So after nearly a decade of being passionately obsessed with the cinema, I'm thinking I should take up a new hobby. I know it's something a lot of people do: they juggle two, three, or a dozen passions at a time. I've never been able to do this. No ma'am, I have always been strictly a one-passion guy. And that passion, in case you skipped the first sentence of this paragraph, is movies.

I'm thinking of taking up anime. My various reasons seem to make logical sense:

(1) I'm already way into movies. It's not like I'll be going "Whoa! Pictures that move?!!!"

(2) Anime is weird and perverse. However, if you know me, you subsequently know my taste in movies. I'm sure you'll agree that I can probably handle whatever anime throws at me.

(3) All my friends are doing it. And yes, I would definitely jump off that proverbial bridge, too.

So I want to sample some anime. Now, I realize there's a plethora of different anime types. I'm not sure exactly what I want, but I think my tastes lean toward what cultural scientists refer to as, "a good story." Oh, and nothing blatantly pornographic. Any suggestions?