Okay thanks a lot guys. I've seen quite a few series now, and many more on my list of things to watch. I've also started reading some horror manga like Ibitsu.
Here's what I've seen so far and what I though of it, if anyone's actually interested.
Didn't particularly enjoy (but was watchable)
Sword Art Online
Guilty Crown
Liked
Another
Angel Beats
Elfen lied
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Loved
Air
Cowboy Bebop
Clannad
Clannad ~After Story~
Grave of the Fireflies
Kanon
Mirai Nikki
Spice and Wolf (SEASON 3 WHEN!?)
As for currently watching, I'm looking at Aku no Hana and Hyouka. Enjoying both, despite the hate Aku no Hana gets it got really fucking good in episode 7. I really don't know what to watch next, maybe Usagi Drop, AnoHana, The Girl Who Lept Through Time, 5 Centimeters Per Second and Wolf Children?
As far as manga goes I've read very little. Just Elfen Lied (which I think I enjoyed more than the anime) and Ibitsu (creepy lolita girl!). I don't know what to read next, maybe just things I've seen the adaptation of and Yotsubato? Maybe some more horror like Uzumaki.
Any further recommendations based off that information would still be appreciated (I have a lot of free time over summer, unless I can find a job!).
I also just went to my first convention. It was the MCM ComicCon in London where about 80,000 people turned up. It was insane! Shinichirō Watanabe was there too!
I've hidden the original post just below...
Here's what I've seen so far and what I though of it, if anyone's actually interested.
Didn't particularly enjoy (but was watchable)
Sword Art Online
Guilty Crown
Liked
Another
Angel Beats
Elfen lied
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
Loved
Air
Cowboy Bebop
Clannad
Clannad ~After Story~
Grave of the Fireflies
Kanon
Mirai Nikki
Spice and Wolf (SEASON 3 WHEN!?)
As for currently watching, I'm looking at Aku no Hana and Hyouka. Enjoying both, despite the hate Aku no Hana gets it got really fucking good in episode 7. I really don't know what to watch next, maybe Usagi Drop, AnoHana, The Girl Who Lept Through Time, 5 Centimeters Per Second and Wolf Children?
As far as manga goes I've read very little. Just Elfen Lied (which I think I enjoyed more than the anime) and Ibitsu (creepy lolita girl!). I don't know what to read next, maybe just things I've seen the adaptation of and Yotsubato? Maybe some more horror like Uzumaki.
Any further recommendations based off that information would still be appreciated (I have a lot of free time over summer, unless I can find a job!).
I also just went to my first convention. It was the MCM ComicCon in London where about 80,000 people turned up. It was insane! Shinichirō Watanabe was there too!
I've hidden the original post just below...
A bit of back story first, which isn't too important...
So ever since I started regularly using the internet, which was about 5 or 6 years ago, I've seen anime everywhere. It honestly annoyed me for many years, but as I matured I came to not care for it at all. My american friend I've known since I was 15 (who watches anime, but never pestered me about it) knew how I felt about it. However, a few weeks ago he said to me "I know you aren't into this, but please just watch the first episode and if you don't like it you never have to click another link of mine again. But I guarantee you'll like it."
He linked me to the first episode of Sword Art Online, and since I'm a fairly open minded I watched it all. To my surprise, it isn't as bad as I had always believed it would be. I don't mind foreign language stuff as I quite regularly watch foreign films. I started to get hooked and watched episode after episode, until I'd finally finished the season a day or two after.
A week or so after that I started looking at my universities clubs and societies (I was mainly wanting to make some new friends to hang out with, since there isn't really anyone on my course I spend time with outside of lectures/tutorials). There was an Anime and Asian film society, which I turned up to last Wednesday.
They showed the first 2 episodes of 2 different anime, Clannad and some other action/fighting show that I didn't really like. But I liked Clannad quite a bit, and so over the past few days I watched it all and then the after story. I fucking loved it. It tore my heart out in the after story, though.
Anyway, that's the back story over...
Basically I want to watch more anime, but I'm a complete noob and don't know where to start. From what I've seen I don't mind action/fighting, but I get bored if it's ALL fighting and action. I like a good plot, or something that sparks emotions. Anything quality really, rather than a spectacle.
TL;DR - I disliked anime now I like it. Recommend me some good anime.
Thanks
So ever since I started regularly using the internet, which was about 5 or 6 years ago, I've seen anime everywhere. It honestly annoyed me for many years, but as I matured I came to not care for it at all. My american friend I've known since I was 15 (who watches anime, but never pestered me about it) knew how I felt about it. However, a few weeks ago he said to me "I know you aren't into this, but please just watch the first episode and if you don't like it you never have to click another link of mine again. But I guarantee you'll like it."
He linked me to the first episode of Sword Art Online, and since I'm a fairly open minded I watched it all. To my surprise, it isn't as bad as I had always believed it would be. I don't mind foreign language stuff as I quite regularly watch foreign films. I started to get hooked and watched episode after episode, until I'd finally finished the season a day or two after.
A week or so after that I started looking at my universities clubs and societies (I was mainly wanting to make some new friends to hang out with, since there isn't really anyone on my course I spend time with outside of lectures/tutorials). There was an Anime and Asian film society, which I turned up to last Wednesday.
They showed the first 2 episodes of 2 different anime, Clannad and some other action/fighting show that I didn't really like. But I liked Clannad quite a bit, and so over the past few days I watched it all and then the after story. I fucking loved it. It tore my heart out in the after story, though.
Anyway, that's the back story over...
Basically I want to watch more anime, but I'm a complete noob and don't know where to start. From what I've seen I don't mind action/fighting, but I get bored if it's ALL fighting and action. I like a good plot, or something that sparks emotions. Anything quality really, rather than a spectacle.
TL;DR - I disliked anime now I like it. Recommend me some good anime.
Thanks