Convince me to watch anime...

[acolyte_to_jippity]

got it!

i just rememberd a bunch, thanks to james' post in the other topic

wolf's rain, trinity blood, claymore, outlaw star, and hellsing.

out of those, hellsing and outlaw star the best bet to start. they're the most "western" out of them (i.e. most like normal american cartoons)

hellsing, a vampire alucard works for a family of knights in modern day england, hunting his own kind. once yu watch this, you'll laugh yourself to tears every time someone mentions twilight. this is a real vampire, not some sparkley fairy.

outlaw star...if i had to explain it...imagine making a cartoon of firefly, adding two arms onto serenity that hold weapons for ship-to-ship combat, and a catgirl. that's basically outlaw star. amazing amazing amazing series

[Spasm]

def action based, i dont think i could see myself watching comedy anime.

[StarsMine]

def action based, i dont think i could see myself watching comedy anime.

oh man I love comedy
Samurai champloo like James said is a mix of both.

Other good shows in the action, with out to much comedy genre
08th Ms team
Canaan
Hellsing OVA
Lupin the III if your into old cartoons, but has a lot of comedy.
Ghost in the shell also have some good action in them, just look at the amvs in my top ten


Avoid watching anime on Youtube though, either download it or find better streams from places like Hulu or veoh, or buy them, but considering this would be your first steps I doubt youd want to do that. try to avoid the bootlegs like what Loka put up <.<

[loka]

def action based, i dont think i could see myself watching comedy anime.

My first anime was Berserk. If you know whats good for you, you will watch Berserk. UTE can testify to that.

http://www.animeniacs.com/item/DVD0018.html

[Spasm]

Going to watch some tomorrow btw, since my desktop is down, all I got is my old ass laptop, and now lots of free time lol

[XX0wnsXY]

I don't really think it's "anime", but I never thought I would like anything even remotely close.. but Death Note is a great animated series. Check it out. It's about a notebook that can kill by simply writing someones name, time of death, and way of death. It normally belongs to the death gods, however one of them drops it into the human realm and human boy finds it...and there are all kinds of twists and turns. Really really good.

It started out as manga.

[Kavinsky]

Yeah but by the second season it got stupid, sgt frog is both comedy and action by the way

if your looking for pure action Black Lagoons a pretty good choice.

[loka]

It started out as manga.

Most anime started out as mangas. Anime nerds prefer to read the mangas since they add more to the story where as animes might cut information (small or big) from the story line. For example, Berserk stops at 25 episodes, but the manga continues. I don't know WHY they did this, but its enough to piss you off and want to go look at the manga to continue the story.

[Rapedollar$]

hey fuck you loka. manga>anime. you get so much more of the story without all the sidetrack bullshit of whatever network is airing the series.