Anime Recommendations
Anime Recommendations
Anime Recommendations
I swear, anime fans can't keep getting away with their soft-pedophilia.
Does Inuyasha promote bad relationships? 🤔
I mean, Inuyasha himself is constantly hung up on his dead ex-girlfriend, and his dead ex-girlfriend still hates Inuyasha for killing her, even though he didn't and she fucking knows it was actually Naraku.
Meanwhile his current maybe girlfriend is only like 16 and he at least a hundred years old.
No psycho pass fans?
Hunter Hunter
umm, did you forget about hisoka lol
Bubble gum crisis.... Booooomers hahahah
I will do you one better. instead of going for one series search for seinen genere. you can also add some cyberpunk
Reposting from the last time this subject came up
Bolded titles are my top recs. Series listed in chronological order of my seeing them:
Steins;Gate (correction: episode 8 unfortunately has one character grope another one. Everyone rightfully calls him out for being a creepass)
Castlevania (shut up yes it is)
Vivy: Fluorite Eyes Song
Violet Evergarden (not the movie)
Hyouka (skip the ova)
Belle
A Silent Voice
Baccano
Deca-dence
Trigun
Akudama Drive
ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Dept.
Fullmetal Alchemist
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Spy Family
Mushishi
5 Centimeters Per Second
Afro Samurai
Your Lie In April
Nichijou
Odd Taxi
Cowboy Bebop
Canaan
Sk8 the Infinity
Supercrooks
Bocchi the Rock
House of Five Leaves
Weathering With You
Haibane Renmei
Samurai Flamenco
BNA
Redline
Planetes
Last Exile
Witch Hunter Robin
Noir
Wolf's Rain
Boogiepop Phantom
Boogiepop And Others
Ghost In The Shell (all timelines)
Niea_7
Serial Experiments Lain
Megalo Box
Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
Samurai Champloo
Bubblegum Crisis
Ergo Proxy
Read Or Die (OVA and The TV)
Madlax
Moribito
Xam'd: Lost Memories
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Kyousougiga
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
Cyberpunk Edgerunners
Sonny Boy
Kiki's Delivery Service
Thus concludes the exhaustive list of animes I've watched where I didn't have to put up with any sexualization of minors
Add Onihei (iirc)
Castlevania is one of those shows that has no right to be good and yet is just overall great.
Lain
Isn't the outro for that a naked Lain, who is in middle school?
damn that's a good list. I recognize some of those names
Edgerunners had that creep grooming David by sending him porn as a minor, and its just glossed over.
thematically appropriate for the setting. Night city is fucking horrible, and no one should pretend that it isn't.
also, i just watched that, like, within the last couple hours recently.
The relationship between lucy and david feels kinda forced, but other than that, 9/10 no notes.
Been a minute since I watched it. You talking about the BD producer? Because that shit super ain't glorified lmao
Kotaro lives alone? Thought it was quite lovely.
It is now on my watch list
Doesn't violet ever garden have that weird relationship between the underage girl main character and the army guy (my apologies I haven't see in it a while)
If you watch the english dub, it's ambiguous enough to be interpreted as a father/daughter relationship. That's also why I recommend skipping the movie
Thank you! I've been wanting to get into anime (more than just DBZ), but I'm never sure where to start
I find that if you want good anime recommendations, the recommendation must come from someone that doesn't like anime. Anime fans tend to be really out of touch with certain baselines... like not being an open pervert.(I've seen that hentai hoodie, don't lie.) Also people who don't like anime can distinguish between "good for an anime" and "good".
So I offer mine: Cyberpunk Edgerunners and Spirited Away.
I completely agree with this.
I'm not an 'anime fan,' but there is good anime out there like Paprika and Aku no Hana. They really push what the medium is capable of and don't just rely on tropes to appease people with low standards.
It's tough to recommend anime to some people because their opinion of the medium has been tainted by anime fans that will accept whatever slop is shoveled in front of their face.
I’ve seen that hentai hoodie -
at the high school I worked at.
Sigh. Why would JoJo fans ever recommend starting with anything but the original 90s OVA?
That is pretty awesome animation at least.
No Dungeon Meshi?
Haven't seen it, I'm only suggesting stuff I am familiar with.
