Death Note was one of the first anime I ever watched, and I was immediately drawn in by the engaging story and unique characters. I was about 16 years old at the time I watched this series. I’d seen several other anime before this, but none of them held my attention quite like Death Note did. l binged through the series, always eager to go to the next episode.

I loved the elaborate, ongoing mystery throughout it. Constantly, I wondered what would happen next. This series truly made me think, laugh, rage, and even cry. That’s how invested I was in the story and characters. Even six years later, Death Note is still one of my favorite anime, and it has stayed fresh in my mind.

Ultimately, this series made me love anime even more than I already did. It showed me how clever and deep an animated show could really be. It also began my preference for darker anime, which I retain to this day. And, if this tells you anything, Light Yagami is still one of my least favorite characters. My dislike for him hasn’t diminished at all.

Naruto is my favourite anime or I guess the only anime I’ve watched. I have not yet completed it but I know after watching this, i won’t be able to like any other anime ( as harsh as it may sound but that’s what has happened to my elder brother, he has literally watched Naruto 3-4 times). There is seriously nothing even close to the story of Naruto in the place where I live.

I have only seen 89 episodes so I know I’m way back but still it has taught me alot. The fact that you can do anything if you believe it, caring and doing anything for your comrades, best friends, clan, village, nation. Not losing hope in your dreams. Taming the monster inside you ( not that I’ve really a nine tailed fox inside of me still....). It also shows that we can compete and still be best friends.

Its so real that I hate calling it cartoon or even anime. I wish they were real and I lived with them. It certainly makes me crazy but a real shinobi has to hide feelings :).

I love the characters, everyone is different. Naruto is so smart to be a knuckle head.

Kakashi got coolness,

Shikamaru got the drag,

I don’t know what to say about Sasuke,

But Itachi got me flat.

I respect them and

I love themmmmm

I’ve to stop talking now

Before I get a panic attack.

I wish I could share something more but my best friend is also watching it, so I don’t want to be a spoiler for her or any other person who is watching or planning to watch.

And yes don’t judge people because they will change in this amazing series.

Lesson for life : *BELIEVE IT !!!!*

My favorite anime is cowboy bebop. I didn't start watching until I was 25. I never watched anything else besides Howls moving castle. But anywho I love this show my favorite episode is Mushroom Samba if you have Hulu I recommend. But I love it because it's the kind of fantasy I have in my head just another world outside our own but earth is still inhabitable. It's an awesome show and the 90’s romance music omg it gives me so much inspiration. But I love it because every episode is something new and random and I know nothing about space and the show is intergalactic and all spacey just great though check it out.

My favourite anime?

NARUTO!

It’s the best - hands down - but it’s spoken for already (like twice in this challenge alone), so I’m going to rant about my second favourite anime of all time.

Gintama!

Gintama is one of those rare gems, unknown to many of the anime community, mainly because of how impossible it would be to translate a large portion of their jokes to the western world, the series itself acknowledged this.

But I kid you not; it is the Deadpool of anime. The art of breaking the 4th wall is mastered by this series and lots of my habits of doing that is inspired by this series. They’ve done so many parodies that it is literally untraceable to find them all – few sites have tried.

It is the funniest anime I have ever experienced, and according to myanimelist.net, I’ve watched over 4800 episodes worth of anime, so that’s saying something.

This anime has the ability to make you cry two seconds after laughing your head off. It rips your heart out while you’re rolling on the floor in laughter. There’s no way to properly depict the epic, hilarious, tear-jerky, chaos-filled, copyright-littered, mess of an anime Gintama is, but I recommend it to the world.

With that said, it is a really long series and the first 19 episodes of character introductions are kind of slow (unless you already love the characters), but on the bright side, the actual story is cut into occasional arcs and all the episodes in between are more or less not related to the plot which means many episodes are skippable, but unless you're acquainted with someone who knows all the must-see episodes *wink wink nudge nudge* why would you want to skip them?

Anyway, I could literally spend a day fangirling about this series - from the characters, to the fight scenes, to the analogies, to the voice acting, to the movies, to the AMVs, to the FANART - but I'll spare you the time between reading this, and watching that anime.

Because you really should....

Watch...

G I N T A M A A A A A A A A A A A A A

*starts screaming*

From the get-go, Psycho-Pass takes you on a jarring, jolting ride through intensely violent scenes and disturbing psychological events. My shock at the first episode’s plethora of gore almost dissuaded me from continuing the series. I am so thankful I didn’t. This anime is truly a gem if you like to explore themes such the standard for good and evil, what is true justice, and what is life and its purpose.

Set in the perhaps not that distant future, the story begins in a sci-fi environment of Japan controlled by the enigmatic Sybil System, which assesses an individual by his Psycho-Pass. The Psycho-Pass, when scanned, will display a number that marks him either harmless or a potential criminal based on his level of agitation. While this may seem like a perfect system, it leads to unjust arrestings of those who haven’t committed a crime and may never, while letting some who can commit crimes with little mental and emotional disturbances go undetected.

This show’s main characters, Tsunemori Akane, Kogami Shinya, Nobuchika Ginoza, Kagari Shusei, Kunizuka Yayoi, Masaoka Tomomi, and Makishima Shogo each play vital parts in the complexity of the anime.

