They made the Cowboy Bebop movie which I liked. But yeah that’s pretty much it. Evangelion was decent I think though I haven’t seen it in a while.
Anyone who claims FMA isn’t worth its merit is a no-good anime hipster.
I haven’t really given it a chance because it didn’t grab my attention 
. I hear people raving about it all the time though so I’ll probably read it eventually.
They did the BeBop movie? It was unnecessary but quite nice.
I’m more talking about their series. (that I’ve seen)
Evangelion: I was expecting more giant robot battles and less emo Shinji. I disliked Shinji so much that it ruined everything for me.
Gurren Lagaan: I liked the beginning, but once they skipped 7 years in the future, it sucked.
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi: sucked until the last 5 minutes of the last episode, and then it was over, which defeated the purpose of finally not sucking.
FLCL: crazy the entire way through, with plenty of awesome thrown in.
So ~35% does not encourage me to watch anything they do ever again, unless I already know it and like it.
I feel the same way about Evangelion. While the original series took that awful downturn due to the director being depressed and their budget running out, I don’t understand why it kept happening in later stuff, like in End of Evangelion. First half, awesome. Second half…pure wtf.
I would recommend GunBuster by Gainax though. It’s a little old now but still good.
Seen Black Jack? Its about an unlicensed doctor, but a faking genius though.
Studio BONES usually does my favorites-
Eureka Seven
Xam’d: Lost Memories
Soul Eater
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
(They also helped with the Cowboy Bebop film, and worked on Full Metal Alchemist/Brotherhood [unfortunately haven’t watched either yet])
I love Soul Eater but I haven’t read any recently. Not sure how many chapters have come out since I stopped reading.
I haven’t seen any chapters come out for that recently. I’m not too sure what’s happened to it. Maybe it’s just been dropped by the translators I usually read from.
Which sucks. I know Mangastream dropped translating it not too long ago but I don’t understand why nobody would want to. It’s so good.
higurashi no naku koro ni series is pretty sweet
So I’m trying to remember this anime. It had a female james bond character as th main character, a ridiculous amount of up skirt fanservice, lthe main character liked red roses and rose may have been in the name, and some plot involving cyborg people (all girls). Google is not helping. Any ideas as to the name?
You’ve described about 60% of all anime.
I’ve been trying to enjoy Desert Punk. The characters have really interesting outfits and it’s refreshing to see some ugly, authentic-looking Japanese wastelanders instead of big-eyed white girls with colorful hair.
Desert punk makes too many boob jokes, and the bad guys never permanently beat him. Every episode or so someone fucks his shit and he recovers a minute later thanks to some wacky gadget.
The action sequences are entertaining, especially the way everything is timed.
who gives a shit about anime
I have to agree with him. All those fanservicey action girl shows run together for me, but that’s probably because I don’t watch them .
I watched that and thought it was pretty good, I’m not sure how to feel about the ending though. It was rushed but in a way still good.
Maybe I’m just a casual but I don’t think anything will ever be as good as Cowboy Bebop
Who gives a shit, I watch anime to kill 20 minutes at work from time to time, or as a habit because ongoing shows air on the same day every week.
I think I’ve said this before but I’m not sure if it was on here or somewhere else.
Cowboy Bebop was very short, and was mostly an episode to episode show. There was a little bit of over arching story but for the most part that’s what it was. It also didn’t have to worry about keeping a certain distance away from a manga because it didn’t have one, and I’m sure it had a rather large budget. It had a lot of stuff going for it, but while I think it is good, I can only watch it so many times before getting bored of it.
Like you said with the casual comment, there are plenty of amazing anime/manga, it’s just that the stuff that people traditionally think of when they think anime is the stuff that’s mostly marketed to children, which is probably why they don’t find it appealing. The majority of the stuff that gets anime adaptations are the long running children’s stories, so they’re the most easy to come by. The really mature and realistic stories typically do not get anime adaptations, they often stay as manga, because anime is thought of as , for the most part, for children, even in Japan.
And these long running anime typically don’t have the same budget as something like Cowboy Bebop, since it doesn’t have to stretch it over hundreds of episodes.
Actually not really. To anyone who had watched it recently it’d be obvious which one I was talking about. Unfortunately no one’s watched it recently.The series ended in some big place with a bunch of older planes because the owner of the property collected planes. All the planes blew up.