New to anime? Looking for the highlights? Try Glass Reflection Top 25-ish Recommended Anime:
Granted, this is not a perfect list by any measure, very much weighted towards the present and the more blokey sort of anime, with noticable omissions. But it is a good starting point and a way to inspire yourself to seek out more. You may have noticed I’ve been on a bit of an anime kick lately, mainly because I finally got off my ass and got a home entertainment system sorted, consisting of getting my Chromecast up and running, using Plex Media Server to stream everything from a net drive. It works surprisingly well, even when I’m away from home. Oddly enough, by making it easier for myself to watch my anime, I ended up watching more. This top twentyfive list was a neat way to think about what to watch next or seek out.
And since I posted this to MetaFilter anyway (and you may want to check out the discussion there) and it’s a waste to throw away all the links I found, I thought, why not post it here too? Below the cut is the complete list with links to reviews, trailers or discussions of them.
- Cowboy Bebop
- Trigun
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Full Metal Alchemist (2003)
- Akira
- Anything by Ghibli
- Full Metal Panic
- Ghost in the Shell
- Baccano
- Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl who Leapt Through Time) (Summer Wars) (Wolf Children)
- Mushi-Shi
- Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue) (Paprika) (Tokyo Godfathers) (Millenium Actress)
- Black lagoon
- Kara no Kyokai (Garden of Sinners)
- Gankutsuou
- Clannad
- Princess Tutu
- Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni (when they cry)
- Code Geass
- Yoshitoshi ABe (Serial Experiments Lain) (Texhnolyze) (NieA Under 7) (Haibane renmei)
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Spice and wolf
- Steins;Gate
- Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai (We Still Don’t Know the Name of the Flower We Saw That Day) (Reaction)
- Soul Eater
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