Your Holy Anime Trinity

That's dark...but considerably more tame than FMA. At least to me. Yu-Gi-Oh GX as a whole, was a pretty light-hearted show. Especially compared to the original, and I think even everything after. It's partially why I like it more than the others. I felt that it took it self far less seriously than the others did.

@jaken7: Ah, nice picks.

Dragon ball Z

Rurouni Kenshin

saint seiya

@scouterv:

That's dark...but considerably more tame than FMA. At least to me.

Ehh. Agree to disagree. I think the things Yubel did, are actually worse than what Shou Tucker did to Nina and Alexander.

Yu-Gi-Oh GX as a whole, was a pretty light-hearted show.

Circa season 1-2? Sure. During the 3-4 season it became a much darker show, with genocide, suicide, baby killing (well attempted/contemplated baby killing), child killing, human sacrificing, profanity etc,etc.

Especially compared to the original, and I think even everything after. It's partially why I like it more than the others. I felt that it took it self far less seriously than the others did.

Ehh. Yubel was going to destroy the multiverse, and the Light of Destruction wanted to destroy all life in the Universe....I don't see how it took itself any less serious than the other series.

One Piece

Monster

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

@jaken7: Death Note is my favorite anime of all time, I was legit thinking of putting in on my list, but I was trying to keep it to rather short anime, 26 episodes or less. Ha.

As far as Shonen go though, Death Note is extremely short. Only like 35 episodes, IIRC.

Yeah, I agree with you there. The reason I made the thread was because a friend of mine, who hasn't seen anime outside of some DBZ and Pokemon asked which he should watch first, I was trying to think of ones that more or less embody anime, but didn't overwhelm him with content (like the longer Shonen you mentioned). But yeah, Death Note is fantastic.

Ah. Yeah, he'd probably explode if someone recommended him One Piece or Naruto. Low episode count is always easier to digest.

@jaken7: Y'know what? Screw it, I like DN too much not to include it, lol.

Heh. It was eating away at you, wasn't it? Lol

Like Light eats away at a potato chip.

In dramatic expository slow-mo!? Awesome!!!!

The general amount of humor, and the characters themselves, for the most part. Jaden, Jesse, and Hassleberry were still pretty lighthearted and could muster a pun even in the dire situations. I thought it was kind of nice.