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[Worosei]

Best Action/Fantasy Romance

Best Anime in a school setting -
or Anime with the best school (to go to)

Best anime with a moronic male lead

[elricbro15]

Do I dare invade our List of the Week thread with suggestions from Sothis?

She's posted a thread wanting to know what some of the best anime are for new fans from any genre. I suggest that we could help out with this by just going down the list... or maybe doing more than one a week to help it go faster. Same number of votes, same everything. (and you could also include suggestions from the other thread, assuming that there's no double posting.

And I think this would work particularly well because I think if people see a list too long when they're getting started that they'd get a bit overwhelmed. Once they have a few suggestions, they can watch those and head over to the anirec to see what else they'd like.

[Cetonis]

Well, if you saw my post in said thread, I really think that without some kind of guidelines, definition, etc. it's pretty much a wide open question and one could make a case for just about any given anime based on some reason or another. I wouldn't really want to impose my particular guidelines on voters either, so it'd probably wind up being just as much of a jumbled mess as sothis' thread is.

[Worosei]

I really like that idea though, having a broad spread is good. There are so many genres of anime and different types, that a new anime watcher would be daunted.

Its interesting to see what sort of anime and which genre they come from people choose as a 'newbie' friendly anime...

The only thing is that there's already a thread for it, and it could become a mess

[VivisQueen]

Best mecha battle of all time! (Can be duels or melees - just has to be about fighting and mecha)

[Sandbar]

Hmmm....my votes would be for....

Top 5 epic-in-scope animes (think this was already mentioned)
Top 5 characters you wouldn't mind being trapped on a deserted island with.
Top 5 eccentric characters.
Top 5 animes with the best ensemble cast.
Top 5 animes with a fully realised world (eg., culture, language, history).
Top 5 cutest anime characters (ones you would just love to take home and cuddle!)
Top 5 most hard-to-follow animes that need a 8 year post-graduate course just to understand what it was all about.
Top 5 animes that divide opinion (people either intensely hate, or defend with all their passion). Shouldn't include the more controversial genres in this.
Top 5 animes with the least amount of filler episodes. Or ones with the most.
Top 5 of the scariest spine-chilling animes. Ones that you wouldn't want to watch alone.
Top 5 characters with the most weirdest proportioned bodies.
Top 5 animes you would be embarassed being caught watching by other anime fans.
Top 5 animes you would be embarassed being caught watching by your mother.
Top 5 animes you wish would be turned into live action.
Top 5 animes with a world/universe/society you wouldn't mind living in.
Top 5 animes with the best animation.

Umm...that's all I could think of.

Cheers,
Sandbar

[ace52387]

Originally Posted by Sandbar

Top 5 of the scariest spine-chilling animes. Ones that you wouldn't want to watch alone.

This I would like to see! I haven't seen a really scary Anime yet, but I think as a medium there's plenty of potential for horror.

Most touching, or heart-wrenching Anime. Or you could go with Anime with the most touching or heart-wrenching scene.

[Sandbar]

Originally Posted by ace52387

This I would like to see! I haven't seen a really scary Anime yet, but I think as a medium there's plenty of potential for horror.

Most touching, or heart-wrenching Anime. Or you could go with Anime with the most touching or heart-wrenching scene.

Agreed. On both counts. I also think like you that as a medium, anime has enormous potential for scaring the pants off people as well as being heart-wrenching. I haven't really seen any of either yet, as I am only really recently new to anime, so I would love to see peoples lists on both areas. Spine chilling and tear inducing.

Cheers,
Sandbar.

[sarwor248]

I think Sandbar's idea about the ones you want to see as a live action is a fun one

[kani]

Top 5 designed/styleful series

I'm watching Zetsubousensei right now...