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One Piece, Hitman Reborn, Fairy Tail, those are good in my opinion

One Piece
Fairy Tail
Beelzebub

Sket Dance.

Black Butler (both seasons), Kimi ni Todoke, Clannad, Itazura na Kiss.

Ouran High School Host Club (Live action version?) LOL.
Oh and watch Kimi ni Todoke (Live action)!

Full metal Alchemist
Bleach
DeathNote

One Piece
Fairy Tail
Katekyo Hitman reborn!
Full Metal Alchemist : BROTHERHOOD (Start with Brotherhood, the 1st season was crap)

>2011
>not using Google
>referring to Basil instead
welp

Anime & Manga Resource Package: Second Edition, Version 2.31 (19th edit).

[quote=Anonymous]Because anime is serious business.[/quote]
[quote=Me]If you are asking an anime-related question on Basil, all your questions will be answered in this post. Do not t|;dr on this; it would take months to gather this information without help. The version number is a reference to an anime, not a copy-pasta. No more spam about it, please.

Credits+Thanks: yumtoast154, Davyn, malapo, ShiroNoYami, Rafflesia[/quote]

[Quote=Miscellaneous][*]I could use help to assemble a manga recommendation section, or it'll never get done.
[*]The anime recommendation section needs to be updated with anime from 2010-2011. I will get to it one day, or after the fall season when all the god-tier anime airs.
[*]Currently working on a commonly seen terms list. It will be completed one day, hopefully.
[*]Feel free to contriboot' to this guide. Help out the new-friends so they don't end up going full-retard and talk about anime [like they know everything] even though they've watched like 10 crappy series.
[*][b]WARNING: THIS FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS OPINIONS OF THE "SILENT MAJORITY"; NOT JUST MINE ALONE. EITHER GET BETTER TASTE, OR SUCK IT UP. THIS IS THE INTERNET, NOT SOME DAY CARE.[/b][/quote]

[b][url=http://animu-mango.wikia.com/wiki/Anime_Recommendations]ANIME RECOMMENDATIONS[/url][/b]
[b]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[/b]

[*][b]Tip:[/b] [url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/]Use the search function[/url] and find anime related to the ones you like.
[*][b]Tip 2:[/b] Ignore anyone who recommends Bleach or Naruto. They are the plebeians of the 'anime world' who probably watch dubs on YouTube while cosplaying some fictional character; how unsightly and ungentlemanly. I bet they slurp their tea while in those fancy English parlours.

[b]Action[/b]
[*]Cowboy Bebop
[*]Outlaw Star
[*]Full Metal Panic!
[*]Trigun
[*]Samurai Champloo
[*]Black Lagoon
[*]Baccano
[*]Claymore
[*]Hellsing
[*]Gungrave
[*]Fullmetal Alchemist
[*]Busou Renkin
[*]Ga-Rei Zero
[*]Tiger & Bunny
[*]Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
[*]Summer Wars

[b]Drama[/b]
[*]The Girl who Leapt Through Time
[*]Clannad
[*]Gunslinger Girl
[*]Eden of the East
[*]12 Kingdoms
[*]Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai
[*]Tokyo Godfathers
[*]Bartender
[*]Haibane Renemi
[*]Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

[b]Mecha[/b]
[*]Gundam 00
[*]Gundam Seed
[*]Code Geass
[*]Eureka Seven
[*]Neon Genesis Evangelion
[*]Gurren-Lagann
[*]Super-Dimension Fortress Macross
[*]Mobile Suit Gundam
[*]Mobile Suit Gundam Zeta
[*]MS Team
[*]GaoGaiGar

[b]Science Fiction[/b]
[*]Planetes
[*]Crest and Banner of the Stars
[*]Legend of the Galactic Heroes
[*]Ghost in the Shell
[*]Last Exile
[*]Pale Cocoon

