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Just a heads up for Attack on Titan https://www.polygon.com/2019/6/18/18683609/attack-on-titan-fascist-nationalist-isayama-hajime-manga-anime/
Sounds like she watches a lot of Shonen, out of recent series I enjoyed Frieren: Beyond Journeys End and Delicious in Dungeon, both of the creators are women and the closest thing to gross sexualization in either is panty shots of the male dwarf in DiD.
I didn't know that. Thanks. That's exactly why I asked here, because someone would know this.
As far as well-made (yet tame) anime that have premiered during the last few years, I'd say Frieren and Dungeon Meshi meet the criteria you're looking for
Honestly, the upcoming second season of Frieren is likely to propel it into becoming the most acclaimed anime of the last decade
You're the second person to suggest Frieren so it's going on the list for sure. Thanks a lot.
FWIW there is criticism of Frieren along the lines of those leveled at Attack on Titan, that is, there is a humanoid race of demons that are ontologically evil and deserve to be exterminated. It's a simplistic, unexplored theme that sits extremely at odds with the empathetic, personalised narrative of the first few episodes. It's not egregious like AoT and but it definitely sinks it to the background level of ambient fascism inherent in many anime
Just a heads up, Attack On Titan is very, very, very, very, very fascist. Not only does it have a character directly inspired by a Japanese war criminal (Commander Pixis in the anime), it makes the viewer root for a military coup, have a lot of nationalistic imagery and aesthetic, specially in some of the openings, paints genocide as the only viable option for the main character to do, and much more problematic stuff. It is genuinely awful in its messaging and I would only recommend to watch it with a very critical look on it all. (This is a very condensed warning, I can expand on it if needed)
Now for recommendations, I see it was already suggested, but Dungeon Meshi and Frieren are genuinely great and can be enjoyed by basically anyone, they are both fantasy stories, the first focusing on making food out of dungeon monsters and the second one about an elf that has lived for a long time in her journey of remembering her footsteps/adventure with her old group of heroes that has now mostly passed way.
Since your daughter likes Shounen anime, she might like Jujutsu Kaisen (about hunting curses/spirits that wreak havoc on the world) and Sakamoto Days (John Wick if his wife never died, but much more light story-wise). I can also recommend Megalobox (about boxing with exoskeletons) and Mob Psycho 100 (about a kid with extremely powerful psychic powers tied to his emotions, I don't remember much but it is super fun). Also One Piece is absolutely incredible but very problematic in it's depiction of women and queer characters, some are amazing, others feel like a caricature, but in general politics-wise it's absolutely amazing, Luffy would free Palestine in a heartbeat.
There's also Little Witch Academia, although not exactly Shounen, it is protagonized by a group of cool witches. There's a famous episode about unionizing! I would steer clear of other anime by Studio Trigger/Gainax for a while, even tho I absolutely love their works, they tend to be much more mature in content, this one is an outlier.
For older anime, I can also recommend Trigun and the recent remake Trigun Stampede, which is about a cool and messy bounty hunter in a hostile planet, there's lots of comedy in the old one too, tho the newer one is much more focused in the story/lore.
If she wants to dab into Chinese animation (Donghua), To Be Hero X is really good! I'm only 9 eps in, but so far it's very cool and it's about super heroes working for these big corpos where their powers is directly influenced by their popularity and reputation.
For a horror/suspense recommendation, The Summer Hikaru Died is great and it's about this teenager Hikaru being replaced by a creature and learning to live among humans, specially with Hikaru's best friend, Yoshiki. It's also very gay!
For a more light hearted anime, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is amazing and it is about animation. I never finished it, but I loved it a lot.
If she's interested in more competition based stories, Welcome to the Ballroom is great too. As the name suggests, its about ballroom dancing. I absolutely love this one!
For movies, since Ghibli has already been suggested, Wolf Children and The Boy and The Beast are pretty cool. The first one is about a single mother of two half-wolf children that goes to live in the countryside of Japan and the second one is about a boy that stumbles upon a place full of beasts and starts interacting with them.
Also another warning, Dan Da Dan does have a couple of problematic scenes, the most egregious one so far being right at the first episode, but outside of that it is genuinely a cute shounen/romance anime. So you might wanna take a look into it to weight in if you feel like you need to.
