Must Sees
The very best of the best.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica - The very best anime of 2011. Masquerading as a stereotypical magical girl anime, it forces a darkly Faustian plot through the weak moral values of the genre.
- The magic of the narrative and the hidden secrets within turned otakus of trivial background into cryptographers, mathematicians, philosophers, and spectulating intellectuals within weeks. Nowhere else will you find a fanbase just as enlightened.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - It's Evangelion done right. GAINAX's Gurren Lagann is a return to the glorious mecha anime that made Japanese TV worth watching in the first place.
- End of Evangelion -
- Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Prussian militarized fighting alchemists with a touch of Eastern magic FTW. Yes.
- Trigun - FUCK YEAH SPACE WESTERNS
Great idea, bad execution. Still worth a watch for cultural importance.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion - GAINAX's classic mecha deconstruction of the 1990s. The mess of Christian symbolism and it's indecipherable ending caused no end of aggravation from it's fans.
- Fullmetal Alchemist - Prussian militarized fighting alchemists FTW. Not as cool when they all go to the Nazis.
The trailblazers that made anime worth watching in the first place.
- Akira - The dark, futurepunk movie that began the trend of fighting teenagers. It's pretty good.
- Dragonball Z - If you were a little kid in America, it wasn't easy to miss this series.