Before starting a thread to ask people on what an anime is all about, please check out the below sites first. The information provided by these sites are fairly comprehensive enough to cover the most basic questions that you might have (i.e. storyplot, characters, seiyuu, opening and ending songs, etc.


AnimeNewsNetwork - Anime Encyclopedia
Anidb
Animenfo


For anime recommendations, please refer to link below.

Anime-planet Recommendations Database

In view that threads requesting for voicing of personal preferences tend to receive replies revolving around older/popular animes which are being mentioned over and over again (eg: Azumanga Daioh for comedy, Grave of the Fireflies for saddest anime, etc), the below lists have been prepared for your reading convenience. As such, please refrain from creating threads of similiar nature as the ones listed below else it will be locked. Future topics will be added as time progresses.


PERSONAL BEST

> Anime That You Watch Over And Over
> Animes That Left You Wanting More
> Best Action Anime
> Best Anime Ending
> Best Anime Ever Created
> Best Anime Music
> Best Anime Movie
> Greatest Anime Hero
> Most Fashionable Characters
> Most Popular Anime
> Best Shinigami on Bleach
> Most Stupid Anime
> Most Tear-Jerking Anime [ 01][ 02]
> Most Useless Anime Characters
> Saddest Anime Moment (or something similar to that) [ 01][ 02][ 03]
> Worst/Disappointing/Hated Anime Endings [ 01][ 02][ 03]

PERSONAL FAVOURITES

> Favourite Comedy Anime [ 01][ 02]
> Favourite Anime Animal
> Favourite Anime Composers
> Favourite Anime Weapon
> Favourite Anime World To Be In
> Favourite Anime/Manga Art Style
> Favorite Bleach Captain
> Favorite Dragonball Character
> Favourite Hayao Miyazaki Work
> Favourite Shonen Ai Anime

ANIME RECOMMENDATIONS

> Sports Anime Recommendations

PERSONAL PREFERENCES

> Adult Swim vs Toonami
> Anime vs Cartoons [ 01][ 02]
> Anime vs Manga
> Anime/Manga Characters That You Want To Be [ 01][ 02]
> Bleach vs Naruto [ 01] [ 02][ 03]
> Classic animes vs New animes
> Downloading vs Youtube
> Individual DVD Releases vs Box Sets
> Shinigami, miko, ninja, magician or samurai?
> Subs or Dubs [ 01][ 02][ 03][ 04]
> What Shinigami you want to be?
> Watching Anime on TV or Computer [ 01][ 02]
> Watching Anime or Watching Real Movies
> What will you do if you have a Death Note book?
> Which anime would you like redubbed?
> Which anime would you want a second season?

MISCELLANEOUS

> Anime are cartoons?[ 01][ 02]
> Do your parents watch anime?
> Downloading/Watching anime online. Illegal or not?
> Fansub morality.
> How many animes do you watch in a day?
> What, how and when you got started in anime?
> What attracts you to anime?
> What series got you into anime?
> What do you do with your anime collection when you become a parent?
> What do you look for in anime?
> What if there was no anime/manga? [ 01][ 02][ 03][ 04]
> What was your first anime?
> What will happen to your anime collection after you die?
> Where do you store your anime?
> Why must people say they hate dubs?