Sorry to post yet another "can you suggest me an anime" thread (and dont know if it should be posted here ^^), but so far the ones mentioned are not quite my taste.

SO, what anime series do you recomend me to watch that follows this criteria:

If youve seen CLAYMORE then that kind of series is my favourite for reazons like, mature without having sex, great animation and full of action, no stupid characters or stupid chibi moments, is great from begining to end and the story while simple (revenge) it really well developed, its NOT about stupid kids with uver powers trying to kill eachother in battle arenas (naruto, dragon ball) I want something inteligent without being lame ^^

Examples of this style of manga:

Claymore, Ghost in the shell (first movie), Vampire Hunter D 2002, Blood, Macross pluss, appleseed, final fantasy 7... you get the idea :)

Claymore has a horrible ending. Atrocious compared to it's comic book counter part. It wraps it all up with that emo brat crying and resolves NOTHING rendering the entire plot useless and the series it's self pointless.

Honestly it's best to pretend everything ends once the campaign in the north beings, because god damnit

hmmmm I'd say,

Battle Angel Alita,

maybe the Hellsing OVAs, or Stand Alone complex 2nd gig, and possibly Iria Zeriam the Animation.

Death Note, perhaps? I haven't seen all of it, but the 17 episodes I have seen are pretty intelligent, and very, very far away from the likes of Dragonball and Naruto. Not very long, but quite good so far.

Also haven't seen all of it (note to self: finish watching it) - Last Exile. A steampunk anime with lots of airships/airplanes, a big war plot and interesting characters that aren't superpowered. Quite short, too - under 30 episodes.

Seconding Hellsing - the manga is pretty good as well, even if it is sometimes way, way out there (teleporting werewolf-ish creatures in Hitler Jugend uniforms? Check. Chick with sharp teeth and a musket the size of her leg singlehandedly taking over a British warship while singing opera? Check. Etc., etc.)

Seconding Death Note. Great show, very refreshing.

lefarce
Seconding Death Note. Great show, very refreshing.

I'm a deathnote whore. yes i love it. LOOOVE
rabu rabu rabu <3

- Death Note*
- Samurai Champloo
- Cowboy Bebop
- Outlaw Star
- Elfen Lied
- Tenchi Muyo
- Fooly Cooly

STAY AWAY from Naruto.

* - Also see the live action movie, it was great.

Commenting on mentioned animes:

Claymore - Horrible ending because it can't catch up to the manga which is way too long, unless it becomes a marathon itself like Naruto/Bleach. If you like stories which end in the middle, watch Tenjo Tenge (which, other than ending in the middle, is a great series).

The other reason why Claymore is horrible is the boy sidekick. That whiney disgusting degenerate little rat bastard needed to die in the episode he began in.

To see how boy sidekicks are done *right*, watch Guardian of the Sacred Spirit.

Hellsing - Oyes to the OVAs, OHELLNO to the TV series.

Death Note - Be sure you watch the 2 live-action movies as well. Different from the anime/manga, but in some ways better IMO.

Naruto - Sorry guys but I've never felt Naruto wasted my time. Overall much better than Bleach, DBZ, or whatever else you can think of that has 500 episodes. The recent battle between Sasori and Sakura was true quality.

I don't like the new guy on the team, though. Show's trying too hard with him.

Samurai Champloo...but it ended to soon and ended terribly.

Serial Experiments Lain.

That was good.

ozoneocean
Serial Experiments Lain.

That was good.

for how trippy is was, I enjoyed that one as well.

also agree with earlier posters on Deathnote. I recently started watching it and have enjoyed what I have watch thus far. More dialogue and suspense. Not a lot of action. More story and character driven in a game of cat and mouse. Would highly recommend it.

Heh, to me Lain was normal; what I expect from anime.

While crap like Yugio, DBZ, etc: why even bother to call that "anime". Stupid kiddy toons... They've always been around, whether American, British, Korean, Canadian, Japanese, French, or whatever.

Gasaraki was also pretty good.

