That's fine.

List five movies you love and why and five movies you hate and why. I'm willing to bet you won't surprise me. There's a long list of anime that I wouldn't recommend because some of it is straight-up freaky and I'm not gonna suggest Takashi Miike to people that I don't think are well within the parameters of liking a Miike film, but no one is suggesting you watch something that wasn't legit on broadcast television.

It comes down to trust. Do you have reason to trust my recommendations? Yes. Do you have reason to distrust my recommendations? Not as of yet. And it's not like I'm asking you to jump out of a plane. And it's not like you started this discussion with "but don't recommend anything with bananas in it because I have a phobia." And it's not like the stuff that's a little weird I didn't put straight up front:

and then we follow a band of guerillas as they try to find their pickup point while also discovering that most of humanity doesn't much mind oppressive alien domination. Also one of the fighter pilots is a transvestite lounge singer named Yellow Belmont because Japan.

But keep in mind: That was deemed so innocuous that it was shown to American kids after school on broadcast television. So if that's some sort of bizarre trigger warning for you, that's the sort of thing you want to disclose ahead of time. Like I did.

Here's what you outlined:

here's a lot of things that turn me off, needlessly drawn out plotlines (Dragonball Z and Initial D come to mind), overly sentimental characters (what's with an emotional monologue in the heat of battle?), weird shit with teenage kids, over the top violence, sex, and gore that arguably doesn't have artistic merit, etc.

So. Either you trust me to not recommend something with "over the top violence, sex and gore" or you don't.

And if you don't, why even ask?