Obviously Sword Art Online. I just finished the first season, it is amazing…

It really is a nice balance between story and action. There is never action that hasn’t got influence on the story.

It is about this ‘NerveGear’, which is some kind of hardware that uses Augmented Reality to let people experience games like they’re real. However, in this one MMORPG there’s no logout button so people are trapped inside. If they die in the game, the NerveGear sends waves that destroys their brains irl and thus kills them. To get released from the game, the players have to kill the last boss on floor 100. You follow Kirito, this boy that was a beta-tester and knows how to play the game.

I would say that there’s lot of story involved. Prepare for relationships that will make you cry, for events that leave you in silence, etc. If you’re looking for action, there is usually a boss fight at the end of each episode and there is always some fighting during the episode. The humour in this anime is pretty good aswell
Sorry for giving such a  poor description, but it’s really worth checking out.

Sword Art Online would be a great starter but not as an anime, but as a light Novel.  The anime try so hard to copy every detail in the novel, but at the end, they have failed to do so, and because of that, they actually left off some of the crucial story plot for future Arcs.  Therefore, I doubt they are going to continue SAO with another season or OVAs.

And of course, SAO is not that original since .Hack had the similar plotline, but before .hack, there’s also 1/2 Prince (Manga) and Eureka (Manga) those 2 also had the similar plot but never got published into Anime because, 1/2 Prince is a Chinese Manwha, and Eureka is a Korean Manwha.

And as for my Top most recommended Anime I’d give you about 20 ( the sequence doesn’t matter ) with a short summary for each of them.

Toriko (basically about Hunters and Chiefs, with some awesome battles and comedies, category: Shounen)
Beezelbubs (Demon Baby went to Earth, and got taken care by a so call Strongest Delinquent, and he has to raise that Demon Baby, category: shounen)
Rounin Kenshin ( Sammarai Era, with tons of sword clash with some comedy, category: shounen )
Yu Yu Hakusho ( Spirit Dectective that faces off many demons, with awesome battles and comedy, category: shounen)
Deagonball Series < Not gunna explain, pretty sure everyone watched that
Tegen Toppa Gurren Lagann ( Mech Anime with a lot of character developement invovle , category: shounen)
Hajime No Ippo ( Boxing Anime with really good character development, with some comedy as well, category: Shounen )
Eyeshield 21 ( Football Anime, again with really good character development and comedy, category: Shounen
Guilty Crown ( It has a potential to become a great anime, I watch it just for the sound track and the battle sequence, and you can think of this anime as similar to Eureka 7, category: Shounen )
HellSing Ultimate (If you like Vampires and Gore, you will love this anime )
Medaka Box ( More recent anime, with ecchi and kick ass battles and comedy )
Asu No Yoichi ( Another Ecchi anime with comedy and actions )
Kaze No Stigma ( It has potential to be a great anime, but it still good for the voice acting, OST, and battles, also the concept of it)
Any Key Series such as, Kannon, Air, Clannad, Angel Beats ( They are all sorta similar to one and others, with some actions, comedies, story developement and heavy character development.  Also with tons and tons of tears drops, however, I wouldn’t consider Angel Beats their greatest work, and you will know, if you have watched the other 3 first.)
Detective Academy Q ( Similar to Detective Conan, but with less ep and pretty interesting deductive stories and plotline. )
The Shounen Jump Anime , Naruto, Bleach, Hitman Reborn, One Piece ( I don’t think I need to put summaries for those )
Suzuka (Track and Field Anime with heavy romance and tears )
Rumbling Heart ( Slice of life anime with heavy depression, viewer discretion is advice for people who already have a bit of depression )
Battle of Athelets ( Sporty Anime with some comedy and character growths )
To Aru Majutsu no Index ( Another anime that were base on a Novel, but this one actually follow with the novel really closely. )

And That’s all 20 I’d recommend for now, and if you have any other questions or suggestion for me, feel free to mail me too =)!  Have fun read/watching!

Well A.Bit.Pixel, I’d say that Mushishi is a pretty boring Anime in my opinion, and the reason for that, it starts out extremely slow and there’s hardly any actions in it.  That anime is more of psychological type, therefore, there are more dialog and talking involve.  Thus, Mushishi, is actually about different Mushishi and their case, therefore, is not 1 single storyline, every ep is with different stoyline. If I remember correctly.  As for Arakawa: Under The Bridge, I think that anime is a really random anime, and lack of plotline, but I might be wrong.  As the last one, I haven’t heard of it, so I can’t tell you anything about it.

I don’t remember where i first heard about this. And it’s not really a serie cause it’s a movie. But anime none the less. And really really a good one. Amazingly well done fighting scenes and a good story to add to it. Really very well made and i enjoyed watching it just now. I do advice to watch it subbed and not dubbed cause the dub really is just strange (and often really bad voice overs as well). Trailer is below and also has the title in it .

This was the only subbed trailer btw. so sorry for the poor quality of it.

Hellsing- This got me started watching anime and I can still go back and enjoy it.

Darker than black- My favorite and I’ve yet to find a story that pulls me in as much.

Kaze no stigma- I like the combination of action/drama/comedy.

Birdy the mighty decode- I have a thing for redheads.

Code geass- Also a good combo of action/drama/comedy.I’m watching Bleach right now for the first time and so far would recommend it as well.

Clannad and Clannad After Story. First watch Clannad then After Story. It is very emotional.