All this hate on anime and I’m all
Some good ones:
Akira
Attack on Titan
Ghost in the Shell
Howl’s Moving Castle
Magnetic Rose (from Memories)
Mushi-Shi
etc.
There are a lot of bad and derivative ones out there, like any type of media.
Full disclosure, I was morally opposed to anime through high school, since my art style was highly realistic and I hated the distorted (and I thought, lazy) style of anime characters, especially as drawn by my classmates. But life happens and ideas change, and now I happily watch anime on occasion as well as live action films and TV shows.