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?
Going a bit on the degenerate side, Shimoneta is an interesting take on things. The premise: People are too degenerate, so society bans any and all things even loosely approximating sexuality, from sexual jokes to even basic reproductive education.
This leads to violence, rising criminality, terrorism, and civic unrest as the government uses the excuse of quashing impure thoughts to basically enslave the populace: People are required to be collared at all times, with active monitoring of all their bodily functions from speech to mere arm motions, to ensure no one goes against Big Government.
The two factions are the pro and anti authoritarian factions. But notably, most people are pro, because propaganda says that being pro fascism is good for your (and society's) health.
It is a romantic comedy. But the concepts explored in the background of the main "plot" are quite telling about a trend in society's urge to offset all morality, ethics, and child-rearing to government hands.
Shimoneta's story is kind of prescient as well. How not just purity but degrees of lesser purity are punishable is basically how the woke mob sees the world. That and the pro-authoritarian side lacks any humor and can only see things with their confirmation bias built in, are all a symptom of our times. In an ideal world that anime should just be simple entertainment that does not reflect on society at all.