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They’re not bad anime afaik (but maybe they are for you), but go try for an audio-only experience
Spirited Away
A Silent Voice
Spy x Family
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
Howl’s Moving Castle
Cowboy Bebop
Death Note
One Piece
One Punch Man
Your Name
Chainsaw Man
I think I’ve seen a lot of these recommendations; and I have liked them a lot! I don’t think I could “just listen to them” in good conscience because a lot of these shows and movies have good visual language and engaging stories; I need to put Spy X Familly in my watch list because it sounds like a good show!
My platonic ideal for a “bad anime” to listen while working is something like “King’s game” (in fact I think that was the one that got me down this road.) It is so consistently bad that I don’t mind missing anything visually; It is so consistently outrageous and bat chist crazy that listening to it keeps me entertained, and it has that weird quality in scripting where everything is expressed verbally. I got so much stuff done that week; I don’t know why it makes me super productive.
Then there is another category I have; The “so outrageous it’s good” anime: I tried “just listening” to Baki son of ogre And I just couldn’t do it. The moment Baki took a child to his basement to watch him train against an imaginary giant mantis, I was all like “Ok; I can’t ignore this shit.” I ended up binging the series :,)