Butting in here. I just commented on your latest story and surfed around your journal after that. : )
If style is your problem with a lot of anime, I'd recommend Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei. They're both interesting sf/fantasy stories about big issues, and they're beautifully animated--kind of low-key, with none of the super-deformed-ness. The first one is set in modern-day Japan and is about Internet reality bleeding into ordinary reality. The other one starts with a girl falling from the sky, and then waking up in a new world, only she has wings. It's ultimately about sin and redemption, I would say. There's some interesting world-building, and it isn't as Christian as it sounds. Both of these are only thirteen episodes long.
I also like Princess Tutu very much. It's a fairy-tale where the story-teller is behind the scenes orchestrating it all, and the characters in the story try to get free. There is a also a lot of ballet dancing, and all of the music is classical ballet music. I love the animation in this one, too, but it occasionally goes into super-deformed territory and cuteness. This one has 26 episodes.
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Date: 2009-04-16 11:50 am (UTC)If style is your problem with a lot of anime, I'd recommend Serial Experiments Lain and Haibane Renmei. They're both interesting sf/fantasy stories about big issues, and they're beautifully animated--kind of low-key, with none of the super-deformed-ness. The first one is set in modern-day Japan and is about Internet reality bleeding into ordinary reality. The other one starts with a girl falling from the sky, and then waking up in a new world, only she has wings. It's ultimately about sin and redemption, I would say. There's some interesting world-building, and it isn't as Christian as it sounds. Both of these are only thirteen episodes long.
I also like Princess Tutu very much. It's a fairy-tale where the story-teller is behind the scenes orchestrating it all, and the characters in the story try to get free. There is a also a lot of ballet dancing, and all of the music is classical ballet music. I love the animation in this one, too, but it occasionally goes into super-deformed territory and cuteness. This one has 26 episodes.