Firstly i know there have been various anime posts about peoples favorites and so on, but i dont think this is a duplicate post.

Basically can i get some suggestions as to where to start with anime. Are there any standalone dvd's? the ones ive looked through all seem to be hundreds of episodes long! like ghost in the shell.

Ive seen Akira and ive seen some of the studio gibli stuff like kiki's delivery service and Spirited away.

hellsing 13 episodes
devil may cry 13
Cowboy beep hop 26 ep
Noir 13 ep
Claymore 13 ep or 26
School days has 13 or 26 ep
Slum Dunk more tha hundred ep though

well depends on what kind of anime

Black lagoon 26 ep
Elfen Lied (must see) 13ep
serial experiment Lain 13 or 26



avoid Bleach that has alread 233 ep and naruto

Hello there HHRC,

There are a few threads in the Anime sections that go over peoples suggestions for where to start,
thread one
Thread two

This thread would fit in well in the anime forum, but I'm sure a mod will decide what is best.

With regards to your inquiry, Ghost in the Shell was originally a movie before it became a tv series so you can pick up both the first movie and the second movie, GitS Innocence as stand alone dvd's.

Or you can download the first movie here
And The second here.

I recommend starting with Ghost in the Shell, its what got me into anime.

Hope this helps.

Thanks very much, appreciate the links and am downloading now, and i will be sure to read through the other posts.

Thanks also Marxus i have noted your suggestions and will seek them out.

Glad I could be of service

These are really links to movies on where to start but here a few threads in Tracker Sites and Discussions on good places to get Anime.

Linky 1

Linky 2

Linky 3

Linky 4

And of course our own section

Linky 5

visit this website has loads of anime dvd rips

The first one I ever saw was Fist of the northstar, which is a movie. The first stuff I saw that really got me into anime was Final fantasy unlimited, Trigun and Rurouni Kenshin. I got hoopked into the Final fantasy one because I'm a final fantasy fan so that my be no good for you (I wouldn't knock it until you've seen it though) but Trigun is an all round excellent animated series.

I'll move this to the animation discussions forum now I've had my say.

Fist of the northstar is also a serie and it's awesome, watched when I was teenager and it was on for quite a bit


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsurikichi_Sampei another one from my youg age

Ranma 1/2 is pretty good too
Captain Tsubasa
Voltron
Mazinger

there are so many good oldies but is really hard to find a torrent

Really? I might just have to see if I can "get hold" of some of that