Numbering behind anime (eg: n - Paprika) is based on a 1-10 rating scale.
*beginner **intermediate ***advanced
Highly Recommended:
- Perfect Blue: Satoshi Kon (1998) **
- Millenium Actress: Satoshi Kon (2001) *
- Paprika: Satoshi Kon (2006) *
- Akira: Katsuhiro Otomo (1988) *
Moderately Recommended:
- Princess Mononoke: Hayao Miyazaki (1997) *
- Spirited Away: Hayao Miyazaki (2001) *
- Dead Leaves: Hiroyuki Imaishi (2004) **
- Ghost in the Shell: Mamoru Oshii (1995) *
- Redline: Takeshi Koike (2009) *
- Neon Genesis Evangelion The End of Evangelion: Hideaki Anno (1997) **
Lowly Recommended:
- Mind Game: Masaaki Yuasa (2004) **
- Space Dandy: Shinichiro Watanabe (2014) *
- Baccano! (2007) *
- Gunbuster: Hideaki Anno (1989) *
- My Neighbor Totoro: Hayao Miyazaki (1988) *
- Howl’s Moving Castle: Hayao Miyazaki (2004) *
- Nichijou (2011) *
- Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981) **
- Mobile Suit Gundam II (1981) *
- Mobile Suit Gundam III (1982) **
- Cowboy Bebop: Shinichiro Watanabe (1998) *
- Serial Experiments Lain (1998) ***