Whatever you do, don’t watch the 2017 live action remake which all but flopped in the box office and made a lot of people mad. What starts off as a way to serve justice in a cruel world spirals into a cat-and-mouse chase between main character Light Yagami and the special police force who try and stop him - not knowing the culprit is right under their noses the whole time.ĭeath Note is dark, futile, and a good place to start to get used to a longer series. It’s essentially about a righteous, smart, and bored teenager who gets his hands on a special notebook that will kill (within the margins of some very specific rules) anyone whose name is written down in it. Want More Of That? For more small-town experiences, try Wolf Children, Barakamon, and When They Cry.ĭeath Note did the rounds on TikTok last year, introducing millions to the popular anime, and offering a good shoe-in to the world of anime. Your Name is also a great one to watch on date night. Its 2019 follow-up Weathering With You wasn’t quite as good, but equally as aesthetically stunning if you liked the animation style. The beloved anime revolves around city boy, rural town girl romance with a twist halfway through that feels like a punch in the gut. Your Name is downright stunning visually, and tells the story of a pair star-crossed lovers who find out each other exist when they accidentally switch bodies, before embarking on a mission to find each other in real life.
Your Name broke records around the world as one of the highest grossing anime films of all time when it was released in 2016. So you’ve seen a couple of Studio Ghibli classics and like the idea of standalone animated movies instead of a television series. Want More Of That? For more unsettling earth-shatterers, try Akira, Perfect Blue, and Japan Sinks: 2020. Neon Genesis is definitely a bit more advanced, but is an absolute must-watch, and a great reference to whip out at parties. Instead, jump to the feature film The End of Evangelion, which picks right up from the second-last ep, and is a more harrowing and fulfilling ending. The original ending is a bit abstract, so much so that it’s fine to give the final episode a miss. A thing you’ll notice throughout anime is a continual grappling with post-apocalyptic destruction and mecha robot genre - both simultaneously exemplified by Neon Genesis.
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