I really do more anime watching than manga reading, but since a lot of anime is based on manga, this works!
If you continue with the Full Metal Panic series, you've got to watch FMP Fumoffu. It's the cracked-out humorous side stories going on at the school aside from the main drama. I have never laughed so hard in my life.
The original Mobile Suit Gundam is from the 70s, and was pretty good for its time, and is possibly worth watching if you can deal with 70s animation. Gundam Wing is from the 90s and is what made Gundam popular, and there's plenty of slashing to be done, but the plot/development can move kind of slowly. I haven't seen the two seasons of Gundam Seed, so I couldn't tell you about those two. Gundam 00 is the current iteration of Gundam and is kind of the post 9/11 Gundam, politics-wise, and the second season is starting this fall. So, long story short, I'm most familiar with Wing and 00, so I'd suggest those.
I tried watching Monster, but found the plot too slow moving; I only have a medium length attention span for long long series. It has great characters though.
If I could suggest two shoujo series, I'd say Junni Kokki/Twelve Kingdoms, a series of novels that got turned into anime, has excellent character development (schoolgirl gets sucked into fantasy world DONE RIGHT), and Rozen Maiden (reclusive nerd ends up with battle dolls) also has decent character development as well.
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If you continue with the Full Metal Panic series, you've got to watch FMP Fumoffu. It's the cracked-out humorous side stories going on at the school aside from the main drama. I have never laughed so hard in my life.
The original Mobile Suit Gundam is from the 70s, and was pretty good for its time, and is possibly worth watching if you can deal with 70s animation. Gundam Wing is from the 90s and is what made Gundam popular, and there's plenty of slashing to be done, but the plot/development can move kind of slowly. I haven't seen the two seasons of Gundam Seed, so I couldn't tell you about those two. Gundam 00 is the current iteration of Gundam and is kind of the post 9/11 Gundam, politics-wise, and the second season is starting this fall. So, long story short, I'm most familiar with Wing and 00, so I'd suggest those.
I tried watching Monster, but found the plot too slow moving; I only have a medium length attention span for long long series. It has great characters though.
If I could suggest two shoujo series, I'd say Junni Kokki/Twelve Kingdoms, a series of novels that got turned into anime, has excellent character development (schoolgirl gets sucked into fantasy world DONE RIGHT), and Rozen Maiden (reclusive nerd ends up with battle dolls) also has decent character development as well.