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While I'm here I might as well ask for your recommendations of anime with protagonists 13 or younger or 19 or older.
19 is making this too easy friend (plenty of fun college-aged shows):
Nodame Cantabile
Frieren (obviously)
Cowboy Bebop & Outlaw Star (Late 90's Sunrise is AMAZING)
2/3 of Spy x Family
I'm busy but I could bring more if necessary, this is just off the dome for a minute.
I don't doubt that there are a lot of fun college-aged shows, but just going off of how many hits I get for Anilist tags, as well as my own subjective experience, there really seems to be an order of magnitude more shows about middle and high schoolers than college students. When it comes to shows tagged "college" on Anilist, I've personally seen Maison Ikkoku (love it), City the Animation (love it), Detroit Metal City (enjoyed it), New Game (been enjoying it), Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out (didn't like it), and Wataten ({let's say I have mixed feelings about it|(which is to say the main character is a pedophile)}).
I've seen Cowboy Bebop twice, my whole family loves it, I've also seen a decent amount of Spy Family, and I saw the first episode of Frieren and would like to return to it. I'm not familiar with the other things but I'll look into them.
DMC is amazing and should have been on my list.
Genshiken was a college show (tho I think the main few characters are 18).
Meanwhile not bending the rules, MOTHER FUCKIN KAIJI.
Unfortunately, I cannot find an anime called MOTHER FUCKIN KAIJI, but I could find one called Kaiji - Ultimate Survivor. Is it safe to assume that's the one you're referring to? Genshiken is apparently already on la planlisto.
(yes, that's the one. It's one of the greatest. The manga title - "Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji" is even funnier to me, but all Kaiji is good Kaiji. There's also a live action, i believe, but the anime/manga are the real shit).
Any hexbears who haven't seen Kaiji should rectify it. It's one of the peak 00's anime. Restricted Rock Paper Scissors is such an amazing game, and "The Bog" from season 2 is peak.
ZOM 100 has a cast that's almost exclusively 20-somethings and its main protagonist is a 23 year old burnt out office worker. It's also a fantastic series overall, starting with a premise that sounds like irony poisoned nihilism but then repeatedly interrogating and rejecting the self-destructive and antisocial aspects of it until it arrives at a hopeful, pro-social conclusion. It's also incredibly stylish and weird, with the anime adaptation being absolutely gorgeously animated on top of the source material's style and creativity. The only criticisms I have of the manga (the anime doesn't reach this point in the story) is that it's almost too wide-eyed idealistic and that it includes a lot of short vignettes of the characters going to [regional tourist destination] and doing [apparently famous regional thing] in a way that feels very 
, although I will give it credit and say that at least some of the characters' wide-eyed idealism is also interrogated and subverted.
There's also a great shitpost at one point where the characters are talking about careers with dialogue that's like "A hundred years ago no one could have predicted modern jobs like drone pilot, twitch streamer, or cryptocurrency specialist, so who knows what the future will bring?" overlaid on a wide shot of a ruined square in a dead city full of shambling corpses. I wanted to post the panel but I can't find it now, because it wasn't at the part I thought it was.
Sounds like it could be up my alley!!
19-or-older would include the classic 1980s sci fi Dirty Pair. Kei and Yuri are adults. It's aged remarkably well.
Gun Smith Cats are all adult women
For 19 or older, I'll plug Shirobako, the anime about making anime.
I loved Shirobako. I loved Sakura Quest, too.
Fantastic anime. Years later and I still think of it often
Watch Gungrave, it starts with young adult protagonists and follows them over the next few decades as their ambitions and loyalties in a world of organized crime tears their lives and relationships apart.
There's also the weird sci fi elements but uhhh, it mostly makes sense in context.
protagonists 13 or younger
Victory Gundam 
Giant Robo: the Day the Earth Stood Still 
19 or older
The Big O
Patlabor on TV
Ooh, an umlaut in the name, huh? "Üso".
There's some good Tomino names in that show!
I also edited my comment and added a few more lol
It seems you are a fan of mecha.
少し、ね。
Mecha is honestly one of my least explored genres in anime: I've seen Eva, Gurren Lagann, Gunbuster, Sakura Wars, and the first episode of the original Gundam, and a few things tagged mecha on Anilist but which didn't really feel like the mechs were actually that big a part of them, but aside from that, I don't have much experience with the genre. But I feel like I should, because there's a reason why mecha is so popular among Hexbears, right?
A lot of classic 70’s/80’s Japanese sci-fi was written by survivors of Ww2 who became leftists, for example the original Gundam but more broadly stuff like Space Battleship Yamato and Legend of Galactic Heroes falls into this category.
