   Anime
  What is the best anime series in your opinion?I kinda enjoy renting out a series and then watching an episode from time to time after my work is done. Sort of like a motivation. Any recomendations?   
Click Here to see a recent discussion on this.   ;  I have been watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, both series. It's pretty good so far but I've always had a soft spot for rain-draped cyberpunk and giant robot fights.   ;  Excel saga.;  Cowboy Bebop for the second best place in my opinion, best soundtrack of any series and mildly less depressing than number 1.Best ever?Evangelion<not really spoilers but it'll make you see the series differently so don't read this just go and watch it first>Watch up to episode 25, think about episode 25 for a bit, scream and run around in horror at the realisation of the futility of life and how weak and pathetic you have decided you are, after much thought arive at an purpose for your life that's a solution for all the horror and futility, get up the courage to watch episode 26, marvel at how it comes to the same conclusions you did. Ok that's just me probably...But by god is that a good series. The film was interesting but not nearly as good as the series in my opinion, the beauty of the series is that the important thing is what goes on in his mind and not all the explosions and twiddly things flying around, the series up till episode 25 is basicly a setting up of caracter profiles.   ;  Mobile Suit Gundam.   ;  For giant robot action, Gundam can't really be beat- Gundam 0083 is my personal favorite, but there's tons of different series out there(I once read that all the gundam animation put together would be more than a full week of screen time).Evangelion was very deep, more than I wanted from an anime.Full Metal Alchemist is very popular, as is Ghost in the Shell, but this just  illustrates the wide range of Anime- any more specific interests (like fantasy vs. sci fi, etc) ?   ;  We have about 5 of these every month. Check the search.   ;  Trigun is my personal favorite.Initial D is very good.  They actually know about cars and it's a good representation of the car culture in Japan (much better than 3 fast 3 furious I'm sure).  There's also a lot of it, which is cool: the first regular length series, second stage which is a half series, third stage is a movie, and then the recent fourth stage which is a full series again.  Then there's extra stage which is another movie, but I guess it's kinda removed from the rest (I've never seen it though).Oh yeah, do not watch the American release of it, they ruined it.  It's obvious they decided to release it after the popularity of The Fast and the Furious, all the music has been replaced with crappy rap, they changed a bunch of the lines (and some have been added to remove all subtlety, I guess so the dumb international market can follow the story), and they ran a bunch of blur filters over the races...   ;  Urotsukidôji is kind of fun to watch and probably not recommended often here (a quick google will tell you why). It's sick and twisted but not bad.I watched it in a coach during a school excursion (12th grade I think, it was played on the tvs of the coach) which made watching it even stranger, the teacher stopped it after 60 minutes or so ;)It's not a series though (it doesn't have a theme that works well in series).   