Any Good Anime?

[ResidentEvil7]

Does anyone know of any good Anime, or Manga?

The ones I have on either 4K or MP4 files I have stored on my flash drive are:
Blue Seed (which I'm watching right now as I type this)
Akira - 1988 English Dub in 4K
Ghost In the Shell - 4K
Grappler Baki
Crying Freeman
Ninja Scroll
Ninja Scroll TV Series
Pokémon Seasons 1, 2 only
Mad Bull 34
Ogre Slayer 1 - 4
Street Fighter II The Animated Movie
Street Fighter II V TV Series
Wicked City
Gunsmith Cats
Black Magic

Anyone know of any Anime that's any good; preferably from the 90s or late 80s?

[neatoman]

Devilman 1987
Devilman Crybaby
Macross
GaoGaiGar
Panty and Stocking
Gurren Lagann
Megazone 23
Metropolis

[AleXviD]

3x3 Eyes OVA I+II
Barefoot Gen
Coyote Ragtime Show
Goku Midnight Eye
Guyver 1989 OVA
Space Adventure Cobra

[ZariusTwo]

Pokemon Indigo/Orange Islands]
Digimon Adventure 01
Digimon Tamers
Cardcaptor Sakura
Dragonball Z up to Perfect Cell
Excel Saga
Martian Successor Nadesico
Professional Golgo 13
Laputa: Castle In The Sky
Dominion Tank Police
Burn Up Excess
Bubblegum Crisis

[IMJ]

Ghost In The Shell 2 is worth being on the list too.
Fist of the North Star
The Vampire Hunter D movies. "Bloodlust" is amazing.

[tmntpower1988]

Beserk
Death Note
One Piece
Naruto

The only animes I've watched are Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Super, Pokemon and One Punch Man. Tokyo Ghoul is an anime I've meant to be getting round to watching at some point, find the theme song catchy. Yu Yu Hakusho is another one I keep forgetting the name of, it looked decent looking when I watched the Yusuke vs Toguro fight on YouTube.

[Bahamut810]

Ya'll suggesting a lot of 'classic' stuff...but stuff not suggested

Any Fate series
My Hero Acadamia
Little Witch Academia
Delicious in Dungeon
Food Wars
Konosuba
OVERLORD (a personal fav)
That time I was Reincarnated as a Slime
Urusei Yatsura (a classic that was reanimated)
Frieren: Journies End (VERY SPECTACULAR AND NOSTALGIC)
Chained Soldier is new and the Manga was awesome
My Dress Up Darling (cosplay and relationships)

[Snowglare]

Originally Posted by Bahamut810

Ya'll suggesting a lot of 'classic' stuff...but stuff not suggested

Any Fate series
My Hero Acadamia
Little Witch Academia
Delicious in Dungeon
Food Wars
Konosuba
OVERLORD (a personal fav)
That time I was Reincarnated as a Slime
Urusei Yatsura (a classic that was reanimated)
Frieren: Journies End (VERY SPECTACULAR AND NOSTALGIC)
Chained Soldier is new and the Manga was awesome
My Dress Up Darling (cosplay and relationships)

Great list! Of the ones I've seen, the only one I didn't care for was Slime. It started well before falling into what is now a common isekai trap, where the protag becomes so obscenely overpowered that nothing presents a threat anymore. After that, it's more like a slice of life show than an action fantasy.

Food Wars, in my opinion, went on a bit long, but it's good fun for 3 1/2 seasons. Frieren is one of the best fantasy series ever; probably the best anime currently airing. Absolutely love it. Delicious in Dungeon is roughly at the same level in manga form. I haven't started the anime yet, but I'm looking forward to it. My Dress Up Darling is the best romance in recent years, another favorite. Some of my own recommendations:

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day - a melancholy story about a group of friends dealing with loss.
Shirobako - an anime about making anime. If you've ever wondered how much work goes into this stuff, check it out.
Bakuman. - along the same lines, there's this manga about making manga. I haven't seen the anime yet, so I can only recommend a read.
Oshi no Ko
Ascendance of a Bookworm - one of the best isekai series, focused more on books than combat
Love After World Domination - if you like sentai, and especially Akibaranger, this parody/romance series is for you.
SpyxFamily - one of the best action comedies around
Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist - title basically says it all. I think many on this forum would appreciate this show about a world where "obscene" things are outlawed.
The Eminence in Shadow - another isekai with, admittedly, an OP protag. I think the concept is handled better here. YMMV

I could go on. These are just a handful of relatively recent bangers. Anime is a virtually endless well of joy.

