Anime Recommendations
Anime Recommendations
Anime Recommendations
I man how many Americans show would pass that. Doesn't glorify unhealthy relationships covers a lotof stuff.
I agree with the sentiment that loli shit is disgusting, but the problem is that so many of you sexless prudes go in looking for shit to be offended by and start projecting onto shit that's fine. Like the character Kusano in Sekirei is fully gross, a disgusting pedo-bait character that simply should not exist in the story, period. That shit should absolutely be rallied against.
But then y'all bring up shit like Momo from MHA like it's the same thing. It's fucking not, at all. A post or near post-adolescent character wearing titillating attire in much the same way that comparable real life pop stars do is just not even remotely on the same level as actual children being depicted as sexual viable partners, especially in the context of a story like MHA where the protag is a literal high schooler expressing romantic interest in his age-appropriate peers.
And "glorifying unhealthy relationships" is fine enough critique I suppose but one that hardly applies solely, or even primarily, to manga and anime.
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
Great list, thank! Have you seen children of the whale ? If my memory is correct it could make it on this list. Also I don't recall any weird stuff in Arcane season 1 (does it qualify as an anime though?).
Nope, but it's on my watch list now. Top two recommendations on MAL are Land of the Lustrous and From the New World? I'll watch it as soon as I finish Kurau
How has everyone forgotten about Gundam?
I was looking for someone to mention Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop.
What are your thoughts on Fullmetal Alchemist? I personally adore FMA: Brotherhood and I think it meets these criteria.
Yeah, they're on the list but I understand it's a long list
Loved em. Controversial opinion: I preferred '03 over Brotherhood. They made stronger narrative decisions, I prefer its Pride reveal over Brotherhood's Wrath reveal (happening like 2/3rds into the show gave you a lot more time to build up trust in him before the reveal), and most of all I liked their homunculus origins better
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)
Kotaro lives alone? Thought it was quite lovely.
It is now on my watch list
This is an excellent list, Planetes is one I keep coming back to, I always have about it too anyone who will listen!
I'll have to check out some of these others I haven't seen.
Another good one is Monster, but it does have problematic relationships
I loved the Planetes manga, too bad it was so short
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
Thank you! I've been wanting to get into anime (more than just DBZ), but I'm never sure where to start
"doesnt sexualise underage character"
you sure this the list you wanted to paste here?
Do you have any disagreements?
damn that's a good list. I recognize some of those names
Add Onihei (iirc)
It's on my watch list now, will probably make it onto this list next time the topic comes up
There's a lot of terrible anime, but there's also a lot of fantastic anime. There's a lot of anime.
Vast majority of anime have sexualization of minors tho
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.
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 Alita. Yowamushi Pedal.
On and on it goes...
If you've been keeping count, I'm curious to see your data.
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.
Only if you go explicitly looking for it, yeah.
Working in manga, the amount of titles I have to throw out of consideration for licensing because of these issues is insane
An no fan service/no upskirt/cleavage shots.
And no racist depictions.
I'm sorry sir we don't make those
So basically Miyazaki movies
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.
Edit: started re-watching on a lark and there's A LOT more overt fan service than I remembered. At least it passes the Bechdel Test.
It's lemonaid, I swear!
3gatsu no lion
Love and Peace enjoyer!
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.
I think most of my list applies
Maybe without
Steins;Gate because of that scene where a guy gropes a girl (though everyone rightfully calls him out for being a creep)
Castlevania because sex scene
Akudama Drive because Doctor is heavily sexualized
Fullmetal Alchemist because Lust is Lust
Cowboy Bebop because Faye is kinda sexualized
Supercrooks because the intro (which is a bop and you should listen to it anyway)
Redline because of one scene with boobs
Ghost In The Shell because boobs
Niea_7 because the very racist Indian stereotype
Bubblegum Crisis because boobs
Read Or Die because cleavage
Cyberpunk Edgerunners because nudity (it's Cyberpunk lol)
That looks like a lot of exceptions, but it's only 12 out of 57 shows/movies
To be clear; nudity is fine, just not all-the-time, male-gaze shots put in akin to commercial breaks. Like Gurren Lagan; someone told me to try that one and ye gods the amount of times it was about boobs was ridiiiiiculous.
"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.
Maybe because I got into anime from Toonami and adult swim, but I never been subjected nor had an interest in this kind of anime. It always seems corny. Then again I’m more of a sci fi/space/giant robot kind of guy. The space colonies that are like biodome like cities are the coolest
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.
Anime fans tend to be really out of touch with certain baselines… like not being an open pervert.
Part of the problem with recommending anime is that if all you care about is eliminating prev, you're going to miss some gems.
Like, are you really going to hang Evangelion out to dry? Are you tossing Sailor Moon and Card Capture Sakura in the dumpster over some skimpy outfits? Kill a Kill is crazy pervy, but it's also an incredible ride.
So I offer mine: Spirited Away.
Miyazaki is a treasure. But imagine passing on Kiki's Delivery Service or Princess Monanoke.
and Cyberpunk Edgerunners
Rebecca alone. Come on. How is that not underaged sexualization.
Haven't watched the other miyazaki movies so I'm not the person to recommend them.
And Rebecca is very obviously not a child. She's just short. She literally gave a dude a blow job barely off screen no way would that shit fly if she was a minor. Lol.
