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Do you need an anime recommendation?, Drop your three favorite series, and if you consider yourself a beginner, a weeb or a full on neet when it comes to how many series you’ve seen and I’ll recommend you something fun to watch!Dungeon Meshi is definitely in a class all its own, however some alternate threads to chase are as follows: Last Exile (Kid Airship Couriers get involved in messy political war) Mushishi (very chill, etherial traveling mystic fixes rural occult-ish problems), Spice and Wolf (action adventure, merchant travels with ancient god of the harvest and teaches her economics)
Definitely should check out the original trigun series from the 90’s. It’s old school cool, with some steampunk sci-fi, and some mystery thrown in. Some other options include: Psycho pass (more gritty mystery action thriller), cowboy bebop (it’s a classic), or FLCL (if your looking for a series that makes no sense until it’s explained to you 😅) let me know if that hits, or if you’re looking for a different vibe.
EVA is a weird one because a lot of it doesn’t make sense until it’s slowed down and explained to you. But it’s wild how much you suddenly get and pick up on when somebody explains what’s going on, what the EVA’s are how the impacts matter, and why everybody is wishing shinji congratulations 😂
Couple of options: Toradora is definitely first if you haven’t seen it. Assuming you have, other options include: Carol and Tuesday (music themed drama), Erased (Time travel, murder mystery), and (movie) Paprika (really quirky movie with a fantastic 10/10 soundtrack about mixing dreams and reality)
These are all a bit light on some more of the comedy side of things you find in the above; despite their beautiful stories. You might also enjoy The World is Still Beautiful, which has some more of those comedy moments. I also recommended Trigun above which has some great comedy in it too despite the serious nature of the story.
Semantic error is also a great manhua, Sasaki to Miyano is super wholesome and one of my favs, and I HIGHLY recommend Heaven‘s Official Blessing and Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, which are both animated but are originally novels (peak content but long if you don’t like reading)