Approved Anime

This is a list of /tg/ approved anime, organized loosely into genres.

Add important details (e.g. tv series or OVA, number of episodes or movies) in brackets.

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Science Fiction

• Cowboy Bebop: Animu fans will argue forever if this is the best anime or not, but it is probably one of the best space-westerns anybody has made ever. An astounding look into one of the best parties an RPG could ever have. [tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes; 1 movie]
• Ghost in the Shell: /k/ makes a show about cyborgs and politics. The two movies and TV series take place in different continuities, and have very different feels. You may love one but hate the other. [2 movies; tv series: season 1 - 26 episodes, season 2 - 26 episodes, 1 mad-for-TV movie]
• Legend of Galactic Heroes: 18th century Prussian politics IN SPACE. the first five episodes are slow, but after that expect moments of tactical genius and awesome. [TV Series - 110 episodes]

Action

• Baccano! : Pulp fiction with alchemists set in the 1930s. Confusing at first, but fucking awesome by the time the last scene rolls. [TV Series: 16 episodes]
• Black Lagoon: A Japanese salaryman gets abducted by modern pirates, only to find wirking with them is more fun compared to sucking up to his bosses. Loud dumb fun with a smart, gritty edge.
• Tiger and Bunny: Corporations create their own superheroes in mecha suits to fight crime.
• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: A dynasty of manly badasses travel the globe in search of ways to refine their study of the mystic arts and defeat the evil vampire who has plagued their family for generations. The most FABULOUS anime ever made. [ OV: 12 episodes, TV Series - ongoing]
• Darker thn Black: A world where super-powered sociopaths began to appear after the stars overhead changed forever, intelligence agencies and criminal organization hire these new breed of humans as their agents. The exploits of Chinese electric Batman are fun the first season, but the second season is skippable.
• Hellsing Ultimate: A show about how vampires really work: via ultraviolence, badassery and lots of bloodshed. Team Four Star turned it into: "One-Liners: the Anime" [OVA: 10 episodes]
• Fist of the North Star: The manliest show ever made.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan: The Orkiest show ever made.[TV Series: 30 episodes; 2 movies]

Horror & Mindfuckery

• Neon Genesis Evangelion: A character drama that pretends to be a mecha anime for its first half. Inspiration for Adeptus Evangelion. Obviously. [TV series: 26 episodes; 2 movies]
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: A newer show about girls with magical powers who fight beings called witches. It begins as a seemingly innocent and fluffy series (following all the standard conventions of "magical girl" anime), but quickly becomes incredibly dark and fucked up. [TV series: 13 episodes]
• Paranoia Agent: A cartoonist is attacked by a mysterious teenager on roller skates wielding a golden baseball bat. Copycat attacks start to occur all around Japan. This is an Unknown Armies campaign done amazingly right.
• Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni: In the small town of Hinamizawa, a series of interrelated stories of a group of friends in school club slowly unravels the horrific town's dark secret, and the madness, murder and horror which abound within. Gory, scary, and mind-bendingly bizarre, the individual murder-mysteries slowly piece together into a surprisingly complex and largely satisfying puzzle of s series.

Fantasy

• Berserk 3.X DnD: The Anime. Guts, a brutal and unstoppable swordsman, walks the land as he recounts his impossibly bad-assed past. Noted for being GUTS HUEG because HUEG GUTS has HUEG GUTS.
• Claymore: Berserk's spiritual successor. Hot-but-tasteful women are hired by The Association to kill the fuckoff huge demons.
• Record of Loads of War: ADnD the Anime.
• Slayers: 2E the Anime.
• Rune Soldier Louie: An optimized D&D Fighter was raised from childhood to be a mage. Shit goes down as he goes down the path of becoming a Muscle Wizard
• Princess Tutu: Yeah, go ahead and laugh. Imagine a Changeling: the Lost campaign written by Neil Gaiman while chugging the nightmare fuel. [TV Series: 26 episodes]
• Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemy: Brotherhood: In a world where alchemy is the dominant form of science, two alchemical prodigies try to use forbidden secret to bring their mother back from the dead, and they pay the ultimate price. The two brothers strive to research the legendary Philosopher's Stone, in order to undo their mistake. The original series deviated from the manga, while brotherhood was a remake which followed the manga verbatim. Impressive world-building, likable characters, surprisingly serious rumnations on the nature of hubris and excellent action scenes make both series worth your time.
• Fate/Stay Night: Wizards summon the spirits of famous heroes as familiars and having them beat the fuck out of each other in order to acquire the Ultimate HAX (referred to as the Grail). The concept is awesome, though the plot is less so. Also swording so hard you summon a girlfriend who IS a sword. the prequel 'Fate/Zero' is somewhat better having a lightly less stupid cast and a main character who thinks and acts like a Shadowrunner. Check out the original video game if the lame plot of the first anime's getting you down. [Fate /Stay Night: TV Series: 26 episodes. 1 Movie. Fate/Zero: TV Series: 26 episodes]
• Spice and Wolf: A show about Horo, wolf-girl pagan goddess of the harvest (Often mistaken for Leman Russ.), and also economics. Proof that not all medieval fantasy has to be sword-and-sorcery to be interesting. [TV series: Season 1 - 13 episodes, Season 2- 13 episodes]
• Maoyū Maō Yūsha: Spiritual successor to Spice and Wolf. Wouldn't your economics class have been much better if it centered on fantasy settings and your teacher was a demon with eggplants for breasts? Yeah, this anime thought so too.
• Strike Witches: (Little Girls in Panties). WWII flying aces redrawn as loli airplane machines which zap aliens while flying around without pants. Not really beloved by /tg/, but someone thought something about it would make a good homebrew.
• Moribito: A spear-wielding bodyguard is charged with the protection of a young prince in a lush fantasy kingdom on the brink of a changing era. Kickass actions scenes, great characters, and fascinatingly humane villains make this a great series.

Comedy

• The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi : A crazy-as-fuck high school girl starts a club. Psychics, Time-Travellers, Aliens join it (without her knowledge), and the striaght-man Kyon has to keep everything together.. /tg/ specifically likes a transgendered female version of the main character of the series, Kyon.
• Haiyore! Nyaruko-san: It's one of those wacky highschool comedy bits that Japan shits out every season, except starring Nyarlathotep. Yes seriously. Pop culture references, /d/eviance, and gratuitous canon rape ensue. "She's an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"
• Fireball: And the second season, Fireball: Charming. A CGI piece about robots made by Disney Japa-Wait, no, don't go!! It's full of absurdist humor, and every kind of off-kilter pun, all while being a precisely accurate depiction of the Men of Iron incident from Warhammer 40,000.
• Those Who Hunt Elves: The GM for this campaign was on crack. One of the PCs is a pear-tank powered tank which thinks it's a kitten. A fun anime comedy.

Things Which Aren't Anime, But People Think Are

• Touhou, which is not actually an anime or manga but is frequently confused as such by those unfamiliar with it. It has however, received several official manga spinoffs.
• The Warhammer anime