Why do we even have that Keenime forum anymore? Nobody ever posts there, and posts about anime are more likely to get responses here in Off-Topic...
Mercury Hat wrote:The lesson here is Loveless makes any anime look like gold.
Isn't your anime club the same one that decided to watch Descendents of Darkness? Someone there must be a BL fan, which always sucks. -_- I hate shounen-ai-type anime and manga ... not because I'm opposed to manlove or anything, it's just that the plot and characters are always shoddy and shallow excuses for manlove with poor animation to boot. Anyway, long story short, Loveless was stupid.
Um ... Don't watch anything based on the works of Yu Watase; I had that fluffy crap shoved down my throat in both anime and manga form at high-school anime clubs. Nor anything based on a video game - like their movie counterparts, video game anime series suck.
Now, as for anime that doesn't suck... Not all of these are sci-fi, but they are all good in my rather humble opinion.
-Planetes (Excellent hard sci-fi; I didn't like the ending of the anime as much as I liked the manga version, though. I don't much like Tanabe, so the fact that she got a lot more focus was irksome at times, and the last bit seemed rather contrived in places. Nevertheless, it was a good series. I wish someone would license the 'Vinland Saga' manga, incidentally.)
-The Twelve Kingdoms (Girl-is-transported-to-another-world anime that is actually done right. I wish the series had a good conclusion, though -- it just kind of fizzles out, even though there's supposedly more source material -- novels -- to adapt.)
-Gankutsuou - The Count of Monte Cristo (Sci-fi-ish again. It will always stand out in my mind as the first Gonzo series I watched that actually didn't suck completely by the end - although it still wasn't perfect by any means, as it drifted further and further from the source material. But I still liked it, and you should at least watch a few episodes for the crazy visuals.)
-Kino's Journey (An episodic show in which a young wanderer and a talking motorbike visit different countries and learn various Philosophical Lessons. Kind of hit-and-miss: some people ... well, a lot of people ... find it slow.)
-Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop Phantom, and Paranoia Agent kind of go together - if you like one of them, you'll probably like them all. Weird mystery/psychological/philosophical-type series.
Oh, and I haven't seen any episodes of Monster, but I love the manga, and I hear the anime is pretty faithful to it...
Series that I like but can't recommend to everyone on account of things like lacklustre visuals or really girly themes would be Fantastic Children and Victorian Romance Emma (the manga comes out in North America in September, I hear...). ;>_>
And the manga has a fair amount of nudity, at least later on. Probably not the best choice if your father is a pastor...
) but I can't find any other episodes...
