Anime & Donghua

one piece is in many ways a better naruto (more coherent politics, better worldbuilding, better character work).

you should probably be aware that the politics of attack on titan are kind of fucked because the author is a japanese nationalist type that seems to think that every country on earth is best understood as an ethnostate. you wouldn't know it from the first several seasons of it, but there is a turn it takes that i can only describe as committing actual antisemitic blood libels (although the author is clearly on the side of the stand-ins for eastern European Ashkenazi Jews, who are 1) in a ghetto and 2) forced to wear star of david armbands) where very explicitly Jewish people are portrayed as having a genuine blood curse that allows them to be transformed into the titans to oppress the world and eat everyone's children. i realize it sounds like i'm exaggerating, but i'm not, it's an insane thing for a guy to write, present these people as having spent countless centuries oppressing the globe, present them doing a genocide, and essentially present it as a necessity. in other words, in a lot of genuinely strange and kind of confusing ways, attack on titan is a pro-israel work of fiction.

mob psycho 100 is a very thoughtful and fun meditation on being autistic that doesn't do weird shit.

vinland saga is recent and very good, vikings and an exploration of violence, first season is very high action

orb: on the movements of the earth is a recent one about the development of the heliocentric model of the universe, lot of catholic institutional violence against astronomers depicted, a much tenser and action-heavy than the subject would imply.

i'd also recommend jujutsu kaisen for someone that age, also coming out now, also a battle shonen, no really weird shit.

edit: there's also a first season of a chinese-japanese collaborative production called to be hero x. kind of like the boys in terms of a world with superheroes that are controlled by corporations, it's a lot less violent and much more interested in exploring characters and the interplay of essentially superhero megacorps trying to beat each other. does a lot of different animation styles, also lacks any particular weird shit.