As much as I love regular Western TV shows, anime doesn’t get enough love, so here is my top 5 list for anime shows for the start of fall.
- FullMetal Alchemist(2003)
This series is about two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, who in a failed attempt to bring back their mother, Edward loses his arm and leg and Alphonse his whole body. Determined to get his brother’s body back, Edward joins the military to become a state alchemist, to be able to search for the one thing that may be able to get his brother’s body back, the Philosopher’s Stone. Its English dub is by Funimation. I chose this series because it’s my absolute favorite and I relate to the main character a lot.
- Dragon Ball Z(1996)
If you’ve seen Dragon Ball, then you know who Goku is, but this series also follows him, his friends, and his son, who protect the earth from various threats to destroy it. We see fan favorites from the original series and some new enemies. Its English dub is by Funimation. I chose this series because it’s one of the best, and I’ve met some of the voice actors.
- Death Note(2006)
This series makes you second-guess what is right and wrong. Light Yagami is the smartest student in his high school, and one day he stumbles upon a notebook, where if you write someone’s name in it, they die. He finds this ridiculous, of course, until he tries it on a random criminal seen on TV. He slowly starts to believe himself to be a God, and even though it’s murder, thinks that he is just in doing it. This series makes you think to yourself, what would you do if you found the notebook?
- Naruto(1999)
This beloved anime is about a boy named Naruto, an orphan who is very misunderstood due to, at no fault of his own, being cursed when he was an infant. His life goal is to be Hokage, the greatest ninja. The series later does a time skip of about four years and has a sequel, which stars his son, Boruto. This is a beloved favorite of my teenage years.
- Inuyasha (2000)
This series, one that I grew up watching on late nights when I should have been asleep because it was a school night, is about a human girl named Kagome who falls into a well and enters a world from the distant past, the Sengoku period, and meets Inuyasha, a half-demon dog, half-human. They set out on an adventure with their friends Miroku, Sango, and Shippo to find shards of a jewel that can save the world.
