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I would say sometime from 2016-2018 I was SUPER into anime and watching as many big classics, both old and new, that I could. I've found I'm the biggest fan of a certain aesthetic around the early to late 2000s like until 2013. I like slice of life-adjacent (but not too boring) with gorgeous art and animation.
Nowadays, anime is a kind of nostalgia engaging thing-- a way for me to immerse myself in the stories I always passed as a much younger kid in the manga isle of Borders or Barnes and Nobles, or the local library. Sometimes I would pick something up but never had the attention span to devote myself to more than 10 or so volumes (if they even had them in stock that is) but I was always enthralled by a certain feeling, a certain aesthetic, that anime and manga from that period captured.
I am interested in pure feeling, romanticism, often the flowery or indulgent stuff-- plenty of ecchi, filler, you name it- that's okay I have no problem- but it must have some deep form of artistry and love and meaning at the depth of it all. I'm not a very 'left-brained' person; if I watch an anime I like it is because it resonated with me in some way personally or transcended ego and reflected a grander theme of life or society or even cosmology that made me feel something significant... or it was just pretty or funny... but same goes for shows that lack these things in my view: I will rate them extremely harshly.
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