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Delicious in Dungeon, Frieren, Hands off my Eizouken, and Bocchi the Rock probably
Edited to add Spy x Family, and I suppose Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood depending on if one feels Winry is sexualized.
How you gonna leave out Full Metal Alchemist?
It's a great show but Winry does wear unnecessarily revealing clothes. I guess a big deal isn't made out of it. The one that's a major omission is Spy X Family actually
She's not sexualized but she wears a crop top thing. "Oh, the audacity"
She was specifically drawn that way, it's not like it was an accident. I acknowledge in her case it's subjective though because I can't remember any gratuitous angles and they don't really focus on it.
You ... DO realize that kind of judgement is merely a slightly more benign version of the same misogyny as the, "look what she was wearing! She was asking for it" type of thinking, right..? You realize at least some women choose to look pretty without wanting to be oggled or abused, right?
Women with large breasts and slim frames just exist as human beings in reality, but when it's drawn in anime it's a choice. Having the "camera" focus on upskirt shots or side boob is a choice. Animating boob bounce is a choice. So a 15 year old depicted in micro skirts and a bandeau, that has a bath scene and a scene where she takes her top off is a choice. This is in the context of a thread talking about anime sexualizing minors. If Winry was a living, breathing girl, she could make those choices herself, in the privacy of her own life, but this is an anime character where she was specifically drawn that way in an industry that is overwhelmingly male dominated. FMA:B IS a very good show, and Winry is a real character with actual traits and a personality, but pretending that all of these design and story decisions weren't made on purpose by people who almost certainly were adult men is naive.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aAOegc0ezGk&pp=ygUQd2lucnkgYmF0aCBzY2VuZdIHCQmNCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D
Don't worry, the number of people saying Frieren is a child is astounding
Oh, that old chestnut.
Not really, she really is just an old elf lady who looks like a young adult human. There's nothing sexualised about her, and she's not childlike. For example here she is next to a human child who becomes her apprentice:
And here she is talking to a human priest she was adventuring with 50 years ago, he's grown old, she hasn't changed:
And here she is head patting him, to give him reassurance that he did well after he confides that he never felt like he figured out how to be "a grown up" and just kept faking it while growing old:
The human child is Fern, and the old Priest Heiter picked her up after she was orphaned by a demon attack. Heiter asks Frieren to keep taking care of Fern after his death, and mentor her in magic.
It's a really nice relationship driven story with an interesting storyline and magic system.
That's a nice change of pace.
It's not the 1000-year-old-who-looks-8 trope, it's the 1000-year-old-who-looks-25 trope. She's never portrayed as anything close to childlike.
Medalist
By the grace of gods
Non non biyori
Laid back camp
The ancient magus bride
New game
Himouto Umaru chan
In the land of Leadale
I’ve been killing slimes for 300 years
Kuma kuma kuma bear
Log horizon
Ranking of kings
Shadows house
Spy x family
Spice and Wolf
Ascendance of a bookworm
Girls und panzer
I feel like campfire cooking would fall into this as well
Full Metal Alchemist brotherhood, maybe.
Yup it's only one I can think of in the good animes that doesn't glorify unhealthy relationships.
Them learning to let go of their mom was good. Very rare.
How you got this many replies without a single mention of Cowboy Bebop is beyond me.
I love Cowboy Bebop but that series is one giant unhealthy relationship.
I don’t think it glorifies unhealthy relationships but it definitely features them
Eh, they exist. You've got classics like Death Note and more recent stuff like Frieren. It's definitely a short list though.
All the classics like the Ghibli stuff. Lots of more serious stuff doesnt have those issues either like Vinland Saga or Attack on Titan. Also cute stuff like Yuru Camp.
It's not that short, you just need to pick a genre different from shounen if you don't like fanservice. Also many older shounen are good, think about the Digimon, Pokémon and Gundam franchises to name a few famous ones.