Anime: Will this site allow reccommendation questions?

This sort of issue should be discussed on the meta site once it's up. Area 51 is for working out the topic of the site and the intended audience. Types of questions and details of scope are best discussed among active participants, with real examples.

The general trend on similar Stack Exchange sites has been not to allow them, but this is not systematic.

• Gaming debated the issue at some length and ended up rejecting recommendation requests.
• Role-Playing Games also debated the issue and decided to allow recommendation requests with some quality guidelines.
• Science Fiction & Fantasy tried recommendation questions early on, and had a few which were consistently poor. We banned them and didn't turn back.
• The now-defunct Literature site (which was a site for readers, not for writers or literature professors) saw many recommendation requests, but mostly low-quality. We tried a quality policy (reproduced below, since it's now lost from the face of the web). It's debatable whether that policy worked: it was very difficult to enforce, and while there were a few good recommendation questions that attracted good answers, there was a lot of dross.
• Movies & TV was warned against recommendation questions on day 1, and has always rejected them as far as I know.

The Literature recommendation policy

1. The questions must be reasonably specific. Not "What's a good book for a person who likes Harry Potter", but maybe, "What's a good book for a 13 year old boy who likes Harry Potter, Eragon, Percy Jackson, and Artemis Fowl?". The more details, the better. Otherwise, how could you expect someone to possibly answer?
2. Answers should try to recommend as many relevant books as possible. Aim for a syllabus, not for an evening's read.
3. Answers should provide some reasoning on why a book is suitable. Don't just say “read this”, explain why. [If you can't motivate why the book is suitable, consider leaving a comment instead of posting it as an answer. Answers that do not meet this guideline may be removed. --Anna Lear]
4. This is not a popularity contest. Votes should go to the answers that provide the best match for the request. Don't vote up or down because you liked or didn't like the suggested books.
5. Close any question which does not meet these guidelines. The number of votes is irrelevant when deciding whether to close a question.