Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?
Apothecary Diaries
I cannot stress this enough. Apothecary Diaries
Light hearted and fun (low stress):
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Kuma Kuma Kuma bear
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Mashle
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Raising kids while adventuring
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I parry everything
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Killing slimes for 300 years
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By the grace of the gods
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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
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Aristocrat’s otherworldly adventures
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Banished former hero lives as he pleases
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Campfire cooking in another world
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Level 2 super cheat powers
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Reincarnated as the 7th prince
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Parallel world pharmacy
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Sleepy princess in the demon castle
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Villainess level 99
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The wrong way to use healing magic
Other suggestions offered based on the person’s preferences:
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Dungeon Meshi
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Goblin Slayer
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So I’m a spider, so what?
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Solo leveling
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That time I got reincarnated as a slime
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Dan da Dan
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The vexations of a shut-in vampire princess
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Ya boy Kongming
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Standalone complex
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One punch man
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Kill la kill
Dan da Dan is just coming out now. First episode animation looked really good and it is off the walls insane.
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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 will never stop recommending Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Madoka Magika.
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
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
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 — 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.
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Bloom into you, the only anime that existed in my head
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.
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.
Gate
Stargate SG1
Higurashi when they cry. Not the new stuff but the old stuff.
Just visited the village it’s based off of IRL and man was it a sight to behold. Simply a beautiful area.
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!
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.
Just finished this yesterday, totally agree, 10/10
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.
See you space cowboy…