 If you liked
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
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 ...then you might like
Bakemonogatari
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A series of strange occurrences befall our audience-counterpart leading male, while trying to deal with super-tsundere leading females, and a faux-harem of other strange females.
Both toy with the tropes and cliches of the genre, while retaining unique and interesting voices.
Bakemonogatari is a strange telling of various events that surround the main character, each of the different girls that he meets is affected by a different oddity. By getting help from a mysterious man named Oshino he manages to help them all from their problems. This is similar to Haruhi as there is great characterization and there are tons of random things happening every episode. This show is very dialog heavy but is very entertaining to watch.
Both are good satires of many cliches and anime tropes. Also, they have a lot of references to other media, and in a good way. To fully enjoy both, you have to switch off the common sense because you're gonna be hurt.
Fortunately, even while making fun of themselves, the two achieve to tell a well-written story that arrives on people hearts.
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Recommended by SuzuMine-chan
Anachronistic mystery series with incredibly interesting characters, and a lot of dialogues and monologues, everything presented in the most polished way possible. The mysteries are unconventional and not entirely the focus of the plot, though very well-written and fun, used mostly to develop those characters in eccentric situations. often involving the supernatural.