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Nov 9, 2024 6:21 AM
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They are most peoples introduction in the medium, however it does not reflact how anime is actually is in general. Its usually much longer, lasting many seasons or have more episodes in average, And are more shonen- action in style, in which is much more diverse then that
Nov 9, 2024 7:05 AM

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I will recommend Senran Kagura, Hyperdimension Neptunia and Date a Live instead. The Big Three are not that good imo.
Nov 9, 2024 8:09 AM

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I would not recommend any anime to newcomers. Gatekeeping is based.
Nov 9, 2024 1:19 PM

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Nov 9, 2024 3:29 PM

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Honestly I wouldn't. I think there are more effective ways of enticing viewers into the anime medium as you have to be patient when viewing One Piece/Naruto/Bleach
Nov 9, 2024 7:02 PM

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If I know the person, I'd obviously pick something specifically catered to their tastes. But for a general recommendation, I'd have no problem with One Piece, as it's such a catch-all. I wouldn't be recommending that they watch the WHOLE thing or anything, but it covers a wide base. FMAB is another one that I'd recommend, simply because it does so many different things well.
Nov 9, 2024 7:11 PM
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I will recommend Senran Kagura, Hyperdimension Neptunia and Date a Live instead. The Big Three are not that good imo.
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Nov 9, 2024 8:11 PM
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Well, I have only seen part of Bleach, but I wouldn't simply because of the length.
Nov 9, 2024 8:40 PM

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Since it's not 20 fucking 10, that would be a no.
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Nov 10, 2024 10:06 AM
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I don't think the big 3 would be a good idea to recommend as whilst they're good shows. They're also pretty long which would deter them. Look at one piece for example. Over 1100 episodes and I'm convinced the creators don't even know how to end that series.

Smaller 12-24 episode animes with genres they're interested in would be way better for them and if they want to watch Naruto, One piece or any massive long form animes then that's on them.
Nov 10, 2024 4:22 PM

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Yes. Though the big 3 each have there own problems with plenty of filler or bad pacing, I feel there all amazing anime to start with. Especially Naruto as that was one of the anime I watched when I first started. Throughout each of the big 3 there are plenty of amazing characters, emotional moments, funny moments, action packed fights. I feel they all offer something unique in the way each story goes.

If you want amazing fights, then I would say Naruto is the go to, if you want a great journey then onepiece and if you want plenty of emotional moments then bleach. Either way there all good and have there own highlights.


Nov 10, 2024 4:32 PM

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They are some of my favorites, but probably not. All are very long series and could take awhile for someone to finish if they aren't binging. I'd start with something that has 12-24 episodes per season.

Blindly recommending stuff is hard though. It would be easier to know what kind of media they enjoy before I start naming anime for them.
Nov 10, 2024 5:59 PM

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No, if I had to recommend a newcomer I don't think starting with a big 3 is a good idea because there are too many episodes.
Instead of 1 anime like Naruto you could watch over 60 different anime of 12 episodes and I think its better for a newcomer to watch several anime of several different genre/theme to create they're own taste.

Too many newcomers focus only on battle shounen and ignore other Demographics, especially Shoujo/Josei.
Nov 10, 2024 8:37 PM
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Sure. I got into anime because of Naruto, and I don't see why someone else couldn't have the same experience. I mean, it's not like they're forced to finish it ASAP.

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Nov 10, 2024 8:58 PM

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I mean, why not? Naruto was an impetus for me, I know someone who got into anime because of one piece, and bleach could do it for someone else even if it wasn't as appealing to me (at first). I think I would recommend others first, but that doesn't mean I'd exclude the big 3.
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Nov 10, 2024 9:12 PM

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My new big 3 brings something different and exciting to the table than the original big 3.

Jujutsu Kaisen have intense battles and supernatural world of curses and sorcery. it's a such ride from start to finish.

Deep female character development like Maki, Mei Mei, kugisaki, Tsukumo, which is often overlooked in other shounen anime.

Dandadan stands out with its mix of comedy with supernatural Youkai and alien sci-fi and occultic adventures and mysteries, it's also mixed with humor and heartfelt romance .

The story is quite unique and original, it's not about slaying demons and getting stronger and challenging everyone to a fight like other shounen. It keeps you hooked with its unpredictable twists and turns.

