TRIGUN!!!! Criminally underrated and one of the best animes of all time.

beck mongolian chop squad was so amazing i reccomend it to every1 

Lot of great recs already. Did anyone say Excel Saga? It's ridiculous and full of 4th-wall breaking stuff, including the animator being a character in the anime. I also love the theme song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlIfqR6iTSg

Fruits Basket 2001 is a great classic anime despite it being unfinished. It's a great adaptation to the manga and it really has such a nostalgic soundtrack. I recommend watching it. :)

omg im a huge fan of old shoujo so some of my favourites are peach girl, boys over flowers, special a, chobits, vampire knight, lovely complex, skip beat, ouran highschool host club

Fancy Lala (1998) is a really good magical girl anime, i have the season one dvd and its soso good, def check it out!! 

def initial d :]

Nana!! Its amazing and the aesthetic to it is great!

if you havent already you should watch welcome to the nhk ! it's one of my favorite animes of all time ^^, it touches into a bit of serious topics here and there but it's one of my all time favorites bc it offers a topic that not many others talk abt. also the opening song is a banger

I js got back into anime after a while so I'm not too familiar with older animes, but probably Neon Genesis Evangelion! It's one of my favs rn :3 

Berserk!!!

I REALLLY love 2000s shoujou anime but i'd prob reccomend peach girl and perfect blue the most! they arent the most awesome but i really like them!!

Vampire Hunter D (released in '85) and its sequel Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (released in 2000) are my total faves from that era of anime. I personally prefer its sequel as its plot and animation is of higher quality but that's just a personal opinion of mine.

The synopsis of vhd basically goes:
The year is 12,090. Ten thousand years ago, there was a war between humans and supernatural monsters, and the monsters won. Humans are now dominated by vampires who keep werewolves and mutants to protect them. Humans must now battle a variety of monsters that hide in the grass and slink in the trees. While out hunting one night, human Doris trespasses into the vampire domain of Count Magnus Lee. As payment for her crime, Lee "kisses" her and discovers that her blood is the sweetest he's tasted in ages. Lee decides to marry Doris. Doris hires a Vampire Hunter known as "D" who is a dhampir (half human, half vampire) to kill Magnus Lee and that's as much as I can say without spoiling!

The synopsis of vhd:b however:
Charlotte, a young woman, is abducted by Baron Meier Link, a vampire nobleman who is known not to harm humans needlessly. Charlotte's father, John Elboune, hires D, a dhampir, to find her and rescue her, and alternatively, kill her humanely if she's been turned into a vampire. At the same time, Charlotte's older brother, Alan Elbourne, hires another group of vampire hunters, the notorious Marcus Brothers. The two parties (D and the Marcus brothers) race inexorably after Meier Link. However, Meier Link hires the mutant Barbarois; a group of lethal mercenary bodyguards. Will D be the one to save Charlotte or will something else happen? Once again all I can say without spoilers!

Anyways yeah this series is based of light novels that I am currently reading if you're also interested. Hope you are willing to check it out!

Also here's a tiktok I found of vhd:b rather than a photo because I feel like it captures the essence of the film: <https://www.tiktok.com/@em.cine/video/7092852495805877550?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7084448875348936193> 

perfect blue and evangelion are rlly good! i loved perfect blue sm i made it my laptop wallpaper

i rlly like neon genesis, dbz, lain nd ghost in the shell are pretty good

There's a lot but I'll give three:

Princess Jellyfish

Quick overview:
Girl shut-ins who have their own hyperfixations that don't fit into the mold that societal pressures what a woman should be.
A crossdressing man who wants to fight his wealthy family meets the girls and wants to help them in a battle.
A battle against local governments and real estate agents as they try to gentrify the local neighborhood the girls live in.

Pros:
Girl empowerment. You can be a girl no matter what you do and what you look like.
"Make up and outfits are your battle armour" is legitimately what got me into makeup lmao.
The opening is really fun. Really, watch the op.

Cons:
A lot of pitting women against other women.
Might use outdated terms.
I can see the issue of "changing yourself to fit in" can be a message.

Paranoia Agent

Overview:
tw: violence, p*dophilia, hints at SA

Without spoiling too much, here's a snippet from wikipedia:
"The plot relays between a large cast of people affected in some way by the phenomenon; usually Lil' Slugger's victims or the detectives assigned to apprehend him. As each character becomes the focus of the story, details are revealed about their secret lives and the truth about Lil' Slugger."

essentially it's a social phenomenon and everyone has very weird and messed up lives. There's a lot of psychological elements to it as it is a psych horror.

Pros:
holy shit holy shit holy shit this is pretty deep. If you like psych thrillers, really, give this a try.
The animation was really good for its time.
I've been thinking about some of the plots of each episode for almost 15 years now.

