Anime that is more than meets the eye
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My Favorite Anime is a column dedicated to collecting the stories of the biggest celebrity anime fans in the world, charting a path from their earliest introductions to Japanese animation to the series and movies they love today with two questions: What was your first favorite anime, and what is your favorite anime now?
Polygon caught up with Yaeji, the Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and producer and lifelong anime fan. Her debut album, With a Hammer, peaked at number 13 on Billboard's World Albums chart last April and was named The Guardian's number 7 album of 2023.
"My earliest memory of anime [was] a show called Nurse Angel Ririka SOS. I don't know if it still holds up, but it was about this magical girl who was also a nurse, so it was interesting."
