Planetes is easily one of my favourite anime, but I realized recently that if I want people to believe me and give it a try I should probably stop describing it as being about "space trash collectors and the power of love", even if that is exactly what it's about.

Mine would probably be Black Lagoon. I kept getting told I should watch it but I thought it was just some shit over-the-top action show. Eventually I tried a couple of episodes when I was all out of other shows, and realized it's so over the top it passes back through to awesome again, which is probably exactly what it's aiming for, and that it's obviously fairly self aware, which always helps you feel less guilty about watching that kind of stuff.

Then I got a little further and saw that a lot of really awesome bits happen not during action scenes but when people are sitting around talking and moralizing, and it manages to pull this off while being neither too simplistic nor too pretentious, and I started to like it even more.

Also the cigarette "kiss" is really fucking cool.