consulting the oracle
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timerippleO flist, I turn to you for help and advice!
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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?
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?
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Date: 2012-02-12 02:07 am (UTC)Hah, I'm pretty sure Rachel made us both watch bits of Kyou Kara Maou in college. Maybe we'll give it another shot...
Let's see if I can narrow it down a bit. I guess... shoujo-ish comedy? I was going to say not *too* cracked out, but looking at our history, crack is actually not a problem. XD Awesome ladies are required. We seem to do pretty well with things set in high school; not so much fantasy epics (but supernatural stuff is fine). Mid-length would be nice--say up to around 50 eps--in that we might actually finish it some day. An overarching story is nice, but individual episodes need to be satisfying too because we don't have time to watch five in a row.
Does that help at all? *l*