Rules:
Are you:
Do you feel like high school dramas and edgelord power fantasies just don't provide you with the same entertainment value they did when you were younger? Are you skeeved out by panty shots and lewd angles of girls young enough to be your daughter? Perhaps you're bored by the "will they won't they" of a bunch of kids freaking out over their first kiss. Maybe everything is starting to feel like a slurry of tired old tropes. But if despite all this you still enjoy the drawn medium, even after aging out of its key demographic, welcome!
Let's help each other find some animation/comics that are a bit more age-appropriate (or at least that don't make you go "hey, isn't this just a repackaged version of [series from 20 years ago]?"). Reviews, recommendations, requests, laments, memes all welcome.
Other communities of relevance:
Featured: Revolutionary Girl Utena (Shoujo Kakumei Utena / 少女革命ウテナ), a manga and anime series from the 1990s with a bisexual, gender-queer protagonist and an equally 🏳️🌈 colorful 🏳️🌈 cast of supporting characters.
Lord Fanny from Grant Morrison's The Invisibles
The first openly gay drag queen superhero that I'm aware of.
Morrison's writing in this early stage of his career was raw and emotional.
"Tell us what you really think" style that left it all on the page.
Invisibles is great, so are his runs on Animal Man, and most famously Doom Patrol are from this era.
But Invisibles is his most personal work. Morrison practically inserts his self in the comic pages with his lookalike stand in King Mob.
It is said that he dressed up as Lord Fanny to go clubbing.
Other Invisibles characters are said to be other facets of Morrison himself, or him at various stages in his life, like young punk teenager Jack Frost for example.