Servant Saber - Spirit of Arturia

I know i know, i must be super outdated.. but it's a damn nice anime seriously!

In a nutshell, its abt a race to obtain a holy grail which will grant the winner their wishes. the contestants are magicians and they will each summon a servant (an ancient hero spirit) to fight for them in battles. In order to obtain the holy grail you must eliminate the other magicians and their servants. shirou, the main character of the story, is a complete noob at sorcery but accidentally summons the strongest servant, saber.. somehow in the process he falls in love with her, and would rather not have her fight.. but this is contradicting because fighting is the sole reason for the servants' existence.. one shortcoming of the series was that Type Moon tried to cramp a seemingly sordid story plot into 24 episodes, and as a result, the character development lacked depth.

the holy grail eventually turned out to be some form of WMD, so it's a bit like whats gg on in the world today. like how everyone thinks they can change or control the world by owning a WMD, and strive to eliminate all others who are suspected of building WMD.

and no prizes for guessing that the anime ended on a very sad note.

Magician Rin Tohsaka

i think mystical + dark + sad story line are the main ingredients for fantabulous animes.. the other example would be ayashi no ceres, though it got a bit sappy midway. think this anime was abt a celestial goddess called ceres, who was reincarnated in a girl called aya.. so all the bad guys were after aya because they wanted the powers of ceres.. and tooya, who was aya's lover, turned out to be ceres' mana (i know, it was like wtf?! when i watched that too) so he had to sacrifice his life for ceres to replenish her power and destroy all things evil, or something to that extent. in any case, tooya DIED, leaving his pregnant gf, aya alone behind. drama huh.

Behold, my top 5 anime picks:

1. Rurouni Kenshin / Samurai X (yes, still! i deserve loyalty points for this seriously.. it's been like 10 yrs already?!)

2. Cowboy Bebop (very contemporary.. one of the more 'westernised' animes. dok sai's fave too)

3. Fate / Stay night (newcomer!)

4. Naruto (the wait is kinda turning ppl off)

5. Eden's bowy (strangely, this anime left a very deep impression on me, though i still fail to grasp the storyline... damn chim shit)

So yup, ayashi no ceres gets the boot for being overly sappy..

when time is such a constraint these days, any anime that fails to interest me within the first 2 episodes gets dropped off immediately..

And NO, i dont think anime is childish, or at the very least, it depends on what kind of anime you watch. and not card captor sakura pls.....