What anime should I watch?

[®onnie ®ude]

I can't decide what to watch. Maybe you can help? I'm interested in anime with action, drama and a dark theme. Sometimes I'm willing to hop to other animes outside those generes if the anime is good enough, but I try to stick to what I'm accustomed to. However, I hate mainstream anime such as Bleach, Naruto and Inuyasha, so please don't include those in your suggestions.

Here's what I've watched so far...

Air
Air Gear
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad Series
Black Cat
Darker Than Black
Death Note
Disgaea
DNA²
Flame of Recca
Chobits
Comic Party
Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu
Excel Saga
E's Otherwise
Some of Detective Conan/Case Closed
Elfen Lied
Eureka 7
Ghost Hound
Getbackers
Ghost Hunt
Ghost Stories
Gravion
Great Teacher Onizuka
Hellsing
Higurashi Series (Waiting on 3rd season)
Initial D
Jigoku Shoujo
Hell Girl Series (Waiting on 3rd Season)
Jing: King of Bandits
Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien/Rumbling Hearts
Kino's Journey
Maburaho
Melancholy Of Suzumiya Haruhi
Midori No Hibi
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Nightwalker
Ninja Scroll
Orphen
Outlaw Star
Paradise Kiss
Pretear
RahXephon (May need to watch it again tho...)
Rune Soldier
School Days
Shakugan no Shana
Tenjho Tenge
Those Who Hunt Elves
Tide-Line Blue
Tsubasa Chronicle
Cardcaptor Sakura
Welcome to the NHK
.HACK Series
Golden Boy
Gantz
Spirited Away
To Aru Majutsu no Index Series

...and that's about it.

So help me out, please?

[James]

Here is what I am watching so far, or have watched and would recommend to just about anyone who likes anime:

Angel Beats!: Don't let the name fool you... it's a hilarious anime on par with the bizarreness of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Expect mass-slaughters, crazy weaponry, Resident Evil parodies, rocket-propelled school chairs (and better yet people sitting on said chairs), and more.

Baccano!: It's about multiple unrelated characters (idiot thieves, mafia groups, alchemists, etc.) after an elixer for eternal life, and is told from multiple viewpoints. Can very easily switch from admirably lighthearted to brutally violent, but it's a must-watch all the same. Also has the coolest jazz opening for anime yet.

Durarara!!: Made by the same person who wrote and directed Baccano!. It's about certain events and the people living inside the city of Ikebukuro (a real place in Japan) living their lives as these events happen. Another great series full of plot twists and a bit of involvement with Celtic mythology (one of the characters is a Dullahan, a headless, headhunting fairy).

Gundam Unicorn: An OVA about the light novel of the same name. There's only one episode out, and the second won't be out till fall, but it may be worth a watch. It's very good if you're into mecha.

Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei: A dark comedy about an extremely depressed teacher who is constantly trying to kill himself, but his attempts are constantly thwarted by the problems of his own students. Just watch it, I guarantee you'll love it. It's where my awesome avatar comes from!

Senkou no Night Raid: I'm recently picking this one up, but it's about the Japanese Imperial Army (or rather, a part of it, a spy organization called the Sakurai Kikan) being dispatched into Shanghai, China, after major war events such as WWI. (The setting is 1931.) I hear it has erratic updates to the episodes, but after watching the first one, I like the fight scenes and the supernatural powers involved, and the plot is proving interesting.


Well, that's all I have for now. I may add more as I remember them, but I'm certain I've listed all the big ones I have on my plate, so I'll leave my post at that. Hope this helps you out!

[®onnie ®ude]

Thanks bro, I think I'm definately going to check out "Angel Beats!", "Baccano!" and "Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei", because they sound pretty friggin interesting.

As for the others, I shy away from gundams. In order for a mech anime to capture my interest you have to have a story that overshadows the concept of just two big robots fighting each other. I feel as if Gundams rely on the mechs to tell their story rather than the characters and I remember only one Gundam series that caught my interest, because it didn't do that. (I forget the name tho, oh well.)

As for Senkou no Night Raid, I'm still considering whether or not to check it out. Let me know how it is after you've watched it all the way through.

[Xaier]

BERSERK

[®onnie ®ude]

May 9, 2010 14:43:32 GMT -5 Xaier said:

BERSERK

*casts dispel on Xaier*

Feel better?

Final Fantasy references aside, I'll check that one out too.

[Benry]

U MUST FUCKING WATCH RAINBOW MAN!! its currently airing and that shit is DEFINITELY not mainstream, trust me, and wtf u havent watchet death note? shame on u

[®onnie ®ude]

May 9, 2010 17:08:11 GMT -5 Benry said:

U MUST FUCKING WATCH RAINBOW MAN!! its currently airing and that shit is DEFINITELY not mainstream, trust me...

Okay, okay, I'll watch it! Lol, let me know when the series finishes airing, because I hate watching one episode and waiting months for the rest to air and get subbed.

I like my anime like I like my gantz manga, I must have it in bulk.

May 9, 2010 17:08:11 GMT -5 Benry said:

wtf u havent watchet death note? shame on u

Iunno where you gather your sources from Ben-Ben, but shame on you for buying into it.

[Xaier]

I haven't finished all of Blassreiter, but from what I saw it was pretty cool.