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You’re welcome. I’m amazed how-much backlash my list got with that last paragraph, what with being called a troll right out of the gate, but how dare I suggest you ultimately make your own judgement calls as a parent, right?

Vetting and limited, almost-entirely supervised, screen-time in general are the way to go. Most of the rest of what I’ve seen from others here would look like gibberish versus books, ie “that one has too many big, made-up words!” Not that anime doesn’t have so-much else in-common with manga or comics, but if you’re present for anime, there’s always the fast-forward button or just " … let’s take a break, then watch another show".

If you want a laugh at my expense, sample Kamferer in-private. Yes, I have a line, and episode one(or two?) of that show was my single-biggest failure at pre-screening. Accidentally stumbled-upon something I wasn’t even comfortable re-visitting on my own time with that one, nevermind how shocked my daughter was to hear me say “hey, listen, I know you were laughing you’re ass-off for the last 30 minutes straight, but none of that stuff on-screen was cool for you to see/hear at your age. Now I’ve got to explain this to your mother. Don’t try to watch this show again, with or without us, and don’t suggest it to your friends or teachers.”

(I learned the hard way that day, at 10 years old, she no longer has a line where she openly-expresses discomfort with animation. Also, school has apparently exposed her to casual cruelty on a great many topics in ways I was not prepared to learn of. I pity her classmates that were blind-sided by topics which they still only know-of from schoolyard bullying, or thinking they are missing-out instead of just being normal 4th-graders)

Versus accusing me of trolling? I didn’t even look to see if they gave any actual advice to OP; I was honestly somewhere between not caring and hoping to be wrong.

Oh wait, do you think I called them a SAHM, a Trump voter, white, a woman(OP’s daugher/“her” is the only gender I’ve noted in this whole Post/Thread), or even a USian? Like, between you and me, who here is confused here, and about what? Are you thinking I was questioning OP’s motives, this far down a thread they aren’t participating in?

Other than the “voluminous advice” thing and shows they flat-out stated they hadn’t watched, I’m not seeing anything a reasonable person would remotely expect has a real chance of applying to OP, @NineSwords@ani.social, or even be insulting to those they applied to, in my last few paragraphs.

Wasn’t even going the “if the shoe fits” route: I just laid out what I think is one of the many, many problematic outcomes of the popular outlook re: raising children and death and mature topics in general. It takes way too many adults a lifetime to learn how to handle such things responsibly and respectfully, if they ever do, when parents see their entire role as stearing them away from those topics until time robs them of the means to do so.

More like there’s layers to your sarcasm on that comment that I don’t see the necessity-of, particularly in the context of damn-near-the-safest-and-most-controllable-environment-possible, i.e. watching anime with one-or-both parents.

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I think Life will take-care of it before you or I can blink, so parents have a lot of explaining to do, but yeah, kids need to learn to function, even if only as a NEET, in the face of the shit-show, and, by adult-hood, hopefully, not hide their head in the dirt of intentional-ignorance or conveniently blaming certain others.

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The last two paragraphs you pulled that out of spelled out plenty. I’m not here to de-rail the whole post or call people names.

Gotta admit, it took me a re-read. Too bad you’re almost-certainly being sarcastic.

They already watched the Ghibli movies though? So your point is …?

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Anything worth watching is going to have some dark themes, and don’t ask me why I haven’t recomended shows I’ve never watched.

There’s nothing on my list my youngest daughter hasn’t been able to watch if/when she wanted, as I was watching them. She loved The Devil is a Part-timer her first few years of grade-school. Same for Buddy-daddies, Usagi Drop, With You and the Rain. Have your kids never met a homeschooler, stay-at-home parent or adult who never moved out of their parents house?

I’ll admit I haven’t been able to get her watching Solo Camping for Two, largely because I’m waiting for it to be dubbed so we can watch it with my her mom, and we camp a lot, so there’s not-so-much novelty for her there.

Apothecary Diaries has murders? Well, I guess that would be its single biggest difference versus Disney’s Aladdin, what with Aladdin’s Brothel scene and … oh wait, no, Gazeem dies in the openning scene.

Frieren? Sure, every death is shocking, corpses too. The alternative is comfort with things, just because you don’t see that they’ve happened.

The Way of The Househusband has Yakuza characters doing every-day things. The fact they can’t even dress normally and don’t know how to act non-threatening is part of the humor. Meanwhile, the MC bakes cookies and takes the lunch he made to his wife at her job.

Sakomoto Days? The protagonists don’t kill, and the protag-faction grows by way of people they’ve spared realizing that killing is always optional, never mandatory(honestly, one of the more fantastical elements, considering the extreme situations portrayed).

Romantic Killer? What, your google-fu abandon you? No one dies or kills for a living in this one.

Lots of lazy counter-arguments and shows you-haven’t-even-watched in your comment, nevermind fully half of what you poo-poo’ed is on the, granted, hillariously-bad Bored Panda list linked by another commenter here.

Just about the only thing you’ve pointed out that isn’t covered by the Ghibli movies OP’s child has already watched is death, although one wonders if they watched the whole of Howl’s Moving Castle or any of Grave of The Fireflies.

Pretending grade-schoolers and Stay At Home Moms should never have to see or hear about death or naked people(my list could be over twice as long, but I read the room and chose my battle) has done such wonders for society. If OP were trying to raise one of the 53% of White Women who voted for Trump, they could hardly go wrong with your voluminous advice.

So how does #50, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, compare to Gushing Over Magical Girls?

I would rather not be asking this question, or admitting I finished “Gushing”, no matter how much of each episode I skipped(not enough to understand Amazon Prime’s failure to blur/cut most of it), but here we are.

Oh, and for anyone wondering, The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant is hardly any better, although the story is … Oh wait, its just another Damsel In Distress plot, plus SA and water-color tea parties/picnics. Even with Druj … and the rest, The Great Jahy is actually more wholesome - the female characters help themselves, or eventually learn to without the help of a big strong man, at least.

Apothecary Diaries
Frieren
One Piece Live-Action
The Way of The Househusband
Dr. Stone
Delicious In Dungeon
Canon Busters
Sakamoto Days
NIMONA!!!
Kpop Demon Hunters
Spy X Family
Bright
Romantic Killer
Violet Evergarden
Kakuryo - Bed & Breakfast for Spirits
Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin
'Tis Time For Torture, Princess
Kyousougiga
Fairy Tail
Solo Camping for Two
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale
Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets The Wise Wolf
Usagi Drop
Secrets of the Silent Witch
With You and the Rain
The Devil is a Part-Timer
Buddy Daddies
The Eccentric Family
Zenshu
Dragon Goes House Hunting
Seki-kun: The Master of Killing Time
The Too Perfect Saint
Barakaman

The greatest difficulty lies in making yourself available to answer questions appropriately(by your parental judgement) and screening episodes in-advance so you can be prepared both for questions, and to raise/answer questions you believe shouldn’t be glossed.

Jokes in Disney movies go over children’s heads, as do entire plots, settings, character motivations. Same for the Wiggles, Fraggle-Rock, and most others that have stood the test of time.

I’m struggling to name a show that a six-year-old could entirely wrap their mind around, or doesn’t have problematic elements requiring explanation, and isn’t Caillou/Coco-melon -level garbage. Even Veggie Tales invokes stories that are horrendous behind the scenes.

Media targetted towards children is generally garbage. Are you afraid of children asking parents to explain things?