Most Japanese anime leaves me with, at best, a raised eyebrow and a stern, judgemental scowl. It’s cultural differences, of course; what strikes me as often incoherently bizarre nonsense I’m sure makes sense to people raised with wholly different cultural mores and legends and fairy tales and such.
Still: I don’t care what you might think of “lolita fashions” and “catgirls” and “where is that tentacle going” and all that weird-ass stuff the Japanese put in their anime, you CANNOT watch this and not laugh your ass off:
“Gate,” from the Wikipedia entry, is essentially “a Stargate opens in Tokyo connecting this world to Westeros/Middle Earth.” The other side has elves and magic and dragons and such; this side has the Japanese Self Defense Forces, who are a bit peeved with the gateway opens and Roman Empire-esque soldiers come through, attack and kidnap a bunch of Japanese civilians. And so, the series deals with a modern military force tangling with a fantasy world, and tearing it a new gate-hole.