Expert: Kai - 5/17/2011

Question
Hello, well i have watched alot of animes and well I cant find any more good ones I've watched lets see.....D.gray-man, tsubasa chronicls, naruto, blood+, tokyo mew mew, and many more but im more into romance or action! If u can please reply quickly its ben hard for me to find a good anime or manga! and there are so many to choose from!!! its a big pain in the butt to find a good anime so yah thanks

Answer
I know how you feel about finding good anime, hard for me too, but no worries :)

For action anime, it slightly depends on how fast you want it to go (and I apologize if I mention ones you already know):
- Jyu Oh Sei is a nice short anime (11 episodes) which is about medium action wise and has some romance, though also a tragedy. The manga itself is about 5 volumes.
- Gurren Lagann is one of my favorites, original anime with heavy duty action, mecha if you don't mind that. The manga adaptions are mostly parodies of it
- I would say Code Geass, but you might have seen that already (and if you haven't bump it up to the top of the list!)
- Getbackers, both manga and anime are pretty action filled, with lots of rather unique ideas when it comes to fighting, slight warning as the ending arch kind of drags out
- Zatch Bell, an old one - kind of strange and has a high resemblance to pokemon or Yu-gi-oh
- Shakugan No Shana, some of it is pretty funny, but pretty good with action and similar to D Grey Man
- Busou Renkin, take Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist, and D Gray Man and compact them into one; just a brief warning that the first official "villian" has a very...odd taste of fashion
- Star Ocean EX, interesting story about a boy who gets stuck on a foreign planet (Jyu Oh Sei is similar) but lots more fighting here I think
- Trigun, if you like bullets and old anime, this is a good one, and the manga apparently 100 times better
- Claymore, very dark but good none the less, it kind of drops off at the end, so I would recommend reading the manga as well
- Rurouni Kenshin, kind of long dragged out, but very good
- Yu Yu Hakusho, ditto

For action manga:
- Beelzebub, spelled right? LOTS of explosions and delinquents getting their faces relocated (naked male baby alert)
- Eden no Ori, based on Lord of the Flies apparently (also ecchi, but some romance)
- Defense Devil, gets more action based as you go along
- Psyren, 16 volumes of playing a "game" that will save humanity
- Butsu Zone, done by the same guy who did Shaman King (anime/manga)
- Witch Hunter, where the witches have awesome hates and the main character carries around a pumpkin head person

Now romance anime:
- Vampire Knight, I'll just throw that out there because it doubles as both romance and action
- Familiar Of Zero, a hilarious "Hogwarts" anime as I like to put it
- The Wallflower, the art is a bit...odd but interesting none the less
- Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi, actually have not seen this one exactly, but reminds me a lot of The little Mermaid (lots of singing warning - also similar to Tokyo mew mew)
- Full Moon o Sagashite, some people like it, some people don't, I particularly have no opinion, but you can check it out (another lots of singing warning)
- Shugo Chara, because chibis are awesome
- Karin, somewhat interesting version of a vampire romance (ecchi)
- Pretear, the inside joke/pun is pretty hilarious and makes a running gag, but fairly decent romance

As for manga (please note I am not a heavy romance reader so sorry for the lack...):
- Elemental Gelade maybe, I started reading it recently and fairly decent. You can check out the anime too but that is very long, it leans towards action more than romance, but it is more emotionally set, so I put it here
- Mugen Doeki, one shot but nice story, tragedy
- Kon no Ki Konoha, One shot about a tree spirit, must read, yet another tragedy
- Hanako to Guuwa no Tera, not heavy on romance, but the general idea is there
- Kamisama Hajimemashita, can easily pass as a romance but not entirely sure it is one (depends on which characters view point you want to go with)
- Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, actually an anime as well so you can check it out :)

**Please note that the following are all smut (meaning graphic in terms of guy+girl stuff, so not recommended unless you are 18+ or around...)**
- Black Bird, about a girl with special powers who gets chosen to be some Tengu's bride
- Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu, about a girl who cuts some guy's hair and he becomes her boyfriend
- Private Prince, reminded me of princess diaries for some reason even though not much in common
- First Girl, best josei I have read, although a bit too heavy with the tango focus
- "Silver" and "Gold" (two different manga, same author), both also pretty good; kind of funny how my descriptions of each gets shorter XD


Unfortunately not all of the manga are complete, but I am pretty sure most of the anime are. If you have any questions on any of them, let me know. All anime listed under anime(with exception of Mermaid Pichi and Shugo Chara) are available english dubbed at justdubs.net if you wish. Most of the manga can be found at mangafox, if not mangareader.net.

Hope it helps! :)
- Kai