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De los amores que he tenido elijo el que está dejando respirar y cuando me falta el aire, me da del suyo en un beso apasionado.

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Hello, you watch a lot of shows! Gimme some good anime reccomendations!

Probably shouldn’t have come at me with this on anon since I have no idea what you like, dislike, your tastes in general, what you’ve already seen, etc, but hey what do I care, ask and you shall receive.

I’m gonna try give recommendations that are more personal to me, like yeah obviously you should watch Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood but if you’ve asked anyone ever for anime recommendations you’ve heard that a billion times. If you’re asking me, you wanna hear what I have to say, and yeah do watch FMAB but like, you know.

My first proper recommendation for this post is Flip Flappers, which I’m immediately mentioning because it’s the most niche show I really love and way more people need to watch it. It’s a crazy psychedelic magical girl yuri show that explores a girl’s sexuality and coming of age through various delightful and colourful worlds and is filled to the brim with symbolism and thematic depth and all that big brain stuff.

Moving on from that though, my number one favourite anime and generally the one I immediately go to when I’m asked for recommendations is Puella Magi Madoka Magica. A 12 episode + 1 movie magical girl show that takes a very unconventional approach to telling a pretty conventional story, yet one that’s so loaded with crazy rich thematic depth and symbolism, absolutely phenomenal character writing, and some of the best art design I’ve ever seen. It manages to go so far beyond what you might expect the genre to be capable of while also holding nothing but love and respect for the genre, while at the same time being extremely accessible to people that don’t know anything about magical girls, or even people that have never seen an anime, even in spite of its aforementioned depth. If you want something you can go crazy in-depth and read shit tons of actual academic writing on, you can watch this, but if you just wanna turn your brain off and watch something with a great plot and great characters, the show’s perfect for that too. Plus if you’re dub only I can confirm the dub’s really solid too, it doesn’t really hold up to the sub imo but if you really don’t want to watch subs this show still has you covered better than some others.

If you wanna get into magical girl hell, I’d also recommend Cardcaptor Sakura, Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, and if you can tolerate some repetition, Sailor Moon. First is the most delightfully sugary sweet show I’ve ever seen, second’s a sort of cooler edgy action show with darker themes that’s really enjoyable, and the last is, well, it’s Sailor Moon. Can’t really go wrong with it. That being said the first two are both 70+ episodes, and Sailor Moon is 200, so they’re big investments. But I’d definitely say they’re worth it.

My second favourite anime and number 1 recommendation if you’re curious about cute girl or slice of life anime is K-On, which is kind of just the best slice of life anime ever. 4, later 5 cute girls are in a high school band where they spend a lot of time just lazing around being friends, and it is utterly delightful from start to finish, there’s a shocking amount of nuance to the character writing and the way the girls’ personalities are exemplified through not just dialogue, but even body language is incredible, the direction in the show is very strong in general. Their development both as individuals and as a group is so gradual that you might not even notice it, but when you go back to the beginning after finishing its 41 episodes and movie, you’d be amazed at just how different the girls actually are. And it’s not just a “you know them better” type thing, they really do feel like more matured people afterwards. Simply a joy.

For more slice of life, Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka, New Game, Yuru Camp, and Girls’ Last Tour are personal favourites. The first two are especially cute with some of the best animation and cutest character designs in the genre, and mostly function as delightfully entertaining cute girl comedy shows, I’d recommend them, they’re sweet. GochiUsa has 24 episodes, 2 OVA episodes, and a third season’s coming, so it’s a good time to get into it, and New Game just has 24 episodes and the one OVA. The latter two fall into the iyashikei genre, which focuses more on being relaxing than like, out loud funny, though they are both that. Type of stuff you’d maybe watch an episode or 2 of after a long day, or before bed. Yuru Camp’s about a cast of cute girls that do camping, and of particular appreciation is the fact that the main character’s an introvert who prefers being alone but that’s never treated as a character flaw, the show understands the value of being on your own as well as it understands the value of being in a group, and both are treated equally, which is a really sweet thing to happen in a genre where introversion generally is a character flaw. Girls’ Last Tour on the other hand follows two cute girls in a post-apocalypse world where they sort of contemplate and philosophise on the nature of existence and some other fairly heavy stuff, and it’s an extremely great time, the writing’s impressive and it doesn’t feel like it’s wanking itself off over being big brained, it just actually wants to let these girls talk and they do it well. I’ve only seen this show once and it was over 2 years ago and I still remember so many amazing moments from it, it’s a great time. Both are 12 episodes, though Yuru Camp’s getting a short series next season, a proper season 2, and even a movie, so uh, great time for that one as well.

