Why it’s interesting: It asks a heavy question inside a shonen action package: Is it ethical to bring someone back from the dead? The Elric brothers paid for that answer with an arm, a leg, and their entire childhood. It’s tragic, hilarious, and contains one of the best villains in fiction (Father), who is terrifying precisely because he has no emotions, not too many. Anime: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Manga: Demon Slayer
This is the antidote to Demon Slayer . Frieren is quiet. It is slow. It is an elf mage who lived so long that the 10-year "epic quest" to kill the Demon King felt like a weekend trip. Now, 50 years later, her human party members are dying of old age, and she is only now learning what it means to love people with short lifespans. margo hentai
Ufotable, the animation studio, has done something illegal with this series. They took a relatively straightforward manga about a boy selling charcoal whose family gets murdered by demons, and they turned it into a visual symphony. Why it’s interesting: It asks a heavy question