Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?
For shows: My name is Earl was a very funny one that never got a proper ending before being cancelled.
For anime: Serial Experiments Lain.
Gate
Stargate SG1
Psych. All time favorite show.
Have you watched one piece? Already complete with one season of 24 episodes.
Deep Space 9; Adventure Time, and Gravity Falls
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have you heard about Ajin?
That one was solid, really wanted more but I guess Netflix said no
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.
No. I don’t have a problem. I can stop whenever I want! Y’all up to date on One Piece btw?
Yes, after two years of watching on and off
Now I hate the waiting
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Frieren was awesome but it’s so fresh I’m not absolutely sure it’ll keep being that
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Severance season 1 (follow-up seasons upcoming, not sure if they can keep up with the extremely high quality of S1)
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True Detective season 1
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Madoka was great, thanks to tight storytelling and the best soundtrack I’ve ever heard
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Kino’s Journey – somewhat similar to Frieren but 20 years prior
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Chernobyl (2019)
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Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
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Firefly
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Twin Peaks, especially seasons 1 and 3, but season 2 and the movie might be needed to fully appreciate
- Frieren was awesome but it’s so fresh I’m not absolutely sure it’ll keep being that.
Oh but it does (imo), I mainly read but I think Frieren and Atelier Witch Hat is the strongest running fantasy series currently.
Thats only because bookworm just ended. Idk if you’re into light novels but its the best piece of media i might have even consumed three and a half times.
Are you referring to Ascendance of a Bookworm? If so, would you recommend I keep watching the anime whenever a new season comes out, or jump into the manga?
You are right on the series, but its not the manga. The manga(s) are covering the first 3 parts, but none of them are complete. The anime is going in order but its only decent. Read the bookworm books, i personally have read over a 1000 books. This will be the best you ever read if you pick it up
For a different recommendation, im currently on book 11 of wheel of time and its also a masterpiece with plenty of flaws.
Twin peaks has a third season?
Yup, the season’s called the return. If you liked the first two seasons you should watch it
I’ve been wanting to re-watch firefly lately. It’s short but there’s just so much in it. It’s one of two shows I’ve watched start-to-finish more than once.
And since we’re here for recommendations…the other show I’ve watched more than once is Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Based on a book by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) it’s charming and insane in ways you might expect if you’re familiar with Hitchhiker’s Guide but it’s absolutely not predictable either. So much fun. (Available on Netflix (in Canada…last I checked))
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Yeah that’s a good one. Especially the first season, but the second ain’t bad either.
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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!
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.
@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
Delicious in Dungeon!
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.
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.
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.
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
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/
