I have a friend who was really fond of Baccano, and he also liked Du-ra-ra-ra... I haven't seen enough of either of them to make a statement, but if you like the one, you might try the other.
I hope you like Hakuouki. I've been crazy over it since I saw the first five minutes, but then again I'm a Shinsengumi fangirl (which is the fault of Rurouni Kenshin and Peace Maker Kurogane -- Kenshin is a classic, although you should skip the filler episodes, and Peace Maker is a good anime if you wouldn't mind the blood and the killing [and it's the one that made me ship Hijikata with Okita, which even the Japanese voice actors said was canon].)
As for the girls in Star Driver... I suppose there are quite a few, but they don't come across as mary-sue's to me. Even the main, special priestess girl who's engaged to the blue-haired boy and sort of attracted to the red-haired boy... (actually, she would rather they end up together!) but I found that everyone's too busy posing and enacting comical Evil Schemes to be annoying.
It's too bad there haven't been anime that I thought were really *well done* for X or Tokyo Babylon... I love those series, and I really think you'd like the manga. But as much as I enjoyed the X movie, it wasn't the same story at all and the TV series was a kind of boring adaptation that took out half of my favorite parts... But if you like Tsubasa, you'd probably like a couple of the older works by CLAMP. Maybe the RG Veda OVAs, even if it's just an adaptation of the fourth manga volume (out of ten), Magic Knight Rayearth, or Card Captor Sakura (fair warning, it's fluffier than the Sakura and Syaoran in Tsubasa, but if you haven't seen it, I think it's worth a shot -- and when CLAMP focuses on a female lead, they tend to make her interesting while keeping up a strong supporting cast with a variety of interesting boys. CCS is better than Rayeath in this respect, I think, since Rayearth is more about the setting and CCS is more about the characters... but they're both better than a lot of things. It's why I like CLAMP so much. Most authors can't do both sexes equally.)
Gankutsuou is a space-vampire-on-Mars retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas that was really well done, and I think I mentioned Ghost Hunt to you a while back... if you haven't had a chance to watch it, you might find it interesting. For just fun with a magical art thief and the detective who love him, DN Angel is a great way to spend 26 episodes. Plus, the hot guy with purple hair has Tezuka's voice actor, and he has this image single, Kodou, that I want to turn into an AMV for a TeFu doujinshi... but I digress ::sweatdrop::
For some reason, I have it in my head that you must have seen D.Gray-man, but if you haven't, you may want to. Because every angst-ridden elite force with magical demon-killing weapons needs stylish black coats and an adorably sociopathic main character with a cursed eye...
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10/8/11 15:05 (UTC)I hope you like Hakuouki. I've been crazy over it since I saw the first five minutes, but then again I'm a Shinsengumi fangirl (which is the fault of Rurouni Kenshin and Peace Maker Kurogane -- Kenshin is a classic, although you should skip the filler episodes, and Peace Maker is a good anime if you wouldn't mind the blood and the killing [and it's the one that made me ship Hijikata with Okita, which even the Japanese voice actors said was canon].)
As for the girls in Star Driver... I suppose there are quite a few, but they don't come across as mary-sue's to me. Even the main, special priestess girl who's engaged to the blue-haired boy and sort of attracted to the red-haired boy... (actually, she would rather they end up together!) but I found that everyone's too busy posing and enacting comical Evil Schemes to be annoying.
It's too bad there haven't been anime that I thought were really *well done* for X or Tokyo Babylon... I love those series, and I really think you'd like the manga. But as much as I enjoyed the X movie, it wasn't the same story at all and the TV series was a kind of boring adaptation that took out half of my favorite parts... But if you like Tsubasa, you'd probably like a couple of the older works by CLAMP. Maybe the RG Veda OVAs, even if it's just an adaptation of the fourth manga volume (out of ten), Magic Knight Rayearth, or Card Captor Sakura (fair warning, it's fluffier than the Sakura and Syaoran in Tsubasa, but if you haven't seen it, I think it's worth a shot -- and when CLAMP focuses on a female lead, they tend to make her interesting while keeping up a strong supporting cast with a variety of interesting boys. CCS is better than Rayeath in this respect, I think, since Rayearth is more about the setting and CCS is more about the characters... but they're both better than a lot of things. It's why I like CLAMP so much. Most authors can't do both sexes equally.)
Gankutsuou is a space-vampire-on-Mars retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas that was really well done, and I think I mentioned Ghost Hunt to you a while back... if you haven't had a chance to watch it, you might find it interesting. For just fun with a magical art thief and the detective who love him, DN Angel is a great way to spend 26 episodes. Plus, the hot guy with purple hair has Tezuka's voice actor, and he has this image single, Kodou, that I want to turn into an AMV for a TeFu doujinshi... but I digress ::sweatdrop::
For some reason, I have it in my head that you must have seen D.Gray-man, but if you haven't, you may want to. Because every angst-ridden elite force with magical demon-killing weapons needs stylish black coats and an adorably sociopathic main character with a cursed eye...
(to be continued)