Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?
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.
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
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
I will never stop recommending Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Madoka Magika.
saw this comment and thought “this sounds exactly like gabi” then i read the username lmao
Gushing over magical girls is a good spiritual sequel to madoka
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 tried to start the wire, but every character was a shit person. couldnt buy that. i’m more cynical now. maybe i’ll start it again.
I think the creator and writer of The Wire based the characters and plot in his experience as a journalist working for Baltimore Sun. Some characters are less fictional than others, but I think he wanted to depict and emphasize how the city works. So maybe not too far from the real Baltimore.
I think while some characters are plain shit persons, many characters have a lot of depth in them, making you feel and root for them despite being the “bad guys”.
It also shows that doing what would be considered “right” will not always work out for you.
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.
Looked pretty cool but it’d feel like cheating if I didn’t finish Frontier first
Both are good Momoa vehicles but the worldbuilding and battle sequences from See are next level. The fact that they had to figure out how to do warfare with a completely blind army is a great example of how embracing constraints can result in amazing work.
That sounds awesome, will definitely check this out eventually
Bloom into you, the only anime that existed in my head
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 🙂
Frieren Delicious in Dungeon Kaguya Sama Konosuba That time I was reincarnated as a slime
Just a few off the top of me head.
My only problem with Delicious in Dungeon is that later episodes don’t have as much cooking. I’d love for them to get into food preservation now that they’re deeper in the dungeon and food is getting scarce. Pickling, salting, smoking, etc.
Just a few off the top of me head.
Because of the way you formatted that, it all showed up one word after the others and it tells something about the genre that I couldn’t recognise how many you mentioned. Thought it was like a single name for an anime show. Which imo wouldn’t be unheard of
yeah sorry about that, I had paragraph returns but didn’t come through—mobile app glitch.
It’s a feature not a bug; a single line break while composing doesn’t appear as a break in the post.
Adding two spaces at the end of the line will let you do a single line. There’s another method but I have forgotten it because I always just do two spacesHow does that function as a feature? What purpose does ignoring paragraph returns serve?
Monster
74 episodes. Psychological thriller. Serial murder mystery, but instead of “whodunit?” it’s “whydunit?”. Dramatic as an opera. No weird tropes. Superb character development. I love Magnificent Steiner.
Jellyfish can’t swim at night
Frieren for anime - It has everything I love about anime.
MASH for TV show (version without laugh tracks) - Kind of old, but even now, the humor is not outdated.It’s been a few years that I’ve learned that MASH had laugh track. It’s so weird. I never saw mash with laugh track and not even a morbid curiosity makes me want to try that.
“everything I love about anime” is a suspicious recommendation from a stranger on the internet!
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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Nichijou, Higurashi, Oregairu, Steins;Gate, SAO (season 1), Clannad, Naruto, Fruits Basket (?), Death Note, A Silent Voice, Ghibli Studio animes,
Alchemy of Souls on Netflix. A mix of Kung Fu Theater, a comedy, a love story, and a horror all rolled into one great story. It ran two seasons and each episode is over an hour long. 10/10