TheMidge28
Samurai Champloo...but it ended to soon and ended terribly.

Seconding this (though I kind of liked the ending, even if I did want more). Plot mixed with wonderful characters mixed with quite a few crackpot episodes - beatboxing samurai, baseball in 17th Century Japan, graffiti contests, etc., etc.

ozoneocean
While crap like Yugio, DBZ, etc: why even bother to call that "anime".

Considering that anime is the catch-all term for Japanese animation, anything goes. :) But I have to agree that Yugio and DBZ (what parts of them I've seen) are pretty much crap.

Has anyone seen Gantz?
Is it any good?
I have read about it and it looks interesting.

Gantz is good, although more adult than some other things. It has some pretty explicit if not overall mature moments. My roommate told me the manga edition would be popping around soon.

When I heard the Gantz manga was coming out some months ago I was riding on that high for days. Ah, to finally own it. I love Gantz obviously. I wish the Monster anime would be released here as well. Prefferably all 72-74(I think, it has been awhile) eps in an affordable 50 dollar thinpack. That'd rule.

But yes Midge, read/watch Gantz. The anime's final arc isn't as bad as people make it out to be and really concludes the story ethically and morally in the way that the anime was building and I personally liked Murodo and hearing Chris and Greg Ayres both doing the voices of the characters was great. Watch Gantz dubbed as well. Kurono's performance, despite how scratchy the voice is, is one of my favorite dub performances. But the manga is still much better. More actiony in it's pacing as the anime tends to specify every movement the manga is much more fluid and more horror intense and less drama intense like the anime counterpart. That said the ending is disappointing a bit if you've read the manga and knew what was to come next that will never be animated(Oh the Oni alien arc would be a marvel to behold) but when I originally watched it I felt satisfied at the message.

mlai
Death Note - Be sure you watch the 2 live-action movies as well. Different from the anime/manga, but in some ways better IMO.

There was a second movie? When did that release?

Paranoia Agent is a nice mind fuck anime that is fairly easy to get into. If you want one that is just all sorts of screwed up, check out Boogiepop Phantom.

lefarce
Paranoia Agent is a nice mind fuck anime that is fairly easy to get into.

Second.

yeah Claymore's ending sucked because they pretty much forced it to end where it wasnt supposed to. The manga keeps going on.

Mature anime that has good story and isnt rated for sex?:

Elfen Lied- Awesome show about a escaped race of evolved humans called Diclonius that have been captive and researched by humans until one escapes the lab. Diclonius have invisible arms called 'vectors' that can cut just about anything like a hot knife through butter. The escaped diclonius loses her memory and is saved by a couple teenagers while the organization comes to hunt down that escaped one. violence, gore, and some nudity. great plot.

Higurashi No Naku Koroni (called "when they cry" in English"-
Based on a visual novel, it takes place in a small village called Hinamizawa. The people there have a festival called Watanagashi every summer a ceremony to wash away the mistakes they made over the years. However every year on that day there is a murder and one person that disappears from the village. These on going serial murders have been titled "the hinamizawa serial murders" or "the curse of Oyashirosama" Oyashirosama being the god that they believe protects the village. The first season is about five young people (kids to teens) That either witness or become a part of that curse. The second season (just finished Airing in Japan calle "Higurashi no Naku Koroni Kai" ) is like an answer Arc that solves the mystery of these events.
More story than action, but lots of violence and some gore... the first season is a pretty scary one to watch. ALSO- dont let the art style fool you. I once thought this was a cutesy brainless anime when I judged it by the cover (Dvd box set) but oh boy was I wrong.

Berserk- Classic. Tale of a swordsman that weilds a oversized sword. You go through how he grew up training with a sword too big for him, the wars that he fights, the comrades he makes and ... one really really really unique ending. I'd hard to not like this series. You cant go wrong. Lots of Violence and some nudity/sex.

Hellsing, Lain, and Gantz are good too. I havent seen all of Hellsing and Gantz though :P Perfect Blue is a movie but an awesome mind twisting one.

also if you havent seen FLCL, WATCH IT.

