My current favorite animes are Samurai 7, Gundam Seed, and Ghost in Shell: Second Gig.

I always feel I'm a little behind the times, but I currently just watched and enjoyed:

ROD the TV
Last Exile
Samurai Champloo

I know these aren't new, haven't been able to buy any new anime in a while, but still enjoying these in no particular order:

Kino
Haibane Renmei
Blue Seed
Lain
Ranma 1/2
Cowboy Bebop
NeiA_7
Ruroni Kenshin
Goldenboy (study study study study study...lol!!!)

Hmmm... I really enjoyed:

Matentei Loki Ragnarok (Seems very fluffy at first, but there is a lot of darker things swirling under all that fluff...it really sucked me in).

Beck

Spiral (It's a good watch, but it has one of those ambiguous endings and you never find out a lot of the secrets, apparently they got ahead of the manga author)

Perfect Blue

St. Luminous (The first few episodes look like a dating sim, but it's really a good supernatural story with a neat ending).

Kimi Ga Nozumi Eien (I had no idea a dating sim turned anime could be that emotionally involving, and PAINFUL. I hurt with the characters).

current addiction::
watching the newer episodes of Naruto on youtube.com...
must.. find out... what happens... to... Sasuke!!!
i'm only on episode 172 right now, almost caught up to date...
and then maybe i'll look for the 2nd Movie.. thanks!

Paranoia Agent. That just started on Adult Swim this week and I'm morbidly fascinated with it.

bleach it was friggin wasome

--GITS, Second Gig, Witch Hunter Robyn, Dual and particularly fond of Serial Experiment Lain.

For some reason, Blood: The Last Vampire sticks with me.

I think its because its not a typical story, but a slice out of the life of an unusual being. It starts with open ends and ends with open ends.

I really appreciate the intensity of the character, from the perpetual scowl on her face, to her complete silence as she rushes into a room.slices a vampire in two, to her solitude as she walks around a military base with a sword hidden in a case under her arm.

Tamala 2010/A punk cat in space and Boogie pop Phantom and Twilight Q.If you like surrealisum sci fi and mystery I highly recommend all 3

My favorites are Slayers, Photon and Maze. The new Appleseed in Awesome. My hubby has been addicted to Kiddy Grade, recently. I just saw the ROD movie which was very good also.

I recently picked up Full Metal Panic: Fumoffu. I was skeptical at first, but eventually it won me over. At times I couldn't stop laughing. I think its better than the original series.

I almost forgot Vandread which was too cool for words and I would love to hear someone remix the opening song.

Okay twice in one month who would have thought?!?!?!

Just DLd Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, huge huge file 700.2MB
but it was well worth it. Thank all that is green and good that Square/Enix learned from the catastophic Spirit within and went back to thye game for story line....I have played the FF franchise ( beaten the snot out of evey one) since it came out on Nintendo way back in the two button days
The movie did the game, squareE, and fans justice...pick it up

This is mostly reiteration, but...

Paranoia Agent is ill. Also by Satoshi Kon are Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers. I love his artwork and storytelling.
GunGrave was engrossing.
I just finished Noir, which has some nice twists and a good backstory.
I can watch Neon Genesis Evangeleon over, and over, and over, and over and still be captivated each time I watch it.
I'm trying to get into Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, but I'm having trouble. I loved both movies, but the series isn't doing it for me. Maybe it's time to try again!
Samurai Champloo was great, too.
Not anime but still Japanese and VERY worth it is Kamikaze Girls--very campy and fun.

Currently I'm watching Burst Angel. It's better than porn! :)

But I really dig Junko Mizuno. She needs to get to work on Toon Boom

www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~mjdotcom/

Junko Mizuno (水野純子, Mizuno Junko; May 27, 1973- starsign gemini, blood type o) is a Japanese artist. She debuted in 1996 with a booklet called MINA animal DX. Her drawing style mixes childish sweetness and cuteness with blood and terror -a so-called kawaii noir style-. She describes her artwork as "The Powerpuff Girls on acid.". Besides her comics, sometimes published in color, she designs T-shirts, calendars, postcards, and other collectibles. Mizuno has participated at Angoulême International Comics Festival. In the U.S., Viz Comics has published some of her work.

not really "anime" but damn cool (like I said she needs to get down with Toon Boom)

I just finished Noein - better than most anime I've seen in a long time. Extremely enjoyable, great animation, your typical fantasy/ sci-fi plot. I couldn't get into the characters as much as, say, 'Escaflowne', 'Fushigi Yuugi' and certainly not 'Macross Plus'. (However, most anime doesn't deliver that standard of character-driven plot).

