Most of my exposure with anime was whatever was on Toonami and Adult Swim in the 2000s. I’ve not watched stuff like, Ghost In The Shell, Cowboy Bebop (only disjointed episodes out of order), Neon Genesis Evangelion, which I know are highly regarded.

I’ve seen just about every Miyazaki movie at this point. I’ve seen Akeria.

I’m sure there’s more mainstream shows and non mainstream shows that I’m missing and would enjoy.

Thoughts?

  • Cromalin [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    some honorable mentions:

    • ranma 1/2: the harem anime is a longstanding institution. it was arguably created by rumiko takahashi and as is often the case the original is better than any imitators by a mile. in this case it’s because it throws a cast of lovable dipshits into a town together and just making them all fight each other over petty bullshit in ways that blow up spectacularly. plus it’s got Gender
    • sailor moon: just deeply charming episodic adventures with some girls that kick ass and take names
    • iron-blooded orphans: my second favorite gundam, basically designed in a lab to get linkin park amvs, but it’s also a really good story about child soldiers and the ways the hegemony functions

    ones i won’t describe so this isnt the longest post ever

    • flip flappers
    • madoka magica
    • hinamatsuri
    • serial experiments lain
    • golden kamuy
    • jojo’s bizarre adventure
    • bloom into you
    also here's a bunch of movies
    • liz and the blue bird: absolutely devastating quiet drama about the relationship between two members of a high school band. gorgeous, just absolutely beautiful
    • vampire hunter d: bloodlust: you liked hellsing, right? here’s that but in a post apocalyptic fantasy world where the alucard equivalent is hired to rescue a kidnapped woman as things go rapidly off the rails
    • millennium actress: satoshi kon’s masterpiece. the story of a famous actress, melding her movies and her life together seamlessly as we’re just along for the ride
    • inu-oh: medieval japanese rock opera about a blind monk who invents playing like jimi hendrix teaming up with a monster who wants to regain his stolen humanity through the power of song and interpretive dance
    • ghost in the shell: introspective, moody cyberpunk piece about personhood and being subsumed by the state. easily the single biggest influence on the matrix’s visual style. has a lot of gender going on- perfect blue: tight psychological thriller about the ways the entertainment industry exploits young women and tries to break them
    • night is short, walk on girl: romcom about all the wacky things that happen to a couple college students in one night as the girl tries to drink her way through every bar in the city and the guy tries to find her so he can finally ask her out
    • urusei yatsura: beautiful dreamer: what if the cast of a kinda formulaic sitcom were thrown into a david lynch movie and just had to deal?