Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?
I’m surprised no one has mentioned The Wire. A TVshow taking place in Baltimore about intricate relationship between drug dealers, police and politics. Love every part of it!
It’s shot in 4:3 aspect ratio despite 16:9 starting to become the standard for tv at the time. It’s has since been “remastered” and adjusted to 16:9 aspect ratio. I was worried it would ruin an already perfect show but I actually liked it. It’s an HBO show.
Long episodes (60min?) and might take a few episodes to get into as there are many characters and storylines that interlace.
Thanks be later, probably.
I will never stop recommending Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Madoka Magika.
Mr. Robot for live-action. definitely avoid looking anything up about it, there are spoilers everywhere and it’s better to go in fresh. there’s no good trailers for it really but if you watch the first six-minute opening scene… by the end of it you’ll know whether or not the show is for you. and if you like it you will probably REALLY wanna keep watching. they go out of their way to get the tech stuff accurate and it’s pretty much a cyberpunk story set in the present day. but also so much more deeper and psychological than you’d expect. my favorite show of all time, no contest. the whole thing was planned in advance and it SHOWS. it’s more like one long very good movie than a television series quality-wise
and Bojack Horseman for animation. i’d also recommend avoiding spoilers for this. thematically, it gets off to a slow start pretending to be just another standard adult animation Family Guy-esque clone before it slowly morphs over the course of season 1 into a meta deconstruction of those sorts of shows and goes off the rails to truly hit its dramatic stride. and once it starts going it never lets up. it similarly hits very hard and gets pretty dark
Extraordinary Attorney Woo - A Netflix K-drama about an autistic savant lawyer. It’s charming, funny, and has a really beautiful story overall.
Bofuri: I Don’t Want To Get Hurt, So I’ll Max Out My Defense - a cute and fun anime about Maple, who doesn’t want to get hurt in a VR MMO so she maxes her defense and becomes a hero.
I like light-hearted shows, so I’ll be checking out a few of the ones in this thread 🙂
I slept on Supernatural for a long time and now I can’t stop, I’m on like season 13 and it still keeps getting better
For anime, Ghost in the Shell. My favorite is the Stand Alone Complex series.
For TV show, Fringe. It’s a sci-fi show taking place in the modern world.
For movie, Red Lights. It’s about a group that disproves paranormal/super natural events. I recommend it because it’s not well known.
Bloom into you, the only anime that existed in my head
The Leftovers
Apothecary Diaries
I cannot stress this enough. Apothecary Diaries
Light hearted and fun (low stress):
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Kuma Kuma Kuma bear
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Mashle
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Raising kids while adventuring
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I parry everything
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Killing slimes for 300 years
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By the grace of the gods
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Fluffy paradise
Used to also recommend Bofuri but the last episode of season 2 implies heavily that season 3 is going to head way off in a completely different feel from 1+2
Lighter and did not end on a hard cliffhanger
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Aristocrat’s otherworldly adventures
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Banished former hero lives as he pleases
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Campfire cooking in another world
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Level 2 super cheat powers
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Reincarnated as the 7th prince
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Parallel world pharmacy
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Sleepy princess in the demon castle
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Villainess level 99
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The wrong way to use healing magic
Other suggestions offered based on the person’s preferences:
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Dungeon Meshi
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Goblin Slayer
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So I’m a spider, so what?
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Solo leveling
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That time I got reincarnated as a slime
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Dan da Dan
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The vexations of a shut-in vampire princess
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Ya boy Kongming
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Standalone complex
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One punch man
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Kill la kill
Dan da Dan is just coming out now. First episode animation looked really good and it is off the walls insane.
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Everybody kind of slept on it but I really like AppleTV’s See. Really unfortunate name for a pretty interesting premise, and the fight scenes are brutal and very well shot.
Higurashi when they cry. Not the new stuff but the old stuff.
Just visited the village it’s based off of IRL and man was it a sight to behold. Simply a beautiful area.
I RECOMMEND EVERYBODY LOVES HYPNOTOAD. IT IS A GREAT SHOW.
ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD.
I feel like I’m missing the context… Where did this meme starALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD.
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OMG!!! I get to recommend Delicious in Dungeon!!! The show is a bit of a slow burn, but the early episodes set up the incredible world building and the basic plot points. Then as it starts churning it gets crazy. The story is strong enough on it’s own, but it’s animated by Studio Trigger so the anime is pure perfection.
I keep hearing it’s amazing but I bounced off hard on the first couple episodes. I wish anime didn’t need the 5 episodes rule, things should sell themselves from the start. Maybe I’ll give it another go. My wife is keen to watch it.
I powered through as I kept hearing everyone recommend this. It felt pointless because I didn’t get watching a cooking show about stuff you could never eat because it isn’t real.
The comments I read said it took a tonal shift when they finally got back to the red dragon. It’s about halfway through, which took me weeks to get to.
The second half is awesome! If this is what it was like all along, it would have been amazing. The first half gives you nothing to expect what the second half is, which makes it feel more intense, but I still feel is kinda terrible pacing.
I want more now because the characters really are good, which is probably why they used that first half the way they did, but it was tough before seeing where it was going. Frieren had a much better buildup before it really started getting serious for example.
Drag liked the first half better. Drag came for the cooking. Drag thinks the second half has too much drama. Drag likes the kitty, though.
anon does not judge Drag negatively for having different preferences. anon understands why a dragon person may not enjoy the second half. anon also approves of the kitty. anon and drag find common ground.
I was hooked by the second episode.
I was also watching a lot of cooking shows while playing Elden Ring. So maybe it was right fit right time.
Read the manga first to get past that initial hump. You can clear like 5 episodes worth of material in the time it takes to watch an episode and see if it’s for you.
Gurren Lagan
Fucken watch it
Also,
Log Horizon is what SAO wishes it was
Gurren Lagan
What is so great about this? Just watched the first couple of eps. First impression is not good: It seems like the classical mindless shonen fighting anime alongside pretty childish humor and a distastefully sexualized main female character. Her outfit is literally a bikini and she’s sexualized in the very first scene and in basically every scene she’s in since that one, wtf?
Clearly your drill is not the drill that will pierce the heavens. /s It’s not for everyone, and for all the sexualization there is never any sex or nudity depicted. At least you gave it a try though!
Just who the hell do you think we are?
Yeah absolutely clicked on this to spout my spiel about Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It’s my favorite anime ever.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is up there too, but I like TTGL more.
Fuck i forgot about Gurren Lagan. What am I doing with my life
The Good Place
Season 1 is just setting up the story
Holy motherforking shirtballs… someone stole my post idea!