Need help with anime suggestion :)
Looking for an anime as good as the recent "Solo Leveling"
What i love about solo leveling:
1. Not focused on romance or fan service
2. Main characters and most side characters are adults. I know there are a few exceptions like bleach where the main characters are minors and the story is still good but in general I prefer adult themes.
3. No harem bs.
4. World setting is gritty and dark, characters actually die etc. Doesn't need to be gore but unlike dragon ball i like the finality of actual consequences where characters actually die.
5. The power grind resulting in being over powered that doesnt infinitely power scale and suddenly everyone is a god (like db super).
6. A moderately good plot.
7. Its fine if there are some romance sub plots but not the main focus of the story. Think most of the Gundam franchise as a good example.
8. Little to know fluff episodes, though I can skip through if its unavoidable.
What im not looking for:
.Too much childish humor
.Excessive fan service
.Harem / romance plot themes
.Too many or all minors. Preferably no middle school highschool romance bs.
.Nonsensical infinite power scaling
.Characters who were bad guys are suddenly friends and no one ever dies they just go away and come back later.
Thank you for your time and help if you so choose
What i love about solo leveling:
1. Not focused on romance or fan service
2. Main characters and most side characters are adults. I know there are a few exceptions like bleach where the main characters are minors and the story is still good but in general I prefer adult themes.
3. No harem bs.
4. World setting is gritty and dark, characters actually die etc. Doesn't need to be gore but unlike dragon ball i like the finality of actual consequences where characters actually die.
5. The power grind resulting in being over powered that doesnt infinitely power scale and suddenly everyone is a god (like db super).
6. A moderately good plot.
7. Its fine if there are some romance sub plots but not the main focus of the story. Think most of the Gundam franchise as a good example.
8. Little to know fluff episodes, though I can skip through if its unavoidable.
What im not looking for:
.Too much childish humor
.Excessive fan service
.Harem / romance plot themes
.Too many or all minors. Preferably no middle school highschool romance bs.
.Nonsensical infinite power scaling
.Characters who were bad guys are suddenly friends and no one ever dies they just go away and come back later.
Thank you for your time and help if you so choose
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The protagonists are adults, but Grimgar has some gritty, life is a struggle vibe without much in the way of romantic subplots.
Frieren has good art and plot. Characters are mostly young adults / adults since there are some hefty time skip. There are both violent deaths and deaths from old age, and people stay dead.
Lord of Mysteries might be Chinese, now that I think about it. I will warn you in advance that the pacing is rough. The tried to cram in too much too quickly, but it's been very well received.
Beginning After the End had a miserable anime adaptation, and is technically American I think but uses manhwa style and tropes.
Similarly, Tower of God had a decent first season adaptation and terrible second season adaptation.
Omniscient Readers Viewpoint is a very popular manhwa with a coming anime adaption. The same be said for the coming adaptation of The Boxer, which is super popular, and Tomb Raider King, which has some serious Solo Leveling vibes.
For Demon Slayer, about half of the characters are 15 and below but you can’t really tell because it’s a historical fantasy and there’s no school system. Only other thing is that not too many people die until the last part an Mitsuri is a big fan service character.
For Jujitsu Kaisen, the entire setting is kind of just Jujitsu High School but that’s kind of just a name because the school or student part doesn’t really come through due to them just acting like regular people. And the people dying don’t really start until season 2 unless you count the curses.
For The Rising of the Shield Hero, although there are some kids and the mc is a college student, the power scaling is not bad and there’s almost no fan service. Only thing that contradicts your requirements are the harem part that comes a bit later and the people dying because not too many main people die.
Season 2 is announced, and a webtoon actually co-released at the same time as the anime [https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/clevatess/list?title\_no=7485](https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/clevatess/list?title_no=7485)