Max Fashion
Fashionable Enterprises
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Posted - 2008.10.25 09:05:00 -
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I'll throw some suggestions into the pool. A few more or less less well known series I tend to recommend to people are:
Monster - Whenever anyone tells me how deep or intelligent Death Note is, I point them to this. It's a suspense/detective story which follows a surgeon who discovers that a boy he once risked his career to save has grown up to become a deadly criminal mastermind. It's long and bloated, but everything about it contributes to the overall feel and theme, and its cast of characters puts pretty much every other anime out there to shame. Watch this series like you would read a novel: over time and with your brain switched on. There is no dub.
Requiem from the Darkness (aka Hundred Stories) - I'm not sure there is a genre for this. A medieval writer gets caught up in the affairs of a trio of quasi-supernatural detectives/harbingers/justice-bringers as they investigate mysterious occurrences and punish the wicked. Dark, stylish, and at times grotesque, with a strong influence of Japanese folklore. There is a dub, but the Japanese vocals are really good, even if you can't understand them.
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei - Mentioned earlier; definitely not for everyone, but if you like dark humor and random humor then you just might absolutely love it. Funny as hell and comes with a fair dash of social commentary to boot.
Welcome to the N.H.K. - Another dark comedy, this time about a paranoid, antisocial college dropout, his loser-otaku neighbor, and a codependent high school girl who has decided to "fix" him. May make you laugh in a these-people-are-so-screwed-up-but-somehow-this-is-just-a-little-too-close-to-home kind of way.
Gankutsuou - A sci-fi retelling of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo. Gaudy, unique, and horrendously unfaithful to the book (obviously?). It's good, but not great.
One Piece - Okay, this one is by no means obscure. If you love shounen you probably already know what you think of it, and if you hate shounen this one isn't going to change your mind. But if you are somewhere in between and feel like trying out something from the genre I would recommend this one. One Piece has imo the best mix of action, characters, style, and epic-ness of the shounens, and it is one of the very few that knows better than to take itself too seriously. *DO NOT WATCH THE DUBS!*
Oh, and obligatory:
Great Teacher Onizuka - If you are in any way open to watching a high school comedy, watch it. That is all.
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