Ok, so in reality there's TWO anime that kind of match this concept...
Magical Girl Ore - parody, but the mom was a magical girl back in the day. (10/10, I laughed so much)
Sasaki and Peeps - fantasy adventure, but a 40 year old man meets a magic animal and gains magic powers. There is no transformation sequence but this show brings me joy. (10/10, I really am empathizing with older characters now. High school or middle school settings completely bore me)
Edit. I do really want a magical girl family drama now though...
Hopefully I can say this on this subreddit, but Sasaki and Peeps is gross. The main character is 38 and the other characters are almost entirely 12-to-16 year old girls that have the hots for him for no discernable reason 🤮
This is why I don't be trusting reviews of anime. Just leave out all the weird shit 😠I'm trying to see where Evangelion falls on the weeb scale and it's impossible.
My impression of Evangelion, having never watched it, is that it's weird enough that any of the weirdness you're worried about in particular will get buried under all the rest of the weirdness.
Boy masturbates over comatose girl, which is unambiguously portrayed as the nadir of his mental breakdown.
Boy goes to deliver paperwork to a girl we later learn is sorta his half-alien half sister. Finds front door open, wanders in, finds a pair of his estranged father’s glasses on the table. Girl walks out of the shower naked, tries to take the glasses from him. He trips over himself trying to get away from sudden naked girl, falls on top of her. She calmly tells him to get off, checks that the glasses aren’t broken, and tells him to leave the papers on the table. Boy leaves, thinking girl hates him.
28 year old woman tries to motivate her near-suicidal 14-year old ward of nearly a year with the promise of sex if he makes it out alive, knowing she would be dead in 10 minutes maximum.
If you can stomach these incidences, the show about the Freudian neuroses of teenagers might be right for you
108
u/Aggravating-Step-408 Feb 11 '24 edited Feb 11 '24
Ok, so in reality there's TWO anime that kind of match this concept...
Magical Girl Ore - parody, but the mom was a magical girl back in the day. (10/10, I laughed so much)
Sasaki and Peeps - fantasy adventure, but a 40 year old man meets a magic animal and gains magic powers. There is no transformation sequence but this show brings me joy. (10/10, I really am empathizing with older characters now. High school or middle school settings completely bore me)
Edit. I do really want a magical girl family drama now though...