My 3rd favourite anime and the best high school drama I’ve ever seen is Hibike Euphonium, which tells the story of Kumiko, a girl in a high school concert band and straight up the most human character I’ve ever seen in a work of fiction. Hibike’s worth watching for Kumiko alone, her character is so fucking dynamic and believable that it’s unbelievable, ironically. I feel like Kumiko has more depth than people I actually know IRL. The show’s brilliant outside of her too though, the specific implications that being in concert band has on everybody’s lives are written in a very interesting and relatable way, and all the character relationships and dynamics are super great, plus it’s probably the prettiest show I’ve ever seen. Incredible time from start to finish. 26 episodes, an OVA, a sort of side story type movie, and a sequel movie that’s yet to be made available on piracy sites but people have seen it, plus an as-of-yet-undisclosed-format sequel to that which we’ll see at some point in the future hopefully.

Hibike has some yuri in it so I may as well mention Bloom Into You as another brilliant yuri series, the direction is phenomenal in creating a very uniquely romantic mood, and the character writing is some of the best I’ve ever seen, our main character, Yuu, is comparable to Kumiko in how human she feels, and the dynamic between her and her main “love interest” is completely unlike anything I’ve ever seen, it’s really great. Nice easy 13 episodes. Still talking about romance, this year’s Given is a boy’s love show that falls into literally none of the usual trappings of that genre, it’s a bit like K-On in that it’s something of a slice of life where everyone’s in a band, but like said it is a romance, and the romance is really well written, the character writing yet again feels really believable and everyone has great chemistry, etc. I feel like it was fairly under the radar when it aired because nobody cares about boy’s love but it really is a great time, I’d encourage anyone to give it a shot. 11 episodes, unusually, and a movie coming out next year.

I mentioned Flip Flappers already so just to finish my top 5 favourite anime, we’ve got Mob Psycho 100. I’ve kind of thought to myself once or twice that this might just be the best anime of all time. In so far as, objectivity’s bullshit because it’s defined by consensus opinion of what is and isn’t good and that consensus can change so in 300 years every modern masterpiece may be considered shit, but Mob Pyscho 100 has perhaps the highest amount of things that appeal to the most amounts of people to their best execution imaginable, with its biggest competition imo being Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Not to say either are my favourite obviously I already said that’s Madoka, so if you wanna hear me expand on this feel free to drop another ask, but the basic point is that Mob’s really really good. Amazing character writing, genuinely hilarious comedy, the best animation on this list with a very unique and appealing art style, and fucking kickass shounen battles. A series of exceptionally high highs and basically no lows. 25 episodes and an OVA is what you need to watch, but honestly even the hour long recap special is worth your time, that’s how great every element of this show is. Also a super accessible show, dub might be good idk, you can show this one to somebody that’s never even heard of anime and they’ll have a great time.

