Essential What Anime are you currently watching?
Blackout
just your usual nerdy brotha
You want him to start with a heavy show like GITS? Let him warm up first.
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
Cowboy Bebop is the go-to answer because it's probably the most accessible high quality show for someone unfamiliar with anime (in particular all of the tropes of the genre).
Other shows I'd recommend would be Monster (which is fairly long) and Baccano!
Just finished up Gangsta in one night. Got hooked and see it's just getting started and only 12 episodes available for now. Just when shyt was getting really real too.
Also Berserk//Gattsu is back
Also Berserk//Gattsu is back
Ain't That Something
Superstar
So I'm watching Macross Plus and these nikkas having a personal mecha grudge match in the middle of the fukking city with no care in the world over a chic 
Monster is a great show but it isn't for everyone. I would say if you've never watched Anime you should jump into shounen and the best Anime to me in that category is FMAB. One Piece is good too if you can make it to Sanji joining and Arlong Park.
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
Monster is great. Period. It's a brilliant psychological thriller filled with socio-political subtext of (90s) Germany and anyone who says that it isn't for them is a stupid idiot.
And as I said, I get putting him onto a shounen series but frankly for a first time anime viewer I would always recommend something more "western" before delving into the anime anime.
Dillah810
Flat Girther
Samurai Champloo
FullMetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchmeist: Brotherhood
Black Lagoon
Monster isn't easily accessible. A beginner should watch something light and easy. That's why I say go shounen. Stuff like Death Note, Fullmetal, Naruto, One Piece, Code Geass, Eureka Seven, Vandread Monster is for people who've watched all that type of stuff and want something more complex. Telling him to watch that is like saying jump into something like Legend of Galactic Heroes.
I still believe FMAB is the quintessential anime every beginner should start with.
in addition to all the above, Magi: Labyrinth of Magic is a good place to start too. Pretty sure its dubbed on Netflix
Ain't That Something
Superstar
Dubbed anime is the worst breh, with the exception of DBZ most dub shyt is cringe worthy
Not always. Haven't seen that dub in particular but Bebob, Hakusho, FMA, Champloo, GITS dubs are legendary. I'm a big Inuyasha fan and I prefer the dub to the sub
Ain't That Something
Superstar
We will agree to disagree bc I always feel like something is lost in the translation when watching dub anime. Like the emotions the character are portraying I'm the dub ain't quite getting through
Those are exceptions, not the norm and you know it
