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Lately, I have become addicted to crunchyroll.com. We likes legal licensing, we does.
I started out with Natsume Yujincho, which was obviously created by folks who'd watched Miyazaki waaaaay too much in their formative years. It's got a nice sort of elegaic tone to it that I like, and the fact that stuff doesn't revolve at all around a romantic triangle/school is veddy nice. It's about a boy who can see spirits, just like his grandmother did.
Then, I moved on to Skip Beat! which is hysterical in every sense of the word. The characters go chibi about every 10 seconds. I love the fact that the heroine spends about a fifth of each episode wreathed in black and purple flames, and folks are frightened to go near her. Stick with it past the first episode, because the setup for the series doesn't come clear until about episode 3. I'm not even gonna try to explain the setup. But if you like acting, this is the one for you.
After that, I found the anime for band/orchestra geeks, La Corda d'Oro: Primo Passo. This one is school-based, but it's all about the instrumental music and the school-wide competition. Having been in a civic youth orchestra in my day, I just find it fun. Although, omg, romantic polygons'r'us.
And then, because, hey, sometimes I get brave and like to megaoverdose on kawaii, there's the kitteh anime series, Chi's Sweet Home: Chi's New Address (it's a second series, but it's easy to figure out the backstory). The episodes are a whopping three minutes long, and each episode exactly corresponds to the manga chapter. It's about a kitten who gets lost from her mother and siblings and ends up with a small family in a no-pets apartment. Naturally, this being Japan, they've never owned a pet before and aren't quite sure how to raise a kitten or interpret what she's doing.
What anime are you watching?
I started out with Natsume Yujincho, which was obviously created by folks who'd watched Miyazaki waaaaay too much in their formative years. It's got a nice sort of elegaic tone to it that I like, and the fact that stuff doesn't revolve at all around a romantic triangle/school is veddy nice. It's about a boy who can see spirits, just like his grandmother did.
Then, I moved on to Skip Beat! which is hysterical in every sense of the word. The characters go chibi about every 10 seconds. I love the fact that the heroine spends about a fifth of each episode wreathed in black and purple flames, and folks are frightened to go near her. Stick with it past the first episode, because the setup for the series doesn't come clear until about episode 3. I'm not even gonna try to explain the setup. But if you like acting, this is the one for you.
After that, I found the anime for band/orchestra geeks, La Corda d'Oro: Primo Passo. This one is school-based, but it's all about the instrumental music and the school-wide competition. Having been in a civic youth orchestra in my day, I just find it fun. Although, omg, romantic polygons'r'us.
And then, because, hey, sometimes I get brave and like to megaoverdose on kawaii, there's the kitteh anime series, Chi's Sweet Home: Chi's New Address (it's a second series, but it's easy to figure out the backstory). The episodes are a whopping three minutes long, and each episode exactly corresponds to the manga chapter. It's about a kitten who gets lost from her mother and siblings and ends up with a small family in a no-pets apartment. Naturally, this being Japan, they've never owned a pet before and aren't quite sure how to raise a kitten or interpret what she's doing.
What anime are you watching?
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