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
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.
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.
No one's mentioned Aggretsuko yet.
Working in manga, the amount of titles I have to throw out of consideration for licensing because of these issues is insane
- 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
I man how many Americans show would pass that. Doesn't glorify unhealthy relationships covers a lotof stuff.
- Attack on Titan
- Monster
- Girls Last Tour
- Akira
- Black Lagoon
- Death Note
- Ghost in the Shell
- Kaiju No 8
- Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
- Redline
- Paprika
- Pluto
- Serial Experiment Lain
- Spy X Family
- Tokyo Revenger
- ERASED
- Stein Gate
- Mob Psycho 100
- Cowboy Bebop
- Vinland Saga
- Dorohedoro
- Dororo
- Perfect Blue
- Gintama
- NANA
- Berserk
- Anne of The Green Gable(1987)
- Anne Shirley (2025)
- The Apothecary Diaries (MaoMao look underage but she is 19)
- Maid in Abyss
- MUSHI-SHI
- Kingdom
- Hajime no Ippo
- Look Back
- A Silent Voice
- Bungo Stray Dogs
- To Be Hero X
- My Dress-Up Darling (Primary Adult Cast/Sienen)
- Code Gyatt(GEASS)
- Parasyte
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
Would like to know the content of that page.
ALL of The Pokémon anime(s)
my personal goated anime list:
- ACCA 13
- link click (well. its a donghua, but still)
- mob psycho 100 (theres maybe like 1 or 2 instances of weird stuff i can think of in the first season? overall a pretty good series tho)
- great pretender
- moriarty the patriot
- 91 days
- nichijou
- dororo (ok this one might be a reach cuz its been a while, but it made me cry)
- skip and loafer
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!
Attack on Titan is my all-time-favourite, fits your bill
i don't watch anime and yes this is my opinion on it
Bubble gum crisis.... Booooomers hahahah
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.
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.
Shit what about Psycho Pass? (SEASON 1 ONLY)
-Hey, do you know any Japanese food you could recommend?
-Sure. What are you looking for?
-Anything, as long as it doesn't have rice or soy in it.
-... here you go.
Asking for anime without the idolization of young female beauty is just entitled ethnocentrism. It's part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don't get a say in their culture. Asking for art that only displays scenarios that fit your normative views is an entitled misunderstanding of the purpose of art/craft, both as an expression and as a product. If you need your world filtered so you experience only things that reinforce your worldview, you might as well move to a compound in the woods, because that's the only way you're going to avoid all the people who don't share your beliefs.
Sword of the Stranger always seems to get missed form these lists
Ah yes the unfortunate truth.
Chi's Sweet Home:
Yubisaki to Renren (Signs of Affection)
Nichijou, anyone?
Gundam Wing was a favourite of mine growing up.
I don't watch a lot of anime, but watched the devil is a part timer recently and yeah.. It was weird and put me off a bit
Taxi Driver, a murder mystery of sorts. Low stakes, good characters, look past them being furries.
Slam Dunk, delinquent asshole joins basketball team to woo his love interest, becomes a better person afterwards
uchuu senkan yamato 2199
a must watch
Anime doesn't sexualise underage people, because until the 2023 age of consent in Japan was 13. It's 16 now, so for American prudes it's still underage. Just don't forget that in most of the world the age of consent is much much lower than in the US.
And if anything, this meme is a cultural appropriation as the American view is being pushed on another culture. If you don't want to learn about and accept foreign culture - watch Marvell movies instead.
how is unhealthy relationship even defined? would a mutually beneficial but occasionally abusive relationship be considered "unhealthy"?
