Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World, Cowboy Bebop, Black Lagoon, Berserk, Mushishi, Shigurui, Samurai Champloo, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Golgo 13, Natsume Yuujinchou, Texhnolyze
my maybe incomplete list with very spontanous temporal ratings: http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Nikolaj
Kino no Tabi is awesome, probably one of the best animes out there! I tried to watch Tengen Toppa but was so incredibly annoyed by it that I just dropped it <glBegin(GL_SPOILER);> when Kamina died, YEAH <glEnd()>. I’ve watched and read enough shounen anime and manga that I’ve grown completely tired of manly guys doing manly things while looking extremely manly saying extremely manly things, so I don’t think I have the exact same taste as you. Some of them are interesting though (Mushishi, Texhnozyle for example).
I’ve watched a couple dozen or so anime, and about the only two I could stand were Akira and Ghost in the Shell. I’m not sure why, but I note the lack of cutesey neon-haired bimbos with dinner-plate-sized eyes in either of them, that could be crucial.
Any recommendations along those lines?
Death Note. All non-anime-watchers and not-as-hardcore-fans like it.
Elfen Lied has soul; very much so in fact. Higurashi is just sick ;D
Ah, I got one too, http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Cha0z
and yeah, never complete
I second that. Death note rocks.
Ergo Proxy might be interesting for you. Another slightly far-fetched guess would be Witch Hunter Robin. Just a hunch, I might be wrong. xD
I’m gonna be diplomatic and say they all rock!
As people here actually seem to have watched quite a lot of anime, I’m gonna try to recommend some less famous ones. =D Almost all of these are “serious” anime.
Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: If you liked Higurashi, you’ll like this one. Practically zero gore though.
Chaos Head: HOLY SHIT THEY’RE AFTER ME-anime. It’s pretty f*cked up, but I don’t remember how bad the anime was. I’m currently reading the manga in Japanese.
Denpa Teki na Kanojo: A short 2x40min anime series about a guy stumbling over psycho girl after psycho girl. Higurashi-fan recommended.
Innocent Venus: Not the best one, but nice and not too long. Maybe a little too cute for Sproingie, but it doesn’t really “use” it (it’s not ecchii). Pretty short anyway.
Mai Hime: Surprisingly powerful. Pretty slow in the beginning, but halfway things start spiraling downwards.
Kaiji: Disturbing. Guy gets indebted and is forced to participate in completely insane game shows hosted by rich bastards. Again, I found it disturbing in a negative way. >_>
Serial Experiments Lain: A “Wait, what?” anime. It’s weird, but I think it’s pretty deep.
Planetes: A serious space anime. No warp engines, no VTOL Tintin rockets, just a pretty physically accurate space anime. It’s awesome in more ways than that though.
Shadow Star Narutaru: Pretty old anime. Basically cute girls with Pokémons fight… uh… someone.
The Sky Crawlers: The Crysis of anime. The 3D dogfight scenes are extremely well done. The anime character style is a little different though. The story is awesome too!
EDIT: And Shuffle!.
Oh darn it for a moment there I thought someone actually cared about me 
LOL!
It’s just a small gif of anime and about 20 posts striked to it! I see what we did here~
Infection complete, I’m proud.
Actually I’d onfected for 7 years, dunno others ;D
Hey I only come here about once every two years, following Java release cycles 
But you know, I am just a poor boy. Though my story’s seldom told, I have squandered my resistance, for a pocketful of mumbles such are promises.
I like the site, not sure what else to add. I like kevglass and Cas, probably cos they are Brits like moi, and they know lots of fancy stuff.
Um…that’s it really :-\
another victim of the you tag… D=
I just LOL ;D
ROFLMAO
ROFLMAOWEPADAC SO FUNNY WHEN PEOPLE GET TRICKED HUR DUR
Hehe can’t believe I fell for that :
This YOU suckz
+1
It was funny the first time. Now that it’s the 1E99th time, it isn’t that funny anymore.
It was’nt even the first time funny. I read the first page and thought “WHAT THE F*CK?!?” And this last page solved it all. Glad i jumped from first to last ^^