Yay, another GiTS fan!
This deserves a high-five.
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Wuuuuuuuhhhuuuu! clap
One of my biggest loves beside Halo and Borderlands. Saw the movie far to early when I was 7 years old and it blew my mind! Motoko Kusanagi is the most BADASS female character ever invented within the anime/manga scene, I´d give anything to be like the Major! /;O;/ Thats why I loved Athena so much, she´s like the Major just on Elpis/Pandora.
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I remember our local Blockbuster* had an anime section (which was, I thought, fairly unusual for one out in the “sticks”). It is where I came across many of the titles the OP mentions. My roommate had heard that “Akira was pretty good”, but this was largely our only exposure to anime up to this point. Shortly thereafter we had burned through that entire section (and the Internet began to mature and it turned out that it was a pretty big deal). Good times.
I will check some of those titles out. I would add to the list of recommendations Ninja Scroll.
*For the uninitiated, Blockbuster was a chain of brick-and-mortar businesses that would rent VHS tapes (and shortly before its demise, DVDs). I still, in fact, have Spirited Away on VHS with a working player.
GiTS is one of the anime’s that got me into the whole thing. Next to Digimon, Card Captor Sakura and Flint the Time Detective.
Still one of my favorites.
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Same here^^ Ohhhh Card Captor Sakura = the only magical girl anime I liked xD (heres a 90s girl that NEVER saw only one episode SailorMoon) and Digimon was my childhood.
Another deep impact was Hellsing OVA and Hellsing Ultimate. Alucard is f*ucking the best.
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Oh and “Blame” - great epical movie. Not much story, but great dark pictures.
(PS: not much story = I saw it in japanese without subs years ago, I simply can´t remember much xD )
Maybe you´ll also enjoy “Chrono Crusade”, “TRIGUN” and “Sayuki”, all three are series, but awesome.
TRIGUN is like Borderlands. Pretty much. Even the planets name is Pandora and its full of crazyness and guns + epic story. The Manga is magnificently too, Borderlands basic style always reminded me of TRIGUN.
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Might have watched Sailor Moon as I was younger, but I have no nostalgia attached to it, unlike the previously mentioned anime’s.
Watched (one of?) Hellsing movie, good stuff.
I’ll check these out! And apologies for not saying much, not really one for long replys.
Yeah, I was hooked after watching the first 3 OVA’s. Alucard was one badass protagonist.
As for Ghost in the Shell, I have the whole series but only watched like first 3 episodes. One with the tank is the last one I think. I’ve yet to get into it but it is awesome. Gotta watch movies too after.
Indeed he is^^
Interesting take on GitS, that way you´ll watch it in the right timeline (GitS:SAC plays before the first movie from 1995)
The series has it flaws, but I enjoyed it all along 
I don’t see Ponyo, Arrietty, My Neighbor Totoro, wolf children, or tales from earthsea.
Just make it anything studio Ghibli.
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yeah pretty much. doesn’t really matter what your into, if you don’t like spirited away, your a monster.
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For horror-themed anime, I would recommend “Blood: The Last Vampire”. Some other good anime include “Kite” (a school girl assassin), “Serial Experiments Lain” and probably one of the best Anime series ever “Cowboy Bebop”.
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Another vote for Redline and GitS anything.
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Sounds good. I’ll give them a try.
I’ll be seeing them eventually.
Serial Experiments Lain is one messed up series. First 2 episodes really messed with my head.
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Lain is crazy indeed, I love the opening song alot though, stood an earworm for years^^ Did you had time to watch “Ghost in the Shell”?
I have no idea xD I asked myself the same thing yesterday
You want messed up, watch Elfen Lied.
Haven’t watched GitS yet, but I did watch Blood: the Last Vampire, Kite and Jin Roh. Good stuff. Should I watch GitS movie first or the series?
Also Elfen Lied looks interesting. I will definitely check it out as well. Any other dark and twisted anime to look out for? What about the one where a fat ■■■■■■■■ giant is stampeding through old town streets and is about to squash the towns people, possibly getting it’s ass kicked by some flying person? I know one forumer here made a funny gif out of that giant. Probably Ice Car.