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Death Parade 2015
Anime
There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too.
The sides of Death Parade
- A bar between life and death
- The newly dead playing games for their souls
- A calm bartender who judges them
Good for you if
- you like each episode revealing who a stranger really was through one game.
- you like being moved by people facing the lives they just lost.
- you like a friendly game of darts or bowling that turns into a fight for a soul.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't take stories of suicide, murder and cruelty told in detail.
About: death · judgment · empathy · regret
Hellbound 2021
Series
Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.
The sides of Hellbound
- Creatures that drag people to hell at an announced time
- A cult built on divine justice
- A society turning on itself in fear
Good for you if
- you like a countdown to a death announced in advance.
- you like watching a cult take control of a frightened society.
- you can take a dark story with little hope.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
- you can't stand brutal, bloody executions.
About: faith · fear · justice
Platinum End 2021
Anime
As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.
The sides of Platinum End
- A boy saved from suicide by an angel
- Thirteen people chosen to become god
- Arrows that make people love or kill
Good for you if
- you like a deadly contest between thirteen candidates for god.
- you can take a dark story about despair and murder.
- you like mind games from the creators of Death Note.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story that opens with a suicide attempt.
- you don't watch anime.
About: despair · happiness · faith
El juego del calamar 2021
Serie
Cientos de personas con problemas de dinero aceptan una invitación rarísima para competir en juegos infantiles. Dentro los esperan un tentador premio y desafíos letales.
Las caras de El juego del calamar
- Juegos infantiles donde perder significa morir
- Gente ahogada en deudas
- Un premio que crece con cada muerte
Buena para ti si
- te gustan los juegos en los que cualquier movimiento puede ser el último.
- te gusta encariñarte con jugadores que podrías perder.
- puedes con una historia oscura sobre el dinero y la desesperación.
Mala para ti si
- las matanzas en pantalla te lo arruinan.
- no lees subtítulos. Está en coreano (existe un doblaje).
Temas: la deuda · la desigualdad · la supervivencia
Guardian: The Lonely and Great God 2016
Series
In his quest for a bride to break his immortal curse, a 939-year-old guardian of souls meets a grim reaper and a sprightly student with a tragic past.
The sides of Guardian: The Lonely and Great God
- A 939-year-old immortal looking for his bride
- A grim reaper for a housemate
- A high school student who can see ghosts
Good for you if
- you like a love story that spans centuries and lifetimes.
- you like a K-drama that makes you cry over fate and goodbyes.
- you like the goblin and the grim reaper bickering under the same roof.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
- you can't watch child abuse or suicide on screen.
About: fate · immortality · grief · love
Neon Genesis Evangelion 1995
Anime
At the turn of the century, the Angels returned to Earth, seeking to wipe out humanity in an apocalyptic fury. Devastated, mankind's last remnants moved underground to wait for the day when the Angels would come back to finish the job. Fifteen years later, that day has come... but this time, humanity is ready to fight back with terrifying bio-mechanical weapons known as the Evangelions. Watch as Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the rest of the mysterious shadow agency Nerv battle to save earth from total annihilation.
The sides of Neon Genesis Evangelion
- A boy ordered by his father to pilot a giant robot
- Angels attacking Tokyo-3
- A final two episodes inside his head
Good for you if
- you like a series that leaves you with more questions than answers.
- you care more about the pilots' minds than the robot fights.
- you like an ending that goes somewhere no one expected.
Bad for you if
- you can't take depression and self-loathing on screen.
- you don't watch anime.
About: depression · fathers and sons · loneliness
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- 2016
Anime
Natsuki Subaru, an ordinary high school student, is on his way home from the convenience store when he finds himself transported to another world. As he's lost and confused in a new world where he doesn't even know left from right, the only person to reach out to him was a beautiful girl with silver hair. Determined to repay her somehow for saving him from his own despair, Subaru agrees to help the girl find something she's looking for.
The sides of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
- A student dropped into a world of magic
- A death that sends him back to an earlier moment
- A silver-haired girl he keeps trying to save
Good for you if
- you like a fantasy kingdom with its own rules of magic and succession.
