Recommend an anime/manga/comic (Thriller/Psychological/Action/Historical)

[Politrukk]

Hey there people, I've got too much free time on my hands and I'm looking for some new Anime to watch or manga to read

Can you suggest anything based on my named genres(see title)/the stuff I've read?



I've seen :
Death Note
Ergo Proxy
Hellsing
Part of Black Lagoon and Elfen Lied

(Full Metal Alchemist/One Piece/Bleach/Reborn!/Naruto/Dragonball/Gundam/Soul Eater/Fairy Tail/Attack on Titan/7 Deadly Sins/Negima/Shaman King as well but I'm not looking for "shounen" anime)
( Edit : Although Shaman King and Full Metal Alchemist type of Anime is actually still valid)


I've Read
Vinland Saga
Historie
Drifters
Kekkaishi
Feng Shen Ji
Doulou Dalu
Red Storm
Vagabond
Green Blood
Holyland
D-Gray Man
Gamaran
Ryuroden
Cesare
Blue Exorcist
Liar's Game
Some manga about a female shopkeeper that's a ghost and the guy working in her shop but I forget what it's called xxholic or something?
Some manga about a sphere landing on earth and continously sending people off into battle simulations.



Comics :

I've only read Avengers/Spiderman/Iron Man/Guardians Of The Galaxy/Deadpool and all major arcs from the Marvel Universe.



Thanks in advance!

 

[madwarper]

Have you read/seen Monster manga/anime?

It seems to fit your description to a 'T'; Thriller, psychological, action, historical.

Imagine the Fugitive set in post-Berlin wall Europe, where he's hunting Hannibal Lecter.

 

[Queen Michael]

The manga series Doubt and Judge by Yoshiki Tonogai. Those two are definitely psychological thrillers worth checking out. He's released another one, Secret, but that one's not as good in my opinion.

 

[Politrukk]

Have you read/seen Monster manga/anime?

It seems to fit your description to a 'T'; Thriller, psychological, action, historical.

Imagine the Fugitive set in post-Berlin wall Europe, where he's hunting Hannibal Lecter.

Nope sounds like a neat suggestion I will take a look at it!

 

[Zontar]

If you like thrillers or action, Psycho Pass is a great one. It's one of my top 5 favourite anime, with the only negative I can think of being that the second season, Psycho Pass 2, sucks.

If you have a Netflix account, you can watch it now there, at least the first season anyway.

 

[Politrukk]

The manga series Doubt and Judge by Yoshiki Tonogai. Those two are definitely psychological thrillers worth checking out. He's released another one, Secret, but that one's not as good in my opinion.

Thank you I'll take a look at this as well!

If you like thrillers or action, Psycho Pass is a great one. It's one of my top 5 favourite anime, with the only negative I can think of being that the second season, Psycho Pass 2, sucks.

If you have a Netflix account, you can watch it now there, at least the first season anyway.

So it's sort of like how True Detective season 1 was great but 2 was different and less effective?
Or is it just that the creator hasn't been doing his job like before?

 

[Dalisclock]

I second Monster. It's really interesting and has none of the usual anime "weirdness". There are allusions to the big bad being the biblical anti-Christ but it never goes beyond being thematic.

The biggest issue for some people is that it's dark. Really dark at times, due to multiple depictions of

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Child Abuse

. OTOH, there are bright spots as well so it's not a70-ish episode long ode to suicidal depression.

 

[Zontar]

If you like thrillers or action, Psycho Pass is a great one. It's one of my top 5 favourite anime, with the only negative I can think of being that the second season, Psycho Pass 2, sucks.

If you have a Netflix account, you can watch it now there, at least the first season anyway.

So it's sort of like how True Detective season 1 was great but 2 was different and less effective?
Or is it just that the creator hasn't been doing his job like before?

