Recently I've been watching alot of Anime. Especially with Sci-FI themes. My favorite series is Gunslinger Girl. GG is a very intense drama. Despite of the title, its about an goverment agency in Italy. The agency deals with corruption/terrorists/etc. The thing is that they use unwanted children, mostly girls to do the dirty work. How you say? The girls are cyborgs. Not the terminator style, these cyborgs are realistic in technology wise. The agency use fiber muscle tech for example. Then there's "conditioning" or brainwashing. These girls have handlers. Each handler treats their cyborgs differently. The drama really test your emotions. One time I almost wanted to throw something at the TV.
Not because it's sucky its because I was suck in with the story. The characters in the series are very well done, you will want to grab one of the girls and hug them and spoil them to death . The series is about the girls instead of being mission based. Oh there's missions in there, but they're quick and very bloody. The entire series is 13 episodes, about 30 minutes long. I highly recommend it.
Falcon
PS What are your recommentions for anime watching? Esp SCI-FI ones?
PSS. One more thing, GG is kinda slow at first but it'll hook ya.