Seinen reccomendations?

Or any other manga/ anime that reeks of awesome? I'm aware of Berserk, but it frustrates me to no end that it'll probably take another decade for that series to be done.

Any Classics? Cult Classics? Obscure titles? Guilty Pleasures? Gory or Porny as hell?

ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.

Ultra machismo is really, really not my thing, but I'm familiar with a few titles that might fit your specified criteria:

• Golgo13
• Hokuto No Ken (Fist Of The North Star)
• Crying Freeman (actually, this was pretty good. Well, first couple of volumes, anyway.)
• Bastard! (cheesy, eighties heavy metal inspired sword 'n' sorcery. It's essentially Manowar: The Manga).
• Cobra
• Goku Midnight Eye (also by Terasawa Buichi).

EDIT: How could I have left out Black Lagoon? It's deeply, deeply, silly but supremely entertaining. And most of the principal Badasses are women, which leavens the Testosterone Poisoning.

edited 13th Sep '09 10:13:54 PM by zeroplusalpha

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Battle Angel Alita is truly one of the best seinen mangas and I will accept nothing said otherwise!

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Hellsing, nyaah.

Reek of awesome? Are we talking stacked CMOAs or just good writing? Because the Ghost In The Shell graphic novel drips of pure awesome writing, but the action scenes are controlled and rarely epic.

Things I like: Ghost In The Shell |Serial Experiments Lain |Eden: It's an Endless World! |Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri |Aeon Natum Engel

I'd recommend Fate Stay Night, Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, Saki (if you're not averse to all the Les Yay subtext and Moe Moe), Umineko No Naku Koro Ni, and any of the Key Visual Arts adaptations (Air, Kanon, Clannad)

Fate, Higurashi, and Umineko are full of awesome. Saki is full of Moe, and the Key works are loaded with Crowning Moments Of Heartwarming and TearJerkers.

edited 13th Sep '09 11:30:15 PM by Mapi-chan

Monster, Monster, and - just to be on the safe side - Monster

"If there's a hole, it's a man's job to thrust into it!" — Ryoma Nagare, New Getter Robo

Pluto, much?

Remember - Naoki Urasawa cannot write a bad story.

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an heroic gesture would do the world good

Lone Wolf And Cub

Sanctuary

edited 14th Sep '09 6:43:47 AM by Impacto

You're gonna recommend moe shows? Kanon, for chrissake?? Look at the OP:

C'mon.

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Admittedly they're Moe, but take a look at their respective trope pages. They're stuffed to the brim with Crowning Moments of Heartwarming and Tear Jerkers.

While it may not be what the thread starter is looking for, the Seinen page actually lists them down as Seinen, and the intricate, if not wholly realistic, plotlines are targeted at older audiences.

Well, ok, but they're still pretty good shows nonetheless.

Never hurts to see if you're amenable to stuff you don't think you'd normally watch.

You can't subsist on Badass alone.

Ninja'd.

edited 14th Sep '09 6:58:14 AM by zeroplusalpha

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Well, I suppose you could get away with it under "Guilty Pleasures".

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Says the guy from the Loli Rape Bunker

EDIT: All pleasures are guilty, to take an ascetic's view.

edited 14th Sep '09 7:01:35 AM by zeroplusalpha

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Ah, that? That is an ironic forum injoke, referring to this

edited 14th Sep '09 7:04:06 AM by [AOD]

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I don't get people Pickyness. If the show got substance what is the problem?

Right, I see.

But on the subject of seinen:

It's not as narrow a delineation as some might think. It doesn't have to be saturated with visceral violence or lurid subject matter to appeal to a mature audience. Most Moe shows are in fact targeted specifically at the older demographic, considering the origins of many such titles. Not that they might be what the OP is after, but the term "seinen" can be a little misleading sometimes.

"Something that reeks of awesome" applies to far more shounen title than seinen ones.

edited 14th Sep '09 7:15:56 AM by zeroplusalpha

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Vinland Saga

Oh, and can't forget Twentieth Century Boys

(Also, Urasawa totally does have a PhD — It's a PhD in awesome. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.)

While we're on the subject of doctorates and badassery, Black Jack must be mentioned. It is delicious, awesome WTFery in its truest form.

edited 14th Sep '09 9:43:49 AM by Sparkysharps

"If there's a hole, it's a man's job to thrust into it!" — Ryoma Nagare, New Getter Robo

I'm pretty sure Black Jack is Shōnen, or at least plays a lot like one... it's still very awesome and recommendable.

It was written for adults. The WTFery is just Tezuka being Tezuka.

I said it more in the sense of the lightheartedness, and idealistic tone, but I can see your point.

You know, seinen is a demographic, not a genre. It includes a pretty wide variety of things. With the only other qualifier being "awesome as hell" it's kind of hard to tell what you're interested in.

Full Metal Alchemist gets my vote.

Full Metal Alchemist is a shonen...