what anime could you recommend to a fella? - all the other threads are dead as fuck so im making a new one

Ghost Stories, specifically the English dub. It's a massive shit post of anime, heck I'd wager Null would enjoy it too. However, the novelty got old about midway through the season.

Ghost In the Shell, the OG movie and even the modern one keeps faithful to the universe. As far as the syndicated anime I only recommend Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

Perfect Blue, it's a great movie that tickles my psychological thriller nerd in me. It gets purposely abstract which can be a little confusing but that confusion is there because the story is best told that way. Sounds like a cope, it isn't, if you know you know.

Love Death and Robots, probably controversial in that it isn't the traditional upskirt animu, but I'm still slamming it in without consent.

Then of course the usual: Death Note (heavy melodrama thriller), Cowboy Bebop ( love space dystopia), Wolf's Rain (if you're an empath, you'll need to be in a certain mood to enjoy it.).
 
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Ghost Stories, specifically the English dub. It's a massive shit post of anime, heck I'd wager Null would enjoy it too. However, the novelty got old about midway through the season.
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I have to agree. A lot of the humor came off to me as either tryhard, or mistaking "edgy" for "funny." It did get some genuine laughs though, like that one line in the rabbit episode.

If one wants shitpost gag dubs, Samurai Pizza Cats is more consistently funny..

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Not to derail the thread but it does always disappoint me in recommendation topics where most of the recommends are always either A ) stuff that is already well-known or B ) modern shit. But then let's hope the OP found something he likes anyway.
 
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Not to derail the thread but it does always disappoint me in recommendation topics where most of the recommends are always either A ) stuff that is already well-known or B ) modern shit. But then let's hope the OP found something he likes anyway
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Well it's honestly the best stuff to recommend to new people. Super obscure shit is way off to the side for a reason and modern shit is where the industry is right now. Its not like I can recommend Genocyber to someone whos brand new to anime and have them not look at me like I'm psychotic.
 
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Super obscure shit is way off to the side for a reason
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Yeah I agree you shouldn't be showing Genocyber to people, but there's still plenty of anime that are actually good, not edgelord shit, and yet weirdly don't seem all that well-known.

One of my own recommendations was Unico, two movies I recall watching as a kid and I have never met anyone who had a bad word to say about those movies (usually the reaction was "I didn't wanna watch it because it sounded like saccharine kiddy garbage but then MAN was I surprised!")
 
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Yeah I agree you shouldn't be showing Genocyber to people, but there's still plenty of anime that are actually good, not edgelord shit, and yet weirdly don't seem all that well-known.

One of my own recommendations was Unico, two movies I recall watching as a kid and I have never met anyone who had a bad word to say about those movies (usually the reaction was "I didn't wanna watch it because it sounded like saccharine kiddy garbage but then MAN was I surprised!")
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That's still not really beginner stuff. It's a good movie I'm sure (I've never seen it) but introducing people to something new needs to involve getting into the zeitgeist. Showing people stuff like Akira, Paprika or Drifters is better if you want them to respect something artistic because they're more influential and connect people to what other people talk about. That doesn't mean you shouldn't give exposure to obscure hidden gems even to newcomers but if you want to answer the question "why are people into this" it needs to involve the stuff people are into.
 
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skykiii said:
Not to derail the thread but it does always disappoint me in recommendation topics where most of the recommends are always either A ) stuff that is already well-known or B ) modern shit. But then let's hope the OP found something he likes anyway.
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OP gave us nothing to work with except, "recommend some anime," "I haven't seen much anime," and "not Boku no Pico you fags." With no idea what his tastes are, people are naturally going to recommend popular shows that are generally considered to have wide appeal. I could write a 10,000-word essay on why he should watch Non Non Biyori, Nichijou, Noein, or Over Drive, but those have more niche appeal, so there's a good chance he won't like them.
 
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Shart Attack said:
OP gave us nothing to work with except, "recommend some anime," "I haven't seen much anime," and "not Boku no Pico you fags." With no idea what his tastes are, people are naturally going to recommend popular shows that are generally considered to have wide appeal. I could write a 10,000-word essay on why he should watch Non Non Biyori, Nichijou, Noein, or Over Drive, but those have more niche appeal, so there's a good chance he won't like them.
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I've could've brought up You Lie in April or Koe No Katchi, but without knowing his tastes I can't give a perfect reccomendation.

