The 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate Anime

Japan's strongest media export makes a solid case for your attention span. Despite its ferocious popularity, people still tend to swear off anime entirely. These are usually the people whose reference of the medium pertains to a certain stereotype or to the few seconds of anime they once saw on a computer somewhere in the early 2000s. But Japan has been producing some of the most emotionally resonant and visually audacious storytelling in contemporary media for half a century, and a great deal of it looks nothing at all like the stereotype it holds. Start with self-contained films you can knock out in a single evening before graduating to series worth committing wholly to.