alright so I've read through/am all caught up with The Big Three ™️ (One Piece, Naruto, Bleach) which I really enjoyed (especially One Piece), only Bleach didn't really do it for me after a certain point. I've also read Shaman King and watched both Fullmetal Alchemist and Samurai Champloo, which I found pretty good all around. However I am now looking for a new meaty, long manga/anime to fill the hole that those series left. Anybody got some recommendations? So far my list of series that are supposed to be pretty good consists of HunterxHunter (although I've read that it hasn't gotten any new content in a long time), Cowboy Bebop and Death Note. My friend keeps telling me to watch Attack on Titan but I've read that the mangaka is a huge reactionary dweeb so I haven't given it a shot so far. Any other recommendations that hit a similar spot as those titles?
cowboy bebop is fantastic and you should definitely watch it. i like attack on titan too.
but if you want a long series there's always dragon ball. I've been rewatching the original dragon ball series, and maybe it's just my nostalgia, but it's so good. yeah there's some pervy stuff that i don't like, and the first tournament is kinda boring but it picks back up again after. i never got very far into dragon ball z though so i can't tell you if it stays good or not, but dragon ball z kai is a remastering of dbz and they cut out a lot of fluff.
Everything about Dragon Ball that I've seen so far reminded me of the experience I had when watching the first Blade Runner movie: Sure this stuff is well made, but it's mostly just tropes that I've already seen a thousand times and then realizing that "Oh, you're just thinking that because the thousands of times you've seen these clichés was them just emulating the original" but I still couldn't get into the original version.
aw that's fair. I'm just like a casual watcher of anime and out of the big three you listed the only one I've watched even a part of is bleach, so I'm not really aware of all those cliches. but I'd still recommend cowboy bebop and giving attack on titan a chance, and death note is pretty good too