Though she may not seem much at first, Tsunemori Akane proves to be a capable Inspector, one who takes care of criminals or latent criminals. Ruled by her own sense of justice, this leads her to disregard the set rules of her Dominator, a weapon used to control or eliminate criminals. Though not the most brilliant of anime characters I have encountered, she is an interesting case nonetheless.

Kagari Shusei is a carefree young man, latent criminal since childhood. He has never committed a crime, yet he is bound by the system whose fairness he questions greatly. One of the Enforcers, latent criminals that work under Inspectors, he is loyal and always looking for a quick way to get the job done.

Once a popular rock star, Kunizuka Yayoi becomes a latent criminal, and later, an Enforcer. Kunizuka could not bring herself to shoot her friend, though the friend was a terrorist. After the incident, Kunizuka’s Psycho-Pass remained cloudy, reducing her to the status of latent criminal, and later a serious and thoughtful Enforcer serving under Inspectors Tsunemori and Ginoza.

One of the elder enforcers, Masaoka Tomomi provides a mentor figure for Inspector Tsunemori and is valued for his often expert advice. Though he may appear rugged and hardened on the outside, he is a very caring man who gives of himself before others, especially for his troubled son.

Nobuchika Ginoza is the epitome of a lawkeeper, guiding every step by the rules in the book. He prizes duty and keeping the rules over spontaneous ideas and actions. Ginoza is a strong leader, though often moody, for he hides long-buried pain deep within himself. He always would treat Masaoka with an air of disregard, but that hidden part of him comes to the surface when Masaoka gives his life for him.

In my eyes, this anime truly comes down to a showdown between two troubled but brilliant masterminds, Kogami Shinya and Makishima Shogo. One is always trying to be one step ahead of the other, playing a mental game on the gameboard of life and death. Enforcer Kogami Shinya struggles under the weight of letting a friend die, and burns with a quiet fury to get revenge on the one behind the death, Makishima Shogo. Kogami is a driven and passionate man who has a deep sense of loyalty to his friends, whom he would protect to the death. It is intriguing to watch others melt some of the ice in his heart and show him that there is a life outside mindless and dutiful killing.

On the other hand, Makishima Shogo has struggled with isolation since childhood, having always been different than others. His seemingly emotionless disregard of people’s lives as just “pieces on the gameboard of life” makes him appear cold and ruthless. He is a man who loves philosophy and the classics, often quoting his favourite authors to make a point. He reasons that, with the end of the Sybil System, which he deems unjust, people can be equal once more, regardless of their Psycho-Pass. This does seem true in some respects, if not many, casting doubt about who, or what, is the true villain.

For fans of Death Note, or any other highly psychological anime, Psycho-Pass will be sure to entertain. It has truly made me ponder a great many things, and given me hope yet apprehension that things are definitely not all they seem.

I’ve watched a lot of animes and Fruits Basket and Naruto will always have a very deep place in my heart. I’m currently on a Naruto kick so it’s hard to focus on writing this, but nothing can compete with my love for Yu Yu Hakasho. It’s an anime I have watched in full over nine times, and every single time it changes the way I think.

Yu Yu Hakasho follows the adventures of delinquent eighth grader, Yusuke Urameshi, and his strange party of enemies turned friends, as detective of the spirit world. There are several reasons I love the show: complex characters and relationships, interesting story lines, well woven comedy, and the most attention catching opening scene I’ve seen in any anime. But, with the exception of the last point, pleanty of other shows can boast of those as well, so here’s what really sets it apart. It’s very real. Yu Yu Hakasho is a shonen anime. It’s a fighting show, but the fights are real. Yusuke is a street fighter. Consistantly, his fighting style throughout the show remains as such---eratic, unpredictable, and unrefined. In fights, characters get injured, and their injuries carry over into the next fight. You watch them have to factor that into their battle and fight around it. You see them use nothing but willpower to keep standing and using their minds to come up with a tactic to win.

That realness doesn’t just apply to the fights, but to the characters themselves. Every character exsits in shades of gray. Nothing is black and white, same as real life. Yusuke is the most gray hero I’ve ever seen. He isn’t noble, kind, hardworking, or smart. If it weren’t for his humor and quick wit, he’d be straight up unlikable. But through the lengths he’ll go to protect his friends, he grows to a degree that, by the end of the series, you could almost think of him as noble. And that’s true for all of the characters in the show. All of them begin as someone atypical for the role of hero, and yet, they grow throughout the series in a way that’s not only very believable but also leaves no doubt in your mind that they deserve the title of hero. In fact, every arch of the series does it’s best to remind you that the world is not black and white, nothing is simple, and everything is gray.

And while Naruto has given me my favorite conception of energy or aura, and Fruits Basket showed me what true absolute kindness and acceptance looks like, nothing has given me a better concept of the world than Yu Yu Hakasho. People can change and grow, there’s more to a person than what they outwardly show, no one is fully “good” or “bad,” true power is that used to protect others, everyone has a back story. All of that came from Yu Yu Hakasho, and I wouldn’t be able to go through life without that.