Over the years, I’ve tried a few times to create some kind of recommendations list. I then realized that I am not particularly good at recommending anime to people because all I watch these days are western animation, mecha, racing, and eat a pint of ice cream remembering a time when anime was good and not full of horrid isekai bullshit. Alas, this is what happens when you hit forty. I’ve been watching Japanese cartoons now since I was about fifteen. That’s twenty-five years of this shit. This list hasn’t even been updated since 2017.
But with age comes wisdom, I guess, and if I want the kids these days to actually have a solid appreciation for some of the good shit that has held up this medium over the decades, I have to do my part. So I have put together a number of lists roughly by interest or demographic of shows you should watch, a quick-take on them, my score, and where you can find them now.
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My Personal Top Ten Anime of All Fucking Time COMMA Bitch
Top Five Mecha Series That Are Not Gundam or Evangelion
What to Watch After Your Sixteenth Rewatch of Kimetsu no Yaiba
Five Anime Series with Good Autistic-Coded Characters
The Anime Movies Before 2010 Guide
A Gentleman’s Guide to Fanservice Series of Culture (18+)
Modern Streaming Platform Gems
Old School Toonami Favorites