Rec list 5 notes

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

Best starting points

• Cowboy bepop ✦ ← Space opera jazz adventure
• FMA: Brotherhood ✦ ← Fantasy action epic
• Death note ← Crime drama mindgames with the grim reaper
• Tengen toppa gurren lagann ← Mecha awesomeness
• Psycho-pass ← Psychological police dystopian sci-fi
• Attack on titan ← Fantasy action survival with catchy intro
• Darker than black ← Superpowers
• Angel beats! ← Action comedy in purgatory for teens

Popular action series; fres or long-running hits

• Kill la kill ← Over the top action
• SAO ← Trapped in a MMO game
• Log Horizon ← SAO but not as dumb
• Akame ga kill ← Assassin's guild
• One piece ← Pirates
• Naruto ← Ninjas
• Hunter x Hunter (2001) ✦
• Fairy tail ← Mages

Science fiction: action packed or thought provoking

• Code geass ← Mecha uprising
• Ghost in the shell: SAC
• Gundam 00 ← Mecha classic
• Ergo Proxy ← Postapocalyptic drama
• Steins;gate ✦ ← Time travel experiment
• Serial experiments lain
• Texhnolyze ← Cyborg cyberpunk
• Planetes ← Garbagemen in space

Thrillers and horrors

• Parasyte ← Alien spiderman
• Monster ← Crime drama classic
• Fate/Zero ← Fantasy hunger games
• Berserk ← Dark as in Dark souls
• Elfen lied ← Superpower rampage
• Hellsing ultimate ← Vampire shootout
• Tokyo ghoul ← Cannibalism
• Mirai nikki ← Psyco girlfriend

Road trip adventure

• Mushishi ✦ ← Travelling with a doctor
• Spice & Wolf ← Medieval merchants
• Baccano ← Train to New York
• Samurai champloo ← Hip-hop samurai
• Shingeki no bahamut
• Eureka seven ← Mechas
• Akatsuki no yona Reverse battle harem
• Magi ← Arabian nights

Sports series

• Hajime ni ippo ← Boxing classic
• One outs ← Baseball gambling
• Initial D ← Street racing
• Ping pong the animation ✦
• Ace of Diamond ← Baseball series
• Kuroko no basket
• Haikyuu ← Volleyball action
• Cross game ← romance drama

Comedies: daily life, parodies, sitcoms

• Gintama ← Parody of action series
• Nichijou ← "Ordinary" daily life
• Nichibros ← Bys being boys
• Shirobako ✦ ← Anime: How it's done
• The devil is a part-timer!
• Monthly girls nozaki-kun ✦
• The melancholy of haruhi suzumiya
• No game no life

Romance: romcoms, slice of life, dramas

• Toradora! ← Good starting point
• Oregairu ✦ ← Cynical anti-romance
• Nana ← Musician roomates
• Nisekoi ← Slapstick rom-com
• White album 2 ← Love triangle
• Nodame cantabile
• Bakemonogatari ← Can't explain this one
• Kokoro Connect ← Forced drama

Melodramas ("Feels" shows)

• Anohana ← Tearjerker
• Clannad ✦ ← Adult life is hard
• Your life in april ← Pianist coping with loss
• Natsume's book of friends
• Usagi drop ← Family matters
• Welcome to the NHK!
• Hanasaku Iroha ← Coming-of-age story
• The pet girl of sakurasou

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

• Neon genesis evangelion ✦
• Puella magi madoka magica ✦
• Revolutionary girl utena
• Samurai Flamenco
• FLCL
• Yuki Yuna is a Hero
• Mawaru penguindrum
• Shinsekai yori ✦