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What is a common gateway anime?

[(Anonymous)]

What are some animes pretty much everyone knows? What would be a good introduction to the genre? (For lack of a better word.)

Re: What is a common gateway anime?

[(Anonymous)]

I pretty much got into anime when it had a burst of popularity in the 2000s, and even then I had recognized the 'style' from shows as a kid throughout the 90s like Digimon, Card Captor Sakura, Flint the Time Detective, Yu-Gi-Oh! and of course Pokemon.

I think it really depends what you want, but just to name a few popular titles:
Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Cowboy Bebop, Attack on Titan and Yuri on Ice.

Just to throw in a few personal favorites: Paranoia Agent, xxxHolic, Azumanga Daioh, My First Love Story!/Ore Monogatari, Wolf's Rain, Serial Experiments Lain and Free! (Iwatobi Swim Club).

Re: What is a common gateway anime?

[(Anonymous)]

There's also anime series/ovas available on youtube like Utena, Tamagotchi the anime, Lucky Star and more if you type up anime full series and pick one at random.

Re: What is a common gateway anime?

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the demographic and genre. For shounen (young boys), any of the Big Three (Naruto, One Piece, Bleach). Shoujo (young girls) usually gets recs of magical girl shows (Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Tokyo Mew Mew, etc.) and Ouran High School Host Club (which I actually *wouldn't* recommend, as it parodies/skewers many shoujo romance tropes that won't make sense if you're not already familiar with the source material).

But there's just such a huge variety, it's hard to rec an introduction without knowing someone's tastes. If someone likes cerebral thrillers, I'd say Satoshi Kon. If they like slice-of-life stuff with some magic in it and beautiful art, I'd say Studio Ghibli. And so forth.

Re: What is a common gateway anime?

[kaijinscendre]

Everyone knows: DBZ, Attack on Titan, Naruto.

What I think are great for a first time watch? Cowboy Bebop, Mob Psycho 100, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and anything from Studio Ghibli.

Re: What is a common gateway anime?

[(Anonymous)]

Sailor Moon was my gateway circa 1996-1997, then the OG Evangelion. Everyone pretty much knows about anime now, but back then everything was Pokemon to people who didn't know the genre.

Re: What is a common gateway anime?

[(Anonymous)]

Everybody knows One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto and Sailor Moon, but I'd recommend any 2d Ghibli movie over those lengthy series to someone who is not familiar with anime.

Cowboy Bebop is great grown-up series, standalone and without the usual teen romance demonfighting hijinks, onsen episodes or pantyshots, but it may set the quality bar too high for a beginner? (It's one of the few series of my weeb youth that I wanted to revisit, and it held up!)

I never watched Death Note or Wolf's Rain but they were formative to many folks of my age.

Re: What is a common gateway anime?

[(Anonymous)]

Gateway anime by generation:

Gen X: Speed Racer, Akira

Millennial: Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Digimon, Inuyasha

Gen Z: Naruto, Bleach, Yu-Gi-Oh, Soul Eater, Madoka Magica

Alpha: My Hero Academia, Demon Slayer

And my personal recommendation as a good intro to anime is Princess Tutu, because I've never met anyone who didn't like that anime no matter what their normal tastes were or how new to anime they were.

Re: What is a common gateway anime?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I agree it depends-- a lot of the list of starter/first anime that I see are clearly written by people younger than me, because my own gateway anime are old as (poke)balls now, but it just means you've got a lot to choose from now to introduce a new person to.

My Neighbor Totoro was my introduction, before Pokemon and Sailor Moon (and then Digimon, Card Captor Sakura, the various tapes we circulated in high school of Bubblegum Crisis, Akira, Ghost in the Shell (film), Angelic Layer... some I wish I could remember the title of and find again)... the only current series I really care about following is Demon Slayer, but I watch others when I'm with someone else who's into them, and I like a self-contained anime film.


For my youngest sister, Pokemon and Digimon were the entryway, then Naruto and Inuyasha, and now she watches anime in every genre. For my other sister, Sailor Moon, then Fruits Basket, Ouran High School Host Club... but she also watches a pretty wide variety.