I like anime but it's practically so large a kind of sub media that it's sort of like saying I like cartoons.

This is me. I technically like anime, but I like dark fantasy, sci fi, cyberpunk stuff, mostly featuring adults/young adults, from the 80’s and 90’s. Contemporary stuff focused on high school life, with or without subgenre, doesn’t do anything for me.

or more properly, animation. it's like - yeah I like tv shows and movies.

What's special to me is that while on the surface this is true, it's also true that the same story that will have a deep gut wrenching politically relevant message, will take a lot of inspiration from a gag manga where a little robot girl plays with poop.