Rec us some anime!

[firecat]

OMG, we've only got one more anime series in our Netflix queue. Please rec us some anime series! Here's some stuff we like and don't like:

Don't like:
Really silly and/or romance obsessed characters/plots (Jubei Chan is about our limit)
Plots that are really surreal or difficult to follow (we're watching Ergo Proxy, but it is a little past our comfort level)
Series that go on for more than ~30 episodes

Like:
Black Jack
Cowboy Bebop
Death Note
Gankutsuou
Genshiken
Ghost in the Shell: SAC
Hellsing
Kaze no Yojimbo
Last Exile
Macross, Macross Plus
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Outlaw Star
Princess 9
Samurai Champloo
Shakugan no Shana

Comments

[jennaria]

Hmm. Okay, here's a few, with the usual YMMV:

Inu X Boku SS - on the one hand, it's silly romance. On the other hand, it has some of the most self-aware characters I've encountered in anime, and knows how to both use the classic romance tropes and laugh at them at the same time, without getting nasty about it. 13 episodes, I think it's still available on Crunchyroll - I do suggest watching the sub if possible, as the dub is terrible.

Sword Art Online - full immersion MMO, yay cool - wait, what do you mean we can't log out? And if we die here, we die in real life? Like InuBoku, it handles its cliches well. I admit that Asuna is one of my favorite anime characters, so there's that. Sub still available on Crunchyroll, dub coming out, uh, not soon enough.

Darker Than Black - I'm recommending the first series only, as I haven't seen the second and have heard seriously mixed things about it. I loved the first for its intelligent supernatural spy action: at no time was anyone required to carry the Idiot Ball. (One of the main characters is a female police detective. I am jaded and wary about these things.) Haven't seen the dub, so I can't comment on its quality.

[firecat]

Thanks! Inu X Boku SS and Sword Art Online aren't available on Netflix yet, but I've noted them down for the future.