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.
I used to around 20 years ago. Some, anyway.
But I was always picky about the ones I watched. I had a few friends who liked Naruto and other types I didn’t like. I always found that these two types basically boil down to either:
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Combat centric plot, where each episode revolves around some new antagonist that luckily can be defeated by this new trick the protagonist learned earlier in the episode. Example: Naruto, DBZ.
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Awkward guy spends time with attractive girls. Example: Ichigo 100%, Love Hina.
I really liked Monster, GTO, Elfen Lied, and Chobits. And there was this one drama whose name I cannot remember. I kind of lost interest after having seen those, because it felt like there were too much low quality anime compared to the ones that actually were worthwhile.
EDIT: I remember the other one, Kimi Ga Nozomi Eien. Also, honorable mention: Nana. Great soundtrack by Olivia Lufkin and Anna Tsuchiya
I’m at a place where I still like anime in theory, but I’ve become almost unreasonably picky. I will sit down for the Boy and the Heron, but I have a hard time taking a chance on anything I’m not 100% on.
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…
I’ve been rewatching some of my favorites lately. But I haven’t watched something new in a while.
https://myanimelist.net/animelist/TechnoCat?view=list&status=2
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.
