Anime noob looking for Anime with NO fanservice with swordplay/Medieval tag

[BasilStagHare]

Alright I'll handle very little Fanservice, just not repetitive.

Background: I'm 19 and I started watching anime with Speed Racer (my dad liked it)
then started playing Professor Layton video games on the DS (later watched the only movie of it, The Eternal Diva) and started loving anime from P. Layton onward, but I didn't know it because I didn't know that kind of anime existed (I thought it was all Dragonball and Pokemon and Yugioh which I detest that artstyle)

Until a Speculative Faith review of Erin: the Beast Player, then I got addicted.

I finished that series in one week (50 episodes) I started to watch another series Tower of Druaga (because it had Medieval Tag) and found Fan Service very quickly (I was hoping since it didn't have Ecchi tag it would be fine)

I heard one person say it was mandatory in most anime, I want to know if there is another series like Erin, or P. Layton (very clean)

I'll take lots of Violence just no fanservice.
I also like the Drama and Slice of life of Erin, but just don't want modern stuff (feudal Japan or Fantasy or Medieval)

Summery of stuff I've considered:
Twelve Kingdoms (I skimmed through and saw a naked angel, not interested if it persists)
Kingdom (people say it's got awful anime)
Heroic Legend of Arslan (opinion?
Yona of the Dawn (opinion?
Seirei no Moribito (seems clean, watched first episode)
Death Note (just because it's popular, exception to the above rules)
Full metal alchemist (same as Death Note)

I tried looking on Anime Planet for filtering tags, but can't filter light\no Fanservice
Sorry for the long post, but I really want some help.

 

[Noscentia]

Of the anime suggested I've only seen Death Note and it's definitely one I'd recommend to anyone who likes anime, it's a staple. I'm familiar with FMA, but I was never all that interested in it, but it doesn't have a reputation for anything fanservice-y so it's at a minimum if there really is any. You might consider Rurouni Kenshin if you haven't seen that. It's set just after the Bakumatsu era, just at the start of the Meiji, so it's not exactly medieval/feudal, but guns are certainly a rarity and it revolves primarily around swordplay. Good plot, good fights, and no fanservice, so I'd recommend it.

EDIT: Inuyasha is another one. It's a touch more explicit than Kenshin, but the fanservice is minimal and the fights are pretty good. It's mostly a love story with lots of fantasy-style fighting and it's set in feudal Japan (mostly).

 

[muichimotsu]

Medieval/swordplay makes me immediately think of Berserk, though it's fairly mature and dark, not to mention there's sexual themes and violence that make it objectionable, alongside some other aspects that could alienate Christians to a degree, from what I recall. It's not like there isn't a general theme that making a deal with a demon is a bad thing, because it happens and there are consequences for it. But the main character's sort of an anti hero to my knowledge and there's pretty brutal stuff that happens in general (including some rape, as I recall, though it's not a common occurrence).

Seven Deadly Sins (not Seven Mortal Sins, which is currently running, because that's borderline hentai) has the medieval angle and there's swordplay peppered throughout, particularly with the main character. But it's one of those situations where the main characters have a bad reputation, esp. with the name Seven Deadly Sins and its association in the west, but every character is arguably good in some sense, albeit there are some that are more objectionable than others.

Record of Lodoss War is one that I watched the first few episodes of many years ago and recently got the boxset for the birthday, so I need to make some time for that. It's very much based on Dungeons & Dragons stuff, very sword and sorcery RPG stuff. Pretty tame, since it's from early 90s.

 

[Ignatius the Kiwi]

95 percent of all decent anime has some element of fan service to it. It can't be avoided outright in the medium. Rarely if ever have I seen an anime that avoids it outright. If you absolutely must avoid it, I can't think of any solid recommendations from what I like, but if you can handle a little I have some recommendations.

Are you only interested in medieval settings or would you be open to other series? I'm a bit confused by your post as well, do you not like fantasy?