Chainsaw Man is dark and Gripping Known for its gritty and brutal storyline, it's a raw emotional anime.

Complex Protagonists struggles and motivations and death make them a deeply compelling and memorable characters.

I believe Each of these series I mentioned offers something new and exciting in shounen genre , making great recommendations for any new anime fan.
Nov 10, 2024 9:25 PM

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yes ofc i think.. for beginners, the Big 3 is the perfect choice to start with
if he is like under 11 then i think he should go with naruto
if he is above 11 then he should go with one piece
after finishing this two i think he is good to go with bleach..
Once they've watched all of the Big 3, they’ll never be the same.. they’ll be hooked for sure..
Nov 14, 2024 4:35 PM

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The big 3? Never heard of them, but apparently it's:
-Naruto
-One Piece
-Bleach
So just battle shounen? Maybe if they're like, a 10 year old with a lot of patience or something...

Nov 14, 2024 5:05 PM

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that depends.
How old are they?
Do they like action shows?
Do they like fantasy?

Id easily recommend naruto to a 10-15 year old boy. Theres a good chance it might resonate.
But to an adult, who knows. Might be better to recommend Death Note at that rate.
To a girl or an adult lady, also who knows. Depends what they like. If they only like things like reality TV or true crime, then i doubt naruto would resonate with them.
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Nov 14, 2024 5:30 PM

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Nope, not at all.
They are way too long, and if there is someone who is completely oblivious to anime yet trying to enter the community, there's no way you can recommend series that are THIS long.
The PERFECT entry-level / beginner anime HAS. TO. BE. DEATH NOTE. Why?
-> It's short (not as short as a 12 ep one ofc, but it's just 37 episodes which isn't a LOT)
-> Popular. So huge fanbase for interaction and all that.
-> enjoyable for people having different tastes.
-> doesn't have your usual anime tropes (present a lot in anime but not really in other media like western.) that might make a newcomer feel weird. Instead it's a more 'normal' experience.
-> its actually good.
-> amazing soundtracks, characters which contribute heavily towards a feeling of nostalgia for death note.
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Nov 14, 2024 6:35 PM

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I thought people agreed that stuff like Death Note was a good entry for newcomers. I really don't agree on the Big 3, as much as I love Shonen.
Nov 14, 2024 6:51 PM

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@thewiru ofc you like some killing bites bullshit 😭
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Wait, you never even watched any of the Big 3, why are you even commenting this?
Nov 14, 2024 7:37 PM

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Nope, are all of them are too long and they're not good at all.

Someone can literally watch 150 different anime with the time they would spend with One Piece.
If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time.

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Nov 14, 2024 8:21 PM

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WTF is The Big 3 anyway? Just watch The Big O instead.
Nov 14, 2024 8:37 PM

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It ain't the early 2000's anymore chief.

Anime has gotten a far larger variety of shows since those days.

I feel like it would be a huge waste to lazily recommend a hugely popular battle shounen to someone who you know has certain interests that are probably more in line with other genres in anime. Why would I recommend Naruto to a rom-com fan when I could have just given them Kaguya-sama instead?
Nov 14, 2024 8:56 PM

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Filler-less Naruto and Shippuden? Absolutely.
Nov 14, 2024 9:23 PM

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No because I myself isn't caught up with them.
Nov 15, 2024 2:05 AM

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Wait, you never even watched any of the Big 3, why are you even commenting this?
@thewiru I have watched many episodes of one piece and a small amount of Naruto
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Nov 15, 2024 4:24 AM
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Not really, no. Been watching some amount of anime for 40+ years now & One Piece was the only one I stayed with for anything close to 100 episodes. My intro to anime was the OG Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato) & and I actually think mega-shonens as the definition of “anime” are way too limiting.


Nov 15, 2024 5:24 AM
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I've been watching anime regularly for 5 years and have not seen any of them... so probably not. Like I'm sure most would enjoy one piece, but then I ask, wouldn't it be better, specially for a new comer to watch a 100, 12 episode long shows instead?

