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Having finished Utena, I now need another anime to watch while I use the treadmill. Suggestions?

("Go outside" does not count. It's muddy.)

Stuff I've seen all the way through:

Princess Tutu - ****
Haibane Renmei - ****
Baccano! - ****
Excel Saga - *** 1/2
Darker Than Black - ***
Requiem from the Darkness - ***
Serial Experiments Lain - ***
Last Exile - ***
Gankutsuou - ***
Ouran High School Host Club - ** 1/2 (sorry, but for me, it will always fall short in comparison to the manga)
Fruits Basket - ** 1/2 (same)
RahXephon - ** 1/2
El Hazard - *
Descendants of Darkness - I DON'T KNOW
X - My feelings about it are colored too deeply by my dysfunctional relationship with CLAMP's work as a whole for any useful evaluation to be possible.
Now and Then, Here and There - This is one of the most unrelentingly cruel narratives I've ever consumed in any format. For what it is, it's well done - I just hate what it is.

Stuff I've watched a little of before stopping:

Fullmetal Alchemist (1st series) - Yeah, yeah, I know.
Mushishi
NeiA_7
E'S Otherwise - THIS IS SO TERRIBLE. Though I might finish it to see just how much it eventually ends up ripping from X.

Stuff I refuse to watch:

Puella Magi Madoka Magica - I watched the first episode, searched for synopses, discovered that my predictions were basically accurate, and decided against it. I've already watched Now and Then, Here and There once; I don't need to see the shoujo version.
Saiunkoku Monogatari - Shan't!

Edited to add a couple things I'd forgotten.

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Cosigning on Mononoke (so, so damn hard!), Natsume's Book of Friends (Mushishi's kinder, gentler shonen cousin), and Cowboy Bebop, if by some chance you've not already seen that one, also Samurai Champloo. Kino no Tabi, perhaps? And the Black Lagoon anime is remarkably faithful to the manga and actually adds some excellent small characterization/backstory bits into transitional scenes, instead of going the too-common filler-episode route. The non-Mononoke arcs of Ayakashi are also fairly interesting -- one is, but for the framing bit at the end, a fairly straight retelling of "The Lantern Ghost of Oiwa".