My personal favorite for flawed reasons is Madoka because I was there for the live reactions to the infamous episode and it was magical watching everyone lose their shit. It was also my re-introduction to anime after being shamed out of it for liking sailor moon as a kid.
There's a slasher movie, I think it's called something like "The Final Girl".
A lot of ink has been spilled about how it satirises a lot of tropes from the slasher genre (imho not in ways that haven't already been done more originally), but what I like about it is how it deconstructs the 80's nostalgia bullshit that seems omnipresent.
Like, shit like "Stranger Things" are almost a complete whitewash of the conservative views of 80's Americans, but this film doesn't really hesitate to show how casual it was back then.
CW for anyone who does end up watching it, there is a whole bunch of slurs thrown around over the course of the film, it's even played for laughs in one scene where the stereotypical jock fuckboy repeatedly calls one the main cast a removed and gets up in his face as if he's about to beat him up over it only to end his rant by bringing up that he's attracted to men.
That does sound like what I was looking for, but I think I’ll pass because I am having a hard time with homophobia rn tbh. I appreciate the rec and the cw. Please don’t my passing in on it as judgement against your taste
Yeah it's fine, I wouldn't CW if I didn't think it would be a problem for people.
You sound like a person with good taste in general (and very polite) do you have any recs that might not be triggering?
In order to be fair: I have a rec in case you haven’t checked it out already. From another world is a show that treats homosexuality as normal because it is actually mandated in the young people. I know that’s kinda weird, but it pulls it off.
Cheers
Sorry, but I can't think of anything to recommend right now. Honestly I've been a bit bogged down with assignments to watch much recently.
Good luck with those assignments! I doubt I can be any help, but post here and I’m sure a lot of us are gonna try to be helpful. Wreck that school shit comrade!