Aside from age-inappropriate or socially-controversial tags, I wouldn’t recommend otaku culture and others that require prior knowledge to get the jokes or the story.
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Inuyashiki. That isn’t a typo — I’m not talking about the canine ninja dude, I’m talking about the old man and the young man who get replaced with killer androids. That second episode…
Awww I loved that show. What happened in the second episode, was that when the killing spree starts?
FLCL.
And if movies also count “Grave Of the Fireflies”.
Certainly Gintama. Several of the main characters are parodies of actual Japanese historical figures few westerners would recognize, and there are a ton of points where it plays off of everything from other influential anime that non-anime fans might at least be tangentially familiar with (Gundam for example) to classic rakugo stories that they definitely will have never heard of (Jugemu).
On the other hand, while a lot will go over your head you will also learn a lot. Watching Gintama was what set off my evolution from “boy who watches popular shounen” to “otaku who is in the know”. Well aging past being a teenager helped as well of course.
Konosuba, Monogatari Series and Lucky Star.
Anything that relies heavily on familiarity of weeb culture or Japanese history.
I’ve really liked the weeb-ass-shit scale for cases like this ever since I learned about it.
Three 1-10 scores:
- Weeb: the amount of familiarity one needs of Japanese culture or anime tropes
- Ass: the amount of T&A/panty shots/comedic groping/etc.
- Shit: an inverse quality scale
I love it, that’s hilarious.
Funnily enough, my first two animes were Lucky Star and KonoSuba!
I didn’t realize at the time that KonoSuba is supposed to be a deconstruction/parody of the isekai genre. Didn’t make it any less enjoyable, but now that I’m aware of all the isekai tropes, it becomes a whole lot funnier.
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I would definitely put Evangelion on that list, especially if you have no familiarity with mecha.
Eva was legit one of the first anime I watched.
eva can absolutely power through on vibes alone if you’re depressed enough
Serial experiment lain maybe? Seems like a bit “much” to hand someone new
That, I feel, is entirely subjective. Like, Lain might experiment with the medium and not be good for a kid, I imagine an adult with a love of sci-fi or niche films might find it much more tasty than a typical battle shounen.
Komi-san. The characters are all exaggerated parodies that will go over their head if they don’t know the tropes being lampooned. And also the fact that the show is only good when one particular character is not onscreen, and you have to build up a heavy tolerance to Anime Bullshit to be willing to put up with this stain on an otherwise great show.
Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere.
Good luck having anyone you show it to to understand what the hell is happening. I don’t know what’s happening, but it constantly dumps more lore and literary references to Japanese and western history & folklore. It’s also very dialogue heavy. And the women are all drawn in a very specific way.
I watched two seasons hoping at some point I’d understand what the hell was going on, but I just got more confused. It apparently makes sense as a light novel? But the anime squeezed way too much into each episode.
Cuck porn
Team sport, then
