Armok reminds me of the time when I was first exposed to anime - so many new worlds to explore and so very different from what I've been used to seeing.
Indeed.
Often, it was really hard to stop watching an interesting show, all of it's 25-ish episodes, despite having to go to work in the morning etc. It took me more than 100 different series/movies/ovas to start feeling jaded about the medium(after a while the repetitivness of certain ideas start showing), so look forward to lots and lots of broken schedules and sleepless nights.
Hopefully it wont come to that.
I suspect that was your reaction to highly avible fiction, rather than specific to anime. I already have training in resisting those urges from webcomics, and I am familiar whit many concepts from TVtroopes, but most importantly I have a good knowledge of metafiction. There is less a risk of exploration becoming obsessive if you have a worldmap and a GPS.
Anyway, I've already recommended you some shows, as did probably everyone else here, but let me say it again: since you seem to be a hard-sf type of guy,
Truly hard scifi as such is mostly dead, really, tech is moving to fast and chaoticaly to be predictible enought for ANYTHING to be plausible enought by the standards you could expect even a decade or two ago. WHat I do enjoy is complex consistntly explained mechanics, and for the plot to be influenced by things other than itself, such as said mechanics. These things in the flavors I like are mostly to be found in hard scifi, but also in certain works of high fantasy (the kinds that spend chapters explaining the magic system, like Eragon (althou there are other drawbacks of those books, but this is going of topic by now) oe diskworld (if you read it the right way) ) , and in many works tht canot be clerly genre clasified.
I'm also a gooner for lovable characters, especially created/arteficial ones (throught magic or technology)(for personal reasons I identify strongly whit the creator-creation relationship, and find it highly fascinating, one mind in detail designing another and then bringing it to life. And before you ask it has no reall paralels to parenthood, a born person is in practice random, and parents can only try to blindly nudge behavior indirectly. ), mainly AI, and especialy especialy if they are realistically fundamentally different from human. If you find something were a realistic nonanthropomorpic lovable AI protagonist in a hard scifi world, few things could make that anything but wonderfull.
try Planetes(trailer), or "Ghost in the shell" franchise (a short excerpt from the series). Then there's Texhnolyze (german trailer), and Ergo Proxy (trailer). Each and every one is in it's own way amazing exercise in SF storytelling, highly recommended. I'm sure that the last one is still available on youtube, not so sure about the rest of them.
YOu forgot the "legaly and freely avable on the net" part, or atleast informing me if they are. Untill I'm convinced I have wached evrything avable freely I wont be giving money to any big company, and probably not even then. As long as there is food on the table I wont go hunting.
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