watch the minimum of Macross, after DYRL you should watch Plus, mainly the OVA version, the movie version has a few different scenes, but it's not as good as a whole. It's a mid-90s anime, so there's some cyberpunk elements with an AI idol, but most of it is a transforming space plane version of the US Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter program. But beyond that, the animation is good, the mecha dogfights/fist fights are great and the soundtrack is pretty damn good. Also, if you like Cowboy Bebop, there may find some things familiar, it was directed by Shinichiro Watanabe and the soundtrack was done by the mad woman herself, Yoko Kanno. Just like Bebop. Also, if you like dubs, the male lead is voiced by a younger Bryan Cranston.

The rest - If you like Macross, you've got Zero, Seven, Frontier, and Delta, of which Frontier is the best, Seven is...special and better the second time around, Delta's good, but it's pacing is off, and Zero's pretty good for an OVA series, but it's no Plus. It's not a series for everyone, but if you take it for what it is it can be a pretty fun ride and Kawamori is one of the best mechanical designers in anime.

UC Gundam - Mostly just the original, Zeta, Char's Counterattack, War in the Pocket, and 08th MS Team. The rest is meh (Stardust Memories) or uneven (Double Zeta. God, Double Zeta.) Victory if you want to be depressed. Unicorn is alright, you'll get more out of it if you watch it after the original, Zeta, and Double Zeta. Thunderbolt is pretty good. It's mecha in space, space nazis, asshole earth government, WMDs thrown about liberally. The underlying theme is about how terrible war is and UC Gundam will hammer that home constantly. It's a classic for a reason. The Alternate Timeline Gundams are incredibly uneven, but have their charms.
 
Stoneheart said:
can we get some kind of list of animes we like?
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I barely watch anything anymore tbh, but here you go mr. federal agent, my list of ani/m/e recommendations for you to add to my file:

Blue Submarine 6: The work that put Range Murata on the global radar. It's 4 episodes of janky CGI paired with extremely high quality 2D work, covering multiple sides of a messy conflict against an eco-terrorist misanthrope with a weird furry fetish. It used to air on Toonami so anyone who's old enough to remember that has probably seen it already.

Last Exile season 1: Another one of Range's projects, with much better CGI and lower quality animation due to being a serial instead of an OVA. It's a steampunk odyssey with good story progression and a decent ending. Ignore the second season with your life.

Sentou Yousei Yukikaze: Next to Macross, this is THE plane anime. Again, it's very short, only numbering 4 episodes, but it's extremely dense, telling a complex narrative covering the nature of AI in warfare and the potential consequences of it, framed through the lens of a futuristic war against aliens.

Patlabor 2 (the movie): This is the source of the rotating robot hand gif that always gets posted on /m/ as an example of high quality 2D mechanical animation. The entire film is like this, with a shitload of political intrigue and masterfully executed military scenes directed to be as by the books as they possibly could be. Like blue 6, I still rewatch it every so often.

Victory Gundam: My personal favourite Gundam series. Recommended because, unlike in every other Gundam series out there, the protagonist is a genuine chad who has absolutely no qualms with getting his hands dirty if he needs to. and doesn't take shit from anybody. It also gets props for drawing a link between guillotines and villains by making it the main method of criminal justice used by the enemy faction.

Megazone 23: The main inspiration for the story of Amiguchi Shu in 13 Sentinels. Also another classic anime to do with AI, perception and the concept of reality.

King of Braves GaoGaiGar: the single best Super Robot Anime in existence, closely followed by Shin Getter Robo. Worth watching for the spectacle alone.

Knights and Magic: a really corny and kind of fast-paced mecha isekai. I wouldn't recommend picking this up unless you personally build, customise and kitbash model kits in your spare time, if you do then you'll know exactly why this is on my list of recommendations despite being comparatively not that good compared to the rest of the list.
 
Dunsparce said:
I think it would be better to restart from the start, some characters and events that were omitted in the anime adaption become extremely important later on, and it would be hard to randomly insert them at a later point narratively, due to the circumstances surrounding them.
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I'm gonna give another shout for Deadman Wonderland. It's got great art and a story that actually feels like it was mostly planned from the beginning, with an ending that more or less comes back full-circle on earlier plot points, which is honestly incredibly rare in manga. It's a shame that it's mostly been forgotten about due to its incomplete anime adaptation, and I doubt there's much of an incentive to make a new adaptation because it's a 10 year old manga without much of a fanbase left.

