Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?
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.
Pantheon
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?
Watch until episode 9 at least.
I just didn’t have the patience for that honestly. I doubt it will make a difference.
You can fully skip episode 4, if it matters at all. The first two episodes are pretty strong but after that it kind of rambles a bit until around episode 6 or so.
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!
Gurren Lagan, to second like a dozen people. Kill la Kill is A+ if you can get over it being weird Also I adored Promare.
Better call Saul - a beautiful drama with a hint of comedy and action. Better than Breaking bad and doesn’t require much knowledge of it.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Scavengers Reign is incredible, easily the best animated sci fi show made in the past few years IMO. It’s weird and emotional and deeply sincere in a way a lot of media isn’t anymore.
If you liked Fantastic Planet you’ll probably like Scavengers Reign.
I keep recommending Ancient Magus Bride. Nobody watches…
It’s a seriously good anime with some slice of life and drama, an amazing magical world and SUPER GOOD SOUNDTRACK
If anyone reading this watches it, I beg of you, please tell me what you thought
Watching Ancient Magus Bride now from your recommendation! I had it on the back burner for a while. Five episodes in, it’s good. Still curious what exactly will happen, there’s not too much of an actual plot. But I’m fine with it even if it goes on like this.
Hell yeah lets goooo! Finally managed to convince someone. In my case I love the contrast between the laid back chill moments and the more dramatic/action filled moments, so yeah, often plot takes the backseat. I hope it stays good for you till the end!
Finished the first season now. It’s really good - I especially love the soundtrack and the calm nature of the first half. It sorta reminds me of the first half of Frieren (before Frieren’s second half which turns into shonen fight stuff 🙄). The second half is really sad… it feels like everything is going wrong all the time and there’s not really a nice resolution. It feels like the characters are struggling a lot but not managing to fix things despite it. It’s kinda sad and frustrating.
I’m really a sucker for happy endings so this style doesn’t really leave me satisfied. It’s not that it ended sadly per se but I wouldn’t exactly call it a happy ending either. How would you say the second season compares?
I have yet to watch the second season since I think the animation is absolutely beautiful and want to see it at its height from a BD rip. Its been a while since I watched it but I remember it ending in a hopeful tone, even if all problems weren’t solved it still seemed like it would mostly work out with time. Contrasts are really central in this series I feel, from chill and happy to sad and hopeless, nothing captures that more than the exquisite soundtrack no doubt!
I can however recommend the two OVAS that come after the second season (tho one is a prequel), those were pretty nice too!
Btw, it makes me seriously happy that not only you took my recommendation but also really liked it so thank you very much
I’ll probably give season 2 a shot. As far as I gather, it’s almost caught up with the manga? I’m kinda considering to just read it but maybe I’ll go for the anime if it’s close to caught up anyway.
Btw have you watched Steins;Gate? Perhaps now that I’ve humoured your suggestion, you could humour mine :)
So here is the thing, I heard about it but, I tried to watch it 3 times. Every single time I get to episode like 4 and Im bored out of my mind, and I haaaate the main character.
Ah okay haha. It’s important to like the main character as he’s in every scene of the whole thing basically.
I will say… it kind of intentionally makes him annoying at the start, which makes for some good development of his character later. But he won’t change completely I suppose. It does start slow, but it will really take off if you get about half-way, and I mean really take off. The first half and the second half are markedly different. You have to enjoy the mystery and just the interactions between the characters as a kind of slice-of-life thing in the start of the anime.
It’s alright, maybe it just isn’t your genre or your thing. Still my personal favourite of all time, but I am a sucker for that kind of story.
Babylon 5
Yes! I’ve been rewatching Babylon 5 and it’s as amazing as I remember!
