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... the bits about women's bodies and violence sound interesting enough to brave decapitations and spouts of blood, although maybe I will wait until I am in a somewhat better mood to check it out. Still! I encourage your writing that thesis!

[octopedingenue]

(Random trivia: I believe Claymore is the first Shonen Jump series to have a female protagonist. I'm not sure how popular it is in Japan, but at the least it was the only series to survive the cancellation of the monthly mag in which it originally ran. Baby steps!)

As a series Claymore doesn't strike perfect blows for feminism. There's still little input from non-superpowered-women, for instance. And much as in BtVS: there's still something eternally skeevy about women given power through being physically and mentally violated by men, and there's an ugly undercurrent of physical ecstasy = sexually uninhibited = loss of control = EVIL. (Which does not prevent it from being the femslashiest thing that's ever moved, mind.) But it pushes many of those points further than Buffy was ever willing to go. And it is so much more pleasant to deal with in many regards than the misogyny I have to lalala my way past in like 99% of shonen to enjoy any of it at all.

Also, there are deliciously satisfying incidents of fighters gone BERSERK brought back from the EDGE of their own INNER DARKNESS by the POWER of their comrades' LUUUUUURVE! You know you love it.