Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 trailer is epic

Nujabes is actually what got me into the series. For a lot of people it's the other way around, Samurai Champloo gets them into Nujabes. If you go to Youtube and look up the songs "Counting Stars" and "Kumomi" you will get the feel of the series as a whole.

Seriously, Samurai Champloo is my favorite series by far. I'm not a "hardcore" anime fan, but I've seen quite a few series, and SC takes the cake.

Full Metal Alchemist and Death Note (at least the first half, I'm only on episode 28) are also definitely worth checking out.

I've found more entertainment in anime than I have in most American television (aside from BSG, Community, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, etc.)

Yeah yeah, we get it.

Naruto? Awesome.
Samurai Champloo? Awesome.
Nujabes (rest in peace)? Legendary.
TGS with Tracy Morgan? Awesome.
Tracy Jordan, Alec Baldwin and Jack McBrayer? Incredible.

These are the animes that I think everybody should watch:

Cowboy Bebop - mainly the setting, the music and the characters, not so much the story. There are only 26 episodes, so it's easy to watch.

Death Note - the first 10 episodes (of a total of 37) are really, really good. I guarantee you that you won't be able to watch the first episode and not go for the second one right away.

Naruto - but you're already watching it.

Princess Mononoke - it's a film, not a tv series and it's where my nickname comes from. It's currently number 118 in IMDB's (hope you know what the site is... simply put, it's the best site about films on the net) Top 250 films of all time, so it must be good, right?
Here's a trailer to spice up your interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAzkUcob7Jk&feature=related

If being "one of those guys" means that you watch and like good films/tv shows, then so be it. You should definitely watch all of these, they're all really good!

@ Viking: If you wanna watch anime and are avoiding it strictly for fear of what others think or how much you might enjoy it, I say you need to grow a pair. It's not like after deciding to watch some anime your personality will change so completely that you'll lose all your friends or something. It's just entertainment.

@Traceur_Ryuk: I like your choices; those are some great examples of well-done anime. I'd like to add a couple more for those that just want to watch something not to deep in pool, so to speak.

Death Note: it is definitely a show that is done in a way that even non-anime fans can watch and appreciate. It's also got great English voice-work so you don't have to watch it and read subtitles.

Afro Samurai: Again, great voicework and easy to get into. Bloody as hell, though, so if you don't like gore this should be avoided.

I'm not late to the party at all... nope. What happened to all the punch and pie?

Yeah, obviously I love Deathnote based on my name. And every Hayao Miyazaki movie is amazing.

I can't believe I forgot Afro Samurai. It's good too, and it's extremely short so you could finish it in one day if you wanted.

I second this statement.

I wouldn't judge it from the trailer, I have the same concern, but I won't complain until I see it in action on my own tv. But UNS1 did have problems with bad Anti-aliasing, lots of jagged edges, so close ups and cutscenes didn't look as good as they could.
It was in battle the graphics was amazing, and it looks like they will still be awesome in this game. The engine used in UNS1 was always programmed as a multi-platform engine, so they didn't replace it. Maybe the 360 version will look worse, maybe better, who knows. Final Fantasy 13 on PS3 wasn't ruined because of 360, so maybe this won't either.

It looks virtually the same, if not better. Did you not see when Naruto and Sakura were running around? It looked amazing.

The anime translates it to Jiraiya-boy as well. I guess it's because the frog is Jiraiya's elder so he can honorifically address his as boy (assumption). At any rate, it seems to hold the essence of the anime intact so I can't wait to finally play this series. I just picked up a PS3 in January so NUNS was not a playable option when it was hot. Cyberconnect 2, please make a Bleach game on the same engine.