I'll jump in here too - I know you're not asking for recommendations, but it's hard not to hand them out sometimes.
If you need english dubbing, you may as well quit while you're ahead, dubs are 99% terrible because of anti-merit hiring practices here. If you don't want to adjust to the japanese culture stuff, there's hope because maybe 20% of anime bypasses it with setting. If tropes particular to anime bug you, it's still possible but a lot harder, maybe 5% of anime.
Shin Sekai Yori could work - I recommend it to people tired of 'normal' anime. Source material is a novel, rather than manga, so it's not a "fun" story. Has excellent world building based on the author's knowledge of social psychology. Fantasy tilt of psychic powers being common and extremely powerful (this is not a shounen, don't expect power battles).
I'll jump in here too - I know you're not asking for recommendations, but it's hard not to hand them out sometimes.
If you need english dubbing, you may as well quit while you're ahead, dubs are 99% terrible because of anti-merit hiring practices here. If you don't want to adjust to the japanese culture stuff, there's hope because maybe 20% of anime bypasses it with setting. If tropes particular to anime bug you, it's still possible but a lot harder, maybe 5% of anime.
Shin Sekai Yori could work - I recommend it to people tired of 'normal' anime. Source material is a novel, rather than manga, so it's not a "fun" story. Has excellent world building based on the author's knowledge of social psychology. Fantasy tilt of psychic powers being common and extremely powerful (this is not a shounen, don't expect power battles).