by request, what are your favorite animes/mangas?

edited the OP, I am considering finding another series to dig into this christmas break but I'm not sure what to watch.

 

I am in barnes and noble looking at manga what series do I start?

 

buy hellsing, all of it. I promise you won't regret it. If you're worried about it read the first one in the store and see what you're getting yourself into (but buy it anyway because you'll want to go back to it later). The books get better and better as the series goes on but even the first one is just great.

 

Try Gungrave. The story reminds me of Sergio Leones "Once Upon a Time in America"...

 

I hear they edit the episodes now to remove all references to smoking. Don't know if that's true, but I think it'd be funny if they removed all that evil tobacco and left in all the three stooges inspired violence.

As for anime (I make no distinction between series, OVA, and movies):

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Serial Experiment Lain
Akira
Gunbuster (same director and studio as Evangelion)
Robotech (I know, technically an american product)
Voltron, Lion and Vehicle (same as Robotech)
Genesis Climber Mospeada
Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross
Macross
UFO Robo Grendizer (good luck finding this one)
Mazinger (same as Grendizer)

I'll probably think of more later.

 

I got the first one. Not quite ready to drop the cash on all of them, yet...

 

I understand, they are definitely worth it though. If you like the style and the story but don't think there is enough action I can promise you the first one is a little kid's bed time story compared to the later books.

 

Ninja Scroll? Old School? Eesh.

Try anything by Go Nagai or even better, take a look at Tetsujin 28-go (a.k.a. Gigantor) if you want old school.

 

Old school, not ancient school, bro.

 

Monster. Granted I've never read it, but I'm planning to pick it up pretty soon. The anime is faithful to the manga, and I'm a big fan of the anime. Its a highly praised manga.

Description:
When a Doctor makes the highly controversial decision to save a boy's life over the mayor's, it leads to the loss of almost everything he holds dear. His fiance, his career, his social standing. The only thing he keeps is his own feeling of self worth, knowing that he did the right thing in saving the boy, who came in first. Yet even that is threatened when he begins to learn that nothing is as it originally appeared. A trail of bloodshed pointing to the seemingly innocent child leaves him questioning even his beliefs. Whether, in the end, all lives are ever truly equal.

 

Dang Joel, you are pulling me in with that description.

 

You sure know the way to make a fella feel old... :happy102

 

Movies-
Grave of the Fireflies (not just anime, good movie period)
Cowboy Bebop the movie
Voices of a Distant Star
Vampire Hunter D
Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke... pretty much anything by Hayao Miyazaki

Series-
Reign: The Conqueror
Cowboy Bebop

 

I can only watch this one about once a year or so. Rips my heart out every time.

 

The first time I watched it I didn't know it was suppose to be that sad, I was by myself and it was really late at night, jeez did I cry a lot.

 

Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Porco Rosso, The Cat Returns (seeing a common thread, here?) even the dear old Totoro. I made my daughters some soot sprites, once. Oh, and Barefoot Gen.

I picked up a Graphic Novel on Arsene Lupin after having read some of the original stories, and enjoyed it as well. (Speaking of Graphic Novels, I really like Warren Ellis' Fell, though it's not Manga.)

 

The answer is "Nausicaa of the valley of the winds."


Problem solved

 

The english version, with Patrick Stewart??? eh... maybe!

 

updated the thread, but this time I added an american movie it definitely belongs in here though.