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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EternalNewbie" data-source="post: 1557284" data-attributes="member: 6489">I've seen Princess Mononoke, and it was good (the little tree spirits were cool) but I thought Spirited Away was much better.I generally look for action when I'm renting Anime, but I do make exceptions.  Grave of the Fireflies was excellent (was trying to remember the name when I posted the first time).I'm surprised more people haven't listed Blood: The Last Vampire as a favourite.  That movie absolutely floored me the first time I saw it.  If you haven't seen it, check it out.If you've watched that much, and haven't really found anything you'd like, I'd have to agree with WayneLigon and say that it might not be your thing.  Still, try Cowboy Bebop (Start with the series, not the movie).  If you like Sci-Fi, you should enjoy it, although it's set pretty far into the future.  But there isn't much 'japanese strangeness' in it.Finally, I have a question about Berserk.  Does the animation get better later into the series?  So many people have listed it as a favourite, but IIRC when I watched it, what turned me off were the fight scenes.  Compared to say, Ninja Scroll or Cowboy Bebop, I found the action sequences to have too many still frames.  Admittedly, it's been a while since I've watched it, and based on the recommendations here, I'll probably go rent it this afternoon... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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