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I'm not sure exactly what the cutoff is for 'boomer' anime but my favorite 90s shonen is YuYu Hakusho. When I was a kid I thought it was drastically inferior to DBZ and never really watched it but I finally gave it a chance probably 8 years ago at this point and it really worked for me then. DBZ still has a special place in my heart but YYH is definitely the superior series.
FLCL also holds a very special place in my heart. It's from 2001 but I'd call it the last hurrah of 90s animation. Not sure how it would play for a first time adult viewer in 2023 but I was in middle school when it was running on Adult Swim and it hit perfectly for me. I probably watch it once or twice a year. If you end up liking it it's getting milked pretty hard right now with FLCL Progressive and Alternative having released in the last few years and FLCL Grunge set to release this year, plus FLCL Shoegaze possibly this year as well. No idea if the latter two will be any good but FLCL Progressive might work better for a modern viewer, especially a younger one with ADD, but as someone who was pretty much the optimal demographic for the original I just found Progressive to be an inferior imitation of what FLCL did. As short as it is it could still be worth watching as it does have its moments. Alternative I do think is worth watching. It's definitely doing its own thing as kind of an interesting take on cute-girls-doing-cute-things slice of life stuff, but this is supposed to be about boomer stuff
If you like Naruto you'll probably like Bleach. Just find a guide to help you skip all the filler stuff as there's a lot of it and most of it is really bad. I think the only filler arc I enjoyed was the zanpakuto rebellion one and I have basically no memory of it at all.
Outlaw Star is pretty cool, I wasn't the biggest fan of Cowboy Bebop but a lot of people hold it in really high regard (I want to give it a try now as I'm sure I'll appreciate it more at this point)
If I was going to show an actual boomer an anime the two I would pick from would be Fate Zero for a man and Violet Evergarden for a woman. They're more modern but I think they'd hit the boomer sensibilities.
FLCL also holds a very special place in my heart. It's from 2001 but I'd call it the last hurrah of 90s animation. Not sure how it would play for a first time adult viewer in 2023 but I was in middle school when it was running on Adult Swim and it hit perfectly for me. I probably watch it once or twice a year. If you end up liking it it's getting milked pretty hard right now with FLCL Progressive and Alternative having released in the last few years and FLCL Grunge set to release this year, plus FLCL Shoegaze possibly this year as well. No idea if the latter two will be any good but FLCL Progressive might work better for a modern viewer, especially a younger one with ADD, but as someone who was pretty much the optimal demographic for the original I just found Progressive to be an inferior imitation of what FLCL did. As short as it is it could still be worth watching as it does have its moments. Alternative I do think is worth watching. It's definitely doing its own thing as kind of an interesting take on cute-girls-doing-cute-things slice of life stuff, but this is supposed to be about boomer stuff
If you like Naruto you'll probably like Bleach. Just find a guide to help you skip all the filler stuff as there's a lot of it and most of it is really bad. I think the only filler arc I enjoyed was the zanpakuto rebellion one and I have basically no memory of it at all.
Outlaw Star is pretty cool, I wasn't the biggest fan of Cowboy Bebop but a lot of people hold it in really high regard (I want to give it a try now as I'm sure I'll appreciate it more at this point)
If I was going to show an actual boomer an anime the two I would pick from would be Fate Zero for a man and Violet Evergarden for a woman. They're more modern but I think they'd hit the boomer sensibilities.
