I sometimes click in some random clip of current anime someone uploaded on YouTube, like I dunno attack on titan or chainsaw dude, but that’s it. They look cool but despite having the time to watch it I just don’t feel compelled to watch the whole show.
I guess it’s like the Netflix virus, that you keep scrolling and picking what you wanna watch and at the end you don’t watch anything and go back to sleep. Plus, maybe it’s the depression, but I don’t like when things end most of the time. I feel empty, it doesn’t happen with movies but with anime happens, especially when the main character is a dude. The usual end is that he beats the bad guy (or triumphs in life if the show isn’t about punching people) gets the hot anime girl, and ends… I guess since I can’t get any of that irl it hits me hard.
Always been picky about what anime I watch. Haven’t watched any anime in the past few years, though, my life has been hectic the past few years. I guess I don’t like ‘anime-esque’ anime. Ones with an endless parade of episodes and filler, or over-the-top fighting or magic.
Highly recommend Jin-Roh.
Canaan was a somewhat guilty pleasure.
Anything by Miyazaki.
Black Lagoon was hit-or-miss, but when it hit, it was damn good.
Ghost in the Shell - preferring the movie over SAC, but both were good.
Cowboy Bebop naturally, and, on a lighter note, Space Dandy.
Pop Team Epic is hilarious.
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure I like despite its other qualities. It’s an absolute fever dream that makes no apologies for itself, and I respect the hell out of that.
I wonder if there are any that I’ve liked but forgotten? My memory is like a sieve…
Well an incredible amount is released every season, but just like in the 90s not all is watchable and then only a few titles will appeal to you. Freiren is a new one that I think is up there with the greats but maybe you should try watching some comedy ones instead. Have you seen asobi asobase, uncle from another world or the remastered ranma 1/2 yet?
I sometimes skip shows that I don’t feel I can mentally handle at the time and come back to them later. Part of mental health is adjusting your life to help get your mind back in shape.
Well, most anime has always been trash… like all media. The majority of it is trash, and there’s diamonds in the rough.
Back in the day Cowboy Bebop was a fluke, an exception, not the rule. There’s plenty of easily forgettable anime from the same time period.
I’ve just gotten more picky about my media as I have gotten older, but I also have become more open to watching bad things for the sake of mocking them as I do.
I haven’t watched the Nier Automata anime, but if it’s anything like the game, its a rejection of anime tropes and subverts and overthrows them. The game is very anime-in-style. Most deeply humanist game I’ve ever played and I cried at the true ending.
I never really watched anime but I can speak for a friend of mine : they stopped watching anime because they got tired of the same tropes over and over again, and especially of the unhealthy/toxic relationships portrayed
I would like to think that I have outgrown anime. But in reality anime had outgrown me. The type of shows I like have ended in the 2000s. I can’t stand today’s anime themes and styles.
