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Oh man, you have got to watch some Studio Ghibli. Try Spirited Away or Howl's Moving Castle.

(edit: based on another of your comments you seem to be fully aware that there is great non-sexist non-objectifying anime out there, so your "almost any" comment is confusing. I don't know much about anime, but I've been watching some of the highest-recommended and rated films and they've all been great about this in my opinion.)

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The OP said "almost anything anime" - almost. The majority of anime are not Studio Ghibli. We could be discussing anime (and manga) tropes for a very, very long time but there's a clear trend of a very disturbing portrayal of women (actually, "girls") in anime. "Oversexualised" only begins to scratch the surface.

While there are certainly mature, grown-up anime with characters that make sense (try Your Name for something newer than Ghibli) a great big chunk of anime are just childish.

Two different measures on the same set can put "almost all" their probability in different places. I guess it depends how you are discovering anime. Speaking as someone who started at zero and just started watching the most popular and highly-rated films, I encountered very little that's childish and oversexualized -- quite the opposite as compared to classic Disney. So via my discovery process, almost anything anime is great and compares well to Disney for kids. So from my limited experience, I think dismissing the genre like that with a negative stereotype is misleading.

I'm pretty sure almost is just hedging, you can say it about whatever you like really, it makes your point seem like it's saying more than it's not.

In my opinion anime tends to be less childish, and better done than american animation. The sexualization is a bit concerning, but I think that's just different cultural values.

On the topic of Ghibli, I just finished watching Ronja, the Robber's Daughter with my 8 year old daughter and it was a surprisingly great adaptation. I highly recommend it.

Spirited away is a complicated film. Most children would (fortunately) not understand the really dark and creepy hidden subtext.

The best ones are great, but most are not. Sturgeons law and all that. My favorite shows are anime.

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