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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

I man how many Americans show would pass that. Doesn't glorify unhealthy relationships covers a lotof stuff.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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] 21 points 3 days ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Half the drama in all romance, not just rom-coms, would be entirely avoided if relevant characters were engaging in healthy adult communication. Anime is far from the worst offender in the unhealthy relationships regard.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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 days 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] 147 points 4 days 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] 71 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 179 points 4 days ago (16 children)

An no fan service/no upskirt/cleavage shots.

And no racist depictions.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 4 days ago

I'm sorry sir we don't make those

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago

So basically Miyazaki movies

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days 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] 29 points 3 days 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] 49 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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] 10 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Damn. I don’t watch anime but is this that widespread within the community? lol

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I tried watching Dragon Ball but couldn't take that old guy sexualizing a teen. Explicitly saying he wanted to touch her boobs

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Having read through DragonBall recently, yeah the really early stuff is very lewd and perverted. By the start of the Z saga it's basically gone from what I remember. So it's very jarring.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days 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] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)
  • Oishinbo - about a newspaper food reporter / gourmet
  • Hinomaru Sumo - about a high-school sumo wrestler
  • Hyouge Mono - about a Sengoku-era aesthete
  • Warau Salesman - about a vengeful demon who punishes unhealthy urges
  • Kaiji - about a gambling addict (who usually has to develop trust to survive)
  • Onihei - about an Edo-period crime investigator
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Delicious in Dungeon! I think!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (28 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] 62 points 4 days ago (73 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (33 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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago

No one's mentioned Aggretsuko yet.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 days 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.

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