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InuYasha, Witch Hunter Robin, Wolf's Rain, Oban Star Racers, Mushishi, Apothecary Diaries, Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex (original movies are good too), Arte, Insomniacs After School, One Punch Man, Bee and Puppycat, Pluto, BNA (brand new animal), Dungeon Meshi, and Frieren
Edit: dan dan dan was incredibly sexualized/inappropriate I wouldn't recommend it to someone that young, but that's me and I'm sensitive to the SA problems in anime
I didn't know that about DDD. I'll have to see if I can flood enough alternate suggestions that it just sorta falls off the radar.
If you don't mind some minor Dandadan spoilers, here's some objectionable stuff I can think of off the top of my head:
DDD SPLRS, also SA Content warning
lol that's a bit weird.
DanDanDan themes are about how young people navigate love and sexuality in a society that wants to exploit their bodies constantly. It's a good show that mostly tackles the subject matter well, although when it drops the ball in problematic ways it drops the ball hard (mainly it's framing of SA). Rather than take it off the list, I'd suggest maybe if you can find the time to watch it with her and talk about the show and it's themes together cos there's alot there that's worth talking about with your teenager.
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.
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):
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.
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.
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.
spoiler for season 2 of Dandadan
Season 2 ends right after the Kaiju fight, after Okarun opens it up and sees what's inside.I'd add that as an older kid/young adult it should be fine, and others have made some good points about the show overall. Like I mentioned before I am sensitive to that kind of topic, but thanks to another hexbear user posting about it when it first aired I wasn't caught off guard by it when I did get around to watching (I just skipped over a couple scenes). Figured I'd pay it forward.
Old head with the wolfs rain recommendation, I see you comrade
Heh. I have the Wolf's Rain, GITS: SAC, and Cowboy Bebop OSTs on cds in the original cases. I love Yoko Kanno's music so much. :]