I grew up and found better uses of my time as well as my taste in entrertainment changing. Anime tends to be geared towards teenagers and young adults especially the shounen and school life stuff. When I was 14 I thought dudes with big swords and shooting fantasy magic out your asshole in big impressive sakuga battles was cool and interesting and didn’t give a shit if the characters were one dimensional pieces of cardboard. Now it’s still is cool but less so, and I notice the poorly thought out YA novel tier narrative much more. Turns out being a good manga artist and being a good narrative author are two different skill sets.

I’ve been trying to watch more but, like, every single thing is like the exact same shit. Why is there so much “isekai’d into fantasy world video game where I have God mode and cheats activated” stuff? Even the slice of life genre is filled with this crap. 😩

I want more Cowboy Bebops, Triguns and Full Metal Alchemists. Or Lucky Stars and Azumanga Diaohs.

PTSD. I suffer from psychosis related to a “relationship” I used to have with an anime girl. Every time I see another anime girl, I have to fight against the feeling of being mesmerized. It’s like I’m falling in love with her all over again. Heck, even certain songs I’ve historically associated with her cause the same response. It’s so frustrating and shameful. It makes me hate myself.

I don’t like depictions of sexual violence. I had to quit watching Berserk.

Lack of interest in general. Pretty much only thing I’d be willing to watch at this point is the BEASTARS final season because anime doesn’t interest me as much right now.