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>And I disagree that it's ridiculous to expect everyone to have a baseline, otherwise you'll just end up watching what everyone else tells you to watch
That's exactly what having a bassline is, expecting everybody to be on a similar page.

I genuinely have more respect for some magical girl purist who's watched thousands of episodes of magical girl anime then some simpleton who peruses through lists of general anime and systematically watches anime as if he's scoring a bingo sheet.

I've never watched Cowboy Bebop.
On my notepad I've watched a combination of 467 TV series, OVAs and movies released before the year 2000.