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I can only assume it's inflicted you with some sort of brain damage causing the laughter parts of your brain to malfunction. Might want to check with a doctor.

I'd echo the alera stuff, just be aware there's some rape baiting -- approaching the act as a shock/titillation device -- in the... second or third book? Something like that, it's been a while since I've read 'em and I stalled on the forth or fifth book. Think there's some other bits here and there that are kinda' rough above and beyond the general violence. If stuff like that's a potential issue, you might want to consider a different series.

Would echo the riftwar stuff, too. They even made some video games (the krondor stuff) based off 'em. Or the other way around, something like that.

... also, if you could stand LotR, you might consider the Shannara stuff. There's certainly a lot of it, and it's not dissimilar in style. Also does the occasional faintly interesting thing. On the other hand, it's also more than a little sloggy, and I vaguely remember some pretty questionable writing at times, as well. Not something I'd actually recommend, but a possibility.

As for interesting settings... there are a small handful of Darksun books. I've read a few, and would probably recommend. Similarly, there's some spelljammer books (six total, making up the cloakmaster cycle) out there that are kinda' neat. Not particularly lengthy (though there's a fair few of the darksun stuff), but they provide some faintly interesting scenarios. In a similar tangent, consider that there are quite a few Magic the Gathering novels, some of which are even pretty interesting. Might be worth checking out if you're looking for fantasy that's fairly divergent from the norm.

Sometimes you ask yourself questions that you can't help but bring yourself to find the answer to. Questions like, "I wonder what this movie is like?" or, "Can that really fit through my sphincter?"

And then you find the answer.

And wish you hadn't.

Hilariously enough, danmachi would be an example. Bell actually looks like a rabbit, i.e. he has most of the characteristics of an albino (white hair, red eyes) as well as being fairly pale. And his appearance is unusual enough to draw note in a setting where, y'know, catgirls.

That slime thing mentioned back around the reincarnation discussion up a ways played the hair color straight, too. Not exactly anime (is LN/webnovel), but still. Probably plenty of others -- there's plenty of cases where what we consider abnormal hair color is, well, the color it appears. It being unusual for the setting in question is a different story, of course.

Breaker's a pretty decent lower-key punch magic series in general, even above and beyond the fighty bits. S'pretty darn alright, one of the better "martial arts" (scare quotes due to it involving, well, quite a bit of punch magic as things go on, instead of just the raw punch of a straight on martial arts work) manga thingies. Largely good art, regularly excellent fight scenes, non-negligible characterization and interaction... s'just fairly solid. Pretty sure it's been recommended a few times upthread a ways.

Don't think I've read through holy land yet. Might as well put it on the metaphorical list.

Clearly you need to burn a copy of blender to CD and blend it, it's. Blend a copy of blender in effigy. Maybe mail the results to whoever coded the thing.

It... looks like it might be considered a breakdown, which is a variation on a break. Possibly also known as a cut, for the specific genres asked about. I don't exactly know for sure, though.

E: looking in to it more, though, it looks a lot like there's not really a specific term for that. Just vocals.

Satyrs spawned satire. Goats, therefore, are only half-mockeries of the animal kingdom.

They didn't, actually. Fruit spawned satire.