Blood the Last Vampire and Full Metal Alchemist are excellent examples of anime.

Yes I agree... and welcome nobdepot... I love FMA... it tops my lists of good anime... along with way too many others to name.

Examples is one thing, the classics - another.
Try those titles, listed approximately in order of my adoration to the authors:

- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Ghost in the Shell (also GitS SAC)
- GUNNM (Battle Angel Alita)
- Akira
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Hellsing
- X
- Laputa, Castle in the Sky

...and lotsa more, eh, where is that good-old long-lost time when I could watch entire series of FY with only 6 hours break for sleep or whole NGE TV series without _any_ break... T_T;

I love all of those too... here are some pics of my collection... it is huge... my friend counted them cause she said she wanted to... she counted 186 DVDs...

OMG @@'
How on earth did you get enough money to gather such collection?

Over the course of a year it just happened... in the second pic you can see how the lines of DVD still continues... I didn't even get them all in the pic... and I have seen everyone at least twice some many more times than that... like Fruits Basket the first full series I got I have seen I know eight or nine times.
I haven't got as much as I usually do lately... still most of the series I had going had ended and now I am waiting for one to come out in a box set so I don't have to worry about all of its DVDs... Suyuki I think is the name... not sure on the spelling though.

I'm a huge anime fan. I first discovered it when I was in high school, when they were playing Sailor Moon on Toonami (back when Toonami was GOOD) on Cartoon Network. I can't claim to be extremely knowledgeable about the anime in general. I’ve seen a lot of shows, but I still haven’t seen all the most popular ones like Oh! My Goddess! And Chobits. I also don’t see what the big deal is about that one anime that has the guy who has the big red robe that has the tail and white hair. Sorry, can’t remember the name, it escapes me at the moment. It seems to be very popular but it always puts me to sleep. I am working on owning my favorites. Obviously, Trigun is one of my faves, along with The Big O and Cowboy Bebop. I own all those on DVD thanks to a place on eBay. I got each one for $28 ^-^ I also got to watch a Record of Lodoss War marathon with some friends years ago, and I remembered liking it. I’ve seen 2 or 3 episodes of Full Metal Alchemist and really liked it. I’ve also seen some of Read or Die and REALLY liked that one! I also really liked Hyper Police! It has a few poor episodes towards the end, when there were babies running all over (I really dislike babies, and it ruins a lot of shows/movies for me). I also like a lot of the anime movies I’ve seen, but, again, I didn’t like some of the most popular ones like Ghost in the Machine and Akira or whatever it’s called. Those just… sucked, in my opinion. I also really like some of the adult animes, like La Blue Girl and Dragon Pink and Perfect Blue. Okay I’m naughty, so shoot me ^-^ Oh, and my roommate has Outlaw Star, and I’ve watched the first maybe 5 episodes, but haven’t got to finish watching it. I need to start over on it. But it looked pretty decent. Not top on my list, but it is watchable. So that’s some that I like and don’t like ^-^

HEY
I LOVE ANIME. MY FAV ONES ARE CARDCAPTOR SAKURA, INU YASHA, SAMURAI X, UFO BABY AND MANY MANY MORE. MY AIM IS TO BECOME AN ANIMATION DIRECTOR.

Hayao Miyazaki is the man. spirited away and princess mononoke are both beautiful pieces of work.

I've really been meaning to see Spirited Away, but haven't had the chance. And yes, Princess Mononoke is very lovely. It is pure art.