Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?

@asklemmy

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    14 minutes ago

    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.

  • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Anime:

    • Pluto (Dark alternative story of Astro Boy)
    • Banana Fish (heartbreaking, hard to forget. Don’t get spoiled too much looking it up)
    • Heavenly Delusion (brother gets brain transplanted into dead sisters body; interesting plot and characters but only one season so far)

    Cartoon:

    • Bojack Horseman (great mix of realistic depiction of depression and comedy)
    • Arcane (almost makes one want to play League)

    TV:

    • Atlanta (surrealism and critique of society, also I just love Donald Glover)
    • Dark (the one German show that is not ass)
    • The Expanse (great sci-fi and politics, only gets weaker in the later seasons)
    • Severance (one big black mirror episode, I am so hyped for season 2)
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    26 minutes ago

    Berserk 1997. Berserk is my favorite thing of all time, but it is deff not for the faint hearted.

    Highly recommend the manga too. Its a bit different, but same atmosphere and general story. It has more context as 1997 was only designed for one season, so it cut out a lot of things that would have become important later on.

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      6 minutes ago

      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!

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    38 minutes ago

    Mushishi. Very slow & contemplative, but I still think about it decades later.

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    2 hours ago

    Comedy: What we do in the shadows;

    Action: Black Sails;

    Anime: Monster;

    Depression: Bojack Horseman.

  • Kierkegaanks regretfully@beige.party
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    1 hour ago

    @Shkshkshk @asklemmy Travelers. First season of westworld. Better call saul. Mindhunters. The Jinx (documentary series about the strange case of robert durst). Clarkson’s farm (he is divisive but seeing him struggle with farm life is great). Ted Lasso

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    3 hours ago

    Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood. For me, it’s the perfect anime. An amazing blend of action, narrative, great characters, and an extremely good and satisfying ending.

    Archer is a great adult animation. I find it so goddamn funny.

    Bojack Horseman is probably has the best fictional depiction of depression ever. Also has plenty of funny moments.

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    Made in Abyss - really good but not for the faint hearted. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the creator is Akihito Tsukushi, the same person who did the designs for the Elebits games!

    Neon Genesis Evangelion

    Cowboy Bebop

    Scavengers Reign - this one’s pretty trippy and has some great creature designs!

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      49 minutes ago

      I cant get past the loli/shota grossness at the start of Made in Abyss. I’d be embarrassed to recommend that to anyone.

      Edit: Apparently not just at the beginning? Disgusting either way.

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          55 minutes ago

          There’s so many works I’ve seen that I wish were created by someone other than their author/studio.

          Mild example: Yesterday, a clip from an anime popped up in my Shorts feed, and it looked cool so I went to the comments to see if I could find the name. Right at the top, I see a comment I left saying “Don’t watch this, everything after episode 1 was incredibly mid. The plot sounds awesome when you describe it but in execution it was so fucking bland”. I don’t even remember leaving that comment.

          (The anime in question was Daily Life of Immortal King. Protag is born with Ultra Instinct and only gets more powerful over time, so his family puts a magic seal on him to keep his power at the mere ultra-instinct he was born at. The anime follows him as he tries to keep a low profile at Xianxia hero school.)

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          50 minutes ago

          I was told by others that it was only at the beginning and to give it another shot, but I was too skeeved out to keep going. Good to know I made the right call and avoided that pedo shit.

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            8 minutes ago

            The manga is worse. Ive read and watched a lot of anime and manga. Made in the abyss is almost the most fucked up you can get.

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    3 hours ago

    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.

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    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

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    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