Epic Anime Recommendation List

[LentFilms]

I originally made this this incredibly huge list for a friend of mine looking for anime recommendations. I expanded it when the Fangamer podcast was asking for anime recommendations. I know that most of Miyazaki's films are not on the list but that was because my friend had already seen most of them. If you think I forgot some awesome anime or you would like to recommend something to me (besides Makoto Shinkai films or Evangelion) than post a comment.

Movies
The Wings Of Honneamise (AWO Review)
Perfect Blue (ANN)
Millennium Actress (ANN)
Tokyo Godfather (ANN)
Paprika (ANN)
Memories (ANN)
Windaria (Buried Treasure Review)
Sword of a Stranger (AWO Review)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (AWO Review)
Akira (Just watch it)
Summer Wars (JesuOtaku Review)
Dirty Pair: Project EDEN (Buried Treasure Review)
Project A-KO (Buried Treasure Review)
Robot Carnival (Buried Treasure Review)
Mobile Suit Gundam The Movie Trilogy (Watch these or the original TV series, whichever you have time for.)
Castle of Cagliostro (AWO Review)
They Were 11 (Buried Treasure Review)
Macross Do You Remember Love? (Buried Treasure Review)
Night on the Galactic Railroad (Buried Treasure Review)
Golgo 13 The Professional (AWO Review)
The Cat Return (ANN)

Shorts/OVAs
DAICON IV (Wiki)
Shinesmen (AWO Review)
Bobby's In Deep! (Buried Treasure Review)
Dominion Tank Police (Buried Treasure Review)
Good Morning (The last thing Satoshi Kon created.)
Nineteen19 (Buried Treasure Review)
California Crisis (Your Anime Sucks Review)
Dragon Half (ANN)
Animation Runner Kuromi (AWO Review)
Alien Nine (Buried Treasure Review)
Cencoroll (Just watch it)
Gundam 0080 War in the Pocket (Buried Treasure Review)

TV Series
Cowboy Bebop (JesuOtaku Review)
G Gundam (It is really fun)
Azumanga Daioh (JesuOtaku Review)
Paranoia Agent (JesuOtaku Review)
Baccano! (JesuOtaku Review)
Martian Successor Nadesico (ANN)
The Vision of Escaflowne (ANN)
Fist of the North Star (Watch it)
Shingu Secret of the Stellar Wars (Buried Treasure Review)
Fruits Basket (JesuOtaku Review)
The Twelve Kingdoms (AWO Review)
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex (ANN)
Moribito Guardian of the Spirit (ANN)
Birdy the Mighty Decode (The the first half of the show is "okay" but it really picks up.)

Anime Films I'm Looking Forward to
Redline
From Up on Poppy Hill
Arrietty
Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below

Other Recommendations
Naoki Urasawa's Monster (Akai Shuichi)
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Dust)
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (Dust)
Excel Saga (Dust)
FLCL (Dust)
Lucky Star (Dust)
K-ON (Dust)
Gintama (Gintoki)
CLANNAD (Cloud)
Steins;Gate (Cloud)
Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team (Cloud)
Shin Mazinger Shougeki Z-Hen (Cloud)
Gunbuster (Cloud)
DieBuster (Cloud)

[Akai Shuichi]

Because this is mostly taste, I could give a veery long list of things you might add and things I wouldn't put (well, this last one wouldn't be very long), but instead, I'll just add one tv series: Monster. That is a great anime that is always the first I recommend (unless I see the person asking recommendations just want some ecchi stuff or similar xD)

[LentFilms]

I am watching Monster with my brothers and I am enjoying it a lot. I have not finished it which is way I didn't put it on the list originally but I will add it now. Feel free to make your own really long list as well, I encourage it.

[Akai Shuichi]

Maybe I'll do it when I get some free time

[Dust]

The first one that popped into my head when I read epic was Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is pretty epic too I guess. FMA is my favourite manga anyway.

Aside from that I've got a ton of anime to recommend, but nothing I would really call epic. I'm more into the slice of life/comedies and animes of that nature. There are some fantastic ones out there (Ala Excel Saga, FLCL, Lucky Star, K-ON, etc) but when I think of epic I really only think of action.

[Gintoki]

Gintama is the (opinion) funniest anime ever.

[Cloud]

CLANNAD - Personal favorite. Really heartwarming but will also make you cry like a BACONBACONBACONBACONBACON. Also has a wonderful soundtrack.
Steins;Gate - Last episode is airing on Tuesday, but it is pretty much anime of the year and I don't think Persona 4 can even dethrone it.
Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team - Second favorite Gundam anime after G.
Shin Mazinger Shougeki Z-Hen - It just kinda ends, but it's such a fun, non-stop ride that I can forgive that.
Aim for the Top! Gunbuster and Aim for the Top! 2 Diebuster - Gunbuster is about the first girl to ever be given the Gainax Bounce as she discovers she can be manlier than 80% of mecha pilots out there and eventually kills a bunch of aliens. Diebuster is about a robot girl who rips her top off and Inazuma Kicks things, and it's like beta Gurren Lagann. They're both awesome, even if Gunbuster only really has one real fight, but it's so good you won't care.

[LentFilms]

Aside from that I've got a ton of anime to recommend, but nothing I would really call epic. I'm more into the slice of life/comedies and animes of that nature. There are some fantastic ones out there (Ala Excel Saga, FLCL, Lucky Star, K-ON, etc) but when I think of epic I really only think of action.

I called the topic "epic" in that the list was really long, not epic in the traditional sense. Please by all means recommend some more low key stuff. I recommended Bobby's in Deep and Nineteen19 and I would hardly call them epic.

[LentFilms]

CLANNAD - Personal favorite. Really heartwarming but will also make you cry like a BACONBACONBACONBACONBACON. Also has a wonderful soundtrack.

I watched the first episode of CLANNAD on Netflix, it was not my cup of tea. I like romance stories, like Fruits Basket and Nineteen19, but I could not stand CLANNAD.

"Just go and find more. All you have to do is find more new and happy things. It's not so hard." (Everything becomes color)! ...

The music and the ending credits were great though.

Shin Mazinger Shougeki Z-Hen - It just kinda ends, but it's such a fun, non-stop ride that I can forgive that.
Aim for the Top! Gunbuster and Aim for the Top! 2 Diebuster - Gunbuster is about the first girl to ever be given the Gainax Bounce as she discovers she can be manlier than 80% of mecha pilots out there and eventually kills a bunch of aliens. Diebuster is about a robot girl who rips her top off and Inazuma Kicks things, and it's like beta Gurren Lagann. They're both awesome, even if Gunbuster only really has one real fight, but it's so good you won't care.

I have heard good things about Shin Mazinger Shougeki Z-Hen and I plan on seeing it at some point. It was directed by the same person who created G Gundam, Yasuhiro Imagawa, so I am expecting great things.

I saw the first 3 episodes of Gunbuster and I didn't really like it, but I was in a bad mood that day. I'm going to give it another chance eventually.

[Peytral]

I saw the first 3 episodes of Gunbuster and I didn't really like it, but I was in a bad mood that day. I'm going to give it another chance eventually.

That might also be part of the problem. Gunbuster gets almost literally twice as good by episode 4. In my opinion, episodes 1-3 aren't that great, and Gunbuster's one of my single favorite anime ever. So yeah.