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Steins;Gate 2011
Anime
A group of friends have customized their microwave so that it can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.
The sides of Steins;Gate
- A microwave that sends texts to the past
- A self-styled mad scientist in Akihabara
- A friend who keeps dying in every new timeline
Good for you if
- you want to keep track of which message changed which world line.
- you want time travel with rules the story never breaks for convenience.
- you like a hero forced to choose which friend he gets to save.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need momentum, and the first stretch is lab banter in a rented room.
- you can't watch the same friend die again and again.
About: regret · friendship · time
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya 2010
Anime
A week before Christmas, Kyon wakes up in a world where the SOS Brigade doesn't exist. Mikuru and Yuki don't recognize him, and Haruhi and Itsuki seem to have vanished.
The sides of The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya
- Kyon waking up in a world without the SOS Brigade
- Yuki Nagato as a shy ordinary girl
- A school week before Christmas
Good for you if
- you like piecing together how the world was changed.
- you like long quiet scenes in a cold, empty winter school.
- you like Kyon forced to ask himself what he really wants.
Bad for you if
- two hours and forty minutes is too much for you.
- you don't watch anime.
About: choice · friendship · normal life
One year after the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.
The sides of Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu
- A self-proclaimed mad scientist fading from reality
- A young researcher who still remembers him
- Time travel one year later
Good for you if
- you like Kurisu fighting to bring back the man she loves.
- you like time travel with rules you have to keep up with.
- you want to spend more time with Okabe and his lab members.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need momentum, and much of it is quiet days in Akihabara.
About: memory · love · time · loss
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time 2021
Anime
In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However, the danger to the world is far from over. A new impact is looming on the horizon—one that will prove to be the true end of Evangelion.
The sides of Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time
- Pilots living in a farming village after the end of the world
- A father who will not explain himself
- A last fight staged in a place that stops looking real
Good for you if
- you like a story you have to piece together from everything that came before it.
- you like giant robots and red oceans framed like paintings.
- you want Shinji's story to actually reach an end.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- two and a half hours of mecha and metaphysics is too much for one evening.
- you don't want to sit with depression and grief all night.
About: depression · fatherhood · letting go
Devs 2020
Series
Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.
The sides of Devs
- A tech campus hidden in the redwoods
- A quantum computer that can see the past
- An engineer looking into her boyfriend's death
Good for you if
- you like Lily digging into what the secret Devs team is really building.
- you like long silences and a quiet, humming dread.
- you want Alex Garland's golden lab and composed frames.
Bad for you if
- you want chases and shootouts with your tech thriller.
- you need the physics on screen to be real physics.
About: free will · grief · technology
Serial Experiments Lain 1998
Anime
Lain—driven by the abrupt suicide of a classmate—logs on to the Wired and promptly loses herself in a twisted mass of hallucinations, memories, and interconnected-psyches.
The sides of Serial Experiments Lain
- A shy schoolgirl who logs on to the Wired
- A classmate's suicide and the emails she sends afterwards
- A world where the network and real life blur
Good for you if
- you like a quiet, eerie anime where the internet starts to feel haunted.
- you like piecing together who Lain really is across thirteen strange episodes.
- you're happy to finish with questions and your own theory.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- a teenage suicide at the very start is too much for you.
About: identity · the internet · loneliness · reality
PLUTO 2023
Anime
When the world's seven most advanced robots and their human allies are murdered one by one, Inspector Gesicht soon discovers that he's also in danger.
The sides of PLUTO
- A robot detective at Europol
- The world's seven most advanced robots being murdered
- Astro Boy retold by Naoki Urasawa
Good for you if
- you like a patient investigation into who is killing the advanced robots.
- you like being moved by robots grieving like humans.
- you care more about Gesicht's memories than the fights.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need a story that moves fast.
About: grief · hatred · what makes us human
Hello World 2019
Anime
A shy high schooler in Kyoto meets a man claiming to be his future self, who tells him he’s hacked into the past to save their first love.
The sides of Hello World
- A shy high schooler in Kyoto
- His future self hacking into the past
- A first love to save
Good for you if
- you like a story that keeps changing what is real.
- you like a shy first love in Kyoto.
- you like Kyoto rebuilt in bright 3D animation.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need the rules of time travel and simulation to stay clear.
About: first love · reality · fate
Orange: Future 2016
Anime
Twenty-six-year-old Hiroto Suwa; his wife, Naho; and their old high school classmates—Takako Chino, Azusa Murasaka, and Saku Hagita—visit Mt. Koubou to view the cherry blossoms together. While watching the setting sun, they reminisce about Kakeru Naruse, their friend who died 10 years ago. Mourning for him, they decide to visit Kakeru's old home, where they learn the secret of his death from his grandmother.
The sides of Orange: Future
- Friends mourning Kakeru ten years on
- Cherry blossoms on Mt. Koubou
- The secret of his death told by his grandmother
Good for you if
- you're ready to cry with friends who lost Kakeru.
- you like the quiet love between Naho and Suwa.
- you love a high school group that stays close for ten years.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story about depression and suicide.
- you don't watch anime.
About: grief · regret · friendship
Time of EVE: The Movie 2010
Anime
In the not-too-distant future, androids have come into common usage. However, treating androids on the same level as humans is frowned upon, and there is constant paranoia surrounding the possibility of robots defying humans, their masters. Those who appear too trustworthy of their androids are chided and labeled as "android-holics". Rikuo Sakisaka, who has taken robots for granted for his entire life, one day discovers that Sammy, his home android, has been acting independently and coming and going on her own. He finds a strange phrase recorded in her activity log, "Are you enjoying the time of EVE?". He, along with his friend Masakazu Masaki, traces Sammy's movements and finds an unusual café. Nagi, the barista, informs them that the café's main rule is to not discriminate between humans and androids. While Rikuo tries to reveal Sammy's intentions, he begins to question the legitimacy of the fear that drives humans to regard androids as nothing more than mere tools.