[b]Slice of Life[/b]
[*]Aria
[*]Kamichu
[*]Hidamari Sketch
[*]Kannagi

[b]Romance[/b]
[*]Honey and Clover
[*]Clannad
[*]Kanon
[*]5 Centimeters per Second
[*]ef: a tale of memories/melodies
[*]Spice and Wolf
[*]Shakugan no Shana
[*]True Tears
[*]The World God Only Knows

[b]Comedy/Slapstick[/b]
[*]FLCL
[*]Azumangah Daioh
[*]Nichijou
[*]Haruhi Suzumiya
[*]Welcome to the NHK!
[*]Hayate no Gotoku
[*]Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
[*]Gintama
[*]School Rumble
[*]Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei
[*]Seitokai Yakuindomo

[b]Mystery[/b]
[*]Higurashi
[*]Big O
[*]Dennou Coil
[*]Darker than Black
[*]Mushishi
[*]Mononoke
[*]Detective Conan
[*]Bakemonogatari
[*]Umineko
[*]Serial Experiments Lain
[*]Red Garden

[b]Sports[/b]
[*]Hajime no Ippo
[*]Kaleido Star
[*]Kaiji
[*]Akagi
[*]Redline

[b]Fantasy/Adventure[/b]
[*]Card Captor Sakura
[*]Mahou Shoujo Nanoha
[*]Scrapped Princess
[*]Tower of Druaga
[*]Slayers
[*]Rosen Maiden
[*]Kaze no Stigma
[*]Legend of the Legendary Heroes
[*]Welcome to the Space Show
[*]Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
[*]Angel's Egg
[*]Kino's Journey

[b]Thriller/Drama[/b]
[*]Death Note
[*]Steins;Gate
[*]Kaiji
[*]Monster
[*]School Days
[*]Ergo Proxy
[*]Elfen Lied
[*]Bartender

[b]WATCHING ANIME[/b]
[b]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[/b]
[*][b]>>>STREAMING ANIME IS FOR LOSERS. IF YOU STREAM IT, YOU ARE A LOSER<<<[/b]

[*][b]THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A 'GOOD' ANIME STREAMING SITE: ANYONE WHO RECOMMENDS OP A STREAMING SITE IS INCORRECT AND SHOULD STOP SPREADING CANCER.[/b] (Crunchyroll, Anime Season, Gogoanime, Animecrazy, anime44, animefreak, etc. All those are streaming sites. [b]STOP IT[/b].)

[*]The only reason anyone should watch streams is if: they're just stupid, they don't know that downloading anime=better, or he/she is too poor to afford even a decent hard drive to store things with.

[*]Q: "Why are streams bad, yumtoast?"
[*]A: Ads, retardation in general, loading, plus the audio and visual quality is normally terrible. Here, let me give you an example:
[url=http://minus.com/mcX7jCT#1f]TV rip[/url] I downloaded of Spice and Wolf II, episode 10. Tried to find the torrent again; took about 10 seconds. Look at Horo. Look at those lines! Beautiful!
[url=http://minus.com/mcbQwcU#1f]TV rip[/url] stream of Spice and Wolf II, episode 10 I found on watchanimeon; also took about 10 seconds. Look at Horo now. What blurry lines! Almost as bad as 3DPD cosplay.
(Sorry, it's pretty hard to stop the video at the exact moments with MegaVideo)

[url=http://i.minus.com/iyF9C2eKBpCRx.gif]Upgraded .gif comparison[/url] by malapo.
[url=http://i.minus.com/iSgMC4FcRkIJr.gif]A much better Redline .gif comparison[/url] also by malapo.

[quote=Davyn]720p is the best possible download choice, however to use judgement. If a series that was released pre-2000 has a 720p download available, it's most likely an upscale from 480p. Same goes for 1080p. If your monitor can't play it or if it was released pre-2008 really, then it's an upscale. Even newer movie and Blu-Ray releases are simply upscales and wasted bandwidth/storage space.

