My daughter is 13, and is getting in to anime, I guess. She’s been binge watching Attack on Titan this week. I know exactly nothing about it because I’m not interested in it, but I’d like to find her some good anime to watch, that isn’t full of the typical borderline porno stuff it seems is popular with G*mers.
Can anyone suggest a couple to get her going? I’d like to do something for her and get a jellyfin server going but dunno what to put on it. What would you suggest for someone getting into anime? Are there services worth paying for? Should I just be sailing the seas?
Asking her she says she likes
No Hero Academia,
Naruto,
Dan Da Dan,
Jojo,
Thanks yall.
ETA - I just gave her the list of stuff suggested so far and she squealed. She says thanks. I appreciate yall. Kiddo is happy then daddo is happy too.
eta2 - I have to go to bed, I was supposed to be asleep an hour or two ago but everyone has given me such a big list to start on that I didn’t want to not tell anyone thanks. Thank yall. I have a chance to give my daughter some media she will like, so I score some points with her for being a good dad, and I have a cheap excuse to sit and do something with her, even if it’s just television entertainment. At some point mom and dad aren’t priorities anymore and I have a chance to bond some more. I appreciate that the most I think.
FWIW there is criticism of Frieren along the lines of those leveled at Attack on Titan, that is, there is a humanoid race of demons that are ontologically evil and deserve to be exterminated. It’s a simplistic, unexplored theme that sits extremely at odds with the empathetic, personalised narrative of the first few episodes. It’s not egregious like AoT and but it definitely sinks it to the background level of ambient fascism inherent in many anime
This reading of Frieren never sat right with me. If anything it’s the demons themselves who are the fascists in the show imo, it’s explicitely stated that their goal is to kill all the elves, and heavily implied that they’re also out to exterminate or at the very least subjugate every other race as well. When Frieren and Flamme both say they wish they could exterminate all the demons that doesn’t seem any different from one of us saying “the only good nazi is a dead nazi”
Only about halfway through the series at the moment (so no spoilers please!), but it did stick out like a sore thumb and seemed very fash when the demons were treated as inherently evil beings with no ability to ever integrate within society(as this is how fascists dehumanise their enemies), if it was established that demons are raised in a culture of violence and that is why they are the way they are, it could be better, but the show goes out of its way to say that any and all demons are inherently evil and can never integrate with society and must just be destroyed. Which ok, fantasy world, they are literal monsters that just look like people, but it is still a little worrying and weirdly poorly thought out compared to everything else I’ve seen in the show, which is probably why people criticise this part so much. Maybe it gets better later, but so far it’s easily been the only thing I can say is a full on “negative” about the show, it seems at odds with the rest of the show’s philosophy and messaging.
Fair. I tried writing out a whole-ass thing a few times but I don’t really have my thoughts in order and I’m also sleepy.
Agree.
Also their use of language as a means to kill people is very much in line with fascism.
That’s good to know too. The list of suggestions is growing and if I have to move some stuff to the bottom of the list it probably wouldn’t even be noticed. Thanks.