I appreciate you giving more of an explanation than others about what makes AoT bad, but calling Mob Psycho 100 "about superpowers" is like saying that A Christmas Carol is about ghosts. It's technically true, but extremely misleading in basically the same way, as the ghosts and superpowers only exist in their respective works as vehicles to facilitate a story about emotional development.
Took me a minute to think of something since the whole "battle shōnen" thing isn't really my genre, but Inuyasha might be great for her. Teenage girl gets sent back in time to fantasy Japan and fights demons with a dirtbag half-demon boy and a cast of other weirdos.
That sounds like something she would like. Thanks!
I can second that, Inuyasha is a very 13 year old girl show.
I know because I was once 13 and all my friends who were girls were very into it
The things she likes are all shonen. This may be because she hasn't watched anything outside of shonen as it's the most mainstream genre of anime. Exploring outside of that genre is something she should definitely do but for now let's just move this away from from male MCs, she's a 13 year old girl.
It is in essence a shonen, but it is essentially an all-female cast. It's modern enough to compete with that list of shows that she likes, and it's going to give her role models that aren't just boys.
While we're here I'm going to also say Fairy Tail. She's 13. Fairy Tail is absurdly popular among this age group. It's a show that stays at the right level for younger people.
While we're thinking of shows that really grab 13 year olds... Inuyasha too perhaps. Although this is much older now.
Edit: Stepping outside of Shonen... Fruits Basket is a cozy slice of life and romance very popular with girls. We could go to the very start of the slice of life genre itself and recommend Aria also, which is still to this day one of the very best "nothing actually happens" anime.
A Place Further Than the Universe and Mob Psycho 100 are pretty clean as far as I remember, sexual jokes are present (moreso in MP100) but no perverse camera action or chest grabbing
A joke here and there, or the occasional adult sentence or two aren't a problem. She's 13, so I imagine she hears and sees worse from the other kids she's in school with. I'm not trying to coddle her too much beyond something just absolutely obvious it isn't for young teens.
Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate it.
I second Mob Psycho 100, it's very wholesome.
Let's see, everyone's recommending Frieren for a reason, so I'll just expound on that a little: it's a gorgeously animated show that even at its worst (about the last third of the season) it's just merely a very good shonen action arc with great animation, good pacing, and female lead characters, and that's only a step down because at its peak it's a poignant reflection on time slipping away and the importance of the people around you and the impact you have on them. The early episodes actually brought me to tears more than once and I'd label the first third of the season as the actual best stretch of any anime series ever.
MAL is a depraved hellsite, but it having Frieren as the top rated anime series of all time is perhaps the closest it has ever been to being right about something and it definitely stands head and shoulders above everything else that makes it into the top 10 on there.
To Be Hero X is a new one that just wrapped up in the past couple of weeks and that I'm still only halfway through, but from what I've seen firsthand and heard other people here say about the rest of it I would recommend this unreservedly. It's Boku No Hero Academia with better art, pacing, writing, musical scoring, and driving themes: where BNHA is very lib in its perspective and sort of touches on but doesn't really take a side on how fucked up its setting is, To Be Hero X knows that its world of belief/adoration based superhero personas is deeply toxic and dysfunctional and doesn't shy away from both showing this and having characters cogently criticize it. It's an anthological series that jumps between the stories of different heroes, and the middle arcs that I'm on now have been centered on female characters and have explicitly grappled with things like systemic sexism and being infantilized by it and related biases.
If you want something lighter with no point to make either good or bad but which is an incredibly gorgeous action spectacle with a phenomenal soundtrack, Solo Leveling is exactly that. Someone can correct me if I'm forgetting something horrible about it, but from what I remember it's an extremely clean (except for, you know, the violence, which is maybe a step above BNHA or Jojo but well below Attack on Titan's gratuitous violence and gore), completely sexless show with characters who are... definitely on screen, and they say stuff I guess, but it's all really empty and doesn't really have a point, but holy fuck does it do visually stunning sakuga scenes like nothing else, all set to the fantastic music of Hiroyuki Sawano (who also did the soundtrack for To Be Hero X, which is also fantastic).
For another completely clean show that in contrast does have good themes throughout, Little Witch Academia is fantastic. I guess I can also throw in Brand New Animal, also from Studio Trigger, which was not as good overall but IIRC it was still decent.