Also, HorribleSubs/CrunchySubs are direct rips from CrunchyRoll, as I'm sure there'd be some confusion in the fansub group name.[/quote]

[b]ANIME DOWNLOAD SITES:[/b]
[url=http://www.nyaa.eu/]Nyaa Torrents (Multi-purpose site for RAWs, SUBs, DUBs, untranslated LNs, OSTs, software, etc. Torrent only.)[/url]
[url=http://bakabt.com/]BakaBT (similar to Nyaa Torrents)[/url]
[url=http://tokyotosho.info/]Tokyo Tosho (also similar to Nyaa Torrents)[/url], well NyaaTorrents takes the torrent files from here, but the design of NT is better and easier to follow.
[url=http://animebyt.es/]AnimeByt.es (you need to fill out an application)[/url]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Everything below this line are anime subs [b]ONLY[/b]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[url=http://www.animeout.com/]Anime Out (Small-encoded anime)[/url]
[url=http://www.animetake.com/]Anime Take (DDL+Torrents)[/url]
[url=http://www.animebuzz.tv/]Anime Buzz (DDL+Torrents)[/url]
[url=http://minitheatre.org/]Minitheatre (Small-encoded anime)[/url]
[url=http://www.animesenshi.com/?s=c]Anime Senshi (DDL+Torrents)[/url]
[url=http://www.animea.net/]AnimeA (DDL+Torrents)[/url]

[*]If your college blocks torrents, I'm sorry for your loss. You'll be stuck with crappy 300kb/s DDLs. ;_;
[*](cont'd.)If you can't download torrents/hate DDLs, you can try XDCC. Though I haven't used it myself, it's another option.

[*][b]DOWNLOAD ANIME IN .mkv FORMAT. ANYTHING ELSE IS POINTLESS.[/b]

[*][b]To have your computer read .mkv formats, you [i]MUST[/i] download one of these:[/b]
[url=http://www.cccp-project.net/]CCCP: Combined Community Codec Pack[/url] for Windows users (comes with MPC: Media Player Classic). This pack does everything for you. [b]USE IT[/b].
[url=http://www.mplayerosx.ch/]MPlayer OSX Extended[/url] for Mac users.
[url=http://www.mcmediaplayer.com/]MCP: Media Player Classic[/url] for Linux users.
[url=http://www.videolan.org/vlc/]VLC Player[/url] for Mac, Ubuntu, Windows, and Fedora users.
[url=http://www.mplayer2.org/]MPlayer 2[/url], also for Linux users.

[*]CCCP has the [b]best[/b] support for hi10p, h264 videos. Everything else is inferior; only use the other links if your OS does [b]not[/b] support CCCP. I will say this again: CCCP>MPC [OSX Extended], MPC and VLC

[*]Useful link: [url=http://www.fansubwiki.com/]Fansub Wiki[/url] for those who watch subs.

[*]Protip 1: Don't waste bandwidth on crappy encoders who double/triple file sizes. [b]THORA, COALGIRLS *HACKHACKCOUGHCOUGH*[/b]
[*]Protip 2: FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is virtually useless if you don't have god-tier ears with an amazing audio system.
[*]Protip 3: Seed what you leech. Don't be that asshole who removes their torrent after they finish while setting upload to absolute minimum. If you have a crappy bandwidth cap, this is understandable.

[b]MANGA[/b]
[b]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[/b]

[*][b]Same rules apply to manga. Downloading=higher quality.[/b]

[*][b]MANGA ONLINE:[/b]
[url=http://www.mangareader.net/]Manga Reader[/url]
[url=http://www.mangafox.]Manga Fox[/url] broken link due to Basil filters. Add the .com yourself.
[url=http://www.mangahere.com/]Manga Here[/url]
[url=http://mangastream.com/]Manga Stream[/url]

[*][b]MANGA DOWNLOADS:[/b]
[url=http://www.mangatraders.com/]Manga Traders[/url]
[url=http://www.mangashare.com/]Manga Share[/url]
[url=http://www.downloadmanga.org/]Download Manga[/url]

[*][b]MANGA VIEWEING:[/b]
[url=http://www.honeyview.org/]Honey View[/url] for Windows and Linux (with wine) users.
[url=http://www.desertdragon.addr.com/mv/]Manga Viewer[/url] for Windows users.
[url=http://comix.sourceforge.net/]Comix[/url] for Mac and Linux users.

