Ok guys, we were given a whole frikin subforum to ourselves for the sole purpose of anime (and manga..), yet no one takes advantage of it. Everyone only posts in the "must watch" thread, that has evolved into the "general anything and everything anime discussion" thread. When you tell people you are watching a good anime, if you notice, quite a few other people jump in saying theyve watched it in the past, or are persuaded to go start watching it themselves; so dont be afraid to create a new thread about one anime. or a genre you like. When I come here for suggestions, I dont wanna have to scroll through 8 pages of discussion when only 3 different anime are even mentioned because ive been off for a few days. Make better use of this subforum please and thank you. So this is an attempt to break away from the "main thread." If you really like other genres, feel free to start another genre thread.

Yours truly,
~ m i c h a e l

One of my first and favorites. Not your traditional vampire anime, but technically the japanese word for the monsters in the show is vampire. Anyway, main character Saya thinks shes a normal teenage girl but doesnt know she is really missing memories as far back as WWII (ya she doesnt age). It turns out she is destined to be a vampire huntress, killing vampires by mixing her special blood with the vampires' blood, thus crystalizing the blood inside their veins :D. Anyway the goal is to kill her archnemesis: Diva. Theres a little romance too. Drama turns into melodrama, but its still a really good show.

Monsters called Youma roam the world. "Claymores" are half-Youma half-human women warriors who hunt and kill youma will claymore swords. The Claymore is an organization of 47 (i think) women, ranked by numbers. Number 1 is highest rank, and Number 47, Clare (main character), is lowest. However, if a Claymore loses control of themselves, they may completely lose their human half and turn into a creature far worse than a youma. Clare wants revenge on the one that killed Teresa, her mentor and former Number 1. Oddly, the anime doesnt focus much on youma, but most of the time claymores are killing each other to rank up..

Vampire secret organization vs extremely devout Catholics vs ... Nazis. Lots of blood, lots of guns and explosions. Integra Hellsing is leader of an almost extinct family organization. She and her trump card, the notorious Alucard (vampire), wage war with Britain (and later Nazis pop in). Highlights: Seras with cannons mounted on her shoulders; Alucard releasing the spirits of 2million of his previous victims, flooding London in a tsunami of BLOOD :^D

I forget all the names here, but this is definitely a top 10. Dont get attached to the first pink haired girl you see thinking shes the main character; she disappears and is found dead days later in a forest outside of her small town. After this incident, the town doctor sees several patients who are suffering symptoms that would suggest they are missing a lot of blood, but there are no external wounds besides what appears to be a bug bite. But each patient disappears every night and each dies three days after the initial symptoms. The doctor thinks hes dealing with an unstoppable and unexplainable epidemic, but as he discovers, the town's foe is something much worse: vampires.

I include this in Horror because of the severe psychological factor. A female animation artist is attacked in an alley one night. She says that her assailant was the notorious "Shounen Bat," a boy on rollerblades wielding a bent golden bat used to club his victims over the head. But the police dont believe the story because Shounen Bat is believed to fictitious. However, after this, more and more victims of major head wounds start claiming that Shounen Bat was their assailant. The end of this anime is sick and gut twisting when you realize what has really been going on; then deeply disturbing when you figure out what caused it all

A new student is admitted to Class 3. This additional means an imbalance in a class ritual attempting to prevent a certain catastrophe: a curse that causes students of Class 3 to die one-by-one every month of the school year. Before the new student, the class was able to prevent the curse by pretending that one of the students (Misaki Mei) just does not exist. However, this is no longer working. The curse has begun and the other students are trying desperately to stop it.

The scheme is confusing. The people who died in episodes 1-4 are alive again in ep 5-8, and different people die in 5-8. And its not like its just non-sequential, I mean its like the anime completely restarted with a new plot. I imagine episode 9 will restart everything again in another new cycle.