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I watched "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End" a few weeks ago which is probably my first proper anime (not counting the odd episode of Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon or OnePiece I caught on TV as a child) and I really enjoyed it.

Especially the slow but deep character build up and general world building and exploration themes were really captivating. So I'm looking for something similar with focus on these aspects.

So far I found "Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina", which was ok but didn't quite live up to Frieren and wasn't nearly as captivating.

So does anyone know similar shows or at least shows that focus on the aspects of story telling I mentioned avove?

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[–] w_tree@ani.social 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Mushi-shi and Violet Evergarden have been recommended by others and I also highly recommend them.

Other shows which have exploration theme with character build up

A group of four girls travelling to the Antarctica.

A shut-in jobless man reincarnated into a fantasy world. Try his best to conquer his previous traumatic past in new world.

Due to a mysterious beam, all the world population turn into stone. After thousands of year, a boy reawakens and tries to rebuild the civilization.

Following her mother trait, a girl and her friend dive down the abyss where they will meet all sort of mysterious ceratures.

[–] glilimith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would NOT recommend mushoku tensei to an anime newbie, as it requires an extremely high tolerance for anime bullshit (particularly creepy sex stuff)

Also, made in abyss needs to come with a heavy content warning, as it is a horror/gore anime despite its cutesy artstyle. Not to say it's a bad recommendation, just it's not for everyone.

[–] w_tree@ani.social 1 points 7 months ago

Agree. Better keep those in PTW list for now and watch those later after getting familiar with anime troops.

[–] SatouKazuma@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

A Place Further Than The Universe is fucking spectacular. It actually got so popular(wording?) that the New York Times ran an article on it.