I’m dead slow at reading, but when it comes to anime (which I’m not exactly obsessed with anyway), I’m a rock. One to two series is normal for a year: download one, rip through all the episodes in a month, get back to having a life for six months, repeat as many times as is allowable.
I tend to stick to the real-world situation shows, the ones conspicuously lacking lasers and explosions. If you think American TV is formulaic, Japanese scripts approach plagiarism! Furry fetishist crap aside, there are a lot of cats. A. Lot. Of them. ((Just so we’re clear, I hope Pokémon dies a horrible death in a fire.)) Hell, sometimes even the lasers-and-explosions media feature cats too.
There are too many other parallels to lump in one post—beach episodes, watermelon obsessions, and more await future days.