Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?
Mushishi. Very slow & contemplative, but I still think about it decades later.
Fuckin love Mushi-shi!! Just started a rewatch of it. It’s way better and different to the overwhelming majority of so many animes. Top 3 of all time for me.
They made a second season/follow up that I never finished, it lacked a je-ne-sais-quoi.
Trying to remember if I watched the second season. If not I will be shortly. Got ahold of both seasons.
I think this is the sequel: “Mushi-shi: Next Passage” https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3443522/
Arcane. It’s always Arcane. Arcane.
That show had absolutely no reason to be so good for such a really toxic game.
Gate
Stargate SG1
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.
I’m always trying to get people watching Konosuba it’s just funny but yeah I liked it so much I read the novels and spinoff.
I liked it so much I read the novels and spinoff.
Same. In my case, it got me to read my first light novel.
Delicious in Dungeon!
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.
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
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.
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.
I recommend this to non-anime fans too! The episodes are so good and non-anime tropey.
Andor, best piece of SW since the 80s
It’s amazing how much Star Wars gets to stretch its legs once it’s allowed to break away from the fucking Skywalker family.
Yeah like… Why did it take that long to make the content andor has, it’s cray
have you heard about Ajin?
That one was solid, really wanted more but I guess Netflix said no
Claymore: Old anime. From a manga. Women with gigantic swords , the Claymore, fight some sort of demons in a forsaken world. We follow Claire, the Claymore Number 47, the least powerful of them all. Every episode has some sort of a twist, with new information about the incredible rich world and lore, and the power and origin of the Claymore. Drawing is captivating, unique, gorgeous.
Way better than Berserker, in the sense, that everything make sense and is foreshadow in Claymore.
I never found anything which scratches the same itch Claymore does.
Thanks for the rec, I love an old anime.
Undone, it’s created by the same guy who made Bojack Horseman.
I think most people haven’t seen/heard of it because it’s an amazon streaming exclusive, but you can watch it (and most other things) for free here: https://hydrahd.com/
I second this. I started watching “Undone” randomly while scrolling through the catalog, and I’m so glad I did. Absolutely loved it! The art style is nice, and I think Rosa Salazar is a great actress (she gives me huge Aubrey Plaza vibes too, which is cool).
Scavengers Reign. One of the best pieces of sci-fi I’ve ever seen. They managed to create a world that feels truly alien, and the environment has such complex cause/effect relationships. Highly recommend!
Just finished this yesterday, totally agree, 10/10
I only opened this thread to make sure someone mentioned this show. My husband keeps saying “I wish we could find another like that one we watched, with the alien really alien planet, what was it called?” It is impressive.
Fucking DEADWOOD.
I can’t get anybody in my life to watch it and it is literally in the running for best show of all-time.
This thread is case-in-point!
Comedy: What we do in the shadows;
Action: Black Sails;
Anime: Monster;
Depression: Bojack Horseman.
Afterlife
I think nobody mentioned it yet. It’s about someone who lost the love of his life, so the show is about those emotions and the struggle to continue. It’s quite sad sometimes, but the show also has a lot of humour and I laughed my ass off multiple times.
Why watch a show about such a sad circumstance? I think we all lost someone or will lose very important persons / friends someday and it’s important to learn how to deal with that and how it’s important to continue. I can’t emphasize that enough
Is that the one with Ricky Gervais? Couldn’t take it seriously because he’s such a prick irl (and in the show I guess)
Hahaha, I can respect that! Too bad though, he’s a fine actor, with many faces.
I’m not an anime guy. But I’ll occasionally pop one on if the plot interests me. Vinland saga was good, Castlevania as well. I know the American anime haters will hate me. Aside from that I randomly watched "my happy marriage"with my wife and it was really good and I actually can’t wait till season 2
Everyone knows, the best anime is Boondocks
Castlevania shouldn’t be good but somehow is. Its certainly got some rocky highs and lows, but overall great
I was hooked from the first scene