Noein is definitely worth checking out. Arguably (arguably) the best thing that's come out in 2006.

As for older titles, I highly recommend checking out a little-known series that came out in the early naughts, 'Now and Then, Here and There'. It's like Noein in theme, but richer, deeper - and mostly hand-drawn! (Sorry, but cell-shading CG makes me feel like they're cheating!)

Death Note ~ may be my #1 favorite ever!
Bleach ~ Can't watch enough!
Gintama ~ Real funny in a bizarre japanese way
Naruto ~ Hatake Kakashi Rules!

beck.ne.jp/

The English one should be out this year

Princess Mononoke
(anything by Hayao Miyazaki is good )
bood
lain

for a good list check out the wallpaper post I posted

I actually havn't got the chance to watch anime in a while although I plan on starting again but my favorites so far are Wolfs Rain, Last Exile, all of Hayao Miyazakis stuff, Escaflowne (I actually like the movie best), and Haibane Renmai.

Four letters... FLCL!!!!
Pd: I cant contain my "furi kuri ambition"... Is just too powerfull!!!!!!!!!!!

I just saw Paprika and it was brilliant.Im always amazed by Satoshi Kon.The story is complex. You get sucked into a world of other peoples dreams.The story is about a machine that allows therapist to enter other peoples dreams but then the machine gets stolen and all hell breaks loose I heard someone say "this is your brain on anime" describing the story. Its currently playing at the Kabuki cinema in San Francisco

Neon Genesis Evangelion (I like it much better than Gundam)
Akira (classic)
Appleseed
Ghost in the Shell (In all it's incarnations)
Anything by Hideo Miyazaki
Ranma 1/2
Hellsing
Vampire Hunter D
Tenchi (not a big fan of the Tokyo series but it's okay)
Space Battleship Yamato (aka Starblazers in US release)
Jubei Ninpucho (aka Ninja Scroll)
Golgo 13
I've got others that I really like but I think that's a good introduction.

My current faves are:

+Serial Experiments: Lain [series]
+Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion [film]
+Saber Marionette J [series]
+Grave of the Fireflies
+Perfect Blue [movie]
+Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek [short film]
+Paprika [film]
+Jin-Roh [film]
+Excel Saga [series]
+Blood [the last vampire - film]

+Future: New Evangelion movies start airing in Japan on Sept. 1.

I am currently watching "Claymore" and am liking it a bit. Simple, well-drawn, ass-kicking underdog in a medieval setting.

I am also keeping up with the "Maria-Sama ga Miteru" OVAs - this has been my top favorite anime for character development.

Past must-sees for me:
Haibane Renmei
Noir
Wolf's Rain
Fullmetal Alchemist

Lots of good stuff in this thread. I've enjoyed Bleach, Noein, Ergo Proxy, anything GITS. I didn't care for Moon Phase (although I got to meet the character designer last year so I checked it out), or Fafner (okay, I watched the entire series but it was way weepy).

Okay my favorites...in no particular order...Yuu Yuu Hakusho, Death Note (manga only), Wolf's Rain (anime only), FLCL, Paranoid Agent, and anything Miyazaki-san comes out with...personally I'm really picky lately and it really takes a lot now for an anime or manga to catch my attention and become my favorite (Death Note was a fave...until my favorite character died in book 7 or 8 then his two "replacements" just didn't cut it for me, not a good as the character I will not name in case someone hasn't read).

Recently at my university's anime club we watched "Seirei no Moribito" (Guardian of the Sacred Spirit). It came out in Japan on April 7, 2007 and somehow a member got the entire series just as it ended in Japan. It only has 26 episodes. The art is beautiful and the music is lovely (L'arc en Ciel does the opening theme so that's a plus in my book). Here's a synopsis of the story:

Balsa the spearwoman is a wandering warrior, who takes on the task of saving lives in atonement for a past sin. On her journey, she happens to save Prince Chagum and is tasked with becoming his bodyguard by his mother.... and he is going to need one, for his own father, the emperor, wants him dead due to he believes there is a water demon within the boy, and the water demon is trying to get revenge on the emperor because of his ancestors rose to power by killing the forementioned water demon.

With my pickiness, I like the story, but I'm not addicted by it. The art is great, and the music is great, the characters are interesting, so someone else here might just get hooked.

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Lots of cool stuff in the list...seems that I found a few later than others. One film I didn't see mentioned anywhere was Tekkonkenkreit. I thought it was pretty entertaining with lots of eye-catching visuals.

Death note ( love you L) and Bleach. My all time fav Inuyasha