Mob was made as a mirror to Saitama. Both share the burden of talent, but the difference is that Saitama wants to be challenged at the thing he’s the best at, while mob wants to be challenged at what he’s weakest at, to become a well rounded person.

Mob is such a great character and inspiration - I feel like we’ve only just scratched the surface of his development.

What do you mean “what if”?

It all depends on the anime itself, really.

You can say the target audience for Ghibli films are kids, but the ones who get the most out of them are adults.

Many of the anime I would consider the best, would include themes I couldn’t really understand the nuances of as a teenager, or even as a young adult, yet are published in Shonen/Young Jump.

Sure, but the show is explicitly a deconstruction of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

NGE was a deconstruction of ordinary mecha anime.

I’m not saying someone with no experience with anime couldn’t enjoy GL, but it’s wrapped in so many layers of meta, most of the themes and inside jokes would be missed.

I can’t tell you where to start, but I can tell you where not to start.

Death Note is utter garbage. Anyone recommending it hasn’t watched it in ten years, and is forgetting how contrived it is.

For example:

• The main characters play tennis while trying to win a mental game of rock, paper, scissors.

• They turn a scene about looking inconspicuous into one of those over-edited Indian soap operas (I’ll take a chip… AND EAT IT!).

• Misa is annoying as hell.

The target audience for it are teenage boys who listen to Jordan Peterson, can’t talk to girls and dream about beating their Dad psychologically.

It’s a mental masturbatory power fantasy.

Gurren Lagaan is a parody of mecha anime, it’s not really something you can recommend to normies.

I guess the process could be regarded as gain of function research.