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Aside from age-inappropriate or socially-controversial tags, I wouldn't recommend otaku culture and others that require prior knowledge to get the jokes or the story.

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[–] Toes@ani.social 30 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Konosuba, Monogatari Series and Lucky Star.

Anything that relies heavily on familiarity of weeb culture or Japanese history.

[–] Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've really liked the weeb-ass-shit scale for cases like this ever since I learned about it.

Three 1-10 scores:

  • Weeb: the amount of familiarity one needs of Japanese culture or anime tropes
  • Ass: the amount of T&A/panty shots/comedic groping/etc.
  • Shit: an inverse quality scale
[–] Manalith@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can you rank some anime for me so I understand the scale better? I'm assuming the higher the score the less it should be considered?

[–] Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@ani.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Copy/pasting someone else's scores both because I have trouble doing this exact thing and because the Venn diagram of my tastes to the average anime fan has nearly no overlap^‡^, hopefully it helps.

Ancient Magus Bride: 1/1/1. Can be enjoyed by people that don’t even know what anime is, barely any sexual content to speak of, extremely high production values.

Konosuba: 6/7/2. Requires a moderate amount of knowledge of anime tropes, specifically the isekai genre and JRPG tropes it’s lampooning. Contains an above average amount of sexual content, though it is not the focus and is generally reserved for comedy rather than genuine fanservice. Generally high production values and is very enjoyable.

Non Non Biyori: 3/0/2. Requires a surface-level knowledge of Japanese culture, but nothing too deep. Contains absolutely no sexual content whatsoever and could be shown to your grandma. High production values for a “girls doing things” show.

^‡^as a for instance, I practically loathe Konosuba and yet here it's rated at a 2 on the shit scale

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

This is perfect thank you, so SAO would be something like 5/8/8 (an argument could be made for 9s in both the last categories) and Horimiya would be something like 3/1/1 as far as I'm concerned. Gotta incorporate that scale into a review site in a way that it averages out everyone's rankings across all three categories. I also only watched one episode of Konosuba.

[–] Toes@ani.social 5 points 4 days ago

I love it, that's hilarious.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, my first two animes were Lucky Star and KonoSuba!

I didn't realize at the time that KonoSuba is supposed to be a deconstruction/parody of the isekai genre. Didn't make it any less enjoyable, but now that I'm aware of all the isekai tropes, it becomes a whole lot funnier.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I would definitely put Evangelion on that list, especially if you have no familiarity with mecha.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Eh, people have to start somewhere to get into the material. My first contact with anime was Akira, and i did not understand a ton of it before watching it repeatedly, but it fascinated me (it also caused my fascination with gorey anime like Elfenlied and Hellsing). Evangelion could have taken that spot easily as a first - the themes are pretty accessible for people with some general media compentency.

[–] hypnicjerk@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

eva can absolutely power through on vibes alone if you're depressed enough

[–] kiri@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I agree. I watched it when I was a newbie and didn’t understand what the point was at all. But I’m happy that I was able to understand Eva memes after a while.

[–] ellieficent@reddthat.com 3 points 4 days ago

Eva was legit one of the first anime I watched.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

Lucky star is a great intro imo