The sides of Time of EVE: The Movie
- A household android with a secret
- A café where humans and androids are equal
- A teenager tracking his robot's movements
Good for you if
- you like the regulars of a small café, human or not.
- you want a gentle science fiction story set in one quiet place.
- you like a story told in conversations over coffee.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles.
- you want robots that fight back.
About: artificial intelligence · prejudice · what makes us human
La llegada 2016
Película
Unas misteriosas naves espaciales aterrizan por todo el mundo. Un equipo, liderado por la lingüista Louise Banks, intenta descifrar el motivo de su visita. A medida que la humanidad se tambalea al borde de la guerra, Louise y su equipo luchan contra el tiempo, llegando a poner en peligro su vida y, muy posiblemente, la del resto de la humanidad.
Las caras de La llegada
- El duelo bajo la ciencia ficción
- Extraterrestres realmente ajenos
- Entender como trama
- Un tiempo que no va en línea recta
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una película que te rompe en silencio al final.
- te gustan las escenas pacientes en las que la gente intenta entenderse.
- te gustan los extraterrestres tratados como un problema real de lenguaje y ciencia.
Mala para ti si
- quieres una invasión alienígena con batallas. No hay ninguna.
- prefieres no esforzarte para seguir una historia. Los recuerdos de Louise solo encajan en el último acto.
Temas: el lenguaje · el duelo · el tiempo · la elección
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
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 2008
Anime
In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.
The sides of Ghost in the Shell 2.0
- A cyborg major hunting a hacker
- A program that claims to be alive
- The 1995 film with new computer scenes
Good for you if
- you like long, silent shots of a rainy future city.
- you like a question about what makes you human left open.
- you like chants that carry whole scenes.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need momentum and can't sit through long talks about the soul.
About: identity · the body · technology
Ergo Proxy 2006
Anime
Thousands of years after Earth’s atmosphere was destroyed, adventure blooms in the strangest of places. The domed city of Romdo is supposed to be perfect, but Re-l Mayer, a young female inspector from the Civilian Intelligence Office, knows better. In this place where humans and robots coexist, she receives a strange message: something is awakening!
The sides of Ergo Proxy
- A domed city where humans live with robots
- An inspector chasing a strange creature
- A journey across a ruined Earth
Good for you if
- you like a story you piece together from philosophy and lost memories.
- you like a dark, gray cyberpunk city under a dome.
- you like episodes that drift into dreams and even a quiz show.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum and can't take long detours.
- you don't watch anime.
About: identity · memory · control
March Comes In Like a Lion 2016
Anime
This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...
The sides of March Comes In Like a Lion
- A teenage shogi pro living alone
- Three sisters who feed him dinner
- Matches played in an old Tokyo neighbourhood
Good for you if
- you like watching a lonely boy slowly let people in.
- you like a story that hurts and heals in the same episode.
- you like a found family around a kitchen table.
Bad for you if
- you can't take depression and bullying on screen.
- you don't watch anime.
- you need momentum and two quiet seasons feel slow to you.
About: loneliness · grief · belonging
Paprika 2006
Anime
Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.
The sides of Paprika
- A psychologist who enters her patients' dreams
- A stolen dream machine
- A parade of objects marching out of dreams
Good for you if
- you like a dream that spills into the waking city.
- you want every frame packed with shifting images.
- you like not knowing whose dream you're in.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need a machine to follow rules. This one runs on dream logic.
About: dreams · identity · technology
Undone 2019
Series
After getting into a near fatal car accident, Alma discovers she has a new relationship with time and uses this ability to find out the truth about her father’s death.
The sides of Undone
- A woman bending time after a car crash
- Her dead father guiding her
- Rotoscoped animation over real actors
Good for you if
- you like reality slipping away from Alma scene after scene.
- you like painted animation traced over real actors.
- you like a daughter trying to save the father she lost.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated series.
- you want to know for sure whether Alma's visions are real.
About: grief · mental illness · time
Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- 2021
Anime
In the near future, Vivy, a diva-type A.I., went up on stage each day with hopes of putting her heart into her song. One day, the A.I. Matsumoto, who claims to have arrived from 100 years in the future, appears before Vivy with an important request...
The sides of Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-
- An AI singer at a theme park
- An AI from the future in a teddy bear
- A century long mission to stop a war
Good for you if
- you like songs that carry the story's biggest moments.
- you like an AI singer who learns to fight.
- you like being moved by a machine trying to sing from the heart.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need time travel rules that hold up.
About: what a heart is · fate · singing
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
Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo 2012
Anime
Fourteen years after Third Impact, Shinji Ikari awakens to a world he does not remember. He hasn't aged. Much of Earth is laid in ruins, NERV has been dismantled, and people who he once protected have turned against him. Befriending the enigmatic Kaworu Nagisa, Shinji continues the fight against the angels and realizes the fighting is far from over, even when it could be against his former allies. The characters' struggles continue amidst the battles against the angels and each other, spiraling down to what could inevitably be the end of the world.
The sides of Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
- A boy waking up fourteen years later
- A ruined Earth and former allies turned against him
- A friendship with the mysterious Kaworu
Good for you if
- you like a story that jumps fourteen years and explains little.
- you can take Shinji alone in a ruined world.
- you like questions left open until the next film.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles for a Japanese film.
About: depression · guilt · friendship