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[–] [email protected] 190 points 3 weeks ago (16 children)

An no fan service/no upskirt/cleavage shots.

And no racist depictions.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sorry sir we don't make those

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago

So basically Miyazaki movies

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

There's a lot of terrible anime, but there's also a lot of fantastic anime. There's a lot of anime.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Just like with books. Or movies. Or videogames. It's a medium, not a genre.

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"Erm acturally shes canonically 100,000,000 years old, she just has the body of a 14 year old" -☝️🤓

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (35 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Castlevania is one of those shows that has no right to be good and yet is just overall great.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 weeks ago (31 children)

I don't even know what's on that one page

[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (35 children)

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.

[–] Sat 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't worry, the number of people saying Frieren is a child is astounding

[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Although she appears to be very young, she was born into a long-lived race of elves and has lived for over a thousand years.

Oh, that old chestnut.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not really, she really is just an old elf lady who looks like a young adult human. There's nothing sexualised about her, and she's not childlike. For example here she is next to a human child who becomes her apprentice:

And here she is talking to a human priest she was adventuring with 50 years ago, he's grown old, she hasn't changed:

And here she is head patting him, to give him reassurance that he did well after he confides that he never felt like he figured out how to be "a grown up" and just kept faking it while growing old:

The human child is Fern, and the old Priest Heiter picked her up after she was orphaned by a demon attack. Heiter asks Frieren to keep taking care of Fern after his death, and mentor her in magic.

It's a really nice relationship driven story with an interesting storyline and magic system.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago

It's not the 1000-year-old-who-looks-8 trope, it's the 1000-year-old-who-looks-25 trope. She's never portrayed as anything close to childlike.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

I feel like campfire cooking would fall into this as well

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Full Metal Alchemist brotherhood, maybe.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (39 children)

Eh, they exist. You've got classics like Death Note and more recent stuff like Frieren. It's definitely a short list though.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And "glorifying unhealthy relationships" is fine enough critique I suppose but one that hardly applies solely, or even primarily, to manga and anime.

Almost every rom-com I can think of.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Delicious in Dungeon! I think!

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

Not to mention, those two dudes are both grown-ass adults. Nothing wrong with a grown man that likes milfs.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago

No one's mentioned Aggretsuko yet.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (27 children)

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:

  • Mashle
  • Dragon Goes House Hunting
  • Cells at Work
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Please start on part one)
  • Outlaw Star
  • Trigun
  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Space Dandy
  • Panty and Stocking with Garderbelt
  • Mob Psycho 100
  • Samurai Champloo
  • Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago (23 children)

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" )

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I enjoyed the movie "Your Name".

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I swear, anime fans can't keep getting away with their soft-pedophilia.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

Working in manga, the amount of titles I have to throw out of consideration for licensing because of these issues is insane

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
  • World Masterpiece Theater
  • Studio Ghibli
  • ハッスルパンチ, Toei, 1965
  • 森の陽気な小人たちベルフィーとリルビット, Tatsunoko Production, 1980
  • Anything that was on TV in Europe back when the American cartoon market was dominated by Hanna-Barbera and Filmation, and their uninspired crap.
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

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.

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