#5, watch Elfen Lied. It’s a short series (only 13 episodes long, and there’s an OVA special, usually listed as episode 14). A friend recommended it to me a few years ago, but I forgot about and I saw it about a month or two ago online. It’s so effing good. I got hooked and ended up watching almost the whole series in one sitting. I was like, “It’s only another 20 minutes, I can watch another episode.” And then at around 6am, I decided it was time to go to bed. I watched the last two episodes later that afternoon. I’m reading the manga online right now.
Make sure you watched the subbed version (dubbed sucks!).
I’m also watching One Piece and almost done with Death Note.
BY THE WAY, to anyone who has watched Death Note… watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2avdf289OY
I’m going to watch Bleach soon.
As for movies, have you seen anything by Hayao Miyazaki (owns Studio Ghibli)? If you haven’t, you should watch Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and Spirited Away. Those are his more recent stuff. I’m going down the list of his stuff. I started on Porco Rosso and Castle in the Sky, but I stopped Castle in the Sky a few minutes into it cuz I wanna read the book first. Howl’s Moving Castle and Castle in the Sky are both based on books written by Diana Wynn Jones. I’ve read Howl’s Moving Castle. The book is good; it seems to be geared more for adolescents, but it was still a good read. The movie is awesome.
Links:
This is a link to a search for Elfen Lied episodes (subbed). The thing I like about veoh is you can search for videos that are a certain length. These are all over 20 minutes long, so you know they’re full episodes.
I can only find My Neighbor Totoro in English.
btw, a good site to look for anime is anime6.org and veoh.com.