For more borderline classics, both Cowboy Bebop and Gurren Lagann are extremely good with some caveats. Cowboy Bebop I honestly don't remember too well, but I remember it was weird about a character who was maybe trans towards the end of it? I don't remember if there was anything else problematic in it tbh. Gurren Lagann on the other hand is a fantastic story about solidarity and revolutionary resistance to what is literally a distilled version of fascist philosophy that wants to crush all life and hope out of the fear that if the vibrant underclass is allowed to keep living and striving it will inevitably endanger the comfortable status quo that the fascists tyrants have built for themselves. It was also made by fucking Gainax and so has a whole lot of weird "physics" and fanservice shots, particularly early on that. Also Kamina is an obnoxious pig and I'm glad he's not in it for very long.
A list of things to avoid at absolutely all costs, spoilered to completely separate it out from the recommendations, and I'm not gonna link the MAL pages for these:
Made in Abyss - this is repulsive pedophile trash with absolutely no redeeming qualities. Distrust anyone who recommends it ever. I have an old post here tearing into it and watching it through to be able to make those criticisms gave me of all people psychic damage.
Overlord - not as bad as MiA, but it's still very bad both from a quality standpoint, a theme standpoint, and a fanservice standpoint. It looks like complete ass most of the time, it's horribly paced and doesn't really go anywhere, the core conceit is "what if the most boring, vapid guy you know got magically lobotomized and developed ChatGPT psychosis which made him become magic Hitler because he didn't want the chatbots to be disappointed in him even though he wasn't really feeling it", it's full of extremely cringe and uncomfortable fanservice, it has a random homophobic/transphobic caricature thrown in for no reason, and on more than one occasion it's just thrown in weird pedo shit. It's literal sole redeeming feature is that the last season ended with an evil Disney Princess musical number which was so out of left field and bizarre that I actually found it entertaining for a moment.
Attack on Titan - Other people have elaborated on this, and I'm just gonna agree with them about it.
I'm struggling to think of any other mainstream series that I can really comment on to recommend against. Most "do not watch this" series I have are obviously bad and/or obscure anyways, and I've also avoided a lot of the mainstream slop from the 2000s so I can't really speak to its issues.
Made In Abyss was one of those animes I remember people recommending the first season when it came out and putting it on my list of things to watch, but also I can't remember anyone talking about the later seasons, so I just assumed it had the regular drop off in quality that these shows sometimes have. I'll be sure to avoid it now though.
tbh, your description of it in that other thread almost makes it sound like "so bad it's good" schlock. Though it's multiple seasons of a show, not a single movie or something, I don't want to watch 20-30 hours of dreck, something that bad as a movie length thing could be a fun hatewatch, but I wouldn't want to sit through an entire series that starts promising and just gets progressively more fash and creepy as it goes along (Hey, this could also apply to Attack On Titan too!)
tbh, your description of it in that other thread almost makes it sound like "so bad it's good" schlock.
I cannot emphasize strongly enough that it is not. It's just kind of dull and gross and it doesn't really go anywhere. It starts off iffy and just gets gross and then grosser and then also sad and then even grosser and this just goes on at a jerking pace while the whole time you can just feel the author's quivering, breathless arousal seeping into the story and controlling the pacing in a very uncomfortable way. I have an extremely high tolerance for absolute garbage, I like piling up a big platter of weird, creepy nonsense to watch as a spectacle, and Made in Abyss actually ruined my week when I watched it.
If you want a rubbish spectacle, Sword Art Online and particularly the SAO: Alicization seasons are great for something to hate watch and riff on. It's problematic, it has pacing problems in the early seasons, and the worldbuilding is literal nonsense through and though, but it does still have some redeeming qualities alongside its admittedly decent sakuga action scenes, and the themes of the Alicization arc are actually pretty good, it's just that even Alicization is still SAO and has more of the other kind of SA than ever at least one instance of which just actually happens on screen out of nowhere in the middle of a fight. However, Alicization does do the best thing any SAO season has ever done and that's put Kirito in a coma and just have him sitting there in the background of scenes, vacant eyes staring off into space and drooling on himself, while the female characters have all of the agency and do everything.
Everything studio ghibli is fire
I've been looking at some SG titles and they all look really good. I think I found some stuff I can watch with her.
Its probably insignificant to a lot of folks but my kids are growing into the 'hanging w dad isn't cool' phase so anything I can use to just hangout with my kids is good for multiple reasons.
