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Some of it I grew up on, some of it I finished out of sheer stubbornness, and two of them genuinely changed how I think about something. One film I have watched more than ten times and still cannot leave alone.

A bedroom corner with eight One Piece wanted posters across one wall, a Demon Slayer poster on the next, and Yu Yu Hakusho playing on a projector screen below

A scene from Your Name projected onto a bedroom wall — two schoolgirls and a man with a suitcase on a village street — Your Name, on the wall

A scene from Demon Slayer projected onto a bedroom wall

A scene from One Piece projected onto a bedroom wall

What I grew up on

Doraemon

A favourite as a kid

Ninja Hattori

A favourite as a kid

Pokémon

Watched growing up

Different kinds of important

These four are not a ranking. One is my favourite, two changed how I think about something, and one I just keep going back to. Those are different things and I would rather keep them apart.

My favourite anime · Completed

Hajime no Ippo

I see myself in Ippo — similar problems, similar upbringing — and boxing is how he gets through his. He does not cheat or take shortcuts, he just does honest work, and that is the part I like. I like the fighting itself too. What it actually taught me is that you need something you care about that much, because it will take you further than you thought you could get.

Completed

Attack on Titan

One of the most beautiful fictional stories I have experienced. Levi is my favourite character, but what actually stayed with me is what it made me think about hatred and collective blame.

Read the connected writing

Watching

Vinland Saga

The philosophy underneath the violence. It changed how I think about resentment and forgiveness, and it is the reason I have a lot of respect for pacifism even though I am not much good at it.

Watched more than ten times

Your Name

Time travel is part of the appeal, but the red thread is what actually keeps pulling me back — the idea that two people are already connected before they ever meet. It can bend and twist and it still never forgets its purpose. Somewhere out there is someone I am already tied to.

What stayed with me

One specific thing each, rather than an opinion about the whole show.

One of my favourites

Forest of Piano

Built around classical piano, which is what I listen to anyway — Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin.

Completed

Initial D

As much about the car culture as the story. The Toyota AE86 is one of my favourite old-school cars.

Watched

My Hero Academia

Deku's character development is the part I like.

Completed

The Seven Deadly Sins

Meliodas's story is the one that resonated.

Caught up

Overlord

Writing

One piece so far.

28 August 2026Anime · Life

Somebody has to stop passing it on

Two shows about revenge that left me with an idea I agree with and mostly fail to live up to.