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[Madmachine]

FMA Brotherhood is a bad place to start. It is a more faithful adaptation of the source material, but the original anime stands up on its own better despite its extreme deviations from the plot of the manga later on.

Cowboy Bebop is real good. Its atmosphere is fantastic and its characters fantastic. Some people might criticize it as "basically just Lupin in space" but that hardly matters to a newcomer. It also has an English dub so good that all English dubs released today are compare against its standard.

I've got a soft spot for Neon Genesis Evangelion, but nobody watches that show without either loving it dearly or loathing it deeply by the end, so handle that one with care.

Save yourself the trouble of Sword Art Online. Just watch Log Horizon instead. Basically the same premise, but with much more thought put into it.

If you want homoerotic undertones, watch Sakamichi no Apollon/Kids on the Slope. If you don't want homoerotic undertones, watch it anyway. High school jazz band in historically accurate '60s Japan. Good shit.

Kill la Kill is pretty cool. It's low budget, and it shows, but it's cheesy fun. Gurren Lagann is similar but with a much higher budget and with much more consistent quality throughout. They share a lot of the same staff, so that explains a lot. Also by that same staff is a budget sink pet project called Little Witch Academia. It's not that long and you should watch it immediately.

[Aklyon]

I wouldn't call Brotherhood a bad place to start for the same reason I'dcsay to not watch all of claymore. You might as well watch the version that doesn't veer off into its own little ending out of nowhere.

[Madmachine]

Brotherhood is just much harder to follow if you haven't read the manga than the original FMA anime is.

[Flying Dice]

Wasn't the optimal thing to watch, like, the first ten episodes of the original run and then watch Brotherhood?

[Aklyon]

Wasn't the optimal thing to watch, like, the first ten episodes of the original run and then watch Brotherhood?

What I'd heard originally was 'dont bother with the original, watch brotherhood'

[i2amroy]

I don't know, brotherhood is a bit of a slow starter, but if you make it past that the payoff is really good near the end. I don't necessarily think it's the best anime to start on, but it's definitely not horrible (and overall it's regarded by a lot of sites as still being one of the best anime of all time). The original FMA does start up a bit faster, but the fact that they were missing the entire last half of the story (seriously, over half of the characters from brotherhood don't exist in the original) shows in the fact that their ending, while still being decent, is nowhere near as good as the real one.

As a person who watched anime when they were originally released, the original hype was "FMA is awesome, watch it!" and then as the manga went farther and farther away and eventually brotherhood came out the hype became "Watch FMA:B, it's awesome! Better than the original!". Both are very good and they even did at least a decent job of pulling off an endings in the original anime, though I personally think Brotherhood is better do to the simple fact that the ending and second half of the story are actually present rather than missing.

[Parsely]

I picked up the first few seasons of Watamote, Steins;gate, Death Parade, and Spice and Wolf, so I'll be checking those out.

[Orange Wizard]

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[Hawkfrost]

What you do is watch the first 25 episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist show, and then skip to episode 11 of Brotherhood.

For the first ten episodes of Brotherhood it's basically a high speed rundown of the same events, but with a lot of the scenes trimmed down since they probably assumed most people were already familiar with the material. The first arc especially is handled a lot better in the original show compared to Brotherhood, but beyond that Brotherhood is probably the version you want to watch all the way through.

[Zangi]

What you do is watch the first 25 episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist show, and then skip to episode 11 of Brotherhood.

For the first ten episodes of Brotherhood it's basically a high speed rundown of the same events, but with a lot of the scenes trimmed down since they probably assumed most people were already familiar with the material. The first arc especially is handled a lot better in the original show compared to Brotherhood, but beyond that Brotherhood is probably the version you want to watch all the way through.

Very much this.  My sig has slightly more info.

[penguinofhonor]

I have finished 6/11 episodes of Ristorante Paradiso, which I saw in a Reelya post a little ways back. It worried me at first, because the setting seems like it could have easily been really creepy (a restaurant staffed by older men with glasses that the owner's wife finds attractive) but it uses that as a vehicle to explore the lives and relationships of these guys that seem very similar on the surface. There's more romance and less food than I expected, but it's very well written so I'm pretty happy with it so far.

My favorite thing about it is the slow pace and chill atmosphere. Many scenes are characters sipping on wine and reminiscing. Entirely unlike most anime I've seen.

I'm also going to recommend Space Dandy, but also say that it is not something "just to watch." While a most of the show is goofy comedy, it does drop a few episodes that are really thought-provoking and sometimes surprisingly serious. "A World with No Sadness, Baby" might be one of my favorite anime episodes ever, and I think it works really well as the most serious moment of a usually cheesy show.

[Twinwolf]

On an unrelated note- I'm relatively unspoiled to Madoka Magicka, save that bad things happen. I'm very much looking forward to seeing what all the fuss is about.

As I've said, watch at least to episode 3.

And post your reactions, they're always fun for those who have seen it.

[Orange Wizard]

I binged Welcome to the NHK and I adore the way it jumps between soul-crushing and comedic. It's exhausting to watch. Probably one of my all-time favourites.

[Madmachine]

I had pretty much the same experience with Watamote. I've heard comparisons between the two before, but maybe they're even closer than I thought! Although Watamote sounds a bit more negative overall than that description -- even the comedic parts of Watamote are soul-crushing. The only time it is ever anything other than soul-crushing is when it's building up to a big soul-crush.

[Atian the Elephantman God]

I've never watched Watamote but it sounds like The World God Only Knows to me.