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Top 10 anime you have to watch (even if you hate anime)

by admin on Nov.23, 2008, under Top 10 lists

FLCL

FLCL stand for FLIctonic KLIpple Waver Syndrome. An adolescent psychological skin hardening syndrome. A common affliction where children grow horns from trying too hard. FLCL is just one of those things you have to experience. The single coolest anime ever created by human beings.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

The mutant offspring of Seinfeld and an Ingermar Bergman movie, SZS is about a chronically depressed teacher that constantly tries to attempt suicide. The class he teaches consists of an assortment of girls with various personality disorders. There’s no plot whatsoever, the shows premise consists mainly of taking a japanese phrase or idiom and applying it , often to the extreme, to real life situations.

Cowboy Bebop

The best , and probably only, space musical. It’s very hard to place it in a genre because every episode differs greatly from the last. The soundtrack is awesome and and the entire series has a very retro 70s feel to it. It’s almost impossible not to like this series.

Darker than Black

If Heroes was an anime, it would probably be a lot like Darker Than Black. More mature than most other anime, it has an incredibly intricate plot line that can be hard to follow. The art is smoother than I’ve seen in almost any other anime.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Truly epic. A brutal psychological drama with a multitude of Christian references, but at its heart a powerful human story. It unravels a bit at the end due to budget constraints, but it’s still the best mecha-anime ever made.

NHK ni youkoso

A story about a recluse, an akiba-ke game developer, a girl with some sort of god complex and a huge goverment conspiracy to turn people into NEETs and hikikomoris.

Azumanga Daioh

It has absolutely no real plot, but that’s what makes it so awesome. This is japanese gag-comedy at it’s finest. The characters are also incredibly awesome, just the warped genius of Osaka makes this worth watching.

Death Note

Death Note is one the most unique and mind-blowing anime in recent history. The anti-hero protagonist is given the note book of a death god and the power to eliminate anyone by just writing down their name. It develops into a intricate cat and mouse game with more plot twists that you can shake a stick at.

Haruhi

Probably the anime with the most devoted fan base ever (with the possible exception of lucky star). On the surface it may seem like an ordinary anime but the show goes a lost deeper than you’d expect. It’s a sci-fi high school comedy that only barely scratched the surface of the plot in its first season.

Abenobashi

This show makes FLCL seem coherent. It’s incredibly fast paced and the art style is hectic at best and crude at its worst but it’s still very entertaining and has an awesome seeiyu cast.