- you like piecing together what went wrong from one loop to the next.
- you like knowing any episode can end badly and start over.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't watch deaths filmed in detail, over and over.
- you'd rather not watch a boy's mind come apart.
About: death · despair · second chances · obsession
Angel Beats! 2010
Anime
Angel Beats takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront — an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.
The sides of Angel Beats!
- A boy who wakes up dead without his memories
- A school in the afterlife
- A rebel group fighting God
Good for you if
- you like learning each student's tragic past.
- you like silly gags between gunfights.
- you like a student army battling a girl called Angel.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles.
About: death · regret · letting go
To Your Eternity 2021
Anime
An immortal being takes on the form of a human boy, wandering the earth and experiencing the pains and joys of life throughout his story without end.
The sides of To Your Eternity
- An immortal orb that takes the shape of what it meets
- A wolf and a boy alone in the snow
- Companions lost one after another
Good for you if
- you like being wrecked by the people Fushi loses.
- you like watching a being learn what it means to be human.
- you like a lonely being who finds friends in every place he travels.
Bad for you if
- you can't take death and grief in almost every arc.
- you don't watch anime.
About: grief · immortality · what makes us human
Colorful 2010
Anime
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.
The sides of Colorful
- A soul given a second chance in a boy's body
- A 14-year-old who just took his own life
- A family he has to learn to live with
Good for you if
- you like a family that slowly turns out to be more than it seemed.
- you want a quiet film that moves you to tears.
- you like a story told through one lonely boy's days at school and home.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story built on a teenager's suicide.
- you don't watch animated films.
- two hours of quiet everyday life is too much for you.
About: second chances · loneliness · family
Sweet Home 2020
Series
As humans turn into savage monsters and the world plunges into terror, a handful of survivors fight for their lives — and to hold on to their humanity.
The sides of Sweet Home
- People turning into monsters
- Survivors barricaded in an apartment building
- A withdrawn young man fighting his own change
Good for you if
- you like being scared by grotesque monsters, each one different from the last.
- you like strangers forced to hold a building together to stay alive.
- you like every corridor and stairwell feeling like a trap.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore and bloody monster attacks.
- you won't read subtitles for a Korean series.
- you can't take suicide and trauma on screen.
About: humanity · survival · guilt
Puella Magi Madoka Magica 2011
Anime
She has a loving family and best friends, laughs and cries from time to time... Madoka Kaname, an eighth grader of Mitakihara middle school, is one of those who lives such a life. One day, she had a very magical encounter. She doesn't know if it happened by chance or by fate yet. This is a fateful encounter that can change her destiny. This is a beginning of the new story of the magical witch girls.
The sides of Puella Magi Madoka Magica
- A schoolgirl offered a wish
- A small white creature with a contract
- Witches hiding in strange labyrinths
Good for you if
- you like a cute magical girl story that turns dark.
- you can take a story where every wish has a price.
- you like witches' lairs drawn like surreal collages.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you want a light magical girl show to relax with.
About: sacrifice · hope · despair
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash 2016
Anime
When Haruhiro awakens, he’s in the dark surrounded by people who have no memory of where they came from or how they got there. As the darkness fades, a fantastic new world called “Grimgar” appears before them and their adventure begins—but first, they’ll have to choose their guild, class, and special abilities.
The sides of Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
- Strangers waking up with no memory
- A party of weak beginners hunting goblins
- Grief after losing a friend
Good for you if
- you like beginners who struggle to kill even one goblin to pay for dinner.
- you like a fantasy that takes its time on daily life and quiet talks.
- you like a party of misfits slowly learning to trust each other.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't face grief and the death of a friend on screen.
- you won't read subtitles for a Japanese series.
About: grief · friendship · survival · responsibility
Tiempo 2021
Película
Thriller sobre una familia que, estando de vacaciones en un paraíso tropical, descubre que la recóndita playa elegida para relajarse unas horas está haciéndoles envejecer rápidamente... reduciendo toda su vida a un único día.
