</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (High Wind &#064; Dec 1 2003, 07:25 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>lol Avenger.... i watched up until Eps 5 and just stopped because i didn&#39;t think it was worth my time.... has the series picked up at all story wise?</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Nope, hasn&#39;t picked up in story at all. God, I almost fell asleep watching episode #9. It has a pretty cool story, I think, maybe, but it&#39;s reavealed in such small pieces at a time that it&#39;s a little annoying. And there isn&#39;t enough action...

Who said Maburaho is kind of Harry Potter kind of? Just cuz of a school for mages? That&#39;s not really a new concept.... anyway, there are two main bodies of anime, shojou and shonen, basically girl anime and guy anime. Girl anime is more &quot;people&quot; oriented and guy anime more &quot;violent&quot;. Granted, I&#39;ve just made some pretty broad statements about these 2 kinds of anime, but it mostly holds. Though there are anime that blur the line, Full Metal Panic Fumoffu (a little something for everyone, especially the ending ). Anyway, I&#39;d classify Maburaho, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, and Da Capo as shojou (all of which I&#39;m watching BTW). Whereas Peace Maker Kurogane, Full Metal Alchemist and Grappler Baki are shonen (again, I&#39;m watching all of these). So it&#39;s really up to where your prefrences lie. As you can see my tastes are pretty broad, whereas my friend only likes really shonen stuff.

Alright, I guess I&#39;ll finish this post off with a few recomendations of my own.

#1 Condor Hero, it&#39;s a martial arts action anime (shonen) that&#39;s being released by live-evil. It&#39;s not really well known, but I enjoy it. It&#39;s got a kid named Youka who wants to learn martial arts that is brought to a prestigious school in order to learn them. But his master is a little bitch so he leaves and is taught be a bijin named Koko. There&#39;re 16 eps. out now with more to come.

#2 Planets, is set in the year 2075 where trash in space has become a problem. So yea, this anime is about garbagemen in space. It&#39;s pretty cool though. I normally don&#39;t go for sci-fi stuff set only a little ways into the furture. But for whatever reason I really like this anime. This is one of those anime that blurs the line with 7 eps. out now and more on the way.