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Parasyte -the maxim- 2014
Anime
A species of parasitic aliens descends on Earth and quickly infiltrates humanity by entering the brains of vulnerable targets; insatiable beings that gain total control of their host and are capable of transforming themselves to feed on unsuspecting prey. High school student Shinichi Izumi falls victim to one of these parasites, but the creature fails to take over his brain and ends up in his right hand.
The sides of Parasyte -the maxim-
- An alien living in a high school student's right hand
- Parasites that reshape a human head into blades
- A boy who stops feeling like himself
Good for you if
- you like never knowing who in the room is still human.
- you like an alien that argues with its host from inside his hand.
- you can take a story where the people you like do not make it.
Bad for you if
- a head splitting open into blades ruins it for you.
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles for a Japanese series.
About: identity · what makes us human · grief
Steamboy 2004
Anime
In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.
The sides of Steamboy
- A boy inventor in Victorian England
- A ball holding a huge amount of steam power
- A father and grandfather on opposite sides
Good for you if
- you like steam machines drawn down to the last bolt.
- you like giant steampunk battles over London.
- you like the Industrial Revolution turned into an adventure.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- two hours of animated action is too much for you.
About: science and its uses · family · progress

Genocidal Organ 2017
Anime
The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it's up to intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul across the wreckage of civilizations and to find the true heart of darkness—a genocidal organ.
The sides of Genocidal Organ
- An intelligence agent chasing a mysterious American
- A world remade by the war on terror
- A theory that language can trigger genocide
Good for you if
- you like a spy story about surveillance states and terror.
- you like special forces raids in collapsing countries.
- you can take a cold, dark future of surveillance and genocide.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand massacres and child soldiers on screen.
- you don't watch anime.
- you won't read subtitles.
About: surveillance · violence · free will
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
The Case Study of Vanitas 2021
Anime
In 19th-century Paris, young vampire Noé finds the Book of Vanitas in human hands. Calling himself Vanitas, this doctor wields its power and tempts Noé with a plan to “cure” all vampires. Allying with him may be dangerous, but does he have a choice?
The sides of The Case Study of Vanitas
- A young vampire arriving in 19th-century Paris
- A human doctor with a book that cures vampires
- A steampunk Paris of airships
Good for you if
- you like vampires hiding in a steampunk Paris.
- you like lush, gothic images of 19th-century Paris.
- you like a mocking, prickly duo slowly learning to trust each other.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need every mystery solved by the last episode.
About: curses · trust · identity
Frankenstein 2025
Film
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
The sides of Frankenstein
- A scientist who builds a man from the dead
- A creature who learns to read and to feel
- A ship trapped in the Arctic ice
Good for you if
- you like Guillermo del Toro's gothic sets, every frame composed.
- you want to be moved by a creature rejected by the man who made him.
- you like hearing the same story from both the maker and the made.
Bad for you if
- two and a half hours is too much for you in one evening.
- you can't stand bloody surgery and torn bodies.
About: fathers and sons · loneliness · pride
Vampire Hunter D 1985
Anime
In a far-future time ruled by the supernatural, a young girl requests the help of a vampire hunter to kill the vampire who has bitten her and thus prevent her from becoming a vampire herself.
The sides of Vampire Hunter D
- A half-vampire hunter on horseback
- A farm girl bitten by a count
- A far future full of mutants
Good for you if
- you like a future where vampire lords rule over farmers.
- you like a silent hunter fighting monsters one after another.
- you like gothic castles and dark 80s character designs.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you can't stand gore and monsters torn apart.
- you find 1980s animation dated.
About: humanity · solitude · immortality
The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral 2008
Anime
Tomoe Enjou is attacked by bullies from his old school and saved by Shiki Ryougi. He asks her to hide him at her place and admits that he killed someone. Several days later, there are still no broadcasts about the murder as if it didn't happen... and when the victims are found, they're alive and unharmed.
The sides of The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral
- A runaway teenager who says he killed someone
- Shiki Ryougi and her knife
- An apartment building where the dead seem to live on
Good for you if
- you like a story told out of order that you have to piece together.
- you like a supernatural mystery that bends reality.
- you like dark, carefully drawn images of a city at night.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand graphic, bloody violence.
- you don't watch anime.
About: identity · death · family
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
Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight 2019
Anime
Second compilation movie of the TV series which covers episodes 9-13. Riko and Reg descend to the third and fourth layer where Riko has her first experience of the Curse.
The sides of Made in Abyss: Wandering Twilight
- Riko and the robot boy Reg descending a giant pit
- A curse that strikes on the way back up
- Nanachi, a survivor of cruel experiments
Good for you if
- you love the layered world of the Abyss, here in the second film cut from the series.
- you like strange creatures and forests at every new depth.
- you like the bond between Riko and Reg, and the friendship they find with Nanachi.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a child's body badly hurt on screen.
- you can't take children suffering and experimented on.
- you don't watch anime.
About: curiosity · cruelty · friendship
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust 2001
Anime
Legendary dhampir D competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman seemingly abducted by undead nobleman Meier Link.
The sides of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
- A half-vampire hunter crossing a dark frontier
- A noblewoman who left with a vampire
- A family of bounty hunters on the same trail
Good for you if
- you like gothic castles and shadows drawn by hand.
- you like a far future that plays like a western with vampires.
- you like a love story that cannot end well.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch animated films.
- you can't stand blood and severed limbs.
About: loneliness · love · death
Devilman Crybaby 2018
Anime
With demons reawakened and humanity in turmoil, a sensitive demon-boy is led into a brutal, degenerate war against evil by his mysterious friend, Ryo.
