Not big into Anime, but I'm trying, suggestions?

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#1  Edited By Uno_Oscuro

I've only been into one anime/manga ever and it is Berserk, I love Berserk. I would like an ANIME(not manga, but if its both thats cool) that is really similar to Berserk. Blood, gore, good story telling, more Americanized( I just can't get into the hardcore japanese ones). I know Berserk is asian, but the theme, the character(besides some of their designs) are very American to me. Is there any out there that are semi similar.

P.S. It doesn't need to be Medieval or anything. It can be about Vampires, Aliens, Idc. I just want it more American like.

Sorry if you think that defeats the purpose of an Anime/Manga, haha.

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#2  Edited By the_stegman  Moderator
@Uno_Oscuro:  
 
-Death Note 
-Neon Genesis: Evangelion 
-Gantz (if you like blood and gore) 
-Full Metal Alchemist (it's kinda long, but kinda awesome)
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#3  Edited By Uno_Oscuro

@The Stegman said:

@Uno_Oscuro: -Death Note -Neon Genesis: Evangelion -Gantz (if you like blood and gore) -Full Metal Alchemist (it's kinda long, but kinda awesome)

Alright cool. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll be sure to check them out.

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#4  Edited By mr_ingenuity

@Uno_Oscuro:

FMA Brotherhood 64 episodes movie Americanized.

Afro samurai 5 episodes movie Americanized, blood, gore.

Also Black Lagoon.

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Vagabond. It's exclusively manga right now, but its sheer awesomeness is incomparable to most other manga/anime. Read it.  
 
That's the main character, Musashi Miyamoto, fighting Guts. Epic. 

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#6  Edited By Uno_Oscuro

@Mr_Ingenuity said:

@Uno_Oscuro:

FMA Brotherhood 64 episodes movie Americanized.

Afro samurai 5 episodes movie Americanized, blood, gore.

Also Black Lagoon.

@buttersdaman000:

Thanks for the suggestions guys, and nice pic butter.

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#7  Edited By IIDEADxPOOLII

Black Lagoon is the anime for you but make sure that you watch it in dub.

It's not that the subbed version is bad it's just there's so many different nationality's for the characters everyone speaking and sounding japanese is just weird IMO.

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#8  Edited By mikethekiller

Samurai Champloo

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#9  Edited By BiteMe-Fanboy

Not alot gore, but beautiful art, great storytelling, and amazing music: Cowboy Bebop.

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#10  Edited By Knightly1

@mikethekiller said:

Samurai Champloo

This. Fooly Cooly should also be good for someone just getting into anime; helps you get used to some of the weirdness you're bound to experience.

Watch "Spirited Away"; it's a movie but it's great.

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#12  Edited By ImmortalOne

Black Lagoon and Fullmetal Alchemist are my favorites in the way you describe.

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#13  Edited By superstay

Dragon Ball Z

Cowboy Bebop

Inyuasha

One Piece

Naruto

Thoughs are my favs in order, you might like them.

d^_^b

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#14  Edited By MenaceForever2

Black Lagoon

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@BiteMe-Fanboy said:

Not alot gore, but beautiful art, great storytelling, and amazing music: Cowboy Bebop.

THIS.

Also, If you want a really dark anime, I'm getting into Deadman Wonderland and it's epic

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#16  Edited By Blood1991

@shadowknight666 said:

@BiteMe-Fanboy said:

Not alot gore, but beautiful art, great storytelling, and amazing music: Cowboy Bebop.

THIS.

Also, If you want a really dark anime, I'm getting into Deadman Wonderland and it's epic

All this plus

Add Claymore, Blue Gender, Trigun, and if you wanna watch a messed up one try Elfin Lied. All on Netflix instant.

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#17  Edited By superstay

Very was a big Anima/Manga fan, the ones I mentioned earlier are the only ones I could really get into.

Is Ultimate Muscle, Pokemon, Yu-gi-yo, Digimon considered Anima just child orientated Anima. I know they all (Digimon?) were Manga Series first.

d-_-b

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#18  Edited By CainPanell

@superstay: Yes, They are considered anime, But they aren't Shonen, Which is action anime generally directed towards boys.

