CumbrianCucumber

I kind of get it - Light was definitely getting more insane throughout the show, but even in episode one his first words were muttering about how humanity was lost and the world was rotten to the core. Everything that happened afterwards was simply because of Light getting the ability to act on those thoughts.

Same!

I remember being a teenager and getting tired of Pokemon’s formula, where every episode after a certain point became “new pokemon from the newest games shows up, Team Rocket justify it as rare or special somehow, try to capture it (and Pikachu) and get their arse handed to them, end”. That being said, as I get older and Pokemon becomes more of a nostalgic comfort show to me, I can’t help but soften on it over the years! It’s like the one constant in a world of chaos!

I’m also a big Dragonball fan, and ultimately every saga boils down to “new villain shows up, usually from space, about four or five of the Z fighters have a go at fighting them, they get trounced to build tension, and then Vegeta and Goku give it a go, and eventually Goku wins”.

But I really love it! It’s a formula that so many shows since have tried to replicate, but they never had the diversity of inspirations and the playful nature of Akira Toriyama to give it the same appeal!

I’ve recently started re-watching Gurren Lagann for the first time in like a decade! It still holds up fantastically well!

My favourite anime of all time! I wish it had a cinematic release, but I’m just glad to see the anime catch up on this bits of manga it missed!

Can’t really add anything current to this thread since I’ve just started watching Case Closed/Detective Conan! It’s been a curiousity since I went to Japan and saw merchandise for it everywhere. See you guys in like 4 years!

Definitely watching Dragon Ball Z as a teenager sometime in 2012 or 2013. I remember vividly having entire weekends being just sleeping, eating, and binging Dragon Ball Z, like 12 hours a day every weekend!