Outlaw Star! Aisha Clan Clan, my beloved queen. The first cat girl crush lol. Very nostalgic.
I remember this as a kid on Toonami, one day they said "asshole" or something (I don't remember) and my dad was angry and told me I can't watch it anymore because they swore.
My brother was mad at Toonami not airing the Beach episode, and since it had a critical plot moment, it made a later episode feel like an ass pull. Years later he learned an episode was skipped.
But Aisha Clan Clan is a good waifu.
I just ctrl F'd "Undead Unluck" and didn't find it so there's that one. In fact, it even makes sure to establish the importance of healthy relationships! AND that beauty isn't always in youth!
ctrl+f "Gundam" only 1 result
My disappointment is immeasurable.
Gundam is awesome but I don't know of any that meet OPs criteria.
I just know Gundam 00 and Witches from mercury; I think it match
I've been keeping my eye out for anime I can watch with my early teen daughter, and the intersection between good anime and anime that doesn't require ample amounts of jiggle physics is fairly small.
The list is pretty much:
Yeah, it's definitely hard. A couple I can think of:
The real issue is finding an anime that doesn't oversexualize anyone and still has lead female characters. If you're looking for early teen I think the US actually makes better shows:
There's more I could recommend, but for a teenager daughter those all probably have better plot, character development, and female leads than most of what I can think of for anime (although being a guy there are probably a number of anime I'm just not aware of).
Dr Stone also has some questionable aesthetics
I just wanna point out that while cowboy bebop is incredible, Fae Valentine's outfit is skimpy to the point that she's wandering around with her shorts unbuttoned in basically every scene where she's not in a disguise (and she's only staying in that top through the power of double-sided tape). By modern standards it's really not great towards the women characters (except possibly ed).
It's been a while since I've seen some of these, so you should probably look into them before watching with your kid, but hopefully it's a good starting point
Vivy: Fluorite Eyes Song
Hyouka (skip the ova)
Belle
Trigun
ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Dept. (may be a bit boring for a teenager)
Mushishi (also may be boring for a teenager)
Nichijou
Bocchi the Rock
Weathering With You
Haibane Renmei (very heavy emotional themes, bit of violence in the first episode, some references to self harm)
Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto
Moribito
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
The entirety of Studio Ghibli's work
Studio ghibli counts?
Of course!
Mushi Shi is good.
Old but goodie
Damn, you beat me to it. Mushi Shi is an unfinished masterpiece and severely underrated. I had some I wanted to add to this list, but honestly some have blood and such which I don't know exactly what you'd want for an early teens daughter. I would have recommended Delicious in Dungeon, but there are some dismemberment scenes and it sort of downplays death, as you can and can't die in the dungeon. Lemme try to see what I can dig up from my history though.
I have many more, but I have watched a disgusting amount of anime and can't remember everything. I've been watching anime and reading manga since 2006, lol. Please, anyone correct me on any of these. My memory is hazy, especially when it comes to older anime I watched a long time ago.
Apothecary diaries
There are concubines, brothels, and child sexual abuse in that one. Not the most racy depictions, but still 🤷🏿♀️
Well there was the whole "frog" incident.
Highly recommend sweetness and lightning. It's my chicken soup.
Surprisingly most of the anime with " villainess" in the title are both good and more wholesome focused. Many have relationship aspects but they don't rely on fanservice. snow white with the red hair is also good in that respect
I recommend Flying Witch. I enjoyed it a lot when I was still watching anime.
Chi's Sweet Home:
Would Friren count? Romance of the two teens are age appropriate for them. And two dudes that are enamoured with older women, but I think that’s it.
If I wanted to be really nitpicky, they do pay extra attention to Fern's chest after she grows up. And some of the shots can be a little "male pov." This is not a diss to the show. I really, really enjoyed this series and would absolutely recommend it.
Not to mention, those two dudes are both grown-ass adults. Nothing wrong with a grown man that likes milfs.
I'm waiting for the canonical reason why the female elves look like children while the one male elf we've met is drawn like a grown man. And I really hope it's not that their brain outpaces their body because then we're in the "5000 year old witch in a child's body" trope.
If this is addressed in the manga, no spoilers plz beyond a simple "Yes, it is."
