My cousin said my top 5 list was just 'whatever I watched in high school,' and he's kinda right
We were arguing about the best anime of the 2010s and he pointed out that 4 out of my 5 picks came out while I was in 10th grade. How do you guys build a list that isn't just nostalgia for whatever you watched first?
I used to defend my list the same way, like "who cares when I watched it, it's still good." Then someone told me to try a year by year thing, one pick per year from 2010 to 2019, and it forced me to actually go back and watch stuff I skipped. My list barely changed for the years I was in school, but I found a few shows from 2011 and 2014 I had never touched and they earned a spot. Turns out the nostalgia test is pretty easy to pass once you make yourself fill in the gaps.