Anime Recommendations?

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I think I've had a list of anime I used to peek at back when I was a little younger in the 2010s, but my bookmarks are so disorganized that I don't think I care to really sort through them.

Wouldn't mind some recommendations, though I wouldn't mind the majority of them to be more obscure fare. And I'm cool with old stuff. ...Plus, I guess I'm looking for some interactions and hoping I can make some friends through this. Maybe. I don't know, I'm just extremely bored and trying to find ways to pass the time that doesn't involve doomscrolling through Twitter for hours on end.

I'll start by listing the two I've watched that I think are the most famous which are Sailor Moon & Pokemon but I only watched the first couple seasons of Pokemon.
A lot of the others I've seen are more recent. Some I quit watching because Crunchyroll didn't have all the eps dubbed
Demon Slayer~ last season was still being made when we temporarily canceled Crunchyroll last year.
Mashle: Magic & Muscles
Fairy Tail
The Rising Of The Shield Hero~ new season was still being made when we canceled Crunchyroll but I think came out right after.
Black Butler~ I think another season was in the works when canceled Crunchyroll.
D.Gray-man
Kyo Kara Maoh

These next few have lots of sexual humor
Crayon Shin-Chan
KonoSuba: God's Blessing In This Wonderful World
Jobless Reincarnation
Arifureta: From Commonplace To World's Strongest~ last season was still being made when we temporarily canceled Crunchyroll last year.
How Not To Summon A Demon Lord

Noein. Aquarion. Drifters.

Initial D
Wangan Midnight
Capeta
Azumanga Daioh
Lucky Star
Strawberry Marshmallow
Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan

A lot of these are on my bucket list, but these are all pretty good recommendations so far!

To anyone reading this thread, feel free to shoot some more recommendations at me whenever you feel like it!

I'll add two more, Radiant & A Certain Magical Index

Ergo proxy is great, bit of a slow burner though.

Hellsing ultimate is really good, if you prefer something that gets straight into the action

Pikachu4Prezident64, what do you look for in an anime? That might help give better recommendations.

I'd like to think I try to have a large variety of tastes in genres and whatnot, so pinning down exactly what I like is a bit tricky. But I do love mecha, action and adventure. I'm not just simply mindless action, though; I enjoy slower things, introspective stuff, sweet things, isekai and stuff that usually has a fantastical bent to it in general.

In addition to what others have listed

Macross Plus
Macross 7
Macross Delta
Tenchi Muyo Ryo-Ohki OVA
Tenchi Universe (series and movies)
Tenchi Muyo GXP / Seina Yamada Galaxy Patrol
Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (series and movie)
Mobile Suit Gundam - Iron Blooded Orphans
Mobile Suit Gundam - 8th MS team
Big-O
Ghost in the Shell (original movie)
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex (series and movie)
Star Ocean EX
Great Teacher Onizuka
Soul Eater
Desert Punk
Yu Yu Hakusho
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World
Vandread
Witch Hunter Robin
Lupin III (series and movies)
Appleseed (original and remake - movies)
The Boy and the Beast (movie)
Lensman (movie)

Anything made by Studio Ghibli, but in particular:
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Kiki's Delivery Service
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

There's more I could list, but the quality declines from there, imo.

Dominion Tank Police
Patlabor
Bubblegum Crash / Crisis
Black Magic M-66
The 8th Man / 8th Man After
Casshern: Robot Hunter

For example...

I powered through Red Ranger's anime adaptation in a few days. It's actually pretty good; you can tell it comes from a place of love of both sentai and isekai. I hope they adapt the rest of the manga, although I don't know if the manga has reached its end yet.

A bunch of these other ones are actually on my bucket list too, and some of them I've watched (or was close to finishing before I stopped)! I just need to actually take the time to look at 'em.

What I liked most about Red Ranger is how it handled it's own tropes - both the sentai tropes and the fantasy tropes. It reminded me of "Unofficial Sentai Akiba Ranger" - not an anime, but still an absolutely hilarious japanese show.

I've made it about halfway through Vandread as of this post. I've been taking a break from it for now but I'll get back to it. It's been a pretty fun series so far! Dita's a real cutie.

Dita is an adorable character - esp the way she insists on calling Hibiki "Mr Alien". Keep watching - the 2nd half is just as good, as is the ending.

If you like Vandread, you'd probably like Dual Parallel Trouble Adventure, and the assorted Tenchi series'. They have a similar vibe. Sci-fi isekai mecha aventures, with some fun and silly mixed in.

Should've clarified that I'm halfway through the first season. ^^; But yeah, it is quite adorable. And I really should get back to it soon.

Haven't seen Trouble Adventure yet, but the first Ryo-Ohki OVA I've seen almost all the way through to the end (I've gotten as far as the episode where Mihoshi is first introduced and I think I've seen the fifth episode but I don't remember if I have; it's not committed to memory as well as the first four episodes).

Have you seen Berzerk?