One reason might be that the male elf is a physical fighter who is literally shown doing strength exercises, there isn't really a good way to make him look like a minor (or rather, like a link/legolas-type male elf or generic anime hot guy character) without making him look a lot weaker. Meanwhile the female elves are both wizards, so their physical shape doesn't impact their combat ability at all.
And IMO, the main character doesn't look like a child, she's just an adult woman who is kind of short and not that curvy.
I’d assume it’s because the only male elf is older? Idk this feels like looking for inappropriate intentions because you want there to be one.
It could, but people could also see it as an example of the 3000 year old loli trope. So it may not be a good example.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ReallySevenHundredYearsOld/AnimeAndManga
You could see her as that trope, but I really don't think she fits the "loli" description. Lord knows I'm not about to google "loli" to check how closely she resembles one, but I'm pretty sure she's a rare example of an actually short woman
The loli is not 3000 years old.
Delicious in Dungeon! I think!
It's got plenty of unhealthy relationships but addressing and untangling those relationships is like, the core of the plot so yeah I think it for sure passes.
Edit: Well actually, it does have one kind of contrived sauna scene between two of the women that feels very fan-servicy but is only a minute or so long. And the chest design of the main "monster" is arguably fan service too (There's even a one-liner gag about it the first time it's seen). But generally pretty tame and both of those moments are related to a crush one of the characters has.
Heavy metal comedy = Detroit Metal City DMC.
Post-apo conspiracy = Ergo Proxy
Alien abduction comedy = Level E
Occult shop = xxxHolic
I can't name anything else matching your criteria
Berserk
I assure you, seeing schierke's bare ass is essential to the plot. /s
I guess you're technically saved by the fact that the bits with the naked children never actually got animated.
Glorify unhealthy relationships
So many to call out, but to keep it lighthearted, Gintama plays abuse for laughs.
It's a great show btw.
Ergo Proxy?
Planetes?
Ooh yes Planetes is excellent!
"Anime to watch with my early teen daughter" probably doesn't include Berserk. And Ghost in the Shell isn't fanservice exactly, but definitely has sexual themes
When OP said this? I replied to comic.
GITS:SAC drinking game, take a shot every time they spend way too long on an angle featuring the major's ass. Or she's wearing an underbust oncepiece swimsuit in a professional meeting for just... no reason.
Your comment is completely irrelevant, OP didn’t mention anything about a daughter wtf
There's a lot of terrible anime, but there's also a lot of fantastic anime. There's a lot of anime.
Just like with books. Or movies. Or videogames. It's a medium, not a genre.
Vast majority of anime have sexualization of minors tho
Nah... Maybe the vast majority of what you watch but there's so many out there spanning decades.
Astro Boy. Samurai Pizza Cats. Ergo Proxy. Ninja Scroll. Akira. Ghost in the Shell. Cowboy Bebop. Battle Angel Akita. Yowamushi Pedal.
On and on it goes...
mainstream amine maybe, but there is A LOT of anime out there.
your comment is like saying that Hollywood only ever made super hero movies.
Vast majority? Eh, maybe. I watch a crazy amount of anime, and I've only had a few of the shows I'm interested in pull that, and typically I just don't continue watching. The one trope that I really dislike that gets shoehorned into almost any anime is the over-infatuation of a sibling. I'm not talking incest or anything, but for some reason there's almost always a character who is obsessed with their sister/brother, and it weirds me out. Not enough to stop watching if the anime is otherwise good, but definitely enough to stop watching if the anime is just soso.
Now, oversexualization of adult characters? That's almost unavoidable. I tend to just ignore it, until I show an anime to someone who hasn't seen anime before and then I'm hyper aware of it. That's why when introducing people to anime I usually pick Death Note or Fullmetal Alchemist. These anime have a good dose of the anime goofiness, but very little fanservice, almost none.
"Erm acturally shes canonically 100,000,000 years old, she just has the body of a 14 year old" -☝️🤓
I hate this, e.g. the pairing of Buffy with the 400-year-old Angel. Vampire romance stories are full of this shit and it's so creepy.
Anime doesn't sexualise underage people, because until the 2023 age of consent in Japan was 13. It's 16 now, so for American prudes it's still underage. Just don't forget that in most of the world the age of consent is much much lower than in the US.
