So, my school runs a anime club. This month we are going to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion, is it any good? Can you guys also give me some suggestions for any anime we could watch after this?
Kill la Kill.
I would regret
nothing.I'm really not sure what to watch at this point, but I'll take a look at any suggestions I'm given.
I tend to find being hurled names with no explanation profoundly unhelpful, so I'm going to go ahead and pitch some of the ideas I'm familiar with. Letting us know what you liked or disliked about what you have seen could also help.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is bizarre, manly, bizarre, and awesome. It's largely about very muscular men punching each other while weird shit goes down. It's worth noting that the series is very long, and each arc does differ from the others somewhat. It's always an action and adventure anime, but precisely what's going on and why varies pretty wildly. As a result of all of that, opinions differ as to how good each section is.
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic is a magical adventure thingy with semi-preachy overtones and some dark as hell shit lurking around the corner. I'm not sure I could call it exceptional, but if you liked SAO I feel confident recommending it to you as another magical adventure thingy.
Kill La Kill is pure awesome. It has a lot of fanservice in it. It has a lot of action in it. It has a LOT of awesome psychotic characters in it. I would
highly recommend watching the opening scene of the first episode, and if somehow that doesn't pique your interest I guess you've outed yourself as a soulless morlock and can stop pretending to like things.
But really, it's amazing.
Gurren Lagann is the series you usually hear gushing rants like the above about; it's famous for never, ever stopping on its rocket ride over the top, and has some interesting things happening in the meantime (not surprisingly, Kill La Kill is sometimes referred to as "Gurren Lagann-like"). That said, I liked the first half a lot better than the second. Even so, I'd recommend it if you're looking for something that manages, in my opinion, to understand the difference between "epic" and "large," and successfully achieve the former.
I didn't get
Panty&Stocking. It just looked like a children's cartoon that had the balls to do things adults normally don't want in children's cartoons.
Fullmetal Alchemist (":Brotherhood" is the closer-to-the-manga remake, and is generally considered better) is another one of those "this is an anime" type things I feel reasonably comfortable recommending to people who have liked... I don't want to say "bland," but anime that I'm not seeing a particular pattern with. It has wizards! Soldier-wizards, some of whom may be children. Children who have... haha, but that's not important. Everything is fine and happy.
(It gets a little dark, but that's a good thing.)
Cowboy Bebop and
Samurai Champloo are both by the same studio, so if you like one you'll probably like the other. I liked Samurai Champloo more than Bebop, but I'm not sure if I could tell you why.
Bebop is about a bounty hunter crew. They are... not entirely friends. They are not very professional. Half of them aren't even adult humans. It does dark humor pretty well.
Champloo is about a ronin, a bandit, and a waitress butchering people who get in their way. It's not that they're bad people, per se, it's just that they leave a trail of bodies wherever they go.
...
Has the best fight scenes I've ever seen in an anime, ever.* Despite the above, the main characters are likeable, just not...
heroes, exactly.
*Actually, I've seen an impressive gif from the new Fate anime, but I've not watched it yet.Afro Samurai is a bloody, gory, short anime in the style of Samurai Champloo. If you like Samurai Champloo, consider Afro Samurai. If you don't... perhaps not. Despite being
mostly a gorefest, it does have a plot, and it's stylistic as all hell. Definitely artsy on top of its carnage.
Hellsing (":Ultimate" is, similar to Brotherhood for FMA, the more faithful, generally better remake) is another gorefest. Watch horrible things savage each other and innocent civilians! Good for neat creatures and decent vampires, although it does suffer from some problems owing to being a bloodfest.
Outlaw Star was alright, but I'm not much of a fan. The plot was kind of pointless, I didn't find the characters likeable, and a lot of the neater setting stuff wasn't explored very well. Still, it has space magic, and everyone likes space magic.
Oh!
Little Witch Academia is something like 25 minutes long, and involves cute witches. Go watch it! There's action.