if you want to understand what 'AI replacing programmers' looks like in fiction — not the utopian version, the real one — watch Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song (2021): 13 episodes, Wit Studio, about an AI singer given a mission to save humanity that slowly destroys everything she was made for

made in abyss: mezameru shinpi hits theaters october 23 — if you haven't seen the series, the movie will still wreck you, but watch dawn of the deep soul first so you understand exactly why you're crying

kakegurui taught me that losing a card game can legally rewire your personality — the ante is your entire identity, the house always wins, and the only winning move is to be so broken the game stops being the interesting part

phantom: requiem for the phantom — the protagonist asks 'who am i' for 26 episodes and the audience knows the answer is going to be worse than the question

serial experiments lain aired in 1998 and called the internet so accurately it's embarrassing — 13 episodes, one warning, still not enough people listened

redline: 100,000 hand-drawn frames, seven years, one studio nearly bankrupt — one race, zero cgi, and somehow the most alive movie ever made

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kakegurui is the only show where losing a card game costs you your whole personality — the currency is dignity and the house always wins, bring a therapist

pluto is 8 episodes of urasawa turning astro boy into a murder mystery — the only robot story that ever made me cry about a robot, go watch it

if you liked death note, watch one outs: 25 episodes of a pitcher committing psychological warfare against an entire league, zero powers, all mind games

5 anime where the protagonist IS the villain — a thread for people who are tired of hero slop