Like just imagine, you could watch, made in abyss, death parade, madoka magica, steins;gate, pluto, frieren, evangelion, cowboy bebop, mob psycho 100 and 50 other shorter classics, or you could JUST watch one piece.
@APolygons2 I see your point, but can't someone just watch both One Piece and everything else you mentioned? I know that not everybody has unlimited free time but, at the same time, I'm not sure.

Personally I have recommended One Piece to a friend of mine that kinda likes anime but they refuse to watch it because there's "no way they would ever watch something with more than 1000 episodes". This is a respectable choice and all but this same person spends hundreds of hours for every single game they play on PS5 or Switch.

Everyone has the right to spend their time however they want regardless, but usually it's not a matter of free time (or lack thereof) is what I'm trying to say. After all, a lot of us in these forums are chronically online weebs in the first place.
Nov 15, 2024 6:12 AM
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Absolutely never, ever. They're the big three for a reason, but they're also a little dated, especially at the start. I'd more so recommend them to slightly longer term anime fans who already know they like the medium and enjoy that type of shounen.

And yes, part of it is because of how long they are. It's much easier to give someone a shorter and more easily consumable series, and I think those are also more likely to hook them in the short term.
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@APolygons2 I see your point, but can't someone just watch both One Piece and everything else you mentioned? I know that not everybody has unlimited free time but, at the same time, I'm not sure.

Personally I have recommended One Piece to a friend of mine that kinda likes anime but they refuse to watch it because there's "no way they would ever watch something with more than 1000 episodes". This is a respectable choice and all but this same person spends hundreds of hours for every single game they play on PS5 or Switch.

Everyone has the right to spend their time however they want regardless, but usually it's not a matter of free time (or lack thereof) is what I'm trying to say. After all, a lot of us in these forums are chronically online weebs in the first place.
@dankmitris I think you misunderstand me, I answered this purely in the context of a "new comer". I wouldn't suggest a 200 hour long RPG to someone who is just getting into gaming either.

It's not a matter of 1,000 episodes not being worth it, it's more that if you're new, you have such a huge variety of things to experience, that putting hundreds of hours into 1 is a bad move.

like when you have seen 5 anime or played 5 games, you don't even really understand your own taste yet, you lack the context to understand what you enjoy less or more compared to the other stuff in the medium. So, if you're going to commit to watching 1000+ episodes, the least you can do is knowing how much you are enjoying it relative to the other stuff you have watched.

Obviously there is merit to longer shows, I just don't think they are the way to go for new comers.

Not that, that should be an issue anymore since there is a wit remake coming out. A well paced one piece, even when it catches up probably won't be more than 400-500 episodes. which is still too much for new comers imo, but that is after it catches up. it's going to be a reseaonable number for a good decade or so.
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Nov 15, 2024 7:57 AM
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I wouldn't recommend anything that I don't watch
Nov 15, 2024 8:16 AM

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As someone who grew up on them and is a fan of all three, no. It's different if you watched them as they were airing weekly, but that high episode count(One Piece's especially)would intimidate a lot of newcomers imo and their time would be better spent first watching dozens of 12-24 episode series instead giving them a better feel for the medium as a whole. Then there's all the filler episodes in Naruto and Bleach to avoid, and the horrendous pacing in post-Timeskip One Piece to endure.
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@dankmitris I think you misunderstand me, I answered this purely in the context of a "new comer". I wouldn't suggest a 200 hour long RPG to someone who is just getting into gaming either.

It's not a matter of 1,000 episodes not being worth it, it's more that if you're new, you have such a huge variety of things to experience, that putting hundreds of hours into 1 is a bad move.

like when you have seen 5 anime or played 5 games, you don't even really understand your own taste yet, you lack the context to understand what you enjoy less or more compared to the other stuff in the medium. So, if you're going to commit to watching 1000+ episodes, the least you can do is knowing how much you are enjoying it relative to the other stuff you have watched.

Obviously there is merit to longer shows, I just don't think they are the way to go for new comers.

Not that, that should be an issue anymore since there is a wit remake coming out. A well paced one piece, even when it catches up probably won't be more than 400-500 episodes. which is still too much for new comers imo, but that is after it catches up. it's going to be a reseaonable number for a good decade or so.
@APolygons2 I now understand better what you mean. Well, I just wrote down my thoughts without focusing on the "newcomer" part as much, because it is something I've heard repetitively from all kinds of people. For example, my friend that I mentioned earlier isn't exactly a newbie but hasn't really watched many anime either.

