Half the drama in all romance, not just rom-coms, would be entirely avoided if relevant characters were engaging in healthy adult communication. Anime is far from the worst offender in the unhealthy relationships regard.

Nope, but it’s on my watch list now. Top two recommendations on MAL are Land of the Lustrous and From the New World? I’ll watch it as soon as I finish Kurau

Yeah, they’re on the list but I understand it’s a long list

Loved em. Controversial opinion: I preferred '03 over Brotherhood. They made stronger narrative decisions, I prefer its Pride reveal over Brotherhood’s Wrath reveal (happening like 2/3rds into the show gave you a lot more time to build up trust in him before the reveal), and most of all I liked their homunculus origins better

It is now on my watch list

I loved the Planetes manga, too bad it was so short

If you watch the english dub, it’s ambiguous enough to be interpreted as a father/daughter relationship. That’s also why I recommend skipping the movie

Do you have any disagreements?

It’s on my watch list now, will probably make it onto this list next time the topic comes up

thematically appropriate for the setting. Night city is fucking horrible, and no one should pretend that it isn’t.

also, i just watched that, like, within the last couple hours recently.

The relationship between lucy and david feels kinda forced, but other than that, 9/10 no notes.

Been a minute since I watched it. You talking about the BD producer? Because that shit super ain’t glorified lmao

Haven’t watched the other miyazaki movies so I’m not the person to recommend them.

And Rebecca is very obviously not a child. She’s just short. She literally gave a dude a blow job barely off screen no way would that shit fly if she was a minor. Lol.

I watched Edgerunners a few weeks ago, and I was kinda surprised by how little Rebecca bothered me. Aside from her introduction, she isn’t sexualized any more than any other female character except Dorio, and her personality really clashes with her character design. Visually she looks young, but actually watching the show, she didn’t really read as child-coded to me

It’s funny, because I don’t like a single anime you just mentioned.

That is pretty awesome animation at least.

I really loved Space Dandy, but if you’re claiming it doesn’t sexualize women, the entire restaurant of Boobies would like to have a word with you.

ETA: And we meet Meow doing upskirts.

Damn, you beat me to it. Mushi Shi is an unfinished masterpiece and severely underrated. I had some I wanted to add to this list, but honestly some have blood and such which I don’t know exactly what you’d want for an early teens daughter. I would have recommended Delicious in Dungeon, but there are some dismemberment scenes and it sort of downplays death, as you can and can’t die in the dungeon. Lemme try to see what I can dig up from my history though.

• Kimi ni Todoke - It is romance, but its so fluffy and goes lightly into what bullying can do to people as well as showing that people are not always who they seem on the outside. Touches on judging others, but remains extremely lighthearted.
• Saiki K - One of the few anime that has made me legitimately laugh. It’s nonsensical and good for most ages. I’m usually a romance buff, but this one drew me in when I curiously watched the first episode.
• Spice and Wolf - I watched the original and started the remake. I think either should be fine. Great adventure story with a bit of romance.
• Ballroom Youkoso - So this will fall a bit into the unhealthy relationships. I can’t remember if there was any nudity, but it does stem from the viewpoint of a hormonal teenage boy. However, the art of the dancing is absolutely stunning. Just beware the necks. Iirc, there are crazy long necks in this one, lol.
• Yuri on Ice - Similar to Ballroom Youkoso, but has a bit of an unhealthy relationship as a side story, iirc. I haven’t seen it all, just a bit of it and can’t remember much. I really enjoyed the skating scenes, which are very similar to the dancing scenes in Ballroom. It is a boys’ love, but that’s not the main point of the anime.
• Spy x Family - Haven’t seen it all, but what I have seen is great and seems good for younger generations.
• Arakawa Under the Bridge - Okay, this may be a bit much at times, but damn if its not hilarious and mysterious. There is some non-showy nudity, I think, but its more like bathing and such, nothing extreme.
• Dr. Stone - This should be all around a good pick for multiple ages. Apocalyptic scenario with reinventing the wheel as the theme.
• Cells at Work! - Another one I’ve seen little of, but it was pretty good and teaches a fair bit about the internal human anatomy.
• Silver Spoon - Anime based around farming. It’s a happy little anime with a bit of serious undertones for the background of the characters. Made by the creator of Full Metal Alchemist. I would also recommend FMA, but there may be some parts of that anime that could be a bit scary for younger teens.
• Komi Can’t Communicate - Another good romance base. It starts around misunderstandings and the fear of speaking in public, but devolves later into just a regular slapstick romcom. However, that’s mostly in the manga where it goes far beyond the anime.
• My Hero Academia - I did get into this for a bit, but it sorta fell off my radar for no particular reason.
• Frieren: Journey’s End - Have not watched all of this, but the first 3 episodes were amazing and the story is endearing as well as very emotional. A great adventure with a touch of tragedy, but it seems well recommended for all ages.

