8th April 2004, 11:00 AM
Most anime you have seen is, but can you really say Trigun, .hack, and FLCL is bad? Those are the three best I've seen. As for movies, try watching Spirited Away, or Grave of the Fireflies, or those two animes OB1 talked about that have nothing to do with "doing battle". I think I'll eventually check those out.
I will admit that Adult Swim made a mistake ONLY putting action anime in their schedule. Inuyasha is fun and all, but it's way too melodramatic for it's own good. Just about everyone on that show seems about 3 steps away from slashing their own wrists (speaking of, why doesn't Miroku just cut off his hand?), it's an animated soap opera. I'll also say I enjoyed Cowboy Bebop, but yeah a lot of it still ends up doing the American series style of throwing mini-stories that have nothing to do with the main plot, nor do they really advance the character, at you.
I will admit that Adult Swim made a mistake ONLY putting action anime in their schedule. Inuyasha is fun and all, but it's way too melodramatic for it's own good. Just about everyone on that show seems about 3 steps away from slashing their own wrists (speaking of, why doesn't Miroku just cut off his hand?), it's an animated soap opera. I'll also say I enjoyed Cowboy Bebop, but yeah a lot of it still ends up doing the American series style of throwing mini-stories that have nothing to do with the main plot, nor do they really advance the character, at you.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)