Although there’s not a great history of video games being successfully adapted into other forms of media (ahem, Silent Hill and the Resident Evil franchise), Fate/stay night works. For the surviving victor waits the legendary Holy Grail, which has the power to grant the top magician any wish he or she desires. A video game turned manga turned anime, Fate/stay night follows Shirou Emiya, an idealistic high school student who gets dragged into a secret life-or-death magic tournament fought by magicians and their servants, the summoned spirits of mythological and historical heroes. If you like your anime with a coat of gloss, you’ll like this series, which has animation so shiny it looks like they ran the illustrations through a power wax at the car wash. Still, the writers know intrigue, building a world and a story with so many layers that, once you dig in, you can’t help but keep going. Nothing is sacred in this show, which features beloved characters getting mercifully crushed, chomped, and smashed in each episode. Oppressively sad in the particular way only dystopian shows can be, Attack on Titan follows three friends as they join the military and are immediately thrown into the fray of a titan attack. When smarter, larger titans with new abilities reveal themselves and break through the barriers, the military must figure out a way to defeat them and fortify the city.

Oh, and they have an appetite for humans. Outside the walls, giant humanoid creatures called “titans” roam. In the world of Attack on Titan, humans live in communities enclosed within giant, concentric walls. In our current age of terrifying dystopian realities, it’s hard to find a dystopian show with something new to deliver - and yet here it is.

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