^ Well, "not-so-very-light" but rather light-hearted (most of the time): Honey and Clover, Nodame Cantabile, Tatami Galaxy, Kare Kano, personally would vouch for Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (the dub is the only great dub I've found btw).
And from more recent ones Kokoro Connect, Sakamichi Apollon and maybe even Tsuritama come to mind.
These are about more down-to-earth stuff, mostly. Even if a few of them use symbolistic or fantasy devices.
Though in all I listed the characters do have their emotional difficulties and the stories have depth, so I'd rather not categorize as "light" - but they're not as serious in "life and death" and "fighting" matters as Darker etc. Come to think of it, by this criteria I'd also recommend Katanagatari and Eden of the East, maybe even Clannad, yet there's a bit more dark stuff in those.
From the pure fantasy genre I'd recommend Scrapped Princess. But it does have its share of darkness.
Light in both depth and emotion (yet good stuff): Birdy the Mighty (pretty cool anime about an alien girl fighting galactic criminals), K-On (high-school girl fun and comedy), Mahou Senshi Louie (comedic fantasy), Sankarea (pretty fun zombie thing, has two or three darker moments though).
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Maria+Holic, Lucky Star, Arakawa Under The Bridge, Ebichu and Exel Saga are the more slapstick humor I can think up at the moment.
Other comedies I'm editing in here: Azumanga Daioh, Full Metal Panic!, Binbougami ga!, Great Teacher Onizuka (43 eps).
If you were to take on longer-spanning ones, I'd of course recommend the original Dragon Ball (pre-Z, in Japanese), and Gintama.
I'll certainly think of more later on.
Modifié par eroeru, 08 octobre 2012 - 12:04 .