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I honestly don't know why I liked this show so much. It's a simple and straightforwards good guys fight evil demonic forces. Characters are not very deep or multifacited and chibi is waaaaay over the the top in many parts of it for certain characters. Especially one character.

I was watching the latest season of Attack on Titan while watching this show and it seemed that there was not way I would get into a pretty but simple shonen show like this compared to the epic depth and human complexity of AOT.

But something just hooked me about this show. It's actually great. More of a fun and engaging popcorn action anime than anything else. It is a little overrated but at the top of the genre in straight up shonen. Also the main character is very likeable. Like a nice and kind guy with passion. A little different from the standard melodramatic types in much of shonen action.

I'm admittedly a latecomer to this show. I watched it very off and on as a teenager in the 90's/early 2000's when it was on. Liked it but didn't follow it. This just happened to be my girlfriend's all time favorite show and I began watching it for her and something to watch together that she wanted to share with me. I didn't mean to LOVE it this much! It's not even because I like Wedon's stuff, this show is extremely engrossing, fun, dramatic, comedic, dark, and many more things. It knows its town episode by episode, where comedy doesn't get in the way of drama or horror or real character moments. You just love every character for who they are and want to see them grow and struggle.

I remember it as more campy and meta as a teen but watching it now, it's much darker and more dramatic than I remember it, as well as self-referencing.

I'm really not a fan of having to go through the 90's type of TV pre streaming seasons where seasons were 20+ episodes, but each season had me hooked and not bored or wanting to skip episodes. It's very interesting how the show grows too. The first two seasons, like Star Trek TNG (my all time favorite show from my youth) were more contained episodes and the show was just coming together. And it was very much stuck in the super exaggerated high school 90's thing, but interestingly began to mature out of that by the third season. Then the show seemed to mature by the 4th and 5th seasons and on. And was not predictable.

I'm admittedly not finished, I'm half way through season 5, but I enjoy every minute, every line of dialogue. Every character struggle.

This show really snuck up on me and it easily on the top three or five list of all time favorite TV shows that I have ever seen.

It's worth putting all the latest streaming shows on hold to revisit this fantastic adventure!