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?