Aside from age-inappropriate or socially-controversial tags, I wouldn’t recommend otaku culture and others that require prior knowledge to get the jokes or the story.
Aside from age-inappropriate or socially-controversial tags, I wouldn’t recommend otaku culture and others that require prior knowledge to get the jokes or the story.
Konosuba, Monogatari Series and Lucky Star.
Anything that relies heavily on familiarity of weeb culture or Japanese history.
I’ve really liked the weeb-ass-shit scale for cases like this ever since I learned about it.
Three 1-10 scores:
Can you rank some anime for me so I understand the scale better? I’m assuming the higher the score the less it should be considered?
Copy/pasting someone else’s scores both because I have trouble doing this exact thing and because the Venn diagram of my tastes to the average anime fan has nearly no overlap‡, hopefully it helps.
‡as a for instance, I practically loathe Konosuba and yet here it’s rated at a 2 on the shit scale
I would definitely put Evangelion on that list, especially if you have no familiarity with mecha.
eva can absolutely power through on vibes alone if you’re depressed enough
Eh, people have to start somewhere to get into the material. My first contact with anime was Akira, and i did not understand a ton of it before watching it repeatedly, but it fascinated me (it also caused my fascination with gorey anime like Elfenlied and Hellsing). Evangelion could have taken that spot easily as a first - the themes are pretty accessible for people with some general media compentency.