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Anime for my daughter - a question
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I wonder if she'd like Yu Yu Hakusho more than I did, I kinda grew bored with it once it started becoming more action-y, but that seems like the sort of thing your daughter would be into. I've also got a fem cousin with apparently similar tastes to your daughter, and she loves the movie Summer Wars, and a male coworker of mine with apparently similar tastes is fond of Shaman King, but I've only "vetted" the first two episodes of that. Lupin III part 2 and onward — specifically the dub — is basically a hit with everyone I know, regardless of gender and age.
If Sailor Moon is a hit with your daughter, maybe Cardcaptor Sakura would be a hit, too. Though I would note that there's some minor age gap BS in it and the main character is aged 10~12 (original) and 13 (reboot), but on the whole Cardcaptor Sakura has long been very popular among young girls, and for good reason. Avoid the Nelvana dub, though.
She's so new to it- I didn't show her any of the posts but I just told my daughter vaguely that I'd made a post somewhere I frequent asking for recs for her. Once I mentioned that what she likes I keep seeing referred to as battle Shonen (I'm missing some accents I know) she sorta perked up, and looked up the phrase definition and said something along the lines of 'yes that's what i want'.
Thank you for the recs. I appreciate the time you took to give me some.
I'm very biased since I remember being a 13 yo girl obsessed with YYH myself, and in a lot of ways still am, but if she likes tournament arcs in her shonen, YYH perfected it!! But it also reaches far into other tropes and genres throughout its different arcs. The archetypes of the characters are great, Genkai is one of the best mentors and female role models in anime, and it genuinely has some of the best voice acting you can find in English dubs.