Oh here we go lol
I like my anime to have a great story, very deep and full of emotion too, and have seen quite a bit of what you have (and too loved them).
You say "robotech", but isn't that some abomination up of what it should actually be? No idea what "macross saga" or anything is with that title, but if you haven't try the real macross Frontier (if you can be bothered, go for watching the macross zero (I think?) OVA first, as it's just 4~6 eps I think it was and I was glad I did watch that first before watching Frontier). I thought macross was some weird space opera like crap (like how I thought gundam was some robot fighting crap, and then very surprised to find seed to be so damn deep and so full of emotion) and it too turned out to be very great.
Have you seen many ghibli films? What do you think of them? If you're not really strange, you may see the magic in them, especially the ones by miyazaki hayao.
There's this director lately, hosoda mamoru, who I'd say is the only other person that could be the next miyazaki hayao.
toki wo kakeru shoujo (The girl that leapt through time) was his first "real" (I'd say) film, and it's very highly rated, and for a VERY good reason (it's damn great), and then his next, summer wars is very good too. I can't recommend them enough (I went to see his latest film the other month in cinemas, ookami kodomo no ame to yuki, which had a different feeling to those other two, leaving me feeling a bit "hmm" at first, but now I'm very troubled that it's pretty much impossible to watch it again until it comes out on dvd or something haha)
I see you have no death note in that last, which was pretty damn entertaining too. Quite code geass like in ways.
Not a really well known anime, but I really liked uchuu no stellvia.
Talking about not so well known stuff either,
top wo nerae was, while being rather old and the last ep being quite "wtf happened to this studio?!", I remember it being a pretty good watch. Only 6 eps too.
I also see no evangelion in there either? That has some pretty big philosophical and deep stuff in it, leaving you checking wikipedia about all sorts for hours after haha. Watch the TV series first, then the old film that came out at that time (end of evangelion I think?) that is an alt ending, then the first two "brand" new eva remake films (second one differs in places), then wait years for the 3rd and 4th film (rather different it seems, so no longer just a remake) to come out to watch those too :p
Talking about eva, it's incredibly weird how everything in it does not look one bit old at all. Normally with stuff painting a technological future of any sort, it all seems EXTREMELY old only decades later, yet this has absolutely none of that feeling, at all. Very weird. Eva's a special one.
Going off stuff like elfen lied, but not quite as heart wrenching (my god that was tough to watch
), clannad is sublime. The tv series that is, by kyoto animation, not the film by some other company. Kyoto animation are amazing and (maybe were?) one of the best studios out there recently. The other two animes they bring to life from the same people that made the game as clannad, kanon and air are great too, which I'm sure you'll want to see after blasting through clannad and needing more haha.
I quite liked "ef" too. Not seen its sequel(s), and I only cared for one of the stories out of the two it had, but at 12 eps its not a hard watch and rather emotional(ly good).
There are plenty more like this if you end up craving more.
Ah, going with the philosophical like stuff that eva introduces a bit, ghost in the shell is great too if you like that. The first (two) films are more on the philosophical side, and the TV series (SAC, different director and people doing them) are more on the action side, so they have a slightly different feel to them, but are both very good imo.
Of course it all depends on what you like, but I tried to name a few things that not I only personally enjoyed, but really do deserve a watch because of their quality and how many other people seem to rate them, very highly in most cases (anidb.net is a great site to work all this out). I'm not going to recommend someone watch something like naruto, just because I personally love it for whatever absurd reason (I do in fact hate it though lol).
Of course there's wikipedia to get more info on how the stuff I named comes, but if you have any questions about this stuff, or can explain what sort of thing you'd like to watch and why, with what other stuff you saw and why you liked it, then I should be able to help out more there
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