The second season wasn't even made by the same studio, and the studio who owns the IP and made the first season was working on the movie at the time. There are only 4 characters from season one who show up, one goes through the same character arc they did in the first season, and the other three aren't in it enough to actually have an arc. The second season is only 11 episodes instead of the 22 of season one, nothing of note happens and when the movie came out pretty much everyone disregarded it from being part of the canon since nothing of note happens at all and the only things worth mentioning is the fact that the only world-building done make no sense in the context of what we learned in the first season.

I even know of a YouTuber (who I'm subbed to) who made a 5 part, 2 hour video series explaining why season 1 was great while season 2 was terrible, both from a story telling and cinematographic perspective.

I'd say think of it this way: it's like True Detectives season 1 vs 2, only with the quality gap being about an order of magnitude larger. The only redeeming quality it had was one scene in the 9th episode which made it go into "so bad it's good" territory, which is sad given season 1 was one of the best series of the past decade.

 

[Fox12]

Berserk! Go read berserk right now! I'm surprised you've read vagabond and Vinland saga, and not berserk. It's the perfect dark fantasy masterpiece for any collection, and a must read for manga fans.

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What's not to love?

Neon Genesis is a required reccomendation, it's absolutely brilliant. The best psychological anime ever produced.

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If you liked Ergo Proxy then you may like Serial Experiments Lain and texnolyze. Great psychological sci-fi dramas.

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[FireAza]

Have you read/seen Monster manga/anime?

It seems to fit your description to a 'T'; Thriller, psychological, action, historical.

Imagine the Fugitive set in post-Berlin wall Europe, where he's hunting Hannibal Lecter.

Monster. Dear God, go watch Monster! Also, Paranoia Agent, as you can tell from the title, is a great philological thriller. Directed by the late and very talented Satoshi Kon.

 

[TakerFoxx]

Puella Magi Madoka Magica. A modern day classic, and a real genre changer.

Gakkou Gurashi. Don't let the art style fool you. Just watch the first episode all the way through. Trust me, it'll be worth it.

Baccano. Really hard to describe, but really damned good.

Durarara. Same guys who did Baccano. Also really damned good, especially if you liked Death Note.

From the comics side of thing, go with Sandman, Watchmen, Saga, and Runaways.

 

[Mechamorph]

Some slightly obscure anime to recommend:

Senkou no Night Raid: Set during the interregnum between the First and Second Sino-Japanese War in 1930s China, it follows a set of spies (with super powers) for the Imperial Japanese army active in Shanghai.

Shura no Toki: A martial arts drama at its heart, its three arcs follow members of the Mutsu clan as they interact with famous personages of Japanese history. Time eras include Sengoku, Tokugama and Meiji Japan.

Read or Die: A fantastical version of pulp spy flicks that mixes an alternate history (ie the British Empire is still going strong) with people who are clones of great men and women through history.

 

[A.K.B.]

Blame!

Reasons to read blame!:

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[Casual Shinji]

Berserk

Why? Because God gave you the gift of life, that's why.

Spoiler: And also this...

And check out One-Punch Man, too. It's a manga that makes fun of shonen/monster of the week stories, but simultaneously becomes one of the best shonen/monster of the week mangas. It's like The Tick in manga form and dailed up to eleven.

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There's also an anime, which if the first episode is anything to go by, is going to be really good.

 

[Hochmeister]

Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Area 88 may be of interest to you.

 

[DoPo]

In addition to some of the above, I'd recommend Akagi and Kaiji. I've watched the animes but I don't how how they fare against their respective mangas. At any rate, the two are somewhat similar in premise - you have a main character who has to play games. In Akagi the main character plays (mostly) mahjong, in Kaiji it's a variety of games.

Of the two, I'd recommend Kaiji more, as I simply don't know anything about mahjong and while the narration in Akagi did explain stuff as it went along, I often found myself not really invested as it was mostly "Oh yeah, Akagi did this, and it was brilliant. Let me explain why now" a lot of the time. I still liked it, though, but Kaiji was more engaging. As a bonus, and as far as I know, it's somewhat similar to Liar's Game which is on your list (and I've had my eye on for a while but haven't read yet).

