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[puddingcat]

I finished Weiss Kreuz (Kapitel) last night. Wah! Consequently, I've just been out scouring the shops of Stockport for anime. moony, I remember you recommending Cowboy Bebop as a Firefly equivalent, and Inu Yasha, but what else? What was the one where the wonderful bad guy dies?

Anyone else have any suggestions? What I liked about WK was the style of the characters - they were drawn as (admittedly gorgeous) adults, not excessively "cute" kids. Oh, and the uncertain moral standards certainly helped. There's nothing worse than good=beautiful and evil=grotesque to make me lose all interest. Give me good=tortured-angst and evil=just-a-different-point-of-view any day. With good cheekbones.
Largely because of this post, I'm tempted to try Yami No Matsuei. Anyone ever read / seen it?

ETA: Ok; I've now seen episode 1 of YNM. More preferences appear to be: Guns good, cars good, gore & general violence./;;;;lioklllllllllll good, humans (or dead humans) good. Cute animals bad, cute chicken librarians Very Bad, dragons baffling. Cats on keyboards irritating and fuzzy.


A meme from SB:

Fell in love: Probably 18. I think. Not counting animals & Bruce Dickinson.
Lost your virginity: 18 (different person).
Lost someone close to you: 15, Nanny.
Drank alcohol: No idea, though I was given a glass of champagne aged 2 (cousin's 21st), downed it & said "More!".
Smoked weed: 18. I was so good until Uni.
Got your heart broken: 18. See first question. Interestingly, the 2 people who've f*cked me up most are both called David.
Got arrested: Not yet.
Smoked a cigarette: 16.
Broken a bone: 11 - my wrist. I fell off my bike while practising for my Cycling Proficiency Test...
Got cheated on: 18. Not by either of the people in (1) or (2).
Rode the city bus: I suppose since I was tiny, when we went to see Gran in Edinburgh.
Went to a concert: 16. Bruce Dickinson's Tattooed Millionnaire tour, at the London Astoria.
Met someone famous: Heavens, I can't think back past Sunday ;)
Dyed your hair: 15
Got your first cell phone: 21
Got a Myspace: Never.
Snuck out of the house: Um. Never? Snuck *in* several times...
Got your own digital camera: 31
First time you got drunk: 15.
Read Harry Potter: 26
Travelled across the ocean: Never have done.
Wore a toga: I've worn a Greek thingy, when our (all girls) school put on Oedipus Rex. I was Creon.
Shopped at Abercrombie: I'm not a chav.
Went to Disney World: never.
Went on a date: 16. Ick.
Saw a Broadway/West End play: 15 - my birthday present was to see Cats.
How old are you now: 32

Comments

[becky-spence.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Ranma 1/2 if you can find it! It is by the same person who did Inu Yasha (which I LOVE!) and is amazingly silly (boy becomes girl when doused in water. father becomes panda when doused in water.) There's both DVDs and a graphic novel series (though they're up to about volume 30 in the graphic novels so it could be pricey to start!)

Revolutionary Girl Utena is pretty cool, and my friend Helen was always fond of The Dirty Pair (odd 2 girl small clothing big guns thing - they're intergalactic cops who keep breaking things whenever they try to help).

Not seen all of it, but Neo Genesis Evangelion was shaping up to be pretty cool when I saw the first few episodes.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I was rahter put off Inu Yasha & Ranma by the style of characters - they're on the kiddie cute side of things. Also, having watched the first YNM episode, I'm not so keen on the supernatural side of things (fuzzy demons etc). I might come back to those in a bit, but I'm after the more "normal" (if anime is ever normal...) stuff, with humans and guns and gore, at least to start with :)

[becky-spence.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. *ponders* Utena's a bit more fantasty-style, not big eyes or anything, just a little less guns and a little more sword fighting...

Dirty Pair is girls and guns, but is a bit silly at times.

Evangelion might well fit the bill though - big stompy mechs, slightly twisted plot, lots of fight scenes...

[lark-ascending.livejournal.com]

Ooooh Utena! Utena rules! I got a huge fangirl crush on her ;-)

Also NGE is legendary among my anime-watching friends, though like you I've only seen a couple of episodes.