My daughter is 13, and is getting in to anime, I guess. She’s been binge watching Attack on Titan this week. I know exactly nothing about it because I’m not interested in it, but I’d like to find her some good anime to watch, that isn’t full of the typical borderline porno stuff it seems is popular with G*mers.
Can anyone suggest a couple to get her going? I’d like to do something for her and get a jellyfin server going but dunno what to put on it. What would you suggest for someone getting into anime? Are there services worth paying for? Should I just be sailing the seas?
Asking her she says she likes
No Hero Academia,
Naruto,
Dan Da Dan,
Jojo,
Thanks yall.
ETA - I just gave her the list of stuff suggested so far and she squealed. She says thanks. I appreciate yall. Kiddo is happy then daddo is happy too.
eta2 - I have to go to bed, I was supposed to be asleep an hour or two ago but everyone has given me such a big list to start on that I didn’t want to not tell anyone thanks. Thank yall. I have a chance to give my daughter some media she will like, so I score some points with her for being a good dad, and I have a cheap excuse to sit and do something with her, even if it’s just television entertainment. At some point mom and dad aren’t priorities anymore and I have a chance to bond some more. I appreciate that the most I think.
Made In Abyss was one of those animes I remember people recommending the first season when it came out and putting it on my list of things to watch, but also I can’t remember anyone talking about the later seasons, so I just assumed it had the regular drop off in quality that these shows sometimes have. I’ll be sure to avoid it now though.
tbh, your description of it in that other thread almost makes it sound like “so bad it’s good” schlock. Though it’s multiple seasons of a show, not a single movie or something, I don’t want to watch 20-30 hours of dreck, something that bad as a movie length thing could be a fun hatewatch, but I wouldn’t want to sit through an entire series that starts promising and just gets progressively more fash and creepy as it goes along (Hey, this could also apply to Attack On Titan too!)
I cannot emphasize strongly enough that it is not. It’s just kind of dull and gross and it doesn’t really go anywhere. It starts off iffy and just gets gross and then grosser and then also sad and then even grosser and this just goes on at a jerking pace while the whole time you can just feel the author’s quivering, breathless arousal seeping into the story and controlling the pacing in a very uncomfortable way. I have an extremely high tolerance for absolute garbage, I like piling up a big platter of weird, creepy nonsense to watch as a spectacle, and Made in Abyss actually ruined my week when I watched it.
If you want a rubbish spectacle, Sword Art Online and particularly the SAO: Alicization seasons are great for something to hate watch and riff on. It’s problematic, it has pacing problems in the early seasons, and the worldbuilding is literal nonsense through and though, but it does still have some redeeming qualities alongside its admittedly decent sakuga action scenes, and the themes of the Alicization arc are actually pretty good, it’s just that even Alicization is still SAO and has more of the other kind of SA than ever at least one instance of which just actually happens on screen out of nowhere in the middle of a fight. However, Alicization does do the best thing any SAO season has ever done and that’s put Kirito in a coma and just have him sitting there in the background of scenes, vacant eyes staring off into space and drooling on himself, while the female characters have all of the agency and do everything.
If you want a “so bad it’s good” anime, as I said in another comment I just remembered “Misfit of Demon Academy,” which is one of the few times I’ve really enjoyed an anime from that perspective because it’s so ridiculous.
Overlord is a creepier show that you might(?) still like on the same basis as Misfit.
MiA is not that. It will make any remotely normal person sick to their stomach, because it’s only watchable to the most grotesque fetishists. Like, I can ignore bad shit in anime to a degree that is probably unhealthy and MiA physically nauseated me. It’s seriously in competition for the most disgusting piece of “art” that I’ve ever seen, both morally and graphically, and I’m including a lot of bad shit in that.
An example of its repulsiveness you don't believe me. Skip if you do believe me. I'm serious. CW everything
Do you want to watch a naked girl (maybe 13) have her breasts sliced during a surgical operation to cut apart her entire body so she can have her still-functioning vital organs stuffed into a tube while remaining alive and conscious? How about then watching her friends discover the tube, spilling out a mess of gore that was once a kind little girl that is now only able to quiver in incomprehensible pain and die? I am fuzzy on some details that I think make it still worse, but I’m not going to rewatch it.
MiA takes a second to really tip its hand, but it revels in this kind of shit and there are more examples of unspeakable brutality being inflicted on innocent children who may or may not understand what is happening, sometimes in an eroticized manner.
Ah ok. That is a lot. As someone who draws fetish art for a living (though nothing at all as grotesque as something like that) I do sometimes find enjoyment in watching “the writer’s poorly disguised fetish” type of shows sometimes. But not if it is something as disgusting as that and from the sounds of things, isn’t even trying to be disguised as anything other than fetishistic. I think I see why people were singing the show’s praises though. It sounds like it is very intense and “serious and mature” and implies that there will be greater meaning to all the awful stuff later. Which would also explain why the people saying it was great with the first season also all stopped talking about it afterwards.
I might check out Misfit of Demon Academy though, I get recommended a lot of slop by clients and it looks a lot like the sort of stuff they recommend I watch, but if it is so bad even they don’t watch it it must be something really special.
Yeah, Misfit comes off more as something that someone who commissions goofy fan art might write themselves, but it’s so expressive in that silliness that it’s difficult in the first season to determine if it’s meant to be funny or not. Based on the drag in later seasons though, it probably is somehow sincere.