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I'm looking for some anime recommendations. I think I'm open to almost any suggestions, some of my favorites that I can remember are:

Yuru Camp

Cowboy Bebop

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Serial Experiment Lain

2023-07-08 · 10 months ago · 👍 Ruby_Witch, Troler, vaeril, Zokitne · ❤ 1

If you enjoyed Yuru Camp and would like to watch something similarly low-stakes and cute, maybe check out New Game, it's an anime about an all-female team of video game developers working for a sometimes-struggling company.

Also...have you seen Yuri on Ice? Because if you haven't...that's one to see.

did you check out cowboy Bebops sister series Space Dandy and Samurai Champloo?

Obviously 20th century anime is best anime (and I see you already have some listed), so check out:

Neon Genesis: Evangelion (obvs)

Ghost in the Shell (obvs)

Akira (obvs)

Patlabor (especially the 1st & 2nd movies)

Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise

They do still make good stuff these days, though, amongst all the total bizarre trope-packed stuff:

Super Cub (loved this, will phlog/gemlog about it some time)

The Aquatope on White Sand

A Place Further than the Universe

Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

Girl's Last Tour

Shirokuma Cafe (criminally underappreciated, oughta be famous)

Stein's Gate

Thought of a few I overlooked in my earlier post.

For older stuff, try the Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō OVAs. The manga is better, or rather, more complete. It is being officially published in English as of earlier this year, by Seven Seas Entetrainment. Rejoice!

Another more recent series I quite enjoyed was ReLIFE. It has a slightly "out there" plot for my tastes (though it's absolutely tame by modern day standards), but its actually very well done.

+1 for YKK. It's very soothing.

Spice and Wolf is being remade soon.

+1 for “A Place Further Than The Universe”. Has the same vibe as Yuru Camp.

Furthermore

- “Orange” and “The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” for the time travel theme

- “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit” for the likeable characters fighting for the greater good in a medival Japanese setting

- “I Want to Eat Your Pancreas” for the heart break

- “Death Note” for the suspension

- “Tokyo Ghoul” for the goriness contrasted with the human condition

- “Space Battleship Yamato 2199” for the space travel and fight for survival, and the best opening song ever. I always skip those after the first time, but this – never.

Oh wow, these recommendations are awesome! I'm checking out the trailers and everything looks great! Thank you.

The only things mentioned that I've seen before are:

Ghost in the Shell

Samurai Champloo

Battle Programmer Shirase is a good choice if you are into programming.

Galaxy Express 999

Space Runaway Ideon (heavily inspired Evangelion)

Ghost Hound (shares staff from Serial Experiments Lain)

Jin Rou

Boogiepop Phantom (the one made in 2000)

Akira (covers the first third of the equally amazing manga)

Golden Boy

Shonan Junai Gumi! & GTO

Paranoia Agent

RahXephon

Mushishi

Crayon Shin-chan (watch the fansubs, the dub is a rewrite)

Now and then, here and there

Neon Genesis Evangelion & EoE

Wings of Honneamise

Lupin III

Gantz (manga)

Berserk (manga)

Bokurano (manga)

Floating classroom (manga)

Flowers of evil (manga)

Buddha (manga)

Koe no katachi (manga)

If you're interested in yuru camp may I suggest some of my favourite slice of life anime: hidamari sketch, tamayura, gochiusa and sketchbook full colors. Warning these may not be too deep in the "show about nothing" level for beginners.

Toradora is very sweet, I highly recommend it if you enjoy cute romantic plots. Elfen Lied is quite beautiful and sad, and has an impressive intro and OST.

If you want something older and cheesier, Vampire Princess Miyu is fun.

For one-shots I have to recommend:

Wolf Children

Into the Forest of Firefly Lights (😭)

Genmu Senki Leda (very old, I think it's on archive.org)

Gude Crest (same as above)

Also, Angel's Egg if you're interested in a more abstract art piece by Mamoru Oshii from long before his Ghost in the Shell days.

Te puedo recomendar Spice and Wolf, Serial experiments Lain también es interesante

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