Any Serious Anime To Recommend ?

[Watayo_Hirashi]

Anyone can recommend some serious anime like Aoi Bungaku or Blood+ ? Any shounen type anime is fine too ! Thanks a bunch !

[Screwby]

I'll try to distribute the anime with serious elements in rough categories
Action,suspense
Baccano! - Unsure if it's serious or not but still is very good
Black Lagoon
Darker than Black
Death Note
Elfen Lied
Hellsing - Not really serious but it is mature
Kara no Kyoukai
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~
Rurouni Kenshin Tsuiokuhen

Romance - It's hard to find anime that are properly serious as josei are the one that usually mature while most anime are shoujo
Clannad After Story
Kimi ni Todoke
Vampire Knight
The Rurouni Kenshin OVA and Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ could also partially fall into this category

Shounen with some serious themes
Black Cat
Chrome Shelled Regios
Dance in the Vampire Bund
Deadman Wonderland
Highschool of the Dead
Kaze no Stigma
Black Butler
Welcome to the NHK

Others
Grave of the Fireflies
Mushishi
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0

The ones in bold are the ones I think you should definitely watch if you feel like serious anime

[Darkhallows]

Shiki

[TadashiED]

Serious? I'm surprised no one said it yet,

School Days

It gets serious

[Gauntlgrym]

Perfect Blue or Lain

[Austin Masaki]

No one said Code Geass? Its intense action and drama!! Watch it, u won't be disappointed

[Watayo_Hirashi]

Serious? I'm surprised no one said it yet,

School Days

It gets serious

Yeah, it gets serious, and I get insane.

[Road]

C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control

Very unique and very interesting. Id say it was a serious one. Sadly short though.

[Ragenomics]

Berserk
Fist of the North Star
Golgo 13
Barefoot Gen
Gungrave (past first episode)
Rin: Daughter of the Mnemosyne
The Twelve Kingdoms (not Ikki-tousen)

That's all I can think of for now.

[Munchman]

As Screwby said , Kimi ni Todoke is great and so is Anohana. Welcome to the NHK deals with an incredibly serious issue, tough it deals with it trough dark humor.

If you want something a bit more "actiony" , then Code Gueass , Death Note and Baccano are pretty good.

[OtakuInu!!!]

Death Note - Full of suspense, mystery, bits of humor but only seldom occurs
Code Geass - Just like Death Note: Not much comedy. Mechas. Occasional fan service. Political.
Gundam 00 - Again with the mechas. Political
Jigoku Shoujo - Deals with the strifes of human life and most of all, revenge
Elfen Lied - Small amounts of comedy. Yes for gore. Has servings of ecchi though.

I'm not really sure if I can add 5 Centimeters Per Second here since it dwells more with romance.

That's all I could think of so far.

[Princess Cupcake]

Gunslinger Girl is a serious type anime, more or less. Tags: action, cyborgs, Europe, assassins. It's pretty good, I enjoyed it. Watched both seasons, including the OVAs. Has a few feel-good/funny moments but other than that it's pretty serious.

[marvel_phoenix]

BoogiePop Phantom is more of a horror genre, but it's pretty good. Different episodes follow different characters, but it all links up. I thought the series was a little short (12 eps) though.