#adrianhecox

Hello! I hope you don’t mind me answering this publicly but I figure it can help a few people since I get asked a lot.

Death Note’s always a good introduction. I love Naruto Shippuden, and a lot of people use Naruto as their first anime, but to be honest the first series isn’t great. That said it has it’s moments and it’s well worth powering through the 120 episodes to get to Shippuden. I say 120 ‘cause you can (and most people do) skip the episodes after that point and go straight to Shippuden, which is 3 years later and much more mature.

My first was called Burst Angel, it was pretty bad but I’ll always feel nostalgic towards it. 

Cowboy Bebop is considered one of the best, and with good reason. It’s a space western full of Jazz music. Come on.

Anyway, I recommend Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, which has a great English dub if subtitles aren’t your thing. 

Darker Than Black’s one of my favourites of all time, and again has a great English dub, in fact, it’s much better than the Japanese. In short it’s about people with powers who have to pay prices for them.

Durarara’s very interesting and if slice of life, school love stories are your bag then Toradora is really cool.

Evangelion if you want something that’ll mess with your head.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - This show is a huge parody of anime and particularly mech anime. It’s the most over the top thing you will ever watch. (they literally throw galaxies at each other).

There’s a lot of pretty standard choices like Bleach and stuff that you’ll find on any list but I wanted to make this one slightly different.

Like I say, Naruto’s great, probably my favourite of all so maybe give that a try.  

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