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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
Oh, that old chestnut.
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.
That's a nice change of pace.
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.
As everyone else has said, she's not a child-but-actually-ancient. The show is not about sex. It's about mortality. I started watching it, and I want to continue, but it's really depressing. I wasn't in the right mood to keep going.
As far as I'm aware, there are absolutely no sexual undertones in the show. It's sometimes funny, but it's also pretty serious.
That trope bothers me too, but basically any anime female is going to look the same anywhere from 12 to 40 due to the way the features are stylized. So, looking for context clues is how you find the age of a character if it's not explicitly said. Frieren is absolutely treated like, dresses like, and acts like an adult. She's smaller than a human man, larger than a dwarf or human child, and while she's infantalized a little by Fern it's very much in the "how are you this old and still not taking responsibility for x" way.
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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
Girls Under Panzer put all the fan service into a separate series of short (under 5 mins) OVAs, so it's avoidable but does exist ...
Prince of tennis I think is clean
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
I don't remember Fern being sexualized or the camera lingering weirdly... Only that they give Frieren the typical chest envy, and have Fern fill out quite well in contrast, but that's played as a joke I'd say.
But it could also be that I'm desensitized, having seen so much actual straight up fan service by now.
Hmm, I don't remember that, so maybe I should rewatch it. I did name 4 when the illustration showed 3 haha.
My daughter (11) wants to watch more anime than what's on Netflix. Are these good for girls that age, you'd guess?
Frieren is very violent. Amazing show, but definitely not for kids.
Bocchi has exactly one fanservice gag I can recall, but it's a fairly tame one. Probably fine, the whole rest of the show has nothing else inappropriate I can think of. It is sub-only though, so I guess it really depends on whether she's fine with reading subtitles?
Delicious in Dungeon, some violence but nothing gory, compared to Frieren I don't think it's too much.
I haven't seen the other one that was mentioned so I can't speak for it.
Honestly I'd say it depends on your daughter and what you think she can handle. I'm not a parent, so it's hard for me to judge. Maybe screen a few episodes for yourself and decide what you think is appropriate?
Edit: Though just to add one more nomination for you, Little Witch Academia immediately comes to mind as a show I think would be absolutely perfect for that age.
Delicious has a bunch of fanservice but it’s all a joke and entirely focused on the dwarf character who is an old man.
Ooo yes Little Witch Academia is perfect
My dad let me rent an anime when I was 11 or 12. He was like “eh get whatever, it’s cartoons.”
I chose Ninja Scroll.
I turned out fine hahaha
For those unititiated, this anime movie includes a woman who is literally toxic to sleep with. Her body poisons any of her partner and they die shortly after.
This is confirmed with a scene where someone sleeps with her against her will. It is very not appropriate for a 12 year old.
It was absolutely not appropriate. Add to that the HORRIFICALLY gratuitous dismemberment, decapitation, and other gruesome acts of torture… the fucking honestly was the LEAST of the issue.
My little brain was like “whoaaaa… anime is bad ass!”
Then I moved on to stuff like Azumanga, Excel Saga, and Cat Soup. Yknow, the hardcore stuff.
My 11 year old sister's recommendation for 11 year old girls: Sk8 the Infinity
It's a campy sports anime about an underground skateboarding gang where people skate "to the death" (nobody dies).
It's on Crunchyroll or wherever you get your anime ;)
If she has creative passions, she might love Hands Off My Eizouken. It's a show about 3 high school girls who start their own anime club, and work on making a short animation for their first project. The girls are all just girls, weird fun gremlins, whacky passionate kids who want to make something cool together. I can't remember anything problematic, they even managed to avoid sexualizing a bath episode, but you should screen it first obviously.
Bocchi would be great for any kid who has had or does have trouble fitting in due to being quirky or different, and has a similar premise of girls getting together to be creative but a different (but also good) vibe.
Agreeing with the other posters that Frieren wouldn't be a good choice yet. Delicious in Dungeon might be, but that would be kid dependent and another you would want to screen first to see how you think she'd take it. The tone is mostly light and goofy but there are definitely some scary moments in there.
Missingno mentioned Little Witch Academia and I would absolutely second that, it's cute and wholesome and definitely appropriate for kids
I mentioned it above, but i think you should check out "campfire cooking in a strange world with my unique skill." There's some monster violence but no people get hurt, for what that's worth. Overall, thematically, it's very light and comedic. There might be a few curse words but nothing crazy i don't think..
i wasn't watching it with the lens of how it would be for children so your mileage may vary, but it was very light-hearted and silly.
As an enjoyer of non-fanservice Animé, but knowing how different people around the world have different attitudes to appropriateness, I'm going to say that you're going to have to carefully filter any list yourself.
For example, all of Girls Under Panzer is free from fan service / sexualization, (apart from the short OVAs which are nothing but that stuff) ... but some people don't like it's playful attitude to WW2 history.
SuperCub is another series that features zero sexualisation, but contains themes around depression, isolation, and struggling with interpersonal relationships.
Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, again no sexualization but features fighting against patriarchal systems and a love story of lesbanins.
It's possible that none of these are appropriate for your daughter, when I was 11 I would have devoured them and come back for more.
Then there's stuff like Born in Abyss which looks like a cutesy kids adventure but then descends into multiple layers of horror ... so, tread carefully.
Eizouken, absolutely
Maybe Saihate No Paladin, Nichijou, and Azumanga Daioh as well.
I love Azumanga, but Nichijou might be one of my favorites of all time. It’s got Azumanga vibes but cranks everything up to 100.
This is the first time I see someone other than me mention Eizouken. One of my favorite anime
It's so good! It's one of my absolute favorites too. The highschool girls are just all believable and grounded characters with real personalities and quirks. The whole thing is really well done.
Skullface Bookseller Honda-san is very respectable, though completely bonkers.
Oh no, im almost out of good anime :c