Well manga costs less if it's unsuccessful, so they're more willing to take risks with it. The price of modern animation is staggering, generally speaking they'll only make an anime if they consider it a sure fire hit. Also the otaku market is so unbelievably conservative and set in it's ways that they frequently wont accept an anime that deviates from the norm. If it's not Moe or fanservicey you'll have a seriously hard time selling dvd's in japan.

The international market is even worse in many ways. The majority of western fans are only interested in shounen anime like One Piece, Naruto and Death Note and are notoriously crappy at buying dvd's. In one case an anime that got full release in the uk sold exactly 3 copies.

Any way. Any season I generally pick a handful of anime to watch and then whittle it down to a few that aren't totally shit.

This season "Attack on Titan" and "Flowers of Evil" are the two that are most likely going to be the best. Both of them are adapted form really interesting manga and are beautifully fucked up and disturbing in their own way.

i read heaps more interesting manga then i see anime. but im into mindfuck scifi/pyschological stuff.

I know what you mean.

Kinda.
I used to be and avid Anime enthusiast... now I find most of it to be painful to watch...

You're one of *those* types...

Wow, you're right. I've never heard of a Wonderswan before... /googling

Kinda looks like a Wonderswan, except changed a bit.

I have the new Dark Horse omnibus edition. Suddenly, this is becoming an FLCL appreciation thread...

When I was in Bruges this New year I saw an orange vespa down an alley way and I ran to look at it it, but it didn't have the P! on it

Allow me to clarify:
I don't like the anime.

Love the manga.

Ahh I always wanted to play that game. Looks fun.

FLCL is great. It's one of the best looking anime of the end of the pre-digital era of animation. It had a fantastic soundtrack, great characters and an interesting surreal plot that any one who was ever a disaffected teenager can relate to. Apparently Gainax made it specifically to un-depress their team after more than half a decade of Evangelion. Some people hate on it because it's well known, but it's a solid show a lot of people can enjoy.

The manga version has a gorgeous art style as well. Some of Gainax's best work.

I actually did a couple of FLCL themed songs a few years ago when I was just starting out with FM. Not great but I have a soft spot for them
http://snd.sc/YE0r34

For content:

I enjoy it quite a bit for the sake of nostalgia and being a melodramatic teen. That and, for what it was, at least it was short. And had original characters. And character development. And a pretty fluid animation style. And a good soundtrack. And took place in a static setting. Actually, given those features, it's some pretty good work. Opinion not upheld.

Shit.
There's a cartoon I haven't watched in almost a decade.
It's only redeeming qualities were a vintage Vespa and cool robots... other than that, it kinda sucked.

This isn't exactly in the same vein as the other pictures but I had this on my desktop because I was thinking about how cool the concept was. A fictional video game featured in the anime series Fooly Cooly called Firestarter. All you do is burn building after building until you've destroyed the entire city, pleasing some entity called The Lord of Black Flames.
Not sure if it's making any kind of reference to (Rome) or not.

Fun fact:
You can watch the six episode series (here). Episode 2 features the game.