Please recommend me a nice action series.

[porkchopexpress]

My brother is asking me what would be a good new show for him to get into. He likes shows like Samurai Champloo and GIT-SAC and pretty much everything I can recommend him falls flat. Any ideas?

[Captain Impulse]

Peacemaker was interesting enough and had some good action scenes.

Same with Shura no Toki, although the better action scenes came during the second and third arcs, but was still an awesome show.

Cowboy Bebop probably doesn't even need to be mentioned.

Twelve Kingdoms, both for action and an amazing storyline.

...I'll see if I can think up some other good ones later.

[mike.motaku]

Series & OVAs:
Blue Submarine #6
Cowboy Bebop
Full Metal Panic
Gunsmith Cats
Gungrave
Heat Guy J
Last Exile
Karas
Otogi Zoshi
Patlabor
Planetes
Rahxephon
Riding Bean
Texhnolyze

Movies:
Jin Roh
Spriggan
Wicked City

And he might like some City Hunter.

[Captain Impulse]

I second Gungrave, Heat Guy J and Spriggan from that list, as probably being the best action series of that list, in my opinion.

[The Pirate Queen]

My guess is that he'll like a lot of the same things my husband does, so:

-Heat Guy J
-Gungrave
-Blue Gender
-Fighting Spirit
-Fullmetal Alchemist
-Naruto
-Cowboy Bebop
-Full Metal Panic

[Magic_Knight]

Aquarian Age the movie
Read or Die (OVA)
Blue Submarine No. 6
Legend of Crystania (movie)
Cowboy Bebop (TV + Movie)
Outlaw Star
Gunsmith Cats
Spriggan

Tukikage Ran, Jubei chan (1 + 2) both have some good samurai action scenes.

Shura No Toki does have some action, but the good fights are spaced out. And even those are kind of annoying with their "stand in silence for 20 seconds, do a few cool moves, stand back and talk about them and repeat."

I wouldn't recommend Peacemaker as an action series either, but that's just based on the first 3 discs that I've seen. Twelve Kingdoms isn't much of an action series, but it's still excellent.

[chloes_fork]

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Dani said:
My guess is that he'll like a lot of the same things my husband does, so:

-Heat Guy J
-Gungrave
-Blue Gender
-Fighting Spirit
-Fullmetal Alchemist
-Naruto
-Cowboy Bebop
-Full Metal Panic

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Personally, I prefer my action with the ladies running the show (and kicking the keister). Hence, Noir, Kite/Mezzo, Najica, etc.

[DeVeliCious]

Cowboy Bebop
Gun Grave
Twelve Kingdoms
Peacemaker
X/1999
Witch Hunter Robin
Saiyuki
Yami No Matsuei
Get Backers
Weiss Kreuz

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porkchopexpress said:
My brother is asking me what would be a good new show for him to get into. He likes shows like Samurai Champloo and GIT-SAC and pretty much everything I can recommend him falls flat. Any ideas?

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[fractured78]

Cowboy Bebop - Good action, short storylines, great for attention span challenged [img]/images/graemlins/happy.gif[/img] (Great anime for everyone else too!)

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - Action action action

Ninja Scroll: The Movie - It's an action classic

Akira - I hate this, but it's still a classic

Spriggan - Think Independence Day 4 in terms of character depth and action, if he liked that, he'll like this

ROD OVA - I love this! Must watch again...

As for some other recommendations :
Twelve Kingdoms is a personal favorite of mine...but it's not an action movie and action junkies probably won't like it.

Fullmetal Panic!: Action junkies probably won't like this either, there's a lot of comedy and it doesn't have an edge like GiTS or Champloo.

Jin Roh: Probably too slow

Patlabor: too slow

RahXephon: Too slow

Well, anyways, that's just my opinion. I actually like the shows I think are too slow, but since you asked for a recommendation for your brother...