Hey, SP.

Texhnolyze
Paranoia Agent
Serial Experiments Lain
Boogiepop Phantom
Time of Eve

Mature anime for mature anime viewers such as ourselves.

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No, really. They're great. My favorites.

You could also check out Outlaw Star, if you want. It has a lot of Cowboy Bebop elements. It's like Cowboy Bebop Lite, with a worse ending (but it's hard to match Bebop's ending, anyway).

Thanks! After doing a quick ANN search on each of them, almost all of them seem like psychological thrillers which are always nice. I've heard about Outlaw Star and looked into it a while back, but it never really got my attention. I'll think of giving it a try after going through what you recommended.

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Also, who is this? You posted this image forever ago and I saved it. She so cyuute and I'm sure you can tell me whether or not the anime she's shown in is any good.

Gurren Lagann.

No.

Black Lagoon
Samurai Champloo
Trigun
Wolf's Rain
Ga-Rei -Zero-

I've heard of Black Lagoon and just from reading the plot summary it sounds like something I might like. I'll definitely give it a chance. Trigun is another one of those "MAYBE IT'LL BE LIKE BEBOP" animes that I considered a while back but never got around to, so maybe I'll give that a shot too. Samurai Champloo sounds familiar and after looking it up I realized it was another that I tried watching on Adult Swim and didn't like. Wolf's Rain looks dumb. Thanks for the help though. Definitely going to try Black Lagoon.

Seconding everything posted in this thread. Maybe not Gurren Lagann. It's good, but I don't know if it's for you. I definitely recommend you give it a shot; but if you're just getting into anime with your mindset, it would probably be better to try it out later, when you've gotten past the stereotypes you have associated with anime.

Monster - It's a long series though, just letting you know. I think it's worth it though, and it certainly doesn't have anything in it whatsoever that you said you hate about anime. Hell, the thing takes place in GERMANY. It starts off seeming like it'll be some show about a Doctor saving lives, but then completely switches that mindset around the 3rd episode. Not spoiling anything from there.

Mononoke - Not really action. Give it a shot. It's more akin to Lain and Paranoia Agent, but it doesn't have mind fucks. It's one of my favorite series. Not sure if you'd be interested in it, but try it out. The synopsis on that page doesn't tell you much, but I actually find it a little hard to explain myself.

Monster looks like something I might like, as does Plantenes. Mononoke looks weird but since you and ANN can't tell me anything about it, I'm kind of interested. Definitely gonna look in to a few of these, thanks bro!