== Memorable anime from 2000 (for me)

For various reasons I feel like looking back at the anime from the first
decade or so of this century, year by year (partly because I by and
large now have a certain amount of distance from it, since I saw most of
it years ago). I can't possibly do my usual 'best N I watched in' style
of entry for old years because I have no idea what I actually watched
back then, so the best I can do is look at what (first) aired in those
years and that I still think is memorable or notable. This is a personal
version of memorable and as such will skip some famous works that I
personally didn't watch or that didn't stick with me in any particular
way.

(For example, *InuYasha* started in 2000 but I never really watched it.
*Love Hina* is also a 2000 series, I saw all of the TV show, but I don't
think it's memorable for me in the way I want to cover here.)

Note that memorable does not necessarily mean good and there's
at least one series that's going to cause me to froth mightily
when I get to its year. For the most part this will be anime
that I've seen most or all of. I'm taking date information from
Wikipedia (which turns out to be a bit incomplete) and [[Anime-Planet
http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/years/2000?sort=title&order=asc&page=1
]].

Standouts:

* *FLCL*: I have nothing to say about this that other people haven't
  said better, except that watching it cold was a very trippy experience
  that probably can't be duplicated today (by the time you see it you'll
  likely have heard at least something about it).

* *Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade*: This is an amazing movie. I have nothing
  coherent to say about it and others have written lots about it
  anyways.

  (Wikipedia doesn't list it as a 2000 movie because it was released
  in France in 1999. It was released in Japan in 2000 so it counts for
  me.)

Ordinarily memorable:

* *Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust*: This was epic in a good way with all
  sorts of nice action scenes and some reasonably affecting characters.

* *Blood: The Last Vampire*: This was an excellent little unpretentious
  movie for what it was. I still have fond memories of several scenes
  (including one genuinely funny stereotype-puncturing one). It spawned
  a whole series of other works that I am progressively less fond of.

* *``NieA_7''*: This is a less well regarded Yoshitoshi ABe work but
  I enjoyed it a fair bit. It is slower and smaller in scope than his
  other works but no less charming.

* *Escaflowne* (the movie): Oh boy. The TV series was fine but the movie
  version of the story was kind of a trainwreck, with changes left and
  right. I once had a lot more opinions about this but they've faded
  with time.

Honorable mentions:

* *Ah! My Goddess: The Movie*: I was actually surprised to realize that
  I remember quite a lot from this film, including a quite nice race
  scene. It's well done and a quite good distillation of the essence
  of AMG.

* *Initial D: Extra Stage*: I get to count *Initial D* in this because
  Extra Stage aired in 2000. Extra Stage is a nice little side story
  focusing on some of my favorite secondary characters.

* *Android Kikaider*: This takes an old Japanese tokusatsu show and
  turns it into a surprisingly affecting psychological thriller that's
  lovingly drawn in an old-school style to boot.

Things I haven't seen:

* *Banner of the Stars*: I've seen *Crest of the Stars* and have always
  wanted to watch more, but *Banner* fell into the 00s gulf in my anime
  watching.

There are a number of other shows from 2000 that I have definite and
often fond memories of but that I don't think are memorable enough for
me to say anything about here. An incomplete list is *Boys Be...*, *Yami
no Matsuei*, *Gatekeepers*, *Gravitation*, *Hand Maid May*, *Kazemakase
Tsukikage Ran*, *Love Hina*, and *Vandread*.

(Some might be more memorable if I had seen all of the show instead of
just parts.)

=== Sidebar: Me and incomplete or missed series from the 00s

The early 00s have a lot of incomplete series for me because I fell out
of watching anime for a while. At the start of the 00s I was watching
anime through various local anime clubs, but around here they steadily
withered away as digital fansubs grew (which was kind of sad to see).
For various reasons I didn't make the transition myself right away and
only started watching anime on the computer rather later on. So there's
a bunch of series that I saw some but not all of through an anime club
before the anime club closed down, but I never went back to watch the
rest of.

(And a certain amount of series that aired then, I missed at the time,
and I've never gone back to watch since.)