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#19  Edited By superstay

I heard they're was Anima for girls and Anima for boys so its like

Boy: Dragon Ball Z

Girls: Pokemon

I would've thought Ultimate Muscle was boys Anima, that show was awesome. d-_-b

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#20  Edited By _Grifter_

Most of the one's that first come to mind have already been mentioned lol but you might give the Hellsing OVA's a shot. Plenty of blood and gore there.

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#21  Edited By CainPanell

@superstay: Actually no, Shonen is for teenage boys, Shojo is for Girls, And there was something else for small children like Hamtaro.

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#22  Edited By superstay

Oh cool dude, I'll have to remember those names.

d^_^b

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#23  Edited By Inverno

@Uno_Oscuro: Check out Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest, its pretty dark and violent seinen set in modern day. Even the hero has a canine motif like Guts. You won't be disappointed specially because it was just recently finished with 117 chapters.

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#24  Edited By Thirteen13

Some of my favourite animes and mangas:
Neon Genesis: Evangelion  
Hellsing Ultimate (OVA)
Claymore
Read or DIE (R.O.D)
Ninja Scroll
Vampire Hunter D
Akira

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#25  Edited By AweSam

Forget everything everyone told you and watch Darker than Black. I'm not really into anime, but that's the greatest show ever.

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#26  Edited By longbowhunter

I'm not a typical anime fan either but I loved Welcome to the NHK.

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#27  Edited By ms__omega

Watch the Guyver anime 26 episodes good scifi/horror esque anime great action not very hard to follow. Hellsing Ultimate (my favorite btw), Rosario + Vampire (its a funny one), D-Gray Man, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Cowboy Bebop, Blue Gender, Perfect Blue (this one is more of a psychological thriller and its a movie very good), Speed Grapher, Elfin Lead (this one is kinda sad but it has really good action and gore).

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#28  Edited By TheGoldenOne
@Uno_Oscuro: Was it the old Berserk animated series you watched or the new OVA?
You should check out these.
 
Claymore
Hellsing ultimate
Death Note
Cowboy Bebop
Baccano!
Sword of the Stranger
Ninja Scroll
Full metal Alchemist: Brotherhood 

Samurai Champloo
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#29  Edited By jwalser3

Defense Devil is pretty cool

One piece

Bleach

and Full Metal Panic.

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#30  Edited By jwalser3

@jwalser3 said:

Defense Devil is pretty cool

One piece

Bleach

and

Full Metal Panic Fumoffuis the funny OVA which I highly recommend.

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@Uno_Oscuro said:

more Americanized( I just can't get into the hardcore japanese ones).

Americanized... That makes it harder to be honest, I don't know what counts as Americanized these days... Is FMA Americanized?

Well, I'll try. An Americanized Seinen Anime. I'll give you a few lines about it, maybe that'll help you judge it for yourself.

  • Gantz: At the moment when they "die", two teenagers get teleported into a room where they're subsequently sent to fight all kinds of Monsters. They get suits, guns, whole Sci-Fi shebang. Its one-of-a-kind and really its Gory and Bloody. The Anime is subpar when compared to the Manga though.
  • IGPX: This isn't really bloody, gory or anything of the sort. I don't recommend it to you at all, but I'm mentioning it because its what I see as maybe the definition of Americanized Anime, lol. But yeah, its about a "sport" in the future in which mechs run across a track while fighting each other. Its Shonen though, so like I said, no blood/gore.
  • Hellsing: Just watch it, its what you're looking for.
  • Afro Samurai: Also seems to be in the same vein of what you're looking for.
  • FMA: Is Americanized, but its not Seinen, its a Shonen. That means its goint to be missing in the blood department. (I keep going back to blood and gore because you seem to have highlighted it).
  • Blade of the Immortal: Don't know how the anime fairs against the manga from firsthand experience. That said, I've heard its not as good.

