Recommend some non-perverted anime - Blu-ray Forum

Infernal King · 12-03-2013, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Vracer111

Here are a few great titles without the T&A, which cover a very wide range of genres:

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Wow, thank you for all your recommendations!! I'll take a look at all those videos you supplied then report back.

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Originally Posted by KillerJuan77

Fate/Zero
.hack//SIGN
Steins.Gate
Akira
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Aku No Hana
Elfen Lied (There is nudity, extremely graphic violence and incest references, but trust me, it's amazing)
Hellsing Ultimate
Eden Of The East
Anything made by Studio Ghibli
Anything made by Satoshi Kon
Higurashi: No Naku Koro Ni and it's sequel No Naku Koro Ni Kai
Serial Experiments Lain
Vampire Hunter D and it's sequel Bloodlust
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Black Lagoon
Redline
Ghost In The Shell series
Samurai Champloo

Thank you as well!! There are so many titles for me to check out that I'm sure at least a few will pique my interest.

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Originally Posted by Vracer111

Anime is not a genre...it is a medium to tell a story just like regular film/movies. T&A does not constitute the majority of anime...but it is a noticeable percentage.

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Originally Posted by KillerJuan77

Not every anime is an ecchi or hentai, at most you'll have one close up of a private part per episode in most shows. Let me guess... someone recommended you Ikki Tousen, Queen's Blade, Highschool DxD, Highschool Of The Dead or most harem shows. Avoid those and stick to most animes out there.

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Originally Posted by SeaFox

I have to disagree with this. The idea that soft-core (or hard-core) hentai is the majority of anime is just one of those myths perpetuated by uninformed people. Likely they know someone who is into those specific shows and thinks that's all there is to it. To them, anime is a small number of easy-to-pigeonhole types:

Shounen kid fighting shows like Naruto/Bleach/Dragonball.
Cutesy animal characters (Hello Kitty, etc).
Magical Girl shows
Hentai

Occasionally they're nice enough to acknowledge relatively mainstream anime movies like Akira and Ghost in the Shell, or remember the juggernaut that is Gundam.

But many times they are unaware of the drama, romantic comedy, or suspense genre titles that make up some of the best of anime I feel.

There is large enough in scope in anime that one thing I've noticed is I can go to an anime convention and talk to someone who has similar tastes to me, but at the same time find we don't have as much commonly watched shows as we'd expect. There's simply been so many shows over so many years that it can be easy to follow one recommendation path over another and then not cross that often.

From my perspective, Hentai is a much smaller section of anime, but I don't go actively looking for it really. Also, your judgement will vary. Lots of "fanservice" titles might be considered by you to be soft core, where I might apply a more direct comparison to live-action porn content before thinking that. Different cultures judge it differently, too. In Western countries, anime tends to be rated on a tougher scale simply because it is animated and more affiliated with children's cartoons.

I admit I was wrong to say that the "majority" of anime is soft-core porn or whatever when I've probably just been exposed to the wrong things. I've never been into anime all that much because I didn't like some of the visual style and/or it seemed boring. I won't psycho-analyze why there seems to be so much fan-service/harem stuff out there but maybe there is a very devoted audience?

SeaFox, I especially appreciate your in-depth response. Those categories you listed have in the past appeared to be what comprises the anime medium but lately I've come to notice there's plenty more out there.

For example, last night I watched Redline. Not only did it have beautiful hand-drawn animation (taking 7 years, 100,000 frames, etc.), which I find very impressive, but it was a really fun racing movie. Since I am a fan of Speed Racer (the film), I was probably predisposed to liking it anyway. Yes the main female character was topless in one scene but it wasn't done in a way that invited the audience to ogle and objectify her. The director (I think) in one of the promotional featurettes said that a lot of people can draw graphically but he was looking for a more sensual approach, instead of just flashing huge bouncing tits at the screen.

It's strange that I'm trying to filter my anime experience in this way because I think movies in general should have less violence and more nudity/sexuality but that's an entire different topic.

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Originally Posted by K i r a

Maken-Ki, Queen's Blade, Sekirei, We Without Wings, Bible Black, Freezing and Freezing Vibration, High School DxD, High School of the Dead, Mysterious Girlfriend X.

Nice try but I've watched some of those titles (bits and pieces anyway) and they're exactly what I'm talking about.

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Originally Posted by KillerJuan77

Throw in School Days, Kite, Another Lady Innocent and Junjou Romantica and that infamous yaoi title that starts with B and ends with O and he should have a blast.

If you're referring to the "infamous yaoi title" that I think you are, I've seen it and felt like I ought to turn myself over to the police. I understand that's at the extreme end of the hentai spectrum intended to cater to pedophiles but I'm not surprised it exists, considering you could never do anything like that in live action. Ugh.

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