2011
24 eps
TV Saitama / Crunchyroll
Sci Fi Thriller Drama
A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nigh…
If you loved Your Name's time travel used to explore what we'd change — and what we can't, Steins;Gate delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2018
13 eps
Kyoto Animation / Netflix
Drama Romance Fantasy
Violet Evergarden was raised as a weapon — a child soldier with no knowledge of herself outside of orders and combat. When the war ends, she survives with mecha…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same beautiful and emotional energy throughout.
2021
Toho
Romance Sci Fi Drama
Takeshi Sorekara is a young robotics engineer in 1995 Tokyo on the verge of a breakthrough — until his business partner and fiancée betray him and steal his wor…
If you loved Your Name's two souls pulled together by something bigger than either of them, The Door into Summer delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2022
Toho / JKHD
Anime Fantasy Drama
Seventeen-year-old Suzume lives in a quiet seaside town in Kyushu when a mysterious young man named Souta passes through, searching for ruins. She follows him i…
If you loved Your Name's two souls pulled together by something bigger than either of them, Suzume delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about fate as both comfort and cruelty — the sense that this was always coming. Same beautiful and emotional energy throughout.
2021
20 eps
NHK / Crunchyroll
Drama Supernatural Adventure
An immortal being is cast to Earth with no purpose, no form, and no feelings. It learns by copying: a rock, a wolf, a dying boy who walks alone across a frozen …
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same beautiful and emotional energy throughout.