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Jun 22, 2010 10:59 PM
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I am tired of looking at boring anime. The genres that interest me (romance/reverse harem/action) have boring plots or just not my taste(the ones that I have watched lately). So I want to try something new which is an anime that doesn't have romance or has very little of it and has a great plot but also has to be badass. Some of the anime that I watched that meet this criteria was Bleach, Kenshin, Death Note, Darker than Black, Bouso Renkin, Higashi no Eden..... So can you recommend something that has action/suspense that has a good storyline.

I dont like:
harems
meccha
space

I prefer:
Samurai or swords, special techniques, etc
decent looking characters
Jun 22, 2010 11:10 PM
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samurai champloo, kenichi, cowboy bebop, trigun, soul eater (maybe), samurai X
Jun 22, 2010 11:17 PM
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schul370 said:
samurai champloo, kenichi, trigun, samurai X


I second all those. Except, by Samurai X, you mean the OVA's, right?

You'd probably like One Piece. Oh, and Utawarerumono.
Jun 22, 2010 11:21 PM
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nah the movies... unless they are called OVA's online ive only seen it on dvd
Jun 22, 2010 11:22 PM
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schul370 said:
samurai champloo, kenichi, cowboy bebop, trigun, soul eater (maybe), samurai X

Added a few of those to my plan to watch. Thanks
Jun 23, 2010 12:55 AM
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schul370 said:
nah the movies... unless they are called OVA's online ive only seen it on dvd


Yeah, they call em OVA's because they're cut up into parts.
Jun 23, 2010 1:06 AM
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Samurai anime:
Shigurui
Sengoku Basara
Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto

Badass anime:
Baccano!
Texhnolyze
Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
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Jun 23, 2010 1:16 AM
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obv cromartie high school.

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Jun 23, 2010 1:45 AM
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Juuni Kokuki, don't worry, the heroine only starts out annoying.
Solty Rei
Naruto, similar to Bleach without as many glaring plot holes
Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children, not the greatest plot ever, but the action sequences are well done
Jun 23, 2010 6:10 PM

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Devil May Cry
Fairy Tail
Great Teacher Onizuka (not really action, but main char is a badass imo!)
Gungrave
Hellsing
Initial D
Samurai 7
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Jun 23, 2010 6:41 PM

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Strongly seconding Cowboy Bebop, Hellsing, Gungrave, Samurai Champloo and Baccano!

Adding TTGL, Seirei no Moribito, Outlaw Star, Black Lagoon, Sword of the Stranger and Trigun.
I probably regret this post by now.
Jun 23, 2010 9:23 PM

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Surprise nobody mentioned Black Lagoon... If it's anything it's "badass".
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Jun 23, 2010 10:23 PM

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Black Lagoon.
Jun 23, 2010 11:05 PM

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Looked at the recs and added some more. Hopefully this will save me from the boring anime I have been watching
Jun 24, 2010 1:04 AM

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Ninja scroll, classic and quite badass.
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Jun 24, 2010 2:49 AM

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Seconding Sengoku Basara and Sword or the stranger~
Jun 24, 2010 7:38 AM

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Samurai champloo
Ergo proxy
Gungrave
Cowboy beebop
Black lagoon is supposed to be good
Soul eater
Jun 24, 2010 7:44 AM

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Afro Samurai
Ergo Proxy
Madlax
Red Garden
Jun 24, 2010 10:52 PM

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Hokuto no Ken.

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Jun 25, 2010 2:42 AM

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I looks like you haven't started watching Katekyo Hitman Reborn! yet. I would definitely recommend that, it starts out quite slow, though. I almost stopped watching it myself because of how slow it was, but I eventually caved and now I can't get enough of it.
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Jun 25, 2010 3:11 AM

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Berserk Is badass and Nedless 2 XD love that Anime ;p so damn funny
Jun 27, 2010 8:37 AM

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Major_G said:
Hokuto no Ken.


Don't know why this wasn't suggested sooner, I strongly second this.

Soul Eater is also Badass from what i've seen(though its only 20-30 out of 51 episodes)
Jun 27, 2010 3:17 PM

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Basilisk: Kouga Ninpou Chou
Gungrave
Karas
Ninja Scroll (movie)
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fma
yu yu hakasho
trigun (1st half is more or less a comedy tho)
SOUL EATER SUX SO I DONT RECCOMEND IT IMO IT IS SH*Ty
full metal panic (it does have mecha)

PS serriously y the hate on mecha imo mecha is my fav genre
Jun 28, 2010 12:27 AM

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if you want special techniques...
Prince of Tennis
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Jun 28, 2010 1:11 AM

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Black Lagoon and Sword of the Stranger, both great badass animes.


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Jun 28, 2010 12:00 PM
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The Law of Ueki

It's a little weird at first, but then it gets awesome. Probably one of my favorite action animes since all the battles are well thought out and it has the widest variety of different and unique superpowers I have ever seen.

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Captain-Z said:
berzerk
fma
yu yu hakasho
trigun (1st half is more or less a comedy tho)
SOUL EATER SUX SO I DONT RECCOMEND IT IMO IT IS SH*Ty
full metal panic (it does have mecha)

PS serriously y the hate on mecha imo mecha is my fav genre


LOL, you ask about all the hate on mecha and you post your own hate against soul eater. dude, everyone has their own tastes. i personally hate most mechas and loved soul eater, but i know you would not agree with that, doesn't mean i hate on all of it. =P

to keep this post relevant.
ive heard black lagoon is good. i personally enjoyed ergo proxy, gungrave, samurai champloo, clyamore and cowboy beebop.

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