ung Gundam kasi i also find depressing...in a few of the installments there's always a pair of lovers where one would end up getting killed protecting the other, girls cries, vows to kill off the enemy, and so on and so forth. All the while kasi you're pumped up, waiting for the next great battle scene...then bibirahan ka ng ganyan. Makes you feel guilty for being such a war freak B)

One other anime movie i saw as a kid -- World War 199x i think -- i remember really getting excited to see really great battle scenes and such...then kalagitnaan it displays the ravages of war. Grabe, kakadepress.

Then again, that's a credit to the storyline these anime series have; i can't think of any other cartoon that evokes so much emotion, so much thought.

i've been following the Naruto mange quite regularly(8 tails na si Naruto, and lumabas na si 4th. Cool!) though i don't know how Mashashi Kishomoto will wrap up the series. sobrang daming side stories.