Wow BBB referenced! Idk if I’d put it on the same level as FMA:B, but it’s a really fun modern fantasy setting.

Oh man, I’ll give plenty of recommendations, where to start?

I think the best things to come out in the last year are Dungeon Meshi and DanDaDan. Both are at a level of quality and originality that I’d feel comfortable recommending them to anyone who likes anime. Neither are finished, but both come from animation studios with a very high pedigree who I trust to continue doing great work.

I’ll also always recommend GOATs like Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Death Note, Cowboy Bebop, and Evangelion* pretty freely. Evangelion comes with the asterisk because I warn everyone how heavy it is, but I’d still push anime fans to go through it once because of how great it is.

Lastly, there’s a few I will recommend with many caveats. Stuff like JoJos Bizarre Adventure, One Piece, Panty + Stocking, Gurren Lagan, are all really, really great interesting and unique anime. They also have a lotta gooner bait in them. Sometimes it’s because the show is trying to to satirize gooner bait, sometimes it’s because the author is both a gooner and a talented mangaka, but I will give heavy warning beforehand and will usually only recommend these shows to people who watch a lotta anime.

Love that they’re shouting out High School DxD, instead of a real classic like Slayers. Lina Inverse is about 40 years old, Rias Gremory is like half that.

Hey, I also watched DanDaDan!

Tbf, I think there’s a pretty big dip from the super popular anime to everything else that was nominated this year. I ended up giving up on voting, just because there was category after category where I’d only seen one or two of the shows listed.

honestly very interested in what the recut Fishman Island will be. I think that arc is probably the worst one in the anime, but I really love a lot of the characters, Fisher Tyger especially. I’m actually interested in seeing it touched up.

I have two(?) that I did back to back.

The first was finishing One Piece. After nearly a full calendar year, I’ve finally caught up and have been actively watching Egghead.

The second was finishing the One Piece 4kids dub, which managed to just barely last a hundred episodes. If you’re a huge fan of One Piece and B-movies, I’d highly recommend it. The scripts are awful, the censorship is nonsensical, and the obsession with accents is just bizarre, but the voice actors seriously nail the delivery. 4kids basically produced a One Piece parody for children, and it’s so much fun to laugh at.

Unironically would love to have it as a full collection. Not that accessing One Piece is too hard currently, but access can always change, and I wouldn’t want to end up like Pokemon fans with the entire series split across the internet.