Psycho-Pass. Sci-fi future where everyone's got a psychological profile built & monitored by a computer system, used for all the things you'd expect it to be, i

Psycho-Pass. Sci-fi future where everyone's got a psychological profile built & monitored by a computer system, used for all the things you'd expect it to be, including to nab criminals before they crime. Our protagonist is a young, idealistic woman who's become a cop, basically. She'll be leading a squad of people whose profiles are considered dangerously outside the norm, whose job it is to catch other deviants (can't have normal-psych-profile people exposed to that kind of violence, after all, and anyway it takes a deviant to think like a deviant). It goes from there. Puella Magi Madoka Magica if you're into Anime-deconstructing-Anime. "What if Magical Girl... but actually, when you think about it that's entirely horrifying". There've been a bunch of other attempts at similar things, usually not as successful. Vinland Saga for heightened, violent historical drama. Mushishi if very-very-Japanese things aren't a turn-off. Largely episodic series about a guy who deals with dangerous spirits. Which I know reads like it'd be terrible or "oh my god not another one of these shows", but it's not. Slow-paced, brooding, bittersweet. Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. Short slice-of-life series about kids, but actually about accepting loss. IDK how "adult" it is, but it's pretty good (I mean actually-good, not anime-good). Carole and Tuesday. Again, not sure how "adult" it is but it's just charming and heartwarming, while also not being terrible, which is a rare enough combo in any media to be worth a look, I'd say. From the creator of Cowboy Bebop, and also heavily music-focused. May not look like it from this list, but I don't actually watch that much anime. I know there's a fair amount of really good stuff I haven't seen, plus a huge pile of OK-but-not-great. I keep up with a couple ongoing series I didn't put on this list because they're definitely not aimed at adults (My Hero Academia, for instance). I find it's really hard to find good recommendations for anime unless they're personal recs from a person I know well—but I also find that's true of most other genre-fic sorts of things. Recommendations from Internet randos or "best-of" lists of fantasy are often (IMO) full of garbage, and sci-fi's barely better. Ditto comic books.