Fifteen Good Anime

[Lettow77]

  Pale Cocoon is a neat OVA. Still staying out of movies, though.

[Habbaku]

I've never gotten the love for FLCL; it's not hard to tell if they got away with it, they didn't; it's objectively terrible.

I think I have seen all or at least most of the episodes and none of them make any fucking sense.

[MadImmortalMan]

I liked Bebop quite a lot. That made me try some other anime once in a while, but I'm usually disappointed. The only other one so far I liked was Noir. Usually, I find them juvenile. Even the ones that are so fanservice they're practically porn and can't possibly be aimed at a child audience seem to be written as though kids are the target audience. There may be a maturity gap in Japan.

[Tonitrus]

I liked Starblazers and Voltron as a kid.

[jimmy olsen]

I liked Bebop quite a lot. That made me try some other anime once in a while, but I'm usually disappointed. The only other one so far I liked was Noir. Usually, I find them juvenile. Even the ones that are so fanservice they're practically porn and can't possibly be aimed at a child audience seem to be written as though kids are the target audience. There may be a maturity gap in Japan.

Samurai Champloo was made by the same guys who did Bebop, you should try it.

[Syt]

Other great animes
Full Metal Alchemist (Brotherhood)
Basilisk

Still have those on my to watch list. Still surprised you never watched Legend o.G. Heroes  - that would seem to be right up your alley.

[Syt]

I liked Bebop quite a lot. That made me try some other anime once in a while, but I'm usually disappointed. The only other one so far I liked was Noir. Usually, I find them juvenile. Even the ones that are so fanservice they're practically porn and can't possibly be aimed at a child audience seem to be written as though kids are the target audience. There may be a maturity gap in Japan.

There's some decent mature animes out there, but there hard to find between the xth series about magical high school kids and mecha stuff.

[Lettow77]

 Unfortunately, a lot of anime is only going to be enjoyed by fans of anime. Ore no Imouto was conspicuously absent from my list because its themes and content just really won't click with anyone who isn't already an otaku.

That said, if you already number among the lost, see it for sure. Kuroneko is getting a spinoff!

[Ideologue]

I've never gotten the love for FLCL; it's not hard to tell if they got away with it, they didn't; it's objectively terrible.

I think I have seen all or at least most of the episodes and none of them make any fucking sense.

Indeed.  Nor funny nor coherently interesting, which is more damning.  At best it has some neat imagery, which it beats into the ground so quickly you forget it was ever even visually exciting.

I liked Bebop quite a lot. That made me try some other anime once in a while, but I'm usually disappointed. The only other one so far I liked was Noir. Usually, I find them juvenile. Even the ones that are so fanservice they're practically porn and can't possibly be aimed at a child audience seem to be written as though kids are the target audience. There may be a maturity gap in Japan.

Something I've noticed is that despite sometimes lavish production values, despite apparently serious themes, it often actually appears as if retards were writing the actual stories.  I liked Noir too, but that's actually a pretty prime example: in a story where getting shot in the face brings back your memories, can you really listen to what a show has to say about cycles of violence or child soldiers?  It's really hard.

Points to Noir for almost using real names and avoiding the Japan-is-unaccountably-full-of-white-people problem by setting it, largely, in France.  Points off for child soldiers whose amnesia is never actually explained.

(As for subsequent projects by the same folks, I can't even remember what Madlax was about, other than pretty music, and Requiem for the Phantom looked like Noir 2: This Time There's a Guy.)

[Slargos]

I used to follow http://www.megatokyo.com/ which was a hilarious take on the genre.

[Lettow77]

 Hrm. Tomorrow, I may make a movies/ further series thread.

Or maybe do an episode scene-by-scene breakdown of hanasaku iroha.

I kind of want to make an anime blog.

[Eddie Teach]

My sisters used to love Sailor Moon.

[Grey Fox]

Nick's Avatar is the only good Anime.

[Ed Anger]

I fucking hate you all.

[jimmy olsen]

Oh, Princess Mononoke, how could I forget it! It's a great anime.