to give you an idea of what I like, here's all/most anime series i've watched, and my thoughts on them:
- Neon Genesis: Evangelion - Just finished it. I found it entertaining enough until it got to the end, I was hoping more of a big reveal of the angels and all the unknowns presented, but bit of a spoilerI liked the strength of the characters, felt the ending was unsatisfying, and the action scenes were often just okay.
the way that it almost ignored the story and went into the minds of the characters etc. threw me.
- Cowboy Bebop - Characters were alright, I felt like while their past was explored in an intriguing way, the characters themselves were not really fleshed out too much. Setting was nice, not so much that I love space based things or whatever, but the way that they presented the setting moreso was well done, and I enjoyed that. Additionally, I don't think there was enough of an underlying storyline, the more serious past-based story constructed with the flashbacks and all contrasted the overall lightheartedness of the individual eps, and as it only was referenced occasionally (ignoring the end), it felt kind of thrown in there.
- Tora Dora - Likeable characters, three dimensional enough to be satisfying to watch. Setting of highschool etc was all quite plain, but the storyline was constructed nicely enough, and as I said the characters were pretty good, so despite the slightly bland topic of highschool relationships, it was entertaining. Especially seeing as how the underlying story was always a fairly big part of the individual eps.
- Samurai Champloo - Fairly two dimensional characters, made up by some good humour, and overall style. The hip-hop based soundtrack was perfect. The underlying story seemed chucked in again, referenced only occasionally up until the end. having said that, the end was extremely satisfying. I liked the sword based fighting, maybe slightly preferable for me than guns/robots etc.
- Bleach/Naruto - Don't remember either well enough to say much about them, lost track of both around the 110 ep mark. I did enjoyed the lightheartedness of naruto, and the fighting scenes weren't terrible. Bleach-wise, I liked the otherworldly..ness.. thing. to it. Same reason why I loved the angels in Evangelion. I like that kind of spirit-y stuff I reckon. Both had far too many fillers, and both went on for far too long, I reckon I prefer 25-40 eps.
- Death Note - Watched, but don't remember well enough, saw mostly all of it but then the end got ruined by my mate -.-
- One Piece - Watched on and off on TV a few years ago, seen too much to get into from start, but don't remember it too well.
- Dragonball (Z/GT) - Again, watched on TV years ago, so can't rewatch it, but can't remember it.
Yeah. Any ideas based on that?
Points that must be covered or I probably won't get into it =
-no massive series eg. naruto/bleach. Under 100 eps preferable, under 50 eps even more preferable
-I'm generally for lightheartedness over serious stuff, but character strength/development and story development is still very important, just not so much into serious drama-y things
-action's good. more one on one combat than guns and robots, but the latter is alright too
Sorry about this being all convoluted, but... hopefully one or two of you can still help me out
