As of summer 2019, anime has become my primary entertainment medium. The thing that pushed me deep into it was I watched "A Place Further than the Universe", an anime about 4 high school girls who go to Antarctica. The thing that blew me away about it was that one of the girls had basically dropped out of high school and was working at a convenience store because she had been bullied by her seniors on the track team for outshining them. My sister went through the exact same experience (substitute Choir for Track), and her response to it was basically the same as this characters (get the hell out and explore the world). I was floored to see something so relatable and cathartic in anime of all places, when the only kind of anime I'd watched until then was the kind of shonen stuff that made it to Cartoon Network in the early 2000s.