Sounds like she's interested in Shonen battle anime primarily, as long as you steer clear of Ecchi and Seinen you should be safer from the adult themes you're worried about and feel free to check for those tags on MyAnimeList.net where they also have reviews and recommendations that can help you more. Off the top of my head Fullmetal Alchemist is a classic (either 2003 or Brotherhood are fine, but some will swear 2003 is not worth watching and I think they rushed the pace of the beginning of Brotherhood too much) and Kaiju No 8 is good for something currently airing.
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I wonder if she'd like Yu Yu Hakusho more than I did, I kinda grew bored with it once it started becoming more action-y, but that seems like the sort of thing your daughter would be into. I've also got a fem cousin with apparently similar tastes to your daughter, and she loves the movie Summer Wars, and a male coworker of mine with apparently similar tastes is fond of Shaman King, but I've only "vetted" the first two episodes of that. Lupin III part 2 and onward — specifically the dub — is basically a hit with everyone I know, regardless of gender and age.
If Sailor Moon is a hit with your daughter, maybe Cardcaptor Sakura would be a hit, too. Though I would note that there's some minor age gap BS in it and the main character is aged 10~12 (original) and 13 (reboot), but on the whole Cardcaptor Sakura has long been very popular among young girls, and for good reason. Avoid the Nelvana dub, though.
She's so new to it- I didn't show her any of the posts but I just told my daughter vaguely that I'd made a post somewhere I frequent asking for recs for her. Once I mentioned that what she likes I keep seeing referred to as battle Shonen (I'm missing some accents I know) she sorta perked up, and looked up the phrase definition and said something along the lines of 'yes that's what i want'.
Thank you for the recs. I appreciate the time you took to give me some.
I'll try to avoid duplicating others' excellent suggestions. Unless otherwise specified, none of these titles will have gore or excessive violence or inappropriate sexual content. I usually watch the weirder philosophical ones so I don't know if she'd actually enjoy them, they're pretty niche. So I'll just list some that I'd feel comfortable with one of my younger relatives about the same age watching unsupervised.
Eve no Jikan / Time of Eve: a calm and introspective tale about the ethics and impact of AI, told in the form of casual conversations in a laid-back coffee shop.
Serial Experiments Lain: this is deeply high-concept sci-fi. There's some difficult topics, such as a suicide in the first minute of the first episode and repeated references back to it, and some murders. But it's never really gory. It's about a teenage girl who's extremely neurodivergent-coded exploring her world's equivalent of the internet, the Wired, and how the Wired is starting to bleed out into the real world. It was made in the mid-1990s but it's eerily prescient on what humanity really did with 24/7 internet-connected pocket computers. It's like the 1976 movie Network in that it just keeps getting more relevant with each passing year.
Angel's Egg: This is a short film that's more art-for-art's-sake than a coherent story. But it's beautiful to watch and listen to.
Arashi no Yoru ni: a movie about a wolf and a sheep becoming friends, and how that friendship earns them the ire of both their peoples. Stock up on tissues. Not just for her, but for anyone in the household who watches it. The cutesy art style hides a deeply serious and sober look at bigotry.
Dirty Pair: an older 1980s franchise, but one that aged pretty well. The adventures of two space cops as they cause a lot more problems than they solve. This is firmly in comedy territory. Don't let the main characters' costumes fool you if you google it. Our two leading ladies have agency, personalities, and are never damsels-in-distress or SA victims.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time: a movie about a high school girl who discovers that she can manipulate time. Slow paced and introspective and melancholic.
Grave of the Fireflies: this is one of the best anti-war movies ever made. It's the story of a teen boy and his toddler sister trying to survive in WW2 Japan without much help from anyone. It's not remotely a nationalistic movie, it is scathing of Imperial Japan. It is harrowing. Bring lots and lots of tissues. But I think everyone ought to see it once. Once is probably all you'll need. You'll never forget it. Go in blind, be prepared to answer questions on Japan's actions in WW2.
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: the first ten minutes fools you into thinking you're watching yet another generic "teenage super-pilot of a giant super-robot" war story. Then it reveals what it really is, the story of a child soldier being welcomed by a peaceful community and learning to be a regular human being after they took him in. There's some PG-13 level violence at times, but for the most part it's just about a traumatized teen getting the chance to live a normal life with found-family.
