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Anime for my daughter - a question (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net to c/anime@hexbear.net
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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.

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[–] booty@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I only know a very little bit about Japanese but I was pretty sure o and ō were actually different things. The ō being like a double o, emphasized sort of thing. Something like that.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wow, I'm a dummy. I knew about vowel lengthening but I didn't realize that's what macrons meant, I guess because when I see "romanji" it's usually very lazy about that and sometimes even just writes the double vowel out, like "Haikyuu," if it doesn't just exclude it completely, like most renditions of "Tokyo," which is apparently sometimes transliterated as "Toukyou" to signal lengthening, like "Shounen" is (I know Tokyo probably counts as a loanword with anglicized orthography).

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, you got it. 東京 is commonly rendered as Tokyo but that doesn't quite map to the kana which are {とうきょう|to u k yo u} and sometimes written in more accurate Romaji (rōmaji) as Tōkyō or Toukyou. The diacritic for elongation can distinguish words nerd

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

I appreciate the input. I looked up some things based on your comment. Somehow, I've had a minor formal education in linguistics and morae were never even mentioned, just stress and syllabic timing.