1. Blue lock: I recently watched the first season and I caught up with the manga and it's completely subversive. While other sports anime talk about teamwork, blindly working hard and believing in yourself and all those flowery nonsense, bluelock completely spits on those.
In the world of professional football(or as the Japanese blasphemously calls it 'Soccer' the only thing that can push you to the top is the strength of your ego) most of what is covered in this anime wouldn't actually work in real life because it's anime What'd you expect but all the progress every player made is completely earned. No sudden awakenings and all that bullshit(except that one time with Nagi) it was just them piling up the things they knew little by little until a qualitative change was reached.
2. Violet Ever garden: Wholesome, WHOLESOMEEEEE. enough to make a grown man like me cry. A beautiful blend of storytelling and awesome visuals thatt has you completely immersed in the world.
3. My Hero Academia: this has always been one of my favourites but it's only recently this got to be my top 3. Season 5 and 6 gave me goosebumps. I felt awesome, I was terrified, I even cried( just a little barely a few drops I swear). When All for one got fleshed out I understood why he was deemed a demon king, this guy is a literal king, the freest man in that world a smiling demon that leaves disaster in his wake and a charisma so grand he had thousands following his will without the slightest bit of coercion.
The fights were amazing, the enemies nigh insurmountable and it made me remember why I got infatuated with the concept of heroes when I was a child.
Sure the fandom of MHA is insane and filled with perverts who ship every breathing thing under the sun but it's an amazing show.
4. Grandblue/Daily lives of high school boys: it's comedy and its absurd. Is it really fair to lump these two together because I really can't decide which is better so let's just cheat and make these two my top four.
5. Darling in the Franxx: Yeah the fact that I had to think for about 3 minutes and filtering through tens of animes I watched means this is my actual number 5. It's been four maybe 5 years since I watched this but immediately I thought about it it kicked everything else to the curb. The relationship between the male and the female lead is somewhat nah it's toxic but it seems like the kind of acid you'd willingly submerge yourself in. This is the only mecha anime I watched to the end
