When was the last time you experienced an anime so excellent that you're left with nothing but a raw feeling of...

When was the last time you experienced an anime so excellent that you're left with nothing but a raw feeling of gratitude to its creator, and indeed to fate itself for allowing you to exist in the same world as such a work of art?

When I watched Urusei Yatsura back in the late 90's, I've felt nothing but emptiness since then.

Individual episodes make me feel that. By the end every single one disappoints.

When I finished Hunter X Hunter

I get one of those at least once per year.

When I finished K-ON

A month ago when I finished RoV

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Last season, even bought all the BDs for like $400. This season is not so good.

Many years ago with K-On!!

Never.

Mob Psycho 100 is a recent one for me, only just got into it about a month or so ago, watched the anime, and ended up marathonning through the manga, eagerly eating up every chapter coming out.

The anime has some stellar fucking visuals and wonderful kinetic energy, and the manga does not disappoint in the writing department. It's selfish, but Shigeo really speaks to me as a character, as a lot of the problems he faces really resonate, since I grew up with autism, and had a huge chunk of my early life shadowed by the infamous Retard Wranglers and doctors/tutors of all kinds that were forced onto me by well meaning but pushy parents. So the message of having something you're born with doesn't need to completely define you is really powerful, at least for me

My only regret is that this show never existed when I was 15 and struggling through shit

Unironically Love Live season 2

Right now.

This wonderful series, brought me out a really bad spiral. I genuinely like all the characters.

Yuru Yuri

Aria season 3, jesus my man that was something else, i don't even have words for it.
A damn shame amanchu didn't live up to the hype

Some childrens card game anime like Yu-gi-oh! 5DS saved me from depression
All it had were inspiring speeches about the future
There's also just something about the MC rising from the bottom of society as an outcast to a well liked savior by himself
Card game anime always have this ridicilous hair though
Please no bully

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Call it overrated, I don't care. It's Made in Abyss, other than that I love both of ONE's works: Caped Baldy and Shigeo Kageyama 100

Honestly just the YKK manga. The feelings it stirs within me, nothing else does the same. The sensation of time within it, how it starts of slow the days go by lazily and time even seems to stand still for moments as it gradually begins to accelerate and then starts to rush away from you. How there's a focus on such little things things that emphasise time passing or people changing like Taka being taller than Alpha, or the Tapon visible in the background or even the tide moving in. How it becomes about coming to terms with those changes and how nothing can stay the same, then when Alpha looks back on those times with her camera or Sensei reflects on her past. Makki seeing the Misago for the last time then in the last few chapters after what feels like an eternity has passed you see the Misago again.

Mono no Aware man, it hits so hard and every time I re-read YKK it just hits harder and harder as my feelings of nostalgia compound.