Fav Animes

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Originally posted by Raditzu
I actually disagree almost entirely with Dabura. Yeah, there's plenty of bad anime out there, but the same can be said for reality TV shows, for movies, for video games... for anything. Occasionally, a manga will work better than an anime of the same story, but nine times out of ten, I find myself liking the anime a lot more. It completely depends on your own preferences. But that's neither here nor there.

I'd recommend the following:

Black Lagoon (seasons one and two are equally amazing)
Mai Hime and Mai Otome
Shinobuden
Death Note
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Fate-Stay Night
Ergo Proxy

I agree that most products of entertainment are horrible. Anime is just another product of entertainment. I used to be a Japophile because my personality resonated with the culture, but now that I'm so familiar with it I'm no longer hypnotized by something just because it comes from Japan. =O

But anime that is based on manga is almost always better in manga-form (not that I'm saying that the individual manga is worth reading, just that it's better than the anime version). Death note is one of those things, Bassilisk is another, and Dragonball, Naruto... I honestly can't think of a single anime series that is better than it's manga counter-part.