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Hey Anime Nerds, what are some dope ass anime series that are "staples" that I probably haven't seen before?
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I'm talking like, Bubblegum Crisis, an Anime that I am somehow aware of but have never watched.
I've seen bits and peaces of the stuff that was airing here in the 2000 like; Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Yu Yu Hakusho, Inuyasha, Full Metal Alchemist, Ranma 1/2, Gundam Wing. I have not even begun to touch 1 Peace. Basically, if it was on Toonami, I've probably seen some of it.
I feel like there is stuff from the late 80s through the 90s that were popular through the import scenes that I probably never heard of, that everyone who is in that scene knows and loves.
If you like big mechs or gay women you owe it to yourself to watch the recent lesbian gundam anime, Gundam Witch from Mercury. It's a sort of modern staple.
I don't have many yuri recs (simply because a lot of the foundational works remain unadapted).I can suggest watching K-on, Sound Euphonium, and Bocchi if you like music or girls doing literally fucking nothing while making music.
It's not a staple like the slice of lifes I just mentioned but the recent yuri anime Kamiina Botan Blooms Like a Lily When Drunk is a big collage art project that really shows how different directors and animators storyboard and adapt the same source material. Each episode has a new director, so you get different uses of the same visual space. I think it's a good way to see what kinds of art direction are taken in modernity and potentially find new directors you might like. Also, it's gay as fuuuuck and about adult college students which instantly bumps it up a million points.
That is one hell of an evocative name!
That sounds really fun!