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4 days ago4 seconds into first anime, high pitched squeal coming from female lead
10 minutes in, realize the main character is 15, girl phobic, and being put in charge of serious military equipment nobody has the right to touch until they undergo a year of training and are willing to follow orders; starts wondering if the person giving the child multi-billion dollar military equipment is more incompetent than the main character…it’s really a close call
15 minutes in, bitches like the child they are for the rest of the episode
episode ends
I love anime, but boy are some of the tropes really annoying and is a massive part of why so many people just turn it off shortly after it starts.
A few recommendations with that in mind (Boy does that one restriction really just nuke the list! Common Japan!):
Spice and Wolf (2008 series, I have no clue if the 2024 series is good)
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
Gate: And Thus the JSDF Fought There
Crest of the Stars
(Roughly in that order, too)