Are you familiar with the excel program? It isn't too difficult, especially when you use it for lists and inventories the way I do. It'll do all kinds of fancy accounting stuff but I rarely b other with that. Anyway, I just create columns with the following headings and information under the headings. Then I can sort by specific columns to generate the informational lists I need. Takes a bit to get it all set up and then you modify as you go along.
.AnimeTitle .My Rating - 1 to 10 .Status - watching - on hold - ptw - dropped .Action .Adventure .Comedy .Cute Guys - or girls ;-) .Dark/Dystopian .Drama .Fantasy .Horror .Mecha .Military .Mystery/Thriller .Psychological .Romance .Science Fiction .Slice of Life .Supernatural .Tragic/Sad .Violence - Violence - Bloody - .Violence Type - a little everything - Assassin - Baseball bat - Fists - Guns - Demons/Monsters - knives - Magic - Marital Arts - Murder - Ninja stuff - Super Powers - Swords - War - Mecha .Demographic - Hentai - Josie - Seinen - Shoujo - Shoujo Ai - Shounen - Shounen Ai - Yaoi - Yuri .Main Chartacter - Female - Group - Male .Characters - Adult - Children - Teens - Young Adult .Misc - Acting - Anthology - Assassin - Aviation - Bounty Hunter - Cars - College - Crap - Crime Syndicate - Cyborg - Ecological - Eechi - Fandom - Game - Harem - Internet - Martial Arts - Medical - Music - Ninja - Police - Reverse Harem - Samurai - School - Sex - Spiritual - Sports - Steampunk - Super Hero - Surreal - Thief - Vamire - WWII .Where - China - Europe - Fantasy China - Fantasy Europe - Fantasy Middle East - Fantasy Old West - France - Germany - Great Britaina - Greece - International - Japan - Not Specified - Peru - Russia - Space - Thailand - USA - Various .When - Alternate History - Alternate World - - Contemporary - Future - Historic - Near Future - Various .when - 1920's` - 1930's - 1940's - 1940's WWII - 1940's WWIIish - 1950's - 1950's - 1960'sish - 1960's - Early 20th Century - Late 1700's - Late 1800's Late 1800's/Early 1900's - Medievalish
Same directors (episode, art, etc) as Samurai Champloo, and as such has a very similar feel. Story is pretty great, and it has lots of action, comedy (not cheesy, it's worked in well), some drama, and pretty loveable characters. It hasn't been dubbed to English yet, but the dialogue is pretty simple so it wouldn't be too distracting I think. I'd say at LEAST check it out, maybe once you run out of your current stack of dubbed anime.
Hey thanks for all the suggestions, you've been more then helpful. It'll take some time but i've already got some copies of what's been mentioned and i'll start looking at them probably over the weekend.
I know Samurai Champloo, and loved it. Thought it was badass on an epic scale, and never... finished it... well really i never watched it in order (Damn you adult swim). I know some one that has it and i'll probably end up watching it like i meant to a long while back...
And, though there are shounens i have enjoyed, the particular "omg i'm dead, but not rly lol i'm back, alright time to win super powers go/i win button/second wind of wtfpwn" does not sit with me. If some one clearly gets wrecked, i like to to actually BE wrecked... not just shrug it off. I like when people get lasting injuries that they recover from, not like "oh no, my heart has a hole now... oh well its fine i didnt need it..." Also cant stand when the hero just breaks out the win like in DBZ or Bleach(a shounen i enjoyed for a very long time until it got old) though one i did enjoy until the end was Soul Eater... The problems i mentioned above were still bad but i dealt... The characters pulled me through enough i enjoyed it.
After doing some more MAL digging, I found some more shows you may like. Just going to post directly here since I already made a mess out of your thread.
Ghost Stories - This may be one of the few cases where the dub is better than the original Japanese. The show was somewhat mediocre, but apparently when it was dubbed, ADV took some... uh... liberties with the dialogue. What resulted is actually pretty funny as long as you keep in mind that much of what's being said is nothing like what originally was written.
Samurai Champloo - I noticed you gave Cowboy Bebop a 10. Samurai Champloo is done by the same people, and it's just as great. Switch space ships with samurai, and jazz with hip hop, and you have Champloo. Characters are very similar, it's almost like "what if these characters had been alive during the Edo period?" I love this show, and it has a decent dub (this and cowboy bebop are basically the only dubs I really like. The voices are well done, and the translations are pretty accurate).
D.Grayman - This is a pretty long anime, and would be classified as "shounen," and while I'm not a fan of this type of show, D.Grayman takes it a bit further into the seinen category. Unfortunately if you don't like the shounen setup you will probably be bored for 40ish episodes until the deeper aspects of the story kick in. It's dubbed, but I've not heard it.
Jigoku Shoujo - aka Hell Girl. The premise of this show is basically like an anime version of the Grudge or the Ring, but without the Hollywood "flair" (ie: garbage).
It also turns out that Kino no Tabi/Kino's Journey has a dub, which I didn't know. In case you were interested in that show.
