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Netflix has tons of shows of all types, but in the last couple years have gone heavily into picking up anime series. Lots of classics, from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Attack on Titan or Death Note, as well as Netflix originals like Aggretsuko and Devilman Crybaby are now available in full on the service. But there's hundreds more available, and there's some real bangers on the service now, Netflix has been doing a pretty good job at picking up some great series for the most part. I'd like to post a decent starter list for those curious about what's available and where to begin, I'm not entirely familiar with everything available, so feel free to recommend things I've not listed. There's a ton available and it can be overwhelming to pick a series to try. I'd like to put out recommendations for nine series that are available as of this post on the service, that I find excellent and worth recommending:  Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Edward and Alphonse Elric are two boys who lose their mother at a very young age. Filled with regret and despair, they use Alchemy, a mysterious but commonplace power in their world, to attempt to bring her back to life. But using Alchemy for Human Transmutation is expressly forbidden, for very good reason, as they quickly discover. And so their journey begins, to hopefully find a way to reverse the punishment they are cursed with. one of the most common "I'm unfamiliar with anime, where do I start" recommendations alongside shows like Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Attack on Titan or Death Note. Just an absolutely phenomenal series from beginning to end with a gripping story, unique world, complex characters, and generally fantastic animation.  DOROHEDORO - An adaptation of Q Hayashida's fantastically imaginative and horrifically grotesque manga, DOROHEDORO is set in a modern world where humans are used as experiment fodder for Sorcerers, human-like beings with magical powers who live in a parallel dimension and can travel to the human world through special Doors. In the city of Hole, Caiman, a man with amnesia and a lizard head after he was experimented on by a sorcerer, works alongside Nikaido, his partner and restaurant owner, to track down the one who transformed him. This series is filthy, grimy, disgusting, absurdly gory, and among my all-time favorites. One of the most imaginative settings and with a cast of incredibly lovable characters(even the antagonists!) who are just super fun despite them all essentially being serial killers with how brutal the setting is. The manga is a top shelf series for me and the anime adaptation is shockingly good considering Dorohedoro often showed up on "series that will never get an anime" because everyone thought it would be impossible to capture the filthiness of the setting properly. Well, they did it. Mostly. It's not a perfect adaptation, but drat is it a really amazing effort.  Attack on Titan - Never google/youtube this series. People love to spoil the poo poo out of this series and your results will be filled with spoilery thumbnails. A more recent runaway success, Attack on Titan is set inside a city surrounded by 50-meter-tall walls to protect the inhabitants from Titans; human-shaped giants whose sole reason to exist seems to be to devour all of humanity. One day, a colossal Titan appears that can see over the walls, and kicks a huge hole in the wall, destroying the barrier that had kept humanity safe for over a hundred years. The story follows Eren Jeager, who has vowed to eradicate every last Titan. The story of this series is honestly one of the most rock-solid I've ever read/watched, with multiple incredible twists and turns that to this day are among my favorites in how they are delivered and the directions they take things. Just a phenomenal series, and the final season is coming this fall.  BEASTARS - the fantastic Netflix adaptation of Paru Itagaki's award-winning anthropomorphic animal manga about a modern society of herbivores and carnivores. The most common and simplest comparison people make is "edgy zootopia", though it's not so much edgy(usually), more that it digs deeper into things zootopia only touched on the surface. Interracial relationships, segregation, the sociopolitical factors of a world with carnivores, but eating meat is outlawed. Do they just endure, or do they find other ways to sate their desire for meat? The series follows Legosi, a grey wolf, who is generally a quiet, humble person, but due to his species' reputation as an aggressive apex predator, is both feared and respected by most people despite his demeanor. He encounters a dwarf rabbit, Haru, and immediately falls for her. Amidst the murder and devouring of a classmate by an unknown predator at school, tensions between carnivore and herbivore are at an all-time high, and legosi has to come to terms with whether his desire for Haru is romantic...or hunger.  One-Punch Man - A tongue-in-cheek superhero series about Saitama, the man who wins any battle with one punch. He wanted to be a superhero, but now that he's the most powerful one ever, he's filled with ennui and indifference because nothing can challenge him anymore. He just wants a good fight, but, well, the title says it all, doesn't it? An adaptation of a manga which is itself an adaptation of a webcomic, this series is one of those shows people will point to when they talk about "mindblowing animation", the first season at least, has some of the best animation in TV anime. The characters are fun(mostly), the fights are great, and the humor is generally fantastic.  March Comes in Like a Lion - Rei is a young professional shogi player who has gone through so much loss in his life, it has made dealing with other people extremely difficult. But when he meets the Kawamoto family, three sisters who have been through their share of hardships, his life begins to brighten. A phenomenal drama and slice of life series that deals with love, loss, trauma, hardship, and relationships in really powerful ways, with a just incredibly strong cast of characters. This series has made me cry on multiple occasions, it's really powerful, but also spreads that out with just great, heartwarming fun with the realistic characters of this world. Also, the First OP is really, really good.  