Figure 17: Tsubasa & Hikaru

If you've ever seen an anime and thought, "Wow, this anime has really good background art", and "Wow, this episode preview at the end looks amazing!" chances are it was made by Shichiro Kobayashi. An icon of Japanese animation, Kobayashi has had a fruitful career spanning over thirty years as the art director for several iconic shows. While known generally for his vibrant and highly detailed palettes, Kobayashi brought the animation technique known as "postcard memories" or "harmonies" to life alongside director and innovator Osamu Dezaki and character designer Akio Sugino, which are cels of animation superimposed with gouache to give off a lasting image.

Kobayashi's influence defined anime background art, and his output has been replicated by other art directors since—his own studio, Kobayashi Production, consists of students and proteges alike that have equally contributed to formative works in anime.

The following list is a selection of shows that contains Kobayashi's most notable and prettiest backgrounds, and I highly encourage you to check them out.

Documentary on Kobayashi: https://youtu.be/V1tiKOsCz2M
Kobayashi Production's credits: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=1460

people tell me I have weird tastes. But I enjoy a good amount of series. I also watch alot that others havent seen, so I wanted to compile some good ones I have enjoyed that many may have not seen.
Some of these people have seen, but I feel like I rarely hear them talked about.

Maybe those works partially helped me and others to acquire Japanese by the work itself, directly or indirectly. No other hints(english, native subs via sub skimming and negative delay, memorized words) to the japanese being expressed were necessary

Not that Anime in general is difficult to comprehend in the long run, his show and tell and compelling narration helps a bunch. At least the top 500 on myanimelist have compelling stories for everyone.

Accepting suggestions for new stories.

Animes que me acalmam e me deixam com uma sensação de paz, se você está lendo isso eu aceito recomendações de animes parecidos, as recomendações serão adicionadas

This stack will be fullfilled with the best animes released recently since 2000 and has a collection of dense/provocative themes with inventive ideas that you don't see frequently and also has the power to provoke a sensation of joy or angst.

That's what I remember at the moment.

Do you know more? Let me know.

Neon Genesis Evangelion is widely considered one of the most influential anime ever made, and a multitude of series were created to follow the leader, copying from its premise, characters, aesthetics, themes, and any combination of the previous. Here's some anime that can be considered to be EVA clones. Note: Some series that, in contrast, inspired EVA are included at the end.

Original TV anime from 1996 to 2002, I characterize this era as 'post-eva' as a good number of these series contain aspects that resemble Evangelion, some were even inspired by it.

Includes all* anime on the Anime+/GRAPH mahou shoujo/magical girl achievement list

Notes:
If the anime is saved under a different name in the original list (and the ID matches), the listed title is added as a comment. The anime will keep its place according to the list - even if it will no longer be alphabetically correct according to its main title on MAL. This is to make the job of checking and updating these much easier for me.

*The main stacks do NOT include hentai. This is both for people who want to avoid it, and because including it will significantly limit the stack. Please proceed to the Hentai Edition™ in the list below if you're into that.

Links:
★ Club - https://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=67199
★ Original list - https://github.com/anime-plus/graph/blob/main/data/achievement/anime-mahou-shoujo.json
★ Watch order guides (you're gonna need them...) - https://chiaki.site/?/tools/watch_order

The whole series:
★ Part 01 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31473
★ Part 02 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31474
★ Part 03 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31475 <== you are here
★ Part 04 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31476
★ Part 05 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31477
★ Part 06 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31478
★ Part 07 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31479
★ Part 08 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31480
★ Part 09 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31481
★ Part 10 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31482
★ Part 11 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31483
★ Part 12 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31484
★ Part 13 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31485
★ Part 14 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31486
★ Hentai Edition for a) serious completionists and b) horny people - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/31496
★ Manga version - coming soon

Last updated: July 03, 2023
Feel free to let me know if something has been added and I haven't updated in a while, or if I've made a mistake somewhere! <3

Part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/29048

The list is still under construction

Fighting Female Protagonist part Part 2 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/34283

Anime with fighting female MC with fight scenes(mecha fight/fistfight/fight with weapons/fight with powers)

Mainly female cast doing action things
part 1 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35206
part 2 - https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35209

the strain of subversive magical girl-type anime in the age between Utena and Madoka.

"magical girl" in this case is used to loosely mean coming of age stories about girls given fantastic powers and having to use them to deal with introduced antagonisms, often with some analogous theme of transformation

magical girl anime have always grappled with intense feelings and situations, these are of the kind that are more "out there" in tone and form and structure. often quiet and somber, sometimes distressing and weirdly upsetting. not exactly a curation, more of a documentation. arranged by release

Underrated gems that flew under the radar

A list of anime set in Hokkaido, Japan's largest and northernmost prefecture.