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non-high school anime
2018-03-23 13:35Lots of anime features high schoolers or middle schoolers. Or the SF or fantasy equivalent thereof. Or has teenagers who save the world. Lots and lots. But not all!
Seirei no Moribito, set in a fantasy past analogue of Japan. Main character is a 30 year old spearswoman.
Mushi-shi: the adventures of an adult guy who deals with magical insects.
Spice and Wolf: a medieval merchant and his Really Seven Hundred Year old companion.
Fate/zero: big magic fight, mostly adults.
Baccano!: crazy train robbery shenanigans.
Bunny Drop: man adopts a six year old girl. D'awwww. (The second half of the manga does get weirdly skeevy, but the anime is fine.)
Darker Than Black: weird things happened to the Earth. This comes later. Adults and occasional kid.
Restaurant to Another World: nothing really happens, with interesting characters and food porn.
Samurai Champloo: Couple samurai plus a young woman have adventures.
Cowboy Bebop: coulple guys with a ship plus a young woman plus a hacker girl have adventures.
Monster: adult doctor and psychopath and others.
Planetes: orbital garbage collection.
Record of Lodoss War: D&D game the anime.
Slayers: very different D&D the anime
Black Lagoon: thugs and a rogue salaryman.
Gankutsuou (Count of Monte Cristo in Spaaaace)
Le Chevalier d'Eon: Pre-Revolution French intrigue.
Michiko and Hatchin: adult woman and a girl she feels she has to take care of.
Ghost in the Shell: special post-cyberpunk police force.
Akatsuki no Yona: the princess is a teen, but the others are at least a bit older, and it's not remotely scholastic.
Akagami no Shirayukihime: I'm not sure how old Shirayuki and Zen are, but it feels more like college-aged fairy tale than high school.
Kino no Tabi: Kino might be high school aged, I have no idea, but the stories aren't remotely like that.
There are also some I didn't particularly enjoy, but in the spirit of completeness:
Samurai 7: seven samurai defend a village.
Sengoku Basara: a bizarre eversion of the unification of Japan.
Or one I never saw much of:
You're Under Arrest: Japanese traffic cops, IIRC.
Some are college environments, which can be like high school, but also not:
Nodame Cantabile: music college students.
Honey and Clover: art students? I forget
Genshiken: college anime/manga club.
Special mentions to:
Shin Sekai Yori, which starts before high school, and skips forward into adulthood.
As a bonus, most of these aren't skeevy, especially in the standard fanservice ways of panty shot or boob jiggle. Some have sexiness, like Horo being naked a lot, or Faye Valentine's choice of clothes, but even those feel more natural in context, and most you could probably show to non-pervy straight women or kids without feeling embarrassed or awkward. Or at least, awkward about violence or body horror instead...
Seirei no Moribito, set in a fantasy past analogue of Japan. Main character is a 30 year old spearswoman.
Mushi-shi: the adventures of an adult guy who deals with magical insects.
Spice and Wolf: a medieval merchant and his Really Seven Hundred Year old companion.
Fate/zero: big magic fight, mostly adults.
Baccano!: crazy train robbery shenanigans.
Bunny Drop: man adopts a six year old girl. D'awwww. (The second half of the manga does get weirdly skeevy, but the anime is fine.)
Darker Than Black: weird things happened to the Earth. This comes later. Adults and occasional kid.
Restaurant to Another World: nothing really happens, with interesting characters and food porn.
Samurai Champloo: Couple samurai plus a young woman have adventures.
Cowboy Bebop: coulple guys with a ship plus a young woman plus a hacker girl have adventures.
Monster: adult doctor and psychopath and others.
Planetes: orbital garbage collection.
Record of Lodoss War: D&D game the anime.
Slayers: very different D&D the anime
Black Lagoon: thugs and a rogue salaryman.
Gankutsuou (Count of Monte Cristo in Spaaaace)
Le Chevalier d'Eon: Pre-Revolution French intrigue.
Michiko and Hatchin: adult woman and a girl she feels she has to take care of.
Ghost in the Shell: special post-cyberpunk police force.
Akatsuki no Yona: the princess is a teen, but the others are at least a bit older, and it's not remotely scholastic.
Akagami no Shirayukihime: I'm not sure how old Shirayuki and Zen are, but it feels more like college-aged fairy tale than high school.
Kino no Tabi: Kino might be high school aged, I have no idea, but the stories aren't remotely like that.
There are also some I didn't particularly enjoy, but in the spirit of completeness:
Samurai 7: seven samurai defend a village.
Sengoku Basara: a bizarre eversion of the unification of Japan.
Or one I never saw much of:
You're Under Arrest: Japanese traffic cops, IIRC.
Some are college environments, which can be like high school, but also not:
Nodame Cantabile: music college students.
Honey and Clover: art students? I forget
Genshiken: college anime/manga club.
Special mentions to:
Shin Sekai Yori, which starts before high school, and skips forward into adulthood.
As a bonus, most of these aren't skeevy, especially in the standard fanservice ways of panty shot or boob jiggle. Some have sexiness, like Horo being naked a lot, or Faye Valentine's choice of clothes, but even those feel more natural in context, and most you could probably show to non-pervy straight women or kids without feeling embarrassed or awkward. Or at least, awkward about violence or body horror instead...