While this is technically an anime, I would argue the style and topic makes it more of an animated series that uses Japanese animation styling.
Honestly, I would even recommend Dallos if you don’t like anime.
What styles and topics do you consider to be anime, then?
Keep in mind that in Japan, anime just means anything animated. If you ask a Japanese person, Popeye is American anime. This attitude of trying to decide what is and isn’t “anime” is a uniquely western phenomenon.
I am not categorical about this issue. This is just a personal approach, one that I find works well with people who dislike anime.
This is just my own pragmatic “solution” of sorts. It allows me to recommend Perfect Blue, Jin-Roh, The Sky Crawlers, Memories (to people who I think would enjoy them of course) by saying that “these pieces are animated, but they are more like a movie that happens to use animation, not an anime.” And it works.
I see. Yeah I have a similar pitch for my friends and family members who still only associate animation with children’s cartoons.
