Trigun: This is a good series. A really good series. However, I just cannot place it over Bebop. For one thing, I love Bebop�s music more and I wasn�t too big on the romantic hints. They weren�t bad, but at times I wish it wasn�t happening. Still, the characters are very likeable. Vash is a wonderful character and he�s got a nice complexity to him. Wolfwood- epitome of cool right there. He�s my Spike. A �good� guy but is a badass and has �questionable� moments. The insurance gals are funny. And Kuroneko-sama owns me. If one prefers a straightforward series where you know the true dilemma and such, this is a great series for you. This is just a nice series for all audiences.
Big O: This might be my third favorite series. I adore this series and I also love the music. Very low key and jazzy. This show is rather muted in its animation. But that�s a given due to the premise. Roger Smith is a great protagonist. He is a louse. But he�s so competent, suave, and endearingly awkward when it comes to affection. The show is very much a mind game and the second season is one big mind-f*ck. Seriously, it is. There is some minor flirting between Angel and Roger, which toes my line between tolerable and unbearable. But it�s secondary to the series as a whole (much like Trigun). Nice combat scenes and one of the best humor episodes to be seen in the second season. Just a very well put together show.
Boogiepop Phantom: If you want bleak animation, here�s the series for you. Every episode (minus the end) had a haze around the frame that made things more surreal. There are many individual stories, but there will be an element (besides the obvious) that was from a previous episode. So you go �Oh!� To be blunt, I didn�t understand a thing. It may be that I didn�t have the volume to a decent level (didn�t want to wake my parents), so I couldn�t hear all that well. I had a hard time following the overall story. Being a concrete thinker, all the abstract stuff (metaphors and the like) was completely lost on me. But, I enjoyed watching the individual stories. The slow descent into madness. This series is by no means happy. It�s confusing, brutal, morbid, gory, and gruesome. It�s also highly intriguing. I�d sit through a second viewing (minus the one episode I missed because it got a bit too gross).
FLCL: Fooly Cooly! Two words. Pure. CRACK! The end. This series is messed up, demented, and funny as hell. Don�t even bother trying to understand it. Just go along with the ride. The characters are so odd, quirky, and off-the-wall. This series has moments. The switch to manga? Great. The Lupin III sequence? Cracks my sh*t up. And how can you not love �Ride on Shooting Star�? Anime crack as it should be done.