What are good Starter Animes for newbs?

Ive realized when good friends start to ask about what anime they should watch for the sake of our friendship I get to think a lot bcs I want to present them sth great they enjoy so they may continue. But Im not too sure if my picks were right. So I ask them what genre they might like. If they say sth like Psychological its easy. I always recommend Death Note or Steins;Gate. But in many cases I dont really have a clue whats good for beginners... So get me and maybe some other ppl who have the same problems advice!

Death Note Fullmetal Alchemist Ouran High School Host Club Clannad ^ ^

@KawaiiAttack I think Clannad isnt too good for a beginner since u really need to get used to the animation and 50 episodes is a bit too long for starting Same with FMA

hm it usually depends on what their preference genre are in other things like movies/tv shows. i would start them off with short anime like paranoia agent, flcl, hero tales, chobits. (just some examples) so they can have a different variety of anime genres to get a taste of before they decide if they wanna keep getting into anime or not so they can get into the bigger and more hard core series

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You have to know the persons "Genre" to know what would be a good starting anime. They may not like what you like. I like a lot sport anime, and I will recommend most of them, yet most will probably say no to them. So easier to go with "Genre."

Here "adventure:" Two Different story line anime. "Fullmetal Alchemist," then there is the "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood." Two different version story lines. I like Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood better.

Death Note and Cowboy Bebop, they're not discourage-ly long and they're very good. "Ghiblies", you can't go wrong with Ghibli Studio Fate/stuff (zero, stay night, etc.) FMA, Shaman King, Soul Eater and other classic shonen (50-60 episodes isn't too long too)