I’d say Hexbears are more fans of these types of shows due to the politics, because more modern mecha (again using the Gundam franchise as an example), a show like Gundam Seed is kinda empty calories meaningless action spectacles at best, or has abhorrent politics at worst.
Although Gundam: Witch from Mercury (which was a more recent show) had a lesbian main character coupled with anti-capitalist themes, so that show in particular did land pretty well in this crowd and made a lot of new Gundam fans
Exactly, exactly.
Promised Neverland ~~and Made in Abyss~~
Edit: made in abyss is apparently way more concerning than a I realized
I feel like I've heard some people say that Made in Abyss has some libertarian stuff in it, but I can't say I've heard anything negative about Promised Neverland. It's pretty far from my usual genres but I ought to venture outside my comfort zone more, anyways.
Made in Abyss just keeps sexualizing the prepubescent main character in really creepy ways.
I figured it would be something like that.
I feel like I've heard some people say that Made in Abyss has some libertarian stuff in it
I am once again saying that Made in Abyss is the worst thing anyone has ever made.
I would have linked it for you if you weren't here. GOAT hexbear post 
Yikes just reading that was probably enough to do psychic damage
Tbh I never actually watched it past a few episodes. Promised neverland was great first season but srcond season is not worth watching.
I strongly encourage you to be aware of what the rest of MiA is like (though even the first few episodes have pedo content), because it rapidly becomes one of the most grotesque anime ever made that has name-recognition, easily one of the worst things you'll fine outside of guro or animated csam (which MiA occasionally falls into also).
Reposting KCT's link: https://hexbear.net/post/300954
Trigun Stampede protagonist is in like his mid 20s, spy family both adults are like late 20s and their daughter is 5
After checking, the protagonists for the first 4 digimon animes are 10-12 years old lol
Conveniently, I've got the Norwegian dub of the first 20 episodes of the first Digimon anime on my computer as part of my project to save every Norwegian anime dub I can get my little tanuki hands on. Trigun Stampede is listed as an "alternative" to '90s Trigun — I wonder what the deal with that is.
The trigun is like the fullmetal alchemist, the 90s anime was made before the manga was finished so it decided to have an original take on it, while trigun stampede is more of an adaptation of the manga
all the main simpsons characters are outside that range
Verily, it is known.
2nding Zom 100, total bloomer shit, gorgeous animation, adult characters, gotta love it
then theres Ranking of Kings, the protagonist, deaf and mute boy, the son of a mighty giant despite his frail and small stature, is somewhere between 10 and 15 its pretty hard to tell but he's a good little bean and you should watch his show
Also lavishly animated. There's some weird shit right in the last half of the last episode but not like /that/ weird considering anime but yeah fair warning
I think Vinland Saga is also an anime people like that's about adult characters?
Then there's Erased which is pretty fucked up but a masterpiece, I think the characters are grade schoolers? but yeah there's a kidnapper on the loose or something, I don't remember specifics but its best seen without spoilers
Dragon Pilot is a bizzare anime about adult japanese air force members, who happen to work with dragons instead of planes, and they fly the dragons by being vored by the dragons. Its surprisingly adorable and I had a pretty good time watching it with my partner, it is weird tho
Ghost in the shell and cowboy beebop are older characters as well I'm pretty sure
Hunter X Hunter contains the best anime friendship in addition to being an all time favorite, main protagonists are monstrously strong 12 year olds or adults, not much in between
PLUTO is a mystery noir anime (made in the west maybe? idk) about a robot detective solving a world spanning crime, 3 laws of robotics style stuff its pretty neat. all the main characters are old or robots or old robots
Delicious in dungeon, adult charcaters
Pluto is based on Astro Boy, I know.
I did see some Delicious in Dungeon when it was being shown on Blorptube, and I kinda remember feeling like it was overhyped, but maybe two in the friggin morning isn't the best time to try new things.
Hunter x Hunter and Ghost in the Shell are things I ought to see for apparent historical significance alone, anyways.
I've heard of Vinland Saga and of course find the premise striking because it's based on the history of my backyard (which is over 1,000 km away from me, shut up, viking is viking). Also, insert remark on the translation of hnefatafl here.
Ranking of Kings has a Deaf main character, huh? Looking into it, it includes signing which was supervised by the Japanese Association of the Deaf. That alone should win me over! I've already got A Silent Voice and A Sign of Affection on my planning list; I've been doing Deaf Culture Nights on Blorptube lately and am always on the look-out for new things to show for that.
I'll have to look more into Erased and Dragon Pilot.
In dragon pilot the food the dragons eat are old flip phones, they love munching on them