Just finished Planetes' anime last night (had the DVDs forever but never had time to watch them, loved the manga). It's probably not for everyone since it has a bit of filler, but the filler at least is fairly entertaining. (well the manga was 4 volumes, the anime 26 episodes, so like FMA they had to take their own direction after a while) But if you wouldn't mind watching an anime with a fairly realistic portrayal of how outerspace might end up, it's well worth checking out. They worked with NASA a ton to get it realistic and the special edition versions of the DVDs come with an extra disc with interviews with people from NASA and such. You may not like it if you have no attention span since it can move slow.
Also just started watching Paradise Kiss' anime, another series I've had on DVD forever but never had the time to watch all the way through. I loved the manga and Ai Yazawa is wonderful. It's a pretty short series about a fairly dull girl that gets caught up with a bunch of fashion majors at an art school and ends up modeling for them. Since it's shojo obviously there's all kinds of romance drama and all that fun. The series as a whole is pretty unique and the animators did a lot of interesting things.
It's also one of many anime in the growing trend of using music from outside Japan
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MMyewX1aDRsIf you're an Ai Yazawa fan or interested in the series, you'd better buy the 3 DVDs ASAP as Geneon, the company that released it went bankrupt and closed its doors so it's out of print now. (you can still find it if you look of course)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YR4pehBKko&NR=1The opening is also pretty awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqlROvI6LmMFinishing up the Beck anime right now, just waiting for my last disc to arrive in the mail. It's an anime about a boy who was pretty ordinary that starts getting into music and playing in a band. It's fairly slice of life and I really love it since it's like watching my high school years. (all my friends were in bands and I'd go to all their shows and such) Both the anime and the manga are wonderful and are well worth checking out. The music is actually surprisingly good, and if you watch the dub they do an amazing job (the dub voice actors can actually sing). The sub is a little odd because the characters sing in English and there are a few characters that speak English and when they talk/sing it's very weird sounding Engrish haha It's also fun to play spot the music references, there's references to The Pixies, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Nirvana, The Beatles, etc.
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Colbitzer
@ 3:32 PM Apr 17th