' Wrote:Akira (awesome, the manga was better though) and Ghost in The Shell (which was 'ok') were the only animes that did it for me. There was one more (an old one) about some strange beasts/gaia-theory, and it was dubbed. Can't remember the name exactly, but it was ok because it was so trippy, even though the plot and everything else in it was ridiculous.
In general, I can't stand the genre, its broken story-telling and poor quality of artwork - although there are a few original concepts and some previously known concepts that gets explored further in anime (like the base concept of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" getting elaborated in Ghost in the Shell), but that's about it.
I like animals far more.
EDIT: The trippy one was called "Nausicaä"
Mmh, I forgot Akira, knew there was one more.
Sounds like you have pretty similar tastes to me. I don't touch anything with more than 26 episodes because the plots fall to bits and the art is too cheap, yeah (except Lupin III, but that's a differenta era).
Ghost in the Shell, like NGE, is basically "do I exist? Why do I exist?". x1000. Which is not v interesting to me.
Nausicaa is really really awesome. The fact you call the plot etc insane makes me wonder if you saw an awful really early heavily edited western release, which changes basically the whole film. (The good western release has patrick stewart for reference). I'm pretty surprised you're the first guy apart from me to mention any Miyazaki stuff too.
But yeah if you want recommendations, tbh I'd say watch Miyazaki and Takahata films, watch Cowboy Bebop, and then get out of there.
If you dug Nausicaa, I'd recommend Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke and Porco Rosso. Laputa is his 2nd film (nausicaa first), it shares a lot of visual stylke (although awesome nuts synths are gone), princess mononoke has a very similar plot (but with a huge stealth dose of shinto), and porco rosso is my overall favourite film (which considering I barely like anime I think says a lot).
Also dudes who dislike femlale japanese VAs, yr not alone. Miyazaki doesn't really either and prefers a lot of his western VAs. So stick that in yr authenticity pipe.
Waiting for proper subs for SnS 3 and ZnT F right now.
About Eng vs Jap dub stuff: There are exacly (only?) three series that I watched in eng dub:
Black Lagoon, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and Slayers (Although I agree that Engdub for first half of first season of the last one was an utter failure)
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop
Slayers
Blue Gender
some Inuyasha (don't judge me, I was just a kid)
Hellsing
Bleach (switched to manga becaue FILLER/TOO SLOW)
Naruto (same thing)
One Piece (once more)
Ghost in the Shell series
Berserk
Samurai Champloo
While they are all ossim in their own way, I prefer shorter series like the two on the top. As for the movies...
Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Nausicaa
Paprika
Grave of the Fireflies
Akira - best art I've ever seen in anime, those cityscapes are just MWAH
Ghost in the Shell - anime bladerunner, hell yes!
and with all this, ive seen all this in 1 Year:P, it has been a year since ive started watching Animes, and i have a prety large colection of anime:P
Deadman Wonderland
Deadman Wonderland OVA
Rosario + Vampire
Rosario + Vampire Capu2
Omamori himari
Good Luck! Ninomiya-Kun
We, Without Wings, under the innocent sky
School Days
Maburaho
Asobi Ni ikuyo! Bombshells from the sky
HOTD Highschool of the Death
Fortune Arterial
Hyakka ryouran samurái girl
A dark rabbit have 7 lives
Aki sora
Kanokon
Gift: Eternal Rainbow
Princess lover!
Dears
To Love Ru
To Love Ru OVA's 1-5
Motto to Love Ru
Seitokai yakuindomo
Kampfer
Kampfer fur die liebe
Sora no otoshimono
Sora no otoshimono Forte
Yosuga No Sora
Angel Beats!
Akane-Iro Ni Somaru Saka A.I.N.S.S
Mayoi neko overrun!
Sekirei
Kiss X Sis OVA's 1-7
Kiss x sis
Girls Bravo temp 1
Girls' bravo temp 2
Shuffle!
Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi's Synopsis
Chaos:Head
Nyan Koi!
bakemonogatari
Nisemonogatari
Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou
Wolf and Spice Season 1
Wolf and Spice Season 2
Guilty Crown Season 1
Highschool DxD
Another
Naruto
Naruto Shippuden
( Bible black:P)