oh i can very much relate to that. i used to love 20th century anime because it was based (think of princess mononoke for example). nowadays it all feels like they’re re-iterating the same theme 200 times over: boy and girl meet in highschool, the boy wears a suit and is somewhat ambitious while the girl is clumsy, talks with a high voice and is somewhat into the main character. i get that that’s probably many high-schoolers fantasy, but damn it feels a whole lot like normalizing the american dream. “you just have to work hard, then you can make it”.
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Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I don’t even bother with anime any more unless someone else confirms there is no pedo content. With how much there is I’ve started to wonder if execs in the light novel/manga/anime industry force their writers to include it to normalize it.
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cosmos8188@leminal.space 1 week ago
What type of anime where you looking at?
Like western animation, anime has many genres, so you have a wide choice in that aspect. Its not hard to just filter out the ones that are not liked.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I used to watch at 1-3 episodes of everything that was airing regardless of genre and put anything that seemed good on the backlog in ranked tiers and watched the best ones as they aired. Obviously many were good but there were so many where the primary flaw was pedo content and many would be excellent without just that. So much trash tier crap though. Like really fucking stupid.
This watch ranking procedure led to how I came to use in another world with my smartphone as the benchmark for utter shit, and a series can receive the “at least better than isekai smartphone” award.
The biggest non-pedo slog I for some reason watched all of was phi brain. I have no idea why I toughed out the whole thing. Basically professor layton but the puzzle obsession is fully deranged. I call any series where the world revolves around something really autistic a phi brain type.
One of my favourite scenes across all anime was in a generic romance about book boy and track girl where they eat in front of a mural of an obvious beaver tails knockoff, boaver tails… I watched the whole thing and that’s all I remember about it. If anyone can ID this one I want to go back and grab a screencap of the mural.
I really hate when a good series becomes pedotarded though. I’m still pissed about that one where a guy becomes an adoptive father but right at the end there was some shit where the girl’s childhood friend slash almost boyfriend maybe hooked up with some other girl so main girl felt betrayed and starts dating her dad leading to one of the most egregious lines in anime, that I cant remember 100% accurately, but it dumbed down to essentially “I want to get mad at my daughter’s gross old man boyfriend… but he’s me”
At the very fucking least don’t make parenting anime pedo.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’m someone else! I actually keep a running list of shows that don’t include the typical anime turnoffs. No sexualization of minors, and no incest.
Bolded titles are my top recs. Series listed in chronological order of my seeing them:
An attempt to compress a wall of text
Castlevania Vivy: Fluorite Eyes Song Belle A Silent Voice Baccano Deca-dence Trigun Akudama Drive ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Dept. Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 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 BNA Redline Planetes Witch Hunter Robin Noir Wolf’s Rain Boogiepop Phantom Boogiepop And Others Ghost In The Shell (1995 movie and Standalone Complex) Niea_7 Serial Experiments Lain Megalo Box Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto 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 Sora no Manimani Apocalypse Hotel Death Note Carole and Tuesday Kino’s Journey (2003) Onihei
Tidesphere@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Fuckin love Mushishi
parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Maybe check out Michiko and hatchin Durarara Gangsta Darker than black I stopped watching anime because even though a lot were geared toward a younger audience, there was still some like ghost in the shell or other types that made it interesting. I wish there was a website that kept tally of new ones to bother checking out
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Some of those are from both before and after my “at least try everything” time frame but you clearly know where its at based on the ones I’ve seen. Great picks with genre variety. I still think about the definitive fight scene in moribito.
I’m finally setting up my living room and plan to rewatch natsume yuujinchou and then the seasons I haven’t seen. Hopefully its still clean in regards to the post topic. Also trying to subject some friends to the depressing classics.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Uhhh…you might wanna rethink that one.
Not running down the anime, it’s one of my favorites. But it has some questionable moments. And though those do have context, some people who are sensitive to the topic of this post may find them uncomfortable to watch.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I don’t recall any sexualization of minors in SEL… Can you point out a scene? I’m generally pretty strict about what goes on that list, and an always happy to prune it
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It has been a fuck long time since I’ve watched it in its entirety. But there is a scene with a middle schooler(?) …I think all the main characters are middle schoolers… Anyhow, she has a moment of sexual awakening and is literally feeling herself out and gets blackmailed by the digital boogeyman of the series.
Mental note, gotta rewatch that show again some time.