Anime Recommendations 2021

Have you heard of Akira, that anime from 1988? It's by Katsuhro Otomo. I'm a fan of his work. If you are too, then these two are worth seeing if you haven't already...

Otomo's 1991 Roujin-Z was made available for viewing on YouTube this past year. It's 1h20m. Link: https://youtu.be/itg4zKaUMgY

There's also Otomo's 1995 Memories. It's great. I haven't found a good version of it on YouTube, but a quality stream of it is available on Amazon Prime.

Otomo also worked on Metropolis (2001) and Steamboy (2004). They're both great.

Yesterday I posted the link to Internet Explorer-Chan Season 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29384451

I wouldn't call it a great anime in general, but for our niche, it can be amusing.

For me, I recently watched Knight's & Magic, and loved it. It was fun seeing someone solving 1 problem after another to create something new - kinda similar to solving a million bugs to finally build the project.

You may also know about Ninja Scroll (1993). It's a classic. The same director made the lesser known Demon City Shinjuku (1988) and Wicked City (1987). Not sure about those two older works, but Ninja Scroll can be streamed from Hulu.

I can't define it, but I feel like there is a link between the animators who worked on Ninja Scroll and the ones who worked on Puppet Princess (2000). Puppet Princess is short but looks like a lot of work went into it for it's time. If you want to see that, the only streaming service I could find with it was VUDU.

I started watching anime in high school with naruto, one piece, and bleach… these are super long series.

now i have a few favorites that i always rewatch: - hunter x hunter; the greed island arc was my favorite - the irregular at magic high school: magicians are ranked in the school by their compute power and speed, but the protagonist basically has orders of magnitude of more RAM than everybody else

Studio Ghibli films are popular recommendations, but one you'll probably not hear about is Pom Poko (1984). It's very different from other more well known works from Ghibli. Story is about talking raccoons employing all kinds of wacky tactics trying to save their forest.

Odd Taxi was excellent.