Any recommendations?

[yellowhorde]

I feel like I've been losing interest in anime in general and yaoi in particular. Not that I don't like either, it just seems that I can't find anything to catch my interest of late. The last anime series I really got into (though I could never write fanfic for it for some reason) was FullMetal Alchemist.

Can anyone recommend a really good anime? Death Note, Bleach and Naruto don't really appeal, though I've tried. The day-in-the-life stories of Japanese teenagers don't really hold much interest, either. Perhaps something with a really good plot and maybe some supernatural elements? It doesn't have to be yaoi, either.

I just don't have time to do a lot of browsing and I know I want something interesting... I just don't know what.

Comments

[yellowhorde.livejournal.com]

It doesn't matter if the shows are yaoi. Yaoi is getting a little boring... there's a lot of things I see in the anime/manga that I don't like/approve of so I find myself steering away more and more often. Thanks for the recs! Vampire movies are usually worth at least the first watching. Though I detested the Blade trilogy...^^'

[umilingual.livejournal.com]

Moon Phase is actually a series, so you'll have plenty to watch. ^_^ My-HiME is a series that has a bunch of girls at a particular high school who develop some nifty supernatural powers, and chronicles the conflicts they go through with each other and outside forces as a result of said development. Both are a lot of fun.

Blade...eh. Didn't hate it, didn't love it. There are much better vampire movies/series/etc. Though I somehow don't think Twilight will be one of them.

Gunslinger Girl focuses on an agency that takes young girls that are terminally ill or injured and have no chance of otherwise surviving, and turns them into cyborg assassins in a cute-little-girl package. But they're still little girls, with many of the emotional issues that come along with that. I'm not doing it justice with my summary, but I don't want to ruin it for you. It's a pretty tragic series, but excellent nonetheless. The company that picked it up for a (much-demanded) second season added way too much fluff for many fan's tastes, including mine and my husband's, so we stick to reading the manga as we can find scanlations (it's an ongoing manga series, but they so far have only released volumes 1-3 in the US, and they only covered a few volumes in the anime).