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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 961494" data-attributes="member: 8461">Enchantress, you'd help us help you a lot more if you told us the sort of thing you liked, I mean in terms of genre; anime covers every genre there is, and a significantly large portion has deep characters and good plotlines.I'll add my vote to Rurouni Kenshin. While the anime isn't nearly as good as the manga (which I'm reading now - curse the animators for leaving out Enishi and crew!!), it's still quite good. As was said, the Kyoto Chronicles part is quite possibly the single best part of the entire series (having to work through what is a horribly large number of filler episodes to get there after the first arc of introducing the characters is over). The series is relatively fast-paced, but retains great character development. While there is a lot of fighting, its done very well, with emphasis on style and skill over power.Fruits Basket is a romantic comedy. It's about this homeless girl who lives with the family of one of her classmates. She discovers that they have a curse that when they become nervous or are touched by a member of the opposite sex, they turn into an animal of the zodiac.Ushio & Tora - I'm going out on a limb recommending this one. Only ten episodes of this exist as an anime, and it's not a title most people are immediately familiar with. I've only seen the first two episodes myself. I recommend it simply because I've been collecting the manga of it for a while now and I'm deeply hooked on it. It's the story of a boy who discovers that there is a demon imprisoned under his family's shrine by a powerful magic spear, when he's forced to remove the spear to combat other demons, he and the monster there form an unlikely friendship. The quality of the anime seemed to be a bit less than the manga, but it was still good, IMHO.I don't think its available "above board" in America yet, but Azumanga Daioh is a very popular anime, despite being less than a year old. While the series has no intrinsic, underlying plot, its the story of a group of high school girls, displayed in an very well-done comedic fashion. We just follow them throughout their high school career as they live their lives. Don't expect drama or angst; this is all comedy. The best way I can describe this is that its an anime "show about nothing".Hellsing - this dark thirteen-episode series is an action anime that takes place in contemporary Britain. Alucard is a vampire who works for the Hellsing organization, a group that eliminates undead activity in Britain. Along with fighting other vampires and their minions, they also face the papal organization Iscariot, which takes a much more fanatical stance on eliminating vampires, bringing the two organizations into conflict since Hellsing has a vampire working for it.Cowboy Bebop - this highly acclaimed series is a space opera that has incredible characterization, and a plot that, although only developed a little, is incredibly well done. This series takes palce in the future, following a group of bounty hunters aboard the ship Bebop. Most of the episodes are largely independant of one another, and the series plays that as a strength, with some episodes that are hysterically funny, and others that are dark and quite frightening. The characterization displayed is rivalled by only a few other anime, and the soundtrack is impressive beyond words. I cannot recommend this series enough. If you only buy one anime series this year, bu this one!Neon Genesis Evangelion - If you want deep plotlines and good characters, this is the series for you, bar none. This series has been hailed as the best anime to come out in the entirety of the 1990's, and it earns it. The series takes place in 2015. At the end of the 20th century, a cataclysm wiped out half the world's population. Now, unknown creatures have begun to attack humanity, and giant robots called Evangelions are used to fight them. For unknown reasons, only certain, special children can pilot the robots. I'll say it again, this series is excellent. The characters are incredibly well-developed, and the plotline even more so. This is not something you want to miss.</blockquote>

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