[Dark Hunter]

Death Note is also excellent.

It's got geniuses playing mind games with each other and epic potato chips.

(I also second Snail's suggestion of Gurren Lagann. Anyone who's a fan of mecha anime owes it to themselves to watch that show.)

[DarkBasilisk]

Still, the lack of Fullmetal Alchemist (remake) and Fate/Stay Night in this thread doesn't bode well.

AR.. I knew I forgot something!

Got to edit hte first post now. I probably forgot a few anime Well ,teh very fact I forgot about it doens't bode well for it, no?

Yes. Fate/Stay Night: awesome. Although if you can get the visual novel: go for that instead.
Anime: based on Fate path.

superior Unlimited Blade Works path is superior.

[Ghostavo]

Heaven's Feel is even better in my opinion. It's a testament to the anime that it went with the "worse" path and it still kicked ass.

[TrashMan]

Does that mean it's So Bad It's Good?

[Ghostavo]

No, it's so good it's awesome. And that's scary considering they didn't choose more awesome paths.

In Unlimited Blade Works you have Archer kicking everyone's ass.

In Heaven's Feel, Shirou takes several hundred thousand levels in badass and... well... kicks everyone's ass.

[Uchuujinsan]

Death Note is also excellent.

It's got geniuses playing mind games with each other and epic potato chips.

In the case of Death Note, I would recommend the live action movies - they are imho better.
Death Note (the anime) suffers from a very boring second half, it's far better in the movie.

For something a little depressing or grim I would recommend Now and Then, Here and There and Narutaru - unfortunately the latter is unresolved during the anime, and finishes it's plot only in the manga.
Also The Sky Crawlers has great visuals, but is very calm and can be depressing depending on your intepretation.

[mister J]

yeah. Gurren Lagann. Watch it.

There's a new Evangelion movie out that changes most of the story and removes some of the mindscrew.

Blade of the Immortal - anime is so-so. The original manga is way better.

[Bobboau]

ok, since the is now an anime recommendation thread.

Gurren Lagann, this is the ultimate in over the top awesome, it is not a show for newcomers to the medium, or for those who have murdered their inner child. not many shows can be a light hearted roit an action explosion and still manage to actualy pull of some solid drama at the same time. this show is anime, therefore if you like anime you will like Gurren Lagann
I don't usually get down on dubs too much, but this is one of those shows you realy should watch subed.

black lagoon, when I first herd people talking about this from the name I was expecting some sort of tropical island setting, so it took me a while to watch it. turns out it's a modern day cowboy bebop, with a band of pirates in the south china sea, dealing with international crime syndicates playing for power in the underworld. if you like fast pased action, chicks with guns blood, explosions, arms dealing nuns, indestructible nannies, homicidal child porn stars, or any sort of "****'s go'n down" type story, you should wach Black lagoon.

now, one anime I realy want to advocate, because I haven't heard any one else mention it yet, is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Higurashi, is a gripping horror suspence serize, that will leave you wide eyed and not knowing what to expect next, it goes from happy go lucky supper cute slice of life of a hand full of school children ranging from the age of 11 to 18 (I think), to dark I'm going to ****ing drive a nail through every joint in your fingers and then disembowel you while you watch. I like to describe it as ground hogs day meets the shining, the basic plot is that the group of friends are stuck in a time loop where every time something goes just ****ing flat out wrong, for some reason one of the people will get psychotically paranoid and snap usually ending in the vast majority of the cast dead and the story starting over, the point of the show is to figure out how and why, I will not spoil anything, even discussing the tone of the end would be a spoiler, but I will say that it does have continuity between the loops (it's subtle at first) and everything does get explained in the second season. unlike Haruhi, they did time loops right.
Higurashi: Friends Help You Move, Real Friends Help You Move bodies.

[TrashMan]

No, it's so good it's awesome. And that's scary considering they didn't choose more awesome paths.

Hmm...mayhaps. But following the escapades of a ominpotent jerkass/bully in a school uniform doesn't really appeal to me plot-wise. Especially since I know she never gets put in her place.

[Ghostavo]

No, it's so good it's awesome. And that's scary considering they didn't choose more awesome paths.

Hmm...mayhaps. But following the escapades of a ominpotent jerkass/bully in a school uniform doesn't really appeal to me plot-wise. Especially since I know she never gets put in her place.

What? Who? Tohsaka?

[Dark Hunter]

In the case of Death Note, I would recommend the live action movies - they are imho better.
Death Note (the anime) suffers from a very boring second half, it's far better in the movie.

I agree that the movies are, overall, much better in terms of storytelling. They do, however, lack the anime's kickass soundtrack, which is a shame. They also lack a lot of the funny moments (epic potato chips, pretty much everything L does in the Yostuba arc, SAKUJO!, etc.), and the funny moments they kept weren't as good, in particular the "Misa shows up at Light's college" scene. Although I will admit that L's mask was hilarious.

Basically: both the movies and the anime have their pros and cons, although the movies are better overall.

There's a new Evangelion movie out that changes most of the story and removes some of the mindscrew.

Clarification: Set of four movies, not just one. Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0 is due to be released in English this fall, RoE 2.0 just premiered in Japan, 3.0 and 4.0 are in production.

[Scotty]

Liberator must not be reading this thread.  The gratuitous use of TV Tropes would have set him off by now.

That said:

Gundam 08th MS will always be my favorite.

This.