[Bahamut810]

I have been meaning to read the light novel for Ascendance, I have heard its a really good series.

SpyxFamily is awesome! I have only watched the first half of hte first season but it was very cute and entertaining.

I have been meaning to watch Emenence as well. It looked cool.

Have you seen anything about Reign of the seven spellblades? Been meaning to give this one a go.

Also...forgot to recommend Mushoku Tensei.

[Snowglare]

Originally Posted by Bahamut810

Have you seen anything about Reign of the seven spellblades? Been meaning to give this one a go.

First I've heard of it.

Originally Posted by Bahamut810

Also...forgot to recommend Mushoku Tensei.

Yes! My favorite isekai. It's a bit controversial, but that doesn't bother me. One of the best depictions of depression and anxiety I've seen in fiction. The difficulty Rudeus has in opening up to the world, the fear that everyone is talking about him, laughing at him behind his back, and the fact that he's virtually incapable of coming out of his shell without someone to help and support him, really speaks to me. The best part is, unlike in many stories, he doesn't just have this weakness that he overcomes early on and then we never speak of it again. It's always with him, and when things get rough, he relapses, or comes close to doing so.

[Cowabung-Gal]

4Kids One Piece is pretty good

[Bahamut810]

If you are going bad dubs at least go Ghost stories....

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Cowabung-Gal

4Kids One Piece is pretty good

Ah yes, weird American editing, how I do lament the decreasing invasiveness of it. Remember how once upon a time they literally got away with passing off Macross, Southern Cross, MOSPAEDA and Megazone 23 as one long show despite how they clearly weren't and the editing failed to mask that, just so they could cheat their way to syndication with no regard for the actual quality? Those sure were the days...

Spoiler:

For anyone who is unaware, I might as well explain the plots of these shows and how they attempted to stitch them together into a show called Robotech.

Macross: An alien battleship crashes onto Earth and humanity retrofits it with their own technology, naming it the Macross. The aliens show up to take it back and to prevent them from attacking Earth, the Macross warps into deep space along with the civilians who were living near the vessel. On their way back to Earth it is discovered that the aliens, the Zentradi, are gentically engineered super soldiers in service of "protoculture" and almost identical to humans, not to mention that humans may or may not be an offshoot of protoculture. Their weakness turns out to be exposure to any enjoyment outside of battle (in particular music) and they eventually lay down their arms after a devastating attack on earth, so they can build a new future together.

Southern Cross: Humanity has built a colony on another planet, which turns out to be the homeworld of an alien race, the Zor, who have a somewhat shaky grasp on individuality due to having three bodies per individual. The Zor start a war over who has the right to live there. Significant information is exchanged between the sides when a human soldier who was captured by the Zor is returned to the humans. The Zor plan to release spores to "unify" the planet which partially succeeds but the captured human soldier wants to hurt the Zor no matter the cost and severely dampens the effects (the show got canned so it is unclear what would happen next).

MOSPAEDA: An Alien race has conquered the Earth. The Mars colony sends help but only one soldier survives, and it turns out that the aliens, the Inbit, mostly leave humans alone if they aren't attacking. As it turns out the Inbit are just living on Earth because their own world was destroyed and once they are convinced that Mars will retaliate, they decide to leave.

Megazone 23: A teenage boy and his friends are living in 1980's Japan and when they find a weird motorcycle, they are drawn into a conspiracy. Turns out it is not 1980's Japan, it's the 2500's and they are on a spaceship with a fake habitat that just looks like 1980's Japan, it's all being done to prevent people from trying to take control of their lives. The boy swears he'll get this undone (there is more but none of it was used for Robotech).

