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1. I would contend that the visuals are a representation of how Satoru views the world, thus making them an integral part of characterization. Although I had come to such a conclusion on my own, this has been confirmed by the director himself. He essentially says the various movie-esque imagery (film strips representing timelines, film-style flashbacks, and widescreen presentation) are to depict how Satoru still looks at things through the scope of an impressionable child, particularly one who loves television.
The part about not liking characters that can be depicted in a sentence: I don't recall saying that, so I'm assuming that's a statement from my review? I'd actually disagree, to a degree, now. Of course, I prefer fleshed out characters, but there are plenty of instances where the supporting cast isn't really supposed to be deep due to certain character traits of a protagonist (not strictly referring to Boku dake, by the way). This is usually a representation of the main character's inability to communicate or relate to others. I can't say for sure this is hat happened in Boku dake, but it is clearly a possibility. Although Satoru starts seemingly jaded, it's practically just a facade (one he puts on as an adult to appear like he's a grown up) broken nearly immediately when he realizes what he has to do, and being in his childhood body forces out his child-like tendencies, one standout trait being his gullibility. This makes Kayo a sound foil, as she's been abused and neglected her whole life, so she's grown used to not having anyone to trust. This allows both Satoru and Kayo to have solid, albeit fairly basic, character arcs.
Kenya and Sachiko didn't really need a great deal of depth. Kenya is a supportive friend, which I don't find to be unrealistic nor is a kid being smarter than his friends terribly unbelievable either and Sachiko is, again, another foil to Kayo: A loving mother juxtaposed to a seemingly hateful one, though the eventual reveal that Kayo's mother was also abused isn't too unheard of either (as abuse has the tendency to lead to abuse, on a real-world level).
I'll agree the teacher should have had more depth for the eventual climatic scenes. To my understanding, Satoru had no intentions of being put into a coma and waking up with an ingenious plan, it was made clear he came up with it after regaining the memories, which makes much more sense than the way interpreted above. I do agree that the plan was executed poorly, however.

2. I've never really been big on the action genre. I can appreciate a good action sequence, but for me to get pumped, I have to have some form of investment in the characters, feel some chance they'll lose, and have the consequences be great enough to worry about the outcome. If even one of those factors is missing, I just won't feel it much. And TTGL's case, I wasn't invested in the characters and Kamina was the least impactful death they could've had. I get he was the leader, so it was supposed to show they were at a loss without him, but they pretty easily get passed it once Simon comes out of his grieving. That and Kamina was the one who I disliked the most, though I didn't exactly like much of the cast regardless.

3. I've been meaning to watch Katanagatari. I'll have to rewatch Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo again. I know I liked both, it's just been ages since I watched either. I do remember the baseball episode of SamCham, just because it's amazing. I liked Ping-Pong, I'd also recommend some of the other stuff from Masaaki (Ping-Pong's director), but be prepared for some incredibly strange things. Tatami Galaxy is my favorite even with the absurdly fast pace. Everything he's directed has been at least good, if you can get passed how bizarre most of it is.

See, the problem with this is that most of your arguments are fundamentally about other shows, while the topic of debate is TTGL. But I'll humor it again:
1. Boku dake has its problems, yes. Although I liked Satoru and Kayo, and to an extent Kenya and Sachiko, if you didn't that's fine. Where I really disagree is the mystery part. This mostly misses the point of the show. The story wasn't so much a mystery as it was a subversion of the mystery genre. Satoru explicitly thinks, "Wow, that was actually pretty obvious. I didn't see it because I was too immature to look passed my personal feelings." Satoru's immaturity was a motif throughout the entire show. We were supposed to be ahead of him in that regard.

2. I agree a blemish of Steins;Gate is the 3 episode harem arc and the groping joke. I don't think a brief weaker arc and a single tasteless joke strictly knocks the show down to a bad stature.
As for TTGL's music, it's been too long to really remember it. I did rewatch the first episode a few weeks ago with a friend and I still don't remember the music doing much for me. I don't have much to say about how bland or not it realy is as I've completely forgotten the music in it, save for the OP which I've had to be reminded of by the fans numerous times, otherwise I'd have forgotten that as well.
I also don't really like the notion of arguing a show is bad is equivocal to there being better variations. FLCL has a similar path of development (coming of age), but outside that and animation style, they're not super similar. I use FLCL as an example of other work done by the same crew that I enjoyed more than anything, as I find it to be better to weigh a show on its own merits or demerits. Though if we were to make those comparisons, I would say by the time TTGL came out, it felt repetitious coming from the same crew as FLCL, Abenobashi, and Dead Leaves, but lacked the originality or creativity of the predecessors. That's about all I have to say about it as a comparison.

