First Anime (Sortof)
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Good starting animes:
Fullmetal - English dub
Death note - English sub
D.Gray-man - English sub (can be a bit boring)
When youve watched a few:
Darker than black - sub
Code geass - sub <--- best anime ever, if you can get past the animation style.
When youve watched alot:
Elfen Lied -sub
Evangelion -sub
Some examples, and that should be ok for easing you in
Fullmetal - English dub
Death note - English sub
D.Gray-man - English sub (can be a bit boring)
When youve watched a few:
Darker than black - sub
Code geass - sub <--- best anime ever, if you can get past the animation style.
When youve watched alot:
Elfen Lied -sub
Evangelion -sub
Some examples, and that should be ok for easing you in
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Cowboy Bebop makes for a decent enough first anime. Black Lagoon and Baccano! are excellent choices as well, not to mention that Baccano! is one of those series where the English dub is far better than the original Japanese. Code Geass and Hellsing are also pretty good series and have decent dubs as well.
Akira. By brother brought it in. He said it was a cartoon from Japan, and it had biker gangs, and swearing, and blood and tits. It waas the first time I had come across the concept that a cartoon could be "adult".
I didn't get into watching anime until first year of uni, where I was shown Ghost in the Shell and Chobits.
I didn't get into watching anime until first year of uni, where I was shown Ghost in the Shell and Chobits.
If dubs are available, I usually watch them, because if I'm going to be listening to something for whatever-how-long episodes, it better be in a language I can understand.
And, no one's said Outlaw Star yet? It's like if you took Star Wars and injected it with multicolored Pixie Stix - action packed, funny, and ... weird.
EDIT: One I liked was Gunslinger Girl, mainly for its characters and story type, one of those secret government stories.
And if you can tolerate its high amount of blood, gore, violence, and nudity, Elfen Lied, which is by far my favorite anime, and it was strangely enough one of my firsts.
And, no one's said Outlaw Star yet? It's like if you took Star Wars and injected it with multicolored Pixie Stix - action packed, funny, and ... weird.
EDIT: One I liked was Gunslinger Girl, mainly for its characters and story type, one of those secret government stories.
And if you can tolerate its high amount of blood, gore, violence, and nudity, Elfen Lied, which is by far my favorite anime, and it was strangely enough one of my firsts.
I am extremely picky when it comes to anime. There's more crap in anime than you can imagine. There is a lot of anime die-hards that will love whatever comes out of japan, making reviews and opinions hard to accept as unbiased.
Having said that, I'd like to say, I LOVE good anime. An anime done well rises beyond its genre as anime. The one that I fell in love with was also what started my love for the Cyberpunk genre; Ghost in the Shell. The original movie was a thinkers action flick. When you hear Movie Bob talk about movies that are deep but have enough flash and bang to keep most audiences engaged, you can include Ghost in the Shell in that mix. It has a lot of concepts of what is human, at what point are you still a person, and where can that dynamic expand to? Then on top of that is a nice layer of cyborgs, automatic gun fights, explosions and car chases. This movie I prefer watching in English. The voice actors do a pretty good job. Future inclusions to the name (there's a series that's seperate from the movies, but plays close to the manga) are almost like it's meant for english dub.
In the same era of anime, "Akira" is a classic. Also in the Punk genre. It's sci-fi, dystopian future, but has some of that super power stuff that animes are spotted with. Very tollerable doses of it though. Less "deep" than Ghost in the Shell, but still very enjoyable.
Ninja Scroll; same era as the above two. Imagine if you will, super powered ninjas with very iconic powers unique to themselves to one on one with the hero of the movie. Not in ANY way deep. No sir. This is pure violence, pure action, very enjoyable reguardless. It'd be like if Naruto grew a pair. Only, yaknow, good.
Having said that, I'd like to say, I LOVE good anime. An anime done well rises beyond its genre as anime. The one that I fell in love with was also what started my love for the Cyberpunk genre; Ghost in the Shell. The original movie was a thinkers action flick. When you hear Movie Bob talk about movies that are deep but have enough flash and bang to keep most audiences engaged, you can include Ghost in the Shell in that mix. It has a lot of concepts of what is human, at what point are you still a person, and where can that dynamic expand to? Then on top of that is a nice layer of cyborgs, automatic gun fights, explosions and car chases. This movie I prefer watching in English. The voice actors do a pretty good job. Future inclusions to the name (there's a series that's seperate from the movies, but plays close to the manga) are almost like it's meant for english dub.
In the same era of anime, "Akira" is a classic. Also in the Punk genre. It's sci-fi, dystopian future, but has some of that super power stuff that animes are spotted with. Very tollerable doses of it though. Less "deep" than Ghost in the Shell, but still very enjoyable.
Ninja Scroll; same era as the above two. Imagine if you will, super powered ninjas with very iconic powers unique to themselves to one on one with the hero of the movie. Not in ANY way deep. No sir. This is pure violence, pure action, very enjoyable reguardless. It'd be like if Naruto grew a pair. Only, yaknow, good.
DBZ on toonami was my first anime
as for subs vs dubs, in my opinion subs are almost always better
as for subs vs dubs, in my opinion subs are almost always better
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