I used to think the only good anime came out before 2010, but a friend made me watch 'Odd Taxi' last month and it completely flipped that idea.

The tight writing and grounded mystery in that show proved modern anime can have the substance I thought was gone, so what's a recent series that changed your mind about something?

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shanec612mo ago

Cyberpunk Edgerunners made me give action anime another shot.

derek_lee2mo ago

Yeah I was the same way with action anime feeling kinda samey. But Edgerunners had that emotional gut punch that actually stuck with me, like the ending just wrecked me for a couple days. It made me realize the genre could be more than just cool fights.

alice_allen512d ago

Man that's the thing about a good story, it just hits different. It's like when you're working on a garden bed and you think you've got it all figured out, then you move one plant and suddenly the whole layout makes sense. That's what Edgerunners did for me with action stuff. It showed that the flashy parts aren't the whole point, they're just the frame for something deeper. Same way a good landscape job isn't about the rocks or the flowers themselves, it's about how they work together to make you feel something when you look at it. That show just had everything clicking in a way that stuck with me too.

ross.christopher2mo ago

That show made me finally check out Bocchi the Rock last week, and it totally redefined what a music anime could be for me.