Anime Recommendations

It's lemonaid, I swear!

Love and Peace enjoyer!

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.

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...

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.

If you've been keeping count, I'm curious to see your data.

Only if you go explicitly looking for it, yeah.

It is now on my watch list

I loved the Planetes manga, too bad it was so short

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

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

It's on my watch list now, will probably make it onto this list next time the topic comes up

Do you have any disagreements?

I feel like campfire cooking would fall into this as well

Oh no, im almost out of good anime :c

Skullface Bookseller Honda-san is very respectable, though completely bonkers.

Yup it's only one I can think of in the good animes that doesn't glorify unhealthy relationships.

Them learning to let go of their mom was good. Very rare.

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.

Greatest anime ever

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

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

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.

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.

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

I love the fan revival that movie has been enjoying recently. Very deserved.

Your Name does in one scene

Of course!

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.

• Kimi ni Todoke - It is romance, but its so fluffy and goes lightly into what bullying can do to people as well as showing that people are not always who they seem on the outside. Touches on judging others, but remains extremely lighthearted.
• Saiki K - One of the few anime that has made me legitimately laugh. It's nonsensical and good for most ages. I'm usually a romance buff, but this one drew me in when I curiously watched the first episode.
• Spice and Wolf - I watched the original and started the remake. I think either should be fine. Great adventure story with a bit of romance.
• Ballroom Youkoso - So this will fall a bit into the unhealthy relationships. I can't remember if there was any nudity, but it does stem from the viewpoint of a hormonal teenage boy. However, the art of the dancing is absolutely stunning. Just beware the necks. Iirc, there are crazy long necks in this one, lol.
• Yuri on Ice - Similar to Ballroom Youkoso, but has a bit of an unhealthy relationship as a side story, iirc. I haven't seen it all, just a bit of it and can't remember much. I really enjoyed the skating scenes, which are very similar to the dancing scenes in Ballroom. It is a boys' love, but that's not the main point of the anime.
• Spy x Family - Haven't seen it all, but what I have seen is great and seems good for younger generations.
• Arakawa Under the Bridge - Okay, this may be a bit much at times, but damn if its not hilarious and mysterious. There is some non-showy nudity, I think, but its more like bathing and such, nothing extreme.
• Dr. Stone - This should be all around a good pick for multiple ages. Apocalyptic scenario with reinventing the wheel as the theme.
• Cells at Work! - Another one I've seen little of, but it was pretty good and teaches a fair bit about the internal human anatomy.
• Silver Spoon - Anime based around farming. It's a happy little anime with a bit of serious undertones for the background of the characters. Made by the creator of Full Metal Alchemist. I would also recommend FMA, but there may be some parts of that anime that could be a bit scary for younger teens.
• Komi Can't Communicate - Another good romance base. It starts around misunderstandings and the fear of speaking in public, but devolves later into just a regular slapstick romcom. However, that's mostly in the manga where it goes far beyond the anime.
• My Hero Academia - I did get into this for a bit, but it sorta fell off my radar for no particular reason.
• Frieren: Journey's End - Have not watched all of this, but the first 3 episodes were amazing and the story is endearing as well as very emotional. A great adventure with a touch of tragedy, but it seems well recommended for all ages.

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.

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).

Well there was the whole "frog" incident.

People are sleeping on Little Witch Academia. If I had seen it as an early teen girl, I would've been obsessed.