Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?
Monogatari series. I must have watched that entire series like a dozen times already. I absolutely love the VA’s performance. Finally reading through the Light Novels now.
Hajime No Ippo. Manga is still a blast and the anime was incredible too.
I had a good time with Blue Lock as well.
Gate
Stargate SG1
Delicious in Dungeon!
Another one that I found gave a kinda similar feel is Dr Stone.
Though instead of diving deep into fantasy mechanics, that one is based on real world physics (well, other than some characters having super-human levels of skill) and rebuilding a modern society from scratch.
I find them similar due to their attention to detail and using their environment to build up their capabilities. The overall plot is very different and DinD has a bit more charm. Not that Dr Stone doesn’t have charm.
If I could choose which one I want to see one more season of right now, I’d pick DinD. If I could choose which one gets seen through to the end, I’d pick Dr Stone.
I just couldn’t get into the groove with Dr. Stone. I felt it required a much greater degree of suspension of disbelief since the setting is rooted in our reality, but they hand-wave over a lot of infrastructure needed to create the technologies they produce. When they got to cell phones/radios I just had to stop.
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Yeah, I think they shouldn’t have called them cell phones, they looked like just AM radios, which aren’t that complicated. Just need a microphone (membrane attached to a magnet), amplifier (they used vacuum tubes), and an antenna (whose length would determine the frequency). Receiver is the same thing but backwards (with adjusted geometry on the mic/speaker, but they are electrically the same). If they had the vacuum tubes, copper wire, and magnets (which they could make more of once they had one), then I don’t think that part was that far fetched (though I could be missing something big tbf). But a cell phone is a lot more than a 2-way AM radio, even if you’re talking about a simple phone with no display.
Biggest issue I had with suspension of disbelief was when they used a vehicle without a road system. Roads came before cars in our history and had to be good enough for horses to pull carts. Using a two stroke steam engine to generate enough torque for offroading with those basic tires was a big hand wave IMO.
Oh also the whole using a celebrity impersonation to convince some of the other side that the US was back up and running was a weak tactic. Like I’m glad they had it immediately get noticed, but a better way to do that bluff would have been to just have other “radio chatter” going on to make it sound like they had joined up with others, at which point they could have talked about all kinds of technologies that might have taken the fight out of people from the modern era.
This one is great. I was skeptical the first three episodes, but around ep 4 it picked up and the plot just went into overdrive. I really enjoyed it!
Thanks for your comment, I gave it 2 episodes and stopped. I’ll give it another go.
Yeah, around ep 4 they stop making it like a cooking show and it starts to get interesting. They still have those little cooking montages, but it stops being the focus.
Those montages and deep dives into monster mechanics and biology are my favorite parts of the show.
I love that peeling away the layers of fantasy. It feels like a DnD campaign where the players wanted to get really weird with stretching the rules while staying within them and the DM enthusiastically agreed and joined the party with their dwarf that had been doing that for years.
I’m the same. Watched the first two and was like this isn’t for me. If you continue and like it, let me know
I recommend this to non-anime fans too! The episodes are so good and non-anime tropey.
Hajime No Ippo!
It’s a boxing anime based on a manga (that’s still going after decades!) where a school kid is beat up and rescued by a passing boxer, who takes him in to a boxing gym to fix his wounds. It turns out he’s got some solid power from his family background in fishing, so he becomes a boxer and learns what it means to be strong.
If you like DBZ, you’ll probably love this. Alongside this, it’s refreshing in that it’s an anime that praises hard work, rather than being “the chosen one” or being gifted power. What I love about it is that several characters go through huge growth in ways that are truly unexpected.
You’re getting a recency bias, but I watched Akudama Drive about a month ago and really loved it.
Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(1995_film)
A vintage cult classic, which is the inspiration for many other cult classics
Meh, Stand alone complex is among the best media in existence, that’s my can’t recommend enough.
Surprised I had to scroll down this far to see SAC mentioned
Though I love the original film too
For shows: My name is Earl was a very funny one that never got a proper ending before being cancelled.
For anime: Serial Experiments Lain.
Anime - Cromartie High
Hell yes.
Erased is my favorite anime of all time. I’m a sucker for both time travel and “big damn heroes” stuff.
Just watched it based on this comment. This anime is seriously good, definitely in my top 5s.
Have you watched Steins;Gate? It definitely has some parallels.
Yep, I love Steins;Gate. I rank Erased higher because it’s “all killer no filler”, while SG has a bit of a slow start. They’re very close though.
Yea I get that - although I kinda like the slow start, it makes the hook all the better. I also wouldn’t have minded Erased going on for a bit longer, I think Steins;Gate is like the perfect length.
You’re not wrong, but I was about to drop it due to how slow it was. I decided to give it one more episode, and that was the one that got interesting. xD
- The Terror (First season only)
- Atlanta
- Mob Psycho
- Devilman Crybaby
- Mononoke (the show)
- Prison School
- High school of the dead (I went into this expecting to be offended, but I left impressed)
I never watched any anime but then watched one punch man. It’s really clever and very approachable for new and casual viewers.
Jellyfish can’t swim at night
Apothecary Diaries
I like watching Trigun, Clannad, Blood+ but I also really reccomend people read some Manga:
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Tank Chair by Yashiro Manabu
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Elfen Leid by Okamoto Lynn (also has an anime, but different endings)
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Moto Shogun no Undead Knight by Shuko and Necoco
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Dandadan by Yukinobu Tatsu (manga announced)
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You Will Hear the Voice of the Dead by Uguiso Sachiko
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Dai Dark by Q Hayashida
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