Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?
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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
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 struggled to watch season 2 & 3. Fortunately, I had a buddy who watched with me because some scenes, you really question the choices.
As a whole ride on Mr Lynch’s crazy train, I enjoyed it.
Yes and it’s awesome.
- 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.
Ok, I’ll plan on reading the light novels then. Seems like it’s pretty long, and I personally adore the premise, so I’m really looking forward to this!
Since you added on a separate recommendation with Wheel of Time, I’ll add one as well and hope it’s not in your >1k books yet: the webnovel called Worm. If you already read it, I’d love to hear your thoughts instead :)
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.
Having pushed past season 2, I think the rest of True Detective is worth watching, although they’re still very different from the first.
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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.
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Foyles war is underrated, haven’t seen the rest.
Deadloch too, new season should be great.
@InverseParallax Line of Duty is about the internal affairs type cops, UK style. It’s pretty intense, lots of undercover stuff and suspense, with an arc that carries over seasons. First tv show I’d seen in a while where I was riveted to the screen and not doing anything else at the same time.
Deep Space 9; Adventure Time, and Gravity Falls
Have you watched one piece? Already complete with one season of 24 episodes.
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
Is that the one with Ricky Gervais? Couldn’t take it seriously because he’s such a prick irl (and in the show I guess)
Hahaha, I can respect that! Too bad though, he’s a fine actor, with many faces.
Lots of great recommendations but I have not seen anyone mention the anime Made In Abyss or Dr. Stone.
Made In Abyss has some taboo content early in season 1, but it and season 2 story arcs are the best I’ve seen of any anime to date. You will also need to watch the third movie Dawn of the Deep Soul before season 2. Movies 1 and 2 are recaps of season 1.
Dr. Stone is also great as a zany “what if” modern civilization was sent back to the stone age. Similar to made in abyss, you need to watch the OVA between seasons 2 and 3.
Call out to Goblin Slayer season 1 as well. The series visuals and story deeply fall off after season 1.
Highly recommend Dr. Stone. It gets too anime sometimes if you’re not into that. But the talk and approach of science is really good. My non-anime watching wife enjoyed parts of it. But then left the room during the anime trope-y parts.
Here are a couple that I didn’t see mentioned here.
- The Bear
- Ted Lasso
- Solo Levelling
- Dirk Gently holistic detective
- The Office
- Attack on Titan
- Code Geass Lelouch Rebellion
- Severance
- Bojack Horseman
I just finished Good Omens also, it’s great but the first episode is not because it’s all setup. It’s a Terry Pratchett story that I think I’ll recommend that one for a long time.
The Bear is awesome! The quality of the dialogue is really top notch. Some episodes are a bit intense (ie Thanksgiving from hell) where I needed a break in the middle but man do they ever have interesting characters!
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)
Heavenly Delusion was a trip. I enjoyed it a lot
I recommend watching Undone especially if you liked Bojack Horseman; it’s created by the same guy.
You can stream it for free here: https://hydrahd.com/ or check out the c/piracy wiki for one that suits you.
Oh I remember watching the first episode or so back when I still had amazon prime. Didn’t know it was made by the Bojack creator.
I have the whole *arr suite and jellyfin now, but thanks for the suggestion.
Higurashi no naku koro ni
Moe-Psycho galore only drip feeding you the real story.
Arcane. It’s always Arcane. Arcane.
That show had absolutely no reason to be so good for such a really toxic game.
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.
have you heard about Ajin?
That one was solid, really wanted more but I guess Netflix said no
Psycho pass.
Lots of philosophy on topics such as free will, determinism and AI mixed with action, in cyberpunk setting. Also nice end to end story in the first season.