Fooly Cooly is one of those rare animes that breaks through the anime-cartoon barrier. You don't have to like anime to like FLCL. You just have to like cartoons.

Well i did find Claymore to be great, but i didn't consider the ending to be bad because that "could" mean there's more coming not that it ended abruptly.
And the kid was a bit annoying but not that much to harm the series.

.- Battle Angel, yes i have it in dvd, they released the two movies in one disc ^^
.- Also have Tenchi muyo the series and the two movies.

I also forgot to name Bubblegum Crisis tokyo 2040 (loved it)


Ill have an eye on death note, Serial Experiments Lain, GITH 2nd gig, gasaraki and elfen lied, thanks for those, i didnt knew about them.

I watched Gantz on tv and i and found it boring and of bad taste :P.
Samurai Champloo was a bit slow, and coudnt catch al the episodes on tv though

Well these are the ones I recommended in the other anime thread, so I guess I'll post them here. I'm a little confused why we have two threads, but oh well. ;)

Tenchi Muyo
El Hazard: The Magnificent World (OAV)
Ninja Scroll (movie)
Cowboy Bebop
Inu Yasha
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
Read or Die (OAV)
FLCL (OAV)
Perfect Blue
Excel Saga
Azumanga Daioh
Photon: The Idiot Adventures (OAV)
Lain

I'm a mecha and slice-of-life fan myself, but I won't go into the 'Eww, light-hearted humour with high school girls' stuff.

I recommend Code GEASS. It is incredibly satisfying (except for the cliffhanger ending), with some parallels to Death Note in the way the protagonists are incredibly intelligent and meticulous in their actions. It's filled with twists and turns, and a good deal of well done action sequences.

Watch out for the Macross Frontier coming in 2008, I saw the pilot episode and it was amazing.

And check out Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Just do it. You'll become a man afterwards.

AQua_ng
And check out Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Just do it. You'll become a man afterwards.

Even if one happens to be a girl beforehand? :P

Obviously, yes.

I've also heard good things about Darker than Black and Eureka 7.

ozoneocean
Serial Experiments Lain.

That was good.

I thought about, half of that show was just close-up shots of eyes. Particularly Lain's. XD I GET IT ALREADY! They're some weird-ass eyes!

While it had a lot of great moments, especially the last episodes...I thought it was lacking some life and was too over-artsy for my taste.

glenfx
.- Battle Angel, yes i have it in dvd, they released the two movies in one disc ^^

That was so bleh. Get the manga series if you get anything Battle Angel.


Mentionable anime....hm.....
I can't think of much that hasn't been mentioned already.
A good short series though is Armitage III: Poly Matrix. Haven't seen Dual Matrix.

A couple of good anime movies:
Perfect Blue
Howl's Moving Castle

Avoid Steamboy like the plague. >_> BORING.

artsy stuff is cool ^_^

I agree with you about steamboy though. That was SO dull. The only thing I really liked in that was the battleship on the Thames fighting the mecha battle fortress thing.

I had to force myself to sit all they way through that piece of crap and I still don't know why I bothered. Nice art in it, funky idea, well researched background and history etc, but oh so tedious for some reason.

i recently read a japanese poll that listed the top 10 manga of all time (according to readers votes) and number 1 was "slam dunk".

other than that, i got two words for ya...ONE PIECE

alexhatzia
other than that, i got two words for ya...ONE PIECE

One Piece does kick all sorts of pirate behind, but OP asked for anime series that weren't of that style. :) To quote "its NOT about stupid kids with uver powers trying to kill eachother in battle arenas" - which, you have to agree, is pretty much what One Piece is about. Super-strong pirates kicking pirate butt all over the place.

... *loves on One Piece*

AQua_ng
I've also heard good things about Darker than Black and Eureka 7.

I've only seen five or so episodes of Eureka 7, but it's pretty good. Mecha, airships, good character-designs, interesting plot, etc., etc.