Hi! My 11 year old daughter has just binge watched Sonic X on Youtube (she has ALWAYS loved Sonic, but had moved away from it for a bit). She wants to find another anime series, but I have no idea what to recommend to her. She's going to ask some friends of hers, but thought I'd ask here as well. I recommended just from a quick search, DragonBall Z and she practically chewed my head off. Apparently that one sucks. LOL We preferably want shows found on Youtube or Netflix or Amazon Prime (if they carry Anime series?).
Thanks!
If you're going to get recommendations, here's a search engine that lets you find legal streams:
Because.moe
It covers the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia (so it's not useful for me personally), but it's a great service. I've tried to run some of my favourite recommendations through it but came up empty, so they're probably not available.
Amazon Prime has anime. Amazon tried and abandoned a service called Amazon Strike (which would have had you pay extra), but now all that available there is available in Prime.
Maggie Maxwell mentions Crunchyroll, which has an extensive service. Crunchyroll has a deal with Funimation (another option), so the catalogue is extensive. Crunchyroll focuses on Japanese with subtitles, while Funimation focuses on English dubs. Amazon will have whatever's available. I think Netflix usually offers dubs (as well as Japanese with subs), but I'm not sure. If your daughter doesn't want to read subtitles, that will reduce what's available pretty drastically.
Long-running shows (52+ episodes / a year or longer) are usually family friendly as they are during the day in Japan. Shows that with a run-time of 11 - 26 episodes are often late-night anime, but there are many, many exceptions. Shows targeted at teenagers will often have perv jokes (I remember some minor outrage over an episode of Dragonball Z when it aired as children TV program in Austria, about an old guy perving over an underage character.) It's not something that I'd worry too much about, but you might run into... unexpected question (like why someone would want used underwear).
Other than the ones already mentioned:
Gakuen Alice is available on Crunchyroll. I'm nearly certain that means its only available in Japanese with English subtitles (I'm fairly certain a dub exists, but probably not online). A girl's best friend suddenly transfers to another school. She's a bit of a ditz, so she refuses to accept this and just follows her to that school. What she doesn't know is that it's a school for children with special talents (think magic-like) and that she seems to have the talent to disable other people's talents. So she unrolls, too, but is the school really what it seems. ~ 26 episodes.
Kemono no Souja Erin (Crunchyroll): About a girl who takes care of war animals. [It can be *very* scary at times, and it's a good show for all ages, but, boy, would I have devoured this show at 11.] ~ 50 episodes
Dennou Coil (Hidive - not sure if available for free): A mystery show about augmented reality. How real is a world that goes away if you take of your special glasses? How do you grief for a pet that was, strictly speaking, never alive? Can people's minds get lost in virtual reality, and if they can, can you find them and bring them back?