As long as it's not that godawful anime about a college student girl who looks like a preschooler and has a mad crush on her landlord's son who is a middle schooler who looks (but not acts) like a highschooler, and the series is about her figuring out her mad thirst for the underaged boy while helping him protect his father from a different tenate who is obsessed with the landlord and huffs his dirty underwear and tried to marry him while he was drugged and unconscious. I don't know what it is called and it appears to have been struck from the internet, but i know it was real.

Update: after years of looking and trying to remember the key words I FINALLY FOUND IT I AM NOT CRAZY at least in regards to this
https://myanimelist.net/anime/31109/Hatsukoi_Monster I had just gotten every single bloody search keyword I could think of wrong.
Don't ask me why I watched the whole thing because I... I just don't know. It was covid lockdowns.
 
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I always highly recommend Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash.

While at first glance its looks like a Isekai its really isn't. The characters have no memory of our world (through it leaks in every now and then) and is not a power fulfillment series. This is not about the A team of fantasy adventures. I wouldn't even say its the B team, its the C team made of up every one that didn't get picked by a group. The series has two big major strengths:

1. This is a real world filled with real creatures that do not want to die. All the combat has a real feeling of weight and movement to instead of just characters flipping around making corpse disappear on death. The first episode is just the team trying to kill a goblin completely suspenseful.
2. Stuff happens and episodes give time to for the character to breath/process what happened. Its not just balls to the wall action all the time without considering the toll the adventure life would take on people.

Game-ish stuff is kind of in the world (I really like how they showed some one criting a monster) it works and builds up the world instead of distracting from it.
 
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ID-Invaded: An anime about a Serial Serial Killer getting inside Serial Killer's psyche and founding clues to solve crimes. Its a short series, with only 12 episodes, and the character are likable and a bunch schizos.
 
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If this hasn't been recommended yet, and this is kinda outside the normal realm of "anime" but...

.... If you have the means, watch the two Stand By Me Doraemon movies. They're actually on streaming services with subtitles (and I think there's a dub?) but.... watch them by any means.
 
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I remembered another anime that ranks pretty high on my list: Hensuki: Are You Willing to Fall in Love with a Pervert, as Long as She's a Cutie? The premise is that a high school boy gets a love letter along with a pair of underwear and he tries to find out who left them only to find out all the girls around him are perverse lunatics. There are a couple of points where he wakes up screaming due to their antics. It can be a bit racy at times, but it's not too bad and it's good if you can ignore it. I think the show has some similarities to Konosuba, so if you like that you could check it out. I would recommend the dub for this one.
 
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What other media do you like?
  • I recommend the works of Satoshi Kon: Paprika. Paranoia Agent. Tokyo Godfathers (fantastic Christmas movie).
  • Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
  • Steins;Gate
  • Fate/stay Night, Unlimited Blade Works, Heaven's Feel and Fate/Zero. First three are part of the same story, the last is a prequel. Everything else in the Fate series is optional. Truth be told, I got some reluctance recommending the first one because it is a botched adaptation of the source material.
  • Chainsawman is the current new hotness. You might like it if you're into ultraviolent action.
  • Ghost in the Shell: Cyberpunk thriller, very influential to cyberpunk fiction in the 90s.
  • Berserk: Dark fantasy. Beware some of the later animated series are amazingly bad.
  • Death Note: Supernatural serial killer in a cat and mouse chase with a detective.
  • Fist of the North Star: Bruce Lee in a Mad Max world fucking people up.
Some choices that aren't action, don't know if you'll like them:
  • Pop Team Epic: aka Shitposting: The Anime
  • Konosuba, makes fun of RPG and fantasy cliches.
  • Blue Literature: This is an adaptation of actual Japanese literature as an attempt to get younger people interested.
  • Azumanga Daioh: Slice of life sitcom about high school girls in a "story about nothing".
  • Chi's Sweet Home: the oddball in this list as it practically a children's series (initially published in a magazine for adults for some reason). I do recommend it if you're a cat person.
 
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John Titor said:
(initially published in a magazine for adults for some reason).
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Morning Magazine usually has a Sunday Comics vibe to it. Something Family Circus would be published in. Fathers like that sort of thing sometimes. I'm more an Afternoon person, myself.

Speaking of Afternoon, Ah! My Goddess (in one made in the 2000s) is peaceful and enjoyable. Not for everyone but I'm getting old and sudden movements and action can spook me.
 
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