And if anything, this meme is a cultural appropriation as the American view is being pushed on another culture. If you don't want to learn about and accept foreign culture - watch Marvell movies instead.
Right, because episodes dedicated to a teenage girl's underwear and chest don't sexualize them, of course. (/s)
I've lived in Japan and seen middle aged men take analog photos of the short-skirt madoka murals in Akihabara. It's sexualizing children and it's creepy. And don't get me started on the figurines. EVEN IN MANY anime it's depicted as creepy.
Age of consent nationally was 13, but most prefectures had raised the age to at least 18 many, many years earlier. Specifically, most of the local prefecture laws outlawed sexual acts that were judged to be indecent between adolescents (those under 18) and adults. 46 of the 47 prefectures had adopted local laws to outlaw this behavior by the end of the 1980s. The last one (Nagano Prefecture) adopted laws to outlaw this behavior in 2016.
For reference, this array of local laws is referred to as Seishōnen Hogo Ikusei Jōrei, which can be translated to "Bylaws for Protecting and Nurturing Adolescents".
Starts reading: oh yeah this is gonna be a funi comment about how fucked up the world is
Continues reading: turns out its just some fucked up rant about how "different cultures" justify horrible acts
Look, if you're having to bring up age of consent laws, you're arguing the wrong side.
13, hell even 17 is WAY too young for age of consent. Anyone arguing otherwise because of "culture" is asking for the abuse of minors.
You're really weird, dude. This is a really weird thing to argue about.
my personal goated anime list:
Shit what about Psycho Pass? (SEASON 1 ONLY)
Gundam Wing was a favourite of mine growing up.
And no child soldier business. Kids don't need to be going to war
Do you think movies shouldn't depict the human cost of war either?
I just don't want to watch another anime about the chosen child having to go to battle when adults are around and can do it for them. Old people sitting around while a bunch of 12yo are going on a world saving adventure.
You can consume whatever media you like, I prefer not having this in mine.
This is kind of an odd comment onin a thread about things that exist in reality that we don't want to see...
No one's mentioned Aggretsuko yet.
I don't watch a lot of anime, but watched the devil is a part timer recently and yeah.. It was weird and put me off a bit
I enjoyed the movie "Your Name".
Fails the sexualization of a minor test
Nichijou, anyone?
An no fan service/no upskirt/cleavage shots.
And no racist depictions.
Ranking of kings, erased, the promised neverland, deca-dence, fullmetal alchemist, pokemon.
You might find some examples but the themes dont really lend to that.
If what you really wanted was of list of animes to avoid let's start with Basilisk.
So basically Miyazaki movies
I'm sorry sir we don't make those
Definitely Monogatari or To Love-ru or KissxSis
I was going to say Knights of Sydonia, but in not sure all of those are strictly followed. At least there's nothing overt. And a fantastic sci-fi to boot.
It's lemonaid, I swear!
3gatsu no lion
Love and Peace enjoyer!
That doesn't narrow it down as much as you think. What genre are you looking for?
Can't remember the name. Hero wakes up to find himself in a strange city where the skyscrapers are connected by rope bridges and guarded by strange, masked killers. First couple of episodes get me hooked. Then they bring in a teenage girl and suddenly there are just so many panty shots...
“High-Rise Invasion
edit = thanks to user jaschen for doing the research.
You're thinking of "High-Rise Invasion" Japanese: "Tenkuu Shinpan"
Phantom?
As per user jaschen it's High-Rise Invasion.
Dragonball Z? Not Dragonball.
Those aren't dragon balls...
What about gokus relationship with his wife?
What about it???
Goku and Chichi are the same age....and Goku is the victim in that scenario lol.
I’d vote for Vegeta’s marriage and the treatment of his son on multiple occasions.
Silent voice, your name, weathering with you
and everything from studio ghibli obviously (I personally love porco rosso)
I honestly only look this kind. The rest is just bad and tries to cache it with fanservice.
My father (45) and I (8) both fell in love with Ghibli (indistinctly remember my dad seeing Nausicaa on TV guide and saying "if it's ghibli I'm not missing it") after watching Spirited Away on Cartoon Network one random night in 2004 or so. Over the next 12 years I'd watch most of the rest of their catalogue & even visit their museum in Japan, but had yet to see PR until my birthday one year someone got it for me
I was NOT ready for that movie being what it was, nor the amazingly hard "better a pig than a fascist" line, and it's my favorite from them and has been since
porco rosso enjoyer 🙌
I love the fan revival that movie has been enjoying recently. Very deserved.
