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likalaruku said:
There's a little thing about "personal opinion of a new fan" vs "qualified answer from a seasoned watcher."
In order to truly have an informed opinion of the best anime, you need:
*At least 10 years experience in watching anime.
*Watch regardless of target audience: shounen, shoujo, jousei, seinen, chldren.
*Leave personal taste behind: The best anime will never be one of your favorites. Your favorite is either going to be a genre starter that another anime did better, a harem series, hentai/yaoi/yuri, something terribly unoriginal where the basic plot has been done to death.
*Experience in critiquing: Being able to point out the merit of things you hate & point out the flaws of things you love.
Expand your horizons: Don't just watch series, watch stand-alone movies & OAVs. Don't just watch new shit, watch stuff from the 60s, 70s, 80s, & 90s.
Exquisite memory: If you have trouble remembering the names of the main characters in a show you're watching right now & have to continuously look them up over & over, you're not the best person to ask. (I have a debilitating memory retention problem).
Experience: Ask yourself, with the thousands of anime available, have you even seen 100 different series yet?
Less is more: The best anime is likely not a series but a completely serious stand-alone animated movie based on a critically acclaimed novel.
Basically, even if you don't share his taste, anime critic "Bennet the Sage" is one of the few people who's answer I'd take seriously.
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