Anime

[redchild]

On some level I agree with you. Good storytelling is good storylelling. It's not like I was watching Teletubbies.

You don't want to know what that sort of things the teletubby does with his bag? Or what kind of goop they ate for breakfast? It's very deep stuff.

Grave of the fireflies is also brilliant, but very very dark for an anime (it's about a boy and a girl during WWII in Japan).

I forgot about that one. If you're prone to cry during sad movies, you're bound to be bawling at the end of the movie. I wouldn't say it's very dark, but brutally realistic.

I'll look into SE:L sometime.