seriously my friends tell me to watch a bunch of shows and so fuckin many of them are obnoxiously pervy right out the gate :stalin-stressed:
seriously my friends tell me to watch a bunch of shows and so fuckin many of them are obnoxiously pervy right out the gate :stalin-stressed:
Ok I'm a big weeb but I also hate when they have any sort of fanservice or BS like that so here's a quick of acfually cool shit to check out. First some of the more mainstream stuff:
Full Metal Alchemist (the best shounen), Spy X Family, Studio Ghibli movies. These are all really popular so other people can talk about them.
As for some of my more niche/older personal picks
Baccano: A supernatural gangster anime set in 1930s America, it's actually just the adaptation of the first novel but it's still really good. It's not "slow" but I do think it takes a little while to get engaged in.
Tsuritama: Cute slice of life fishing anime about a boy who claims to be an alien and his two friends. Just a good watch and one of my favorite SOLs.
Odd Taxi: Yakuza/Crime drama based around a Taxi driver. This is one of my favorite modern anime series and an instant classic. Top of the list to check out honestly.
Death Parade: I don't want to ruin the premise, so just go watch the short that inspired it. https://youtu.be/PEqR-MRIasc if you like that you will probably like the series. I don't remember any sexual bits so if there's anything it's very mild and few. Most likely, none.
Shinsekai Yori: A telling of age story about child psychics in what appears to an idyllic village utopia at first glance, but the adults are clearly hiding something. I remember the least about this so can't really give a good description but it's good.
I promise you're not going to be blindsided by any weird sexual bits (outside of reason. There is a little to Baccano but this is 1930s gangsters were talking about) going on, and while many of them have unhealthy relationships, of course the Mafia has some fucked up things going on, they're not glorified.
Baccano is great. Good times and vibes. Isaac and milia are goat. ironic that durarara goes the complete opposite direction w the service angle.
Kara no Kyoukai (Garden of Sinners) is kind of interesting/weird w/r/t this sort of shit, especially because it's type moon. The nudity in it is incredibly uncomfortable (it's a sexual assault/rape), and you're not supposed to feel good about it. Outside of episode 3 (with the SA) though there's very little in the way of sex stuff, just murders, domestic violence, a character that wants to fuck her brother... But I think it's all pretty much treated seriously (except perhaps Azaka's chances). Shiki/SHIKI and Mikiya are great characters.
Still tho, having rewatched recently it's surprisingly non-servicey.
But yeah even some of my most recommended animes can't avoid the service trap. Hidamari Sketch is amazingly comfy, and while 90% of it is wideface cute stuff, the fanservice is inescapable.
Garden of Sinners as well as the rest of the Nasuverse is really weird in this. Some of it is just pure fanservice BS like Fate/Apocrypha and Extra/Extella, but then you get some great things like Fate/Zero or Fate/Strange Fake that aren't at all.
Yeah you get how strange it is. It's like nasu clearly has the capacity to write without turning everything into fanservice, as KnK shows. But then he just has to let his freak flag fly sometimes I guess...
Zero and Strange Fake aren't written by Nasu. Neither is Apocrypha.
I don't know about Grand Order (I think he has some involvement) or Extra though.
The worst offender of Fate the magical girl Illya one is also not him at least.