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Re:Japan's Anime Industry Grows 15% to a Record 25B Driven b... by snackbroken on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:10AM (#45760902)
Seconding Fullmetal Alchemist. I hear the remake (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) is usually regarded as the better version. More suggestions: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Death Note, Sousou no Frieren, Cowboy Bebop, Nichijou, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Bakemonogatari. There's also quite a few good movies, anything by Studio Ghibli is great, and so are Akira, Perfect Blue, and Ghost in the Shell.
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Re:Japan's Anime Industry Grows 15% to a Record 25B Driven b... by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:29AM (#45761125)
Some of those those aren't really going to appeal people unfamiliar with the conventions of the genre and some of the big personalities, e.g. Evangelion is a deconstruction of the once popular giant robot genre and Hideaki Anno's personal couch trip rolled into one.
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Re:Japan's Anime Industry Grows 15% to a Record 25B Driven b... by trenchpilgrim on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:22AM (#45761052)
Brotherhood follows the plot of the source material comic, which is regarded as having a better ending. The original series aired concurrently with the comic and had to diverge when it passed where the ongoing comic ran out of chapters.
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