Anyone know some good, preferably leftist, anime?

Not a fan of shonen, romance, harem or highschool anime if that helps.

To give you an idea of what I do like. Stuff like Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Baccano, Lupin the Third, and Miyazaki films are all good and I don't mind comedy if it's bizarre and stupid like Bobobo, or romcom if its wholesome as fuck and is about adults, like Way of the House Husband.

  • Cromalin [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    i'm watching birdie wing, which is kind of a high school sports anime except it's about the golf mafia. it's a lot of fun if you like camp. the main character is 15 and the show is uncomfortably horny at times, but the ages of everyone in the show are ridiculous to the point where it somehow bothers me less. (example, the owner of the bar (the bar where where the orphaned illegal immigrants the main character does illegal underground golf bets to support live) is 18 and has owned said bar for a few years)

    mob psycho 100 is another good one by the writer of one punch man (which has been recced multiple times below). nothing egregiously anime that i remember.

    death note isn't all that modern (being almost 20 years old at this point) but it's a lot of fun. very camp. i assume you know the premise, but it's so much fun to just go along with the ride for. fair warning for a lot of sexism, which just gets exponentially worse with each subsequent work they do, but in death note it's tolerable for me personally.

    and i'll give a blind rec for chihayafuru and showa genroku rakugou shinju which i have heard nothing but praise for from people i trust (as well as the folks over at animefeminist.com which is a good resource for figuring out which anime have gross shit even if i don't always have the same taste as them.)

    speaking of anime feminist, they've reviewed at least a few episodes of just about ever anime of the last ~5 years at least, so check that out if you want a good resource. when judging whether something is good they mostly focus on depictions of women, but they also talk about racism, transphobia, and just general gross stuff that might not fit into that umbrella, like when something is more or less japanese nationalist propaganda. they also do recommend stuff that isn't all that woke, as long as it doesn't have anything to bad in it and is good otherwise.