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And with that, my anime ranking is officially over. We started late July, but I'd been finalizing rankings and doing write-ups in advance for a few months before that. Due to some long recommendations towards the end, this also wound up taking a few months longer than I thought it would. All told, this project took me almost a full year! The final word count on the Google doc is 177787. That's a lot of words spent talking about anime.

This whole thing was a lot of work, but I also had a lot of fun with it. I especially enjoyed watching so many different recommendations. Even the ones I didn't end up loving were still worthwhile experiences, so I hope no one feels bad if I gave yours a low score. (Honestly, there are very few anime that I outright regret watching. Even most of the 1/10s were still unique experiences). It was also nice watching a bunch of shows I might've never gotten to on my own. I like to think I went into each of them with an open mind. Also, in the end, we got a decent spread across my ranking, including a new 1/10 and a new 10/10.

More than anything, though, I hope everyone enjoyed following along with this ranking project as much as I did creating it. I appreciated every single comment along the way, and I hope at least a few people will be inspired to check out one or two of my personal favorites! Or you can just pick a random anime you've never even heard of and give it a try! That's how I found some of my own all-time favorites, after all, and even unpopular shows might turn out to be hidden gems that appeal to your tastes specifically.

I might do something like this again in a few years once I've watched another few hundred anime. Until then, I'll be heading back to the anime topic and posting my thoughts as I finish things in there. Hopefully I'll see all of you in there from time to time. I'll keep this topic bumped for a week or so just to ensure everyone sees it and posts any final thoughts they may have. I'd be interested in hearing about your biggest agreements/disagreements with my opinions, as well as any unofficial recommendations of other shows you think I might enjoy that I can save for later. I'd also appreciate any thoughts about the ranking that I can use to improve things in case I ever do something similar in the future. Were the write-ups too long, did you like the Premise/Good/Bad/Overall layout, did I handle the risk of spoilers in a good way, that kind of stuff. After we've had time for that, we can let this topic die.

For the last time, thank you to everyone who followed along with this big dumb anime ranking project! I had a lot of fun with it, and I hope all of you did too.