The Devil is a Part-Timer! - The Demon King, nearly slain by The Hero, flees through a portal to an unknown place. The Hero gives pursuit, diving into the portal after him. Winding up in modern day Japan without their powers(mostly), they have to then learn to survive as normal-rear end people, so the Demon King starts working at A genuinely hilarious and occasionally action-packed slice of life comedy, this series is a lot of fun. A little too much fanservice at times, but overall it's great fun. I read the manga after watching the anime and boy do I ever wish they had continued making more seasons of this, because it goes places past where the anime ended and the best character in the entire series is introduced almost literally right after the last episode. For how popular it was at the time, it's a shame they never continued the anime adaptation.  Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Simon the Digger lives in a subterranean town, the only life he's ever known. One day, the ceiling collapses in as a giant monstrous face crashes through the ceiling. His blood brother, Kamina, and the person who was fighting the giant face-robot, Yoko, help him travel to the surface world after they discover a tiny robot buried underground and begin an adventure of almost literally unimaginable proportions. An outlandish, purposely ridiculous mecha anime that is a sendup to the entire genre of giant robots from beginning to end, this series is just absurd in all the best ways with over the top character and robot designs and an ever-escalating storyline. You see the pre-title screen prologue, and wonder how they get there? Well, you'll find out! The series has some pitfalls(episode 4, some parts drag a bit, has some occasional skeevy moments), but it's a hell of a ride and to this day is the only series I would go watch the raw, unsubbed episodes as they showed up online just to see what would happen next, even if I couldn't understand what was being said. Incredible show. The dub is decent, but the original japanese voice cast is star-studded and full of people who just knocked it out of the park.  Neon Genesis Evangelion - to quote(edited a bit) the ADTRW Eva thread OP: quote:Neon Genesis Evangelion is a 1995-6 Gainax anime, masterminded by Hideaki Anno, about teenagers piloting giant robots called Evangelions. It begins after a disaster called Second Impact, in the specially built city of Tokyo-3, where a secret organisation called NERV is based. A huge monster, codenamed an Angel, attacks, sweeping aside entire armies which fail even to scratch it; only NERV and their Evangelions can defeat the Angel. A schoolboy named Shinji Ikari unwillingly becomes caught up in the struggle, and he is coerced into becoming a pilot – but this Angel is merely the first of many... there are of course plenty of other shows that are worth a look, and folks are free to recommend series they're familiar with of course. Shows I've not seen like Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, K-ON, Death Note, Madoka Magicka, Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, MSG: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Megalobox, and others are also available and all highly regarded, but I can't speak for them. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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I've not watched it, heard good things but that it kinda falls flat at times.
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Jul 13, 2020 11:57
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if you wanna shoutout stuff by all means, I've not watched everything so go ahead and sell me or other folks on these series. I've got the Little Witch Academia various kickstarter stuff that I backed, but haven't actually watched the show itself.
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Jul 13, 2020 13:33
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I have very little time to actually watch anime anymore since I'm either working (generally 10+ hour shifts a day) or sleeping a bunch, and can't watch stuff at work. I barely got around to watching Dorohedoro and recent Attack On Titan seasons and those are some of my favorite series ever, soooooo LWA's on the ever-growing list of stuff to watch, of course, but I'm starting to come to terms with not being able to watch most stuff for the forseeable future. Also there's another witches and wizards-themed series I've heard LWA compared to as much more similar to than Harry Potter, but I can't recall the name.
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Jul 13, 2020 14:49
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ConfusedUs posted:I'm someone who generally is aware of anime, but doesn't watch it often. I've watched the first few episodes of enough different shows that Netflix thinks I want to see more, so I'm constantly bombarded with them. Also, a common thing with anime watchers is the "three episode rule". where if you give a show a shot, unless it's so utterly repugnant you can't stand more than an episode of it, to try to stick it out for at least 3 episodes. Gurren Lagann imo is a great example of this, because the first three episodes are a very good setup for the rest of the series(even if episode 4 looks like poo poo). Many shows that have multiple cours will generally be more steadily paced and so might take a few episodes to really get going.
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Jul 14, 2020 13:29
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Knights of sidonia has lots of really fascinating transhumanism elements to it like how cloning, genetic resequencing and spontaneous physical gender changes are just parts of everyday life now The anime has passable cgi, not great, and I highly recommend the manga if you can get ahold of it because it's got a decent ending and BOY does it do spine-chilling cosmic horror right. The gauna are just utterly horrifying to me. Also the mecha are super good designs.
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Jul 15, 2020 05:39
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I Am Fowl posted:The CGI was...okay for its time but honestly, it's a shame when you compare it to the manga because Tsutomu Nihei's art is just remarkable.    
