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Cat Soup is the last major Yuasa thing that remains unwatched for me. It's hard to part with the possibility of more, at least for some time, from him. Also, his stuff makes me blase about pretty much anything that I might watch afterward. Heh. It's a sad yet silly realization.

Chuunibyou just had a huge animation budget or something, that's the only reason I came back. The story's far better than anything Kyoto Animation's had for some time, but that's not saying a ton.

Now and Then is great. I'm trying to come up with a way of qualifying its hopelessness, but everything I could say would be tampering. It's got some indeliberately weak moments, but overall it's masterful. The final question it poses is a great one but doesn't exactly feel like it was what the story had meant to build.

As for Naruto, it was markedly more eventful than the DBZ and crap that had filled my time at my grandparent's house. When it finally became what I had tried to get away from I was done with it. Also, the style and world was pretty inventive. Even now I don't see any shows imitating that art style, which is surprising, though good. It's a pretty standard fantasy fighting series otherwise.

I only watched Angel Beats when I heard about TK's token English phrases in connection with the Engrish trainwreck in Black Lagoon. So I didn't even expect it to bother with the pondering of mortality. I thought it was really just the setting. The promotional imagery made me think it was gonna be pretty bad. But it was alright enough. Similarly, I have 2 friends who want me to watch Mnemosyne, but after a couple, I really don't want to.

What I meant by rewatch was more just one or two episodes, or even a fraction of one. That "tradition" people have of watching whole shows over again frequently makes little sense to me. I've only fully rewatched GITS: SAC, and only recently, because it is a little intricate and I forgot a lot about it over the course of what must be like 7 or 8 years. Chuunibyou doesn't do anything that makes finishing it necessary, in my opinion.

Now and Then, Here and There feels as ancient as Robotech a lot of the time and Lala-ru's eyes are painful on some level to look at. But I've never seen a more unrelentingly depressing anime. I bet I could link a picture but I don't know how MAL works.

Kure-nai was alright design-wise. But there are a lot of sloppy frames for some reason.

Rec was just bland and really orthographic.

At least you read manga. All I ever touched was what Barnes and Noble or Borders had until my mother bought me Nausicaa out of the blue. It was all boring fighting shounen, Love Hina or things like Fruits Basket that I didn't know what to do with. I guess I also read the first volume of Chobits and Gravitation, which my sister left laying around. I did not know what I was getting into. The biggest commitment I've made to any manga is Naruto, where I stopped reading as soon as Naruto lost to Orochimaru (hopefully I don't have to specify the first time) I actually think the manga was better than average until Sasuke joined Team Evil. Now I know there's manga out there worth reading and I perhaps am too ADD to enjoy such things.

And ya, Angel Beats. I'd be curious what got you in the early stages, but it is definitely silly how respected it is. I only like it as much as I do for the comic relief in the show. (TK, the shounen sacrifice sequence) The show is perceived as so emotionally resonant but it feels like a soap opera because of how sudden and unprovoked everything is allowed to be when it takes place in purgatory.

And I would agree that our tastes are much the same. The only way I really conflict is that I have a personal vendetta against Summer Wars for whatever reason. On some nearly subconscious level it really bugged me.

I guess I can only really claim to be forgiving in terms of art. I can't say there's much in my completed section that doesn't manage to be aesthetically pleasing. I guess there's Now and Then, Here and There or Rec and Kure-nai. But not much, anyway. I honestly end up rewatching things like Chuunibyou (most recent example) more than some of my favorite stuff just out of fascination with the art. So I sometimes feel hypocritical. On the other end, I can't bring myself to watch Crayon Shin-chan, One Piece, or Special A simply due to their style. Though, I only feel like I'm missing out with the last one. I expect you're okay with that style, though. It's pervasive in manga from the looks of it. I think I really have trouble with the limbs and long necks. The thought of possessing one so pencil-thin horrifies me.

Sorry about missing your comment a while back. I wrote a reply to it when the fuse broke in my house and by the time power came back I forgot about it. I haven't ended up back on MAL until now and I remembered your comment being there. I can't remember what it was exactly, though. Something about what I meant by taste in anime, I'm pretty sure. I guess I meant in a good, non-sarcastic way, if that wasn't clear. I'd guess that you prefer thoughtful, creative plot to some contrived arrangement of clashing character archetypes. And that's kind of a rare trait it seems.

Your avatar leaves me pondering if having taste in anime and being happiness challenged are more than just a correlation.