You can pretty much make the same statement about any tv show Pizza !!! One amongst others but yes. There's so many that deserved to be mentioned... On the serious part, Hotaru No Haka (The Fireflies Grave) is a must seen IMHO
Came verry late to Manga and Anime and therefore I can only name one Manga Manga: Gunsmith Cats (1995) Anime: Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Fun thing, I know for sure that I've seen Dirty Pair in my youth but I can't remember anything about it except the characters' look
Well, I'm one of those scumbags who reads on aggregator websites, not directly from the scanlators. Mangahere.cc or mangakakalot.com usually. Mangahere just changed their display, I'm not sure I like it. But it's fine for reading most manga page-by-page. Mangakakalot is better for reading Korean or Chinese (or web-manga), since it displays every page in a chapter vertically. As regards Birdy itself, there was an early manga, then the restart (usually shown as Birdy The Mighty II). You can skip the early manga, art is better in Birdy II (and the story repeats anyways). There's something like 220 chapters of Birdy II (give or take the omake). Tetsuwan Birdy Evolution is the sequel and starts 2 years after the time of Birdy II, the scanlators are only up to chapter 13 (the sequel started in 2008 and ran monthly, so they're a 'bit' behind). Yes, Grave of the Fireflies is my response to 'cartoons cannot be serious'. Its just as physically painful to watch as Passion of the Christ, for about the same reasons. We could also add the Makoto Shinkai movies: Voices of a Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days, 5 centimeters per second, and Children Who Chase Lost Voices. I've seen (and am pretty sure I still own) all of those, haven't seen Garden of Words or Your Name, but Shinkai hasn't ever made a bad movie, I'd buy those trailer-unseen. Your Name was a better box-office success than Spirited Away, so that should give an idea.
Manga : Gunn (it this one that makes me into them as I still hate the most part of the manga range) Anime : I don't know if this one qualifies but I would say RWBY. Else, I would say Arslan.
I think the main misunderstood about manga/anime from west people (which include me) is that by default we consider drawing as a child dedicated media when in Asia it a "just" a media as could be books or movie. Thus, manga/anime could contain any kind of story for any public. It tend to change here (apparently, France is the second consuming country after Japan) with the generation knowing them growing up.
Once checked, the OP is a spambot, but I find good enough to let the topic opened in order to see your preferences on Manga & Anime. So, go on :)
I like to put it another way: "Go watch Grave of the Fireflies". If I'm feeling brutal/low on patience I don't include any additional warnings.
I tend to agree. Perhaps it is the old fogey in me (get off my lawn!) but it seems like when anime was first being imported/translated, only the best stuff made it. Nowadays it is popular, so everything gets brought over. There is still good stuff there, you just have to sift through more dross to find it.
Manga: I've only ever read Berserk. I enjoyed it but at the same time it was super disturbing Anime: A buddy sent me Girl Und Panzer which I thought was awesome. Otherwise only seen a bit of Cowboy Bebop
