My concerns for the 'Anime Series'
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MrChom
School Idol
Maltos said:
I'd disagree a little, not quite my cup of tea (judging by the OVAs anyway). I'd say that you can find some (arguably) better examples of slice of life stuff with either Honey and Clover, Beck, or Kare Kano.
As a side point, I have four series that, whenever I watch an episode, remind me why I love anime, and so I end up going back for an episode now when I don't feel like watching something....."lesser". Escaflowne, for instance, really remembered why I began watching anime in the first place.
I think the problem is that for the first, say, six months or so of anime fandom you watch all the classic stuff, the Nadesicos, Evas, Escaflownes etc. (Take your pick of the equivalents from your fave genre), then you catch up on recent good stuff, then you look at currently running series.....but these days it's not like even 5 years ago where only the real classics got licenced and imported, or talked about, no. Now it could be ANYTHING....and you will inevitably end up watching one or two sub-par shows. I know someone who got burned out because he would NOT dump a sub-par show...he'd just sit there and watch all 24/26 episodes and suffer.
MaxonTreik
Chuunibyou
I suggest you take a break and watch some older stuff like Devilman Lady and Bubblegum Crisis 2033 when you come back to anime. I've taken 2 week breaks before and those work out fine for me.
I guess many people get burned out because
a) they watch too much crap
and/or
b) they watch a lot to simply to keep up with what's new
and/or
c) they feel obliged to watch anime if they aren't watching any
Feeling obligation is the worst out of those because that means you're just watching for the hell of it. When you watch things for the hell of it, they're no longer interesting.
I guess many people get burned out because
a) they watch too much crap
and/or
b) they watch a lot to simply to keep up with what's new
and/or
c) they feel obliged to watch anime if they aren't watching any
Feeling obligation is the worst out of those because that means you're just watching for the hell of it. When you watch things for the hell of it, they're no longer interesting.
Maltos
Stand User
Well thats down to the arguement about whether slice of life should be specifically about stories that depict a normal life with normal circumstances.MrChom said:
Though YKK may be a futuristic setting it is purely slice of life. It just follows the lives of the characters doing their everyday things.
Maxon said:
I'm neither of those three things because it was 2 months since I touched another anime (The girl who leapt through time). Since then, the only thing I've been watching that's anime in my 2 month period is "Ghost in the Shell" and "Serial Experiments Lain" which I still enjoy very much.
It's not really Shounen that's burning me out, but a lot of the new incoming anime as it is >< Like Paul said, I'm only seem to enjoy "Slice of Life", which I thoroughly enjoy because it's slow, emotional, sometimes romantic, comedy... All those things in a normal enviroment whethers it's in a countryside or a City.
Other than that... I think I'll just take it slow with the anime. And try watching some other shows... Because I certainly proved 2 months isn't a big break for me.
I very rarely re-watch an anime. Maybe films and things like FLCL that are completely random, episodic and short. But even then I can't just re-watch anything-- it has to something a cut above the rest.
I own a lot, and a great deal of it will never see the light of day again (even things I thoroughly enjoyed). I don't care and don't see that I've wasted my money because I'm one of those people who like to admire their collection.
And I recommend watching a lot of easy going anime. I'd recommend all of Aria (as RightStuf/Nozomi have the license and are releasing season one soon), but I think it relies heavily on how much you like the characters, as there isn't really any plot to it. If you try and find meaning to it, you won't enjoy it.
Maybe if you want to still watch anime but are less interested in series you could get or make a list of highly rated films in one or two genres you enjoy, then say randomly pick one a fortnight to watch. That way you should not overload yourself as you will only watch like three or four hours of anime a month, and it should be quality over quantity.
Aion
Time-Traveller
I've been falling out of love with anime for a lengthy period. Like how I used to love playing RPGs and slowly stopped playing them as I got older, leaving me with a huge collection of unplayed games, I've found myself buying lots of anime and watching very little of it. I'm not the avid anime watcher I used to be; I'm now a collector who watches anime when bored.
I've already watched most of the top tier series and I'm at the point where it's crystal clear just how many perverse, kiddy, bizarre and quite simply crap anime is out there. I'm far more difficult to please than I was when I was younger and, with most of the amazing anime in my past at this point, finding an anime that wows me is becoming increasingly difficult now.
I had hoped that Code Geass R2, the sequel to one of my favourite series, would pull me back into anime with more of the same plot twist goodness that made me rate the first series so highly. However, the opposite ended up happening, with a huge increase in fan service and a serious decrease in the quality of the story (unexplained plot twists, unbelieve character actions, subplot removal, etc ) making me drop what I had hoped would reignite my anime flame after only 8 episodes. All that I hoped for failed to be, Code Geass R2 instead turning out to be a good series to view if you want to see all that's wrong with anime - Animation studios trying to please kids/perverts instead of trying to make an amazing series.
There have been a few series since then that have shown me that there are still some bloody good series out there, Ah! My Goddess being one of my last...but I've also watched El Hazard; a series that caters more to perverts than to people looking for an excellent adventure story and Last Exile; a series that looks good but is found seriously lacking in the story department. What I haven't seen lately is a series without a teenage cast, perverted rubbish and all the other stuff that's almost always in anime.
The big problem anime has is that there aren't enough series aimed at adults. When I'm watching TV/movies I want an intelligent story to get my teeth into and not light pornography or simplistic teenage rubbish. I would love it if there were more series that focused on complete (in terms of growth) characters and not the usual teenage characters who are naive and shy around the opposite sex.
I've already watched most of the top tier series and I'm at the point where it's crystal clear just how many perverse, kiddy, bizarre and quite simply crap anime is out there. I'm far more difficult to please than I was when I was younger and, with most of the amazing anime in my past at this point, finding an anime that wows me is becoming increasingly difficult now.
I had hoped that Code Geass R2, the sequel to one of my favourite series, would pull me back into anime with more of the same plot twist goodness that made me rate the first series so highly. However, the opposite ended up happening, with a huge increase in fan service and a serious decrease in the quality of the story (unexplained plot twists, unbelieve character actions, subplot removal, etc ) making me drop what I had hoped would reignite my anime flame after only 8 episodes. All that I hoped for failed to be, Code Geass R2 instead turning out to be a good series to view if you want to see all that's wrong with anime - Animation studios trying to please kids/perverts instead of trying to make an amazing series.
There have been a few series since then that have shown me that there are still some bloody good series out there, Ah! My Goddess being one of my last...but I've also watched El Hazard; a series that caters more to perverts than to people looking for an excellent adventure story and Last Exile; a series that looks good but is found seriously lacking in the story department. What I haven't seen lately is a series without a teenage cast, perverted rubbish and all the other stuff that's almost always in anime.
The big problem anime has is that there aren't enough series aimed at adults. When I'm watching TV/movies I want an intelligent story to get my teeth into and not light pornography or simplistic teenage rubbish. I would love it if there were more series that focused on complete (in terms of growth) characters and not the usual teenage characters who are naive and shy around the opposite sex.