Rec list 2

• I found these recs on images, I'm just transcribing it
• ✦ means exceptional, must watch

Mainstream shounen series: if you don't need the full chart

• One piece ← Pirate adventure
• Attack on titan ← Survival fantasy
• Fairy tail ← Mage guild
• Naruto ← Ninjas
• Angel beats ← Action/Comedy/Drama
• Nisekoi ← Romance comedy
• SAO ← Trapped in a game
• Mirai nikki ← Psycho girlfriend

Must-watch movies: family friendly... or not

• Spirited away ← Coming-of-age story
• Mononoke hime ← Progress vs nature
• Wolf children ← Slice of life
• The girl who leapt through time ← Light science fiction
• Akira ← Cyberpunk classic
• Ghost in the shell ← Inspiration for matrix
• Perfect blue ← Original black swan
• Paprika ← More or less Inception

13 genres, 13 recs

• (Casual) One punch man ← Superhero comedy
• (Action) FMA Brotherhood ✦ ← Fantasy action epic
• (Adventure) Cowboy bepop ✦ ← Space opera jazz
• (Sports) Hajime no ippo ← Boxing classic
• (Comedy) The devil is a part-timer!
• (Slice of life) Hanasaku iroha ← Coming-of-age story
• (Science fiction) Psycho pass ← Dystopian police
• (Mecha) Gurren lagann ✦ ← OVER THE TOP ACTION
• (Thriller) Death note ← Crime drama mindgames
• (Drama) Your lie in april ← Pianist in grief
• (Romance) Toradora! ← Romance comedy-drama
• (Horror) Parasyte ← Alien spiderman
• (WTF?) FLCL

Casual action series: just some intense shameless fun

• Kill la kill ← Over the top action
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
• Symphogear ← Action musical
• Panty & Stocking ← Naughty angels
• Cross Ange ← So bad it's good
• Space Dandy ← Trippy adventure
• Railgun ← Super powers in daily life (Spin off of A certain... index)
• No game no life ← Eyegasm

Serious action series: a bit darker now

• Darker than black
• Fate/zero ← Fantasy hunger games
• Black lagoon ← Smuggler shootout
• Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal ✦
• Baccano! ← '30s in america
• Durarara!! ← Big city life
• Berserk ← Dark as in Dark Souls. Read the manga
• Claymore ← Demon hunters

Aventure: the road-trip type of fantasy

• Mushi-shi ✦ ← Travelling with a doctor
• Spice & Wolf ← Medieval merchants
• Katanagatari ✦ ← Talking & swords
• Samurai champloo ← Hip-hop samurai
• Akatsuki no yona ← Reverse battle harem
• 12 Kingdoms ← Yona's more adult sister
• Rage of bahamut ← Western type fantasy
• Magi ← Arabian nights
• Hunter x Hunter (2001) ✦
• Kino's journey ← A bit phylosophical
• Space battleship yamato 2199
• Trigun ← Space western

Sport series: action in a realistic setting

• Slam dunk ← Basketball classic
• One outs ← Baseball gaming
• Cross game ✦ ← Romance drama
• Ping pong the animation ✦
• Chihayafuru ← Poetry card game
• Kuroko no basket
• Haykuu!! ← Volleyball action
• Initial D ← Street racing

Comedies: daily life, parodies, sitcoms

• Gintama ✦ ← Parody of action series
• Nichijou ← "Ordinary" daily life
• Nichibros ← Boys being boys
• Shirobako ✦ ← Animeception
• Ouran highschool host club ← Reverse harem rom-com
• Monthly girls' nozaki kun
• The melancholy of haruhi suzumiya
• Great teacher onizuka

Slice of life: comfy, funny, heartwarming

• Usagi drop ✦ ← Family matters
• Barakamon ← Exiled to village life
• Princess jellyfish ← Adult women in dorm
• Hyouka ✦ ← School mystery club
• Planetes ← Space gabargemen
• Aria ← Futuristic venice
• Natsume Yuujinchou ✦
• Sora no woto ← Cute girls... in army

Science fiction: catharthic and thought-provoking

• Legend of the galactic heroes ✦
• Ergo proxy ← Post-apocalyptic drama
• Time of eve ← Androids
• Dennou Coil ← Augumented reality

WARNING: These four are heavy

• Serial experiments lain
• Texhnolyze
• Kaiba
• Now and then, here and there

Mecha: one setting, many genres

• Code geass ✦ ← Political thriller
• Eureka seven ✦ ← Windsurfing adventure
• Macross ← sci-fi serenade
• Big O ← Noir, basically Batman
• Gundam ← (start with '79 or 00)
• Full metal panic! ← School comedy
• Gunbuster ← Pacific Rim + Interestellar
• Patlabor ← Mechanized police

Thrillers: suspense and mystery

• Steins;gate ✦ ← Time travel experiment
• Monster ✦ ← Crime drama classic
• Gankutsuou ← Count of Monte Cristo
• Kaiji ← Ultimate gambling
• Zetsuen no tempest
• Kara no kyoukai
• Terror in resonance
• Rainbow ← Juvenile delinquents

Drama: when you're ready for the heavy stuff

• Death parade ← Game of souls
• Clannad ✦ ← Adult life is hard
• Tatami galaxy ← Reflections on life
• Rakugo ← Twilight of an old art
• AnoHana ← Tearjerker
• Tokyo Magnitude ← Life struck by a disaster
• Nana ← Musician roomates
• Haibane renmei ✦ ← Afterlife?

Romance: romcoms, slice of life, dramas

• Cardcaptor sakura
• Princess tutu ← Swan lake danceoff
• Oregairu ← Cynical anti-romance
• Nodame cantabile ✦
• Kimi ni todoke ← Weird girl, cool boy
• White album 2 ← love triangle
• My love story ← Gentle giant
• Yamada and the seven witches

Horror: blood and gore galore

• Mononoke ✦ ← Travelling with a doctor
• Shiki ← Mystery
• Higurashi no naku koro ni
• Hellsing ultimate ← Vampires vs Nazis

You have NO idea what you're in for (give it time)

• Neon genesis evangelion ✦
• Madoka magica ✦ ← (also: Yuuki Yuuna)
• Revolutionary girl utena ✦
• Samurai flamenco
• Bakemonogatari
• Re: Zero
• Mawaru penguindrum
• Shinsekai yori ✦