Animation (and Comics) after 30

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While this is a community for animation and comic fans over 30 years of age, younger visitors are welcome to participate too on the condition that they identify themselves as "under 30" in all posts and comments.
Be kind. Recognize that not everyone will share your taste in media. If you're going to be mean or snarky about a series you dislike, explain what you didn't like about it (one man's trash is another man's masterpiece).
NSFW is allowed, but NO PORN please! This isn't a community for that kind of "mature" animation...

Are you:

At least 30 years old?
A fan of animation (eastern or western)?
A fan of comics (eastern or western, print or web)?
Looking for more series that appeal to an older demographic?

Do you feel like high school dramas and edgelord power fantasies just don't provide you with the same entertainment value they did when you were younger? Are you skeeved out by panty shots and lewd angles of girls young enough to be your daughter? Perhaps you're bored by the "will they won't they" of a bunch of kids freaking out over their first kiss. Maybe everything is starting to feel like a slurry of tired old tropes. But if despite all this you still enjoy the drawn medium, even after aging out of its key demographic, welcome!

Let's help each other find some animation/comics that are a bit more age-appropriate (or at least that don't make you go "hey, isn't this just a repackaged version of [series from 20 years ago]?"). Reviews, recommendations, requests, laments, memes all welcome.

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Y'all ever enthusiastically recommend a series to someone, then two days later suddenly remember that one episode/chapter where the creator's fetish is on full display? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by fireweed to c/animationafter30

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

like 99% of animes? yea

i mean it's embarassing to even recommend a majority of animes, because of how absurdly they portray women and how excessive/creepy they are with the fan service. it's hard to even watch when the characters are just completely objectified and the creators go out of their way to overly sexualize them. it's just completely normalized in the anime community and it's disappointing to say the least – it definitely doesn't help the image of people who say they like anime, it's why even a lot of mega weebs won't be caught saying they like anime as a genre. just the concept and extent of waifu culture in anime communities is icky...

as for non-anime, i think shows which aren't like that are a lot more common, like the first animated shows i can think of are things like king of the hill, avatar, boondocks, regular show, south park, etc. they generally aren't as bad with objectifying women (but there are definitely some that do it really badly, don't get me wrong)