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.

  • Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    5·
    28 days ago

    That’s actually good to know. Thanks for telling me. I’d like to find a show or two that I can watch with her just to hang out and talk about so maybe this will be one. I might find a ep or two just to watch and see what it’s about.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      5·
      28 days ago

      To give specific points in Dandadan you may want to screen: The attempted SA scenes everyone brings up are towards the end of S1E1, and the end of S1E12 and the opening of S2E1 which is a continuation of that scene.

      For things that are representative of why people love the show (I assume you personally don't care about spoilers but I'll spoiler this for everyone else's sake):
      • S1E5 is a distilled example of the characters’ sort of awkward and insecure navigation of relationships that don’t exactly fit into a stereotypical pop-culture-informed mold.
      • S1E7 is a representative example of the ongoing theme of abuse, exploitation, and tragedy that’s hidden away just beneath the surface of society, which the main characters who have had somewhat sheltered lives are just becoming aware of, and dealing with how that continues hurting people even after the fact. It is a very dark episode and heavily hinges on showing off the background of its vengeful spirit antagonist who is treated sympathetically but uncompromisingly as a tragic victim who is now hurting someone else and has to be prevented from doing this. It’s also a shonen action episode that ultimately gets resolved peacefully but tragically.
      • The exorcism concert from the first half of S2E6 is absolutely peak and perfectly captures the weird and creative side of the show.

      It is a show I, someone in my 30s, regularly tell all of my late-20s and 30-something friends to watch. It is a show that is a tonally dissonant mix of very earnest and wholesome relationship stuff, incredibly wacky and creative concepts and visuals, and extremely tragic and macabre themes and content that show up both as past wrongs inflicted on someone or many someones or as a present threat that’s in danger of happening to characters who were previously unaware of just how fucked up things were behind the scenes and who’d never considered that something so horrible could potentially happen to them too.

      I in general disagree with the opinion some people have that it did that last bit poorly or in an exploitative matter, but the fact remains that it absolutely does do those things in a way that if not exactly explicit is still potentially upsetting or traumatic and is probably not appropriate for a kid or young teen to watch as a general rule of thumb, but that’s ultimately for you to screen and decide on for yourself.

      • Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        Spoiler stuff doesn’t bother me. Thanks for giving me some examples. I’m going to watch an ep or two at some point and see how it fares. At this point I’ve had so many good recs that the list of ‘safe’ stuff is pretty extensive. I can wait a while for the less safe or whatever. I appreciate you taking some time point to point this stuff out to me. It’s not always obvious on its face.

    • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      28 days ago

      If you want to do this, definitely pre-screen the first episode because it’s easily the worst one of the first season (I don’t know how far the anime currently goes, but the manga has some other bad parts after S1). I don’t think the balls thing is objectionable at all, the issue is how the female cast gets treated.

      • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        I don’t know how far the anime currently goes

        spoiler for season 2 of Dandadan

        Season 2 ends right after the Kaiju fight, after Okarun opens it up and sees what’s inside.