You're the third person I know who's been experiencing The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles for the first time in these last couple of weeks--clearly a sign I need to get to playing my copy already.
Story my soul is anchored to? That's a good question--I can think of a number of them, but I think it's Digimon, specifically the Adventure and 02 seasons.
It took me some thinking, but I think what's singles them out from the rest is they're not even my favorite works of fiction (they're not even my favorite seasons of the franchise--that's Tamers), but they're the ones I keep returning to one way or another, whether I've revisited them or just saw the phrase "Digimon" out in the wild. Childhood nostalgia undoubtedly plays an essential role in this, but they're also just fascinating seasons for the qualities and flaws that make them up (especially 02, what a fascinating mess that was) and how they would go on to inform and shape my tastes in fiction. They introduced me to the wonders of isekai, character growth, varieties of friendships and relationships in fiction, traumatized characters with mental health problems that make bad decisions, eldritch horror, hot bondage angel/devil women, hurt/comfort, sickfic, tragic backstories, redemption arcs, and the wonderful, wonderful genre of "why am I enjoying seeing my favorite character suffer so much" (aka whump). They're my fandom equivalent of comfort food, and that's just as important as any other story I hold in high regard.
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Story my soul is anchored to? That's a good question--I can think of a number of them, but I think it's Digimon, specifically the Adventure and 02 seasons.
It took me some thinking, but I think what's singles them out from the rest is they're not even my favorite works of fiction (they're not even my favorite seasons of the franchise--that's Tamers), but they're the ones I keep returning to one way or another, whether I've revisited them or just saw the phrase "Digimon" out in the wild. Childhood nostalgia undoubtedly plays an essential role in this, but they're also just fascinating seasons for the qualities and flaws that make them up (especially 02, what a fascinating mess that was) and how they would go on to inform and shape my tastes in fiction. They introduced me to the wonders of isekai, character growth, varieties of friendships and relationships in fiction, traumatized characters with mental health problems that make bad decisions, eldritch horror,
hot bondage angel/devil women,hurt/comfort, sickfic, tragic backstories, redemption arcs, and the wonderful, wonderful genre of "why am I enjoying seeing my favorite character suffer so much" (aka whump). They're my fandom equivalent of comfort food, and that's just as important as any other story I hold in high regard.