We're heading fast towards the conclusion of the Paper Sisters' adventures, so this seems as good a time as any to unleash the shitstorm of trouble that inevitably folows talking about what we're watching next

I assume we'll follow our usual format and have one or two movie nights between series, unless anyone objects?

Anyhow, getting down to business, I have a nomination - ef: a tale of memories. I know this will be unsurprising to the many of you who have listened to me bang on about this series for the past few months, but I'd just like to point out why I think this is the one we should go for:
1 - Style It's a visually interesting show
2 - Content It tells it's story very nicely, the pacing between the various threads is finely balanced
3 - Variety We don't do many outright "romance-drama" shows at WA, and
4 - Brevity It's only twelve episodes, so if you hate it, you've not got long to wait for something different

Thoughts, suggestions, opposition, rage? Please chip in

I'm going to nominate Cowboy Bebop again. An absolute gem of a series from start to finish, and one of the shows regarded as one of the all-time greats in Anime. The plot is Standalone Complex in how it's told, each episode being individual in its own right while the overall conflict slowly creeps in. The soundtrack is nothing short of amazing, and the ending scenes are some of the most memorable in Anime history. Did I mention the soundtrack?

Was hat your way of suggesting that someone should nominate Ghost In The Shell; Standalone Complex - Second Gig (hereafter referred to as GITS; SAC, 2nd Gig)?

Since i can never decide on anything, here's a list of possible candidates

Too Short (less that 26 episodes, or episodes that have a runtime around 10~15 minutes per episode)

Astro Fighter Sunred
Canaan
Genshiken S2
Strike Witches (yes, i'm serious)
Tetsuwan Birdy Decode


Normal picks(26 episode series)

Fate/Stay Night
Full Metal Panic
Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Macross Frontier
Martian Succesor Nadesico
Outlaw Star
Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo
The Galaxy Railways


Too Long (more than 26 episodes, or episodes that have a runtime around 45~60 minutes per episode)

Code Geass
Great Teacher Onizuka
G Gundam
Gundam 00
Gundam Wing
Hayate no Gotoku! (Hayate the Combat Butler)
Macross 7
Turn A Gundam
Zoids Genesis

I'm all for seconding ef, as I feel WA is always about broadening our horizons and watching something new that we wouldn't otherwise see.

My only objection to both Bebop and 2nd Gig is that they're both widely available, so more people would've seen both of them already (especially Bebop, shame on you if you haven't already re-watched the whole series for the 5th time already XD), wheras I'd challenge a lot of people to have already seen tale of memories before now...(not counting a_c_e of course!)

Ok since your point about stuff that has been widely seen already seems to make since to me, i'd like to suggest something that's less likely to have been seen by the majority of WA (myself included): Berserk.

I think ef seem's a little different from some of the other featured series we have had at WA, (apart from Higurashi) we seem to watch a lot of action and comedy series, so i feel it it would make a good change of pace.
ef thirded.

Aaaah...now I'm torn between this and ef, things just got interesting.

I'm not sure if im too late for this since I am pretty new here but I am gunna throw my suggestions in anyway because thats how I roll
Trigun would be a good series and I also second the Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop suggestions
All amazing serieses with a good balance of comedy, action and a good story arc and all have well developed characters
These are all three of my favorite anime Outlaw Star was my very first anime series as well back in the old days of Toonami on Cartoon Network and Cowboy Bebop really is a work of art with how the animation and soundtrack blend together
Not to mention they are all before the new generation of overly emo anime XD

I see you guys watched Jin-Roh in meet 79 - can't believe I missed that. Guessing that's gonna be too soon for people to want to watch again. Was it any good?

...Oh well, it's been a while since we watched Ninja Checkmate.

i vote ef as well it looked interesting and id like to see where its going

Made up my mind now.

THE GALAXY RAILWAYS - [Episodes 1+2]

THE GALAXY RAILWAYS - [Episodes 1+2]

Ah, now that's music to my ears!

UPDATE: Okay, we've decided what four Anime are going to be voted for the next running series.

You've seen the first two of them recently, as they are Ef: Tale of Memories and Berserk. The other two will be good old fashioned Cowboy Bebop and Galaxy Railways.

After this Thursday's WA, we'll start the polling to see which one we're going to watch, so keep an eye on this space!

Ok the finalists have been decided;

Galaxy Railways
Cowboy Bebop
ef
Berserk

The poll runs until the end of the month.

I cast my vote for the masterpiece that is Cowboy Bebop