anime!

[Ahimsa]

Can anyone recommend me something in the vein of Samurai Champloo, Totoro etc.? That is something rather lighthearted, placed in a fantastical or a historical (older times preffered) environement (or the mixture of the two) that takes from the history of Japan and it's mythology?
I really like some lighter anime I could watch nowadays. I already went through Kenshin. Maybe I should reconsider Naruto?
I won't mind full feature movies as well. And (this is very important to me) with the style kept in similiar style to those mentioned, I can't bear the ultra-real or ultra-fantastical styles, I'm really for the one that keeps to the comic tradition.

Naruto is neat in that a lot of the characters reference old folklore characters.

Even though it's not comedy, Mushishi is pretty light-hearted.

Inuyasha might be up your alley? But could be too fantastical.

Taro the Dragon Boy. Very traditional folklore. Oni, tengu, etc.

House of Five Leaves.

Sword of the Stranger.

[Czx]

Thanks!
I will propably pick up Naruto along the way but I prefer to put it off until summer comes. Can't be bothered to get into any kind of long series while the university needs my attention.

I've been meaning to check Inuyasha for a good few years but I can't get around to it for some reason. Will definitely check House of Five Leaves and Mushishi, those stand out to me from your recommendations. The latter even more so as the story seems to be of my kind. Taro looks interesting but I have always been put off by children protagonists.

[MrBushido]

A few that i didn't see in this thread that are worth mentioning imo.

12 Kingdoms. Too bad they did not finish it but you can read the novels for the rest of the story.

Samurai 7
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Black Blood Brothers
Gankutsuou. i like the animation style more than anything else...
Gantz
Hakaba Hitarou
Hakuouki
Jigoku Shoujo
Nabari no Ou
Nurarihyon no Mago
Fairy Tail
Hikaru no go

One Piece is probably the most entertaining one ever. I have been following it for over 10 years and i will probably for a long time when it ends, Hopefully that day will never come.

[ulrich133]

Thanks!
I will propably pick up Naruto along the way but I prefer to put it off until summer comes. Can't be bothered to get into any kind of long series while the university needs my attention.

Its only a short movie, but since you said you were after reasonably light hearted fantastical stuff, you might like Kakurenbo, or for proper movies and older anime, maybe some of the Lupin the third movies? Castle of Cagliostro in particular still ranks as one of my top 10

[Czx]

Thanks MrBushido. Will definitely get around to checking those out. I meant to try some One Piece for a long time but I'm unsure if I can involved in series that long currently ;)
All the shorties you mentioned look like they could be really into my alley, Kukurenbo particulary. Thanks, ulrich.

[Resonkuken]

Watching "Kill la Kill". I felt a slight connection with FLCL, at least from the animation, the way they fight and people hit and thrown around like it´s saint seiya. Pretty cool.

[Ahimsa]

Watch out with Gantz. Like Berserk the series ends abruptly because the manga is still ongoing so you'll have to pick up the manga in order to continue. (Both are ridiculously fantastic manga though and should be read anyway.)
Other manga of that style I recommend are Vinland Saga, and Dorohedoro in case anyone was interested.

[Crowzer]

Gantz manga is finished months ago. I like it at beginning but it's became kind of weird at the end (I don't want to spoil).

I started to watch Nisemonogatari after Bakemonogatari. I like it but there are something boring. They talk all the time.

[Czx]

@Ahimsa - haha, yeah. I remeber really being wild about Berserker somewhere in my eaaarly youth when there was a game made about it, for PS1 I think. To see that it's still going on is kind of funny, in the positive way. Brings me back.

[MrBushido]

A couple more of the martial arts type.

Mutsu Enmei Ryuu Gaiden: Shura no Toki

Katanagatari, this one has really nice animation style

[kuugaia]

Gantz manga is finished months ago. I like it at beginning but it's became kind of weird at the end (I don't want to spoil).

^ I think that's how I feel about 90% of the manga/anime out there.

The last of the evangelion rebuild cannot come any sooner.

[Ahimsa]

Crowzer, ah, see I only read the DarkHorse translations of Gantz because I just can't stand most online translations so I'm usually a bit behind.

Czx, you should definitely check out new Berserk if not just for the artwork. It's one of, if not the best, illustrated manga now. His work has just been getting better and better.

kuugaia, one of the main issues that I have with a lot of the anime is that they will finish before the manga ends so the ending will be completely different and is usually worse off. I also believe some manga end poorly because if they gain early recognition and popularity they're basically forced into faster production and thus everything, i.e. the storyline, is rushed.

[eleves]

Attack On Titan is what got me back into anime! Come to think of it, I don't know why I stopped watching any of it in the first place. There are so many that I want to watch now and only now have I realized how much of a newbie I am to the anime world. I've always been a fan of some old school staples: DBZ, Rurouni Kenshin, Inuyasha. I'm definitely going to check out a bunch that have been mentioned in some previous posts. I just finished watching Fairy Tail and am working on finishing Full Metal Alchemist and Soul Eater. I think I'm gonna do Samurai Champloo next. And yes, I have primarily been watching what was available on Netflix after AOT ended.

[Ahimsa]

/\ regular FMA or FMA Brotherhood? I prefer the latter as it's more true to the manga, but both are quite good in their own rights.

I didn't care for Soul Eater as the ending just didn't do it for me, it's one of those that once it caught up to the manga, they took it in a completely different direction, much like regular FMA.

[eleves]

@Ahimsa I started watching regular FMA until someone told me that FMA Brotherhood was the one that I should be watching (I had originally thought Brotherhood was a follow up to FMA) Does the story change a lot between the two of them? I never read the manga for either FMA or Soul Eater but I usually hate when adaptations deviate from the original plot.