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Bluelighter
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Gurren Lagann will always have a place in my heart. It's the very anime that got me immersed into the world of anime in the first place, and boy did I choose the right gateway anime.
Kill la Kill shares many of the same writers and is just as amazing. I feel like one cannot be mentioned without the other.
Also, if you check either of these out, be absolutely sure to watch the sub and not the dub. The English dub of both of these is atrocious, and essentially ruined my first viewing of Gurren Laggan.
Not that I am a sub over dub purist, by any means. Baccano is another of my favorite anime, and not only is the English preferable to the subtitles, some claim that it is better than the original Japanese.
My favorite anime of all time, however, has to be Deathnote. TBH, I think it often deprived of the credit it is due, due to how popular and mainstreamed it is in a community that values anti-conformism and being underground to a fault. My analogy is that it is essentially the Breaking Bad of anime.
Honorable mention goes to Welcome to the NHK.