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Girls und Panzer
ガールズ&パンツァー
2012 · TV series · 24 min episodes · 1 season
AnimationComedyActionAdventure
In this world, Sensha-do (戦車道), the art of tank-combat, is a traditional Japanese martial art for girls. Miho, a girl who just transferred into the Ōrai Girls' Academy in Ibaraki Prefecture, has been ordered by the academy's student council chairperson to join the school team and compete in the national Sensha-do championships.
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Well, taste is subjective and all that but out of that list, I'd say these are fairly objectively successful and popular if you're willing to take that as a rough proxy for "good": Haikyuu, Yuru Camp, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, Girls und Panzer, K-On, Haruhi, and the Shinkai films
I personally also quite like Hanasaku Iroha, Barakamon, Natsume Yuujinchou, Night is Short and Summer Time Rendering
Kinda depends on what you're looking for, e.g. Haikyuu is very much a sports anime and does a lot with the tropes of that genre. If you just want to watch a single good thing that has a bearing on a locality in Japan and isn't a project in and of itself (cough Haruhi cough) or otherwise cult, I'd say just watch Wolf Children.
If someone is looking for more recommendations based on anime they've watched and their locations, here's a 2019-version in Japanese (there's a huge number of videos in Japanese it seems, I just took a random version).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlvPi09jVoA
I'll try listing them the ones below (brackets contain English names):
1. Hokkaido
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san: Sapporo City
Boku dake ga inai machi (Erased): Tomakomai City
Kanon: Sapporo City
Seitokai no ichizon: Sapporo City
Golden Kamui: All across Hokkaido
Servant x Service: Sapporo City
Sora no method: Toyako Town
Omoide no Marnie (When Marnie Was There): Kushiro City
Kimi ni todoke: Haboro Town
WORKING!!: Sapporo City
Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet : Otaru City
Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru (Beautiful Bones -Sakurako's Investigation): Asahikawa City
2. Aomori Prefecture
Kumo no mukou, yakusoku no basho (The Place Promised in Our Early Days): Aomori Prefecture
Flying Witch: Hirosaki City
3. Iwate Prefecture
Inugami!: Morioka City
4. Miyagi Prefecture
Kannagi: Sendai City
Haikyuu: Sendai City
Wake Up, Girls: Sendai City
5. Akita Prefecture
Itoshi no Muco (Lovely Muco): Akita City
Kumamiko: Akita Prefecture
6. Yamagata Prefecture
Omoide Poroporo: Yamagata City
LEVEL E: Yamagata City
7. Fukushima Prefecture
Mikakunin de Shinkoukei (Engaged to the Unidentified): Kooriyama City
8. Ibaraki Prefecture
Girls und Panzer: Oorai Town
Momokuri: Mito City
Noucome (My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy): Mito City
Sakura Trick: Inashiki City
9. Tochigi Prefecture
Yosuga no sora: Ashikaga City
Mokke: Tochigi Prefecture
Nasu: A Migratory Bird with Suitcase: Utsunomiya City
10. Gunma Prefecture
Nichijou: Isesaki City
Initial D: Mt. Akagi, Mt. Myogi
Sora yori mo tooi basho (A Place Further than the Universe): Tatebayashi City
Aku no Hana: Kiryu City
Houkago no Pleadas: Oota City