WONDERFUL!!!! I've never heard of any of these and love extremely complex plot lines. It's even better if I have to watch it multiple times to figure out what's going on. When I find a series I like, I always dread the fact that it will eventually end. That's one think I like about Inuyasha - I don't think it will ever end.

I got turned on to anime through the Cartoon Channel so I'm far from being an expert - just a very interested novice.

I've seen a couple episodes of Samurai X - I think I might be able to get into it.

Please give Ghost in the Shell a chance. It's fairly complex although I can't say it always makes complete sense. I love the feel of it though. It's cat-like, slipping from scene to scene. I also love the characters.

Will check usenet for all the shows you listed. I subscribe to giganews and their retention times are up to 120 days - amazing.

I started an anime thread for people who may not be team members but are into anime. No replys yet, but I will periodically try to bump it up in the recent threads.

Where do you get your vids? Netflix has a good selection of anime, but half the time the disks were damaged so I canceled my subscription. Usenet is good, but even with a retention of 120 days you can't find everything you want.

Thanks for the reply. Feel free to email me too - that goes for other anime fans as well.

I get most of my anime through Blockbuster online. I've only had two/three movies come in broken since we signed up oh back in... August/September of last year I think. If I'm buying I usually hit up amazon.com, deepdiscountdvd.com, or yesasia.com. I'll stop into Best Buy if I'm seriously desperate or have an awesome coupon.

If you're a noobie to anime let me also recommend some anime movies:
Castle in the Sky
Cowboy Bebop The Movie
Grave of Fireflies (watch the subtitled version not the dubbed, if you watch the dubbed version you'll lose some of the impact the movie has)
Howl's Moving Castle
My Neighbor Totoro
Spirited Away
Voices of a Distant Star (You should probably rent this one. Its only a half hour long and yet many places charge $30 for it! But, it's an amazing movie!)

You can stop off at the team website for more anime recommendations as well as manga when you get into it (cause once you get hooked you'll slowly become one of us heh heh heh!) and more : )
http://www.redhorizonrising.com/SEM/aaaa.html

Have you ever tried usenet? Do you think I should post something to explain what it is, how to use it and what the best anime threads are? I know that whatever I do, some people are going to think I'm talking down to them, others will think I'm talking over their heads and the rest just won't be interested and will think I'm a geekish bore.

I'm not a complete newbie, it's just that most of what I've been able to watch depended on what Cartoon Network was showing. That became very frustrating though because you never knew when they would air the first show of a series and they weren't scrupulous about showing things in sequence. For example, I tried watching //hack.sign but wasn't able to start at the beginning and kept missing episodes. I tried to use Netflix, but that was a disaster. Subscribed to Blockbuster for a couple weeks but arrival times could be measured on a geological time scale.

Now that I have a DVD player that can handle avi, divx, xvid and other mpeg4 files, I get almost anything I want off usenet and just burn a data DVD which the player reads with no problem. Also, I'll soon install a box from Galaxy that will even read DVD vob files and holds as much as you can get on whatever hard drive you stuff into it. If I then connect it's usb port to storage area network box, I can upload to it from my computer whenever new shows are available. No more recoding dvd files to fit on a 4.7gig disk or trying to convert to avi format - that's going to be pretty cool.

God, I'm such a geek.

Most of the titles you listed are new to me. Someone mentioned the director of Sprited Away in the Anime thread. Checked him out on line and this movie popped right up. So that one is on my list. I'm pretty sure I saw the Cowboy Beebop movie but as i recall, i watched it in wrong sequence. The rest I've emailed to myself and will check into.

Once I have seed enough anime to be able to recognize some of the titles, I'll have a better idea of who in the group has similar tastes and can look more closely at their recommendations.

BTW the link to the anime thread is Anime thread

Thanks for the reply.

I use Cartoon Network. When I lived in Phoenix, there was a comic shop that rented anime. I got some stuff from there, but there's nothing like that around here. I don't get much time to watch anyway, so I'm kinda selective. I usually just rewatch ones I already have!
Naruto is interesting (and has character gimmicks that don't suck!), but can sometimes be annoying. Bleach and Blood+ look somewhat promising, but have annoying character gimmicks. I guess I can't be pleased! Back to FLCL, Tenchi Muyo and Super Gals!

Bump guys 'n gals. Keep up the good work!