How are Durarara!, Legendary of Galactic heroes, steins; gate, fate/zero and serial experiemets lain? I've been researching some highly reviewed anime and those ones sounded kind of interesting .
DRRR is kinda like Baccano if youve seen that, huge cast thats mostly pretty great and doing shyt that seems random until it all comes together at the end of the arc. Show peaks in the first arc but the rest is still fun to watch if you enjoy the cast.
LOGH i've never watched but i've been planning to since it's one of the most critically acclaimed anime OAT. heard its like game of thrones / political thriller type shyt in space, don't think you can go wrong with this one, i've never seen anyone complain about anything other than its length (which is why i still havent watched it lol)
steins;gate is time travel sci-fi, but the first half is pretty close to slice of life with the main characters using time travel to solve small problems, so if you dont fukk with SoL you might feel that it starts slow. shyt gets real and becomes more of a thriller in the second half which is what most people praise but i still enjoyed the show from start to finish
fate/zero is on some game of thrones shyt too, this time with mages using servants pulled from ancient history (e.g. Gilgamesh) participating in a city-wide deathmatch where the last one standing wins the Holy Grail. some of the dopest action scenes in anime are in this show and the characters are generally very badass
never watched serial experiments lain