Now… Robotech erased the idea that humanity may be an offshoot of Protoculture, and instead made it so that "protoculture" is instead the fuel source from MOSPAEDA and the Zor the creators of the Zentradi, even though they still implied the proper story early on so this made no sense. Then they tried to claim this colony planet in Southern Cross is Earth to keep the plot centered on Earth, even if clearly can't be Earth and if the Zor are the replacement for Protoculture, then why they choose to fight themselves instead of sending the Zentradi (who obviously don't show up) is strange because that contradicts their established tactic. Then it is explained that the spores somehow alert the Inbit and their interest in just finding a new home is replaced with wanting… Conflict with the Zor? And the human soldier became a clone of their kind for some bizarre reason I can't understand the purpose of. Then the plot of MOSPAEDA is screwed up because of that... Gross.
But the changes to Megazone 23 might take the cake. In for it to make sense, they flipped the premise. Instead of the 80's habitat being fake and the reality being spaceship, it's the other way around, it takes place on Earth and the space stuff is just some pointless simulation and what is happening is because of the Zor, the result being that it goes nowhere and the plot is rendered entirely pointless. It's so bad that the guy in charge of the translation, who was fine with all the other nonsense, actually disowned it.

If you can't tell, Robotech is garbage and you really are better off just watching the actual shows it's cobbled together from.

[newfan]

I'm currently watching Jujutsu Kaisen -
So far I'd say it's worth a watch unless you dislike the supernatural in your Anime/tv. I'm only at the end of season 1 so far though.

As others have already meantioned, Death Note. This was receommended to me for my first Anime watchtrough.

Old School - I liked Inuyahsa. Unfortunatly though, after season 1 couldn't find it streaming anywhere so I had to buy the DVDs to watch the rest of it, wasn't a waste at least.

Edit: Missed off Akuma Kun, the new series. I can see there was a former series and long running manga history. I liked it enough to check out season 2 if it gets one.

[ResidentEvil7]

Last night I was watching Street Fighter II V the first time in several years and I forgot how much I liked it. 29 episodes of lots of fighting.

[CyberCubed]

The original run of Dragonball and Dragon Ball Z is the pinnacle of anime storytelling.

[Bahamut810]

Has anyone seen any of Azuki Elementals? Saw part of a trailer and it looked neato but didnt know if it was worth the watch.

[Iroh]

If you're looking for slap stick comedy anime from the early 2000s, I recommend Azumanga Daioh. It's pure goofiness with a hint of adorableness.

[Sage Ninja]

I have been watching the apothecary diaries. It takes place in a fictionalized version of ancient China about a girl named Mao Mao who is an apothecary. She lives in the red-light district and has ties to a high-end brothel (her mother was a high-ranking courtesan), she lives with her adoptive father who used to be a court apothecary and she learned all her skills from him. She gets kidnapped and sold to the inner palace where the emperor keeps all of his concubines as a servant, but eventually gets recruited to be a food taste tester. This is because Mao Mao has an obsession with poisons and experiments on herself so much that she has built up an immunity to most poisons.

This anime is great. It is on crunchyroll and is basically House M.D. if it took place in ancient China and has a lot of palace/political intrigue with a new medial (or poison) mystery that needs to be solved with an intricate overarching plot tying serval instances together. I love it.

Official trailer



Mao Mao as a taste tester



Mao Mao finding out why a concubine is sick because of toxic make-up that was supposed to be banned



Mao Mao uses her apothecary knowledge to make a bomb for a military officer friend



Mao Moa explains the harsh reality of living near brothels in the redlight district



Seriously this anime is good. Please give it a try. Mao Mao is possibly the best protagonist I have seen for a while. She is relatively calm in nearly all situations and has a very pragmatic detached outlook on the harsh realities of her life and accepts how powerless she is in her world and focuses on her passion of being an apothecary. She is compassionate in her own way and whatever little sway she does have due to her knowledge as an apothecary she tries to help people who are equally as powerless as her or worse off while trying to not draw too much attention to herself. Because the concubines in the rear palace where she is sold too is a cutthroat place where murder by poison often occur to work your way to becoming the emperor's head wife (the empress), she is good at being able to cure ailments and sus out ill intent and tasting poison because of her immunity. Also, I love the aspect of the ancient medicine and what was known back then and how the writing uses this to do their own pseudo-CSI type of mysteries.