I've heard lots of good things about One Piece and I have season 1 downloaded, just haven't watched it yet. Maybe on my next airplane trip (flying out of Alaska takes many hours and anime with subtitles is awesome).
With Brotherhood I recommend that once you begin watching that you set aside time to marathon because I'm not sure how you're going to get through the later half of the series without going crazy if you have to wait to see what happens next. My husband and I began watching a few episodes every night and then at some point we found ourselves staying up until 2 and 3am to continue watching...Brotherhood is darker than the first FMA that was released.
I watch a lot of TV on my computer monitor too. In fact that's how my husband and I watched all our TV for the first four years we were married. We still don't have cable. Instead, on the day we bought our TV, we also bought a Western Digital box and hooked up our WD box to out internet network, and when I download TV/movies I transfer them to the WD box hard drive through our mapped network drives. The hard drive connected to the WD box is a basic usb powered hard drive that I already owned.
We also pay for streaming Netflix, which I love because I'm not a big fan of needing to download everything. I bring this up as an option for that day when you're ready for a TV and don't want to spend over 100 dollars for Cable TV. Netflix does have anime, however it's all dubbed and I can't stand dubs so that part doesn't work so well for me. However, I know many anime fans that are a-okay with dubs. :)
As for other anime, I tended to like shows like Escaflowne, Hana Yori Dango, Hikaru no Go, Fushigi Yuugi, and Full Moon wo Sagashite...I think I tended to like shows that blended genres or had strong friendships/romances/melodrama.
I also tried Naruto at Animefest and when I went away for lunch and came back two hours later to find that the show was on the SAME fight scene as when I had left I decided this was not the show for me. My friend is really into the fan fiction for the show and I've been hearing tons of positive stuff about it, so that may work for me much better than the anime. :)
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With Brotherhood I recommend that once you begin watching that you set aside time to marathon because I'm not sure how you're going to get through the later half of the series without going crazy if you have to wait to see what happens next. My husband and I began watching a few episodes every night and then at some point we found ourselves staying up until 2 and 3am to continue watching...Brotherhood is darker than the first FMA that was released.
I watch a lot of TV on my computer monitor too. In fact that's how my husband and I watched all our TV for the first four years we were married. We still don't have cable. Instead, on the day we bought our TV, we also bought a Western Digital box and hooked up our WD box to out internet network, and when I download TV/movies I transfer them to the WD box hard drive through our mapped network drives. The hard drive connected to the WD box is a basic usb powered hard drive that I already owned.
We also pay for streaming Netflix, which I love because I'm not a big fan of needing to download everything. I bring this up as an option for that day when you're ready for a TV and don't want to spend over 100 dollars for Cable TV. Netflix does have anime, however it's all dubbed and I can't stand dubs so that part doesn't work so well for me. However, I know many anime fans that are a-okay with dubs. :)
As for other anime, I tended to like shows like Escaflowne, Hana Yori Dango, Hikaru no Go, Fushigi Yuugi, and Full Moon wo Sagashite...I think I tended to like shows that blended genres or had strong friendships/romances/melodrama.
I also tried Naruto at Animefest and when I went away for lunch and came back two hours later to find that the show was on the SAME fight scene as when I had left I decided this was not the show for me. My friend is really into the fan fiction for the show and I've been hearing tons of positive stuff about it, so that may work for me much better than the anime. :)