Hi all, I’d like to find some anime for my 9 year old daughter. So far, she’s watched: Little Witch Academia & Kaleido Star.

She doesn’t really like anything too dark or violent. Thanks!

Edit:

Thanks for all the responses, some great suggestions!

  • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
    8·
    1 year ago

    Many of the Ghibli movies should be perfectly fine (My Neighbor Totoro, Whisper of the Heart, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Ponyo, The Secret World of Arrietty, …).

    • SturgiesYrFase
      4·
      1 year ago

      This was going to be my suggestion, Ghibli has made some really phenomenal shows.

  • Andvari@lemmy.world
    71·
    1 year ago

    Angelic Layer, Azumanga Daioh, Fruits Basket, anything Studio Ghibli, maybe Spy x Family.

    • Althea@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      Right, yes, I forgot to mention, we watched My Neighbor Totoro & Kiki’s Delivery Service. I should probably try to show her some other ones. Good call!

      • CoffeeVector@lemmy.world
        31·
        1 year ago

        I remember that I loved Spirited Away a lot when I was that age. Some kids think it’s scary, but for me it had just the right amount of tension and adventure. (I still like to rewatch it)

        • NineSwords
          1·
          1 year ago

          Spirited Away is too scary for a child at that age in my opinion. Depending on the individual child obviously, but if the child is attached to its parents, the idea of parents turning into pigs to be slaughtered is scarier than all the other things in that movie.

          I watched the movie with my older daughter when she was around 11 or 12 years old and it gave her nightmares still.

          @op Ghibli movies I would recommend at that age: Arrietty and Ponyo.

  • Ava@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    1 year ago

    Cardcaptor Sakura and Sailor Moon were made with kids in mind, I think. Definitely seems like a lot of people grew up watching them.

    Keep your hands off Eizouken is one of my recent favourites, and I think would be really enjoyable as a kid. Lots of imagination scenes and a really sweet story about friends.

    Nichijou should also be inoffensive, just kid shenanigans. They don’t always make sense, but the tone is very chill. Also Azumanga Daiou, similar vibes I think.

    Paripi Koumei is a recent show about a girl trying to launch her singing career with the help of a reincarnated chinese general, I don’t think it has any scary scenes but a lot of it does take place in a club, and depicts alcohol. But the story and characters are heart-warming and I enjoyed it a lot.

    I’ve also heard very good things about Carole and Tuesday, which came out around the same time and also centres around music. But I’d recommend looking into the themes more, I don’t know how serious it gets.

    Hinamatsuri - I think this might be the funniest show I’ve ever watched. It cracked me up even on a rewatch. It does center on a Yakuza member, so there are some jokes that might appear scary, though being a comedy of course everything works out pretty quickly. It depends on her tolerance for those themes.

    One I don’t see recommended often is Gatchaman Crowds. I just looked up the rating and it is 13+, but I loved that show, and remember recommending it to my younger brother around your daughter’s age.

    I haven’t met a 9-year-old in a while, so sorry if my recommendations skew a little older! Definitely the first three should be good for her, the others might need to wait a year or two depending on her tolerance and what you’re okay showing her. But if she watched Little Witch Academia, none of these shows get darker than that, for sure.

  • molave@reddthat.com
    61·
    1 year ago

    Spy x Family

    Cardcaptor Sakura

    Bocchi the Rock

    Nichijou

    Spirited Away

    Toradora

    Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken

    Dragon Pilot

    Komi Can’t Communicate

    Violet Evergarden

    Your Name

    • aqua_synonym@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      As much as I am a fan of Spy x Family and Violet Evergarden, they are more for more mature audiences as they have quite the adult themes. Violet Evergarden is set in a war world and although the story is not set in the war itself, the flashbacks (especially THAT scene during the attack on the fortress) are nonetheless too violent.

      Spy x Family might seem like a wholesome family anime but it has underlying political and war themes. Bond’s arc as well as Yor’s assassination techniques in Ep 2 is something that I would not really recommend to a nine year-old kid. There’s car explosions and use of dogs for warfare

    • sleet01@lemmy.ca
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’d veto Spy x Family and Violet Evergarden; the violence they have is quite brutal, and the themes I think are fairly adult.

    • Shin@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Spy X Family has some pretty dark storylines, hell episode one is one those very cases. I think it could be good for older kids and teens, but stuff like Bond’s introductory arc is really heavy. I cannot imagine a kid reacting positively to the Handler’s speech about her experience with war.

  • peppy6582@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    1 year ago

    TV Shows

    • Sailor Moon Crystal
    • Spy x Family - there is some light spoiler 1 in the beginning
    • Pokemon
    • Dr. Stone - Profanity/Partial Nudity non-gratuitous spoiler 2 (my 9 yr old loves this show)
    • Avatar: The Last Airbender
    • The Legend of Korra - LGBTQ Themes spoiler 3
    1

    murdering

    2

    “ass,” “hell,” “d–k,” “s–t”/ backsides, cleavage, revealing outfits, characters imagine each other in sexualized poses (but without sexual activity)

    3

    Korra is bi-sexual

    Movies

    • My Neighbor Totoro
    • Ponyo
    • Spirited Away - illicit substances and blood spoiler 1
    • Kiki’s Delivery Service - smoking
    1

    There are references to smoking and the drinking of sake. In one scene, a dragon trying to protect the main character is attacked and returns injured and bleeding from the mouth

  • Little8Lost@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    i suggest Bofuri: maxing out my defense so i dont get hurt. It has some fighting scenes because it is in an vr mmo rpg. But very funny. Dont know about translation tho

  • Himawari@lemmy.4d2.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    Does she have any specific interests? I guess if nothing in general, she might enjoy something like Spirited Away or Spy x Family?