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My top 5 currently:
Psycho-pass: cyberpunk police thriller set in the near future where a supervisor AI decides if you're psychologically fit to live in society, not many anime stereotypes that makes it watchable with your non-weeb family. Think NCIS but more dystopian. 3 seasons done, idk if 4th planned. 1st season is the best.
Stein's Gate: How one dude LARPing as a scientist ends up having to save his adoptive daughter from the illuminati using time travel, all because of the time travel. Two seasons, finished (?).
Promised neverland: Gifted children living in an orphanage plot a literal 500 IQ prison escape when they find out the orphanage is a human meat farm for demons. Keeps you on your toes as the heroes and the villains learn more about each other's plans and every episode has an actual plot twist. Two seasons but the second is not even in the same genre as the first.
Made In Abyss: So you have pic related, because of a supernatural curse the lower you devle into it the harder it is to get back up, going from nausea to hallucinations, to internal injuries and death. The MC just received a word from his mom, an elite speleologist, after she headed for her "last dive" below the area where you can't get up from, and decides to join her. Amazing character and art design, god-tier OST, insane contrast between cheerful and cute scenes and the eldritch horror of the Abyss reminding you it's there. Character design is jarring at first but don't let it fool you. Very weeb-bait at times though.
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: isekai before it was cool. MC wakes up with a bunch of other dudes in a medieval fantasy world with only figments of memories from their life up until there. Hard, low fantasy unlike most isekai, goblins are actually a threat, but you have to hunt unless you want to be sleeping on the streets. You don't get to see the characters triumph or even become famous, but you get attached to them and their struggles. Short but very high quality.
