Man, Nodame Cantabile. I'm really torn about that title. It amuses me like crazy and when I watched the anime I laughed and laughed... but Chiaki is kind of emotionally abusive, imo. Hilariously uptight but emotionally abusive. It took me a while to get over how he treats Nodame. No clue if that's just the anime, though, as I haven't read the manga yet.

As for my own rec! I have a very interesting one. It's incredibly depressing but it's one of those hurts so good shows. Set in a heavily militarized, post-apocalyptic world, it involves a high school boy, a mysterious girl with water-based powers, heart-breaking child soldiers, and a somewhat heavy-handed Nazi/Hitler reference. But it's very interesting and it's a short enough watch for something that'll rip your heart out and stomp on it with iron-spiked cleats. 8Db