Anime for a newbie?

Started by Lucario April 17th, 2016 5:13 AM
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A 13 year old who's only watched Pokemon?

Well, the obvious choices that you'd probably enjoy at least one or two of are the long running Shounen: Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece- with added Fairy Tail or Soul Eater as you please. Just pick one and go all out.

As for shorter choices, people'll generally point to shows like Cowboy Bebop, more Western appealing anime to get people started, because that does make sense. But I'll recommend Durarara!, Angel Beats!, and Baka and Test to get three particularly different, very anime tastes. And if you like any of those, anime's for you. If you don't, those anime aren't for you.

Bonus, Shirobako. Whether you'll like it's up in the air, but if you're interested in the medium and want some form of appreciation for it, or just love stuff like it (both of which are me), I'd recommend checking it out. Gives a fair deal of insight, and it's one of my favorite shows for that.

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Not entirely sure if you'd go old school but some older animes aren't as "deep" or as "gravitational" but are still good. Voltes V is what i'm thinking about though it gets repetitive. Or something like Ninja Senshi Tobikage or otherwise known as Ninja Robots, because Ninja mechas is far too entertaining.

If you're insane like i am, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure's a good entryway.

countryemo

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Well I would suggest something that is close to your interest, tv shows, movies that you watch. If you like'd Pokemon, maybe look into Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Bakugon, other creature animes, possibly even Zatch Bell.

You can also look into the mainstream/well known/veteran animes, like DBZ, the above, one piece, naruto, inyuasha, yuyuhakisho, sailor moon.

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Ah, middle school. Those were the good days.

I watched stuff like Bakemonogatari and Durarara!! back then.

Seconding Regal and the britbong, anime has mostly come to ****, so it's a waste of time unless you're super picky about what you watch.

The Hataraku Maou-sama and Kaichou wa Maid-sama are pretty cute, so they'd make decent starter animes. You can try the two I mentioned earlier if you're up for something different.

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Shaman King was pretty much the coolest thing ever when I was your age! It's action packed, and really funny too!! Durarara!! is good as well, but it can be rather fast paced, so you gotta pay attention when watching it.
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Pinkie-Dawn

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Here's some anime recommended for your age:

Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Bayblade, Dragon Ball, One Piece, Inyuasha, Cory in the House, Sailor Moon, Hamtaro, Bakugon, Yu Yu Hakusho, and the Transformers Unicron trilogy series (Armada, Energon, Cybertron).

semi

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I wasn't ignoring, I just think that I'll finish watching all of indigo league first.
In that case, you're a newbie to Pokémon as well! And welcome to the crazy-all anime world, I might add.
If you don't mind me adding (when you finished the season and all) I suggest you start proper anime with Fullmetal Alchemist or Death Note. They're classics, both with amazing plots, the first more emotional and the second mindblowing and DAMN.
Anyhow, good luck handling Ash for a little while longer. Don't worry. There's bound to always be a plot twist somewhere nearby.
And there's Pikachu.
Who needs a damn plot twist when there's Pikachu in every episode? Not me :3
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In that case, you're a newbie to Pokémon as well! And welcome to the crazy-all anime world, I might add.
If you don't mind me adding (when you finished the season and all) I suggest you start proper anime with Fullmetal Alchemist or Death Note. They're classics, both with amazing plots, the first more emotional and the second mindblowing and DAMN.
Anyhow, good luck handling Ash for a little while longer. Don't worry. There's bound to always be a plot twist somewhere nearby.
And there's Pikachu.
Who needs a damn plot twist when there's Pikachu in every episode? Not me :3
I personally wouldn't recommend Death Note for a 13 year old (no offence to the OP), as it might be kinda hard to follow the plot. If you like Pokemon chances are you'll like Digimon, Beyblade and Bakugan too. If you're going for Beyblade I'd start with Bayblade: Metal fusion as it has better animation quality than the original series. After that, it really depends on what you are looking for in an anime. If you like mmorpgs then definitely take a look at Sword Art Online and Log Horizon. If you like lots of magic then Magi: the Labyrinth of Magic or Fairy Tail will suit you best in my opinion.