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.AnimeTitle
.My Rating - 1 to 10
.Status - watching - on hold - ptw - dropped
.Action
.Adventure
.Comedy
.Cute Guys - or girls ;-)
.Dark/Dystopian
.Drama
.Fantasy
.Horror
.Mecha
.Military
.Mystery/Thriller
.Psychological
.Romance
.Science Fiction
.Slice of Life
.Supernatural
.Tragic/Sad
.Violence - Violence - Bloody -
.Violence Type - a little everything - Assassin - Baseball bat - Fists - Guns - Demons/Monsters - knives - Magic - Marital Arts - Murder - Ninja stuff - Super Powers - Swords - War - Mecha
.Demographic - Hentai - Josie - Seinen - Shoujo - Shoujo Ai - Shounen - Shounen Ai - Yaoi - Yuri
.Main Chartacter - Female - Group - Male
.Characters - Adult - Children - Teens - Young Adult
.Misc - Acting - Anthology - Assassin - Aviation - Bounty Hunter - Cars - College - Crap - Crime Syndicate - Cyborg - Ecological - Eechi - Fandom - Game - Harem - Internet - Martial Arts - Medical - Music - Ninja - Police - Reverse Harem - Samurai - School - Sex - Spiritual - Sports - Steampunk - Super Hero - Surreal - Thief - Vamire - WWII
.Where - China - Europe - Fantasy China - Fantasy Europe - Fantasy Middle East - Fantasy Old West - France - Germany - Great Britaina - Greece - International - Japan - Not Specified - Peru - Russia - Space - Thailand - USA - Various
.When - Alternate History - Alternate World - - Contemporary - Future - Historic - Near Future - Various
.when - 1920's` - 1930's - 1940's - 1940's WWII - 1940's WWIIish - 1950's - 1950's - 1960'sish - 1960's - Early 20th Century - Late 1700's - Late 1800's Late 1800's/Early 1900's - Medievalish
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/video/
http://www.funimation.com/videos
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime
http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Watch-Online
http://www.vizanime.com/
http://www.justdubs.net/
http://dubbed-scene.com/anime/
http://www.dubzonline.com/
http://www.watchdub.com/
http://www.dubbedepisodes.com/
http://www.animeratio.com/watch-english-dubbed-anime/
http://www.watchcartoononline.com
http://myanimelist.net/anime/4087/Michiko_to_Hatchin
Same directors (episode, art, etc) as Samurai Champloo, and as such has a very similar feel. Story is pretty great, and it has lots of action, comedy (not cheesy, it's worked in well), some drama, and pretty loveable characters. It hasn't been dubbed to English yet, but the dialogue is pretty simple so it wouldn't be too distracting I think. I'd say at LEAST check it out, maybe once you run out of your current stack of dubbed anime.
I know Samurai Champloo, and loved it. Thought it was badass on an epic scale, and never... finished it... well really i never watched it in order (Damn you adult swim). I know some one that has it and i'll probably end up watching it like i meant to a long while back...
And, though there are shounens i have enjoyed, the particular "omg i'm dead, but not rly lol i'm back, alright time to win super powers go/i win button/second wind of wtfpwn" does not sit with me. If some one clearly gets wrecked, i like to to actually BE wrecked... not just shrug it off. I like when people get lasting injuries that they recover from, not like "oh no, my heart has a hole now... oh well its fine i didnt need it..." Also cant stand when the hero just breaks out the win like in DBZ or Bleach(a shounen i enjoyed for a very long time until it got old) though one i did enjoy until the end was Soul Eater... The problems i mentioned above were still bad but i dealt... The characters pulled me through enough i enjoyed it.
Ghost Stories - This may be one of the few cases where the dub is better than the original Japanese. The show was somewhat mediocre, but apparently when it was dubbed, ADV took some... uh... liberties with the dialogue. What resulted is actually pretty funny as long as you keep in mind that much of what's being said is nothing like what originally was written.
Samurai Champloo - I noticed you gave Cowboy Bebop a 10. Samurai Champloo is done by the same people, and it's just as great. Switch space ships with samurai, and jazz with hip hop, and you have Champloo. Characters are very similar, it's almost like "what if these characters had been alive during the Edo period?" I love this show, and it has a decent dub (this and cowboy bebop are basically the only dubs I really like. The voices are well done, and the translations are pretty accurate).
D.Grayman - This is a pretty long anime, and would be classified as "shounen," and while I'm not a fan of this type of show, D.Grayman takes it a bit further into the seinen category. Unfortunately if you don't like the shounen setup you will probably be bored for 40ish episodes until the deeper aspects of the story kick in. It's dubbed, but I've not heard it.
Jigoku Shoujo - aka Hell Girl. The premise of this show is basically like an anime version of the Grudge or the Ring, but without the Hollywood "flair" (ie: garbage).
It also turns out that Kino no Tabi/Kino's Journey has a dub, which I didn't know. In case you were interested in that show.