I'm sorry to tell you this but while Weathering with You, Your Name, and Suzume don't sexualize kids the head producer does
Your Name does in one scene
Both with silent voice and your name i cried so damn much. Absolute masterpieces.
I haven't seen Weathering with you yet. But i will check it out!
Anything that was on TV in Europe back when the American cartoon market was dominated by Hanna-Barbera and Filmation, and their uninspired crap.
In France at least, they did a lot of shite with anime.
Basically broadcasting rights for anime were sold for dirt cheap in the 80s/90s compared to other productions, so some networks started buying anime for their (very) young kids programs. And they all had that good old mindset, "if it's animated, it's obviously for kids". Or worse, they probably didn't care and just bought everything.
So yeah, everything got heavily censored, but for some reason they still thought Hokuto no Ken/Fist of the North Star was A-okay to show to 6 year-olds. Because they were "shocked" by what they had to work with, the voice actors working on the dub literally sabotaged the show by making it sound as ridiculous as they could.
Toward the end of the 90s, we got a shitty moral panic on all anime from media watchdogs, and we owe it entirely to a few idiots in French TV networks not caring about target audiences.
"Anything that was on TV in Europe back when the American cartoon market was dominated by Hanna-Barbera and Filmation, and their uninspired crap."
As a kid I did enjoy Dunderklumpen! but I don't think it holds up pretty well
I'm legally obliged to mention Haikyuu here, incredibly wholesome and the closest thing to sexualisation is a single midly questionable camera angle in one of the first episodes.
Yesterday I would have recommended Blue Eye Samurai because the first several episodes were lightning in a bottle. Unfortunately I watched the finale last night and it was such incredible trash that it ruined the entire show.
No clue what this guy is about, it's an amazing show and I don't have any problems with its finale
What's wrong with the finale?
My guess would be they were expecting a moral payoff, and didn't get it. Mizu's "Violence only begets more violence, I must let go of my revenge" moment. Especiallly since the episode or 2 prior really seemed to be setting up for it.
I was offput by it as well, but a bad ending is one that has nothing interesting to say, or something really shit to say, or that isn't believable in some way, not just one I hoped would be different. Plus, this story isn't over.
Definitely one of the worst season finales I've ever seen.
Attack on Titan is my all-time-favourite, fits your bill
Yubisaki to Renren (Signs of Affection)
uchuu senkan yamato 2199
a must watch
The Fable. It's set in the real world and it's about a Yakuza assassin and his handler being made to live a normal life for a year to lie low. The whole thing is on Hulu.
I don't even know what's on that one page
Delicious in Dungeon, Frieren, Hands off my Eizouken, and Bocchi the Rock probably
Edited to add Spy x Family, and I suppose Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood depending on if one feels Winry's tiny skirts are sexualized.
How you gonna leave out Full Metal Alchemist?
Medalist
By the grace of gods
Non non biyori
Laid back camp
The ancient magus bride
New game
Himouto Umaru chan
In the land of Leadale
I’ve been killing slimes for 300 years
Kuma kuma kuma bear
Log horizon
Ranking of kings
Shadows house
Spy x family
Spice and Wolf
Ascendance of a bookworm
Girls und panzer
As much as I fuckin love Frieren they totally sexualize Fern when she's under 18, though tbh it does feel less gross than usual considering how clothed she is & the weird relationship she has with her master
Frieren is suuuuuper jealous of Fern once she starts developing (with the show repeatedly using camera angles to show it) and Fern's 18th birthday is in the later half of the first season. It was funny and rather realistic having been around girls that behaved like that, but as an adult man it was obvious the camera had a serious liking of staring at Fern's chest whenever it could
This is the first time I see someone other than me mention Eizouken. One of my favorite anime
Don't worry, the number of people saying Frieren is a child is astounding
I feel like campfire cooking would fall into this as well
My daughter (11) wants to watch more anime than what's on Netflix. Are these good for girls that age, you'd guess?
Maybe Saihate No Paladin, Nichijou, and Azumanga Daioh as well.
