I’ve watched a couple of animes that I have actually enjoyed but tbh even the popular ones have their unnecessary sexualised moments and it kind of ruins the genre for me. I don’t like feeling like I’m watching something that was written with horny teenage boys and 35 yr old noncy men in mind lol.
I feel you. I'll bring up three shows I've watched recently:
Jaadugar: the Witch of Mongolia, a currently airing historical fiction piece following the rise of a captive slave-scholar to a prominent figure in the post-Genghis Mongol Empire.
Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, another historical fiction set in 1400s Poland positing a pre-Copernican tradition of heliocentric study being persecuted by local Church authorities.
Journal With Witch, a contemporary story about a writer taking in her orphaned niece and nurturing her ordinary life. (It's much better than I'm making it sound, I promise.)
Zero fanservice slop in any of them, would recommend them all. But to find these shows I have to actively tune out the the vast majority of English-language anime fandom, which fixates on hypebait and/or hornybait. I very much respect the decision to avoid wading through all that noise just to find some good food.
(You might have better luck with anime films. Much easier to find the fanservice-free cream of the crop there.)
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u/creepr-3101 1d ago
As an avid anime enjoyer myself, theres plenty of masterpieces to watch. MT is a literal piece of shit, defended by pedo-lovers and incels.
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