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Nov 20, 2024 1:19 AM
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As you all know Queen's Blade and Bikini Warriors are the anime that define my taste and online persona, do you have a similar set of anime or experience ?

Nov 20, 2024 1:20 AM
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Pretty much my whole top 10. I simply can't just mention one or two anime.

1. Pretty Cure
2. Kiratto Pri☆Chan
3. Love Live!
4. BanG Dream!
5. Yuru Yuri
6. Show By Rock!!
7. Strike Witches
8. Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?
9. Yuru Camp△
10. Natsume Yuujinchou



SerafosNov 20, 2024 9:29 AM
Nov 20, 2024 1:23 AM
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Masou Gakuen HxH
Keijo
Mahou shoujo Ni akogarete
Inu ni Nattara Suki na Hito ni Hirowareta
High School DxD
Gabriel Dropout
New Game
Ryuuou no Oshigoto!
Nov 20, 2024 1:36 AM
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Jan 2009
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dragon ball with its action and sometimes ecchi defined my taste
Nov 20, 2024 1:40 AM
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Aug 2021
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Patalliro and Made in Abyss.

Patalliro: nonsense comedy with perverted jokes.

Made in Abyss: adorable and horror.

Nov 20, 2024 1:44 AM
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My taste is pretty incomprehensible even for me, but I guess everything started with Kagaku Kyuujo-tai TechnoVoyager aka Thunderbirds 2086 - https://myanimelist.net/anime/3969/Kagaku_Kyuujo-tai_TechnoVoyager and at this point I wasn't even familiar with the Thunderbirds franchise...or Stingray, or Captain Scarlet, or the rest of the Supermarionation.
Nov 20, 2024 2:24 AM
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Oreimo would be the closest I think.
But maybe SAO, that was my first anime (not technically, I watched Pokemon and stuff like that as a little kid) and that part with Sugu hooked me on anime because I wanted to see a story where the MC isnt a huge fag like Kirito who went for Asuna instead
Nov 20, 2024 2:24 AM
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Difficult to pinpoint. Maybe the amalgamation of the following:

Nov 20, 2024 3:21 AM
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Sep 2016
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Too many to list, the most defining probably has been One Piece because I have been watching it for the longest time.
Nov 20, 2024 3:34 AM

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It was more or less three anime:

1. Your Lie in April
2. Lucky Star
3. Neon Genesis Evangelion
Nov 20, 2024 3:44 AM

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GTO, Kaguya (sorry Aka, but you screwed up with Oshi no Ko), Air, ReZero, Natsume, Dragon Ball Z, Noragami, Shaman King, City Hunter, Minami Ke, Mahouka, Spy x Family. Something that either has amazing humor and a large cast of charismatic characters, or has enormous spiritual and emotional potential, or is an energetic action that combines dramatic passionate moments and fun SoL elements.
Nov 20, 2024 3:52 AM

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Jan 2022
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Letting something define your taste can be called tasteless.
Nov 20, 2024 4:10 AM

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Without a doubt Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
Nov 20, 2024 4:25 AM
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The anime that defined my taste is probably digimon tamers, almost everything I love can come back to it
Nov 20, 2024 5:04 AM

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Psychological anime like Monster and so on.
Nov 20, 2024 5:27 AM

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It just so happens that the titles that defined my childhood love of fantasy have been made into manga.
LucifrostNov 20, 2024 5:30 AM
その目だれの目?
Nov 20, 2024 5:35 AM

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I find it difficult to precisely pin down and assign a label or description of my taste as one thing other than just listing off favorite genres. If you look at, say my Top 10 or 20 favorite series, I have what I'd consider a fairly broad mixture of genres in there, from post-apocalyptic philosophical Sci-Fi and dark fantasy to Shoujo Slice of Life and historical dramas.