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Everyone needs to watch Naruto at least once in their life. The latter half is incredible.
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semi

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I personally wouldn't recommend Death Note for a 13 year old (no offence to the OP), as it might be kinda hard to follow the plot. If you like Pokemon chances are you'll like Digimon, Beyblade and Bakugan too. If you're going for Beyblade I'd start with Bayblade: Metal fusion as it has better animation quality than the original series. After that, it really depends on what you are looking for in an anime. If you like mmorpgs then definitely take a look at Sword Art Online and Log Horizon. If you like lots of magic then Magi: the Labyrinth of Magic or Fairy Tail will suit you best in my opinion.
You may be right about that, though I sincerely believe it depends on taste. Besides, I despised Digimon and anime of that sort when I first started with Pokémon and anime in general. To be honest, I had watched Death Note at 13 myself.
But I agree with you that Sword Art Online and Magi are exceptional. Or rather, pretty amazing.

Desinishon

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You must watch Naruto. It's awesome and I know you're certainly going to enjoy it.

If you prefer something total destruction and insanely powerd anime I recommend you to watch Dragon ball Z and One punch man :)

If you want to see a total badass anime protagonist that's where "bleach" came in.

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So much dumb filler in the second half. Great intro anime as it's easy to digest. Story's better in the manga, though. Practically the entire second half of the original Naruto run is filler.
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I'd recommend avoiding long running big names at least at first: So No to Naruto, One Piece, Fairy Tail or Bleach. Even though these are Renowned and critically acclaimed Shounen animes; they do run very long. If you don't have time to marathon them; you may not be able to get into them...and a portion of the storyline may bore you.

If you really want to watch something longer running than one or two seasons then Inuyasha is a decent Shounen (Male Protagonists/Fantasy/Powered) but can be romantic like and viewed as a sort of a period drama as well. The original Sailor Moon series is good if you're into Shoujou (Girl Power/Fantasy/Magical/Romantic). Cardcaptor Sakura is also a good way to get your feet wet; and it's a deep enough story with very entertaining characters. But it is a shoujo; so if you're one of those guys who recoil at girly things...then you're gonna have to try another such as Death Note, Danganronpa (both are Murder Mysteries) or perhaps even Yu Yu Hakkusho (Mystery/Shounen). Tenshi Muyo animes are usually decent too, they're called Harem (Yes, harems of ladies!) Animes; as are Gundam (Mecha, Giant Fighting Robots, an Anime original thing~!) animes or even your random quirky anime like the ones you may find running on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim". I think Samurai Champloo is one of them. (But those are totally not my thing)

If you like Pokemon; I strongly recommend the Digimon Trilogy; which is Digimon Adventure 1 & 2 as well as Digimon Tamers. Seasons of Digimon after that point are not as great as the series changed hands a few times after Bandai dissolved into Namco, and was licensed out to others. Digmon Adventure Tri is also out; which is a sequel to the Original Digimon Adventures 1 & 2; and it has been good as far as I can see.

I do strongly recommend Digimon if you're into Pokemon's Anime a lot. Digimon is more globally appealing as there are multiple, and diverse, protagonists. You will like at least one of these characters most likely
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If you don't mind English Sub, I would highly recommend using ChrunchyRoll, which is an official anime watching site.

I would highly suggest ERASED, Food Wars, Sword Art Online and Parasyte and Akame Ga Kill. Although the last two can be pretty graphic.

I don't like suggesting big names to people, as they are usually a given.

Reunilu

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Thirteen, huh? Man, I feel a little old.

I'm gonna agree with the post about watching long running anime. It takes a lot of time just to complete or catch up to one of those series. That said, I'm gonna try not to repeat answer and say Fate/stay night (I don't care which one you watch, but my personal preference is the newer one) and Ao no Exorcist. Maybe Noragami as well.
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This is only because I'm a huge fan myself, but if you're willing to put in some serious time to catch up, Fairy Tail is very much worth binge watching. Trust me, the filler can be dull at times, but the regular story line is incredible. If you give it a try and end up becoming a fan, be sure to stop by my Fairy Tail club on here to hang out, it's always nice to get new members.

By the way, I'm on my second time watching through the anime. The manga is also incredible, if you're into that. It's currently ahead of the Fairy Tail anime, and the anime is actually on hiatus, so now is the perfect time to catch up before they start making new episodes again.

Hope my advice was of some help, feel free to give me a shout if you have any questions.

-Midnight :)