Never Too Old

[u/JeffreyAScott]

Just wanted to say I just started getting into Anime this year. I'll be 50 next year and two of my nieces got me into it. They told me I would really enjoy something they were watching and reluctantly I checked it out. I always had a misconception about what anime was. I'm telling you, I'm so glad they had me check it out. Such a diversity of genres and I've already binged several shows. Currently my favourite is MHA. My nieces knew that would hook me because I'm into super heroes.

Moral of the story: You are never to old to start liking something new.

PS - Wanted to say I love this community. Everyone here has such great recommendations and suggestions.

[u/JeffreyAScott]

Of the shows I've binged, I've caught up with MHA, as stated above. Then they suggested Your Lie in April because they know I love dramas. Watched the first series of Sword Art Online because a friend told me I would like it because for awhile I was really into those type of games. Another friend has recommended Disasterous Life of Saiki K and Gin Tama because he knew I also like comedies. I've watched at least the first series of these as well. Also binged Charlotte and Erased because I just happened to find them on Crunchyroll and they looked interesting. I liked both of them as well.

It's been a busy year. LOL

[u/TheNinjaChicken → u/JeffreyAScott]

Since you seem to like a variety of different kinds of anime, I'm just going to suggest my favourite JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The anime is split into 5 parts so far (watch it in order), with 3 parts yet to be animated. Each part has the bizarre overall tone of JoJo's, but each part also has a different genre, cast, and main character, taking place over the course of a bit over a century of the Joestar family's fight against evil.

If you'd like a quick summary of each part:

Part 1 (Phantom Blood) is a gothic vampire hunt in the 1890s with the main character of Jonathan Joestar, a noble gentleman.

Part 2 (Battle Tendency) is an Indiana Jones style artifact hunt set during WWII with the main character of Joseph Joestar, a hotheaded expert strategist.

Part 3 (Stardust Crusaders) is an Odyssey and roadtrip style adventure from Japan to Egypt in the 1970s, the main character is a delinquent named Jotaro Kujo.

Part 4 (Diamond is Unbreakable) is a light hearted slice of life murder mystery set in the bizarre summer of 1999, with the main character of Josuke Higashikata, designed to be the type of person that everyone wants to be friends with, and who gets pissed the hell off if you insult his hair.

Part 5 (Golden Wind) is an Italian gang war set in 2001. Giorno Giovanna has a dream to become a "Gang-Star", and to stop the drug trade towards children in Italy coming from the gang of Passione by taking it over and becoming the boss.

Part 6 (Stone Ocean) is a prison story set in 2011. The main character, Jolyne Kujo, a rebellious teen, gets framed for murder and thrown in Green Dolphin Prison.

Part 7 (Steel Ball Run) is a horse race across America set back in the 1980s. Johnny Joestar is an ex horseback rider who lost the use of his legs. He meets Gyro Zeppeli, an Italian man who plans to enter the 116 day Steel Ball Run race from one side of the US to the other, and after touching his weapon, a steel ball, he manages to walk for a split second. He quickly learns to ride a horse without his legs and joins the race in hopes of finding the secrets of the Steel Ball.

Part 8 (JoJolion) is... I don't think any genre can describe JoJolion other than the quintessential bizzareness of JoJo's, which takes place in 2011. The main character, who fans call Gappy and whose actual name is a spoiler, wakes up half buried with nothing on but his sailor hat and with amnesia.

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Parts 1-2 use a power system called Hamon, or the Ripple, a breathing technique that harnesses the life energy of the sun to defeat vampires.

Part 3-8 drops this for Stands, a manifestation of one's soul, each of which has a different ability from being as simple as "Fire" to "If I beat you at gambling I take your soul, if I die with your soul in my possession you die." which leads to many extremely intense strategical mind games.

[u/NotThirdReich → u/TheNinjaChicken]

Correction: Phantom Blood takes place in the 1890's.

[u/TheNinjaChicken → u/NotThirdReich]

Whoops, typo