By adult I mean over 18-20 years of age and with adult appearances. Nothing against anime with younger characters, but interested in finding some with older characters.
“Spice and Wolf”. It’s a great story with adult characters. MC is like 26 years old and the themes in this show are also for mature audience. There is a series from 2008 but they also made a remake that is currently airing. As a fan of original series I’m enjoying it very much.
What you want is “seinen” anime, which is intended for an older audience. Most anime is “shonen”, which is intended for kids. (Not that there’s anything wrong with an adult enjoying shonen.) There are more genres and specifications, but I am not that into anime.
Dragonball is shonen. Cowboy Bebop is seinen. There are loads of great seinen shows out there.
Genshiken
Bartender
Spice and Wolf
The Fable
Dungeon Meshi
Goblin Slayer
Saihate no Paladin
Shirobako
Psycho Pass
Wotakoi
Zom100
Golden Kamuy
My Home Hero
Kyokou Suiri
Vinland Saga - He’s like 16 in the first half but grows up by the 2nd half.
Isekai Ojisan
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Blue Period
Megalo Box
Samurai Champloo
BNA
Aria
Ishuzoku Reviewers
NHK no Youkoso
Drifters
Trigun
Osomatsu-san
A lot of people already mentioned the ones I know of and mostly I only know of older shows that were geared to an older audience :/
Outlaw Star? Anything made by Satoshi Kon texhnolyze Megalo Box Baccano? Legend of The Galactic Heroes
Golden Kamuy comes to mind.
