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Inuyasha

Cowboy Bebop

Trigun

FLCL

Fullmetal Alchemist (OG, not Brotherhood)

In this thread, people reveal their high school graduation year.

Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Gundam Wing, Dragon Ball Z, Ghost in the Shell.

Any guesses?

-Gurren Laggan -Trigun -Code Geass -FMA -Tanya the Evil

For FMA, start with the original, because they spend more time during the opening chapters, and switch to Brotherhood at the exact scene when they vault the labratories fence.

1. Dragon Ball Z
2. Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood
3. Cowboy Bebop
4. Death Note
5. Trigun

I'll go ahead and knock out the 'normie that watched anime on TV twenty years ago' list.

I've got a handful of others I've seen and liked, plus some older and newer ones I plan to watch. But I need to really branch it out a little.

DanDaDan Demon Slayer One Piece Black Clover Inuyasha

In no particular order, I think...

• Cowboy Bebop
• FLCL
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Paranoia Agent
• Samurai Champloo

1 - Redline

2 - Cowboy Bebop

3 - Clevatess (so far)

4 - Gungrave

5 - Yu Yu Hakusho

Runners up:

Dragon Ball (not Z at all), Akudama Overdrive, Summertime Rendering

Teenager me liked way different list but idk if I could say if any aged well from my PoV like Trigun, Outlaw Star, Blood+, Kill La Kill, Gurren Lagann, Armor Hunter Mellowlink... many more. Not that I mind if it's cheesy. I started watching One Piece at 35 years old lmao.

1. Mushishi
2. Samurai Champloo
3. Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu
4. FLCL
5. Madoka Magica

• Ruroni Kenshin
• Trigun
• DBZ (grew up on it)
• Outlaw Star
• Cowboy Bebop

• Initial D

• Kaguya-Sama: Love is War

• Cowboy Bebop

• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

• Neon Genesis Evangelion

1. Space Battleship Yamoto 2199
2. Frieren
3. I Parry Everything
4. Campfire Cooking in Another World
5. Ashita no Joe

I think I've got some unconventional choices there but if you're looking for something new I would recommend any of the above. Space Battleship Yamoto 2199 in particular is spectacular.

• Konosuba
• Serial Experiments Lain
• Haibane Renmei
• Slayers
• Samurai Champloo

• 1: Steins;Gate
• 2: Steins;Gate 0
• 3: Cyberpunk Edgerunners
• 4: Initial D
• 5: Dimension W

I pretty much never rewatch anything but I've rewatched steins gate and steins gate 0 about 3 or 4 times because it's such a good show and they tie in so well despite being in alternate realities to each other. Edgerunners was what got me into cyberpunk and now I'm obsessed with it. Initial D is what got me into car culture, it's a bit dated and I've never rewatched it but eurobeat paired with 90s JDM cars battling down a mountain is amazing. Dimension W is a good story but the only reason I chose it over something like Dr Stone or Rising of the Shield Hero is because I really like the 2000GT that the main character drives.---

In no particular order

• Frieren
• Natsume's Book of Friend
• Tanaka-kun is always listless
• Hunter x Hunter (2011)
• Seitokai Yakuindomo

And if the rest of the season is as good as the pilot episode, Journal with Witch. I've been waiting for the episode to comes out so I can hear what Asa was singing before the Bieber joke. It was delightful.

Eh, I'll throw Sword of the Demon Hunter there aswell. I'm in my mid 30s so I don't really care about battle scene as much, though I wish it got better animations. You could say the story is similar to Frieren, though not as tight.

Hard to decide, but trying to put some variety into it, no particular order:

• Natsume's Book of Friends
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's end
• Gintama
• The Eccentric Family
• Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju

Lemmy! Give me your power to overwrite everyone's tier 0 choice!

Recency bias go!

1. Konosuba
2. Dragon Ball Super (the ToP is the best arc, fight me nerds)
3. JoJo
4. Solo Leveling (the only series that made me go out and buy the Manga to see what happens next)
5. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

• One Punch Man
• Sakamoto Days
• FMA: Brotherhood
• Way of the Househusband
• (I haven’t watched it in like 15 years, don’t judge me) Hetalia but that was because I had unmedicated ADHD and was in middle school

Wait. Does Castlevania count? If so I put that as my last entry instead.

