Good evening thugs,
I'm on an extended trip over the holidays and effectively just sitting at home reading and watching tranime like a highschooler. I started reading that cuckQueen one from a post earlier this month (https://rdrama.net/h/anime/post/327424/based-japs-marseykamikaze-do-it-again) and thought that while it was short, it was quite a banger and decided to unearth more girl cuck love triangle from the trough that I had never finished: Domestic Girlfriend.
As an aside, the premise for the Domestic Girlfriend is reminiscent of Japanese incest slop (TL;DR, some guy has a crush on his teacher and to get over it, sleeps with this random girl that lets him hit for no reason. End of the first chapter reveals that his dad is getting remarried and that he has 2 new step sisters: the teacher he has a crush on and the girl who just let him clap - love triangle ensues). Surprisingly, the author for this is a woman, which IMO really dampens the hornyness of the story and makes it a lot more enjoyable.
My dilemma is as follows: I started rereading this from beginning and it is quite long - ~300 chapters. I can't read love triangle slop with too much happenings as I just sort of get desensitized to the story and it all just kind of becomes mind numbing, so I try to keep my reading to less than 25 chapters in one sitting. I've actually read most of the story in the past (6ish years ago) but it was half completed by then so I never finished - but I remember having stuff to watch that was a bit less gynocentric melodrama and more action/mystery stuff.
The specific shows im thinking about are:
Darker Than Black - bunch of superpowered sociopaths fighting with/against shady organization. Kino, except the ending is utter trash
Ergo Proxy - very weird, can't be described well. Doesn't make sense until like episode 10, Still great
Katanagatari - Weird Artstyle, even weirder prose, about this martial artist that goes to collect 12 perfected swords with some shogun-court girl. Surprisingly brutal
From the New World (Shinsekai Yori) - Post apocolypse where everyone is an esper. Similar to Ergo proxy, harder to explain the plot without huge spoilers.
Do any of you guys know anything similar to these? I also wouldnt mind something isekai ish. Recently chowed down all of re:zero (anime) and dungeon food (comic). I really liked the first season of Mushoku Tensei, but I couldn't watch past the second season because it got wayyyy too gooner for me - if anyone has seen past it please let me know if gets better.
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Right
now I'm reading 
Colorless and Ad Astra Scipio to Hannibal.
Colorless definitely fits your description but you should
also read ad Astra because Rome is cool.
Colorless is a sci-fi action
manga 
where 
the world 
is actually 
supposed to be in Black 
and white 
Ad Astra is about the 2snt Punic war
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I've been wary of Japanese historical mangas because they're great to certain point and then go completely off-script a la vinland saga. Reviews make it out to be pretty good so I'll definitely check it out at some point. Rates highly despite seeming to have pretty bad art which is a good sign.
Colorless looks very nice - reminds me of blame. I'll give it a spin.
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Made in Abyss is pretty dang edgy, and the further you go the worse it gets. But like, actually uncomfortable edginess where you're looking at the mangaka like
and not just tryharding aesthetics 
Arifureta, Berserk of Gluttony, Redo of Healer, Ragna Crimson, Sword Art Online, Terra Formars season 2, and Gantz are all trash edgy
Hellsing, Dogs: Bullets and Carnage, Drifters, MD Geist, Genocyber, Highschool of the Dead, Terra Formars season 1, and Jigokuraku are all good edgy.
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If you like sci-fi Psycho-Pass is good. Basically minority report: the animation. Great action.
Monster is a classic mystery thriller.
Mushishi is a beautiful and contemplative episodic series about a traveling paranormal doctor. Keep in mind it is a slow as frick anime.
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Yeah I've seen Psycho-Pass, quite good.
I've watched Mushishi partially, it is just episodic all the way through right? I finished watching one piece recently so I can slog through just about anything slow.
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Read that "help I turned into a Filipino" thing someone linked last week
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People like you should be drowned in shit.
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for using /h/anime to actually
talk about anime 
instead of the 5000th wifeu slop post or the 10000th "this is cirno"
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Eminence in Shadow, peak chuu2 kino. I'd recommend the show, as the manga dials down the edginess. Worth going in blind for the first episode, and don't watch the dub.
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Saw the rating for this and went in blind as you said - chuu2 is a very apt description. This is the one I'll rotate in, thanks for the suggestion.
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Tokyo Ghoul, manga scribblecels say the anime isn't a good adaptation, because the second season is completely filer, but I think it's good. I'm still watching it, but I can vouch for the first season, and the second one except the ending, you can read it if you want to I guess.
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I've seen it, 1st season was great, but I had a roommate that would go on rants about how offtrack (and bad) the later seasons get.
There's an effect you see where a mediocre show's second season gets high ratings because only the people who suffered through the first one rate it - and Tokyo Ghoul is a great example of the opposite with later seasons not doing too well. The manga rates highly (original and re) so I might have to look into those at some point.
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Well there is this little known show but idk if youd like it
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