| ReimTime said: I've watched so much Steins Gate in the past few days its not even funny. This is the best thing I've come across in a long time, and that goes for TV and video games. Nothing has kept me this intrigued for a long time. I sing high praise. That being said I've realized something about my tastes in anime. NHK and Stein's Gate are amazing while I found that KLK dropped off the radar for me, and Haruhi pales in comparison as well. I hope I don't offend anyone when I say this but I think this is a product of the target audience for which the anime was written. I argue that NHK and Steins Gate are written more for adults than kids or teens. The only reason I bring this up is because I would like more suggestions towards anime like SG or NHK. I was thinking Psycho Pass but I haven't done much research into anything really. Any advice is much appreciated! Y'all are a cool bunch. For once, somewhere on VGC where everyone gets along. |
Welcome to the NHK is one of the best anime ever produced. It's unfortunate but there are very few series out there on the same level or, honestly, even close. It's hilarous but the issues it rams into are real. Even the romance aspects of it are unlike anything else. Steins;Gate is also excellent and closer to what I'd expect from a science fiction novel than an anime.
One of the few works as brilliant as NHK and as complex as Steins;Gate would be Serial Experiments Lain. In fact, it might be the most intelligent piece of visual media I've ever come across. Unfortunately, the visual style is dated and might put many people off. I don't even know if I can describe it, not really. First episode synopsis from Wikipedia: "A high school girl kills herself from a rooftop late at night. A week later, students are getting emails from the girl named Chisa Yomoda, which claim that she only gave up her body, but is actually still alive inside the virtual world called the Wired, saying that there is a God that exists there. After getting one of these emails, the introverted fourteen-year-old Lain Iwakura becomes much more interested in computers and asks her techie father, Yasuo Iwakura, for a new NAVI computer system. When she returns to school the following day, the blackboard writes a subliminal message, inviting her to come to the Wired as soon as she can, revealed to be written by Chisa herself."
Another anime I put at the top is Kara no Kyokai: Garden of Sinners. It's pretty damn amazing. It's not a TV series but instead a series of films, so the production values are very high. It's a psychological thriller where you're never quite sure if the main female lead is a serial killer or not. It's dark, it's sometimes brutal, and it pulls no punches. Shiki is one of the best characters in the history of anime.
Though it's a single film, I'd also recommend The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. It's excellent. Though not nearly as crazy as Steins;Gate, it does center around time travel.
You might also want to try Mnemosyne. It's really twisted up and there is quite a bit of nudity but it's very interesting. Not for the faint of heart at all.
Though it might not be quite as good as most of the above, Ergo Proxy is very good. It jumps into the kind of theme you might see in Blade Runner or Neuromancer, where it questions what it means to be human.
And then there is Monster, if you haven't seen it. It's a long series, and are parts that feel a bit like filler, but it's just bloody brilliant. One of the best psychological thrillers ever, with one of the best villians ever.