I watched Edgerunners a few weeks ago, and I was kinda surprised by how little Rebecca bothered me. Aside from her introduction, she isn't sexualized any more than any other female character except Dorio, and her personality really clashes with her character design. Visually she looks young, but actually watching the show, she didn't really read as child-coded to me
It's funny, because I don't like a single anime you just mentioned.
As a not anime fan, mine were Samurai Champloo, Bleach (though I stopped 100 episodes in), Cowboy Bebop. Also all of Ghibli.
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.
After giving the medium a chance, not sure I wouldn't call myself a fan anymore, but I certainly take issues with the typically associated tropes. So here's my list of more recent shows with either very little or none of these.
Solo leveling Hells paradise Chainsaw man Jujutsu kaisen Demon slayer
Vinland saga Attack on titan
Dan DA dan
Bluelock
Hunter x hunter Spy family Bocchi the rock Apothecary diaries
I’ve seen that hentai hoodie -
at the high school I worked at.
Ah yes the unfortunate truth.
Anime:
Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken
Irozuku Sekai no Ashita Kara
Mob Psycho 100
Net-juu no Susume
Ping Pong
Yuru Camp (avoid the onsen scenes)
Manga:
Bonnouji
Dad, the Beard Gorilla, and I
Futari Ashita mo Sorenari ni
Hoshi Mamoru Inu
How Pathetic We Are
I Sold My Life for 10,000 Yen per Year
Karakai Jouzou no (Moto) Takagi-san
Yotsubato
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.
Sigh. Why would JoJo fans ever recommend starting with anything but the original 90s OVA?
That is pretty awesome animation at least.
Cowboy Bebop had Edd running around in those shorts while floating around giving the audience almonds of angles of her body. In outlaw star the cat girl was the pedo.
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.
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.
The issue is we've encountered so few elves that it's impossible to say really anything about them as a whole. Maybe that is just how female elves look, maybe frieren and serie are just weird, or something else. But either way, we're basically just going on what little we've been shown which could change later.
Personally though, I don't actually mind the 1000 years old but looks like a child trope if it's not using it as an excuse to sexualuzed the character. Which they really aren't doing here.
And on the other hand, I also don't think Frieren looks like a kid. This is pretty common, I'll see people point out a character who's a bit short and sometimes flat (though that's not always the case even) and say that they look like a kid while I don't see it. So I don't know if it's me or what. Serie does look more like a kid to me though.
But we get back to the fact that she's not being sexualuzed anyway, so again, I don't personally take issue with 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.
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
She's a 1000 year old adult. At no point is she ever portrayed as anything remotely childlike.
It honestly fucking sucks that just because this trope exists elsewhere, a show like Frieren can't tell a serious story about what it's like to outlive everyone around you without being mistaken for this trope.
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.
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:
Studio ghibli counts?
Of course!
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
Komi-san is a great show whenever one particular character is not onscreen, but the parts where that character is onscreen mean I don't think it can go on this list.
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).
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.
If you're specifically looking for shows to watch with your daughter, I would highly recommend Little Witch Academia for that demographic.
People are sleeping on Little Witch Academia. If I had seen it as an early teen girl, I would've been obsessed.
There's a number of shoujo anime that would fit your list, but it doesn't make it overseas because the majority of the foreign fan base doesn't like it. There's also a bunch of BL anime and manga that is popular in Japan, but not outside for the same reason. For example, take a look at "Aishiteruze Baby"
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
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.
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.
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 is sexualized.
Don't worry, the number of people saying Frieren is a child is astounding
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
I feel like campfire cooking would fall into this as well
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
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.
This is the first time I see someone other than me mention Eizouken. One of my favorite anime
How you gonna leave out Full Metal Alchemist?
Skullface Bookseller Honda-san is very respectable, though completely bonkers.
Oh no, im almost out of good anime :c
Eh, they exist. You've got classics like Death Note and more recent stuff like Frieren. It's definitely a short list though.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
No one's mentioned Aggretsuko yet.
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!
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.
"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
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.
how is unhealthy relationship even defined? would a mutually beneficial but occasionally abusive relationship be considered "unhealthy"?
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...
ctrl+f "Gundam" only 1 result
My disappointment is immeasurable.
I just know Gundam 00 and Witches from mercury; I think it match
Gundam is awesome but I don't know of any that meet OPs criteria.
I mean, I'd say they pretty much all do.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Glorify unhealthy relationships
So many to call out, but to keep it lighthearted, Gintama plays abuse for laughs.
It's a great show btw.
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.
Ergo Proxy?
Planetes?
Ooh yes Planetes is excellent!
ERASED is about a guy reliving his life as a young school kid, with awkward moments around romantic feelings. While I do think it kind of fits the story, I think it does not go well with the requirements.
"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
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
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
I think "refute" is a rather strong word. There exist some good examples posted here (though some of them do stretch the idea what wouid count), but it doesn't refute OP.
my personal goated anime list:
Would like to know the content of that page.
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.
Bubble gum crisis.... Booooomers hahahah
Shit what about Psycho Pass? (SEASON 1 ONLY)
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.
Chi's Sweet Home:
Kino no Tabi
Yes!
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
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?
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.