>>280119779
Truth be told, I wanted anime to be mainstream.
I hated lolis and fanservice.
I loved shounen shows and wished there was more.
But then I started to explore more of what anime had to offer, and truly I began loving all of those things and more. But it was the year that not just anime, but Japan in general started internalizing a lot of the bullshit that killed our media over here in the West. I never knew how good we had it until we lost it.