Anime/Manga Recommendations

For the animes I'd recommend Ghost in the Shell SAC/2ng Gig, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Black Lagoon, Cowboy Bebop, Higurashi no Naku, and Nichijou (I don't really keep track of genre, I just know what I like/dislike). For anime films I definitely recommend The Girl who Lept Through Time.
In manga I'd suggest Yotsuba&! and The Daily Lives of High School Boys. I believe Bomber Grape is the artist behind the latter so if you like his style you'd like his Touhou mangas using Google to find them.

I second bakemonogatari. I also encourage anime-beginners to set up a MyAnimeList account and occasionally check http://sma.keyanifans.com/v3/ for automated recommendations based on your account.

I was originally recommend Seto no Hanayome myself, but when I saw that the creator of this thread had listed it in the opening post I was quite surprised.

I would also recommend Shiki:
(best picture I can find to represent this Anime.)

I'd recommend reading Oyasumi Punpun if you enjoy crying a fucking lot

If you want some action with random comedy, here you go: One-punch man


Or if you would like to read a french comic that is also good: Freak squeele, it is already translated in english

You... you have not seen random comedy until you've read Bobobo.