Anime & Games
I like stories that feel like found family, haunted buildings, impossible journeys, and bosses I was absolutely not ready for.
This is not a database of everything I have watched or played. It is the shelf with fingerprints on it: comfort shows, games that took over my brain, horror I approach with suspicious confidence, and stories that accompanied me instead of just entertaining me.
One Piece gets the front row because it feels like a house I keep returning to. I was hooked from East Blue, probably within the first five episodes, and then it became adventure, friendship, humor, tragedy, Sanji, that one Marineford moment, and crying like an idiot over a crew that feels like family.
Fairy Tail is not just nostalgia. Natsu, Lucy, and the guild accompanied me through a difficult stage, in the specific way a fictional found family can make the room feel less empty without asking for an explanation.
Death Note is nostalgia with a knife edge: intelligence, tension, ego, traps inside traps, and the pleasure of watching two people play chess with everyone’s life.
Dragon Ball Z does not need a dissertation. It is childhood, power, screaming, impossible odds, epic feeling, and the kind of emotion that arrives before analysis can ruin it.
Some games do not stay in the backlog. They move in, rearrange the furniture, and start charging rent.
Silent Hill is the favorite: atmosphere, story, psychology, and buildings that seem deeply committed to being a problem. Resident Evil gives me action, survival, puzzles, tension, and the joy of suffering nicely.
The shelf keeps making eye contact. Some of these are classics, some are long-running assignments from friends, and some are probably emotional damage wearing excellent typography.