Mob Pyscho’s kind of a shounen so let’s drop more recommendations in that genre. This year’s Dr Stone is a 24 episode show with another season coming where all of humanity gets petrified in stone for 3700 years and so most of science and technology and all that stuff kinda just degrades and we’re basically back to pre-human history. But a couple of characters wake up from the petrification, including our main character, Senku, a supergenius who aims to sort of speedrun human history and use all of his scientific knowledge to save all of humanity. What’s great is that Senku’s a supergenius character without being A) an insufferably cynical prick and B) a God, dude makes mistakes, miscalculates, and has to rely on other people to make progress. It’s great, and that sense of progress is one of the best thing’s about the show, the characters are kind of always working towards a long term goal and whenever that goal is achieved it’s obviously super gratifying, but during the processes they tend to make other stuff that serve multiple purposes in the narrative, or you’ll see something we made earlier get reused again for something completely different, it’s all really great. Show’s just a perfect balance of instant gratification and long term satisfaction and so the entire show’s just incredibly fun from start to finish. Great time.

If you’re down for sports, or maybe have no experience in the genre and want to see what it’s got to offer, I’d check out Kuroko’s Basketball. The show’s a shounen as well where every character may as well have fucking superpowers, and it operates on 1000% hype all of the time, from start to finish the show’s a pure gleeful adrenaline rush with surprisingly solid character writing, a brilliant job at creating narrative stakes and having buildup and payoff and all that nice sauce, and it’s just, it’s so fucking sakuga all the time. I didn’t think I’d care for this show before watching it but it’s honestly one of my favourites. 75 episodes, 4 OVAs, and a sequel movie, so it’s a bit of a long one but hey if you’re willing to then, go for it.

One last shounen, and one I think most people have heard of, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Summing up the appeal of JoJo in a single sentence is kind of hard, not because of “haha jojo no context is so crazy lol”, but because the nature of the parts separating the stories means JoJo has like, pretty distinct appeals per part. The best way to put it is probably to say that JoJo is a multigenerational battle shounen series, following entire family lineages in their own completely unique and often fairly self-contained stories, which consist of over-the-top flamboyant manly men fighting in over-the-top flamboyant battles, almost everything in every part being treated with the same excessive and fun levity all the time, it’s really great. I know without seeing JoJo it’s easy to be like “haha za warudo amirite” but if you really sit down and properly give the show a shot as well, you’d realise that there’s actually a lot to genuinely appreciate in it, beyond just funny memes and stuff. 5 parts currently adapted to anime, 9 episodes for part 1, 17 for part 2, 48 for part 3, 39 for part 4 and 39 for part 5. Also a 3 episode OVA series starring one of the main characters for part 4, though only 2 of the episodes are actually out at the moment.

Let’s talk adventure shows since JoJo has “adventure” in the title and I want any opportunity to segue as possible. My other 2 favourite adventure shows are A Place Further Than The Universe and Made in Abyss. The former is a 13 episode coming of age story about 4 cute girls that, each for their own independent reasons, choose to go to Antarctica, and it’s all handled in a very grounded and emotional way, with once again, phenomenal character writing that sells you on the girls’ friendship better than so many other shows, and amazing execution of all that great setup and payoff stuff, etc, etc. I’ve not officially written a Top 10 Favourite Anime list but this is absolutely in it, and I’d definitely call it one of the decade’s best. Made in Abyss meanwhile is set in a purely fictional setting in which a giant abyss several thousands of kilometres deep and encompassing numerous ecosystems with massively diverse biology is square in the centre of an island our main character, a 12 year old girl, lives on. While exploring the titular abyss she comes across a little robot child, and the two set off to find the former’s mother and the latter’s origins. This show is like the third one in this post that could be called the most beautiful show I’ve ever seen, the backgrounds especially are fucking stunning, there’s not a shot in this show that isn’t amazing wallpaper fuel. And then the sense of adventure is so great because that titular abyss is just such an amazing spectacle that always lives up to the hype that it has. And then there’s a genuine sense of danger as well, some really fucked up things happen in this show actually, because shockingly, nature doesn’t give a fuck about two children. Reg and Riko’s dynamic is one of physically strong but mentally weak and physically weak but mentally strong, which has been done in a lot of places before, but I think the simplicity works really well for telling a story that’s really simple and yet incredibly grand, it’s a great time from start to finish. 13 episodes, sequel movie coming out.

