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If you liked Elfen Lied add

...then you might like Baccano! add

Looking for gratuitous violence that doesn't always take itself seriously, dark humor, and interesting takes on characterization? These shows have it all.

If you liked Love Hina add

...then you might like Zero no Tsukaima add

Both center around a romantic pairing made obvious at the beginning and beset by challenges in the form of other interested women, and both go to greater-than-average lengths, for the one-guy-multiple-girls approach, to flesh out their casts. Both feature a tsundere female lead who seems to enjoy nothing more than abusing the male lead. Love Hina has less magic, but its various side plots are often no less fantastical than if it did have magic.

If you liked Simoun add

...then you might like Zero no Tsukaima add

Simoun has more lesbians and more flying things than Zero no Tsukaima, and Zero has more magic and less technology, but both take place in surprisingly complex fantasy worlds, both end up being deeper than they seem in the beginning, and both involve relationships that develop over the course of a series of trials and hardships.

If you liked Mononoke Hime add

...then you might like Ged Senki add

Gedo Senki, meet your older, smarter sibling, Mononoke Hime. Gedo Seki may be based on the Earthsea novels, but Mononoke is considerably deeper, and every bit as visually and aurally impressive. To the inverse, if you've seen only Mononoke, Gedo Senki is worth watching for those visuals, and because it's Earthsea.

If you liked Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai add

...then you might like Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann add

This Ugly Yet Beautiful World is a good transition from Gainax's Eva days to their FLCL/Gurren Lagann days. It's sort of an intermediary between the eras, in terms of the general feel of Gainax productions, I think.

If you liked Last Exile add

...then you might like Simoun add

Last Exile has considerably fewer lesbians, but both Exile and Simoun take place in worlds heavily reliant on science-fictional or fantastical aircraft. Also, neither really allows their airborne characters to escape reality; you won't find many idealized happy results here.

If you liked Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai add

...then you might like Mononoke Hime add

The two are quite different, plot-wise, but if you're looking for nature symbolism and various attitudes about how humans interact with the environment (and vice-versa), the two productions are similar in that regard.