Towa no Quon (i.e. Eternal Quon), a six movie series (really just 50 minutes per chapter) focusing on a group of espers who use their powers to bring in others like them so that normal society is unaffected. There's a highly trained military group with six or so cyborgs working against them, however, and hunt down any espers whose power exceeds a certain level. Quon, the protagonist, feels obligated to save as many espers as possible due to a tragedy almost a hundred years ago; thing is, Quon is immortal and can't die from practically any injury. He chooses to use his ability to help people like him, which is almost rare considering that he is self-sacrificing rather than self-serving from the get-go.
Fate/Zero is just as good as (if not better than) all three of those. Guilty Crown, too.
Loved Akame ga Kill! although it felt like Akame didn't get as much airtime as she should have.
Are you watching Fate/Stay night: Unlimited Blade Works next? If not, I would recommend that one over the 2006 series since it's like a direct follow-up to Zero. Although, considering that Stay night was originally a visual novel with three separate stories, you can go either way without losing too many plot points.So I ended up binge watching Fate/Zero, I loved how intense it was!. So glad you recommended it. I'm excited to start watching Fate/Stay Night.
At long last, Nanatsu no Taizai. Discarding Melodias' stereotypical perversion (a real person okayed this), I'm enjoying the absurdly believable world of overpowered knights and talking pigs.
Are you watching Fate/Stay night: Unlimited Blade Works next? If not, I would recommend that one over the 2006 series since it's like a direct follow-up to Zero. Although, considering that Stay night was originally a visual novel with three separate stories, you can go either way without losing too many plot points.
In general, Gen Urobuchi (the "Urobutcher", haha) writes incredibly tragic stories with lots of dark tones, yet this works toward building strong characters. His other anime adaptations include Alnoah.Zero, Psycho-Pass, Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica, and Kara no Kyoukai (which I have yet to see).
Some other anime series in the same vein as Fate/Zero (aside from Guilty Crown and Akame ga Kill!): Macross Frontier, Mirai Nikki (although Akise is an utterly wretched character), Canaan, Deadman Wonderland, Ga-Rei: Zero, and most recently Towa no Quon. And that's it from me. =P
Yeah, the pacing in UBW was slower than Zero, but it introduces new characters every other episode or so. This gives plenty of time to show the motives of previous characters, and ultimately builds up to the true antagonist. At this point, the show returns to the darker tone from Zero with equally epic action. Hope you enjoy the other suggestions though.I tried watching Fate/Stay night: Unlimited, but It didn't really keep my attention unfortunately. :C I liked the wide range of characters in Fate/Zero compared to the high school setting of Unlimited. The darker tone is what caught my interest. I'll have to check out more of Urobutcher's work :p Thanks again for the suggestions!
Are you watching the 2006 version or UBW?Fate/Stay Night
Not as good as I was hoping. Id heard a lot about it and its gone pretty far with merch and spin offs etc but... Aside from the main character being voiced by Jude Mathis from Tales of Xillia (<3) I'm not getting much out of it.