Steins;Gate

All of these anime feature at least one main character that is in some way intelligent, this intelligence can come in different forms, from a war strategist to a baseball player, you'll find it here!

Additions are bound to be added later.

Themes of corruption, drugs, gag violence, biker culture, and action/sci-fi/supernatural

Anime starring a group of friends or classmates.

These are my personal recommendations for newbies getting into anime. There's plenty of variety in the titles I've selected, which should give a decent idea as to what anime is capable of as a storytelling medium (whether it be the good, the bad or the utterly bizarre) and should help in developing individual taste and preferences, using which budding anime fans can branch out and discover more niche and specific anime based on their predilections. The order in which the titles have been listed is roughly what I would recommend watching them in, but it can be messed around with according to the viewers' liking.

thrills & chills guaranteed

Sometimes, anime characters in anime speak in English, either because they meet foreigners or because they go to other countries or just because they think it's cool. This often leads to funny moments.

This stack is a collection of anime where characters speak English (Engrish) in different situations. The focus is on anime which have longer segments of English or where the English is used to create funny situations.

Real bangers that will leave your mind blown or your eyes tearing up.

Anime with Trap Characters!
No reverse traps.

What does "Otaku" even mean? Is it good or bad?

Anime that is adapted from a video game.

These animes were the landmarks in anime industry. Critically acclaimed shows and popular for its story, characters, development, and the amazing experience that the audience might feel. Some of them are old and modern, but it has the same level of "masterpiece" that I've seen so far.

This collection was composed of mystery and horror animes. Some of animes were purely mystery and some of them were combination of both. They are great shows that will make your mind blown and thrilled at the same time. It may be the animes aren't meant for everyone but I still hope you'll give it a try. They are still enjoyable to watch.

We've all experienced that frustrated feeling of enjoying an anime, only to find out that the rest of the show will never be fully animated or it has a horrible, rushed, incomplete, unsatisfying ending. Here is a list of anime with endings that are so fulfilling and complete that they will leave you with nothing but a heart full of contentment and/or bittersweetness. List was created through collective data from multiple websites of people's answers as to what shows are considered to have satisfying endings.

Every animated media that has been made, in some way has the idea to tell a story, and to express a feeling onto the watcher. But then, there are some series which has a particular way to evocate it's emotions, and they use different tools to do that. Thought provoking writing, displaying the characters' internal monologues, their struggles and fears, using very particular cinematographic angles, and using contrasting styles of animation, colouring and highly symbolical and metaphorical imagery - these are some of the few hallmarks that the said animation is having psychological themes, and that it is avant-garde in it's approach. This is not limited to any genre, as well.

I do realize that animation like this may not be for everyone, but I do firmly believe in it's artistic merits and integrity. Media like this allows us to peek into the human psyche and probably our own too, and it does provides us with often interesting viewpoints of our world, even if fractured through the prism of the animated fiction. Shows like that also likes to ask us questions without answers, to give us moral dilemmas without solid conclusion, or to put it short, to make us think.

The shows that were picked follows a pattern, the ones which are more straightforward, less abstract and easier to get into will be first, while the list goes down, the more complex and obscure the works will get.

List of anime featuring at least one LGBT+ character that aren't BL or GL. I try to only put those that are either confirmed canon (in story or by the author) or so explicitly implied that there's little to none other interpretation.

>>> Not all of these are "perfect" representations. The more controversial portrayals have a warning in the comments. <<<



For the "not BL/GL" rule I went with whatever the anime is tagged as on MAL (though some of these I believe should've been tagged when they're not...). List might change as MAL keeps editing stuff.

Feel free to dm if there's anything important I missed or you want to yell at me for being wrong. Please note that some of these I either haven't seen at all or watched long ago and don't remember well, so don't expect this to be 100% accurate.

--- Includes suggestions from AnnaSartin, Zuclyn, eblf2013, DigiCat, Mione48, and RetroHead_