Seinen reccomendations?

Black Lagoon. if you watch the sub, it also counts as Guilty Pleasures

if you watch the sub,

Ha ha! Oh, wow.... JUST the sub? This is a series made of Testosterone Poisoning and Rule of Cool.

Apple Seed certain gets my recommendation. Masamune does not disappoint, although the excessive fanservice does annoy me so ...

edited 20th Sep '09 9:29:26 AM by Sneeb

JUST the sub? This is a series made of Testosterone Poisoning and Rule Of Cool.

Not to mention that the dub has the best Drinking Game known to man. Who would have thought you could get absolutely smashed just drinking for every time someone says fuck?

In the original, you'll need that drink every time someone says "fuck"

Seconding Battle Angel Alita and Genshiken. Also take a look at BAA's sequel series,Last Order,which is essentially Alita... IN SPACE!

A third one is Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service - a group of students from a Buddhist university pool their unique skills to form a company that takes the dead wherever the deceased wants to go. Blackly humorous,sometimes disgusting,very strange,but always a good read due to the frankly superb translation by Dark Horse. Mention must also be made of "Disjecta Membra",the translation notes/sound FX/cultural notes they include at the back of every volume. Even the art is good,foregoing the usual manga style for realism◊.

Probably the only reason it's not more well-known is it's not available in scanslations; this is one you'll have to buy.

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?

You seem to share the same tastes as one of my friends. :-)

• Hellsing: A Badass vampire with BFGs hunts Vampire Nazis. It has epic levels of violence and runs on Rule of Cool.

• Black Lagoon: A series filled with f***ing Badass Action Girls and John Woo style gun-fu. The series is so over the top that I find it silly, though my friend loves it.

• Elfen Lied: It has Hellsing levels of gore with softcore porn. I don't like this series much, but it fits the list.

• Gunslinger Girl: Lolicons with BFGs.

• Golgo13: Japanese James Bond.

Necro because this would probably be (more) ignored in the main chatterbox thread.

I like Dorohedoro, an extraordinarily violent story with Grey-and-Gray Morality set in a universe where the power to make mushrooms everywhere is actually scary. And it's a Long Runner, by my standards.

Would I like Berserk? Or other recommendations?

You could try Darker Than Black for another fun show with Grey-and-Grey Morality and inventive use of superpowers.

I haven't seen anything else like Dorohedoro, sadly.

Also; we do have a stickied thread for recommendations.

Edit: Whoops, misread the last post. Apologies.

edited 21st Oct '10 5:20:23 PM by Sparkysharps

Nthing Vinland Saga especially since you like Berserk.

Also for Vinland Saga, because it manages to make a 6 month stretch of chapters related solely to farming just as entertaining as Vikings braining one another.

Nana To Kaoru. Because sexy.

edited 21st Oct '10 8:45:01 PM by Billabong

"Also for Vinland Saga, because it manages to make a 6 month stretch of chapters related solely to farming just as entertaining as Vikings braining one another."

THIS. SO. HARD.

How about Until Death Do Us Part? It's one of my favourite manga.

I'd definitely recommend Desert Punk in its excellent English dub. It's both a very funny series and a uniquely cynical one.

If you like Trigun or Gun X Sword, you will like this.

Any recommendations for seinen anime with some of the following genres: -Action -Suspense -Sci-Fi -Tragedy Been watching stuff like Tokyo Ghoul, Psycho-Pass, Terror in Resonance...

Symphogear is the manliest anime I've ever seen.

AKIRA.

If you haven't tried it, Green Jacket episodes of Lupin III are very seinen, before Hayao Miyazaki is given the project to tone it down as a Shonen. It is one of the earliest animated seinen series.