First Anime (Sortof)

[Dr. wonderful]

Salior moon.

What? The theme song had me hooked.


"Fighting evil by moonlight..."

 

[Dapper Ninja]

man guys
FLCL is best answer ever cuz it's soooo randomtastic

FLCL isn't exactly something you'd recommend to someone getting into anime.

I'd suggest Cowboy Bebop or Trigun.

again i disagree, with only 6 episodes in it you dont sink too many episodes into it, it has an amazing dub, and it has a quirky sense of humor

Don't get me wrong, FLCL is awesome, but it's also very, very insane, to the degree that it might be off-putting to people new to anime.

 

[Sentox6]

Cowboy Bebop is a good recommendation, although it's not as "fun" as ATLA. On the other hand, if you don't mind something somewhat darker, Black Lagoon is great. Both of those actually have superior english dubs, imho (you may think otherwise). My approach is usually to watch the english dub (if available) first and see if I can stand the voices or not. If not, I watch it subbed. I find the attitude of "sub is always superior" to be a little strange. After all, how do you know if the Japanese voice acting you're listening to is good or bad? It's more a case of ignorance is bliss, I think.

Even if you don't much go for the spiritual stuff, the first three seasons of Bleach are excellent. Can't stand the english dub on this one, though.

As far as movies go... Sword of the Stranger is a good one.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Hellsing Ultimate, Death Note, Bakemonogatari, Baccano! and Trigun are great to start.
Watch the dub for Baccano and (maybe) Trigun.
Also: Sword of the Stranger is a pretty good movie.
Edit: I forgot Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Shamploo. Both are great starters.

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

The question if what kind of movies do you like watching?

The mainstream anime are things like Pokemon, Yugioh, Dragonball, Naruto, Bleach

I guess an all rounder would be full metal panic - it's generally light love comedy with a storyline, gundams, action, and other stuff.

There are better ones, but you have to decide what you want. My ex I managed to get to watch School rumble and Ouran host club.

If you're for a love comedy from the point of a guy you can try Love Hina (that's what I really started watching as a first anime), though after a while you'll see all the things from it are repeated time and time again.

If you're for mystery go watch Death note or Code Geass.

If you're for gundam, go watch gundam or Evangelion. If you're for

If you're for extra creepyness/mindfuckery, go watch Higurashi no naku koro ni, Narutaru, Elfen Lied, Welcome to the NHK.

If all else fails, go watch Ebichu, the housekeeping hamster.

Edit: PS I prefer sub (no dub), because the voice actors sound more in character, enthusiastic and real in general. Plus they stay the same no matter which group subbed it, AND they come out earlier.

Edit Edit: Sure feels like /a/ in here.

 

[superline51]

One of my all time favorites is Cowboy Bebop. And I mostly always watch anime subbed, but the English voice acting for Bebop is top notch.

 

[CatsAttackAgain]

school days was my first anime (silently crys)

 

[EBHughsThe1st]

The original Dragonball.
*sigh* I miss the days when Launch existed and Yajirobe was important.

 

[Satin6T]

I'm pointing you over to the only anime I've ever liked.

Paranoia Agent.

It's several hours of continuous, animated brilliance.

...So...

...Yeah.

so much win

 

[theshadavid]

Naruto!

 

[Mr.Napier]

Id recommend Gurrenn Lagann pretty damn good and still cultural relavent

 

[Nyce1]

Dragon Ball Z and Ghost in the Shell

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

dragon ball Z the original when i was 5.....only saw a few ep.

 

[Darktau]

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

 

[Ossian]

About to watch Full metal Alch after the cowboy one, but some people are saying watch the new brotherhood one, Now I'm confused, and I don't want to watch some of one before I switch, would kill the mood.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Either Dragon Ball Z or Gundam Wing.

 

[Steppin Razor]

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.

 

[Tiny116]

*snip*

Go for GunXSword one of my favourite animes. And if your not into spirits and the like it'll be a good one to start with.

 

[maninahat]

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.

 

[JohnSmith]

Cowboy Bebop

It's not my favourite show, but it's usually well loved even by people that dislike anime. No spiritual stuff or monsters, just sci-fi.

edit. Wait a tick, you don't like spiritual stuff but you like Avatar: The Last Airbender?.........Hmmm.

Cowboy Bebop is full of awesome and cool. I would also recommend that if you are going to watch hellsing go with the english dub because it is set in england also try to track down the OVA its much better.