Can anyone recommend a good non cringe anime? I have been trying to get into anime for some time, but I guess a big part of it are weird oversxualized scenes (I know, weird coming from someone on a forum such as this), very awkward dialogue or shouting your every move while in a fight... The other day I was trying to watch Gate, as the prospect of modern vs medieval/fantasy military was alluring to me, but I turned it off after about 5 minutes, becuase it was just so insanely cringey with the main character's intro monologues....
I haven't watched many anime, but my kids have. We watched Attack on Titan awhile ago, which is very good. When @DubbleU is around, I'm sure they could make recommendations. I'm not sure if Avatar the Last Airbender counts as anime, but it's really good too.
I haven't watched much lately, almost all Anime is going to be pretty trope'ish, but if you haven't watched the usual Black Lagoon, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, et cetera and want some more mature stuff, try Parasyte, it's got some Seinen/Shounen tropes, but the MC doesn't yell out attacks, has great music, has some depressing spots. It's a really good adaption of an 90's Manga, it had a modern adaption that was really well done a few years back. Vinland Saga if you want Norse stuff. If you want a Mature, suspenseful, dramatic, thriller, check out Monster, it still holds up. If you want something wild with transformations and shit, Terraformars is interesting, not great, but worth a look. Gangsta didn't continue and the animation studio is defunct now. Darker than Black is good. Berserk, Claymore, Blood+, are all decent. Violent Evergarden if you want great music and visuals, but it's a lot of drama and romance, and less so action. Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit is decent, has some good fights, a little slow. If you want a decent Mech series, Ald.Noah Zero is good, the ending sucked, though. Nejimaki Seirei Senki: Tenkyou no Alderamin had a decent single season, but didn't continue, the MC was smart, and the tactics used were good. Sadly, it lacked depth, because it was cancelled after a single season.
If you want something game'ish, with survival stuff, Darwin's Game is decent, but it never got a second season, so read the Manga. Btooom! also got an anime.
If you want something like Gate, dark, with not much yelling attacks, it has some cringe, but Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash is decent. The LN is good, and the Anime didn't continue passed S1, sadly.
If you want to read Manga instead, and want some bullying and really dark shit, with revenge as the plot and a bunch of sadistic villains read Pumpkin Night or Juujika no Rokunin. If you want really grounded, semi-dark, and fairly realistic check out Suicide Island/Jisatsuto, made by Kouji Mori who did Holyland. He inserts a lot of info dumping, so you can tell he researches what he does. He did Sosuga no Taiga, which I also liked.
The guy that did the Parasyte Manga, which I mentioned did a series called Historie, which is also pretty good.
Probably best to look up your own criteria, but I'd recommend just reading Manga or LN's instead, very often the Anime is censored or cut, with exceptions like Freezing where the Manga seemed to have less Nudity than the Anime.
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