Based on the media I would fight someone over, what books would I enjoy?

There is some media I am always willing to talk about, and that I am willing to physically fight someone to defend against slander (slander – not criticism). But as I look over the list, I realize it's almost all movies and TV shows.

Some of this may be from the rereading. I would kill a man over "We Will Teach You How to Read | We Will Teach You How to Read" but I've read it several times. And I suspect if I reread Slaughter House Five I would become pretty feral about it.

So, based on the below, what books/book series am I likely to go feral over?

(I read pretty much everything: fantasy, scifi, romance, whatever)

Dungeon Meshi, Avatar: TLA and the extended universe, Fullmetal Alchemist, Hero Aca

• A lot of this is the clear sense of place that exists. Dungeon Meshi has a whole ecology, Avatar has four states with philosophies that influence character actions, FMA and Hero Aca have histories that are a constant in the world and character building. Think about the Ishavalen Genocide and the notion of how fragile the peace in Hero Aca is. Much of the fantasy I've read has not given me quite the same feeling that this exists in another world.
• Another big part is how motivated the characters feel. This feels crazy to say, but a lot of the action and fantasy series I'm familiar with don't seem to give the protagonists much in the way of personal reason (even a selfish one) to care about the events of the story. For example, I honestly couldn't tell you why Legolas cares about destroying The One Ring.
• Most of the antagonists have very human reasons for their actions. Azula is a bad person who does bad things, but her actions make perfect sense in the context of her society, which is basically just a colonial empire. Himiko Toga is also a bad person who does bad things, but fundamentally, she just wants love and acceptance after her parents treated her like a monster. No one is trying to unmake reality and there are no species that are always so evil they can be killed without qualms.
• Magic is just another tool. It's used to build walls, make electricity, repair broken toys, etc. It doesn't just exist for fighting.
• Characters with fairly little screen time still feel pretty fleshed out. Maybe I'm projecting, but a character like Mirko feels really well developed for how little screen time she has in the main series.

I have a similar feeling of "well motivated characters in a setting with a clear sense of place" in Ghibili's action/fantasy movies like Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke.

Toradora

• I fully understand the love triangle. The main cast and their dynamic is so well fleshed out that I fully understand why both girls would fall for the boy, the boy would fall for both girls, and the girls would be so understanding about the whole situation. I think it's one of the only love triangle/harem series where I buy the situation.

Teen Titans (the 2003 series)

• There are just several episodes that give me so much emotion. Raven's inner world revealing to BB and Cyborg that she's just as much a lost and scared kid as they are, Beast Boy hurting Raven and his first reaction to being told he's dying is "but Raven's going to be OK, right?", Raven and Starfire changing bodies, Raven's confrontation with her father, Starfire dealing with racism, Cyborg reminding Starfire that this is the original model, etc.

I have a similar "there's so much emotion here" in Steven Universe. The tape from Rose to Steven where she looks directly into the camera (and thus, us) to talk about how beautiful and special humanity is, that's a big one.

Your Name, My Oni Girl, Megamind, Despicable Me

• Call me a hopeless romantic, but I love, love, love the importance of love in these stories. It's canon in Your Name, where the Grandmother tells us that the FMC isn't the first person to experience the body switching. It's a bit more in the reading of the other three, where I don't think protagonists could have been able to resolve the plots if they didn't find self acceptance and love (romantic or familial).

This is How You Lose the Time War and Everything Eveywhere All At Once

• Both have insanely cool and unique core concepts, with highly motivated characters. I get why Red and Blue and Evelyn are invested in resolving the plot (Red and Blue have some truly feral yearning, Evelyn is basically trying to save her family for most of the film). Quite a few of the scifi classics I've read (ie, The End of Eternity) have insanely cool core concepts, but I don't always see or believe in the character's motivations
• I also really like EEAAO's philosophy about choice and empathy and finding meaning
• The snorting-tea-cups level of yearning in Time War also gives me life.

Ted Lasso

• I like that fundamentally, Ted doesn't change. His philosophy is tested and he changes on some relatively minor points, but the series overall is basically just confirming his approach to coaching and life.
• Actually, several characters don't change all that much. Keely is the same fashionable girly girl at the start and end, what changes is that we see she is not a one dimensional bimbo

DanDaDan

• Honestly, I lose my feralness with every chapter. I loved the early series emphasis on complex character dynamics and giving antagonists very human motivations (even the Serpoians). But the longer it goes on, the less I see the characters grow (Aira is really the same in the latest chapters as in her first) and the fewer motivations antagonists are given (what did the Danmara want? Who knows!). I also grow increasingly tired of the will they/won't they.

Also, despite how much I said "motivation", I really like Paul in Dune not feeling motivated. He very much felt like a small player caught in the machinations of forces beyond his ability to understand. But, I hated Herbert's writing. It's not often I say the movie improved on the book.

I've been told I'd probably enjoy The Remembrance of Earth's Past (planning to read over The Long December), Earthsea, Diana Wynne Jones' Howl Trilogy (halfway through the first book), and the Discworld series (not sure which of the subseries to start with, tbh).