I'd say that the anime which got me into anime, remain my top of top favorites and most special and important to me to this day, are Inuyasha and Koi Kaze, but while I have watched and appreciated/given high ratings to numerous other romantic dramas and specifically transgressive romance especially, the problem with describing them as defining my taste per se is how nigh impossible it is to replicate the experience in terms of finding other anime series sufficiently similar to them. They really are like unlike anything else I've seen since in anime (and anything I saw in non-anime prior to first watching them as well).

The closest series to me in essence are Noragami and Mahoutsukai no Yome for Inuyasha (which, the former is #7 in my Top 20 and the latter I'd place at #21) and Usagi Drop for Koi Kaze which is my #11 (and no, not for anything to do with later plot developments in the original manga as I consider those irrelevant to my watching of and experience with the anime series, as I treat all anime series as their own thing).
WatchTillTandavaNov 20, 2024 5:38 AM
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Kino's Journey (2003), .hack//SIGN and Gunbuster.
Nov 20, 2024 5:59 AM

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I already came in knowing what I was looking for in terms of themes (not that it panned ot that way but eh),before that had been watching Western,EU & SK cinema.

But If I had to define what cemented my interest in anime it would be Hellsing Ultimate/Black Lagoon/Claymore/Evangelion/Psycho-Pass & Code Geass.
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Nov 20, 2024 6:31 AM

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Mushoku Tensei
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Horimiya
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Nov 20, 2024 8:49 AM

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I would say Hyperdimension Neptunia, Kantai Collection, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Senran Kagura and Sailor Moon I really enjoyed watching.
Nov 20, 2024 5:50 PM
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Star Blazers, Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2 (OG series), Trigun, Cowboy Bebop. Macross. And yes, not an Anime' really, but OG Transformers.
Nov 20, 2024 6:06 PM

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It is difficult to choose just one, so I will name several titles, among which are:

Steins Gate
Cowboy Bebop
Natsume Yuujinchou
Aria Tha Animation
Mushishi
Kemono no Souja Erin
Madoka Magica
Code Geas
Monster
Clannad
Nov 20, 2024 6:16 PM

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For me stuff like
Monster Musume
Nisekoi
One Punch Man/Mashle
Nov 20, 2024 6:28 PM
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Fairy Tail. Because I watched it first (and never got into One Piece) I never really bought into the hate boner the western anime fan sphere has for the series. It's a perfectly good ensemble action adventure, that gets compared to possibly the biggest anime ever made, so usually gets trashed in response. I'm a lot more interested in seeing what strengths specific shounen series have now, instead of blindly following what the consensus is. That's why I'm a fan of black Clover too (the manga, not the anime). They all fill different niches and that's okay.
Nov 20, 2024 6:48 PM

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Lapis Re:light
Girls last tour
Asteroid in love
Nov 20, 2024 7:13 PM
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I like a lot of different genres but what defined my taste the most was:

El Cazador de la Bruja and Noir

Basically, Girls With Guns.
Nov 20, 2024 7:31 PM

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Girls & Panzer -- for CGDCT.
Toradora -- for HS romcoms, (& tsundere's :) For shoujo (which tend more to drama than comedy) I'll mention Kimi ni Todoke.
Maria-sama ga Miteru -- for yuri.



Of course CGDCT, HS romcoms, etc. aren't the only things I watch but for other genres I couldn't readily point to a specific show.
Avatar: Anzu Kadotani from Girls und Panzer. XMas awesomeness version by Charenji :)

Nov 21, 2024 12:44 AM

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I think Konosuba largely contributed to my love of parody humor, hence why now Nyaruko and Isekai Ojisan are among my favorite series ever.
I don't think there is any anime in particular that defined my taste for other genres (just maybe Non Non Biyori for Slice of Life).
Nov 21, 2024 1:39 AM

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yuru camp and attack on titan probably got me into my two favorite genres
Nov 21, 2024 1:45 AM

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Serial Experiments Lain

Hellsing Ultimate

Usagi Drop
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Nov 21, 2024 1:52 AM
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Pretty much my 10 favorite anime can't really go with just one.

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