 

[BasilStagHare]

95 percent of all decent anime has some element of fan service to it. It can't be avoided outright in the medium. Rarely if ever have I seen an anime that avoids it outright. If you absolutely must avoid it, I can't think of any solid recommendations from what I like, but if you can handle a little I have some recommendations.

Are you only interested in medieval settings or would you be open to other series? I'm a bit confused by your post as well, do you not like fantasy?

I like fantasy, but only if it doesn't have demons, or sorcery on the good side, in my post I said quote
"I'll take lots of Violence just no fanservice.
I also like the Drama and Slice of life of Erin, but just don't want modern stuff (feudal Japan or Fantasy or Medieval)"

Although that was the only time I said fantasy, I didn't want to make title of my post too long.

that beings said, I found some recommendations on CAA: Christian Anime Alliance - Index page
So I'm good on Anime to last me quite a bit.

 

[PinkDragon]

Jojo. Simple

 

[The-Doctor]

Sword play ...sword art online attack on titans is also recomended

 

[Noxot]

Alright I'll handle very little Fanservice, just not repetitive.

Background: I'm 19 and I started watching anime with Speed Racer (my dad liked it)
then started playing Professor Layton video games on the DS (later watched the only movie of it, The Eternal Diva) and started loving anime from P. Layton onward, but I didn't know it because I didn't know that kind of anime existed (I thought it was all Dragonball and Pokemon and Yugioh which I detest that artstyle)

Until a Speculative Faith review of Erin: the Beast Player, then I got addicted.

I finished that series in one week (50 episodes) I started to watch another series Tower of Druaga (because it had Medieval Tag) and found Fan Service very quickly (I was hoping since it didn't have Ecchi tag it would be fine)

I heard one person say it was mandatory in most anime, I want to know if there is another series like Erin, or P. Layton (very clean)

I'll take lots of Violence just no fanservice.
I also like the Drama and Slice of life of Erin, but just don't want modern stuff (feudal Japan or Fantasy or Medieval)

Summery of stuff I've considered:
Twelve Kingdoms (I skimmed through and saw a naked angel, not interested if it persists)
Kingdom (people say it's got awful anime)
Heroic Legend of Arslan (opinion?
Yona of the Dawn (opinion?
Seirei no Moribito (seems clean, watched first episode)
Death Note (just because it's popular, exception to the above rules)
Full metal alchemist (same as Death Note)

I tried looking on Anime Planet for filtering tags, but can't filter light\no Fanservice
Sorry for the long post, but I really want some help.

Record of Grancrest War has been pretty nice so far

 

[KarateCowboy]

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THIS!

And Record of Lodoss War.

 

[LucasWhite]

Slayers?

 

[David Singleton]

Akame Ga Kill is one of my favorite series of all time ( also voted one of the best anime series of all time) and it fits right in the genre your looking for , but it definitely has a lot of half naked anime characters that I could definitely do without. Its a shame but like someone above me said alot of anime has this problem.

I don't remember sword art online being that bad but its been awhile since I saw it. Death note is pretty tame when it comes to sexuality stuff, it doesn't really fit that genre though. I loved Full metal alchemist brotherhood (another one of the best anime's of all time) and I don't remember to many terrible scenes in it.

 

[HopefulHepatica]

I enjoyed Yona of the Dawn and from what I recall, zero fan service. It was really good. Also someone else put it up there, but Slayers was also a classic, and not plagued by unnecessary fan service.

 

[Noxot]

re: zero was good, watched all 26 episodes in a day

 

[faithful_blacksmith]

re: zero was good, watched all 26 episodes in a day

Re:Zero is good, but it also has sorcery and magic on the good side, which the OP specified he didn't want.

 

[Noxot]

Re:Zero is good, but it also has sorcery and magic on the good side, which the OP specified he didn't want.

opps. tsktsk mages are like the best thing in some anime.

 

[faithful_blacksmith]

opps. tsktsk mages are like the best thing in some anime.

If the OP doesn't feel comfortable with watching a show where magic is portrayed in a positive light then we should not try to convince him to watch one.

I am convinced, being fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for that person it is unclean. If your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy someone for whom Christ died.