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The best OAV series is definitely Giant Robo. Weird show. Very melodramatic. Interesting Anachronistic style, clever writing, and the animation quality rivals anything on film.
My favorite t.v. anime was Miyazaki's Future Boy Conan series from the seventies. Sort of a more slapstick precursor to Laputa and Nausicaa. The best one might actually be the adaptation of the classic Sanpei Shirato manga, Ninja Bugeicho. It's unfortunately very old and obscure and nearly impossible to find, but the one episod I've seen was very interesting.
I really like Katsuhiro Otomo's stuff and my favorite movie is Akira. He's aldo done some shorts in a handful of interesting anthology films, like Robot Carnival, Neo Tokyo, and most noteably, Memories. I'm really looking forward to seeing Steam Boy. Isao Takahata's films are all worth seeing too, starting with a very early (late sixties) fantasy/adventure called Horus: Prince of the Sun, but also his later Studio Ghibli films like Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday, Pom Poko, and My Neighbors the Yamadas.
I also really enjoyed Ninja Scroll, Dagger of Kamui, Wings of Honneamise and Jin Roh, and Arcadia of My Youth.
Some favorites that are just fun, competant genre entries are the Gundam 0079 movies (also the Z Gundam t.v. series), Miyazaki's Sherlock Hound, Gunbuster, Dragonball (all the story arcs before Dragonball Z), 8-Man, and Macross. I'm sure there are plenty that I'm forgetting too.
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