Anime recs. Also VM time?

[dangermousie]

After I finish FMP (granted, I still have 7 eps of FMP, plus FUMOFFU and The Second Raid to get through, which is over 30 eps total) and the rest of Kenshin, I am out of anime.

I am thinking GetBackers or Trinity Blood, but am also curious about Gungrave (what is that about, anyway). I do have 12th Kingdom lying around as well, but it has no romance at all and no ending, which are both big minuses (the no ending is a bigger one than no romance).

But what I want are more recs, actually (yeah, yeah, I keep asking). I know, I know, I am a pest. With endings that are not too unresolved (e.g. Samurai Deeper Kyo sounds cool but it's supposed to have a completely WTF ending), some love story that has a cool OTP (it can be as central and overt as Miaka/Tamahome or as understated as Vash/Meryl), and nice visuals. Also, hopefully, no preting. Cool male characters, angst, fighting and some neat plot or dialogue is good. Nothing too freaky though.

Also, I am rather interested in anime that is sort of girly fluffy kind (only with oodles of angst). Cool male characters are a must, and I will like a heroine if she isn't weak (I am fine with Miaka who isn't a Nobel Laureate, but I hate Yui, who is weak and wimpy). What kind do I like? I liked Peach Girl, Hana Yori Dango (though I still think it had bizarre animation) and Mars (well, the manga and the live action). Hated Marmalade Boy. I guess it means an anime that, if girly, is not too long, has a decent pace, and some nice angst.

Fave anime so far is Trigun. I've also loved with varying degrees of love: Fushigi Yuugi, Escaflowne, Rurouni Kenshin, Full Metal Panic, RahXephon, Peacemaker Kurogane, Hana Yori Dango and Peach Girl. Ayashi No Ceres was cool (except for the ending) and Cowboy Beebop was neat, with some brilliant eps, but not arched enough for me.

I was indifferent to Last Exile (beautiful visuals, but the story lost me), amused (not in a way makers intended) by Pretear and loathed Marmalade Boy.

ETA: When does Veronica Mars shift to Tuesdays? Is it this week or the next? Don't want to miss it.

Comments

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

So did you think Kyo? I thought Kyo, but I thought that just might be my projection since I liked him so much. I know I definitely wanted it to be Kyo.

[redrogue9.livejournal.com]

I thought it was Kyo because of his demeanor, the eyes, and the hair. If Demon Eyes Kyo won, why would he disguise himself as Kyo? Since you know he fought so hard to find his body.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

No, I meant Demon Eyes, not Kyosuke. I refer to Demon Eyes as Kyo. I would have hated for it not to have been because he was the one who you get used to all along and who actually starts liking the girl and who you start sympathizing with (or at least I did). And she seemed to be really fond of him compared to Kyosuke (she liked both of them, but she was around Demon Eyes more).

I don't know, as much as DE wanted the stupid body, he'd mellowed by the end and I'd really come to like him. I'd have hated for him to have an unhappy ending more than Kyosuke. So it's probably good they never clarify

[redrogue9.livejournal.com]

Demon Eyes, not Kyosuke Kyoshiro right?

Sorry crumpeteer, I cannot type and differentiate my characters today. Also my memory is a bit blotchy with the ending of this anime, because it's been so long.

I agree with you that DEK mellowed out by the end and Yuya was around him more, the main thing at the end, as I remember is how the one that survives says Yuya's name. I am convinced that it's DEK, but I also like him more than Kyoshiro.

But the I watched it with a group of friends and they all argued that it was Kyoshiro, mainly because of the hair. They convinced me, 'cuz what could I really say? Hair, I got beaten by hair. Now I'm undecided again...you're right it's better not really knowing, 'cuz I'm all confused.

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Kyoshiro. See, I can't even remember him right.

I always thought had it been Kyoshiro he would have been a lot more peppy when Yuya ran up to him, but whichever one it was just sort of quietly stood there. I don't know. It would have made more sense for it to be DEK, but it really can go either way. I don't know, even though it's completely not resolved, I just always leaned towards it being DEK for some reason (probably because I just loved him to death).

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

See, this is why I want to stay away from it. I don't want to be driven crazy trying to figure out who won :)

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

I prefer not knowing though than to knowing for sure that the one I loved lost. That's why SDK's ending works far better than any other open ended anime I've seen. I literally sat there and went "wow" after I watched it. The manga isn't done yet, so there's no telling whether they'll reveal who won or not. The Trinity Blood ending works well too because they tie up the story line, you just don't know what's going to become of Cain and Abel's fight in the future since it pretty much ends with Abel saying "I've got to hunt him down and kill him someday".