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[–] zourn@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (28 children)

I've been keeping my eye out for anime I can watch with my early teen daughter, and the intersection between good anime and anime that doesn't require ample amounts of jiggle physics is fairly small.

The list is pretty much:

  • Mashle
  • Dragon Goes House Hunting
  • Cells at Work
[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Yeah, it's definitely hard. A couple I can think of:

  • Tri-Gun
  • Delicious in Dungeon
  • Dr. Stone
  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Fullmetal Alchemist (I think is mostly safe)
  • DBZ (Mostly safe, I think Dragonball has some questionable stuff)
  • Komi can't communicate (relationships seem mostly okay)
  • One punchman
  • Mon Pyscho
  • Steins Gate
  • Kinos Journey

The real issue is finding an anime that doesn't oversexualize anyone and still has lead female characters. If you're looking for early teen I think the US actually makes better shows:

  • Gravity Falls
  • Amphibia
  • Star vs Forces of evil
  • Infinity Train
  • Young Justice

There's more I could recommend, but for a teenager daughter those all probably have better plot, character development, and female leads than most of what I can think of for anime (although being a guy there are probably a number of anime I'm just not aware of).

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dr Stone also has some questionable aesthetics

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Oh yeah, but I guess I was giving it a pass cause it goes both ways. Both the women and men have ridiculous designs.

Also, even though they definitely feel sexual, the actual dialogue doesn't focus on it too much (at least from what I can recall). It helps that the main character is really only interested in science.

Edit: It also has the issue that pretty much every major character is a guy.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Edit: It also has the issue that pretty much every major character is a guy.

Yeah, is always annoying when you've got the trope of

  • The explorer
  • The warrior
  • The inventor
  • The girl

Like gender is a class and not half the population.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's because the artist historically did NSFW content

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Doesn't that count for a lot of artists?

Pretty sure in Japan it's a trope that mangaka would do Hentai dude projects under a different name. I would judge an anime/manga on its content, and not by something unrelated.

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