Underrated Anime Shows You Need To Watch

"Wonder Egg Priority" was one of the more divisive anime of 2021. Basically, no one thinks the final episode is good, but the divide is between those who see it as a story-ruining conclusion and those who see it as not an actual conclusion but rather a cliffhanger. Due to the first season's disastrous production, a second season seems very unlikely, but there's still enough genuinely great stuff in that first season to recommend it (with huge reservations about the finale).

A dark sci-fi action series using elements of the magical girl genre, "Wonder Egg Priority" follows four teenage girls who've experienced great loss as they fight through dreamscapes to save others from suicide. This ambitious narrative deals in a lot of heavy, potentially triggering subjects, and an over-reliance on unreliable narrators towards the end of the series arguably tilts the overall story into offensiveness. And yet there's too much in the story that's genuinely beautiful, moving, and inspiring to dismiss this flawed but often breathtaking anime entirely.

If you or anyone you know is having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline​ at​ 1-800-273-TALK (8255)​.