Las caras de Tiempo
- Una familia de vacaciones en el trópico
- Una playa donde una vida pasa en un día
- Niños que crecen en cuestión de horas
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una premisa extraña donde una vida entera cabe en una tarde.
- te gusta una trampa sin salida de la playa.
- te gusta una película de Shyamalan que guarda una revelación para su último acto.
Mala para ti si
- necesitas que la ciencia y la lógica se sostengan.
- no puedes ver a unos padres viendo a sus hijos envejecer y morir en un día.
Temas: el tiempo · la mortalidad · la familia
The Leftovers 2014
Series
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
The sides of The Leftovers
- Two percent of the world vanishing at once
- A police chief holding his family together
- A silent cult dressed in white
Good for you if
- you like grief so raw it moves you to tears.
- you can live with never learning where the vanished went.
- you like Kevin and Nora, two broken people trying to go on.
Bad for you if
- you can't take grief, suicide and despair on screen.
- you need a story that moves fast, not three seasons of mourning.
About: grief · faith · loss
El hoyo 2019
Película
Un lugar misterioso, una prisión indescriptible, un agujero muy profundo. Un número desconocido de niveles. Dos reclusos viviendo en cada nivel. Una plataforma descendente que contiene alimentos para todos ellos. Una lucha inhumana por la supervivencia, pero también una oportunidad para ser solidario.
Las caras de El hoyo
- Una prisión en forma de torre con una sola plataforma de comida
- Niveles de arriba abajo
- Quién come y quién no
Buena para ti si
- te gustan las historias extrañas y alegóricas.
- te gusta una idea cruel y sin rodeos.
- te gusta no saber en qué nivel despertarás.
Mala para ti si
- el gore y el canibalismo te arruinan la película.
Temas: la desigualdad · la solidaridad · la codicia
Tokyo Ghoul 2014
Anime
Ken Kaneki, a bookworm college student, meets Rize, a girl his own age with whom he shares many interests.
The sides of Tokyo Ghoul
- A student turned half-ghoul after a date
- A coffee shop run by ghouls
- Investigators hunting ghouls in Tokyo
Good for you if
- you can take a story where things keep getting worse for its hero.
- you like horror hiding behind a quiet Tokyo café.
- you like a hero who must hide what he has become.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch torture and people being eaten.
- you don't watch anime.
About: identity · hunger · monsters
Barefoot Gen 1983
Anime
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
The sides of Barefoot Gen
- A boy in Hiroshima in August 1945
- The bomb falling on an ordinary morning
- A child looking after his mother in the ruins
Good for you if
- you want to be moved by a child who keeps going after losing almost everything.
- you want to see the Hiroshima bombing through the eyes of one family.
- you want a war film about civilians, not soldiers.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch the death of children and parents on screen.
- you can't stand bodies burning and melting in graphic detail.
- you don't watch animated films.
About: grief · survival · war
Hell Girl 2005
Anime
A supernatural system allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the services of a mysterious entity and her assistants who implement this system. Revenge, injustice, hatred, and the nature of human emotions are common themes throughout the series.
The sides of Hell Girl
- A website that sends someone to hell at midnight
- A girl in a black kimono who answers
- A price paid by the one who asks
Good for you if
- you can take revenge stories where nobody really wins.
- you like quiet, eerie horror with a straw doll and a red string.
Bad for you if
- you can't face bullying and abuse in nearly every episode.
- four seasons is too much for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: revenge · injustice · guilt
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
The sides of Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
- An armed assault on the NERV headquarters
- A boy who refuses to pilot
- The end of humanity as one shared mind
Good for you if
- you can take the end of the world shown without mercy.
- you like giant surreal images, live-action shots and a sea of orange liquid.
- you like a finale you argue about for years.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand soldiers gunning down staff or Eva Unit 02 torn apart.
- a teenager's despair and self-hatred on screen are too much for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: loneliness · the end of the world · the fear of others