4 seconds into first anime, high pitched squeal coming from female lead
10 minutes in, realize the main character is 15, girl phobic, and being put in charge of serious military equipment nobody has the right to touch until they undergo a year of training and are willing to follow orders; starts wondering if the person giving the child multi-billion dollar military equipment is more incompetent than the main character…it’s really a close call
15 minutes in, bitches like the child they are for the rest of the episode
episode ends
I love anime, but boy are some of the tropes really annoying and is a massive part of why so many people just turn it off shortly after it starts.
TIL why I can’t get into anime but didn’t know it.
Bit OP isn’t wrong about medical, legal, and police procedurals.
I wish more anime focused on adult characters instead of highschoolers.
A few recommendations with that in mind (Boy does that one restriction really just nuke the list! Common Japan!):
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Spice and Wolf (2008 series, I have no clue if the 2024 series is good)
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
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Gate: And Thus the JSDF Fought There
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Crest of the Stars
(Roughly in that order, too)
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This so much, I’m tired of shonen and kawai nonsense, most of the mainstream Anime plots and characters are generic, and I’m too old to related to 14 year old protagonists, I’ll take something like Arcane over another Anime any day
Here’s my problem with anime: I keep getting burnt on recommendations.
Anime fans do not share my distaste for sexualized child-coded characters. Which would be tolerable if they would even acknowledge the CONCEPT.
It’s a dice toss whether the anime is a Cowboy Bebop or something with loli side characters halfway through season 2, and I’m just rarely up for spending the time to do that research for a recommendation.
And “Achshually, these are just drawings not real people”, “umm, she’s really a 1000 year old dragon who just chooses/got stuck with a small human body” fuckery just tires me.
Solo Leveling - early 20s male protag, action sci-fi, no romance subplots atm
The Faraway Paladin- Fantasy adventure, found family
Claymore-women/monster hybrids fighting bigger monsters, only one male mc and he’s absent for over half the episodes
That’s what I can come up with that doesn’t have chibi, loli, or romance. They’re all on crunchyroll with good English dubs
I’m in neither camp. I don’t watch much anime, and I hate these detective/murder solving shows. There’s plenty of third options to choose from here as well. Lots of good stuff.
