Hands down Cowboy Bebop is the most captivating and entertaining anime ever created. The show was set in the year 2071, and followed three bounty hunters (SpikeSpeigel, Jet Black, and Faye Valentine) and one computer hacker named Edward as travel from planet to planet, city to city tracking bounty heads for rewards. Despite having the coolest characters ever, Bebop had a great jazz soundtrack accompanied with great stories focusing on action, comedy, and drama. With only 26 episodes, you can watch Cowboy Bebop over and over again and never get tired of it.
Based off of the Japanese Manga series, InuYasha tells the story of a 15-year-old high school girl named Kagome who lives in present day Tokyo. One day she gets transported to the past to an alternate feudal Japan where demons co-exist with humans. It's there where she meets InuYasha a half-human/half-demon dog. Together with the help of their friends Miroku, Sango,and Shippo they search for the missing pieces of the Shikon jewel while battling evil demons including their main arch-nemesis Naraku.
This series was the reason I started watching anime hardcore in the first place. Began in 1985, Robotech consisted of three different sagas. The first saga, Macross, was my overall favorite. In the future, humanity discovers robotechnology through alien spacecraft which they used to build mechas. With the mechas, they defended planet Earth against the alien invaders called the Zentradi. The saga played out like a soap opera with a love triangle between our hero Rick Hunter, Misa, and Lynn Minmay. Robotech is a classic anime series!
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What do you get you mix dope independent hip hop music with an anime series that takes place in Japan in the mid-1800s? You get Samurai Champloo the illest anime series that blends action and samurai genres with elements of non-slapstick comedy. From the creators of Cowboy Bebop, Champloo (which means to mix or blend in Japanese) tells the story of three strangers in search of the Samurai who smells of sunflowers. There's Mugen a wandering sword for hire with an unconventional fighting style that resembles breakdancing and capoeira. Jen a mild-mannered ronin samurai who wears glasses. And there's Fuu a feisty 15-year-old girl who hired Mugen and Jen to find her the father the samurai who smells of sunflowers. 
Probably the best adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai (yeah even better than the Western The Magnificent Seven), Samurai 7 is almost identical in the story and characters of the original film. However, there are significant changes in the plot and added-on characters in order to adapt to the futuristic setting. But the story remains the same - seven samurai are hired to protect a village of rice farmers from a group of bandits. 
Based on another critical acclaimed anime film Blood: The Last Vampire, Blood+ tells the story of young amnesiac teenaged school girl named Saya who learns that she's the only one who can kill an evil race of creatures known as Chiropterans with her blood. With her Chevalier Haji, Saya travels across continents learning about her mysterious past while ridding the world of Chiropterans. 
In this complex anime, humans and androids (AutoReivs) coexist with each other peacefully under a total management system. A series of murders committed by berserk robots (infected with the Cogito virus) started to jeopardize the delicate balance of the social order. Behind the scenes, the government is conducting secret experiments on a mysterious humanoid lifeform called Proxy, which is believed to hold the key to the survival of mankind. Our heroine Re-l is assigned to investigate some of the murders with her AutoReiv partner Iggy. She encounters a cogito infected AutoReiv as well as a fast and flexible monster. She later learns that the monster was a Proxy.
Watching Paranoia Agent is like watching a David Lynch film. The more you watch it the more you get lost and confused with the story and the characters. But like a David Lynch film you want to keep watching to discover the mystery behind the paranoia. The paranoia in this case comes from a mysterious boy on rollerblades has been attacking people in Tokyo with a bat. Is he a real boy, a lie to cover up people's crimes, or a sinister phantom? The plot relays between a large cast of people affected in some way by the phenomenon; usually Lil' Slugger's victims or the detectives assigned to apprehend him. As each character becomes the focus of the story, details are revealed about their secret lives and the truth about Lil' Slugger. It will haunt you!
Sailor Moon? Really? Yes, really! That's why I saved this one for last. Even though this is what you may call a girlie-girl anime series, this anime actually impressed the hell out of me with it's storylines and 5 major plots, even if some of it was cheesy. It still kicked ass! Based on the manga, this anime had aninteresting storyline revolving around the reincarnated defenders of a kingdom that once spanned the solar system, and the evil forces that they battle. These defenders known as Sailor Scouts are teenage girls who can transform into heroines named for the moon and planets (Sailor Moon, Sailor Venus, Sailor Mercury, etc.).
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