Aaaaa Escaflowne is another good one, such a beautiful mishmash of general anime genre, that show’s got everything! Cat girls! Big robots! Romance! Action! Is it shoujo? Is it shonen? Who cares, it’s everything under the sun! What more could you want from an anime in the 90’s/00’s than everything Escaflowne brought to the table and more. It is a thanksgiving feast of what made anime so “cool” to me as a kiddo!

Yes yes do check out the 12K anime! In spite of its few big differences (named Sugimoto and Asano, respectively hahaha!) those too are just as welcome additional story to experience as well!