Maybe I'm a bit biased because One Piece was my second anime, the first one being Death Note. Going more than 10 years back, I was really young, then again 2014 was a different time and I was also a teenager. Although me being a newbie at the time somehow made it easier for me to watch so many episodes, because I hadn't really formed a strong point of comparison yet. The funny thing is that nowadays I rarely watch long shows. I'm not caught up even with One Piece itself anymore, lol. Guess that's what a depressive adult life can do.
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Unfortunately, no as the Big 3 hasn't age well since the 2000s, we are in-fact a better generation for anime/animation in general. the Big 3 came at a time hence they came from an entirely different generation when only Toonami, afternoon or saturday cartoons were a thing. These days we have amass media exposure to get better results for easier to stomach anime recommendations. Ontop of that, more anime has gone seasonal now so that why folks don't forget when it's coming. Plus if you got anime friends they'll said the same and tell you off otherwise

Naruto has filler all across the board.

One Piece is too long animation wise, you get told to read the manga 100% of the time for a much better idea of what's happening -- and plus they are redoing the series anyways due to the recent news as the VAs of the Toei animation can only go on for so long.

Bleach is is 40/60 in favor of Bleach's manga ending have a messed up conclusion, it's anime leaning more towards power scaling channels while the anime basically wasn't even finished properly(?) that and is also has the same Naruto filler episodes problem.


Besides they are much more above tolerable things to watch Anime wise today than back then.
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Of course I would recommend the big 3, I dont think it would be the fist anime I recommend to them but I feel like anyone that is into anime has to at least watch 1 of the big 3 anime. For me my first two anime were Naruto and then One Piece, so I dont think it would make someone shy away from anime, especially if Naruto is their first. Of course if they are not into shounen anime I will recommend them something different. I also see people in this forum calling the big 3 trash or not that good and they are just trying to be different, these the same people that wouldn't dare to put a really popular anime that they enjoyed in their top 10 list because it's too common or would make people think their taste in anime is worse lol.
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Nov 15, 2024 11:14 PM

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I personally wouldn't recommend them. I think for newcomers the huge episode counts espeically in one piece could turn people away from anime. Better showing them some great anime with 12-24 episodes first.
Nov 16, 2024 12:05 AM
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You look at Naruto's episode count and you think "wow, 1000 episodes, that show must have a lot of story to tell" but then when you watch it, it becomes clear that each episode is actually just 2-3 minutes stretched out to 24 minutes by endless panning reaction shots, and that if it was paced like any other regular show, it would be 50 episodes max to tell that entire story including Shippuden.

Watching Naruto literally feels like that studio is wasting your time and I'm not joking about that. If they only have 3 minutes of content, then they should make 3 minute episodes.
Nov 16, 2024 12:18 AM

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I'd recommend them as manga's not as animes. Bleach and Naruto both have terrible filler. One piece has pacing issues.
Nov 16, 2024 12:45 AM

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I think I'd recommend a shorter series. The Big 3 are not only old, each one of them is absurdly long and requires serious commitment for an extended period, which I can't expect out of a newcomer. Instead, I'd show them a 12 or 24 episodes long series/season, perhaps idk Death Note, OPM, Haikyuu, BNHA. There's also FMAB. It is longer but It's not 700 episodes long, It's only 60 episodes, doesn't have any filler and is quite easy to get into. Big 3 I'd only recommend if I'm dealing with a certified shonen enjoyer, you know what I mean, someone who's already had experience with long running battle shounen, like DBZ.

Nov 16, 2024 8:50 AM

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if they're into reading, i'd recommend the one piece manga. otherwise, the anime suffers far too much from dated animation and poor pacing. later on, the characters get excruciatingly flanderized as well

in general, a shorter series is probably a better idea for introducing someone to an entire new medium tbh




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Nov 16, 2024 9:33 AM
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Sure, depends on whether they would like shounen genre in the first place. I find one piece to be too lengthy to get into
Nov 16, 2024 9:41 AM
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Reading them. Not watching them. I'd recommend the newer series to watch, but filler is awful in the original big 3. One Piece will be worth a rec once it's gotten its early portions remade.
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