# Seeking Netflix Anime recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** netflix, cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [May 29, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685 "2020-05-29T17:06:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/101 "2025-01-20T00:20:05Z")
Season 2 of **Castlevania: Nocturne** is on Netflix now (started Jan 16) I haven’t watched any of season 2yet, but probably will. Brian ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/102 "2025-07-07T04:21:18Z")
I finished watching season 2 of **Mashle** on Netflix. Unfortunately, it was mostly one long pointless fight spread out over multiple episodes (“My strongest attack did nothing to him!”), which is one of my least favourite anime tropes. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/103 "2025-08-03T21:45:43Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Netflix has released the first 12 episodes of a third and final season of _Beastars_, with 12 more coming in “early 2025”. “Coming in 2026” now. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/104 "2025-08-03T21:53:42Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > “Coming in 2026” now. That’s disappointing, I’d like to see it even though, like so many manga, the writer ran out of good ideas after the first couple of story arcs and it just sort of limped to a finish. Edit: (And, looking back up-thread I already groused about the diminishing returns on the manga.) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/105 "2025-08-03T21:58:22Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > I’d like to see it even though Same here. That cliffhanger needs a resolution. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/106 "2025-08-04T19:11:34Z")
I think _The Summer Hikaru Died_ is pretty good, though I’m more of a dilettante than a connoisseur when it comes to anime. Hikaru is a teen who goes missing and is rescued, but—unbeknownst to anyone at first—actually died and has been replaced by . . . something. And the show is about not-Hikaru’s relationship with then-Hikaru’s best friend, who sees what’s going on very quickly (indeed, in the very first scene). The animation is really good, seamlessly blending traditional and CGI techniques, and it does an amazing job of conveying the sweltering and oppressive heat of a rural Japanese summer. > **[Watch The Summer Hikaru Died | Netflix Official Site](https://www.netflix.com/title/81948057)** > > Six months ago, Hikaru vanished for a week. Now, as his best friend Yoshiki senses something amiss and confronts him, the harrowing truth emerges. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/107 "2025-08-05T00:09:29Z")
> [@Hoops](#): > > and it does an amazing job of conveying the sweltering and oppressive heat of a rural Japanese summer. One of the recent reviews brings that up: > The Summer Hikaru Died spends a commendable and concerted effort to evoke the feeling of a sweltering summer in rural Japan. It’s an oppressive season, when heat and humidity force people to cope in ways that, through repetition across generations, become codified as synonymous with it. Festivals, shaved ice, cooling down by the creek, and other similar signifiers turn into rituals. These are practical responses, born of natural phenomenon and biological necessity, that we elevate into the pantheon of culture. > **[The Summer Hikaru Died ‒ Episode 4](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-summer-hikaru-died/episode-4/.227125)** > > Rituals are at the forefront of this week's episode, and it's a subject that gels well with the narrative's focus on small town secrets. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/108 "2026-03-13T14:50:15Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Netflix has released the first 12 episodes of a third and final season of _Beastars_, with 12 more coming in “early 2025”. > [@Skywatcher](#): > > “Coming in 2026” now. > [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > That’s disappointing I haven’t checked yet but sounds like it’s finally out, per [comments at _Kevin & Kell_.](https://www.kevinandkell.com/2026/kk0312.html#disqus_thread) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/109 "2026-03-13T15:27:46Z")
Yeah, it came out on March 7th. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2026, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/110 "2026-03-14T03:58:52Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I haven’t checked yet but sounds like it’s finally out, per [comments at _Kevin & Kell_.](https://www.kevinandkell.com/2026/kk0312.html#disqus_thread) I hadn’t watched any of season 3.5 when I replied earlier, but now I’ve watched 6 of the episodes. I complained in this thread of how the later part of the manga wasn’t great. It turns out that the last of the anime has pretty much abandoned the late manga and made completely new story. [I see I wasn’t the only one who thought that the manga went downhill at the end](https://www.reddit.com/r/Beastars/comments/1rq5csi/no_comment/). ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2026, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685/111 "2026-03-14T11:18:35Z")
A while back I started **Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End** because I heard good things about it. To be honest, I found the early episodes “fine” and watchable, but not as good as I expected. Well I watched some more episodes and now I’m getting hooked. In the early episodes I could watch one and be fine, but I had to binge the demon episodes (7-10). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-netflix-anime-recommendations/854685.md?page=5)