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I saw Perfect Blue on top anime lists over and over again for literal years. The synopsis had no appeal to me at all, as I am not really into jpop or celeb culture or anything like that. I knew it existed, but assumed it wouldn't be for me.
Earlier this year I just decided to dive in on it. I didn't quite understand everything about the culture presented, but I still found myself engrossed, loving the story and basking in the visuals. Then the final act sealed it as one of my favorite animes, too. Wild ride of a film.
Edit- I agree with you regarding ending death note "where it should have ended", after that moment just feels like half assed trying to recreate the magic between Light and L.
I will consider it. Death Note snuck by me largely for reasons unknown but I can nail down a couple. One is that it was very head-y with not much in the run of visual action. One of the things that puts me off about Anime is that it can be extremely flashy. Not a complaint, again, just a thing that personally puts me off. Like a lot of stuff happening a lot on screen is visually overwhelming for me. Battle sequences in space in like Trek or Star Wars also I struggle to get through. Sometimes they're some of my favorite things but I have to push through it because I get overstimulated really easily. Death Note just... wasn't that. Barely any visual action and it was primarily a battle of wits.
Yeah... I quit after Watari sends a signal to an orphanage. At that point I just went "Well the rest of this is idiotic. This seems like a great point to stop."
Sounds like you're specifically describing battle shounen. Keep in mind that anime isn't a genre, it's a medium, and there's such a wide variety of all kinds of shows and movies that happen to be animated.