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An no fan service/no upskirt/cleavage shots.
And no racist depictions.
I’m sorry sir we don’t make those
Definitely Monogatari or To Love-ru or KissxSis
So basically Miyazaki movies
I was going to say Knights of Sydonia, but in not sure all of those are strictly followed. At least there’s nothing overt. And a fantastic sci-fi to boot.
Edit: started re-watching on a lark and there’s A LOT more overt fan service than I remembered. At least it passes the Bechdel Test.
It’s lemonaid, I swear!
That doesn’t narrow it down as much as you think. What genre are you looking for?
fantasy isekai
Campfire cooking in another world and Welcome to demon school, Iruma-kun! are my main recommendations. There’s also some trash that would fit your criteria, but I wouldn’t recommend watching that (like that one slime tamer anime I can’t recall the title of). Also a dozen or so otome villainess reincarnation anime should fit your criteria, those are getting pretty popular now, though I haven’t watched any of the anime yet. Also some older stuff like Inuyasha might be up your alley, but honestly it’s been too long since I’ve seen them in their entirety, so I can’t really remember. Obviously Isekai is by far the most fan service-y theme in every possible way since most of it leans into power fantasy aspects to flatter the target demographic. In fact, if this was an actual honest question, I would recommend looking at the broader fantasy category, where there is a lot more variety and quality to be found.
I was mostly messing around, but thank you for the in depth write up. since we’re on the subject, what do you recommend for fantasy?
Frieren is the obvious recommendation, with character-driven storytelling focused on philosophical themes. It is genuinely one of the best shows I’ve seen and it’s rare that my expectations for a manga adaptation are blown out of the water so completely. Delicious in Dungeon is also excellent and has more of a focus on little details and creatures (and food, of course) with a very different approach to storytelling and a smaller scope.
I’m a big fan of the comedy and character design in Helck, even if the production quality of the anime can’t quite match up to my other recs. The manga is definitely visually superior. The contrast between the darker aspects of the story and the comedic delivery is pretty unique as well.
Mushishi is an episodic seinen anime focused on mythology and has some of the most beautiful background art, though it has more of a historical setting with supernatural fantasy elements. If virtual fantasy settings are allowed, then I recommend Shangri-La Frontier, which looks like Isekai at first glance, but thankfully is not. It’s also by far the most shonen anime on this list, but very entertaining.
Those are what comes to mind, but I’m sure I’m missing some obvious picks.
I’ve seen most of those (and read all of helck), except for mushishi and shangri la; I’ll add them to my list!
- 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
SPACE Dandy wa
I really loved Space Dandy, but if you’re claiming it doesn’t sexualize women, the entire restaurant of Boobies would like to have a word with you.
ETA: And we meet Meow doing upskirts.
I’m not claiming that at all. I was just responding to a post where they mentioned Space Dandy.
Although, the original post says “sexualize underage characters”.
And I think maybe Space Dandy does avoid that.
No Dungeon Meshi?
Haven’t seen it, I’m only suggesting stuff I am familiar with.
Watch it, it’s very good.
Nabbing a copy of it now, or whenever my torrent client is active. :)
Sigh. Why would JoJo fans ever recommend starting with anything but the original 90s OVA?
That is pretty awesome animation at least.
Outlaw Star! Aisha Clan Clan, my beloved queen. The first cat girl crush lol. Very nostalgic.
I remember this as a kid on Toonami, one day they said “asshole” or something (I don’t remember) and my dad was angry and told me I can’t watch it anymore because they swore.
My brother was mad at Toonami not airing the Beach episode, and since it had a critical plot moment, it made a later episode feel like an ass pull. Years later he learned an episode was skipped.
But Aisha Clan Clan is a good waifu.
- World Masterpiece Theater
- Studio Ghibli
- ハッスルパンチ, Toei, 1965
- 森の陽気な小人たちベルフィーとリルビット, Tatsunoko Production, 1980
- Anything that was on TV in Europe back when the American cartoon market was dominated by Hanna-Barbera and Filmation, and their uninspired crap.
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
Anime is fine. It’s just anime fans that are absolutely insufferable
someone is making all those anime that sexualize minors and glorify unhealthy relationships.
Ehhh, anime fans aren’t responsible for the production of dubious content. I think it’s safe to put blame on the creators too.
