Topic: Anime & Manga (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

...I don't really post here, because I'm not a huge anime fan. (despite the fact I have a lot of favorite anime girls, lol) Anyone with Netflix know if Squid Girl is on there? Was going to get DVDs if I end up liking it, but...apparently it's priced at $60 or so. >.> (on Amazon anyways)

It was last time I checked. Only the first season, though. You'd have to go to Crunchyroll for season 2.

That's fine, kinda stopped relying on Netflix for anime, I was watching School Rumble once and they randomly pulled it off without warning...You can guess what happened once I got the DVDs. lol
EDIT:...Apparently season 1 is super rare, Amazon only has a $60 offer...and eBay has a bunch of imports for different regions. >_>

I noticed a lot of good anime (besides FMA, lol) out there seems to be under rated, I think School Rumble is one example. Bleh...and I can't use Netflix. TwT
Guess I'll just use Youtube to preview it...even though the quality is crap. Maybe the DVD price will go down.

I'm back again and asking for recommendations I may not follow through with.
Favorite anime so far:
Shin Sekai Yori
Other great ones I've seen:
Parasyte: The Maxim
Kids on the Slope
Currently watching Ergo Proxy and loving it, but I haven't gotten to the philosophical parts yet.....

Any recommendations that are not Melancholy of Haruhi?
I've got way, way too many people saying I need to watch that on the Ninsheet forums

Based on your current favorite and you loving Ergo Proxy, try Serial Experiments Lain. It just might become your new favorite.

Which is a real shame, because it doesn't pander at all to the moe fans. It's pure shounen gag humor, in the same realm as Sgt. Frog. There's not even any fanservice. Unless you count people wearing bikinis as fanservice, which you shouldn't because, you know, IT'S SET ON A BEACH.

Dang. Looks like I'll need to check that one out.

Recs based on Shinsekai Yori:
Steins;Gate
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Neon Genesis Evangelion

Recs based on Ergo Proxy:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Serial Experiments Lain
Psycho-Pass

Recs based on Kids on the Slope:
Nodame Cantabile
Cowboy Bebop
Michiko to Hatchin

Also, I generally recommend Satoshi Kon films (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika). If you like some of the above stuff, you'll probably like at least a couple of those movies as well. Paprika is moderately famous for basically being Inception four years before Inception came out.

BTW, doesn't Dragon Ball Super start next month, or am I way off?

No, I'm sure there's someone else somewhere who still cares about Dr. Slump. Maybe on Mu Arae 4 where it's still airing as a brand new show.

So after steadily falling behind on One Piece over the last couple of years, I've gotten back into it in a major way over the past week. I've binged through 65 episodes in about 4 days and I'll probably be all caught up with the show again before the week is up, and I have to say, I am just head over heels for the Dressrosa arc. It's definitely my favorite story since at least the Marineford War, and it's not even over yet - it's been everything I love about One Piece.

Didn't DXD air Doraemon?

Finished up Mermaid Saga (manga)!

It follows the story of Yuta, a seemingly regular young man who is really 500 years old! You see, he ate the flesh of a mermaid back in the warring states period, which granted him immortality, but either killed the others of his village, or turned them into monsters known as "Lost Souls" (immortality is granted to a select few who can withstand the violent transformation), and now all he wants to do is find a way to reverse the effect and die naturally.

Our story starts in modern times (well, the 80's and 90's, when the series was serialized) with Yuta rescuing a young woman named Mana from a strange mountainside village, and she turns out to be the first (true) immortal other than himself he has ran into during his 500 years. The series progresses by either telling stories of the two investigating strange rumors possibly linked to mermaids/immortals, or the occasional flashback of Yuta's journey throughout the ages.

It is a very interesting tale, but not one for the feint of heart. Our main characters (and others) are mutilated quite often during their journey (due to the fact that they can revive from pretty much anything, the mangaka doesn't hold back from dishing out the punishment with some of the bloodiest scenes I've seen in a manga), and the villains are some of the most twisted individuals I've come across in any medium.

Nudity is also a very common occurance, though not all of it feels like it's there for the purpose of fanservice (some of it definitely is fanservice, but other times occurs in much more serious circumstances).

Overall I felt like it was a really good read, though I wasn't too thrilled with the ending. Granted, given the nature of the series, the way it ended could have been very much purposeful, but I wish it had ended a bit differently.

For anyone interested, the series is only 26 chapters long, and comes from Rumiko Takahashi (the same mangaka behind Ranma 1/2, InuYasha, Kyokai no Rinne, as well as a few others).

Caught up on Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches (not that it really matters because my premium CR membership runs out today cries).

I'm trying out one of my friend's recommendations now: Gargantina on the Verdurous Planet. Eh.... doesn't really seem like my type of anime and the first episode was pretty boring up until the end (which was super predictable by the way). I'll keep watching though to see if it gets good.

My current queue is looking like:

Noragami (another of my friend's recommedations)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica Movies (I could just skip to the third movie but it's been a while since I seen the series)
Absolute Duo
Bakemonogatari
Kamisama Kiss (need to finish this one)

Need to also get caught up on Utapri's 3rd season and eventually watch Book of Circus and Free! Eternal Summer... I just haven't had the desire to for some reason.

So the writer of the Zero Escape series is working on a currently airing anime. Need to put that on my To-Watch list.

In case you're wondering what it is, it's this: http://myanimelist.net/anime/28617/Punch_Line
It's available on Crunchyroll. Apparently it's very fanservice-y/harem-y on the surface, then about halfway through it goes all Uchikoshi.

@LoveSugoi: I wouldn't recommend trying Absolute Duo. It's just a bad harem anime imo.

...checks Amazon for the first season of Squid Girl, priced at about $200
...Ugh...and all that eBay has is imports. -.-

sooooooo.
I'm kinda looking for and overly dramatic down in the dumps despressing anime filled with sadness
but not a bad one....
is there any one you guys recommend?

My recommendations based on stuff I've watched:

• Clannad + Clannad Afterstory
  Expect a long series with lots of comedy as well. The lighthearted moments only make the sad parts worse. Also, Akio is best dad.
• Anohana
  Depends on how well you relate to the characters' pasts. It hit me like a truck.
• Toradora
  Might trigger anyone with a Tsundere allergy, though.

Based on what I've heard from others, and I plan to watch:

• KimiUso/Your Lie in April
• Nagi no Asukara

Even though it has an anime, I don't recommend it because they took out the most intense dramatic and sad moments. But I love plugging the Manga any chance I get:

• Bokurano: Ours

I'd recommend Grave of the Fireflies, but that'd probably ruin your whole month.