Followed Closely by:

Gunslinger Girls (would you believe that my friend's church youth group did a bible study based on these?  I'm not making that up.)
Full Metal Alchemist (Ditto with this one.  His youth group is flippin' awesome.)
About 10% of Naruto (the non-filler parts)
and Dragonball/Dragonball Z.  not GT.  GT wasn't that good, IMHO.

[NGTM-1R]

and Dragonball/Dragonball Z.  not GT.  GT wasn't that good, IMHO.

You must be joking. I can, just barely, understand the recommendation of the original, but Z? Dear god no. You start picking out reused animations five eps in and it all goes to ****...

Also, for the record, I cannot in good conscience recommend any of the following:

Anything with Haruhi. (The whole concept is just...uninteresting. It has its moments, like the awesomely over the top space battle against the computer club, but it never asks the only interesting question the show could ask: can you kill Haruhi? And if you do, what happens?)
Code Geass. (The Knightmare Frames went bat**** super robot on me too quickly, and let's face it: Lelouch isn't worthy of admiration or respect. He's also totally ****ing crazy to think his plan will work, but that's another issue. The animation is good, though, I'll give it that.)
Any Eva, even Rebuild. (It will disappear down the massive black hole Dethroning Moment of Suck that is Shinji Ikari when not under the control of Charles Bhepin.)
Any anime built around an Unlucky Everydude and his Unwanted Harem. You know which ones they are.

[Scotty]

You must be joking. I can, just barely, understand the recommendation of the original, but Z? Dear god no. You start picking out reused animations five eps in and it all goes to ****...

You most likely have a point there.  Then again, I grew up with it, and little access to other anime, because Toonami apparently has an institutional fear of long running shows.

[asyikarea51]

YUKIKAZE!!!

Though I might be part of the minority who likes the Mave more than the Super Sylph... SCREAMING SCRAMJET!!!!!

[High Max]

;-)

[Colonol Dekker]

Well drawn cartoons with obvious plots based around card games are still. . .wot I just said.
 
Genocyber was a 2 parter I think but blows most others out of the water.

[TrashMan]

and Dragonball/Dragonball Z.  not GT.  GT wasn't that good, IMHO.

You must be joking. I can, just barely, understand the recommendation of the original, but Z? Dear god no. You start picking out reused animations five eps in and it all goes to ****...

Also, for the record, I cannot in good conscience recommend any of the following:

Anything with Haruhi. (The whole concept is just...uninteresting. It has its moments, like the awesomely over the top space battle against the computer club, but it never asks the only interesting question the show could ask: can you kill Haruhi? And if you do, what happens?)
Code Geass. (The Knightmare Frames went bat**** super robot on me too quickly, and let's face it: Lelouch isn't worthy of admiration or respect. He's also totally ****ing crazy to think his plan will work, but that's another issue. The animation is good, though, I'll give it that.)
Any Eva, even Rebuild. (It will disappear down the massive black hole Dethroning Moment of Suck that is Shinji Ikari when not under the control of Charles Bhepin.)
Any anime built around an Unlucky Everydude and his Unwanted Harem. You know which ones they are.

Uu...have to agree NGTM-1R here. Evangelion has it's moments tough. And the animation in Code Geass (character design) doesn't strike me as nice.
http://weare.clickpopmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/code-geass-25-large-35.jpg   <--- I mean, look at him.



EDIT:

To everyone who contemplates watching Yukikaze - it has great space battles, but watch out - the end is full of WTF and unanswered questions with a dose of mindscrew.
The only Yu-gi-Oh I like is the ABRIDGED SERIES. Comedy gold.

Yugi: Wait a minute. Did you just summon a bunch of dragons in one turn?
Kaiba: Yeah, so?
Yugi: That's against the rules, isn't it?
Kaiba: Screw the rules, I have money!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Yu-Gi-OhTheAbridgedSeries?from=Main.YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries


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[Gortef]

Ok good recommendations and hints people.

But c'mon...

Vandread (trust me, don't waste your life on this)

Vandread was fun

Anyways I think I'll add something aswell.

Jungle wa itsumo Hale nochi Guu:
In a nutshell - Crazy and cute wtf wth WTF stuff in jungle and time to times in a city.
*cough* A more detailed explanation would be that on one day a young kid called Hale meets a cute girl maybe of his age in jungle he's living in. Everything seems normal at first but when he get's back home that girl is there and reveals her "true" self, with her name. Guu. Actually people still don't know what Guu is, not even after all these years. But believe me if this series doesn't bring the WTF-laughs then nothing will. Guu does all crazy stuff and... well, I don't wanna spoil anything. Just watch it ok, it's hilarious

Strike Witches:
Now, this is a fan service series done perfectly. The basic idea is that there are 11 girls who fly using magic powered propeller using machines on their feet and fight against a mysterious force called Neuroi on an alternative WW2 era where the WW2 never happened. Oh and the girls don't wear any pants or skirts, just panties. But the thing in this series is that all of them have a real world fighter pilot they are based on. For example Charlotte Yeager is based on Chuck Yeager (who is still alive, the only one from the cast btw.), and our Finns very own Eila Ilmatar Juutilainen is based on Eino "Illu" Juutilainen. The basic consept is Mecha Musume and the character design is made by Humikane Shimada. Get's a three thumbs up recommendation from uncle Gortef.

ok that should do for now

[Androgeos Exeunt]

* Androgeos Exeunt is reminded of Moetan.