Has your interest in anime declined over time? Have you adjusted your habbits accordingly and started to watch less seasonal anime and instead put a bigger focus on exploring movies and shorts? If so, at what amounts watched did you decide it was time to make a change?
Unfortunately the 2010s have been lacking a lot of the creativty that made the 2000s great. However, I know there are various individuals browsing this board who have been watching seasonal for 10+ years, but I refuse to believe for it to be the norm. I simply can not fathom many people to be this mentally challenged.
Not at all, if anything I've only started watching more new things as time went on. This season was kind of an exception because it didn't have as many shows as usual but I'm looking forward to the next in a week.
John Wood
I've been watching a lot of older stuff from the early 2000's and such recently and enjoyed almost all of it. So I guess my interest in anime as a whole isn't fading but my interest in newer stuff is.
Of course, as time passes, the wheat is separated from the chaff and we can look back at just the positives from that time period. I just can't help but shake the feeling that anime nowadays is just much worse. Going to something like a convention and seeing the bottom barrel garbage that people are fans of really makes me cynical on the medium.
I'm at an all time high right now. This year's been such a drought that I found time to put in real work on my backlog and I ended up finding my niche. Now I'm diving into everything I can find that's similar to it and loving every moment, I'd regret not doing this sooner but I'm having too much fun to be sad.
Dominic Howard
I don't really see the point in addressing comics since they often run for multiple years. Manga readers are unlikely to ever reach this state, given how it's impossible to tell whether or not a work is truly good bad within a 3-6 months. You're forced to wait multiple years for a sufficient amount of chapters. And by the time you've manga, you like don't even remember what year you've started it. I know a lot of people who have like 250+ manga on "currently reading", that I doubt they even have an opinion on eras. It's gotta be one giant blob to them.
There aren't really common types of manga, either. No format stuff sticks to. Some are 10 chapters, others 50. Some are on monthly releases, others have a lazy artist who draws some twice a year. Add the scan and scanlation delay, and it becomes completely random.
Christian Hughes
My interest in everything has gone down. I think that's just part of getting older.
Benjamin Butler
I’ve honestly stopped caring about most anime at this point. Most of the shit I see nowadays isn’t all that great. Although Vinland Saga looks incredibly interesting.
James Brooks
What's the niche? Does something like that even offer enough content? Can't imagine an actual niche to have more than like 10-20 works attached to it.
Nolan Morgan
I don't know if there's a proper name for it but atmospheric dramas, I guess? I've had a vague understanding that I liked this sort of thing for years after enjoying shows like Texhnolyze and Sora no Woto but I finally sat down and saw Haibane Renmei and it completely entranced me. I'm probably going to run out of content soon but thankfully some of the shows have a ton of rewatch value.
Cameron Flores
I went through a dark period for about a year in 2006 where i seriously thought about giving up on anime/manga and becoming a normmie 9-5 average joe.
I was a HUGE Ken Akamatsu fan back then, Love Hina was a my favorite manga, and Negima was quickly becoming one of my favs as well with Nodoka being my top girl. Then volume 6 came out. Nodoka get turned to stone and get fucking shafted hard. Please note I was younger then and didn't have the brain capacity just to let things go yet. This really made me mad. Then SHAFT's Negima!? came out which absolutely ruined everything about the Manga and character designs and personalities. This furthered my anger.
This double whammy drove me so close on giving up on it all. Then Lucky Star came along in 2007. I watched it. Loved it. and thus my love for anime/manga was rekindled and I've never looked back since (though i still HATE SHAFT). Since then I've learned to let things go that upset me for the most part.
Joseph Kelly
I want to chotto matte Akari
Xavier James
I mostly read manga with cute girls. My OCD makes me want to kill myself and manga is easier to enjoy for me. I used to watch every show per season till 2015 when depression and OCD kicked in.
Parker Wilson
Im too depressed to watch anime, I have zero interest in anything. Last time I talked to someone was a month ago, before that a month. I only study and pass time by shitposting or mindlessly watching soundbites
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For me its mostly because of trends I am not really into much of what comes out now, not because I feel its bad but because its not a genre or manga I am interested in.
Ryan King
This. I've seen more this year than I have any of the past eight since I started watching anime. The only problem is when a ton of shit catches my attention at once and I can't pick one cause I want to watch everything so I just end up browsing Yea Forums for 14 hours. That's happened more than a couple of days.
Aiden Rodriguez
I spent the last few years only watching a few shows a year. For some reason my interest in anime has never been higher than it has in the last few months though and i've spent almost every spare second i've had since like late April binging as many shows i've missed over the years as I can. I thought i'd be tired of it by now but I haven't slowed down at all, it's been a fucking blast.
