This is almost more a list of cliche's than an actual anime, but it's so 2005 in a way that only those of us who were watching anime then can relate to, and I love these characters more than I love my next breath of fresh air.

This show made me want to believe in magic.

The edgiest, goriest "sword and sorcery" manga ever gets it's best adaptation ever. Skip the godawful CGI adaptation and get straight to this classic, aged like a fine emo wine.

If you don't laugh at least once watching KonoSuba, I can only assume it's because your creators forgot to program humor into your robotic brain.

By far my fave of the Fate franchise. Stellar animation, amazing soundtrack, and a story than introduces a shit-ton of characters and actually manages to effectively balance almost all of them. S-tier anime.

Either you're the kind of person who can appreciate fantasy epics that are also mecha epics, or you're not.

Jesus H, the animation in this film still completely holds up even after over two decades. That soundtrack is spine-chilling, too.

Yeah, I like SAO, but Alicization really feels like a crystalization of the cool sci-fi story that Reki Kawahara has wanted to tell along.

I don't like Personas 3 or 4. So the fact that I absolutely love Persona 5 must mean that it's just that cool.

Kyoto Animation almost never does such edgy, action-filled anime. So it completely floors me to see that they're so good at it.