My daughter loves to draw, she's very artistic. I think some of the more artsy stuff she would still like.
You've given some good suggestions, and I will get them on the list for her. She's in bed for school tomorrow so it'll be after she is off school and I'm finished w work but I really appreciate you taking the time to suggest these.
As a side note, I had to explain hexbear to my 13yo tonite as she asked me where I was getting all these suggestions as she knows I'm not an anime type of guy.
'Is it like Reddit?'
'No honey, it's not like Reddit'
'Oh what is it then'
'I don't know I can't really explain it'
'What do yall talk about on there?'
thinking of my post history
'It's called shitposting honey'
'Oh ok'.
I didn't give her the URL. Lol
I think some of the more artsy stuff she would still like.
Land of the Lustrous is absurdly good art, depicts a literal a commune of characters who are all different gems, and is absolutely fantastic. It's manga and art books are absolutely gorgeous.
It is probably my #1 show. If you want something that will inspire her art put her on the show first, then get her the manga and art books if she likes it.
She would absolutely love that I think. That might be a Christmas present for her. Thank You
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.
I personally don't care for the way One Piece's characters are designed. There's so much variation between the men and the women all look practically the same.
One Piece. Could even suggest the live action first and if she likes that then dive into the anime
There's an amount of 'fan service' but compared to even the stuff in My Hero Academia it'd be considered tame
She just mentioned One Piece funnily enough right before I refreshed this post. That one's going on the list too.
The Heike Story: an 11-episode historical epic set during the Genpei War in japan, based on an epic of the same name. it follows a young biwa minstrel who can predict events before they happen. there's some violence due to its subject matter but nothing over-the-top, and it's one of the most beautifully directed and animated shows i've seen in a really long time. super super slept on. also written and directed by women so there's no g*mer stuff, in fact it's very ghibli-esque if you're familiar with them.
The Rose of Versailles: an oldie but a goodie, this is another historical anime (40 episodes this time) set during the events leading up to the french revolution and follows a fictional french guard, Oscar François de Jarjayes, who was born a woman but raised to live as a man. lots of LGBTQ+/feminist themes, and the manga its based on was written by Riyoko Ikeda, who drew inspiration from her time as a DYLJ member. the anime is very stylish and cinematic, especially in the latter half which was directed by Osamu Dezaki.
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 haven't watched anime in a while but I recall these as being solid and not porno. They should all be about the same level of maturity as Attack on Titan and JoJo. Also just in case you didn't know. Naruto has two sequels. Naruto Shippuden which follows Naruto still after a time skip, and then Boruto which follows his son.
If you need more I can go poke my friend and see if we can come up with more.
nyaa.si is probably the best choice for finding the stuff. Just don't look at the comment section too much. I like to watch weird anime so my taste is probably not the best match for your daughter's.
Cromartie High School the manga is fucking hilarious so I'm sure the anime is probably just as funny. But I wonder if a 13 year old would get the jokes since it's mostly riffing how dumb teenage guys are in Japan.
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.
People seem to be forgetting movies. Studio Ghibli is very well known for making quality movies like Spirited Away. I also enjoyed Look Back (deals with loss) and A Silent Voice (this movie starts with a suicide attempt and very brutal bullying) which are both pg13 and probably outside her current interests. I also liked the show 86 (anti racist in a more liberal way).
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.
A quick visual que I use to gauge anime is the hemline on women's clothes (less obvious compared to every character having giant tits). The lower it is the less likely it's got bad shit in it. Like there are good anime where the women's skirts are above the knee but it tells me roughly how much anime bullshit I'll need to put up with.
Edit: Also there are some battle shonen that feel partially like ads for the Japanese Self Defense Force in the same way American movies are ads to join the military. Might come up depending on what she naturally watches and I'd assume you're against that kind of thing given where we are.
I’m a big fan of Mushishi, which is completely devoid of weird gross stuff. Just cool interesting vignettes, mostly just exploring people and relationships via a literary tool. This is usually a show I recommend to people who don’t like anime, and makes for easy watching for you, the parent, if you want.
She’d probably like Wolf’s Rain and Darker Than Black based on her recs, which are some of my favorites from studio BONES best years. Wolf’s rain is a lil sad but it’s an interesting work.
Probably a bunch of other stuff that I don’t remember, I tend to forget what I ever watched or liked without looking over lists
