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.
edit.: Strike all that. It’s too early, and my reading comprehension wasn’t turned on yet. Explains at least why all the recommendations were especially shit.
I consider Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day the perfect beginner anime for a couple of reasons:short - with only 11 episodes it’s not a huge time investment (compared to multi-cour shows or mammoths with hundreds or thousands of episodes)universal - the concepts of the show are universal to every gender and culture. And you don’t need to know or learn any Japan-specific terminology to immediately understand the plot (ie. chuunibyou, shinigami, yokai, etc.).everyday people - the show has normal people who are thrown into an uncommon situation, which makes it easy to empathize with the characters.likeable characters - self-explanatory.believable - the show is juuust outside the norm. Enough to be interesting but not so far-fetched that every little thing is a new concept watchers have to wrap their heads around.instant hook - the show’s hook is near-instant. No “it gets good after 10 episodes” or “once the X arc starts in episode 180 it’s really great”.