The sides of Devilman Crybaby
- A sensitive boy fused with a demon
- A childhood friend with a secret
- Humanity turning on itself
Good for you if
- you can take a dark story where humanity turns on itself.
- you like a war against demons that keeps getting worse.
- you like Masaaki Yuasa's wild, stretched animation.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore and bodies torn apart.
- you'd rather not see sex scenes, even drawn ones.
- you don't watch anime.
About: friendship · cruelty · the end of the world
Dorohedoro 2020
Anime
Amnesiac Caiman seeks to undo his lizard head curse by killing the sorcerer responsible, with his friend Nikaido's help. In the Hole, that's a threat.
The sides of Dorohedoro
- A man with a lizard head and no memory
- A grimy city called the Hole
- Sorcerers who practice magic on humans
Good for you if
- you like a world where a lizard man bites sorcerers' heads to find his face.
- you like gory fights followed by a cosy plate of gyoza.
- you like a filthy, detailed world of doors between humans and sorcerers.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand dismemberments and blood everywhere.
- you don't watch anime, even in CGI.
About: identity · friendship · revenge
Pobres criaturas 2023
Película
Bella Baxter es una joven revivida por el brillante y poco ortodoxo científico Dr. Godwin Baxter. Bajo la protección de Baxter, Bella está ansiosa por aprender. Hambrienta de la mundanidad que le falta, Bella se escapa con Duncan Wedderburn, un sofisticado y perverso abogado, en una aventura vertiginosa a través de los continentes. Libre de los prejuicios de su época, Bella se vuelve firme en su propósito de defender la igualdad y la liberación.
Las caras de Pobres criaturas
- Una mujer devuelta a la vida con un cerebro nuevo
- Un cirujano desfigurado al que llama God
- Un viaje de Lisboa a Alejandría y París
Buena para ti si
- te gusta un mundo victoriano surrealista lleno de extrañas criaturas híbridas.
- te gusta ver a Emma Stone aprender a caminar, hablar y elegir por sí misma.
- te gustan los cielos color caramelo, los ojos de pez y los decorados extraños.
Mala para ti si
- prefieres no ver muchas escenas de sexo explícitas.
- no soportas la cirugía y el terror corporal en pantalla.
Temas: la libertad · la sexualidad · la identidad
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress 2016
Anime
In the midst of an industrial revolution, the people of Hinomoto fight hordes of undead creatures, known as Kabane, using powerful armored trains.
The sides of Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
- An armored steam train crossing a land of undead
- A young engineer turned half monster
- A girl fighter called Mumei
Good for you if
- you like steampunk guns and sword fights against hordes of undead.
- you like a train of survivors who can't stop or they die.
- you like bold, painterly anime images.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand bloody bites and gore.
- you don't watch anime.
About: fear of the other · survival · courage

Land of the Lustrous 2017
Anime
In the mysterious future, crystalline organisms called Gems inhabit a world that has been destroyed by six meteors. Each Gem is assigned a role in order to fight against the Lunarians, a species who attacks them in order to shatter their bodies and use them as decorations. Phosphophyllite, also known as Phos, is a young and fragile Gem who dreams of helping their friends in the war effort. Instead, they are told to compile an encyclopedia because of their delicate condition. After begrudgingly embarking on this task, Phos meets Cinnabar, an intelligent gem who has been relegated to patrolling the isolated island at night because of the corrosive poison their body creates. After seeing how unhappy Cinnabar is, Phos decides to find a role that both of the rejected Gems can enjoy. Can Phos's seemingly mundane assignment lead both Phos and Cinnabar to the fulfillment they desire?
The sides of Land of the Lustrous
- Living gems on a ruined Earth
- Raiders from the moon who shatter them
- A fragile gem trying to be useful
Good for you if
- you like 3D animation where bodies shine and crack like real crystal.
- you like a far future with its own rules, gems, moon people and a strange monk.
- you like strange stories where a gem loses body parts and is rebuilt from new stones.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need an ending, and this single season stops with the story far from over.
About: identity · usefulness · change · loneliness
Arcane 2021
Serie
Con las dispares ciudades de Piltover y Zaun como telón de fondo, dos hermanas luchan en bandos opuestos de una guerra entre tecnologías mágicas y creencias enfrentadas.
Las caras de Arcane
- Dos hermanas en bandos opuestos de una guerra
- Una ciudad rica arriba y una pobre abajo
- Magia alimentada por cristales
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una animación que parece pintura en movimiento.
- te gustan Vi y Jinx, hermanas que se quieren y no dejan de pelearse.
- te gustan los combates montados sobre canciones escritas para la serie.
Mala para ti si
- no ves series de animación.
- necesitas algo de esperanza, y el vínculo entre las hermanas se rompe una y otra vez.
Temas: la hermandad · la desigualdad · el duelo · el progreso
Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu 2016
Anime
Koyomi Araragi was turned into a vampire by the legendary vampire, Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade, and he needs to revive the weakened vampire back to her complete form to return to being human again. The only way for Koyomi to achieve his goal is to fight the three vampire hunters – Dramaturgy, Episode and Guillotinecutter.
The sides of Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu
- A boy turned into a vampire
- Three vampire hunters to defeat
- A legendary vampire to bring back
Good for you if
- you like a bold, theatrical look where every frame is a design.
- you want brutal one on one fights with vampire hunters.
- you like the strange, talky world of Monogatari.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore and torn limbs.
- you'd rather skip a long suggestive scene with a classmate.
- you don't watch anime.
About: sacrifice · humanity · monsters
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
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