Summer 2025 Anime Thread

Void said:

Yes for the first, no for the second. Never even heard of that one.

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moonarchia said:

It's really good. Same studio that made Cowboy Bebop, and that's where the similarities end.

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Void said:

I've been slowly watching more and more anime over the past year, as my "normal" show viewing has dropped practically to nothing. Solo Leveling really grabbed me, so I got a Crunchroll account and have been trying out more and more. I've watched a few of the staples, Konosuba, Kaiju #8, etc. And I'll admit, a guilty pleasure of mine is Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt blah blah. That one is so ridiculous that I love it. Maple is the best. I could watch 10 seasons of her being ridiculously OP.

Ones I've watched that I can remember, besides those above:
Shangri-la Frontier
The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows
Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest
Failure Frame
Frieren (not done, but right in the feels from the very start)
I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World
I Left My A-Rank Party
Unaware Atelier Meister

(Spoilering my sorta longish rant about stuff I dislike already.)

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However...I can't fucking stand the grown adult characters that look like little kids. Crunchyroll is always recommending shit, and I try it but can't take those fucking characters. My Hero Academia is a perfect example. Supposedly it is great, but I couldn't last 3 episodes. But it isn't always just the kids, Fire Force has that guy that is always grinning, and even though I got to the part where he explains why he does it, I still can't watch it. It doesn't help any that he's sort of a kid looking dude too.

Now, I can still watch some that have those characters if others still look like adults. Like that I Left My A-Rank Party one. Almost all the girls in that one look good, particularly the dark elf chick. But the one he likes most is the 12-year-old looking wizard chick. Yuck. I still watched it, but it almost repulses me every time they get romantic. This isn't me trying to be all prudish or anything either, because I'll freely admit that if the dark elf and the redhead wanted to gangbang me, I would. I just physically rebel against the "adult" kid characters. I'm sure there is a Jap name for them, and the fetish, but I don't know it.

Another perfect example is that new Unaware Atelier Meister. The main dude is 15, so he should look like a kid, and he's a goofy do-gooder that you can't help but like. The Princess, meh, kid look, but at least she's also only 15. The older white-haired girl though is exactly what I want to see in anime. She looks and acts adult. But they always have to throw the fucking kid looking ones in. Why?!

I watched like 10 or more episodes of the reincarnated as a slime one, and while it was pretty good, eventually he got a body that looks like an androgynous 10 year-old. Yuck. They even had hot elf whores in an earlier episode, and slutty orc women, but now I have to watch this fucking twink? I liked him better as a slime.

Anyway, long story short, are there any really good ones, past or future, that I should look out for that don't have too much of the "18 year-old person that looks like they are 12" flaw? I don't even mind if they are romancey, just as long as it isn't a fucking kid in the romance.

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• Ghost in the Shell (movie and TV show) - Cyberpunk that has mature themes; I would rank it second or third after Bebop, out of the limited Anime I've seen
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - A late 19th (or early 20th) century world with magic. While the main protags are teenagers, it should still hold up to an older viewer, although I haven't seen it since around the time it was released.