Kikou Sennyo Rouran

Anime with episodes less than the usual ~22 minutes that are not based around gag comedy as these short shows tend to be. Ideal for people who want to watch serious anime but do not have time to sit down for a 22-minute episode.

Post-Evangelion anime boom seasonal anime that manages to maintain the high quality of the fewer, higher-quality shows before this anime boom.

Anime featuring mainly traditionally animated, hand drawn robots made between the year 2000 and 2009. As CGI started being used in anime in this period, some mecha series started shifting towards CGI robots, I think this list would be really helpful.

Mecha shows that have a bad reputation but are actually a lot better than one would be led to believe.

A list of anime that have either strange dialogue, really dense stories, or characters who want godlike control over something for petty, hubristic reasons. Most of these anime are gems and always will be.

Toshiki Hirano is a Japanese anime director, animator, and character designer. His wife is a fellow animator and manga artist Narumi Kakinouchi. Some of his works have appeared in the adult manga magazine Lemon People.

His directorial debut OVA Fight! Iczer One was a project that he and his friend Aran Rei brought to Kubo Shoten, and it became a hit that turned into a series. In the latter half of the 1980s, he directed OVAs for enthusiasts such as Dangaioh, Hades Project Zeorymer, and Daimajū Gekitō: Hagane no Oni, and gained a strong fan base.

Since the 1990s, he has been active as an animation director based at Tokyo Movie, where his Devil Lady, which combines elements of tokusatsu, splatter, horror, and action like Iczer One, was well received. He is also one of the original collaborators of his wife Narumi Kakinouchi's representative works, Vampire Princess Miyu series and Fūun San Shimai LIN series.

Anime where Miki Shinichiro plays a main character, or at least a character important enough to the story.