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Here are some good ones that I personally watched and should be fine:
Rock is a lady's modesty is pretty good. It's about a group of daughters of rich families coming together to do music in secret to escape their strict lives.
The apothecary diary In a setting heavily inspired by medieval China, a smart and eccentric young commoner apothecary finds herself working in the imperial palace as a maid. She gets noticed by a young and mysterious high ranking official and one of the emperor's concubines and get involved in investigating various mysteries and crimes in the court. Essentially, it's detective story with an ancient Chinese aesthetic.
Holmes of Kyoto The grandson of an antique store owner investigates various mysteries in Kyoto.
Spy x family A spy, an assassin and a telepath decide to form a fake family each for their own personal reason while keeping what they do secret from one another. But they grow closer and start looking more and more like a real family.
Dr. Stone A mysterious catastrophe suddenly turns every human on earth to stone. 3000 years after the event, a young science nerd decide to take it upon himself to rebuilt civilization with his scientific knowledge and the help of old and new friends.
Delicious in dungeon After being defeated by a dragon and losing party member, a group of adventurers decides to go back down the dungeon as fast as they can to save their lost friend by cooking the monsters they meet along the way instead of taking provisions.
The too-perfect saint: tossed aside by my fiance and sold to another kingdom This is a surprising one. I went into this one expecting yet an other of the "underestimated person gets rejected by group of jerks they were a part of but turns out to be incredibly powerful" trope, but while there is a bit of that, it is secondary to the main plot of the main characters learning to get through their personal tragedy with the help of their loved ones.
Kobato A naive and kind women of unknown origin comes down to earth with the objective of healing the heart of peoples so she can be allowed to have a wish granted. Very wholesome. Very emotional. If you like shows that make you cry, this is a good one.
C - the money of soul and possibility control A satire of financial speculation. A young men meet a strange supernatural being who convince him to make an account at a strange supernatural bank that allows it's clients to invest their future and hopes to earn large amounts of money.
Hyouka The most beautifully animated anime I've seen hands down, watch it in the highest definition you can, it deserve it. A smart but lazy boy meet an extremely curious girl, they and 2 other friends go on to solve every mystery that catches the girl's attention.
Demi-chan wa kataritai An anime with an explicit anti-discrimination message. A biology professor try to help the first non-human students, a vampire, dulahan and yuki-onna, and new professor, a succubus, adapt to his school that had only had human students and personnel until then.
Konohana kitan A traditional Japanese inn run by bake gitsune (foxes capable of taking a human appearance from Japanese mythology) visited by ghosts, yokais and other supernatural beings. Every episode follows the 4 young bake gitsune as they interact with different strange customers that visit the inn.
Awesome post. Thanks for taking the time to do that. Those are all going on the list but The Apothecary Diary sounds like something she would really like.
no joke that was actually my first anime I ever watched of my own free will.