Where's all the grown-up series?

[Panky]

IIRC, Sakura Mail was in college mood, at least that is what they wanted to do. It's a silly anime, but oh well, it has somehow adult settings. GTO is sometimes focused in more in the adults than the boys, and even if all the series kinda happens in a highschool, they don't use the usual point of view.
It's true there aren't many that are right on focused on grown-up people in modern settings, but that's because general interest is also focused on it.

[Knowname]

Death NOTE!!

[seasons]

I really enjoyed Bartender, though the bootleg I purchased (what else was I supposed to buy?) was rife with some of the most incomprehisible translations I've ever seen in a fansub or bootleg.

The final drink recipe (the final "scene" of the entire series, as well) was the most shameless display of translator laziness I've ever seen, a huge "fuck you" to every viewer who'd watched the entire series up to that point.

Maybe this sort of thing happens all the time with bootlegs, I hardly ever watch them so I wouldn't know.

[seasons]

Is this a "grown-up" series?

[ZephyrStar]

maybe I should get passed the fourth grade

Sorry, couldn't resist

[Knowname]

You know what? I won't defend my opinion cuz that's all it is, an opinion, you can like theory being regurgitated to you in a "high" class manor if you like. You may call that mature if you like but whatever maturity you think you may have certainly isn't being displayed here. You can quit with the personal insults, it's very childish. If I was the op I certainly wouldn't think any of you could recognize maturity if it bit you in the butt.

[Knowname]

Sorry didn't see this before

lBartender gives interesting stories about alcohol, so if you're interested in spirits and their history like I am it's a great show. If you're not, then why are you watching a show called 'Bartender'? Adding to that is that it's always referencing and dealing with some of my favorite things from pop culture and uses swing and jazz music for its background noise. The plot of each episode has a stream of consciousness kinda style instead of the usual linear way of doing things and most of the rhetoric is extremely refined. I haven't seen an anime as original as that in a long time.

This I agree with (and I believe is what I said o.0 but you said it better if that's what you like...). And actually many animes have a unique internal message. I was hospitalized as a child and missed out on a lot of things. Hanbun no Tsuki, though many call it boring and some even call it a slap in the face on true details about health care in japan lol, is one of those I personally like but not everybody will. Rideback as well.

It's not so much why I watch it (it's not hard to obtain) it's why it's suggested to me (or the op) and we have both outlined why the op should or should not watch. Bartending in itself is not so boring to me, I mean one could watch Cocktail (the '80s Tom Cruise movie) and be reasonably entertained without it going into details. But this series goes into details. Blah, you get the idea o.0

[Bakadeshi]

don't know if this counts, but i quite enjoyed both Twelve kingdoms and saiunkoku monogatari, both dealing with more adult situations regarding how women where not really respected as positions of athority back in fudal times, and how hard they work for it , good stuff.

[Knowname]

Just Finished the Unlicensed Anime, Crystal Blaze. It's great! I've never seen Lethal Weapon really, but somehow I feal it has a Lethal Weapon, buddy cop, type feel to it. It doesn't really have anything to do with cops either but... It's really fun xD (I must have seen Lethal Weapon somewhere...)

Has nothing to do with school, but I'd categorize it as a "grown up" series.

[macchinainterna]

Realistic animes are a foreign concept to me XD;

... <.<;

... However, when I think "grown-up" animes, I think of Satoshi Kon's movies (Complex character studies, mature themes and dialogue) or Mushishi (Mostly adult characters in deeply thought-provoking stories).