Ping Pong the animation is a fantastic, series about.. leadership, I guess?

It's short enough that you can watch it in an afternoon as an extremely long movie if you'd like (assuming you skip most of the intro and outro/credit sequences, which add a few minutes to each episode).

An older anime I liked is Zipang. A modern Japanese navy ship transported back in time to World War 2. They have to decide if they’re going to help their modern day allies, USA, or help defend imperial Japan.

Depends on what you like: - "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" is considered as one of the best anime out there (SteamPunk/Adventure)

- Attack On Titan good and well known

Tell me what genres you like and i'll make you more recommendations.

A recent, fairly famous anime movie that I would recommend is Kimi No Nawa/Your Name. Very emotional, and just a great movie all around. I would also recommend any Studio Ghibli movie, particularly Spirited Away. If you want to watch some great artistic style anime series, watch any of Shinichiro Watanabe's shows, or if you're into psychological stories, watch Death Note.

There really is something for everyone if you look hard enough. There is a reason anime is so popular.

"Erased" (Japanese title: "The Town Where Only I Am Missing") is my favorite recent series. I believe it's available on Hulu. It deals with some very dark themes around child abuse and murder. It's twelve episodes and each one packs a punch, there's no filler in it.

Not recent, but very good: "Cowboy Bebop." It's good anime SciFi that works on many levels.

> preferably mature and recent

Try Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū, about rakugo, a Japanese style of storytelling.

Kuuchuu Buranko - Anime that goes into mental health and how to better yourself.

I'm also a fan of psychological anime and:

Kaiba - Spot on Animation.

Welcome to the NHK - Explores the Hikkimori phenomena first hand.

Mononoke - Beautiful Done Japanese tales, psychological.

Higurashi no naku korno ni / Umineko no naku koro ni - long winded series, in the style of Agatha Christie murder mystery, to go into more would only ruin the fun. :D

Unfortunately there aren't a lot of mature anime which are recent, because the trends in anime seem to be skewing towards isekai that caters to otaku and shonen.

- Spirited Away

- Grave of the Fireflies

- Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex

- Psycho Pass (first season only)

- Tatami Galaxy

- Perfect Blue

- Paranoia Agent

- Serial Experiments Lain

- Eden of the East

I like Millennium Actress. And Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a classic.

Disappointed but not surprised to see nobody mentioned "A Silent Voice."

Most of the others here are movies I love too, but I think A Silent Voice is a separate category. Many of the others are fantasy, this is a high school drama about a bullied deaf girl and relationships between people. When I heard that, I first thought it didn't really sound like something that would interest me, but it is just an amazing story.

Studio Ghibli was mentioned a few times, and for good reasons.

A favorite that I keep returning to is Howl's Moving Castle

Paprika. Watch it when your brain isn’t too fried as it is an incredible mind fuck. Enjoy!