Have you tried Cowboy Bebop? It's very episodic, which I find makes good exercise anime, but has nice complex worldbuilding and overarching character-development/history-reveal going on too. Faye Valentine kicks ass, too.
You might or might not like Hikaru no Go; it's nice and long so you wouldn't run out of it too fast, and I'm always kind of amazed by how much suspense is packed into a /board game/. But it does /start out/ very young.
You might like Mai-HiME, though there's definitely a rocks-fall trend to the second half, until the end.
If you're in the mood for slice-of-life with backstory, you might try Sora No Woto. I think it has a certain feel in common with Haibane Renmei.
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Have you tried Cowboy Bebop? It's very episodic, which I find makes good exercise anime, but has nice complex worldbuilding and overarching character-development/history-reveal going on too. Faye Valentine kicks ass, too.
You might or might not like Hikaru no Go; it's nice and long so you wouldn't run out of it too fast, and I'm always kind of amazed by how much suspense is packed into a /board game/. But it does /start out/ very young.
You might like Mai-HiME, though there's definitely a rocks-fall trend to the second half, until the end.
If you're in the mood for slice-of-life with backstory, you might try Sora No Woto. I think it has a certain feel in common with Haibane Renmei.