Rec me anime!

[oyceter]

Currently I have no kdramas except Gourmet on my list, and I'm caught up with most of the shows I want to watch. Also, I'm in the mood for short episodes. So, rec me anime (but please read the qualifications first)!

• Available on Netflix
• Not too bloody
• Have cool women. I don't mind if they aren't the protagonists or if they don't physically kick ass

Comments

[badtzphoto]

I'm not sure if these 2 are available on netflix or not. I like these. I haven't watched the ones that you disliked, so I don't know.
1) The Story of Saiunkoku - link to Anime News Network - The main female character is smart and likes to learn. So far only 10 episodes of the 39 from the first season have been released by Geneon. The 3 dvd is released in Oct by Funimation.
2) Scrapped Princess link to Anime News Network, 24 episodes (finished) the main character's sister is pretty interesting.

[oyceter]

Oh, I didn't mention it, but I've seen about twelve eps or so of Saiunkoku and didn't dislike it but just managed to slowly lose interest.

What do you like most about Scrapped Princess?

[badtzphoto]

It's a story of a girl who was supposed to be killed when she was infant because of an prophecy. Now everyone wants her dead before she turns 15, her foster sibling (brother is a great sword man, sister is a powerful magic user) try to protect her against all odds.
There are dragons (or dragoons) and peacemakers (semi spoilers) they are fighting machines (end of spoilers)
So the story is interesting and characters are likable. I like the characters a lot actually, but I'm known to watch anime for escapism and like characters for shallow reasons, so ... I didn't expect to like it as I do. I even read the light novels from tokyopop (which they canceled after 3 books!) I don't know how to analyze characters or story-line, it's more like a feeling that I have...

[jabbberwocky]

Seconding this one! The concept is interesting, tropes played up, Haruhi is insane, and the quality of the animation is better than a lot of stuff out there.

(If you don't like the first episode, do try the second episode before giving up entirely. ^^)

[oyceter]

Now on my list, although slightly lower given what you and Rilina mention about the fanservice.

[parallactic]

Read or Die, the OVA movie and anime. The OVA is about a secret agent bibliophile with paper fighting skills, and a secret agent who can space through objects, and cloned famous people. The action stuff is on the crack adventure buddy bonding that's femslashy if you want it to be. The anime series is about three sister detective agents who have paper skills, a female author who has writer's block, and the action-adventure side of bibliophilia.

It's not an anime, but the sheer amount of surrealism makes it feel like it could be. Kamikaze Girls is a live-action movie about the friendship between a Lolita fashion fangirl and a Yanki delinquent. It's got a Pushing Daisies or Amelie feel to it, in that it's candy-coated, wallows in bizarre coincidences, and has creative uses for lettuce.

[thomasyan]

I disliked aspects the series. The sisters are not as interesting as The Paper, and I didn't like what they did with some of the characters from the OVA.

[parallactic]

I thought the sisters were as interesting as the characters in the OVA. Although I didn't like what they did to the OVA characters in the anime.

To Oyceter:

Compared to the OVA, the series starts slower, isn't as action-oriented and fast paced, focuses more on slice of life stuff, character interaction, and wacky hijinks, then things get intense and faster paced later on. The tv series takes the same premise and the same universe, but tells a different story.

[oyceter]

Oh, I forgot ROD! I just rewatched the OVA this weekend! How does the TV series compare?

And thanks for the reminder to move Kamikaze Girls higher up in my queue.

[telophase]

Gokusen. 3 discs, 13 eps, Netflixable. Yankumi is the heir to a yakuza family, but wants to be a teacher, while her oyabun grandfather accepts and encourages her living her life the way she wants. She gets assigned to teach math to a class full of delinquents and her unorthodox upbringing comes in handy. :)

[oyceter]

It's anime as well! Ha, I should have known. How do you think the anime compares to the drama compares to the manga?

[telophase]

The anime sticks closer to the manga than the drama did - no policeman love interest (instead a yakuza lawyer love interest XD), and Yankumi can't quite distance herself as far from her family business as she could in the drama.

[ext_59120]

I now proceed to Pimp the The Twelve Kingdoms (excuse my enthusiastic flailing)

*ahem*

*kermitgasms*

OMG Junni Kokki! You have to! You totally, totally have to!!!! Fuyumi Ono could beat Joss Wheadon, blindfolded and one legged in a sack race across burning lava! With rocks in her sack!!!

*ahem*

High Fantasy with Japanese/Asian (because I'm sure some aspects are Chinese and some possibly Korean) world building, beautiful music, long arcs and shortish episodes. juuni_kokki will have more details about the anime, the movie, the Tokyo Pop translation etc.

Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Twelve_Kingdoms/60032790?trkid=222336&lnkctr=srchrd-sr&strkid=1629577505_0_0

My second recc: Fate:Stay/Night. I adore this because of the basic premise of Arthur, King of Camelot, Instigator of the Round Table, as a girl. There's also the usual manifestation of guardians fighting in an underground contest that

[oyceter]

OK, all of those sound awesome, especially Fairy Musketeers. Also, OMG, Rozen Maiden has a plot! I kept eying it in stores for the loligoth, but thought it would just be fanservice. Now it sounds much more watchable!

[ext_59120]

I love LOVE Fairy Musketeers. And I laugh because originally by I think the 5th (?) episode I caught a hard sudden dislike because the non-active protagonist was doing some very cliche things. I was watching in a very young state of mind and got frustrated that it seemed as if the audience was being talked down to.

About two episodes later I realized what had confused me was that the male character had very much been given a "female" role. And I usually accept that particular stupidity in female characters. It was very enlightening.

Love it. Love it. Love it!

It combined my love of fairy-tales, with my love of anime, with my love of adventure and quest stories.

PS: Yes Rozen Maiden has plot along with the cups of tea.