[*]Your best bet is to find the scanlators/provider for the series and download it off their blog/site.

[b]IMAGES[/b]
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[*]The following are anime/manga-related image hosting sites.
[*][b]WARNING:[/b] Danbooru and Gelbooru have 18+ ads. Make sure to go into their work-safe mode before searching/download adblock.

[url=http://danbooru.donmai.us/]Danbooru[/url]
[url=http://gelbooru.com/]Gelbooru[/url]
[url=http://www.pixiv.net/]Pixiv (in Japanese, but it's fairly straightforward)[/url]
[url=http://konachan.com/]Kona-chan Wallpapers[/url]

[*][b]REVERSE IMAGE SEARCHES[/b]
[*][url=http://iqdb.org/]IQDB[/url]
[*][url=http://www.tineye.com/]TinEye[/url]
[*][url=http://saucenao.com/]Sauce Nao[/url]

[b]LNs, VNs, OSTs, ETC[/b]
[b]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[/b]
[*]Refer to the anime downloads section and below.

[b]ANIME/MANGA-RELATED RESOURCES[/b]
[b]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~[/b]

[*][url=http://myanimelist.net/]MaL: My Anime List[/url] Keep track of what you watch and whatnot.
[*][url=http://www.malupdater.com/]MaL Updater[/url] Helps keep track of your MaL.
[*][url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/]ANN: Anime News Network[/url] Reliable database.
[*][url=http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=main]AniDB[/url] is another helpful data base.
[*][url=http://www.cccp-project.net/]CCCP: Combined Community Codec Pack[/url] Linking it again because it's that important.
[*][url=http://www.mangaupdates.com/]Manga Updates[/url] Keep track of anime, manga, doujin, etc
[*][url=http://www.2chan.net/]2chan[/url] For all you people who can read Japanese. A text board dedicated to all things animu, but threads are normally dedicated to crappy anime. It's well-kept and organized unlike its sister site.
[*][b]Wait, wait. I get banned for [i]indirectly[/i] linking this site, but Reddit can be linked? I don't see how this is fair, mods, when Reddit sucks 100x more with its 3-y/o late memes. Plus I can link 2ch[an]. What's so bad about its sister site when the parent host is worse?[/b]
>Newf&gs and underb&s, gb2 >>/[url=http://www.gaiaonline.com/]gaia[/url]/.
[*][url=http://2ch.net/]2ch[/url] Not to be confused with 2chan, 2ch is a text board while 2chan is an image board (fyi, it's more popular than 2chan and of course, it's in Japanese)
[*][url=http://www.niconico.com/]NicoNico[/url] English site. This was released recently, but they've higher quality anime streams than most sites plus anime/manga-related videos
[*][url=http://www.nicovideo.jp/]NicoNico[/url] Japanese version; more videos and much more popular, if you know Japanese, that is.
[*][url=http://countdown.mandragon.info/]Countdown[/url] to know when the next episode of _____ airs.
[*][url=http://gendou.com/]Gendou[/url] for anime-related music.
[*][url=http://www.baka-tsuki.org/]Baka-tsuki[/url] Light novel translation site for those who can't read the ones off Nyaatorrent.
[*][url=http://www.utorrent.com/]utorrent[/url] A bit-torrent client. Download it if you haven't already.
[*][url=http://www.hongfire.com/]Hong Fire[/url]. A site for downloading [translated+untranslated] visual novels and other miscellaneous games/software. Edit: This site no longer has download links, sadly.

[b]>>>[url=http://www.google.com/]Google[/url]. THE REASON YOU SEE THIS POST IS BECAUSE OP WAS TOO LAZY TO USE GOOGLE TO FIND HIS/HER ANSWER. USE THIS SITE.<<<[/b]

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