Manga (Anime) series info?

[goddess47]

I'm writing a story where my main character stops his friend, a dad to a 13-ish year old boy, from purchasing some anime manga books because the main character knows the book series is too adult (sex, violence, both) for a 13 year old. The main character then recommends a different series because the story line is more appropriate for the age of the teen.

The story is the relationship between the main character and the dad, so this is a small piece of the larger story. But I know absolutely nothing about anime (or manga, obviously!) and would appreciate some recommendations of titles that would fit those categories.

Thanks!


ETA: I'm looking for currently available titles and perhaps where they are best purchased (a bookstore, a comic book store, a specialty shop, online?)


ETA2: I'm looking US-centric here.

Comments

[anehan]

It also depends on whether that 13-year-old character is already into manga or if this would be something new for him, too, because it would affect what your main character would recommend to his friend.

If the 13-year-old character is relatively new to manga, a good choice as the recommendation might be Fullmetal Alchemist. It's shounen, so it's geared towards teenaged boys, but it also has a lot of appeal for wider audiences, so your MC might think that the dad character might like it, too. At 27 volumes, it's fairly long for a newbie, but not really all that long for a shounen series. It's also famous and probably easily available, so it's a good choice in that way as well. Of course, that also means that if the 13-year-old is a dedicated manga fan, he's probably already read it.

It does have a fair bit of violence, since the setting is a military dictatorship and the events include the aftermath of a genocide among other things, so whether your characters would consider it appropriate for a 13-year-old would probably depend. If they didn't consider it appropriate, it could be the series that was rejected by the MC.

[goddess47]

That's a great suggestion! Even I have heard of that (or at least I've seen the fic folk write in that universe on AO3!)... I can push that either way, so I'll see if anyone else has a suggestion but I'll be pretty sure to use that one... thank you for that. And, based on your comment, I'll likely make the teenager curious about manga (as in 'the kids at school are talking about it') so it lets him and dad explore something together.

Thank you!