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-Sii needs recomendations.-

Hi, posting threads asking for recommendations is breaking the rules (I think).

Where in Teh Rules does it state that? I don't see it anywhere

If you have any general questions relating to anime, ask them in this thread, and we'll try to find an answer for you!

(This material was taken out of the newbie thread and made more orderly. Rather than deleting all the posts over there, I figured it'd be easier just to make a new thread and keep it pruned as needed.)

If you have new contributions, post'em here. We'll keep this thread nice and orderly so it's easy to find answers. Yes, this means we will delete your posts as neccessary to keep this thread tidy.

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Question: I'm new to anime. I like (some genre). What should I buy?

Here's some info:

1. Fruits Basket is my favourite so far.
2. DNAngel is unfinished, but I love it so far, up to 13.
3. I loved Gravitation.
4. I'd prefer something with good characters and a nice plotline, rather than a bunch of unnamed people fighting with machines.

Mr Mania: I never had it in my head that you were attacking me. Sorry if it came off that way in my 'closing' speech, I was just trying to give up lightly.

Snowfairy: Now, I believe I know what Shoujo means, but I'm not sure of the correct terming of it for Anime. Could I please have an explanation?

As for this yaoi concept, I've heard it everywhere but still haven't gotten what it is. I've also seen another 'y' word similar to it, relating to anime. Could I please have another explanation, if you don't mind?

Thank you, also for the recomendations. I'll look into them.

Yaoi is is the term used to describe manga or anime with strong, graphically portrayed homo-erotic themes involving men. In otherwords, yaoi is pornographic Anime featuring men with men. Unlike North American gay-porn, the target audience for yaoi is female. The word yaoi is actually an acronym of "Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi" (No climax, no point, no meaning), this is because yaoi, much like other forms of pornography, and unlike shounen-ai, often focuses exclusively on the sex, with only the minimal necessary story.

Of late, it has become increasingly popular in North America for shounen-ai titles to be labelled "yaoi," both by fans and distributors.

Shoujo literally means girl, but I use the word to refer to the particular genre of anime that is targeted towards females. Mahou shoujo is magical girl. The "yaoi" that I'm talking about in these titles isn't the hardcore, graphic kind that msi435 mentioned. It is mostly just the non-sexual relationship between two guys. In Cardcaptor Sakura it is pretty much just implied.

All three of the titles that you mentioned contain yaoi elements in it. I think Gravitation has much more of it than the other two.

So yaoi doesn't always mean extremely graphic in that sense? Does it go the same for 'yuri' as well?

Instead of referring to it as yaoi refer it as shounen-ai. While yaoi refers to male on male sexual relationships, shounen-ai refers to male to male relationships of the kind you are talking about.