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Manga (Anime) series info?
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.
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.
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Some of my fellow USian online friends, although around 30 so rather older than teens, are currently into the shonen manga/anime Mob Psycho 100 (I have not gleaned a ton, beyond the central character being a young ~psychic, the involvement of a con-man, some sort of spirit, and one storyline involving broccoli, but you should be aware that apparently the title is meant to suggest something more like "common-man psychic" due to meaning-migration in Japanese use of the English words in the title. It is not supposed to suggest psychopath leading a mob.) and Dungeon Meishi/Delicious in Dungeon, which got an anime last year. Dungeon Meishi, which is apparently seinen/intended for a slightly older audience than shonen (I'm guessing mostly for moderate violence/fantasy butchering reasons but not totally sure), is influenced by stuff like Dungeons & Dragons and the rogue-like game genre, and has a party venturing back into a dungeon to try to rescue one of their former comrades, resorting to foraging/hunting the local monsters and flora due to the urgency of the situation and their lack of supplies/funds.
I technically haven't looked for the latter two, but my Barnes and Noble has a decent manga selection and I bet they'd have them; the secondhand bookstores I tend to frequent more, like Half Price Books, don't necessarily have popular manga in stock at any given time, although they do usually have some manga. I have actually seen My Hero Academia and a few other random manga in the book section at Meijer, a supermarket chain in the Midwest, and I think I've seen a small selection of manga at some Walmarts, too. At least some public libraries have manga; I've found Death Note and several others in a small county library.
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Thank you for the summaries, that is helpful...