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Animation (and Comics) after 30

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Are you:

Do you feel like high school dramas and edgelord power fantasies just don't provide you with the same entertainment value they did when you were younger? Are you skeeved out by panty shots and lewd angles of girls young enough to be your daughter? Perhaps you're bored by the "will they won't they" of a bunch of kids freaking out over their first kiss. Maybe everything is starting to feel like a slurry of tired old tropes. But if despite all this you still enjoy the drawn medium, even after aging out of its key demographic, welcome!

Let's help each other find some animation/comics that are a bit more age-appropriate (or at least that don't make you go "hey, isn't this just a repackaged version of [series from 20 years ago]?"). Reviews, recommendations, requests, laments, memes all welcome.


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I want to try something different to encourage more engagement on this community.

Let's share what we're reading and watching this month! Whether you're one or one hundred chapters/episodes deep, whether you love it or hate it, whether it's a new series or an old favorite, this is the place to share what comics and/or animation you've been consuming lately.

Friendly reminder that this community is specifically for folks 30-years-old and up; you can still participate in this discussion if you're younger than that, but please mark your comments with "under 30." Thanks!

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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I'll start us off:

Watching: Archer, Lower Decks, Mob Psycho 100, Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, Scavengers Reign

Reading (Webtoons): Ava's Demon, Eros Conquers All, False Knees

Reading (Manga): Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (Yokohama Shopping Diary), Oversimplified SCP, Hokuou Kizoku to Moukinzuma no Yukiguni Karigurashi (The Snow Country Hunting Life of the Northern Nobleman and the Eagle-like Wife)

I think of all of these Eros Conquers All is the only one I'd hesitate to recommend. There's nothing wrong with it per se, I'm just not super into it; I'm hoping it gets more engaging. Scavengers Reign is very well made, but unfortunately may not be my taste (I love a "fun" survival story, but this is more "horror/despair" survival). Ava's Demon started off a bit weak (the premise and characters are kind of meh) but it sucked me in with its fantasy/sci-fi world-building, plus

spoilerone of the best body horror scenes I've ever read

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Nothing wrong with a rewatch! (Although you make it sound like you're doing so begrudgingly)

[–] Prontomomo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago