Asura.Floppyseconds said:
»He is also candidate for best anime (key words are next) that I could never get int. Despite several serious attempts at it.
Same problem here. There's 3 anime that EVERYONE suggests: FMAB, Death Note, and Steins;Gate.
I watched a few episodes of each, but actually finished Steins;Gate and people hyped that up way beyond the point of its actual worth. I've never been more disappointed by an anime. So now I'm afraid to watch Death Note or FMAB because they might be the same thing.
FMAB was one of the anime I enjoyed the most and could recommend to people who don't even watch anime. Although I'm not sure if my experience would've been different if I hadn't watched the original FMA (mainly concerning the pacing of the first 15 eps or so of Brotherhood).
Problem now with DN is that most people who haven't watched it yet have probably already been spoilered. It was pretty awesome watching it every week not knowing what would happen next, it had a nice tension.
It was even more awesome when I read the manga, and I wasn't actually a manga reader. My friend gave me copies of the available chapters at that point, and I thought "this is cool" and fell in love with the art and story. Yes, the art played a big role for me (it helped that the author and artist were a duo).
That, and some minor stuff that they changed in the anime didn't sit right with me :/ (namely the endings of both seasons).