Just started Lucky Star on Sapuna-san's recommendation -- will somebody please pick this up for release! I love this kind of show where not a heck of a lot happens, but is fascinating to watch, even in just a philosophical sense...

Saw a nice little anime called Happy world, although it's all in Japanese there was subtitles, which was handy. I also watched Blood: the last vampire, serial experiments Lain, (just the first volumes) and I have yet to watch basilisk

Lain serial experiments I've watched a bit of that. A little slow but good. Kind of weird and out dated though.

I've been digging through some of my VHS stuff in the loft.

Have watched (again) The Guyver original series (Did it stop with the 12th vid or do I have to hunt out the rest?)
Patlabor Movies (I hate to say it, but they bored the pants off me this time round)
Wind Of Amnesia (Errrm yeah. I still don't really get it)
Gunhed ( not strictly anime, but is live action, published by Manga many moons ago)

Plus some more stuff not worth listing :roll:

Currently watching Ergo Proxy

Crikey, that is truly old-school (Manga Video era!) although I can't believe you didn't dig the Patlabor movies -- they were (and still are) some of my favourite anime films ever!

Wind of Amnesia I recently picked up on r1 DVD, as I remember seeing it on Sci-Fi when I was uber-little, and loved the whole creepy regression premise, like it was a lot more subtle than say, Hokuto No Ken

And yeah, as far as I know, Guyver did end on episode 12, although at £5.99 a pop, and being as they were thick chunky shelf-worrying VHSs, I never did bother with them. Altho the new series is supposed to be teh shex...

What was Gunhed all about anyway? I believe it was Manga's first foray into live-action wasn't it? The idea never kinda sat right with me for some reason...

It sounded kinda terminator/aliens-ish from what i remember. Some scavengers raid a complex looking to make a quick buck, only to find it houses an evil AI bent on world conquest. They start getting picked off one-by-one, and have to use an old transforming battle tank to destroy the AI and survive. (there's a chapter in Idoru named for it)

It also had a quirky idea that Japanese and English had become interchangeable - in the Japanese version, the characters switched between Japanese and subtitled English at random.

Watched the first ep of Samurai Champloo off NEO's coverdisc. Very entertaining. Wasn't too sure about Ergo Proxy though. It didn't really grab my attention.

I like Patlabor, I've got loads of manga, but I guess I'm at a point where the lack of action in the movies is turning me off. I feel there needed to be more labor action, and less of watching detectives wander round looking for clues. Although the sequences with the SVU are enjoyable to watch. Nice stories, just not enough emphasis on the labors which is what I'd like.

I've got all 12 of the Manga Video Guyver series, so I guess that's that. I'm a rabid Guyver fan and have most of the Shonen Captain Guyver manga volumes, and as I'm collecting the new series, it'll all look sweet in a book case! All I need now is the collectible figures :lol:

Neon Genesis Evangelion - at this point cemented as one of my favourite shows of any genre.

Guyver - nicely moving beyond the 'this week: an even more powerful monster! And an even more powerful weapon for the Guyver!' schtick to genuinely unexpected plot twists and turns.

This Beautiful and Ugly World - this show makes me feel incredibly stupid because I just can't understand a bloody thing that's happening.

Fullmetal Alchemist - enh. It's good but it's not great. It still feels rather like a kids show.

Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex - loving this now. At first it seemed a bit Law & Order: Special Cyborgs Unit, cold and clinical with a focus on puzzles that weren't that interesting in the first place. But even though the characters are all low-key with little of their 'inner life' given away, over time you get really attached to them. From the Chief to the Major to Bantou they're actually, well, lovable in their hardass little ways.