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 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.
ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD
ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD
ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD
👏😐👏😐👏
deleted by creator
I will never stop recommending Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Madoka Magika.
Honestly, Cowboy Bebop. The universe it builds feels lived-in, and the animation style is incredibl, but the music is really the star.
Be aware, however, that while there are happy moments, it is an anime about bounty hunters, and there are very few happy endings. Beautiful endings, poetic endings, satisfying endings - but never happy.
Bang.
The Leftovers
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.
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!
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
The Good Place
Season 1 is just setting up the story
Holy motherforking shirtballs… someone stole my post idea!
Steins;Gate, can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet. It’s good, but do watch at least halfway before you judge it.
Yeah this one takes several episodes to set the hook and understand some behaviors. But once it does it’s binge worthy
This one happened during a period when moe was more brain-dead than cute, and the sister character who is supposed to be his motivation for everything just ruins the whole show for me she acts so stupid.
There’s definitely a bit of untasteful moe stuff but it’s not a big part of the show. But yea it would be better without it.
Mayushii acting stupid I cannot recognise at all. She’s just extremely genuine and she’s probably way more emotionally intelligent than any other character in the show.
It’s been a very long time since I watched it, but I distinctly recall being very annoyed by her character. I just checked out the Wiki, and the very first line on her personality is “[she] possesses an extremely childish and naïve attitude for her age.” While not stupid exactly , is just about what I recall hating about her.
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
- Frieren — fantasy, drama about an elf dealing with feelings she didn’t think she had
- Delicious in Dungeon — Fantasy, comedy/light drama about rescuing a party member and eating monsters along the way.
- Kaguya Sama — rom-com about not losing the love war
- Konosuba — Isekai comedy about… nothing really
- That Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime — Isekai about being reincarnated as a slime monster, then building a wonderful found family community of monsters.
They’re all pretty light hearted but all are well made and fun.
—edited for formatting
Maybe not everyone cup of tea but to me Mr. Robot.
At first sight you may thinking the show is about “individual” hacker taking down corporate but once you understand it has longer lasting effect especially when you relate/something similar with Elliot. The cinematography, the score is chef kiss👌🏻, Season 2 slow burns on the first half but worth to not miss them.
The magical thing is this show on rewatch make more sense and definitely Sam Esmail planned everything from get go on writing.
Among the best TV series I have seen.
The thing that’s so great about Mr. Robot is that it ends perfectly. You can tell the show writers decided exactly what story they wanted to tell and then executed on that plan. They didn’t just meander about and eventually land on a half-assed ending once the show’s budget dried up.
I disagree. First season was perfect. But then it went downhill into unresolved Lost mystery boxes. The last episode of the last season itself was great but Esmail had no idea how to fill out the episodes of the last season to get there.
He was throwing around split personalities like Ronald Moore threw around Cylons. The time machine story went nowhere despite a multi season build up.
imo the ending, last half of season 4 is justified. If you take the “Time machine” fan theory and in case of Elliot meeting himself to me it’s just happen inside his head like what happen at some moment in S1 and S2.
For split personalities/MPD, if you rewatch the show Sam Esmail definitely laid out everything from start ever since Season 1, that’s why rewatching the show especially on S1 some scenes make senses.
Watched this show back in late 2022. Avoided forums/online discussion so I can fully grasp the show on my own thoughts.
Yes the split personality was fine. It was the last season where there’s child Elliot split personality and, mom split personality. And no, they weren’t in Season 1.
Esmail went down the Ronald Moore path where he had an idea but lied to the audience that he had a plan. Again first season was perfect but I don’t think Esmail expected it to be such a success and quickly had to fill in extra seasons with mystery boxes.
SPOILER ALERT
First time I realized that the ending/revelation was that near in S1, jaw dropped really hard.
@Crafter72
I watched a good chunk of it when it was first coming out, but I had to drop it because i was frankly not in a good enough place to hear the things that show was trying to say.I can see your point as I watch the show after everything released (late 2022).
I was only able to get a couple episodes in. When his surrogate gay dad said that he’d do anything for him and two scenes later you have Rami Malek going “AHH I have noone who can help me what do I do?!??”, I couldn’t keep watching.
Though it might also be my inability to watch a show where characters get ‘worse’. I got upto the third last episode of Arcane and when a pivotal moment in a characters story went bad It took me 5 days to finish the show.
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.
Apothecary Diaries
I cannot stress this enough. Apothecary Diaries
Light hearted and fun (low stress):
-
Kuma Kuma Kuma bear
-
Mashle
-
Raising kids while adventuring
-
I parry everything
-
Killing slimes for 300 years
-
By the grace of the gods
-
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
-
Aristocrat’s otherworldly adventures
-
Banished former hero lives as he pleases
-
Campfire cooking in another world
-
Level 2 super cheat powers
-
Reincarnated as the 7th prince
-
Parallel world pharmacy
-
Sleepy princess in the demon castle
-
Villainess level 99
-
The wrong way to use healing magic
Other suggestions offered based on the person’s preferences:
-
Dungeon Meshi
-
Goblin Slayer
-
So I’m a spider, so what?
-
Solo leveling
-
That time I got reincarnated as a slime
-
Dan da Dan
-
The vexations of a shut-in vampire princess
-
Ya boy Kongming
-
Standalone complex
-
One punch man
-
Kill la kill
Dan da Dan is just coming out now. First episode animation looked really good and it is off the walls insane.
-