Skullface Bookseller Honda-san is very respectable, though completely bonkers.
Oh no, im almost out of good anime :c
Berserk
The entire plot revolves around Guts' unhealthy relationship with Griffith. And there are 2 underage looking characters that want to steal Guts from him.
I love Berserk but uh Schierke having a weird crush on Guts definitely treads on the sexualizing-young-characters trope
Eh, they exist. You've got classics like Death Note and more recent stuff like Frieren. It's definitely a short list though.
It's not that short, you just need to pick a genre different from shounen if you don't like fanservice. Also many older shounen are good, think about the Digimon, Pokémon and Gundam franchises to name a few famous ones.
All the classics like the Ghibli stuff. Lots of more serious stuff doesnt have those issues either like Vinland Saga or Attack on Titan. Also cute stuff like Yuru Camp.
Sadly, Frieren justifies genocide against creatures with free will and intelligence.
Full metal Alchemist is my bet.
Otherwise I know a lot of good animes but they tend to glorify unhealthy relationships looks at the space cowboy murdering people.
Monster.
Cory in the House?
Greatest anime ever
Silent voice, your name, weathering with you and everything from studio ghibli (I personally love porco rosso)
Eden of the East I think fits. There's definitely unhealthy relationships, but they're not glorified by any means, quite the opposite in fact.
One of my favs personally, short enough to jump in and finish easily as well for new viewers.
Haven't seen any Ranking of Kings mention, I thought it was cool, in a twisted fairytale with weird bullshit kind of way.
Harsh world, some very tortured characters doing terrible things, and the most harmless kind-hearted protagonist you could imagine just winning over and redeeming everyone.
Don't watch the spin-off series though, it's uninspired filler episode shit.
Asobi Asobase
Usually find random comedy pretty miss, but for some reason, their jokes landed for me. Whoever did the VA for pigtail girl really put her soul in that character.
But you'd also be lying if you said it didn't have what OP was complaining about
Yeah I suppose it is rather crass at times. I remember it being rather wholesome even when it was crude though
Trigun (original)
One of my favorites, the way it evolves from seemingly silly to realizing there are hard, serious reasons for all o, that is top notch.
Dunno about it passing the prude content filter though. No minors or any of that but the main character is a wee bit horny.
True, but that's also part of the act...
In addition to the excellent examples posted here that refute this, I want to add "Last Exile", "Wonderful Days", and "Chrono Crusade".
Last Exile <3
Would like to know the content of that page.
It’s been a while (think decades) since I watched any considerable amount of anime, but off the top of my head, Patlabor, Trigun (possibly problematic), Gundam Wing, Robotech, Solo Leveling.
Stretching the definition of anime: Gargoyles, Star Wars: Rebels and Castlevania (2017)
I don't get it. Is the joke that most anime sexualizes underage characters and glorifies unhealthy relationships? Because that's decidedly not true. There are all kinds of anime shows, it's just a bias in what gets imported into western countries.
You've either only seen one single anime that so happened to not feature any of that stuff, you're actually INTO that kind of stuff and don't want to admit it, or you're in extreme denial.
"No Game No Life" literally introduces you to its main female character, who I believe is like 11 years old, with a panty shot.
"My Hero Academia" has Momo, who is a high schooler who consistently has to expose herself to use her quirk. (With constant heavy cleavage for her hero suit)
Look, I love anime, and there's no shame in watching it, but you have to admit that a lot of it is pretty sexualized and moreso with children. (Don't even get me started on that whole trope of "woman who is a million years old but actually looks like a 4 year old" )
I do agree that Japanese culture is less prude than US culture, and the age of consent has been 13 in Japan for a long time (it was raised to 16 a couple of years ago). So that will bleed into mainstream media in a way that sticks out to Americans, but not because it was the intent of the producer to make the show sexualized - it's just what life in Japan looks like.
In a similar way, while Americans are scared of nudity, they are desensitized to violence and put way too much of it in US shows. IMO, I'd rather let my kids see nudity than someone being shot in the head. But neither is the primary reason that I watch a show.
Even One Punch Man, a pretty benign series that avoids sexual topics, has Tatsumaki who looks like a pre-teen. I know she's supposed to be older, but when I first saw get I thought she was supposed to be 8 or something.
