So I've mostly just watched some original anime movies, but I wanna try some shows. I know many of the "big titles" that everyone should watch but I don't know where to begin. No high school trash, gimme that dark shit instead. Or just anything good. Nothing long either, I can't handle a billion episodes since it's too hard to pay attention. 15 eps or below should be good. Need recommendations - pls halp. ;-;
Longer shows that are still good:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex [Bit of a time investment but a incredibly good scifi series]
Planetes [hard scifi about a group of people who collect garbage caught in Earth's orbit]
Excel Saga [weird, stupid parody of basically everything you can think of]
Outlaw Star [it's kinda like Cowboy Bebop but different and not quite as good, but still pretty good]
Mushishi [a fantasy world where a guy helps people deal with the weird creatures who live in it, one of my all-time favorites]
Darker than Black [the story of Chinese Electric Batman]
Psycho-Pass [future-Japan is controlled by a computer that determines if people have criminal tendencies or not and then has them arrested or killed]
Space Dandy [a bunch of animators are given complete control to do whatever they want in each episode]
Black Lagoon [Japanese mercenaries shooting stuff up in Thailand]
Shorter shows that are good:
Paranoia Agent [total mind screw, a messed up show with messed up people]
Macross Plus [Top Gun: The Anime]
Kino's Journey [A philosophical journey with a girl and her talking motorcycle, way better than that sounds]
Golden Boy [best fan service show ever made]
Serial Experiments Lain [dark meditation on the invasion of technology into people's lives]
Gun Smith Cats [America: The Anime]
Hellsing Ultimate [Ultra-violence, Nazi vampires, super-slick animation]
Blood Blockade Battlefront [People in NYC have to live alongside creatures from another dimension]
Detroit Metal City [The over-the-top front-man of death metal band is actually a sensitive guy who just wants to write folk music, top-tier comedy]
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt [if Adult Swim teamed up with anime]
Level E [an alien prince comes to Earth just to troll people]
Armitage III [Robots on Mars want rights too]
Dominion Tank Police [Future-crime is so bad that the police now use tanks, with predictable results]
Cyber City Oedo 808 [three criminals are released from prison and tasked with stopping future-crime to lessen their sentence]
Bubblegum Crisis [80s anime plus 80s music]
Threw in some old stuff and some new stuff. Go nuts.