I have many more, but I have watched a disgusting amount of anime and can’t remember everything. I’ve been watching anime and reading manga since 2006, lol. Please, anyone correct me on any of these. My memory is hazy, especially when it comes to older anime I watched a long time ago.

Dr Stone also has some questionable aesthetics

I just wanna point out that while cowboy bebop is incredible, Fae Valentine’s outfit is skimpy to the point that she’s wandering around with her shorts unbuttoned in basically every scene where she’s not in a disguise (and she’s only staying in that top through the power of double-sided tape). By modern standards it’s really not great towards the women characters (except possibly ed).

There are concubines, brothels, and child sexual abuse in that one. Not the most racy depictions, but still 🤷🏿‍♀️

Well there was the whole “frog” incident.

I’d assume it’s because the only male elf is older? Idk this feels like looking for inappropriate intentions because you want there to be one.

The issue is we’ve encountered so few elves that it’s impossible to say really anything about them as a whole. Maybe that is just how female elves look, maybe frieren and serie are just weird, or something else. But either way, we’re basically just going on what little we’ve been shown which could change later.

Personally though, I don’t actually mind the 1000 years old but looks like a child trope if it’s not using it as an excuse to sexualuzed the character. Which they really aren’t doing here.

And on the other hand, I also don’t think Frieren looks like a kid. This is pretty common, I’ll see people point out a character who’s a bit short and sometimes flat (though that’s not always the case even) and say that they look like a kid while I don’t see it. So I don’t know if it’s me or what. Serie does look more like a kid to me though.

But we get back to the fact that she’s not being sexualuzed anyway, so again, I don’t personally take issue with it.

You could see her as that trope, but I really don’t think she fits the “loli” description. Lord knows I’m not about to google “loli” to check how closely she resembles one, but I’m pretty sure she’s a rare example of an actually short woman

Nichijou is awesome. Funny thing tho, it’s actually where I learned the word “moe”. There’s this part where Hakase is wearing these furry ears? or gloves? or something like that, and doing a funny pose. And her robot friend is like: “but that’s moe!” and the subtitles didn’t translate it any further, so I had to look it up.

I feel like campfire cooking would fall into this as well

As much as I fuckin love Frieren they totally sexualize Fern when she’s under 18, though tbh it does feel less gross than usual considering how clothed she is & the weird relationship she has with her master

Frieren is suuuuuper jealous of Fern once she starts developing (with the show repeatedly using camera angles to show it) and Fern’s 18th birthday is in the later half of the first season. It was funny and rather realistic having been around girls that behaved like that, but as an adult man it was obvious the camera had a serious liking of staring at Fern’s chest whenever it could

My daughter (11) wants to watch more anime than what’s on Netflix. Are these good for girls that age, you’d guess?

Maybe Saihate No Paladin, Nichijou, and Azumanga Daioh as well.

This is the first time I see someone other than me mention Eizouken. One of my favorite anime

How you gonna leave out Full Metal Alchemist?

Skullface Bookseller Honda-san is very respectable, though completely bonkers.

I love Cowboy Bebop but that series is one giant unhealthy relationship.

Just go with Trigun.

Greatest anime ever

The entire plot revolves around Guts’ unhealthy relationship with Griffith. And there are 2 underage looking characters that want to steal Guts from him.

Just gonna forget about the rape ape are we?