I’ll give some of my favourites from the 90s and back.

The 1997 Berserk anime is essential medievalish fantasy. It’s dark, gruesome, badass, political and
character driven. The writing and artwork are superb and both the sub and dub are fantastic.

Golden Boy (1997) is 6 episodes of goofy, raunchy comedic perfection and again the dub comes
absolutely recommended.

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) is a hard sell at 39 episodes and a movie. Initially, it seems to be a
slice of life Shoujo tournament arc with an aesthetic flaire and absurdist sense of humour – when
really *everything* depicted is vitally interlinked between 7 layers of metaphor and subtext. It’s a
show with big things to say without ever being preachy and survives, even commands watching
over and over to keep noticing how all the pieces fit together. The dub is corny as hell which
matches its cheap theatrical meta-narative, while the sub is played more straight. Pick your poison.

The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (1993) is a sci-fi comedy about a bumbling horn dog idiot who
bumbles his way into becoming a ship’s captain in the middle of a war. Thing is that his world view
is so divorced from reality that he loops back around to genius at every turn, stumbling into
victories while everyone else pulls their hair out. The Sub and Dub are both fine.

Violence Jack: Evil Town (1988) is a 58 minute short that can be watched independently of the
other movies. Honestly, much of the writing and voice acting sucks. But it makes up for that with
buckets of mood, untouchable aesthetic, unparalleled violence. It is a shock watch but I find it
genuinely valuable if you’ve got the stomach for it; it being on-screen child murder, cannibalism,
r@pe, etc.

Dominion: Tank Police (1988) is only 4 episodes long. It’s got a fun art style and is set in a
dystopian future where the air is toxic and police are militarized to the point of roaming the street in
tanks. It’s mostly a comedy, parodying American cop movies, but manages to poke on some
interesting ideas and commentaries throughout.