Give the most personal or subjective reason why you liked or disliked a particular show

I cannot play or watch Love Live anymore, which is a damn shame, I've been playing since last June. While my reason is personal, it's rather superficial; there were simply a group of (popular?) people I didn't like that talked constantly about it, so I came to hate pretty much everything about it. And then boohoo, someone I got all emo about was like, hey, Love Live is pretty damn good! (Geez, they're on here, they'll probably find me.) And so, Love Live went to the grave. It's unsalvageable. I can't look at Umi or Maki without wanting to burn my laptop, since I'm just stubborn.

Speaking of me and stubbornness, don't get me started on Miki (IDOLM@STER). Every time I argue about Miki, I exhaust myself... I also dropped Gatchaman Crowds after episode one because I couldn't stand the MC. Something about her just... grated on my nerves. I couldn't listen to her voice for one more second.

And, hey, I have self-esteem issues! Predictably, Welcome to the NHK is an anime that really resonated with me because of how the MC acts. And also because I'm approaching ~20 year old NEET status. Satou's line of thinking would be so similar to mine at some points. It wasn't a story about living life, it was a story about surviving it, clawing your way through the shit inside your head and what your mind forced you to think about the outside world. And I really loved how jarring the changes from "haha eroge!" to "well motherfucker here's your panic attack" were, the mood could differ so heavily in an episode. I could have tears of laughter to tears of sadness in the same episode. There were ridiculous things happening, but when stripped bare, it was all so pathetic. And I loved it. There was something that felt so raw about that anime. Ep 13-14

I only recently watched NGE and nothing struck me quite as hard as the first thirty seconds of the last episode, where

Hoo, boy, I can't not mention Chihaya (IDOLM@STER). This bit pertains to the games, but everyone would always complain about how hard it was to get Chihaya's tension up, because the tiniest bad thing would make her tension plummet, and it was so hard to make her happy, and it was annoying. I think at this point I'm projecting, but perfectionism is a huge part of depression sometimes, yeah? It's so hard to make yourself happy, and it's so easy to make you sad! And there's this bit in episode 20, this one scene that plays for about 20 seconds? Where Chihaya sits in her room and you can't hear anything but dripping water. There's something about the simplicity of the scene that always makes me start bawling (as if I wasn't already, honestly). I hated Haruka on my first watch/playthroughs. And when Chihaya screamed at her for being such a "Good Samaritan", I think I finally understood why.

This ended up a bit longer than I expected... I'm sure I have other things that were quite personal and less depressing lol, but these are the strongest examples I could think of.

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