Anime has taught me I just need to get hit by a truck to make this really happen

First choice is Kiki's Delivery Service for the food and very chill vibes.

If I could be a character with powers, the bullshit of the Nasuverse is very appealing to me (mystic eyes, noble phantasms, etc).

Jojo. Easily. I need a stand immediately.

And to anyone saying that 99.9% of people in JoJo don't have a stand: that's cool but I'm built different

Living in the Z world would be terrifying, remember Cell going around eating people with his tail? Buu? No thanks. Like you said, Pre-Z Dragon Ball would be a way nicer place to live.

I guess I'd live in the Pokemon world. Free healthcare and cute little monsters hanging around. I'd ressurect Team Plasma and free all the Pokemon, mwahaha.

Jojo part 4 would be nice. I would eat at that fake ass italian guy's restaurant all day and get mega healthy.

Mushi-shi, flying witch, or one of the chill Miyazaki stories. I've had enough excitement, i just want to chill in the cake cafe run by a nice ghost and chat with witches and people from beyond the beyond.

Oh that’s easy it’d be…. hold on, someone is at the door SHIT THEY FOUND ME! flees thread.

I wanna pick a slice of life anime, I was gonna say Lucky Star but that's only cause its the only one I know lmao. Just something low key and relaxing with very small stakes.

One Punch Man

Cuz if you can get in THAT good of shape with just 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and a 1k run, I'd be swole as fuck just doing 25 of each a day!

Shokugeki no Soma, it's just our world but the food is better

The Seven Deadly Sins so that Diane could step on me.

Imagining being something mundane, like a math teacher, in Revolutionary Girl Utena is a funny thought, but not a great answer.

Frank and ChestRockwell already have the most sensible answers, so I'll just suggest Spy X Family for reasons (although the actual politics of of Westalis and Ostania are non-existent).

Maybe Space Dandy, so I could try all the different alien ramen recipes from that one ramen episode.

Sometimes I think it might be cool to live in the Cowboy Bebop future- 99% of people probably never interact with bounty hunters or syndicate assassins, so you could just live as a normal guy but get to visit other planets. But the Earth being constantly bombarded by asteroids would be a bummer. Plus that one lady almost turned millions of people into apes with a bio-weapon, and Vincent Volaju almost killed millions of other people with a bio-weapon. Probably not worth it overall.

As you said, Pre-Z Dragonball Earth has a variety of cool places to explore, plus it has dinosaurs and animal people. There's also some neat cities, and you could visit Penguin Village. Capsules are really cool too.

Howl's Moving Castle has magic and the chill Miyazaki vibe with the delicious-looking Ghibli food, and there's someone to actually stop the idiotic imperialist wars.

I'd live in the Dragon Ball universe

This is a good answer but also for another reason: You can literally do anything with enough hard work. What a wonderful fantasy. Like if I lived in the Dragon Ball universe I would simply work out until I can punch gods to death and then nobody could kill me.

I've been watching a lot of space western anime so shit. That would suck.

Could I maybe just live in the small town from Jojo S3 and somehow not die? That season was basically just Persona 4.

I'd live in the Macross world so I could fly a valkyrie jet and get turned into vapor 3 seconds into an alien attack but by golly those 3 seconds would be glorious

Aria. Obviously it's going to be Aria. It could not be anything other than Aria. Not in a million years would I have even begun to think of an answer other than Aria.

Aria, by the way.

I'd mainly stick to shit that's as close to reality as possible since throwing in all the extra jank that's common to slot of fantasy or sci-fi can really make it harder to live a normal life.

Anything fantasy usually sucks as is because is throwing you back to a more primitive standard of living and socio-economic mode of production. If you're someone who doesn't wash their ass, this would be perfect for you, I bet.

Anything sci-fi usually sucks because it's capitalist hell cranked up to 11. Whatever treats you enjoy now generally becomes concidered luxury items in the future and you're told to make do with eating toothpaste flavored nutri-paste while working your 20 hour shifts for your corporate government overlords. If you're someone who wants to get in the pod, this would be perfect for you I bet.

Black lagoon or steins;gate, or name a basic-ass slice of life, is basically our reality with minor tweaks so they'd probably be the best fit for me. At most I'd go for something spicy like the Nasuverse, but I still think that's a too much.

This made me realize how much it would suck to be in Jojo, be one of the like half-percent of the population that gets a Stand, and then have it be [Papa Roach] or something. 60 years of "My Stand, [Down With the Sickness], lets me infect people at will at the cost of permanently having the common cold and a virulent fungal infection . . ." assuming I don't just get killed by one of the Stand users that I am mutually drawn to.

But critically, it's a tiny portion of the population that has a Stand and anyone else dies if they get hit by the arrow, so living there would be like living here but with supernatural mass-death events that I can neither comprehend nor defend from.

Edit: It's Nichijou, btw

One Piece. I like boats and the fact that you can man a brig with a half dozen people is cool. Also you can work out so hard that you can cut air and lift said ships and light your legs on fire. Devil fruits are cool too.
Also I could revolutionise their sail technology by teaching them about how wind works (they do not understand what makes ships move, as can be seen by the fact that their square rigged masts have three sails as opposed to five. In the 1800's the two largest sails were split in two because we figured out stuff about aerodynamics. The one piece ships use the old style, so they haven't figured it out yet). I'd tell it to Vegapunk in exchange for a rad devilfruit. Would miss diving tho.

Yes yes I know of the repressive aristocracy and all that stuff. If you wanna be dour and "realistic" about what your life would likely be, then the best answer is probably something that is as close to the real world as possible, since you're not risking anything then.

I'm gonna be a pirate in a world were logistics aren't really real and I can get lucky and turn into a person who can control everybody's farts or something and also if I work hard enough I can do anything. What a nice fantasy.

Lupin III. It's basically real life, and I probably wouldn't get involved in any of the nonsense, but the heists would be fun to hear about.

Also Azumanga Daioh. Even more mundane, but it would be fun to know you exist in the same space and time as Ayumu Kasuga... Or maybe I'd get haunted by Chiyo's father.

Patlabor would be interesting. Basically modern day, but with Mecha. The live action sequel states the Mecha have hugely fallen in popularity, because the prolonged recession made their use too expensive - making the Mecha cops a relic of the past and at constant threat of getting axed. So it might even be unremarkable, until one day you stumble upon these huge machines doing work.