• Trigun
• Mushishi
• FMA:B
• Little Witch Academia
• Violet Evergarden

In no order.

1. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. Code Geass
4. Durarara!!
5. Devilman Crybaby

In no particular order:

Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Samurai Champloo, DBZ

1. Akagi
2. Bocchi the Rock!
3. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
4. Azumanga Daioh
5. Apocalypse Hotel

Disclaimer: I've only watched like 10-20 so I can't exactly say it's the best of all animes

1. Steins Gate

2. Spy x Family

3. Death Note

4. Code Geass

I don't think I really watch enough to fill out all "top 5"

Honorable mentions:

• The Promised Neverland (S1 ONLY)
• Detective Conan - Was nostalgic for me, I remember watching it in the Mandarin dub, I loved to like pretend to be a detective as a kid, now its kinda... eh
• Re Zero: Great premise... then story got boring and the special ability of the MC gets used less, and the story became much less fun... don't think I even cared to finish s3

I get very picky about watching stuff, so if the premise reads slightly boring, I don't watch it. Which is precisely why I only have about a dozen or so Animes watched.

1. BEASTARS
2. Detective Conan ( early seasons character designs and English dub are my favorite )
3. Fullmetal Alchemist ( the original, not brotherhood. I know, very divisive )
4. Lupin the Third ( the earlier series/seasons )
5. Dororo ( 2018 )

Im ready for the hate, but I content myself that I've gotten through these before having kids:

• Fullmetal Alchemist

• Hellsing

• Voltron (80s, I think I saw them all)

• Serial Experiments: Lain

And since having kids:

• Neon Genesis Evangelion

• One Punch Man

In no particular order (subject to change):

• Steins;Gate/0
• FMA: brotherhood
• Haikyuu
• ReLIFE (webtoon better than the anime adaptation)
• Shangri-La Frontier

No order:

• Michiko to Hatchin
• Kaiji
• Inuyashiki
• Hajime no Ippo (both anime and manga)
• Initial D

Also I would add One Piece, but particularly, I'm not a fan of the anime series. I'm a constant reader of its manga, making theories and so on.

1. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006 & 2009) - amazing in every way. Every arc is perfect and it's the greatest character study ever in the medium of anime.
2. Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (1998) - this one is Hideaki Anno's best work. The same depth of characterization as Eva but without the scifi or action.
3. Hibike! Euphonium (first two seasons, 2015 & 2016) - kinda a retelling of Aim for the Ace (1973) in my mind. Really great characterization.
4. March comes in like a lion (2016-2017) - another fantastic drama and hits really hard emotionally.
5. Nana (2006) - more drama. This one has a great vibe and has a really unique feeling of yearning and incompleteness... Mostly because it's forever incomplete.

In no particular order:

• Gintama
• One Piece
• Steins Gate
• Golden Kamuy
• Fruits Basket

• Frieren
• Hajjime no Ippo
• The Fable
• Hikaru no go
• DAN DA DAN

These are ones I end up rewatching with pretty regular frequency. I don't claim they are the best, but they are what I enjoy the most.

1. Frieren
2. Reincarnated as a Slime
3. FMA: Brotherhood
4. Saga Of Tanya the Evil
5. Goblin Slayer

Frieren

Girls' last tour

Azumanga Daioh

Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun

Ouran high school host club

No particular order but the first two resonated with me albeit in different ways. The latter 3 just land really well in the humor department. There's a heavy bit of nostalgia for Azumanga and Ouran specifically, and Ouran itself is definitely dated in a lot of ways. But a recent rewatching of Ouran cemented my enjoyment of it even today, along with making me realize that I just really like melodrama.

Here are a few faves that I don't see mentioned yet:

Code Geass

Baccano!

Monster

1. Yawara (currently a watch party Monday evenings on https://live.literalgrill.com/ !)
2. Oishinbo
3. Hinomarou Zumo
4. 50% OFF
5. Kaiji