Gungrave

It has an interesting story with some great animation/action. The characters are interesting and all have their own personalities far beyond "oh, this is the loud and obnoxious person."One of my favorites so far, it reminds me of bebop. I watched the dubbed version through, they were all the standard voice actors you might recognize.

I understand that some people think that grave could have been in the series a little longer then Brandon heat. But I personally thing the structure of the over all story was brilliant and I wouldn't trade one episode of Brandon heat for grave. I loved every second of this series. The story, animation and scoring were perfect. The characters were absolutely phenomenal. I think this is the only story I've ever seen that's truly given me a feeling of what it is go through life and look back on it as an old man. And I truly loose my composure every time I finish the final episode of this series. Anyone who doesn't see this is missing out.

One of the most underrated unknown animes ever. The animation is very smooth, and drawn very nicely, music's good, voice acting is good, story is amazing. The way I first experienced it was I started at the second episode... When I hit episode 15 or so I was like "What the?!" But it's still good... Start at episode 1 or 2, it doesn't matter. The video game (that also has a sequel) that it's based on is a little cheap and generic feeling, but it's fun. It's a "blow up everything you see and hope you don't die first" kind of game.

I really wanted to finish this series. It's a shame that Madhouse, a world renowned animation studio, gave this show such a lazy effort. Don't get me wrong. The story is great and I really enjoyed where it was going but the animation was a constant roadblock. It's a severe hindrance to an anime that if given the proper treatment, could have been a true classic along with Madhouse's other "gun-centric" epic, Trigun. I was a big fan of the SEGA published game for the PS2. When I found out about the anime, I was genuinely excited. So this may be more of a letdown for me than to someone who hasn't played the game. One good thing that did come out of this anime other than the stellar writing is the music which was composed by the very talented Tsuneo Imahori. He not only outdoes the work he did on Trigun but also proves he can stand toe to toe with the best of Hollywood's musical masters.