Anime for someone who dislikes most anime

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[Vinland Saga](https://myanimelist.net/anime/37521/Vinland_Saga)

You should like frieren, there's less fighting then cyberpunk but more than most of your list, the characters are famously unexpressive but not to a fault imo. It's also generally regarded as a very well written show.

Ascendance of a Bookworm

Start with the classics which have less number of episodes so that your mind can focus on the story instead of getting worried over how or when you will be able to completely catch up with the rest of the world. Imo, go for Death Note. Then you can try Naruto and Naruto Shippuden.

I suggest Pluto. It's creator Urasawa Naoki is a prolific name when it comes to manga with more mature tones, and this one had a great anime adaptation.

I had/have the same issue with anime ( over-exaggerated scenes with weird faces and inner-dialogues). But most animes are like that according to my experience. With anime, the thing is we have to enjoy or get past that weirdness and enjoy he story. It's about that.
but if you are into like fighting/martial arts stories, Kengan Ahura is a good anime to watch, but still it has got those over-exaggerated scenes :D

It mentions that you didn't find Attack on Titan interesting right? It is one of the anime's that I have found to have less of those weird scenes to be honest. I think the story gets pretty interesting towards the end in that if you wanna give it another go.

Some of the anime that I watched recently,
\- Fate/Zero (anime style is pretty good)
\- Kengan Ashura
\- One Punch Man

PS : Try Blue Eye Samurai. It's actually pretty good. Don't know whether it falls under the 'anime' category. But I think it's what you call animation :) Give it a go

Frieren , characters be in life or death situations and barely any reactions

Hunter x Hunter , it’s shonen but it’s well written ..you can never predict were the plot is taking you

Girls’ Last Tour , follows two girls, as they travel through the empty ruins of a vast, post-apocalyptic city

The first couple seasons of One Punch Man are hard to hate

- Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Watch the first two prequel films then skip to EP3 of the main OVA. There is also the Gaiden prequel that is worth watching.

- Moribito - Guardian of the Spirit


- Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

- Monster/Pluto - same creator

- March Comes in Like a Lion

- Ergo Proxy

- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

- Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu

- Armored Trooper Votoms - And it's various spin offs (Mellowlink), there is some comedic relief however, those characters only make incidental pop ups. It's a pretty grounded rambo esque story in a grim dark sci fi universe.

- Blue Gender

- Psycho Pass

- Haibane Renmei

- Bubblegum Crisis

- Cyber City Oedo 808



- Spice and Wolf

- Banana Fish

- Parasyte the Maxim - outside of one dumb joke, which makes sense in context yeah it's pretty grounded action horror series

- The Rose of Versailles

- Ikoku Nikki - newly airing show, you probably will like it

Second Vinland Saga. For historical dramas we got a few big upcoming ones I would look at such as Historie or A Witch's Life in Mongolia, that I would check out if you are a fan of The Apothecary Diaries.

If you also find Chinese history interesting Kingdom IDK how you would do with it. It does have lots of great tactics/strategy and great characters that said the MC, is written more like a classic battle shonen esque hero (despite being an action seinen). Shin does grow on you though, I think, and while it's not that obvious, I do think he matures over the course of the story. This is a * recommendation because S1 is badly animated, and I just usually recommend the manga as a result. The adaption gets better by S2 and much better by S3 on.

>Ghost in the Shell

It's getting a remake this year, one that should be more manga faithful, though I guess Shirow's style is more expressive, granted I still think you should enjoy it.


>I generally like the Manga/Anime drawing style, but when it comes to animation, I just cannot stand the animes that have over-expressive in your face character reactions or when the protagonist is constantly screaming some inner monologue about overcoming their fears and such. To me personally it comes off as if the creators of the anime don't trust me to understand the emotions of a scene and have to shove it all in my face, so to speak. It's also just very obnoxious and hard to watch for me.

Well one the medium is appealing to a largely YA demographic. To some extent, to become a big fan of this medium, even with all it's adult targeted shows, you have to accept and enjoy that to some extent. You can enjoy the more adult aimed stuff, however, that library is more limited.

Number 2 though, I mean sometimes this is literally just using the animation medium to it's fullest. While there is an appeal to more grounded styles and emotions, I mean sometimes it's great to go over the top, and not reflect real life at all. It's good sometimes to shove it into your face, largely because it would be ridiculous if you tried that it in live action. It depends on the work of course.

Half of the list of shows you liked wouldn’t even technically be considered anime. Cyberpunk, the Castlevanias and Witcher are all western animated series.

I’d say it seem you like more adult themes but you also didn’t like AoT, which makes me wonder if it’s an issue with gore, but Castelvania has plenty of that so… I’m at a bit of a loss tbh.

You might like Arcane. It’s western.

Broadly speaking some highly regarded shows worth at least giving a chance with no idea whether or not you’d like them are:

Freiren: Beyond Journey’s End, Dungeon Meshi, Violet Evergarden, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kaiju No. 8 and Demon Slayer

When you describe overreacting screaming characters that is literally the Shounen genre. When you go to MAL or AniList you can specifically exclude the Shounen genre and you will never have to watch those again.

You might enjoy Odd Taxi.

I have just watched Frieren this Christmas break, continued it through reading the manga, and I can’t recommend any other anime.
It’s one of the best as much as my tastes is concerned and deserves every hype

Frieren

Vinland Saga

Legend of galactic Heroes: Die neue these

Blue eyes samurai.


These are anime that have little to no fan service. Mature themes. Great animation. And awesome story telling.

You might like Mushishi, it's about a guy who travels around investigating supernatural incidents and the storytelling and art style are more on the subtle side.

Or a more recent one is Tonari no yokai-san, about a town where there are a lot of supernatural creatures living alongside humans. It has a bit of a Ghibli vibe with the pacing and having young kids in the main cast.