You know what honestly I couldn’t give a less fuck what some people create. But you choose to consume it. This is the real blame.
I prefer it when a greater proportion of the media available to me is also media I would like to consume. I choose not to consume dubious stuff that I don’t like.
You already consumed it just by merely looking, you have already contributed to the moral failure.
I actually plan to launch a new startup that will sell a selective consumption glasses. They are pretty ingenious, they work by darkening your vision when the camera detects danger such as wrongthink. I will let you know as soon as we are up as one of the first to be contacted with an exclusive deal.
You will be able to block anything IRL just type your keywords in app and it will detect and shelter you from anything that could make you uncomfortable.
We have thousands of orders from people that are tired of gay people being visible and then hundreds from some leftists that had muscle cramps from clutching their pearls every ten seconds.
The projection from your comments is hilarious.
Congrats, you are pedantically correct insofar as such things have indeed graced my eyes. But you missed my meaning entirely.
I don’t make mistakes, I’m not like the rest of you, I’m stronger, I’m smarter, I’m better, I AM BETTER. I’m not some weak kneed fucking crybaby that goes around fucking apolgizing all the time and why the fuck would you want me to be? All my life people have tried to control me, rich people, powerful people, tried to muzzle me, cancel me, keep me impotent and obedient like I’m a fucking puppet. And you know what it worked, Because I allowed it to work and guess what, If they can control me they can control you, they already do you just realize it. I am done, I am done apolgizing, I am done being persecuted for my strength, You should be thanking christ that I am who I am, because you need me, you need me to save you, You Do, I am the only one who possibly can. You’re not the real heroes, I am the real hero, I am the real hero
Good to know!
There’s a lot of terrible anime, but there’s also a lot of fantastic anime. There’s a lot of anime.
Vast majority of anime have sexualization of minors tho
Only if you go explicitly looking for it, yeah.
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.
It could, but people could also see it as an example of the 3000 year old loli trope. So it may not be a good example.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ReallySevenHundredYearsOld/AnimeAndManga
You could see her as that trope, but I really don’t think she fits the “loli” description. Lord knows I’m not about to google “loli” to check how closely she resembles one, but I’m pretty sure she’s a rare example of an actually short woman
I’m waiting for the canonical reason why the female elves look like children while the one male elf we’ve met is drawn like a grown man. And I really hope it’s not that their brain outpaces their body because then we’re in the “5000 year old witch in a child’s body” trope.
If this is addressed in the manga, no spoilers plz beyond a simple “Yes, it is.”
One reason might be that the male elf is a physical fighter who is literally shown doing strength exercises, there isn’t really a good way to make him look like a minor (or rather, like a link/legolas-type male elf or generic anime hot guy character) without making him look a lot weaker. Meanwhile the female elves are both wizards, so their physical shape doesn’t impact their combat ability at all.
And IMO, the main character doesn’t look like a child, she’s just an adult woman who is kind of short and not that curvy.
I’d assume it’s because the only male elf is older? Idk this feels like looking for inappropriate intentions because you want there to be one.
Yeah I was about to say this he was way older than friren
Serie looks like a child too and he is not older than serie tho.
I mean, we have a sample size of 3 (in the anime anyway), and don’t actually know for certain how old any of them are. The only thing we really know is that Frieren is likely the youngest.
The issue is we’ve encountered so few elves that it’s impossible to say really anything about them as a whole. Maybe that is just how female elves look, maybe frieren and serie are just weird, or something else. But either way, we’re basically just going on what little we’ve been shown which could change later.
Personally though, I don’t actually mind the 1000 years old but looks like a child trope if it’s not using it as an excuse to sexualuzed the character. Which they really aren’t doing here.
And on the other hand, I also don’t think Frieren looks like a kid. This is pretty common, I’ll see people point out a character who’s a bit short and sometimes flat (though that’s not always the case even) and say that they look like a kid while I don’t see it. So I don’t know if it’s me or what. Serie does look more like a kid to me though.
