Rec me anime!

[oyceter]

Currently I have no kdramas except Gourmet on my list, and I'm caught up with most of the shows I want to watch. Also, I'm in the mood for short episodes. So, rec me anime (but please read the qualifications first)!

• Available on Netflix


• Not too bloody


• Have cool women. I don't mind if they aren't the protagonists or if they don't physically kick ass, but I also don't want a series in which all the women or girls feel like objects.


• Not depressing


• Have an ending


• Bonus points for something funny with depth (ex. Samurai Champloo) or something that hits my gothic shoujo id buttons (ex. Vampire Knight)

I prefer series, though I may watch movies/OVAs too.

I've seen and liked:
Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam Wing, Gunslinger Girls, Haibane Renmei, Honey and Clover, Kare Kano (incomplete), Mushishi (incomplete), Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ouran High School Host Club, Princess Tutu, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Samurai Champloo, Vampire Knight, X, Yami no Matsuei, and nearly all the Studio Ghibli movies. And though it's not anime, I've seen Avatar too.

I've seen and disliked:
Akira, Gasaraki, Ghost in the Shell, Lain, Perfect Blue, Tenchi Muyo

Comments

[oyceter]

Hrm, how bloody and/or violent and/or depressing do you think Black Lagoon and RahXephon are?

Oooh, Twelve Kingdoms on my list now, as is Moribito, except it looks like it's not available on Netflix yet.

[yeloson.livejournal.com]

RahXephon was pretty blah to me - it read very much as an Evangelion rip-off, including pointless boy emo, weird Oedipus complex stuff, and even less sense to it's aliens attack to end the world plot. I have a bunch of the episodes if you want to borrow it sometime.

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

For Black Lagoon...hmm. While there's lots of action-y gun violence in the first season, I don't remember it being too bad in terms of blood and grimness. The second season, though, gets very, very dark in terms of Horrible Things happening to people. Some of it's just hinted/implied and it's less in terms of gore and more in the way of serious existential bleakness, but there was enough there to send me scrambling for something lighthearted afterwards. (Which is not a condemnation--I like the series a lot, but it can be rough on the emotions.) The first season does stand alone, so you wouldn't be left completely without and ending if you to try it.

My memory's less clear on specifics in RahXephon, but while it does have its emotionally wrought and sad moments and occasional deaths, I didn't find it to be depressing as a whole. It is very much a love-it-or-hate-it series, though, just as a warning; if you really loved NGE, you may find it to be too similar.

Ack, sorry--Moribito's currently running on Adult Swim, so I thought for sure Netflix would at least have the first DVD by now. Hopefully it'll show up soon!

[the-willow.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Guardian of the Sacred Spirit DOES INDEED ROCK. And I only didn't mention it in my recs because Netflix doesn't have it yet either. But you can save it for when they get it.

And yay! Twelve Kingdoms is already on your list!