Ranma 1/2, by the famous mangaka Rumiko Takahashi, is one of the most popular
anime to come out of Japan! It's a hilarious martial arts comedy. Ranma Saotome
(17) and his father Genma go to train in China. While there they fall into the
cursed springs of Jusenkyo! (there are thousands of spings)Now Ranma turns into
a red headed female and his father turns into a panda! Ranma gathers a horde of
fiancee's along the way, thanks to his dad most of the time. Then the girls he's
"engaged" to ,usually have their own suitors, so all in all, everyone is usually
trying to kill boy type or girl type Ranma! This anime has all kinds of fighting
to martial arts cheerleading (yeah cheerleading) all the way to martial arts
cook offs and martial arts ice skate competition! It's great and guardteed to
make you laugh for hours!

Inu Yasha, another anime by the crazy Rumiko Takahashi, is a historical/ fantasy
manga. A magical well on her family's land takes Kagome (15), back to feudal
Japan, where shediscovers she's the reincarnation of some priestess who guarded
a magical jewel, and she frees an evil and horrible half demon. Inu Yasha. The
story revolves around people trying to posess the Shikon no Tama,a special pink
glass marble....yeah....Due to some accident Kagome kinda split the Shikon no
Tama into lots of little shards and they scattered all over Japan. So now Kagome
and Inu Yasha, now under Kagome's control thanks to a magical necklace, venture
out to find all the shards before any bad demons find it. Along the way they
meet some interesting people, Shippo, a cute little fox demon boy , Miroku,
perverted Buddhist priest and others.

Houshin Engi (Soul Hunter) is really one of those animes, that's better as a
manga. But nonetheless, it's good! It does a little computer animation with
regular, which sometimes gives it a choppy appearance. Females would probably
like this one more, there is alot of fighting and war stuff and politics, but
the cast is mainly male. There's about 3 females int he whole series. The story
is about Taikoubou, a god in training...kinda. He's sent to on a weird mission,
Project Houshin, to seal away spirits that will become gods. That's what the
subbed version tells you anyways. Taikoubou is a lazy, stubborn, and often
stupid guy, his weapon is a radio antenna that controls weather and he flies
around on a giant Hippo. The subtitled version leaves alot to be desired, such
as subtitles that don't go off the screen.... I have yet to see the dubbed
version for fear of voices ^-^