Are there any animes or TV shows you can’t stop recommending?

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I RECOMMEND EVERYBODY LOVES HYPNOTOAD. IT IS A GREAT SHOW.

ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD.

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I feel like I’m missing the context… Where did this meme starALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD.

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ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD

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ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD

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58 points

OMG!!! I get to recommend Delicious in Dungeon!!! The show is a bit of a slow burn, but the early episodes set up the incredible world building and the basic plot points. Then as it starts churning it gets crazy. The story is strong enough on it’s own, but it’s animated by Studio Trigger so the anime is pure perfection.

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I keep hearing it’s amazing but I bounced off hard on the first couple episodes. I wish anime didn’t need the 5 episodes rule, things should sell themselves from the start. Maybe I’ll give it another go. My wife is keen to watch it.

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8 points

I powered through as I kept hearing everyone recommend this. It felt pointless because I didn’t get watching a cooking show about stuff you could never eat because it isn’t real.

The comments I read said it took a tonal shift when they finally got back to the red dragon. It’s about halfway through, which took me weeks to get to.

The second half is awesome! If this is what it was like all along, it would have been amazing. The first half gives you nothing to expect what the second half is, which makes it feel more intense, but I still feel is kinda terrible pacing.

I want more now because the characters really are good, which is probably why they used that first half the way they did, but it was tough before seeing where it was going. Frieren had a much better buildup before it really started getting serious for example.

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Drag liked the first half better. Drag came for the cooking. Drag thinks the second half has too much drama. Drag likes the kitty, though.

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I was hooked by the second episode.

I was also watching a lot of cooking shows while playing Elden Ring. So maybe it was right fit right time.

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Read the manga first to get past that initial hump. You can clear like 5 episodes worth of material in the time it takes to watch an episode and see if it’s for you.

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47 points

Gurren Lagan

Fucken watch it

Also,

Log Horizon is what SAO wishes it was

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12 points

Just who the hell do you think we are?

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Yeah absolutely clicked on this to spout my spiel about Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It’s my favorite anime ever.

Neon Genesis Evangelion is up there too, but I like TTGL more.

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@Sanctus

Fuck i forgot about Gurren Lagan. What am I doing with my life

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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?

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Clearly your drill is not the drill that will pierce the heavens. /s It’s not for everyone, and for all the sexualization there is never any sex or nudity depicted. At least you gave it a try though!

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Watch until episode 9 at least.

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I just didn’t have the patience for that honestly. I doubt it will make a difference.

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46 points

The Good Place

Season 1 is just setting up the story

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Holy motherforking shirtballs… someone stole my post idea!

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Maybe not everyone cup of tea but to me Mr. Robot.

At first sight you may thinking the show is about “individual” hacker taking down corporate but once you understand it has longer lasting effect especially when you relate/something similar with Elliot. The cinematography, the score is chef kiss👌🏻, Season 2 slow burns on the first half but worth to not miss them.

The magical thing is this show on rewatch make more sense and definitely Sam Esmail planned everything from get go on writing.

Among the best TV series I have seen.

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The thing that’s so great about Mr. Robot is that it ends perfectly. You can tell the show writers decided exactly what story they wanted to tell and then executed on that plan. They didn’t just meander about and eventually land on a half-assed ending once the show’s budget dried up.

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I disagree. First season was perfect. But then it went downhill into unresolved Lost mystery boxes. The last episode of the last season itself was great but Esmail had no idea how to fill out the episodes of the last season to get there.

He was throwing around split personalities like Ronald Moore threw around Cylons. The time machine story went nowhere despite a multi season build up.

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imo the ending, last half of season 4 is justified. If you take the “Time machine” fan theory and in case of Elliot meeting himself to me it’s just happen inside his head like what happen at some moment in S1 and S2.

For split personalities/MPD, if you rewatch the show Sam Esmail definitely laid out everything from start ever since Season 1, that’s why rewatching the show especially on S1 some scenes make senses.

Watched this show back in late 2022. Avoided forums/online discussion so I can fully grasp the show on my own thoughts.

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SPOILER ALERT

First time I realized that the ending/revelation was that near in S1, jaw dropped really hard.

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@Crafter72
I watched a good chunk of it when it was first coming out, but I had to drop it because i was frankly not in a good enough place to hear the things that show was trying to say.

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I can see your point as I watch the show after everything released (late 2022).

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I was only able to get a couple episodes in. When his surrogate gay dad said that he’d do anything for him and two scenes later you have Rami Malek going “AHH I have noone who can help me what do I do?!??”, I couldn’t keep watching.

Though it might also be my inability to watch a show where characters get ‘worse’. I got upto the third last episode of Arcane and when a pivotal moment in a characters story went bad It took me 5 days to finish the show.

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