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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] MintyAnt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Castlevania is one of those shows that has no right to be good and yet is just overall great.

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[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

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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[-] missingno@fedia.io 33 points 1 week ago

There's a lot of terrible anime, but there's also a lot of fantastic anime. There's a lot of anime.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] doug@lemmy.today 30 points 1 week ago

An no fan service/no upskirt/cleavage shots.

And no racist depictions.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago

I'm sorry sir we don't make those

[-] errer@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

So basically Miyazaki movies

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[-] ritsku@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Working in manga, the amount of titles I have to throw out of consideration for licensing because of these issues is insane

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 week ago

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

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 week ago
  • 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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[-] joel_feila@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

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

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago
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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I thought about this a lot the other day.

Its "justification" is in that era girls go married off even younger than that.

That monk dude has to turn away a girl who's.. 14(?) after she asked him to take her with him and that she'd bear his children.

Personally, in that setting I think it's fine as long as they are not like fanservice to the viewer and its actually plot relevant. The monk asking her originally is more for humor as it was clearly shown as ridiculous and when it was more "legal" he took it more seriously and shot it down. That kind of humor is definitely a product of its era (wasn't the age of consent in Japan like 12 until less than a few decades ago?)

Also regarding Kagome, this anime was written by a woman and one of the main demographics is schoolgirls who want their heart to flutter by imagining themselves in a pseudo-isekai. Not saying it makes it right but it personally doesn't bother me because I get why stories like that exist coughTwilightcough

EDIT: The constitution set it to 13. But most prefectures up-ed it to 16 in recent decades apparently

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[-] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago
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[-] wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Anime fans tend to be really out of touch with certain baselines… like not being an open pervert.

Part of the problem with recommending anime is that if all you care about is eliminating prev, you're going to miss some gems.

Like, are you really going to hang Evangelion out to dry? Are you tossing Sailor Moon and Card Capture Sakura in the dumpster over some skimpy outfits? Kill a Kill is crazy pervy, but it's also an incredible ride.

So I offer mine: Spirited Away.

Miyazaki is a treasure. But imagine passing on Kiki's Delivery Service or Princess Monanoke.

and Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Rebecca alone. Come on. How is that not underaged sexualization.

[-] wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago
  • 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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[-] atlien51@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] velummortis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago
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[-] SaWaGaAz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Aqua_Killdeer@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

ALL of The Pokémon anime(s)

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Amphibia and The Owl House

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week 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.

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

[-] Nefara@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

No one's mentioned Aggretsuko yet.

[-] merrickal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

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.

Not to mention, those two dudes are both grown-ass adults. Nothing wrong with a grown man that likes milfs.

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