Recommend some non-perverted anime

[Infernal King]

Thank you for more recommendations, everyone! I've been watching trailers, etc., on YouTube and reading up on all these titles and will let you guys know which, if any, I decide to check out!

Originally Posted by KillerJuan77

By the way... Kite is actually pretty good. It's ultra violent revenge and even Quentin Tarantino asked an actress from Kill Bill to watch it, mostly because it's pretty damn good. However... it also has hentai (And rape, to an underage woman). Most visual novels have the exact same problem, the ultra explicit sex scenes don't match with the story and sadly Kite suffers from that problem. However, find a version without the tacked on sex scenes and it's pretty damn good.

Kill Bill is one of my favorite movies. Do you know which actress QT asked to watch Kite?

"Ultra explicit sex scenes", "hentai", and "rape to an underage woman" are pretty huge hurdles for me to overcome, even for a "pretty damn good" story...

Originally Posted by EricJ

And yeah, they all were besieged with fanboys trying to make the poor victim subject himself to Evangelion, Kite and Cowboy Bebop back then, too. Lord, it's like being in a time loop.)

No. You shouldn't. It's 2013. There is no longer any reason to watch Ghost in the Shell 1 OR 2 (the latter of which even the Japanese hated), Grave of the Fireflies (does it sound cheery?...), Akira, or anything Sony ever released in US arthouse theaters, against your will.
Fans have been in their own plastic bubble of auto-recommending those since 1999, and for FOUR-TEEN YEARS we've had the Plastic-Bubbled Leading the Plastic-Bubbled. Break the cycle of tragedy.

(C'mon, if we're going to run through all the 90's fanboy-recommendation cliche's, can we at least do the one about getting him to watch Princess Tutu, even though he's dreading what he thinks the show is from the title? That old trope's always fun, it's more up to date, and a little more constructive.)

So you would not recommend Ghost in the Shell, Evangelion or Cowboy Bebop? It seems like you're saying (in this quote and the one below) that those titles are among the most well-known (along with Akira) and therefore are just automatically recommended, regardless of their subject matter/content. I want to hear every viewpoint so please elaborate.

And no matter how many times I'm told Grave of the Fireflies (from Studio Ghibli) is a must-watch, I'm almost never in the mood for super-depressing stories, be they animated or live-action.

I'm guessing Princess Tutu is another troll title?

Originally Posted by EricJ

Bebop gets (auto-)recommended for A) its cool theme, B) its hip characters, C) its noir-ish look, but mostly D) it played on Cartoon Network in the 90's, which gave it mainstream "credibility" in fans' eyes, as they could recommend newbies to watch the good English dub for free...Back then.
(Now you see how most of these work. )

Skull Man? Um....never heard of it. Or Redline either, sad to say.
(As for theatricals: Keep in mind that most anime directors who've gone to the big time are "embarrassed" to do commercial TV work, and when they get their art feature break, pull out all the Great Serious Artistic stops, to prove they're not mere TV directors. In a country where they think Abstract Ambiguity is really, really cool and thought-provoking.
For that reason, outside of Ghibli, I can't think of a single theatrical feature I'd recommend that isn't a TV-series adaptation. And not always all of those.
Given that most mainstream critics saw the big artistic imports Sony distributed in the US, but didn't delve into many of the TV series, we used to have a rule about arthouse theatricals, especially the Satoshi Kons, called the Ebert List: "If Roger Ebert likes it, FLEE for your life. ")

I'm very curious, why is Ebert's approval a bad thing when it comes to anime? I don't know anything about his thoughts on the medium.