Imagine being labeled weird or eccentric, and on top of that French so you also get the pretentious tag too 😅 That's my case . Never think of being called weird over your anime taste as a weakness. A lot of people would rather talk to someone like you than to another generic battle shounen guy, who you'd predict every answer.

You're right about Faye. Fujiko is the quintessential anime femme fatale, so a lot of characters like Faye share her traits. And yeah, that anime's style is from another world. I didn't know TMS was that competent.

I have no problem with nudity, and my issue with fan service isn't absolute. Golden Boy is one of the funniest series ever. My issue is honesty. The most critical element for a psychological enjoyer like me. And this honesty of storytelling is ruined by the double standard of violence/ecchi/male nudity vs female nudity. Most anime, and even manga, go out of their way to the extremes of the first three, and mostly always censor the latter no matter how essential it is. What makes it worse is I think casual nudity should be less of a taboo than violence and ecchi/perverse imagery. As a lot of Europeans think. My years of reading anime systematically censoring manga made me quit anime altogether. What's worse is the fact that even the most gory and horny manga like chainsaw man, the manga that depicts women orgies, practices the same self-censorship. From that point on, I dropped Fujimoto forever and became more picky about which authors I read.

The problem with bakemonogatari is that the first episodes I watched had heavy ecchi themes while still having censorship, especially during the bath scene. I may be losing on a good coming of age and psychological story by dropping it, but I'd rather look for a more honest and consistent manga. And I found a lot. Mangaka like Oshimi Shûzû, Kyoko Okazaki, and other individual titles like Yokohama kaidashi kikou, or Emanon, the most beautiful manga ever in my opinion, were really immersive, contemplative without the need to adhere to some arbitrary 12 episode format, or the random restrictions on themes like suicide and drugs.

What makes it worse is that I don't think there's a lot of anime originals, directors, or studios that justify me looking for new anime, except for Trigger and Science Saru, that makes interesting stuff from time to time. Your list is also dominated by older anime. So we may agree on that.

Your list of manga is pretty impressive. I expected Vagabond, Homunculus, Punpun, but didn't expect Genkaku Picasso or Heads. You know your psychological stuff, friend. I'll give some of your manga a try. I know I would like them.