Trying to watch more

While I call myself an anime fan, I haven't really watched much. That being said...

What're your suggestions? I'd prefer something that has a nice story, maybe some cute parts, with some sadness as well. Action is fine, just nothing too over the top and gory please.

I've watched...

Negima!
Clannad
FMA (And currently watching FMA:B)
.hack//sign
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

...And that's all I can think of that I've seen lately. ;_;

Skip Beat! - I love it
Bokura Ga Ita - It's a Shojo anime though. Hearbreaking parts.
Great Teacher Onizuka - I like the manga better, though. The story is epic anyway.
Love Hina - A great classic.

EDIT:
Death Note - Dramatic, but it still has its own humor.

Well if you want to be apart of the cliche/knowing what's hot right now.

- Bleach
- Naruto
- Code Geass
- Full metal panic!

My personal favorites.

- YuYu Hakusho (All time favorite)
- Elfen Lied
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Gurren Lagann
- Hellsing

Some others that aren't my favorites, but have watched.

- Kiddy Grade
- School Rumble
- School Days
- Aquarion
- Akira
- Black Lagoon
- Cowboy Bebop
- Bo bo bo bo... you get the idea.
- Chobits
- Kannagi
- Nabari no Ou (SP?)
- Last Exile
- Lucky Star
- Outlaw Star
- Shuffle!
- Soul Eater
- K-ON! (Season one ended about a week ago)
- Spirited Away
- Toradora!
- Vampire Knight
- Hyakko

I guess that's a nice starter pack for you to get crackin' on. That's just to name a few off the top of my head as well.

Code Geass*
Code Geass R2*
Darker Than Black*
Denno Coil
Cowboy Bebop*****
Eureka Seven
FLCL*
Full Metal Panic!
Fullmetal Alchemist*
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex*****
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig*****
Gurren Lagann*
Higashi no Eden*
Kaiba*
Kannagi*
Kiddy Grade*
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s
Mai-hime
Mai-Otome
Martian Successor Nadesico
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Michiko to Hatchin
Minami-ke*
Outlaw Star
Shakugan no Shana
Shakugan no Shana Second
Shigofumi*
Soul Eater*
Sora Kake Girl
Spice and Wolf*
Trigun*

That should keep you busy for a while. My list of shows with most of the batpomegranate insane stuff removed. I'm not big of Romance/shows shamelessly devoted to fanservice/Many slice of life shows/sports animes.

Edit: I've been beaten by another lengthy list. Will cross out doubles for your ease.
Edit edit: Added stars.
Edit edit edit: Adding the stuff I omitted. Some are what I call... appropriately gory, others you should be fine with.

Baccano!*
Black Lagoon*
Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage*
Claymore
Elfen Lied*
Ergo Proxy
Ga-Rei: Zero
Higurashi no Naku Koroni***
Higurashi no Naku Koroni Kai**
Mnemosyne*
Paranoia Agent*

Edit edit edit edit: And some movies!
Tekkonkinkreet
Mind Game
Anything by Hayao Miyazaki

I liked Chobits a lot. o-o

I never got to finish Vampire Knight since I read the manga before watching the anime.

Im kinda in the same position, in that havent watched too much.

The few i can suggest would be;

Gantz - odd story, animation can be kinda bad in some parts.

Good portion of the Adult Swim animes, just wish they would rerun some of the older ones they used to run, such as Outlaw Star and Trigun.

new one is Desert Punk, but ive only seen the first 3 episodes so its a limited perspective.

Im sure there may have been others, possibly the Get Backers, but again limited perspective.

If you haven't yet, you have to watch Mushishi.
More than a few people agree that it's the best anime of the past decade or so.

As for a few of my favorites (of course, Mushishi is one of them):

• Kannagi
  
• Eureka Seven (though I've yet to finish it)
  
• Beck
  
• Hayate no Gotoku
  
• ef - a tale of memories/melodies
  
• Gurren Lagann
  
• true tears
  
• Code Geass
  

• Beck
  
  

Question, is this the same Beck anime that supposed to be based around the band Beck? I think ive seen it a few times when at Best Buy but never really understood what it may be about.

Ranma 1/2 is all that i noticed hasn't been said that i reccommend, lol.

Hunter x Hunter and Samurai Champloo are two of my personal favorites.

ooo Afro Samurai, the few episodes i saw were pretty dam good.

Yu Yu Hakusho (or 'Yuu Yuu Hakusho' or even 'Ghost Files')
Elfen Lied
Fullmetal Alchemist (season 1 ; 1st anime)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (season 2 ; 2nd anime series)
Dot Hack // SIGN
Zoids
Zoids: Zero Century

These are the ones I enjoyed watching.

Question, is this the same Beck anime that supposed to be based around the band Beck? I think ive seen it a few times when at Best Buy but never really understood what it may be about.

It might have had its name drawn from the band's name. It's a music anime, and it's influenced by a lot of music.

Though it's definitely not based around the band.

You should watch it, though. It's probably the most epic anime I've ever watched.

based around[/B] the band.

You should watch it, though. It's probably the most epic anime I've ever watched.

Spot on, it's not the most epic I've seen... but fairly good for what I thought it was gonna be

-Most epic = Elfen Lied, jaw = dropped entire time xD-

seconding GTO, beck, mushishi, etc

adding to the list: peacemaker kurogane, black cat (though the manga is better imo)

I second Higashi no eden! Amazing story.

Spot on, it's not the most epic I've seen... but fairly good for what I thought it was gonna be

-Most epic = Elfen Lied, jaw = dropped entire time xD-

Eh. Elfen Lied wasn't too epic for me.

My list of epic would be like this...

1. Beck
   
2. Gurren Lagann
   
3. CLANNAD ~After Story~
   
4. Higurashi

Note that "epic" != "good" or "awesome" for me. Kannagi, Eureka Seven, Mushishi, and La Maison en Petits Cubes are undoubtedly the best anime I've ever watched, and masterpieces in their own rights, but they're not on that list.

Not a fan of recommendation threads, but I see some of my favorites aren't getting mentions...

Boogiepop Phantom
Serial Experiments Lain
Paranoia Agent
Texhnolyze
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Ghost in the Shell
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Eureka Seven
Eve no Jikan (still airing)

Obviously there's so many other good series, but those are my absolute favorites that have had the largest effect on me.

Seen Haruhi, forgot to write that. ;_;

I am going to watch After Story, but since I'm actually playing the game, I want to get that far in the game before I start.

Read Death Note... Should probably watch it.

Like I said about anything too gory, anything too scary/adult is probably a no. I'm a 14 year old wimp. ;p


Thanks for a ton of great suggestions though. XD


EDIT: Yeah, I should probably sit down sometime today and really try to remember the other things I've seen... I mean, I remember watching Bo Bo Bo and Yu Yu Hakusho dubbed when I was younger, so it'd be interesting to watch those seriously.

[*]Beck
[*]Gurren Lagann
[*]CLANNAD ~After Story~
[*]Higurashi[/LIST]

Note that "epic" != "good" or "awesome" for me. Kannagi, Eureka Seven, Mushishi, and La Maison en Petits Cubes are undoubtedly the best anime I've ever watched, and masterpieces in their own rights, but they're not on that list.

Oh I look as Epic as in like... surprisingly awesome. Like I didn't know it was going to be that and I'm glad it was kinda thing xD.

Epic in your terms seems about right. Gurren Lagann is my fav. from that list.

Felix's list is pretty awesome as well, although I have not seen Eve no Jikan or Serial Experiments Lain.



-@above, then don't watch Elfen Lied-