3. I also like Ping-Pong, though it's not my top Yuasa Masaaki pick (Tatami Galaxy). And if you give Redline a go, we'd probably be in agreement about it being pretty great. Redline isn't especially unique in the story department, but it's excellent in the presentation.

You're comparing an action show to a slow-burn sci-fi drama, which is complete nonsense. Steins;Gate has a complex narrative with solid comedy blended with dreary atmospheric melancholy. The animation of Steins;Gate doesn't have to be exciting because it's literally not supposed to be exciting for the first half of the show. It's called "tone", something Gurren Lagann completely flounders at.
The problem with Gurren Lagann is that it's supposed to be high-adrenaline, exciting colorful action all the time, but the staff behind it has done so much better in the very field. FLCL nails the excitement, contains a much better story underneath the zaniness, and has distinctive characters who don't all develop to be carbon copies of the single most obnoxious character in the entire cast. Okay, so Lord Genome gets to be a generic misunderstood villain? Great, a deep meaningful character with next to no development outside his base motivation. Rossiu? The guy I couldn't possibly have cared about had he not abruptly become a plot contrivance? Whoopie. And the Anti-Spiral.... really? Those were characters? They were practically cut-and -paste Gainax symbols, hamfisted into a nonsensical story arc that, frankly, wasn't fun to watch, wasn't especially interesting, nor terribly original.
As for staring at Yoko's boobs: No, I'm not a big fan of watching shows for fanservice. I was watching, and understanding, Satoshi Kon (Paranoia Agent, Millennium Actress, Paprika, Perfect Blue [okay, didn't really get that one much at the time]), Wolf's Rain, Gankutsuu, Welcome to the NHK, Saikano, Serial Experiments Lain [yeah, didn't totally get that one at the time either], Boogiepop Phantom, Evangelion, etc. in high school. That's my kind of shit. I don't watch shows for fanservice, nor have I ever given a shit about cock-tease fanservice in shows which, strictly speaking, will never show anything. That's what porn is for. If I want it animated, hentai has never been hard to find, high school or not.
And lastly, I wrote an honest opinion of the show from how I saw it at the time. Do I completely hate it now? Maybe, maybe not. I might hate it for not only boring me to tears, but not having a decent story to fall back on. I'd rather watch a distinctly terrible thing, like Garzey's Wing, where it's just mindbogglingly terrible, then to watch a show that's only extraordinary feature is being exceptionally average.

I'm allowed to review however I please. I would argue objectivity, while important, is more suited for analysis. After all, people read a review to find out the positives and negatives of any given work, which inherently implies opinion. Though, I wrote that particular review something like 8 years ago. I was probably still in high school at that point. I'm far more indifferent by now, so if I could be more objective in the review I would, but don't remember nearly enough nor have the interest in revisiting the show.

The reactions to it are practically the only reason to keep it up.

Gurren Lagann gets a 3 for being so unwatchably boring. It's pure mediocrity. It's not even laughably bad, it's just average to the point of being bad.

Oh... Mirai Nikki had an OVA preview prior to the series. I gave that a high score because it was a good episode and made me want mire, as was its purpose, and I had no knowledge of the rest of the story being a complete travesty. It would probably drop drastically if I rewatched it, knowing what the rest of the story entails. The show was trash, as you would see from the TV score. Don't remember how low I gave that, but shouldn't be higher than a 3. If it is, I'll have to remedy that.

Death Parade was... Good. Not great, not terrible, slightly above average. That's about the extent of my interest in it.

I liked Celes expressly from the game. Show was worthless. Plenty of characters would boot her from the list, though. I barely remember making that list.

The particular order of the list doesn't reflect the actual favorite. Favorite would probably be Chiyoko from Millennium Actress. I don't even know what I put on that thing since I slapped it together one night and forgot about it. Kurisu has plenty of depth compared to GL's cast, where every character develops to just be psuedo-Kaminas AKA the worst character. What kind of depth is simply becoming exactly the same as every other character? How is that not bland? And why should I care when a shallow, annoying dumbass like Kamina kicks the bucket? That said, Kyouma is a better character than Kurisu.

Not sure why you care so much about a show that you'd nitpick over a stranger's scores, much less somehow managing to find primarily arbitrary ones. Seems like an insecurity over having your favorite show get called out for its dull, creatively bankrupt mediocrity. That's too bad.