For those who have never watched anime and do not understand "why is everyone so crazy about it?", the site has compiled a selection of the best films with which you can start your acquaintance with the genre. You won't be disappointed!
1. Spirited Away (2002)
Hayao Miyazaki is a legend and wizard who gave children and adults around the world a fairy tale. If you want to watch a good anime movie, you can choose any tape created by Miyazaki. In addition, it is impossible not to give him his due: he, perhaps, made the most efforts to popularize anime on this planet. Spirited Away is a full-length animated film shot according to all the laws of Disney animated films, only with a Japanese soul.
2. From the slopes of Kokuriko (2011)
The cartoon "From the Slopes of Kokuriko" is an adaptation of the manga of the same name (Japanese comic), which viewers around the world saw in 2011. The scriptwriter is the same maestro Hayao Miyazaki, but this film was directed by his son Goro.
The plot of the cartoon is touching and kind, like all the other films released at the Studio "Ghibli". The father of the main character Umi dies as a sailor during the Korean War in the early fifties, and her mother leaves to study in the United States, leaving all the household, the two youngest children and the grandmother on Umi. Every morning the girl raises flags over the house, as her father punished: so he could, swimming up to the house, find out that they were waiting for him...
3. Catchers of Forgotten Voices (2011)
The main character of "Catchers of Forgotten Voices" Asuna is a schoolgirl who lost her father very early and now lives with her mother. She spends most of her time alone, as her mother works night shifts in the hospital. At school, she has a very good academic performance, but there are not so many friends.
One day, on the way to the hill, she is attacked by a huge creature, from which she is saved by a young man named Xiong. A few days later, Asuna learns that Xiong is dead and travels to the underworld of Agartha to meet her friend again.
4. Transformers (1986)
An anime cartoon from the eighties clearly demonstrates that it is possible to tell a post-industrial fairy tale about robots and vehicles at the same time without Michael Bay. The plot revolves around the space wars of the evil Desipticons and the good Transformers, which they are waging in the "distant" future - 2005 - on the planets Unicorn and Lyton.
5. Ghost in the Shell (1995, 2004, 2006)
Mamoru Oshii, the director of three full-length anime films "Ghost in the Shell" and "Ghost in the Shell-2" and "-3", created films with a long time span. The entire series is an adaptation of the manga of the same name, and in 2013 the same company began releasing a series whose plot has a lot in common with the original films. These films are nothing more than the prototype of the legendary "Matrix" by the Wachowski brothers.
According to the plot, in 2029, all people living on Earth implanted electronic implants in their brains...
6. The Girl Who Conquered Time (2007)
This story is about the fact that, probably, for having fun, someone else pays with suffering. The main character of this non-children's film with a children's name - Makoto Konno - is an ordinary schoolgirl who does not understand what to do in the future, studies poorly and is always late. Due to a rather strange incident on the railroad track, Makoto acquires an amazing ability - now she can travel in time. What did she do? Of course, she began to change her own reality, reshaping the story of her life several times.
7. Into the Forest Where Fireflies Flicker (2011)
This film is an ideal solution for those who have no more than an hour to watch something wonderfully kind and touching. "Into the Forest Where Fireflies Flicker" is an adaptation of the manga by Yuki Mindorikawa, released in 2011.
A six-year-old girl, Hotaru, got lost in an enchanted forest. She meets a masked young man named Gin, who introduces himself as a forest spirit who can melt at the touch of a person. With the help of her new friend, Hotaru escaped from the forest, but returned the next day to meet Win again.
8. Reinforced Concrete (2006)
Zhelezobeton is loved primarily for its incredible graphics. This cartoon is drawn so skillfully that despite the fact that it has not become a classic of the genre, it is impossible not to include it in the selection of films for beginners. By the way, if you don't like anime and manga for the huge eyes of the main characters, then everything is fine in this regard.
The plot unfolds in the city of the future, which frightens with its contrast. Two orphans wander this city of riches day and night, trying to find a way to survive.
9. Paprika (2006)
In the near future, a doctor named Takita invents a new way to combat mental disorders: a device that allows you to break into patients' dreams and observe them.
The head of the new DC Mini project, within the framework of which this alternative remedy is being developed, Dr. Atsuko begins to use the invention before it is officially approved for medical practice. Using his alter ego, 18-year-old red-haired Paprika, Atsuka infiltrates the heads of his patients. At the final stage of research, the device is stolen by an intruder and begins to drive his victims crazy, implanting them with the dreams of a madman. This is what the main characters have to deal with.
10. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
You will have to finish the list in the same place where you started. Even if you don't understand anime at all, you've definitely seen the images of Totoro, a character who's a real pop star in Japan. My Neighbor Totoro is a film by Hayao Miyazaki, which made the director a world legend.
Satsuki and Mei are sisters who have moved with their family to an old house inhabited by spirits. In the forest nearby, they meet an amazing creature Totoro, who turns out to be the guardian of the forest. Soon, May, having learned that her mother is staying in the hospital for a longer period than planned, goes to her and gets lost. Totoro helps Satsuki find his sister.