GITS, Akira and Fist of the North Star are all absolute rubbish, all lack a decent story.
GITS is so over rated (much like the PS2), its got good animation, but they over did it a bit, the story is up **** creek and soundtrack has only one good song.
Fist of the North Star - I don\'t know how anyone could find this anime appealing.
Akira is much the same as GITS, good animation, crap soundtrack and an awful story.
It\'s so damn long and tedious.
Escaflowne (sub), Memories, Maison Ikkoku, Here is Greenwood, Outlaw Star (sub), Evangelion, DBZ (sub), anything by CLAMP, Card Captor Sakura (sub, not the trash American version) and Wings of Honneamise are all great animes.
The best movie would have to be A Girl in Gaea, Memories of Evangelion (Death/Rebirth, End of Evangelion Air/True to my heart).
All IMO of course.