Cons:
It's a really heavy anime that touches on some unpleasant topics. I can understand why a lot of people would give this a pass.

Serial Experiments Lain

Overview:
Tw: s*x and nudity, substances, violence, flashing lights

from the ringer:
"Serial Experiments Lain is about a young girl's reluctant march toward digital martyrdom. Today, Lain's story resonates more so as an allegory about the perils of forging one's identity—an alternative identity, however false, misguided, perverse, delusional—using the internet."

Pros:
It really talks about developing your own sense of self
It's a coming of age story but a little bit more deeper and darker
Makes you think a lot about the internet.

Cons:
Again, a lot of heavy stuff.

Honourable Mentions:
Chobits - nsfw, nudity, protag is a bit yikes. Fascinating look at early 2000s life. whimsical art style because CLAMP do be like that.
Cardcaptor Sakura - Another CLAMP classic, sfw, girl who becomes magical girl through cards.
Sailor Moon - cmon you know sailor moon. CMOOOON. Magical girl anime that's a little trippy. Reincarnation? Sorta?

Definitely Angel's Egg, Serial Experiments Lain, and Evangelion!

i like cowboy beepbop or trigun!! idk idk hahahahaha....

Black lagoon is my favorite.

ROMEOS BLUE SKIES (romeo no aoi sora) please its so good oh my god it its way too slept on. Its kinda ghibli-esque but darker and its not fantasy or magical. Theres no dub since its pretty old and not very popular. It is my favorite anime ever and i love it with all my heart. Its from the 90's!!! 

I love Case Closed and Yu Yu Hakusho!! 

I guess Urusei Yatsura gonna do for my fav 80s anime

Sakura cardcaptor! it's a 90's anime >w<

the genre is magical girl btw!!!

breathes in  TOKYO MEW MEEEEEEEW!

Death Note ofc

Trigun as well as Cowboy Bebop are beautiful choices !! 

Serial experiments lain!! def give it a try. the plot is hard to follow at times but it's a rlly good show! its prob the weirdest, most interesting tv show ive ever seen.

wallflower and chibi vampire!!

My favorite anime movie in the 2000’s

His And Her Circumstances is really good, i recently watched that.  tho it sadly doesnt have a 2nd season 

heard it gets pretty crazy in the manga tho.  ive yet to read it. but the anime does get a lil crazy/dark towards the end

Most defo Great Teacher Onizuka

Can always watch Princess Mononoke!

Ive been watching Inuyasha lately! And it has a choke hold on me! I even have a fat crush on Inuyasha XD

But really! I reccomend it and movies from studio gibli! Esspecally Howls moving castle!

Shugo chara, sailor moon, neon genesis and Naruto def recommend!! :)

I recommend Cowboy Bebop! its a good anime, me and my friend are still watching it tho!!:-)

i dont maybe cardcaptor sukura tokyo mew mew sailor moon cowboy bepop

I love studio Ghibli and sailor Moon!! 

Pandora hearts ( 2009 )

I loved the anime but the manga has a much more satisfying ending but its less "2000s" on the later manga volumes

I think anime called "Monster"!!

i really really really like anything riyoko ikeda related ! she wrote masterpieces like rose of versailles and oniisama e back in the 70's - 00's. i really recommend rose of versailles, it's my fav shoujo anime/manga

"Revolutionary girl Utena" is awesome!

Perfect Blue and Sailor Moon is def the best I've seen

My fav one is beyblade :)

Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain are a must! They’ve changed the way I see the world so much. I love those animes!

Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain are a must! They’ve changed the way I see the world so much. I love those animes!

A couple days ago I learned about Ruin Explorers: Fam and Ihrie and I've been having a good time with it! Girls who can do magic (but if one of them does she's cursed to turn into a mouse, so she has to teach the other one how to do magic well,) looking for treasure in old ruins, then stuff happens. It's also super short since it's a 4 ep ova, I'm halfway through now since I've been watching an ep a day. It has a solid mix of comedy and action and the English dub is great for the tone; I haven't found subs for it but I haven't looked very hard.

There's a bit of nudity in episode 1 (Ihrie takes a bath) but I think that's the only possibly objectionable thing I've seen so far?

War in the Pocket was absolutely fantastic, watched it a couple months ago <3

Im big on Inuyasha, my older sister showed me it when i was little

oooh,, definitely perfect blue for a more psychological-horror movie feel :) 

fushigi yuugi for a historical-like isekai romance :)) i promise,, the story is WAAAAAAAY better than u expect

ouran high school host club - fun romance anime lmaoo

Tokyo mew mew 2002,karin chibi vampire 2005,