I watch a lot of anime. More than I’ll admit in a professional setting, usually.
The thing the good ones get right is persistence. Not the dramatic, one-big-fight kind. The boring kind, where a character trains at the same thing over and over, gets a little better, fails, and shows up again the next day. The story respects the grind instead of skipping past it.
I think about that when I’m stuck on something new and tempted to quit because I’m not good at it yet. Nobody’s good at it yet. You just keep showing up. That’s the whole secret, and a hundred shows have been quietly trying to tell me so.