• Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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    3 years ago

    Try Haikyu. It's a show about volleyball that feels like it has less of the weird anime baggage

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        3 years ago

        Yes. The sports are just a vehicle for the relationships and the character growth

          • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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            3 years ago

            I will warn you, it doesn't seem super strong at first, a lot of what's good about it comes from the character growth, and an unfortunate side effect of that is that a lot of the characters start off not being great. Also, there's a few standard anime tropes that the show seems to be playing straight at first, but they're actually not.

            But hey, even at its worst, there's no weird horny nonsense, so that's pretty great.