Really, the best manner to go about this would be for you to define what you see as really "Japanese" and dislike. From what I've gathered -- to me -- it seems that you're referring to Shonen (and Shojo of course) Manga/Anime as what you dislike (generically that is) and seem to be looking for Seinen which have a less stylized art style (which could end up looking as "more western" to someone who's not used to Manga -- that's what I'm basing this off).

If you want to reply or PM me with some feedback then we can talk about exactly what it is you want.

P.S. If you end up watching any of those, make sure you watch Hellsing OVA and FMA: Brotherhood Anime first, before their counterparts.

@nickthedevil said:

/Salute

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#32  Edited By Rumble Man

@Uno_Oscuro:

Fist of the North Star

Jojo's Bizzare adventure

Fullmetal Alchemist

Cowboy Bebop

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#33  Edited By utotheg38

@TheGoldenOne said:

@Uno_Oscuro: Was it the old Berserk animated series you watched or the new OVA?
You should check out these.

Claymore
Hellsing ultimate
Death Note
Cowboy Bebop
Baccano!
Sword of the Stranger
Ninja Scroll
Full metal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Samurai Champloo

WTF IS yuyu hakusho?

Shoot fighter tekken is a great (Extremely) Short series

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#34  Edited By utotheg38

@superstay said:

Dragon Ball Z

Cowboy Bebop

Inyuasha

One Piece

Naruto

Thoughs are my favs in order, you might like them.

d^_^b

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#35  Edited By germandinner

Naoki Urasawa's Monster. Very chilling, exciting, excellent character work, intricate plot, relatively long (over 60 episodes, I believe), and simply unbelievably awesome. Not that many non-hardcore anime fans have heard of it, but among those who have seen it, it receives universal critical acclaim.

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#36  Edited By utotheg38

No one picked ippo.

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#37  Edited By ms__omega

@germandinner:

Monster is great!

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#38  Edited By Space_Coyote

Mushishi is awesome, and I'm pretty sure it's on Netflix instant.

Zettai Shonen is good too, but pretty slow paced.

If you want some anime with a sense of humor try Ranma 1/2, Tenchi Muyo, Haunted Junction and Hanada

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#39  Edited By MAZAHS117

Full Metal Alchemist is good stuff, Vampire Hunter D, Bleach too....My all time favorite movie would be Ninja Scroll which a must if you havent seen it imo!

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#40  Edited By the_stegman  Moderator
@OblivionKnight:  
 

This. Fooly Cooly should also be good for someone just getting into anime; helps you get used to some of the weirdness you're bound to experience.

I kinda disagree, Fooly Cooly is weird even by anime standards.
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#41  Edited By Uno_Oscuro

I appreciate all the answers from you guys. A lot of the stuff you guys said I have already tried and disliked. Such as Inuyasha, Naruto, Bleach, Cowboy bebop, Full Metal Alchemist, but none the less the answers are still very much appreciated.

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#42  Edited By mr_ingenuity

@The Stegman:

I watch 1 episode on Netflix. My reaction.

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#43  Edited By Space_Coyote

@Uno_Oscuro: Claymore is one the animes that's closest to Berserk. So that would be a good place to start

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#44  Edited By the_stegman  Moderator
@Mr_Ingenuity: Honestly...I hate wacky anime like that, I know that almost all anime have their wacky moments...but when it's ALL like that...It just gets annoying, it's a reason why I don't like One Piece.
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#45  Edited By TheGoldenOne
@space_coyote said:

@Uno_Oscuro: Claymore is one the animes that's closest to Berserk. So that would be a good place to start

True.
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#46  Edited By Omega Ray Jay

2005 Guyver is really good, Heat Guy Jay is also worth a watch. Haven't bothered with any other animes than that, never really been interested with it.

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Trigun, Gurren Lagann, Code Geass, Hellsing, Death Note and Fist of the North Star.

A good mish-mash of Action and Psychological Thrillers.

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#48  Edited By megamoses10

For blood and gore, try deadman's wonderland and for awesome more Americanized story telling, watch gundam 00 (best anime ever in my opinion)

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#49  Edited By jwalser3

For got to add these:

Blood plus

Elfin lied

Not really anime, but My little pony.

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#50  Edited By superstay

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d^_~b?????