What are some good starter anime?

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I don’t know if anyone has suggested Frieren but Frieren
It has a girl who does both
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guys, i thought i said no horny

anyways, i picked up volumes 1 and 2 of one punch man at the library, they were awesome

fuck the sigma male grindset, i wanna be on that fuckin saitama grindset, every day, 300 days, 100 pushups situps and squats, plus a 10km (so abt 6 miles) run

also Speed-O'-Sound Sonic was one of those characters for me that was like "hey she's kinda cute" but it's a guy lmao
 
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guys, if i'm going to start watching one piece, should i start soon? personally to me it seems like i have limited time to start watching because it seems the series, while not coming to a close now, is definitely getting there in just a while. and while the series ending wouldn't matter normally, after being revealed, the one piece, the whole point of the show, the biggest spoiler for the whole thing, would be all over the internet
 

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guys, if i'm going to start watching one piece, should i start soon? personally to me it seems like i have limited time to start watching because it seems the series, while not coming to a close now, is definitely getting there in just a while. and while the series ending wouldn't matter normally, after being revealed, the one piece, the whole point of the show, the biggest spoiler for the whole thing, would be all over the internet
Yea I guess you should start soon
 

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Because it was a meme over a year ago, or are you referring to the Netflix series? I enjoyed the Netflix revamp actually.
because i asked if i should start bc it's clearly in the second half and i want to watch and get caught up before the end bc the one piece being revealed would be huge, all over the internet, and it's not just a small spoiler, it's the whole point of the show, what it's all been leading up to
 
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What kind of stuff do you like? For what age range? Genre?
I will just throw a couple of stuff out of my mind with, in no particular order.
Maybe I add a couple more later when my memory comes back.

But probably anyway from all below I would choose the following as good starter:
  • Hunter x Hunter (Adventure/Fantasy)
  • Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood (Adventure/Fantasy)
  • Princess Mononoke (Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Epic/Environmentalism/etc.)
  • 5 Centimeters per Seconds (learn the damn metric system, I mean Romance/Drama/Coming-of-age)
  • The 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie: Cyberpunk
  • Perfect Blue (Thriller)
  • Grave of the Fireflies (Adaptation of a real story/War drama)

Age target group: teenager / young teenager? perhaps? (also young adult/adult for many of them, but I mean a young teenager will not be bored or uninterested by them)
  • All Ghibli Movies (specially Nausicaa, Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Whispers of the Heart, Grave of the Fireflies, Chihiro, Only Yesterday,... well, all of them... also include in between them stuff like Future Boy Conan and Horus Prince of the Sun)
  • Some Makoto Shinkai Movies (5 cm/s, Suzume, Weathering with you, Your name, etc.)
  • Cross Game: RomCom/Sports (Baseball)/Coming of age (note: I find it quite good to learn Japanese/beginner)
  • Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood: Adventure/Fantasy
  • Hunter x Hunter: Adventure/Fantasy
  • Nana: Romance/Drama
  • Frieren: Adventure/Fantasy/Very slow paced (a good thing if you ask me)
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: Mecha/Psychological Drama

Age target group: young adult? perhaps?
  • Chihayafuru: RomCom / Sports? (Karuta)
  • Monster: Psychological Thriller?
  • Master Keaton: Kind of slice-of-life / Adventure / Thriller
  • Spice and Wolf: Romance/Adventure/Fantasy/Economics? I am biased to the original with American dub)
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena: Coming-of-age/Supernatural/Magical Girl/...
  • Some Satoshi Kon movies (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, etc.)
  • Akira (movie): Cyberpunk/postapocalyptic
  • The 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie: Cyberpunk
  • Patlabor 2 Movie: Mecha/Political thriller
Some other stuff I am including only because of Nostalgia, perhaps?
  • 3x3 eyes OVAs: (why?) Adventure/Fantasy
  • Higurashi (When they cry): Psychological Horror/Murder Mystery
  • Macross (1982): Mecha
  • Macross Frontier: Mecha
  • Gundam War in the Pocket: Mecha
  • Gunbuster: Mecha
  • Touch: Sports (Baseball)/RomCom... I guess this is the original Truck-kun gets you into an Isekai manga /s /s /s... you ask, what "different world"? Well, every other manga from Adachi Mitsuru with a suspiciously similar looking main character that happens too be too good at baseball (previous life knowledge?) /s <= Yes, this entry is a joke, but Touch is still nostalgic.
  • Maison Ikkoku: RomCom/IMHO the best from Rumiko Takahashi
  • Saint Seiya (1986?): Adventure/Fantasy/Fights etc. (probably only nostalgic, but the Pegasus Fantasy OP song on its own makes it good)
  • Chobits: RomCom I guess? With SciFi elements and a bit of "Her" into it? Perhaps it should go up, I don't think it is just nostalgic.
  • Angelic Layer: Adventure/Mecha?/I like Clamp (I guess I should put Sakura, X, and Magic Knight Rayearth here too)
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because i asked if i should start bc it's clearly in the second half and i want to watch and get caught up before the end bc the one piece being revealed would be huge, all over the internet, and it's not just a small spoiler, it's the whole point of the show, what it's all been leading up to
I don't believe it is worth the grind, but you do you.
I mean, I tried some years ago (around 7 years ago)... I couldn't stand it for more than 50 episodes (hahaha, there are more than 1000 now)
In the other hand my niece has a will of steel (and also she is a kid with infinite free time and doesn't get bored by it I guess), she started only 2 years ago and she already caught up with the series.
 
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