ITT: Anime/manga that everyone should be required to watch/read(both if applicable) in order to be considered a true fan of the medium as a whole.
If it was made past 2010, don't bother.
To qualify, the series must be staples of their respective genres.
Ashita no Joe
Berserk
Great Teacher Onizuka
The Haruhi Suzumiya series (the anime and the LNs)
Serial Experiments Lain (don't argue with this, it is THE psychological anime)
Doraemon
Devilman
Evangelionis shit and doesn't belong on this list
Those are some of my own picks.
>>110646
>If it was made past 2010, don't bother.
Why?
the moomins
>>110648
Because there is nothing made past 2010 that can be considered a staple of the genre.
>>110647
>>110649
>>>/r/eddit
>>110651
No, take this to /wsr/ you stupid newfag. If /a/ had required reading there would be a sticky. Fuck off with your thinly veiled request thread you fucking faggot.
>>110652
Name ONE you think could be considered a staple of its respective genre.
You either can't, or you'll name one that isn't actually a staple of its genre.
>>110653
Just kill yourself already reddit.
>gotta be a memer like everyone else!
>N-No lists! I-I hate requests, I'd rather talk about my flavor of the month garbage because I just started watching anime and this is my first time on this board
Fuck off retard.
>>>/reddit/
>>110648
Because anything made after 2010 hasn't had enough time to establish itself as a series that can be discussed and influential more than a few years down the line.
>>110646
Evangelion, love it or hate it, 100% deserves a spot on any list of "required" watching.
To add to the list
Naussica
FLCL
Card Captor Sakura
>>110655
Are you even old enough to remember puddi? That's recent as fuck and you probably have no clue what I'm talking about. Fuck off.
>>110656
>>110658
See >>110655
Then go to
>>>/r/eddit
Hokoto no Ken
>>110646
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>>110661
Eh. Memorable, but a staple?
Pre 2010
School rumble
Love Hina
Full Metal Panic
TWGOK (wifu wars)
After 2010
Kill la Kill
SAO (to understand why people don't like it)
Beelzebub (manga only)
thinly veiled request thread
#ban
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
AkiraSchool Days
>>110646
Penguindrum
Oyasumi Punpun
Monogatari series
>>110646
Evangelion is required watching if you are a "true fan" of the medium, love it or hate it
>>110667
Monogatari is not at all required.
All you have to know is the main character's name and the animals the girls are associated with and that's literally it.
Fuck out of here.
Yeah, you can't call yourself an anime fan if you haven't watch this.
>>110663
>SAO (to understand why people don't like it)
I wouldn't subject my worst enemy to season 2 for any reason.
>>110646
I'm not joking when I say this, but you MUST watch Dimension W. It's an excellent tool of reference when judging whether an anime is decent or bad.
Dimension W is so bland and generic that it gets a perfect 5/10.
If an anime is better than Dimension W, then it is fine.
If an anime is worse than Dimension W, then it is bad.
In that sense, the Dimension W anime is required.
>>110646
Is that a TTGL reference?
>>110673
I laugh every time I see this.
>>110670
Was this post intended to be ironic? Haruhi is the defining series for slice of life, it is ingrained in anime's very culture.
>>110651
>hurr durr if it is a staple it means it is good
>hurr durr only before 2010
Love Live! School Idol Project is a staple and recent, doesn't mean it is a required watch.
Sword Art Online is a staple and recent, and pretty shitty.
This thread should just be great anime, which includes recent animes like Madoka or Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
>>110676
How was he ironic? He said the exact same thing you just said.
There aren't any.
>>110679
His post sounded ironic. I wasn't claiming tht it was. I thought he was mocking Haruhi's importance to anime.
>>110678
>great anime
>either of those
Lmai
Akatsuki no Yona. Both manga and anime. Love it so much.
>>110683
>Aren't I a contrarian
Come now nigger, try harder.
>>110663
>Full Metal Panic
lol
Glad to see the reddit mods don't have any sense of what belongs on this board and what doesn't.
>>110689
Say reddit one more time. Don't think you hit your quota yet.
>>110684
There are far better in the same genre. Both Juuni Kokki and Saiunkoku are far more qualified.
>>110692
Reddit.
Kys reddit normie
>>110684
It's a shame it was put on indefinite suspension because of the recent earthquakes.
Just finished watching the original Mobile Suit Gundam a day or so ago, I feel like anybody with even a sliver of interest in the mecha genre should definitely check it out.
goodnight punpun
>>110646
shitty post. shitty request. just send it to the >>>/trash/
