I wish more anime focused on adult characters instead of highschoolers.

See, there’s a big problem. Medival/Legal Dramas are boring, samey and unimaginative. But at least there isn’t a 50% chance to get random incest/pedophile/sexist scenes pushed in your face out of nowhere and without any significance to the plot.

I love animes, but the amount of time I put into filtering out disgusting fan service is too damn high and also stopping me from recommending it to most of my friends. We need more anime like Frieren, Dungeon Meshi and One Piece pre timeskip and less Shield Hero and Goblin Slayer!

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.

I mean… I like anime myself but there are so many animes out there that feel like carbon copies of each other.

Not all anime is good, a lot is straight up shit. Not all things that aren’t anime are shit some are quite good.

Edit: some recommendations for good live action TV that’s neither a police or medical procedural:

• I May Destroy You - an analysis of consent and modern dating

• The Sopranos - one of the first shows to really smash the episodic format apart with its sprawling, long running narrative

• The Wire - while it does involve some elements of the police procedural format, it’s really a novel about a decaying society in TV form

• Freaks and Geeks - spawned it’s own sub-genre, possibly the most influential teen drama ever

• Deadwood - framed as a western but it’s really about how you build a society, crying shame it got cancelled before the conclusion but some of the best characters and dialogue ever written

• Battlestar Galactica (2003) - the perfect series to capture the paranoia and changes in society following 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan

• Chernobyl - just incredible

• Band of Brothers (honourable mention to The Pacific) - suffers a little from some American Exceptionalism but an incredible look at the effects of war on ordinary people

• The Deuce - an unflinchingly honest look at the sex and porn industry in 70s and 80s New York

It’s slop. It’s all slop.

Post non slop for me to check out below please