Looking for a new series to watch. only ones i've seen so far are dragonball/dragonball z and afro samurai. i watched an episode of FLCL but couldnt get into it. plan on trying again at some point tho. so any suggestions??
starwarsjunky
Okay for starters, don't start watching Bleach. The show starts off good for about the first 60 episodes, but quickly falls flat. The anime is especially poor because they will include 30-50 episodes of fillers whenever they feel like it. You can be in the middle of an important arc or some huge battle, and they will cut to filler. It really hurts the quality of the show when well over 100 episodes are pure filler.
If you enjoyed the DB/DBZ series, especially the original when Goku is a kid up until his teenage years, you will ABSOLUTELY love this show called One Piece. If you recall in Dragonball, Goku and company were not trying to save the world (like in DBZ), but rather they were more focused on exploring the world, meeting new people, etc. One Piece has a lot of parallels to the original Dragonball and in many cases, it does it much better.
One Piece tells the story of a teen named Monkey D. Luffy, who aspires to become the Pirate King. In his pursuit of this dream, he gathers a crew, all with varying personalities. Here are some details on a few of his crewmates: One is a stern swordsman, another a coward and chronic liar, and there is also a shrewd thief. The show starts off rather slow, but it picks up and keeps improving from there, never taking steps backwards.
You will see the crew make the transition from insignificance to some of the greatest enemies the World Government has ever encountered. The fights the pirates get involved in range from small skirmishes to battles of massive scale, involving many different parties. One of the areas that One Piece absolutely trumps Dragonball is in character development and plot. The author does such a great job of making you feel like you are in a living and breathing world by creating a lot of variety in both environments and character design/personality. The plot is very well thought out and the viewer can tell. For example, the author will drop in small details here and there that will seem unimportant at first, but have huge repercussions possibly hundreds of episodes later after you've completely forgotten all about it (creates many "OH ****" moments =P). If you do decide to watch it, you should view it in Japanese only. The English versions are highly censored and the voice acting is awful.
Also, if you enjoyed DBZ, Naruto is pretty good as well. Watch this in Japanese as well. Most animes have poor English dubs, so you are better off sticking to Japanese subs in the future (with some exceptions of course).
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