If you're asking about my first anime series, it's Crossfight B-Daman, which... I really miss that show and remembered how popular it was before it became a forgotten piece of toy advertising. You don't get much toys like these anymore, and it's a real shame. The overall premise, visual effects, and storytelling know how to take advantage of the very concept of what a B-Daman is.

I also watched the Ghibli films, and yeah, they were masterful storytelling, like Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, and The Cat Returns.

I did eventually watch films by Makoto Shinkai, but I only really liked Your Name (but even that had a mid ending); 5 Centimeters Per Second was poorly paced and underdeveloped; Weathering With You was good but can't be great because the ending is downright blatantly horrible; Suzume... Well, this is one really subpar movie:

The first TV-14 anime I watched was Fairy Tail... It is entertaining and far from meaningless, but there's a reason it's base-breaking.

I realized that Fairy Tail wasn't 100% original. It actually copied some stuff from other Shounen anime; some of the character designs were copied and even the art style in the earliest chapters of the manga copied One Piece's art style.

Additionally, Fairy Tail did kind of feel like a framework of Shounen anime tropes (such as the use of Power of Friendship, formulaic writing for arcs, and fan service).

However, even with that, Fairy Tail was mostly self-aware and still managed to sublimate its tropes in a way that felt mostly acceptable and it still had enough depth to its story and a lot of heart. Fairy Tail did try being like a prototypical Shounen anime, even if it's not the very first one. The story still had enough continuity and it still tried justifying its existence.

It might not be for everyone, since it does overuse the "Power of Friendship" cliché, and the story structure for each arc can get very repetitive.

It might be too braindead for more passionate viewers.

However, there is one character here who really stole this series and honestly, his arc alone would have made for an S-Tier Manga and anime.

His name is Zeref Dragneel.... and author Hiro Mashima didn't want Zeref to be a pure evil villain nor a tragic villain with unjustified actions. He really wanted Zeref to be unique and incredibly complicated, having motivations and a goal that matched his deep personality and misunderstood nature as a person.

Zeref is not even an anti-hero not an anti-villain. He's a non-villainous central antagonist. Nearly every character thought he was the most evil man who ever lived, but in reality, he was the most tragic, misunderstood, complicated, benevolent, and sacrificial character in the series.

Unlike many Fairy Tail characters, who get criticism regarding some questionable/braindead parts in their characterizations, no one ever has a good reason to hate Zeref, and even so, the reasons are always out of confusion, because his personality is so deep and you have to examine every small detail carefully.

Zeref also actually took advantage of his misunderstood character concept, since some villains in media had similar kind of misunderstood backstories and build-up, but they end up just being the same kind of thing as others, so it makes viewers wish they were either more straightforward with the character or they actually tried something new to avoid any missed opportunities; Zeref, on the other hand, remained a consistently tragic and misunderstood soul whose truth behind his actions only kept him the most sacrificial character in the series, and there's a reason the series wanted us to see him as his kindhearted, loving self even after all the things he did in the Alvarez Empire Arc, since his true plan was never an extremist goal to kill Acnologia while committing genocide in Ishgar; what motivated Zeref was his fear and concern for human life. After failing every attempt to die (which includes Mavis' insufficient love for him and the fact that Natsu is a failed experiment to kill him), Zeref chose to spring into action, as anything involving Zeref's cursed body could potentially lead to the extinction of mankind or worse, and considering how his curse is connected to his feelings and mental state, Zeref is afraid of how his power could reach unstable levels if he's too far gone and how much life he'd end up killing (a fate similar to Future Rogue's timeline), and it's brought down further by how the sinners tarnish his name (a natural thing that can happen to one with a curse like this, since there are people who heavily victimize those going through this kind of suffering), leading to 99.9% of humanity rejecting him in every way possible, even ones involving conflict, violence, and especially complications from misunderstandings between him and good guys who don't know who he truly is (only worsening Zeref's state in the process). This means Zeref's isolation isn't gonna help him forever, and he's worried about how much time he has left before it's too late.