Hey! I am a beginner to watching anime and have only really seen ones like Samurai X and Deathnote. However I would really like to hook on to a new one (currently watching episodes of Trigun & Wolf's Rain) and am looking for something with lots of humor, plot, and some mature themes.

I'd really like to find something satisfying with possible elements of adventure, action, and maybe a little romance. Anything to get my mind off of homework etc. in between coding sessions (yeah I have endless work even tonight ugh.)

Things I can dislike are: harems/ecchi stuff unless the guy is good looking from a girl's perspective, anything super slow unless it is particularly profound, too much dark vampire/etc. stuff without any humor, or mecha. (If it is a male gratifying senseless violence thing, I probably won't watch it.)

pls help!

Gintama both the anime and manga are fairly long.

i second gintama and desert punk is really funny too with some action

Gurren Lagann (does have mecha, not your traditional mecha show though)
Outlaw Star
Cowboy Bebop
Fullmetal Panic (similar to GL in that it does have mecha)

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id= 5943
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id= 9070
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id= 6764
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id= 7492 (violent but excellent characters and script)

Last edited by ~StarDrops~ at 9:35 pm, Oct 14 2011

Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood (follows the manga to the end).
Full Metal Alchemist (as mentioned above by ~StarDrops~) is great in its own right... it's just that the ending is an original one since the manga wasn't completed at the time.
Higashi no Eden? I thought it was pretty spiffy story... ignore the 3 movies following it...

Hi Just want to give a thanks for all the recommendations!! I'm so addicted to Gintama now lol and there's supposed to be a ton of episodes. lol....