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.
My daughter is only on the first season somewhere, and admittedly I’m not watching it with her but the here and there I’ve watched didn’t seem like I need to baseball slide into the living room and snatch the remote out of her hand but I was also not paying deep attention to it. She’s in bed asleep now, so maybe tomorrow I’ll talk to her about Attack on Titan and it having some stuff in it that maybe she doesn’t need to watch until she can have a more critical eye.
The author is most probably a fascist, but I’d consider it far less problematic than lets say Narnia or Harry Potter. Again I havent finished it, but the enemies are humanised and shown with their own valid motivations. There is also no sexualization whatsoever (extremely rare in shonen) and a some well written female characters. The politics are mix of both anti establishment and deference to authority, but I wouldn’t consider it fascist or think average people would take away that message. It’s far more revolutionary than liberal leaning media.
Im a bit biased I guess cause its what got me into anime. Personally I think it’s great your daughter feels comfortable watching it around you! In my experience kids are gonna watch what they want to watch (or what their friends are watching) anyway.
I agree. She’s going to, and I’m not going to do the same shit my folks did with me. It did nothing but cause strife.
Ooh, please expand on this (if you want), I’ve heard a lot of Harry Potter takedowns, but not a lot about Narnia beyond “it’s just really hamfisted Jesus allegory with a lot of underlying racism against muslims.”
Yeah pretty much, I remember The Horse and His Boy being extremely orientalist, even as a kid that stood out. Other than that its basically a white saviour story where some british kids are the natural rulers over some lesser beings, it feels very much like a justification of colonialism.
Tbh I watched the movies and read the books as a kid, I’ve never revisited them since so I couldn’t give you a more detailed response, I’m sure other people have done so though