I'm making this thread in suggesting to make a community for anime and spotlighting the anime that I like. For all the criticism it gets for being Japanese cartoons as childish or sexy, you won't believe how accurate anime gets in predicting how the current society will look like. It has way more intelligent social commentary, you wouldn't really connect the dot at the time you were watching to wait a minute, Isn't it this?
Anime I want to give endless spotlight again and again is Gatchaman Crowds Insight and Shiki. They were both released in post-2010, yet they didn't really get the massive fan following because they do have some problems if you watch them in your typical weekly anime watching routine. If you watch it back to back, I don't think it's going to cause a much problem. So I urge you to give it a go. Their main topic is about danger of mob mentality and it does very good job of demonstrating how harmful it is.
But I want to give more attention to Shiki because I think it serves as a cautionary tale. It's also very relevant in terms of how we are dealing with world full of people unaware of harmfulness of vaccine and built a cult around it. You have group of teenagers and a cynical doctor knowing who the culprit is but cannot convince the villagers before any more harm is done. The intensity keeps growing and the end result gets predictable.
The culprits in question should be familiar. They move in to some secluded village for survival but eventually earns the scorn of the village due to their complacency. This anime probably just wanted to tell the story about the danger of mob mentality but it tells so much more, it's quite mind-boggling.
Have you watched any of them?
Gatchaman Crowds was a fantastic anime that unfortunately aired at the same time as a few much bigger anime so achieved little reach.
Another great one with a somewhat similar theme is Samurai Flamenco.
If you ever liked Power Rangers, I would HIGHLY recommend SamFlam.
Nah, even if that anime came out in less busier season, some people would have been still turned off. It had a lot of new ideas and very polarising main character, so it's shame not a lot of people watched it.
Oh I will give it a go.
Don't watch anything on it, don't read any reviews, go in fully blind and enjoy the experience.
I don't think it would have ever been a top-billed show, but it definitely would have done much better.
The music was excellent, the animation was great, and the plot was interesting.
Indeed, I thought everything was top notch. I'm normally pretty damn picky with anime I watch.
Also recommend Tentai Senshi Sunred (Astro Fighter Sunred) if you like Power Rangers. They didn't officially bring it west, so only fansubs are available. It's Power Rangers if it was a comedy where the heroes were too strong, and the villains are great members of their communities.
There's an ongoing manga called Ranger Reject. The villains were killed, and only the goons are left, but the rangers have them pretend to be villains and launch a failed attack weekly. If they don't the heroes will kill them also.