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Jul 15, 2020 10:29
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We could have a pages-long argument about the One Piece anime, but suffice to say that it's generally decent if a bit slow up to a certain point(some say impel down, I think like, water seven if not earlier, maybe even the end of alabasta) and then absolutely falls off a loving cliff during the marineford war arc and never recovers. It's the last of the eternal shonen anime after naruto and bleach died, and it shows. newer shonen series like my hero academia and assassination classroom have done it far better, splitting things up into seasons instead of churning out a new episode every single week. the one piece anime caught up to the manga during the water seven arc and started adapting each chapter into an individual episode, resulting in a 19 page chapter being turned into a 22~ish minute episode, which completely obliterates the pacing as you can imagine. it also has at least a dozen filler arcs, only one of which anyone considers good(G8). the animation becomes utterly terrible as well, and there's a decent amount of animation errors. the only unarguably good part about it is the voice cast, who are all stellar in japanese and fine in english. oh and the music for the intros are generally fantastic. there is something called "One Pace" that edits down the series to remove filler and streamline the pacing of the show so that half a dozen episodes are condensed into one, and it's apparently quite good, though I haven't watched it. There's definitely some good anime-only gags or extended bits from the manga that would make for a pretty solid anime if the bullshit in between was cut out. and this is coming from someone who has one piece in my top 3 favorite series ever. the anime is terrible overall, I'd say maybe watch up through alabasta and then switch to the manga, or just read the manga from the start. Shonen Jump's online subscription gets you access to 100 chapters a day of anything in their catalog, including the entirety of One Piece and every other shonen jump manga, for two bucks a month. That's a damned pittance, trust me. And 100 chapters a day should be more than enough for most people to read. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Jul 15, 2020 14:50
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AcidCat posted:Yeah Dorohedoro really surprised me, one of the most entertaining anime I've watched in a long time.
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Jul 16, 2020 01:18
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SEED Destiny is aggressively terrible, however. 0083 is decent, 08th ms team was also on toonami and is one of the most solid gundam shows albeit with an absolutely terrible romeo and juliet romance subplot, turn a gundam is unquestionably the best gundam show and one of my favorite anime of all time, char's counterattack is an excellent movie, and I've heard good things about zeta gundam and slightly less good but still decent things about double zeta gundam
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Jul 17, 2020 02:53
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Oh I must've totally missed that was on there, erased is phenomenal.
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Jul 18, 2020 02:31
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Boxman posted:Okay, cool, I’ll continue revisiting my childhood with more Gundam then. while I've not seen them, I think the movie versions of the original show are a good way to watch them, and the zeta movie versions are terrible? or maybe it's the other way around, I forget.
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Jul 18, 2020 13:21
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that will probably happen once it's actually finished.
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Jul 28, 2020 06:36
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I think it's most apparent with the tucker episode(s), the original series gave it way more time and so it was much more impactful. Stuff like that could've made brotherhood's first dozen episodes flow smoother, but ultimately they weren't super necessary.
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Aug 21, 2020 23:40
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I hear it's pretty good, at least it's not of the ilk of, like, Naruto or Bleach or something.
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Sep 14, 2020 06:56
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the manga for Beastars is supposedly ending in 3 chapters. it just "finished" its current arc, and the series is ending in 3 chapters. If that is true, then I think it got axed, or Paru mercy killed it. said arc is one of the most acute downfalls in a series's quality I have seen, maybe ever, and if it gets adapted in a future anime season, I doubt I could recommend it. the first season and what they will probably adapt in the second season are largely rock solid, but BOY HOWDY is everything related to a certain character introduced past there some of the worst writing, most lackluster character growth, most dropped story hooks and plot holes I've seen in an otherwise good series. It's frankly staggering, and incredibly disappointing for a series I have been entirely gung-ho about for over half its run. I understand it's Paru Itagaki's first major series, but I think she should've asked for some help to organize things a bit because it's just a loving birdshot of ideas shot at a wall and only a few of them stick(everything to do with aquatic beings in the beastars world rules, for example). and the way Haru gets kinda shoved in a hole and not mentioned or shows at all really sucks. Is it Legosi's story? maybe. but Haru is a major factor in the perception of this world, and her storyline just being "completed" and put aside so she's barely around in the entire second half of the series is garbage. Lots of great concepts crop up, Legosi outside of the school, legosi's family, Haru's family, aquatic society, etc, and most of these are touched upon for a few chapters then hurriedly pocketed to be replaced by stupid shonen battle nonsense with terrible characters and ideas introduced for them(and often promptly forgotten about a chapter later). It's just a bummer. When I think about where the focus of the series could have gone and where it ACTUALLY went, it's so disappointing. The first half of the series will remain really great to me, though, and there's still a full season at least of that content left to go through, but man once Melon, the Joker character who just won't go away makes his debut, it's almost all downhill from there also I will never not be super annoyed by the terrible cliche of "extremely toxic venom = XENOMORPH BLOOD!!!!!"
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