^ agreed. There are way too many of the frilly, spastic, hyper sexualized anime out there mixed in with the good ones LOL. Somehow those seem to be the most popular, but there's more out there. To the "real people" folks, I always recommend Death Note.
Oh! Death Note absolutely is... But its also getting kinda old. These days I see so much of the frilly looking stuff being posted, and I was never much into that. Death Note in my experience is a good, kinda realistic medium that I've seen people who aren't into anime able to enjoy. Its kinda realistic and suspenseful.