Also, I want to suggest Shinsekai Yori (or From the New World). The shortest way I can describe it is "What happens if Stephen King and George Orwell were to team up and write Harry Potter. And there is no Harry Potter in it". It has action and thriller mixed in.

EDIT: Ah, also, there was Zankyou no Terror - it's around 10 episodes long and it's about terrorism, so it has Psychological covered.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

If you like thrillers or action, Psycho Pass is a great one. It's one of my top 5 favourite anime, with the only negative I can think of being that the second season, Psycho Pass 2, sucks.

If you have a Netflix account, you can watch it now there, at least the first season anyway.

So it's sort of like how True Detective season 1 was great but 2 was different and less effective?
Or is it just that the creator hasn't been doing his job like before?

I say it's more like Die Hard vs. A Good Day to Die Hard.

OT: Put another one for Madoka Magica. It's a magical girl show, but don't let that or the cutesy art style steer you away from it.

It's also from the writer of the FIRST (I can't stress that enough) season of Psycho-Pass, and like Psycho-Pass you can watch it, and the movies, on Netflix.

Manga-wise, I'm more into horror. If you're interested in that you can check out some of Junji Ito's stuff, specifically Uzumaki, and Franken Fran, which is my personal favorite manga.

 

[FPLOON]

This reminds me of something I said over a year ago...

Gunslinger Girl (both the manga and the anime) deals with damaged little girls basically reborn as cybernetic assassins who take down terrorist organizations and the like across Italy... You basically get to see how one minute they can act as innocent as a little girl, "naturally", and the next they could take down enemies with instinctual precision... However, they are controlled by their "handlers" who know about their full backstory as well as see, from an outsider's perspective, how these girls deal with their new life without "full" prior knowledge of who they were before basically becoming a trained assassin as well as the "handlers", themselves, dealing with their own past at times, but "that's another story"... On the flip side, later on, you get to see some "adult" characters deal with being marked as terrorist and see why are they doing all this and for what purpose, which I won't spoil since I'm trying to describe all this as vaguely as possible...

The anime only has two seasons while the manga does continue on further than the anime with other characters introduced where they, too, are looked upon throughout the full manga run... With that said, despite the amount of action that does get presented in both, it's not really a "main" focus, per se... The action is kinda sparse overall and, in the anime, the dialogue can be too, as it's sometimes takes a "show, don't tell" approach to most of the character-driven events, in my opinion...

Yeah, that... Thanks, me!

Other than that, outside of Baccano!'s historical late-1920s style, there's Blue Gender's "war on nature"/"war on self" motif, the manga Pluto's "suspenseful murder mystery" take on a particular Astro Boy story arc, Speed Grapher's take on the "demons" from the 1%, and Eden of the East (both the anime and its two movies) with its take on [REDACTED] overall... I would also include Witchblade, but only because of the mother/daughter dynamic from this thread's perspective on "action", per se...

Edit (9/20/15 6:46PM PST): Almost forgot something else I've said going on two years ago...

The Hell Girl manga series is okay if you like isolated psychological stories tied together by a single website and a girl who will allow you to get revenge at a price...

Man, how could I [almost] forget about that series?

 

[Politrukk]

Berserk

Why? Because God gave you the gift of life, that's why.

Spoiler: And also this...

And check out One-Punch Man, too. It's a manga that makes fun of shonen/monster of the week stories, but simultaneously becomes one of the best shonen/monster of the week mangas. It's like The Tick in manga form and dailed up to eleven.

Spoiler

There's also an anime, which if the first episode is anything to go by, is going to be really good.

Berserk I opened up but then I got distracted by pandora........ which was incredibly odd haha.

The music makes me want to watch, way to go anime creators haha.

 

[bdeamon]

Samurai Champloo is kind of historical, if you like your edo period japan with a little bit of hip-hop culture sprinkled in.