I remember hearing that the real protagonists of the world are Rudeus's children and this is more of a prequel.

Made in Abyss

I have mostly swapped to reading Korean manwha instead of Manga because of this. Going back and reading some of the Manga I used to like is a bit of a shock as a full grown adult now. So much is geared to young, horny teens.

redo of healer

haha, I know exactly what you mean about Shield Hero. What is so jolting is how seemingly random and unnecessary it is. Even if those themes aren't present, there might still be the random lewd viewing angles. Like, nah, I'm good, I don't need to be all upskirt peeping that literal child, wtf.

He never directly harmed children as far as we know

I absolutely loathe the entire apologist view of "They never directly harmed a child, they just had 45tb of pictures of children being harmed"

Buying/trading CSAM material IS directly harming children, because your activities are actively creating and furthering a demand for children to be molested and raped, Which very much means your hand is actively causing the harm, whether its directly against the child, or every other activity that creates the market that encourages molestation and rape. everyone participating in it is actively and directly harming children.

ITT: a bunch of lemmings out themselves as pedos.

I'm someone else! I actually keep a running list of shows that don't include the typical anime turnoffs. No sexualization of minors, and no incest.

Bolded titles are my top recs. Series listed in chronological order of my seeing them:

oh i can very much relate to that. i used to love 20th century anime because it was based (think of princess mononoke for example). nowadays it all feels like they're re-iterating the same theme 200 times over: boy and girl meet in highschool, the boy wears a suit and is somewhat ambitious while the girl is clumsy, talks with a high voice and is somewhat into the main character. i get that that's probably many high-schoolers fantasy, but damn it feels a whole lot like normalizing the american dream. "you just have to work hard, then you can make it".

Are you Australian?

I'd recommend checking out the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund when it comes to the dangers of restricting certain topics in fiction (including child abuse or child sexual abuse), and the dangers of censorship in general.

The US went over this before in the Aughts with Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition and the PROTECT act passed in 2003 (with certain parts of it later declared unconstitutional), and later with SESTA and FOSTA, which had a chilling effect, forcing closed online resources that sex workers used to protect themselves. The more recent bills like KOSA and the KIDS act are modeled similarly to close the internet as a vector of free speech under the premise of protecting kids from porn, with the intention to also silence subjects that are ideologically controversial, such as LGBT+ content, ( trans ideology ), sexual education material, women's health information and political speech that criticizes the Trump administration.

I still submit that media should be restricted as little as possible. Yes, we should restrict CSAM that creates actual child victims (such as filmed CSA and deepfakes of real kids), in order to protect the victims. And yet, when we criminalize fictional depictions of CSA, it not only starts cutting into legitimate artistic content (such as A Game of Thrones, or The Sandman comic series, Superman 1978 is an edge case), but it then becomes very easy for conservative moral guardians to creep the mission and expand the list of restricted content.