Fifteen Good Anime

[Caliga]

I fucking hate you all.

Why oh why did we stop with Nagasaki?

[Neil]

The Kenshin OVAs were massively overrated.

What!? Name one OVA or anime movie that tops it.

Barefoot Gen.  The new Eva movies.  Assorted older stuff.

Kenshin's back story was better when it was untold.

[Malthus]

I fucking hate you all.

Why oh why did we stop with Nagasaki?

Animetards raise the eternal question: Did we nuke Japan too much, or not enough?

[Neil]

Other great animes
Full Metal Alchemist (Brotherhood)
Basilisk

Still have those on my to watch list. Still surprised you never watched Legend o.G. Heroes  - that would seem to be right up your alley.

Too old-school for his tastes.  But yeah, LOTGH was awesome.

[Siege]

Im watching Samurai 7.
I left it yesterday at episode 12.
Good sci-fi remake of Seven Samurais.

By the way yesterday I watched "The 13 Assassins".
Mindblowing. Best live action samurai movie since Ran.

There is an scene, early in the movie, that got to me.
When the main character was informed of his mission.
A classic. Whoever wrote it knows about war.

[Savonarola]

I recommend:

Kino's Journey


A young girl and her magical talking motor cycle travel through a number of small countries.  Each episode deals with a single country and she stays for only three days in each of them.  Each country has its quirks/dark secrets/what have you which could be viewed as a criticism of our own culture or society.  It plays out as something of a Japanese "Gulliver's Travels" but without the scatology and the bitterness.

Lain



This one is in the tradition of Neuromancer, where there's a wired world and the real world and the borders between the two blur.  What makes this one stand out is that the series relies heavily on ambiguity so that the viewer must work out for himself what is real and what is imagined.

Cromartie High


Part of the fun of any foreign (or sufficiently old) media is that you bring your own culture to it rather than the culture which created it and you often derive a different meaning from what was originally intended.  In this case the show is a wildly anarchic comedy which is loaded with pop cultural references; westerners likely won't understand those references which makes the series even more bizarre.  The closest thing I've ever seen to this is the early Fleisher Brother cartoons in which David Fleisher insisted that every single scene have a gag.  They seem to have adopted the same mentality here and gotten equally wacky results.

[Drakken]

The only good anime is a dead anime - and a dead animetard.

[Josquius]

Animetards need lining up against a wall and shooting.
Anime however is a valid medium, there is some good stuff out there amidst the schoolgirl tentacle rape.
Some of those mentioned I like.  Also good is Beck. And Golden Boy.