"I'm fine"

[maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Very fair. Resonate with me somewhat, tho I still come to the anime well for comfort vibes.

What kind of shows do you watch instead, care to recommend some?

[tropicaldingdong@lemmy.world]

Ahem. 36 episodes about highschool volleyball. I do not play volleyball.

[affiliate@lemmy.world]

i always happy to recommend new tv shows. recently i’ve liked

• better call saul.
• severence.
• kaos. (i’m still not really sure how they managed to pull that tv show off, but they did in my opinion)
• dark.
• snowfall.
• lupin. (kind of silly and over the top but still fun in my opinion)
• mindhunter (but they canceled it after 2 seasons after ending on a cliff hanger)
• maid (2021)
• maniac (2018)
• chernobyl series on hbo.

some of these are stronger than others, but i enjoyed all of them and thought they were quite good. i also tried to make the list have a decent range. also my experience has been that the netflix descriptions of tv shows are just universally pretty terrible and i probably wouldn’t have watched many of these shows had i paid attention to the description.

[gnurd@sh.itjust.works]

I started reading HoriMiya out of curiosity after some r/animeirl post about her loving it when he yells at her. I was like, ok, wtf is going on here. Next thing I knew I'd read the whole manga and watched the anime... I'm 44.

I probably shouldn't Google the second title in your post so I don't go down another rabbit hole lol.

[bemorecareful@lemmy.world]

It's unnecessarily limiting the audience. High school is relatable because everyone does it. Not everyone goes to college or works in such and such field.

When it comes to the human experience, we start to diverge pretty early.

[nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Grandma help, my friend lost his balls.

[samus12345@lemm.ee]

[amp@sh.itjust.works]

agreed, that's the best of 'em!

[douchebagmcswag@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

BWREAKING TAEH WAOURLD

[douchebagmcswag@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

take a shot everytime MC sys: YABAI (bad)

But no that was definitely one of my favorites during that season

[dhs92@programming.dev]

[douchebagmcswag@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Pseudo Harem

Absolutely adorable.. And it has an ending

[hoimo@ani.social]

I spent 40 hours in the Mahjong parlor, waiting for my businesses to drop off their monthly profits so I could invest it again. It is an accurate depiction of being a crime boss, dammit!

[baines@lemmy.cafe]

they can be but then the MC is a 40 year old office worker while she has a troubled past and daddy issues

[pugjesus@lemmy.world]

[dropkicks a man through a window]

"I've never killed anyone in my life."

[amp@sh.itjust.works]

absolutely, love it! but that one was high school. if we start with that then the flood gates are open. (and I can name a hundred recommendations)

[mysticpickle@lemmy.ca]

I'm just optimizing stats dad! I swear to God. I'm not playing dress up!

[mysticpickle@lemmy.ca]

I'll second the Yakuza 0 recommendation. Lot of nice cathartic emotional gut punches

[grimdeter@lemmy.ml]

The best anime/mamga about college is Grand Blue, cant't recommend it enough

[pistcow@lemm.ee]

Internets says that 61% of the Japanese population go on to higher education. That's pretty high compared to Americans at 39%.