I can’t come up with a good segue. Isekai’s a good meme, let’s talk about those. My 2 favourite good isekai are No Game No Life and KonoSuba. Both are very much comedies first I’d say, the former focusing on a pair of supergenius otaku siblings that basically try to take over their world and make it great for everyone, while the latter focuses on a dude that goes through the usual isekai process but his party are a bunch of hilariously retarded fuckups that make his life a living hell. Both are hilarious, former’s my preferred one due to I think better character writing and getting to be yet another show that’s ridiculously beautiful from start to finish, latter’s also a great time though, Megumin best girl. No Game No Life is 12 episodes, a really lame prequel movie, and no season 2 yet, meanwhile KonoSuba is 20 episodes, 2 OVAs, and a movie I haven’t seen yet, but apparently it’s the reason cinema was invented so.

Just gonna start plugging random shit at this point. Studio Trigger drop some great shows a lot of the time. Kill la Kill is a 24 episode (+2 special episodes) sort of over the top magical girl shounen type story with a great sense of humour and more off the top hype levels, but there’s also crazy thematic depth if you want to look into that, and the characters are so fucking fun and memorable and all that delightful shit. It’s got a very unique flair to it, the only comparable show I can even think of is another recommendation for this list, Gurren Lagann, which does similar things but with mecha, characters I like a bit less, but hype levels that go way, way, way further, characters are LITERALLY throwing galaxies at each other by the end. Also a really incredible coming of age narrative with some great thematic depth if you care to look. 27 episodes that matter, but there’s some other sauce I haven’t checked out yet. Trigger also made SSSS.Gridman, which is one of my favourite shows from last year. It’s a show about tokusatsu stuff – a giant mecha fights off giant kaiju, all of which are made by one Akane Shinjo, who is probably the best sympathetic villain I can think of in any anime I’ve ever seen. Yeah, really. She’s an absolutely phenomenal character and the world the show exists in and, without spoiling anything, the way in which her mental state relates to that world, is endlessly fascinating, and blah blah thematic depth narrative depth all that good stuff. 12 episodes and, something coming out later too.

Because I don’t want to name more shows than I’m able to tag thanks to Tumblr’s tag limit, I’m gonna start wrapping this up. Love Live is an idol anime where a group of 9 girls form an idol group to stop their school from closing down, manage to do that, and then continue as a group to win the Love Live competition. The characters are really charming and loveable with some pretty great development for certain members in particular, and the visuals and especially the music are all really great. Plus its very simple themes of shining, being your best self, they’re really sweet, lots of the shows I’ve talked about in this post have made me cry but god damn did this one make me cry, it’s great. I actually prefer its sequel series, Love Live Sunshine, which isn’t getting bolded because if you’re gonna watch Love Live you should watch all of Love Live, that would be 26 episodes and a movie for each group, totalling 52 episodes and 2 movies, but we’re also getting another series for a 3rd group soon. But yeah Sunshine, I think Sunshine has better character writing and in particular my 2 favourite Love Live characters, Riko and Chika, are from Sunshine, so you know. I mean I think I actually prefer SIP since Sunshine season 2’s ass but, eh. SIP vs Sunshine is another thing anyone should feel free to ask about if they care. Another really great idol show is Zombieland Saga from last year, which is one of the funniest shows on this list, but also has a nice plot, character writing that ranges from good at worst to fucking amazing at best, and just some of the best character designs of every show I’ve mentioned so far. The idol group the show is comprised of, as well as their manager, is one of the best overall casts in any of the shows I’ve mentioned and I wanna give a shoutout to Junko specifically who’s for sure in like the top 5 cutest girls out of every single character in every show I’ve mentioned so far, for sure. 12 episodes, season 2 coming soon.

That’s 27 shows, every single one of these being something I’ve given an 8/10 or higher on MAL and I would describe myself as really loving. Hopefully there’s something in here you’ve not seen or it gives people a good idea of my taste or like, just whatever idk, I’ve been writing this post for a while I wanna do something else.

Thanks for the ask.