Ping pong the animation is pretty amazing, even if you don’t like ping pong or most anime.
It’s got style falling out its ass and a great soundtrack.
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Fairy Tail anime has the best assortment of hot anime women.
Completely understand. Only sports anime I genuinely found fun and funny.
I’ve been watching various Macross anime that I didn’t know about. I really enjoyed Macross Plus.
I’m currently about a quarter into Macross 7 and it’s kind of a cheesy mess. But I love the look and that the heroes are trying to win a space mecha battle through the power of music.
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also the cooking animes always have great samples for turntablist type of beats or performance narrative beats.
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Ãon Flux Full Series : MTV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive > MPEG
Episode 1: https://ia601507.us.archive.org/35/items/aeonfluxfullseries/EP%201.mp4
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Glad to see that the OP is a discerning character as there are some local quirks to find. I grew up with akira, ghost in the shell and macross plus which are still worth a watch, (maybe). I still enjoy a good animated story but almost all of the anime I have watched has made me feel like trash for watching it.
Movies: princess mononoke, spirited away,
Some shows that are a bit outside the mold: : The apothecary diaries, to your eternity.
Action: Kaiju no8.
My guilty isekai pleasure: So I’m a sider, so what? and Reincarnated as a sword.
Bitter anime rant: You’ll find that modern anime is full of “fan service”, sexualizing moments that interrupt the real narrative completely in order to reinvigorate viewer interest. This breaks any immersion by using local tropes like showing the viewer school children’s panties up their skirt, like a narrative sexy break. It’s terribly frustrating and IMO an insult to the inner development of the reader and everyone else involved in creating the show, as it seems to assume that the show is not good enough to capture genuine interest. In addition, the characters have a minimal amount of distinguishing features, allegedly this is because of business trends some 10-20 years ago where they looked to reduce cost which is really sad. All that said, I couldn’t help myself but push through some trashy stuff to find the gems.
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When I first started watching anime, it was all action oriented stuff - Voltron, Robotech (which was stitched together from Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, and Genesis Climber Mospeada - 3 completely unrelated scifi action anime 
), Akira, etc.
Maison Ikkoku and Kimagure Orange Road began to change my expectations of anime. Would have never heard of either if not for the university anime club.
I went through a multi-year period of not watching anime until I got Amazon Prime and Netflix. Good lord what an awful selection at that time. Made me realize a lot of anime is cookie cutter content. I once again stopped watching anime until I met one of those rare fellow humans - a person who loved KOR and Maison Ikkoku as dearly as myself. This person said I gotta check out Crunchyroll.
Astro Note is a title I should have included in the sci fi list. I left it off because I thought it starts out looking like an updated Maison Ikkoku and in a surprising twist you find out it’s actually a scifi show. However rewatch revealed you actually see the scifi aspect in the first 10 sec or so of the first episode. Also, there are different kinds of scifi fans - some who just want to see explosions and other violence with scifi trappings, others who gladly pick Solaris over Star Wars, etc.
Oh and I somehow forgot to mention the Gundam franchise. Not all Gundam titles are equally great though, but they tend to stick what defines a Gundam show - set sometime in the future, involves mecha, war is hell messaging so lots of characters getting killed off, etc. Iconic but def. not happy go lucky stuff. Absolute best I’ve seen in Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans, but it’s also the most depressing. Gundam Witch from Mercury was pretty good .
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Ahhh, well that’s a nope from me then. I can’t stand the harem thing and fan service gets annoying quick.
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Looks great but is the story interesting/mature/sophisticated enough to match?
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I would say yes… about to start a rewatch of it myself so I guess I could let you know if it holds up to my memory but the author of the manga is maybe my favorite manga author. He is really good at capturing some real feeling emotions in his characters, kind of slice of life type stuff and quite good at mixing in some surreal moments that really take advantage of it being a visual medium. It’s a mini series so it’s not like they are trying to leave the door open or stretch things out obscenely, it’s a nice complete experience.
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If you ever just want to ball your eyes out and be absolutely stripped away watch anything that Makoto Shinkai has made. 5 Centimeters per second and Voices of a Distant Star (sci-fi) just devastated me. I haven’t even watched the last three things he has done because I am actively afraid of what it will do to me.
FLCL is really good with a really good soundtrack
Azumanga Diaoh is really really good slice of life anime.
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10/10 would recommend. Absolutely incredible, but also utterly gut wrenching. Easily one of the bleakest things I’ve ever watched but I’m also so very glad I did.
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I just realized Mari Okada was the writer on that show. Explains a lot really. Over the top emotional outpouring is her speciality.
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This is very much an on the current hype train answer, but I think it is also a fair answer.
If you are unsure about anime… If you look at the recent anime landscape and it all feels a bit homogenised… If it all feels like it is a bit ‘meh’… If you have tried watched a couple of big Shonen show’s and thought ‘Is this… It?’
Dandadan. Watch Dandadan.
(and then maybe watch Orb: On The Movements Of The Earth)
Watch look back, it’s awesome!
I’m looking forward to seeing this 
I was gutted I didn’t get chance to go see one of the extremely limited showings locally. One cinema showed it 3 times - lunchtime each day, but I couldn’t manoeuvre a window to go due to work 
I didn’t even know it was showing in cinemas, but I live in the UK. But I loved the manga and this just hits me in the feels. One of the best anime movies this year, beats the overrated Boy and the heron for me. Not that it was bad, it was just typical and not a patch on his early works.
Voices was done by 1 guy, the amazing Makota Shinkai. Which makes it even more impressive.
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Oops, NM.