Gabriel Phillips
I've watched 80 shows last year, most of which were from my backlog and I might hit 100 shows this year if I'm really determined
Asher Ross
You're my hero user
Robert Kelly
I'll phase in and out of interest in anime. Some months I'll exclusively watch anime, others I'll exclusively video games and sometimes it spend all my free time doing nothing.
Nathaniel Sanders
well it's easy to watch all these shows since I'm unemployed and nobody wants to hire me even though I have a CS degree
William Murphy
You didn't install gentoo did you
Hudson Myers
I started with 80's anime that was subbed on VHS that my friends older brother use to get in the mail; this was in the late 90's and very early 2000's. I use to watch absolutely anything I could get my hands on and had rented every anime tape and DVD my local rental places had. I started watching seasonal anime in 2004, when I found Yea Forums and Yea Forums after migrating from YTMND. I've been watching seasonal anime ever since and I still watch older stuff that I read about and decide is with watching.
Nope. When I was younger I did consider myself a dedicated anime fan, but I'm finding myself watching more and more series these days - first by trying out a greater number of seasonal shows, and now I'm noticing fewer and fewer drops. There are generic anime out there, or ones just to my taste, but overall I've found myself watching more and more lately.
Justin Wood
I was really into anime and manga when I was a teenager. Now I just watch the really big ones that Yea Forums foams at the mouth for. I still read manga every now and then but mostly yurishit.
Wyatt Myers
I was really into it in my teen years. I kind of got out of it intil my mid 20s. Now I'm more into it than video games and television. Its nice to enjoy media without having to tune out political agendas and subversion.
Jayden Kelly
Hit a wall after 2500+. Can barely motivate myself to watch television anime and stick to movies and shorts instead. But since I've watched virtually every single worthwhile standalone movie and OVA in existence, I am not really watching much anymore. I spend my days waiting for movies to finally be available on bluray and rewatch stuff I've already seen.
Still try to watch seasonal, but everytime I browse through the chart for the upcoming season, read the synopsis and watch the trailer, 95% of what I am reading and seeing already bores the living hell out of me so I refrain from bothering. For next season I've planned 4 shows of which I'll likely drop 3, if the last 4-5 seasons are anything to go by. Can't be bothered to get into manga, either, because they bore me to death. I even prefer reading news articles for Japanese practice over reading manga.
Doesn't help that I refuse to touch second seasons, OVA, movies or specials of anything I didn't at least like a noteworthy amount. So a lot of content gets crossed off the list because the first season was terrible, and unless something has the reputation to entirely different during its second season I won't ever touch it again. So e.g. all the Code Geass movies are off the table, same with Natsume specials and so on.
as a guy who's only seen 200+ anime I know that feeling of trying to get the same high. I pretty much have seen everything when it comes to anime, the best thing that I can recommenced is to try and get into movies, OVA's that are high rated, I'm binging Satoshi Kon works and they just amazing, very mature and straight to the point. In the end, you have to keep in the back of your mind that anime is made for teenagers, so literally the philosophy and plot is gonna be geared towards teenagers
Where do u live, you can make a fortune if you live in California or Oregon
Ian Nelson
I'd post the apu hug picture but I've been banned for frogposting before
Kayden Robinson
My interest hasn’t really declined so much as become more specific instead. With school and work now I have very limited free time and take more care to watch something I think will be worth it. Also instead of following shows weekly I tend to wait until they’ve finished airing and binge watch instead.
Kevin Bennett
That's because your shitty reddit frogs have no place on this board.
Jayden Morris
14 years in and it hasn't declined much, I have no backlog and no desire to watch more shorts. Seasonal is the only way forward and I know most will be shit but I can bear with that to find the good ones.
Angel Lee
I would watch anything back in the day. Now I mostly watch SoL.
The problem is there hasn't been any good SoL shows since 2015 (Colors and Yuru Camp were decent but nothing special). The second half of this decade is nothing but trash.
Liam Wilson
I already went through a couple years where I didn't feel like watching anime or reading manga. But as of right now I have a lot of stuff I want to watch and read. I have never watched much seasonal anime so maybe that's the reason so many people get burnout. The closest thing recently has been getting burnt out on weekly manga. The only "weekly" manga I'm "reading" right now is HXH, everything else is monthly. The content is spread out farther and I'm always anticipating the next chapter.
Yes i have nearly stopped watching a new stuff and mostly watch old stuff from my backlog.
Thomas Wilson
It started on /r9k/, retard.
Evan Moore
If anything it has increased over time.
Christopher Miller
I wish I could get more into manga side of things.
Julian Green
Last two years I've only been watching one or two shows per season. Instead I've been focusing on catching up with longer running shows like Macross, Pokemon, and Precure.
Adam Howard
faster
Jackson Reyes
I wouldn't say my interests have declined, I just have more limited time for anime now and there's also less of the kind of shows I prefer.
