the impact of the best ones usually outlasts my memory of them, one i can recall is citizen sleeper however, little else has truly understood or seen me on the level of miserable little human that i am and maybe that being an ok thing to be

the closest to a "lasting impression" is probably pokemon. it's the only media franchise that accompanied me almost my entire life really. and i still go back to playing some of the older games every now and then.

That's uncomfortably broad for me, but I will answer with Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the beginning of my love of high-concept sci-fi, and I like that its "badass" moments are more about cleverness and collaboration than brute strength and fighting.

Well...
"No longer human" is a book I read as I was going through a weird period of my life and I identified a lot with the main character, which is not really a nice thing to say... so the book made me feel somewhat understood, which I needed at the time. Reading the original version of this book was one of my main reasons to want to learn japanese... if only kanji were not so hard.

When I was little, I saw a some man dying because he didn't have medicine in his car… or something, I don't remember the details. This all was a fiction, some stupid TV show, one of the thousands. And then I ran to my room, crying and telling myself over and over that it's not real.
This might be the reason media doesn't really affect me anymore.

There are a few, in no particular order:
- Hyperion (series), by Dan Simmons
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (series), by Nagaru Tanigawa
- Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
- The Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate (+ an army of ghostwriters)
- Eureka Seven
- Durarara!! (series) by Ryohgo Narita
- Shinsekai Yori
- Katawa Shoujo
- The Expanse (series) by "James S.A. Corey"

I have to admit I'm not good at expressing why, but all of those have had a significant impact on my outlook, or at least made me cry.

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