But we get back to the fact that she’s not being sexualuzed anyway, so again, I don’t personally take issue with it.
also ; no violence
Depending on how little violence you want, here’s a few. I’ll put a star on ones that had absolutely no violence (to my recollection)
Steins;Gate (I don’t recall much gore, although some characters do die)
Vivy: Fluorite Eyes Song
Hyouka ⭐
Belle
A Silent Voice (no gore, but references to suicide)
ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Dept. (one character gets shot at one point and ends up in the hospital. It’s not violent so much as dramatic)
Mushishi ⭐
Your Lie In April (no gore, but there is death)
Sk8 the Infinity ⭐
Bocchi the Rock ⭐
Haibane Renmei (some violence in the first episode, but super worth watching)
Planetes (very little violence)
Noir (buncha people die, but there’s never any blood)
Niea_7
Serial Experiments Lain
Megalo Box (it’s a show about people punching each other, so as violent as you’d expect from that)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (very little violence)
Kyousougiga
Sonny Boy (very little violence)
Kiki’s Delivery Service ⭐
Music or art anime.
Do sports anime count as violence?
-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.
It’s part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don’t get a say in their culture.
Actually you do if you pay for anime. Sucks to live in a capitalist society, but this is one thing that results from it – you vote with your wallet. And by the way, you obviously have a very narrow view of Japan if you think that this is a deep-set part of the culture. For one thing, it’s not hard to find Japanese media without those things, and for two, such things offend the sensibilities of many Japanese people I know.
It’s part of a Japanese subculture. And it’s actually part of a subculture in western countries too, since they exported it. Western fans ask for that kind of stuff just like Japanese fans do. This is why you see it even in, say, Netflix-produced anime.
All she asked for was some anime without excessive fanservice, suited for a younger audience, and your reaction was, “YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND, IT’S ART.”
What a narrow view of the medium. Imagine telling all the Japanese female fans that if they want different representation, they’re being ethnocentric. You want an anime without panty shots and lolis? THE ENTITLEMENT. You are the one who seems to be asking for art that only displays scenarios that fit your ideals, not OP.
Exact reasons I hate anime. It’s just so creepy. There are a few notable exceptions, of course, but I think it’s safe bet that 95% of anime is just awful.
your ignorant perception of anime aside, there are more than a few notable exceptions. You clearly haven’t seen much anime. I do love when people who have no idea what they’re talking about are so opinionated though and so confidently incorrect.
Fuck off. I’m allowed to have an opinion.
and i’m allowed to think you’re a fucking moron for having an ignorant fucking opinion.
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.
Right, because episodes dedicated to a teenage girl’s underwear and chest don’t sexualize them, of course. (/s)
I’ve lived in Japan and seen middle aged men take analog photos of the short-skirt madoka murals in Akihabara. It’s sexualizing children and it’s creepy. And don’t get me started on the figurines. EVEN IN MANY anime it’s depicted as creepy.
They are not children, that’s the thing.
My brother in Christ, what
It’s been a while (think decades) since I watched any considerable amount of anime, but off the top of my head, Patlabor, Trigun (possibly problematic), Gundam Wing, Robotech, Solo Leveling.
Stretching the definition of anime: Gargoyles, Star Wars: Rebels and Castlevania (2017)I love me some Patlabor. Really recommended if you want something for adults. Wings of Honneamise should also be on that list.
I don’t even know what’s on that one page
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.
As much as I fuckin love Frieren they totally sexualize Fern when she’s under 18, though tbh it does feel less gross than usual considering how clothed she is & the weird relationship she has with her master
Frieren is suuuuuper jealous of Fern once she starts developing (with the show repeatedly using camera angles to show it) and Fern’s 18th birthday is in the later half of the first season. It was funny and rather realistic having been around girls that behaved like that, but as an adult man it was obvious the camera had a serious liking of staring at Fern’s chest whenever it could
Don’t worry, the number of people saying Frieren is a child is astounding
Although she appears to be very young, she was born into a long-lived race of elves and has lived for over a thousand years.
Oh, that old chestnut.
That trope bothers me too, but basically any anime female is going to look the same anywhere from 12 to 40 due to the way the features are stylized. So, looking for context clues is how you find the age of a character if it’s not explicitly said. Frieren is absolutely treated like, dresses like, and acts like an adult. She’s smaller than a human man, larger than a dwarf or human child, and while she’s infantalized a little by Fern it’s very much in the “how are you this old and still not taking responsibility for x” way.
How you got this many replies without a single mention of Cowboy Bebop is beyond me.
I love Cowboy Bebop but that series is one giant unhealthy relationship.
madoka is great too but same problem lmao
