Looking for romance (or magical girl like sailor moon) animes to watch with my wife that aren’t “odd.”
No upskirts or weird non-character sexualization (if the main characters are attracted to each other it’s vastly different than sexual harassment by schoolmates/teachers/the invisible camera man…)
No children (obviously, but 🤮 at so many titles in this genre)
Either apolitical (impossible), or at least empowering to women and not the typical Western/Japanese “your job is to be your husband’s token”
Edit: Non hetero-normative animes fully welcome but I would be lying if I said she wouldn’t be pissed at a lesbian anime if it’s overtly and obviously written for/by men.
My time has come:
Revolutionary girl Utena (still weird but I’m a different way, magical girl, yuri)
The tatami galaxy (only subbed last time I checked, a bit fast, college-age, has weird parts)*
Kono Kaisha ni Suki na Hito ga Imasu( they’re adults but the anime is alright, but they’re adults so I’m happy)
Yubisaki to Renren(college age)
Honorable Mentions + Movies:
Howls moving castle
Koe no Katachi(high schoolers)
Chihayafuru (high schoolers, no weird shounen energy cause it’s Josei, best of the best it’ll be disservice not to watch)
Cider no You ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru
Kimi no na wa
Kimi no na wa is as far as I know the only anime with an Esperanto dub
I did enjoy this, but it’s never going to be finished!
I still have hope but finished the manga just in case TT-TT. Love that series too much
Yeah, I suppose I should give that a shot when I have time to kill.
I’ll say, finishing the manga didn’t take away my urge to see new episodes.
Lol, rarely does.
So I just found out there was a live action movie and currently a live action series on Netflix that’s like a group of totally different kids 10 years later or something. So maybe there’s still hope for the anime. Chihayafuru Full Circle
Tatami Galaxy is good but I think the whole thing with the
spoiler
doll
is probably going to break the threshold for weirdness/objectification.
Good point, I’ll add and asterisk