Hmm, I don't really agree with you on DBZ. I think you need to be introduced to a bit of Anime I would call excellent, such as Slayers, and Slayers Next. Humour, action, and attitude wrapped in a fantasy world of gods and monsters. Lina Inverse and her pals battle evil, and must use their wits, not just their magic. Very exciting stuff. Another excellent series to look into is Vision of Escaflowne. Girl transported to another planet, where dragon hearts power machines, and guys seem to have a thing for waif girls. For more funny and cute stuff, Ranma 1/2 is a real hit. I suppose you might think this stuff is pretty cotton candy-ish compared with Lain, but then again, that's my personal preference. My ardour for these three series is tempored only with confusion over Japanese culture's obsession with suicide, and preteen girls. I grant that the preteen girls are pretty well endowed, but thier age mystifies me. A friend of mine who is a professor in Japan once told me should could never quit her job, because she is older than thirty, and no one hires a woman older than thirty. It seems that only young women are acceptable new employees, and even then they are discriminated against. I suppose the only free moment in a japanese woman's life is just before high school. Entrance exams for high school mean EVERYTHING, and what school you go to pretty much directs what you will do for the rest of your life. In that brief moment before, when anything can happen, anything DOES happen, like in Fushigi Yuugi. It seems all the other girl oriented stories occur at this point in life... Except of course for Lina Inverse, who is no teen waif, and just plain rocks. Seven
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Hmm, I don't really agree with you on DBZ. I think you need to be introduced to a bit of Anime I would call excellent, such as Slayers, and Slayers Next. Humour, action, and attitude wrapped in a fantasy world of gods and monsters. Lina Inverse and her pals battle evil, and must use their wits, not just their magic. Very exciting stuff. Another excellent series to look into is Vision of Escaflowne. Girl transported to another planet, where dragon hearts power machines, and guys seem to have a thing for waif girls. For more funny and cute stuff, Ranma 1/2 is a real hit. I suppose you might think this stuff is pretty cotton candy-ish compared with Lain, but then again, that's my personal preference. My ardour for these three series is tempored only with confusion over Japanese culture's obsession with suicide, and preteen girls. I grant that the preteen girls are pretty well endowed, but thier age mystifies me. A friend of mine who is a professor in Japan once told me should could never quit her job, because she is older than thirty, and no one hires a woman older than thirty. It seems that only young women are acceptable new employees, and even then they are discriminated against. I suppose the only free moment in a japanese woman's life is just before high school. Entrance exams for high school mean EVERYTHING, and what school you go to pretty much directs what you will do for the rest of your life. In that brief moment before, when anything can happen, anything DOES happen, like in Fushigi Yuugi. It seems all the other girl oriented stories occur at this point in life... Except of course for Lina Inverse, who is no teen waif, and just plain rocks. Seven