Prison school - It's really funny and can get surprisingly suspenseful at times, had me on the edge of my seat during a lot of moments. Despite its infamously bad ending, the first arc works as a standalone story so you can just stop reading there and be satisfied. Or just watch the anime, it only covers the first arc anyways.

Darker than Black - Sort of this atmospheric noir-inspired political thriller, dealing with the aftermath of an unexplained event that wipes South America off the map and leaves some people as superpowered psychopaths who must pay an arbitrary "price" to use their abilities, and the different governments and factions that use them as spies and assassins. Has a unique format where every two episodes is its own separate story that's pretty much just slow worldbuilding. First season can be enjoyed on its own, second season is a definite downgrade but not nearly as bad as it's made out to be as long as you watch the OVA's first, which bridge the timeskip between the seasons.

Ouran High School Host Club - Might seem like a weird suggestion amongst the rest of these titles, but I went in expecting a dumb gay slice of life (I wasn't aware of the episode-1 spoiler that's literally the premise of the show) and was surprised by how much I liked the characters. Later on it gets genuinely kinda tense and emotional. I think the anime is better because it's more concise, changes/removes some plot points from the manga I didn't really like, and has an anime-exclusive episode that actually adds to the story/characterization. The ending differs from the manga but honestly it's not bad.

Mob Psycho 100 - Pretty much just OPM but better, in that the main character's struggles are actually front-and-center, unlike OPM where Saitama is pretty much a side character in his own manga. It also benefits from actually being finished and having a complete (...I think?) and consistent anime adaptation. Just go with the anime for this one, it's a pretty faithful adaptation of the manga and is pretty much a straight improvement.

Jagaaaaan - Probably the nichest pick on this list. It's basically Parasyte's premise crossed with Gantz' over-the-top edgy violence and sex. Granted, I had to drop it a while back because the scanlations dried up, but the parts I did read were pretty damn good. I hopped off at the end of a big arc, last I checked there were another 20-30 chapters available but I haven't gotten back into it yet.

Chainsawman - Does this count as mainstream? A seinen-bordering shonen that doesn't really follow the usual tropes. The finished "Part 1" is a self-contained story with a satisfying ending that can be enjoyed on its own, with a Part 2 releasing some time in the coming months. Getting an anime soon, which I hope will improve on the pacing and rough art that is sometimes an issue with the manga.

Hell's Paradise - Another shonen that toes the sienen line set in feudal Japan, where an expedition of prisoners and their assigned executioners are sent to a mysterious island to try to recover the elixir of immortality. The best part is that initial sense of danger and intrigue as they're trying to find out what's going on on this island, but unlike a lot of mysteries (hello AoT and TPN) the reveal for this one is actually handled fairly well. While I think the latter half does falter a bit, it manages to pull through for a pretty decent ending. The main cast is easily the best part, somehow they're all unique and likable, likely due in no small part to the actually-pretty-good official translation. Anime adaptation in the works, which I'm sure will add a lot because the monster designs - which look amazing by the way - lose a lot from being black-and-white, for possibly spoilerific reasons.

Record of Ragnorak - Literally just "Tournament Arc - The Manga" with heavily fictionalized historical figures facing off against gods. Great art and fights. Still pretty early in its run so we'll have to see how it turns out. But this kind of work isn't really trying to have a deep overarching story anyways, so who cares?

Monogatari Series - You'll either love it or you'll hate it, but you should give it a shot either way. Literally the posterchild of dialogue-driven shows, so if that's not your thing stay away.

Madoka Magica - Is it overhyped? Yeah. But it's also actually pretty good.
 
God of Nothing said:
A classic it will be. Ufo actually knew how to draw chins and non-cheekmouths on Fate characters back then.
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I will never let this down. I get keeping the original artist's vison, but come on.
Ufotable has some of the worst talent drain I've ever seen.
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