You've listed two shows that are popular with western audiences. There is a lot of fan service in shonen anime and for a while now that was the most common genre available outside of Japan. I think the vast majority of what's currently airing has no fan service at all.
You've either only seen one single anime that so happened to not feature any of that stuff
Overall, most anime do not feature "that stuff", so I'm really wondering if you're the one that has only seen a couple shows and drew their conclusion from that.
you're actually INTO that kind of stuff and don't want to admit it, or you're in extreme denial
What the fuck is this shit? Are you going to say that to everyone who disagrees with you?
Look, I love anime, and there's no shame in watching it
I really don't get that feeling from the rest of your comment. You're painting a very generalized picture of the medium as a whole.
No game no life is one of the best, fuck off you conservative prude.
I know you're correct about MHA, but it's odd you chose that one as your example. To my observation, it has been far more popular with young women and teenage girls than men.
Versus something like Black Clover which has episodes clearly designed to entertain tropes of sexual harassment.
Yeah, if youkl look at the list of longest running anime, it's things like Sazae-san and Doraemon, which have almost no appeal to westerners
Wrong
Also, rave culture has nothing to do with drugs.
Sword of the Stranger always seems to get missed form these lists
Kino no Tabi
Yes!
do you know of any other series like kino no tabi?
or that have a similar vibe regardless of the plot and like this meme avoid the objectification and sexualization that so many animes allow?
jut rewatched the originals and then started reading the light novels for the first time, I'm loving that there are so many original stories in the novels.
I thought that first season and then the reboot was all I would ever get.
such a good series
-Hey, do you know any Japanese food you could recommend?
-Sure. What are you looking for?
-Anything, as long as it doesn't have rice or soy in it.
-... here you go.
Asking for anime without the idolization of young female beauty is just entitled ethnocentrism. It's part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don't get a say in their culture. Asking for art that only displays scenarios that fit your normative views is an entitled misunderstanding of the purpose of art/craft, both as an expression and as a product. If you need your world filtered so you experience only things that reinforce your worldview, you might as well move to a compound in the woods, because that's the only way you're going to avoid all the people who don't share your beliefs.
All she asked for was some anime without excessive fanservice, suited for a younger audience, and your reaction was, "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, IT'S ART."
What a narrow view of the medium. Imagine telling all the Japanese female fans that if they want different representation, they're being ethnocentric. You want an anime without panty shots and lolis? THE ENTITLEMENT. You are the one who seems to be asking for art that only displays scenarios that fit your, not OP.
It’s part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don’t get a say in their culture.
Actually you do if you pay for anime. Sucks to live in a capitalist society, but this is one thing that results from it -- you vote with your wallet. And by the way, you obviously have a very narrow view of Japan if you think that this is a deep-set part of the culture. For one thing, it's not hard to find Japanese media without those things, and for two, such things offend the sensibilities of many Japanese people I know.
It's part of a Japanese subculture. And it's actually part of a subculture in western countries too, since they exported it. Western fans ask for that kind of stuff just like Japanese fans do. This is why you see it even in, say, Netflix-produced anime.
Young female beauty = 5 - 16 years old female = minors
That's their standard. The rest of the world doesn't get a say, same way Nigerians don't get to tell British gay folk not to be gay, Scandinavians don't get to tell Americans what kind of gun laws they should have, and you don't get to ban the Chinese from eating dogs. Your standards don't determine the lives of people half a world away. If they don't it want to change, it won't.
Exactly. There are a lot of things I find uncomfortable about other cultures, but I know I can't force my beliefs onto other cultures. They have to deal with that themselves.
Nonce
That's quite uncalled for. They may have a brain-dead take on cultural relativism but that doesn't mean they are themself into sexualized children.
Taxi Driver, a murder mystery of sorts. Low stakes, good characters, look past them being furries.
Slam Dunk, delinquent asshole joins basketball team to woo his love interest, becomes a better person afterwards
also ; no violence
It's short, but I gotchu:
Man in his early 20's depressed after the sudden death of his parents takes in a stray kitten that was dumped and they look after one another. First half of each episode is from the man's perspective and the second half is the same events from the cat's perspective.
Everything is violence.
Music or art anime.
Do sports anime count as violence?