List a few and give a memory/description/story regarding that show!
These are a couple of shows I really liked. I know that a lot of people don't really care much for anime, but these are coming from a person that's not a big fan of anime either. All of these are on Netflix, by the way. Attack on Titan I really enjoyed Attack on Titan. I had a couple of friends that were really into it, and I'd make fun of them for it. I was reluctant to watch it, because it's art style- mainly how the titans looked. After a while, however, I decided to give it a try. One thing they never told me is how good the story is. Every episode is building on the last; there's no filler. There's no shoehorned love story that puts a damper on everything. It's just 100% story and action, and I love it. It's beautiful, too. Here's a image from the show: The story is a little tedious to explain, so here's an article on it. Soul Eater Soul eater is kind of hard to explain. It revolves around a bunch of kids trying to fight evil, but some of them turn into weapons. It's not like Attack on Titan, because it's not as grown up. However, it's not exactly a kid's show either. It's got this middle balance of childish interactions and grown up seriousness. I wouldn't really classify it as either one of them however. Still, besides the Exalibur episodes, it's pretty great. Sword Art Online Sword Art Online is about a bunch of people that get these VR headsets for a game, but get stuck inside them until the game is complete. If anyone tries to take them off, they die. If the person dies in game, they die in real life, too. The story follows a kid named Kirito, who is really good at the game. To make a long story short, he meets and falls in love with a girl named Asuna, beats that game, and tries to find her in real life. There's a lot more to it after that, but I don't want to spoil the entire series. The story is pretty solid, and show is enjoyable to watch, but it's far from perfect. There's a lot of filler, which is frustrating when you just want to find out what happens next. There's a whole story arc (Alfheim online) that gets pretty tedious, and a little creepy. Nevertheless, it's a great show.
I really couldn't get into SAO. I only made it to episode 12-ish until I just kind of got sick of it and the episodes started to seem really, really repetitive. Soul Eater was hilarious, and Attack on Titan was amazing on so many levels. I recently watched the Monogatari series and really, really enjoyed it. I'm trying to find something with the same sort of style as Monogatari, but I'm finding it a little difficult.
Was episode 12 about the time they got out of Aincrad, or before it? That's when I got kinda bored with it. However, I pressed though it; and while it was an enjoyable show, I was really not up for watching any of the sequels.
Ah it must have been fairly early on then. I half-watch quite a few anime. They were still in Aincrad and every episode was just Kirito saving one girl after the other. I was watching them as they came out and it just didn't seem like something worth waiting for a new episode. Some of my friends later on were talking about them turning into fairies or something? It just seemed too ridiculous at that point so I knew I wasn't going back to it.
Attack on Titan is a simply masterful series; an extraordinary visual composition, a soundtrack that still sends chills down my spine just thinking about it, and a relentless, beautifully written story. I put it up there as one of the best television series of all time without reservation, along with the modern Battlestar Galactica & Firefly. Another recent anime I deeply enjoyed was Psycho-Pass. It explores a dystopian world where every persons psychological state can be scanned by sensors; the series follows a group of police officers tasked with hunting and dispatching the seriously unbalanced and psychopathic before they can cause further psychological harm to society. It's a really fleshed out and deep examination of the consequences of such a technology, and doesn't pull any punches.
Psyco-Pass seems like a really cool series. I might have to check it out next time I get in an anime mood.
I have fond memories of star trek. Pretty much all of it, including enterprise, warts and all. I just love the idea that humans will mostly be able to rise above their bullshit and solve the major problems and conquer space travel. Knight Rider, because come on, that show had a self aware AI in a damn car. How cool is that? I really wish they had done a modern reboot of that show. Really. It could be awesome. But they didn't. Never. Not once even try. Doctor Who. I would come home from school and turn on the ABC (Australia) and watch Roger Ramjet, Rocky and Bullwinke, Fraggle Rock, Inspector Gadget, G-Force, Danger Mouse, waiting for DOCTOR WHO TO COME ON. With a bowl of ice-cream. Firefly. Killed before it's time.
I too adored pretty much all of Star Trek, but despite two attempts I can't finish Enterprise. It started attractively enough, looking at the some of first steps the Federation makes into deep space and even introduced the Klingons as a newly encountered race in the first episode; it felt exciting, as you say, to see humanity's early rise above its bullshit of nation states, capitalism, and war to unite in the participation and exploration of interstellar space, a chapter of Star Trek history we only ever previous heard about second-hand. That first season was broadly compelling, generally well made & well written. And then the Xindi turned up with their "Temporal Cold War". It seemed as if the executives watching over Enterprise were worried that without a constricted, monomyth story structure Enterprise would fall down dead right out of the gate, so we have to have a distinct and consistent antagonist, a Sauron and his army of malformed Orcs, they need to have a pathological hatred of humans & our protagonists in particular, and they need to ineffectively sabotage Enterprise like Gargamel ineffectively sabotaged the Smurfs. Because clearly, in 21st century television, you can't just have a spaceship aimlessly travelling through space, encountering weird and wonderful alien cultures, technologies, and problems. You might end up with seven legendary seasons and four feature films like The Next Generation! Season three totally gave up on the idea that this was a Star Trek, and it became a Star Wars. A silly, poorly written and seemingly pointless battle with the Empire Xindi, where the Millennium Falcon Enterprise overcame impossible odds to destroy the Death Star Xindi superweapon. At that point I gave up. Did I miss anything in season four?
ABC cartoons! I fondly remember Monkey Magic, Bananaman, Superted, Rugrats, Captain Planet, Roger Ramjet, Bangers and Mash and The Ferals. It was definitely the highlight after school, sitting in front of the TV with a snack before dinner time. Ahh the memories.
Simpsons. I can never get enough of that show, in particular some of the older episodes. They still crack me up 20-odd years later.
I actually just binge watched the second season of HBO's Silicon Valley. I really loved it. I think that that has just become one of my favorite shows.