the #1 thing you look for in an anime

[Bokkun]

for me personally its a good beginning and end or has some sort of funniness in it.

[Corwin]

a good storyline, you can forgive some bad aspects of a book, an anime, or a movie, as long as the story is compelling, it's just made better if other aspects are good as well

[psychosk8r]

i have to have some kind of demon hero/heroine (or however thats spelled) ie Tenchi Muyo has Ryoko, Blue Seed has Kusanagi and Inuyasha has (of course) Inuyasha.

[seth69]

A cool male main character/hero.. like code geass

[Corwin]

why does it have to be a male char? I don't know that just seems like an argument waiting to happen...

[psychosk8r]

i must agree with Corwin ill be the one to start the argument.

in about 78% of games males always choose to use female characters if they can. so you would assume that the females are the better choice. so why is it different for anime? i mean its just as easy to watch some chick kick butt on her own without you having to push buttons, right?

[Corwin]

that and considering the predominance of new anime's w/ lead female char's, sure they have a strong male char in those shows as well but if you notice he's usually in the supporting role, as for female char's being played predominantly in games, specifically online games, and most of them mmorpg's, that's b/c some ppl assume that your char gender is ur real gender, and thus are more likely to give away stuff to women than men, I know that's why most of the guys I know play as female char's and from what I've observed, they were absolutely right, so what if it's a 40yr old virgin in his mother's basement thinking he's making some headway by giving you stuff, it's still free loot

[Bokkun]

like ghost in the shell?

[Corwin]

yes ghost in the shell is a good example, sailor moon is another example

[ziggie]

im big on comedy if the anime has funny moments in it then its a hit in my eyes.