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I'm gonna say Frieren (woa big surprise). It appeals to a lot of people, doesn't have odd anime tropes, and has a great dub. It also has some action scenes so someone can see if they want to watch more action animes.
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Watched Frieren with someone who's not usually an anime person. They're devastated that we have to wait for more than a year to watch season 3
I'm struggling too! 😭
That's probably a good reason not to have a new viewer start with anything that's still ongoing, pick something they can watch start to finish.
I love Frieren and definitely recommend it, and that's part of the reason I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a first anime.
Not because it's challenging for a newcomer in any way, but rather because it oftentimes plays with expectations and trope subversion, and that would most likely be lost on someone that hasn't watched other (similar) animes before.
I love Frieren, but I very much disliked Stark's English voice. To be fair, I watched it multiple times in Japanese before watching the English dub, so maybe that biased my opinion.