"Naruto is a story about overcoming the circumstances of your birth, a story about how a person with enough hard work and goodwill can achieve anything they want in this world."
"A child shut out by society because of the monster sealed inside of him, a child who took on the brunt of a village's hate and met it with a smile and a resolute dedication to lead that village one day."
"The only time you should use the Eight Gates is to protect something precious to you."
"Creation and restoration seem to be easier than destruction and erasure in Dragon Ball."
"Those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum."
"Nobody in Jujutsu Kaizen is necessarily the good guy or the bad guy."
"A place further than the universe aims to show the real value of friendship."
"Your career is this close from being dismissed as my childhood friend and my potential waifu number one and hera member number one as well."
"Shonen anime tends to put a hefty focus on action, heroics, friendship, having to get stronger, stuff like that."
"You, a member of Fairy Tail, are also free of your masks because you're accepted for who you are."
"The Fairy Tail guild, the protagonist of the Fairy Tail anime, is one of the few places that really feels like home."
"Dreams are the motivating factor of each and every Straw Hat pirate."
"Everyone in Naruto gets redeemed in some way."
"K-On! portrays high school graduation, friendship, and moving on better than any anime I've seen. And it's not even close."
"Jujutsu Kaizen deals with some real [__] from the bullying to the way characters respond."
"Naruto's conquering of his inner turmoil and hypocrisy is presented in a way that no other shonen I'm familiar with has even attempted."
"Anime has a way of using its simple premise and lofty world-building to reveal deeper themes and issues."
"This is like an anime stuff, evolving during battling the bad guys!"
"Why did Kurama ever help Naruto? Kurama was evil incarnate living inside Naruto, yet at certain points, Kurama would help Naruto."
"Re:Zero is targeted at otaku fears—being bullied, hurt, rejected, and alone."
"Ryo Bakura's Soul had a lot more strength than his evil counterpart would care to admit."
"Serves you mortals right. The contradiction of the gods will be corrected."
"Luffy is a character who embodies the theme of the story: living life with freedom."
"Fairy Tail always pays back what they owe...including pain."
"The theme in YuYu Hakusho of a reason to fight really hit me hard personally."
"The moral lesson of this anime is, it's a blessing for us to have friends we can trust, who know the best and worst of us, and who love us despite all our faults."
"Yuji's beliefs about mortality are questioned and reinforced through the bond that he shares with Sukuna."
"I never said anything about who is right or wrong... Levi has never known."
"No one gets left behind," Frieza resolves to save everyone.
"Believing that being the pirate king means having the most freedom in the world."
"Dragon Ball Z is all about family, training yourself to become the best, being a moral person."
"The weight of Mihawk's soul is heavier than anything Zoro has ever faced."
"One Piece has always been about willpower overcoming obstacles."
"Naruto's method to achieve peace is to no longer continue the cycle of revenge."
"He realizes that he can already use magic and has achieved every otaku's dream."
"It gave me that vibe of like so many different things I've seen in Shonen manga and anime history."
"Feels like when the anime character has gone through a bunch of story arcs and they've gotten super duper strong."
"Vegeta realizes he has no choice but to take on this threat himself."
"Fate is what's going to kill Kira because the only thing they have going for them right here is that hi Otto can change things now."
"Ichigo proved him wrong even with his eyes closed he believed and he dredged on until he changed the future just by the force of his organic growth."
"In the One Piece world, willpower is obviously a huge factor."
"Never underestimate the potential of humans in Dragon Ball."
"Remain solves what I've always seemed to be the primary dilemma in sports anime."
"The closest thing to a villain in Gurren Lagann is the idea that you can't achieve the seemingly impossible."
"Dragon Ball's big focus on this now, even with the tournament of power, one of the big themes is breaking through limits."
"Goku might not constantly see people discuss his latent abilities, but it really is worth noting how quickly Goku grows."
"Taking revenge for those that he's lost is not worth also losing those he still has, namely Naruto and Sakura."
"One thing that I really appreciate about Mushoku Tensei is how much it cares about family."
"The straw hats are nakama, the straw hats are family."
"Luffy swiftly rejected this idea in the name of freedom and well, just not wanting to do it."
"It is important for Deku's character to face the dark side of the hero society and the uncomfortable truths hidden behind the surface."
"Toradora is about how people sort of fill in the blanks in one another. It's about how people who are missing something can have that thing fulfilled by another person."
"Log Horizon is a genius show about characters getting trapped inside of a video game. But instead of wondering about the big mystery of how they got there, the question is what is this world and how do we live in it?"
"This is the best take I've ever seen on the shonen idea of power up thanks to friendship."
"Byakia and Kenpachi Zaraki are reflections of one another, each a milestone in Ichigo's development."
"Redemption is a big thing in Naruto."
"Not only does the series pull some great soul themes from traditional Oni folk stories... but intentional or otherwise, Demon Slayer also picks up on this notion that Oni were more than just dumb, brutish ogres."
"A core motif of the One Piece series is not changing who you are in spite of daunting realities and facing monumental hurdles."
"Kill la Kill combines the common shonen trope of transforming to defeat a strong opponent, fanservice, but also out of this world comedy."
"I ultimately think One Piece is a series that will end in optimism, dreams, freedom, protecting your dreams, camaraderie, connections."
"There are no heroes in Attack on Titan."
"If you had to narrow down Attack on Titan to two ideas, what would they be? Freedom and the cycle of hatred."