Anime's that are awesome.

[krissy]

hey otaku nerds

my lil bro wants to watch some anime

he is 11 ish

i want to watch a show with him, but i want it to be at his level and something without random unneccessary panty shots or tentacle rape scenes

we've pretty much watched all the miyazaki movies, and avatar and korra ("THAT'S NOT ANIME"). dunno what to watch. we did one piece a bit but he got bored with the early eps.

any suggestions for an 11 yr old kid?

[Quindiana Jones]

Naruto.

[NeoCracker]

Desert Punk.

Okay, serieous suggestions now.

Bleach is a pretty good one. It's got good action and a decent story that's easy to understand, and doesn't treat you like an idiot. It's got some pretty terrible pacing, but I don't think that will bother an 11 year old.

Law of Ueki is a pretty safe bet. It's fun, the fights are imaginative, and it keeps itself fairly fresh through out all it's 54 or so episodes. Theres a few head scratching moments, like the shows inability to due math, but on a whole it's enjoyable enough.

As far as movies, Origin is a pretty solid movie. It's overal style is similar to that of Miyazaki, though it's done by someone else. It's a bit preachier them Miyazaki, but pleasant enough regardless of that.

I'd suggest Cowbowy Bebop, while it's targeted a bit older then 11, it's an absolutely wonderful show, and there's plenty in it for a younger audience, as well as being an amazing show all around. I forget which episode, but if you have the DVD version one episode you see a guy looking at a porn mag, and you see boobs, so you may want to screen it for that episode, but it only happens once.

[Forsaken Lover]

I counter Naruto and Bleach with Fairy Tail.



To list all the unbelievably awesome songs in this show would take too long so just settle for the one above and these:
Awesome Anime Music 62: Erza's Theme - YouTube
Natsu Theme Song-Fairy Tail - YouTube
Fairy Tail Against Magic.wmv - YouTube

Natsu, the shounen hero of the series, is also a lot more likable than Naruto or Ichigo in my opinion.

Bleach, written and illustrated by Titty Kubo, is rightly given credit for some topnotch fanservice. He gave us both Nel and Yoruichi, two of the hottest goddesses ever to grace shounen.

And yet Fairy Tail utterly stomps Bleach in the fanservice department. There might be more rule 34 of Bleach than there is for Fairy Tail but that's only because FT doesn't need doujins or hentai. The manga and anime are basically softcore porn for both the gals and the guys. Every girl is a Solid 11 and most of the guys are 10s.

There's also something to be said for a shounen that knows its place. Both Naruto and Bleach tried a bit too hard to tell more "mature" storylines. FT is a lot more fun and simple and it works better that way.

And finally...Lucy = Best Female Lead of all of them.


And she's got a great personality on top of that.

[Shauna]

Right. I've ignored this for long enough.

Anime's. Not only the incorrect use of an apostrophe, but also pluralising the word anime? My inner nerd cries.



I am trying to think of animu you could show to a younger boy, and all I'm coming up with his high-school-girls-doing-crazy-things. I think I've got some wires crossed somewhere.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

any suggestions for an 11 yr old kid?

If he's into cars, eX-Driver would be good for a younger viewer. You might be bored.

Full Metal Panic lots of mechs and military stuff, combined with a high school atmosphere. You might want to screen a few episodes first for language, but there's only one fan-service shot that comes to mind in the whole series.

Outlaw Star might be a really good choice too. Lot's of space pirates, ships, action, and things, but the language isn't too bad from what I recall. No rampant nudity sticks out either. I think it's pretty safe.

[Shoeberto]

wow yeah boobs in anime can we talk about this?


i cannot stand the fan service. like i will stop watching an anime if i see fan service that isn't relevant to the story.

especially when it's on like teens and high schoolers and stuff. or if it's giant boobs and a face with giant eyes, which to me imply youth. i mean come onnn... it just makes me sigh and i cannot continue.

like the beach episodes in gun x sword and gurren lagann. rolling my eyes at this.

Pretty much this got me to stop caring about anime. The last interesting premise I remember seeing in a show was Death Note. Most everything else that came across was just weird or unoriginal and above all too fan-service-heavy. At this point I'm not sure I can make myself care anymore unless it's a really high-quality anime film.

Maybe I'm just being a fogey, but for me anime peaked with Bebop and nothing I've heard of has managed to reach that level of excellence.

[Polnareff]

I must be the only one in the world who couldn't stand Cowboy Bebop. It's hard to explain why not. It felt like it was trying too hard but spread itself too thin, which is funny considering it was a short series.

I started watching anime with a bootleg DB tape. Not Z but the original DB, in Japanese. It was an episode from during the first tournament. Imagine my surprise when about 2 years later they started showing DBZ and the characters that I saw a couple years before were the same ones in DBZ, but older.

Of course, at first, I didn't know that anime was Japanese. It took me until I was about 9 years old to understand that Americans didn't make DBZ or Sailor Moon.

Here are a bunch of them that I liked:

Yu Yu Hakusho
Flame of Recca
Ranma 1/2
Silent Mobius
Tenchi Universe
No Need For Tenchi
Ganbare Goemon (I loved the Goemon games)
The Slayers
Rune Soldier Louie
Space Pirate Mito
Casshern (the original, where Casshern was badass, not the one where he's emo)
Gatchaman (also known as Battle of the Planets and G-Force)
Hunter X Hunter 2011
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure 2012
Kirby: Right Back At Ya!
Black Heaven
Desert Punk
GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
Cromartie High School
Persona 4: The Animation
Inazuma Eleven
Sakigake! Otokojuku
Riki-Oh
Project A-ko
FLCL
Dragon Quest: Dai's Adventure
Grappler Baki, the movie and the actual series
Shootfighter Tekken (similar to Baki)
Slam Dunk
Midori Days
G Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
Fairy Tail
Law of Ueki (manga was 100x better though)
Dirty Pair Flash Mission 1 and 2 (Mission 3 was lame to me)
Original Dirty Pair
Saint Seiya (I started re-watching this recently)
Shadow Skill
Zenki
Love Hina

That's not even scratching the surface. I find myself not liking most anime now because it's censored to hell and back. Every time something violent happens in Japan, the censorship gets worse. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Hunter X Hunter find some cool ways to get crap past the radar without being crazy with it.

[Forsaken Lover]

I also found Cowboy Bebop to be rather lackluster. I blame it on the episodic nature of the show. I prefer my anime to have a continuous storyline that keeps me hooked. With Bebop, practically each episode amounted to nothing because it would be forgotten by next episode.