consulting the oracle

[timeripple]

O flist, I turn to you for help and advice!

cadragongirl and I, being friends and roommates, have occasionally been known to sit down and share a meal together. When that meal is a dinner that we have cooked ourselves, on the rare occasion that our schedules match, we like to watch dramas and things as we eat. Now, back in the day when I didn't have crazy hours, we could watch a drama episode. Now-in-the-present, we don't really have time for a full hour-or-45-minute-long episode.

But! we said to each other. Anime episodes are only 22 minutes long! We should watch some more anime!

Then we realized that neither of us knows enough about anime to actually pick a good one. We have watched (and loved):

- Ranma 1/2
- Skip Beat
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge/Perfect Girl Evolution/The Wallflower
- Special A

Each of us has individually watched a few more, but those are the ones subjected to communal viewing.

We started and sort of gave up on Fruits Basket, Seirei no Moribito, and Hikaru no Go as not quite fitting both our anime moods at the time. (Yes, we've also seen Avatar. Not just the bee's knees, my friends, but all the joints below the hip belonging to the bee.)

So I turn to you, O flist. What do you recommend?

Comments

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

...that would have been my list, except "Wallflower" is still on my to-dos. (watched the drama, tho)

I really, really enjoyed Love Con/Lovely Complex, though I'm not sure how much of that was enjoying the Kansai accents involved...it's a pretty cute one, but I'm not sure whether it's on the same level? The hilarity is mostly tied up in two bicker-twin friends (their jokes may also not be awesome in subtitles, I missed a bunch of them) where the tall girl and the short boy are destined to fall for each other but are too aware how funny it would look.

Not anime, but I adored Batman Beyond. (And it's short!) I don't often enjoy non-Japanese cartoons, either.

I say that, but I also haven't watched much anime at all. X)

Witch Hunter Robin is on the opposite side of my recommendations list--it's dark, more horror-like, with more serious art-style to match. It has an ambiguous ending, but I was surprised to like it despite it probably being a tragedy.

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

Lovely Complex sounds cute! I might check out Witch Hunter Robin on my own. Thanks for the recs!

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

I do not let my lack of knowledge stand in the way of a good recommending binge! And I am also following the comments with interest, as I have a Howl-like cold and need to change it up in my pass-the-hours amusement programme...

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

The Wallflower anime is much better than the drama (aside from Kame getting headbutted every five minutes, which is, I admit, appealing)! I think it will entertain you mightily in your wizardy cold.