Shrawan Kumar 
Hey, Anime fans here are the 5 Anime Shows and Movies that you have to watch at least one time in your life, and these anime shows/Movies will break your mind.
This anime list is not ranked, You can just select any anime to watch if you are watching anime first time then maybe you have to watch DEATH NOTE.
PAPRIKA
Streaming: Amazon Prime Video
I can maybe explain this movie’s synopsis with the word “Inception”, Inception is all about Dream and Controlling someone else’s dream. Ya, Everyone has watched Christopher Nolan’s Inception movie (2010) but the concept of this movie isn’t unique maybe it comes from PAPRIKA Anime that was released in 2006.
PAPRIKA Anime is based on the novel “PAPRIKA” that was written in 1993 by Yasutaka Tsutsui.
Synopsis: At Atsuko’s lab, a powerful new psychotherapy device known as the “DC-MINI” has been invented by her brilliant colleague, Dr. Tokita, a nerdy overweight genius. Although this state-of-art device could revolutionize the world of psychotherapy, in the wrong hands the potential misuse of the device could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate the dreamer’s personality while they are asleep.
This movie is must watch if you like the concept of Dreams, Alternative Reality, and Inception Movie.
Serial Experiments Lain
Streaming: Funimation and Amazon Prime Video
This series was released in 1998 with only 13 Episodes, This series talks about the connection between humans and technology, the whole story of this series is focused on Lain’s character, she has fewer friends, anti-social and very relatable Character. The story started when lain comes an e-mail from one of her’s friends who is dead. her’s Friends tell her “She is alive deep within the virtual realm of the Wired itself, where she claims she has found “God” there”.
Synopsis: Strange events begin to occur as a withdrawn girl named Lain becomes obsessed with the interconnected virtual realm of “The Wired”.
You have watched this series if you ever thought like this “is we are real and we really exist”.
Paranoia Agent
Streaming: Funimation and Amazon Prime Video
This anime series also comes with 13 Episode that is Directed by Satoshi Kon who is directed Paprika, This series talks about lots of things like society, people’s thinking, and more…, in this series we see different character, story of every character and how they connected to each other. “The main character is Tsukiko Sagi, she is a character designer who is designed, “Maromi” most popular character and Tsukiko Sagi’s company tell and force her to recreate a character like “Maromi” and one day when she going home from office suddenly someone hit on her head with a bed” from this point the main story is started.
Synopsis: An elementary school kid dubbed with the title “shounen bat” or “lil slugger” has been going around attacking people with his bent, golden bat. Now, two detectives are investigating so they can stop this kid from making any more attacks, but they will find out soon enough… that this case is much more than they expected.
If you looking anime that is easy to understand so, maybe it is not for you and this anime is also shows reality of the world. You can watch this anime if you are looking for something different in anime.
Psycho Pass
Streaming: Funimation, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Netflix
This anime series was released in 2012, easy to understand and this series story is based on Future where the crime rate is high, To take down the crime there is a Bio-Mechanical device that can detect who can commit a crime and who is capable to do a crime. The Psycho-Pass series comes with 3 Seasons.
Synopsis: In a future dystopia, the work of the Ministry of Welfare’s Public Safety Bureau is showcased through criminal cases being investigated by Inspectors and Enforcers, latent criminals hired to protect the Inspectors while they perform their duties.
This anime is all about humans, what they can do or are capable to do.
DEATH NOTE
Streaming: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Animelab, and Netflix
If you are watching first-time anime then I’m highly recommended you watch Death Note. This series isn’t like their anime on this list this anime is completely different. The main character is Light and the whole is story revolves around a light character, One day he’s got a notebook named “Death Note” and the notebook claim’s ” If the cause of death is written within 40 Seconds of writing the person’s name, it will happen. If the cause of death is not specified, the person will simply die of a heart attack”
Synopsis: Light Yagami, a teen genius who discovers a mysterious notebook: the “Death Note”, which belonged to the Shinigami Ryuk, and grants the user the supernatural ability to kill anyone whose name is written in its pages.
In this anime series you will be watch “What can happen if someone has ability to kill anyone”, The most interesting of part of this series is watching Mind Game between Light and L.
Tell us in the comments the name of the first anime you watched?
