Magilad wrote:

You only watch 5-6 shows at a time NOW? How much were ya watchin' before?

The_Libertarian_Otaku wrote:



http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-782824/feeling-burned-out-on-anime?pg=0
Read the post before you shoot your mouth.

@ Kaamaru: I barely even read manga anymore. I never did read as much of it as I watched anime, but I did buy up plenty of manga back in the day. I still have plenty of books I've never read. Books that I bought years ago. Only times I ever read scans of anything? Yugo the Negotiator (Up to halfway through the Pakistan arc; unlike the anime, the manga was never brought stateside) and Golgo 13 (Story 1: Operation Big Safe, 1969; Viz's release only had selected stories and it's a long-running series). If I'm not reading manga, I'm reading Game of Thrones (Never seen the TV series), Neal Boortz's books, or other stuff.

Now Adult Swim has Naruto and I've picked it back up for the first time in four years (I'd only seen the first episode and read a few chapters). With DBZ with swords a.k.a. Bleach going into reruns, maybe I'll check this out. Just hope it's not too padded like DBZ and One Piece were. Now where do the fillers start? That way I'll know when to skip to Shippuuden.

The_Libertarian_Otaku wrote:

So I've cut back on anime over the past year, and now I just don't plain feel like starting new shows anymore. Not since Adult Swim started airing Tenchi Muyo GXP have I started anything new. I used to watch SKET Dance here and got pretty far up, but have since dropped it along with a bunch of other shows (Which I'd watched on FUNimation's site and Hulu). I've been a fan since the late-'90s-2000s anime boom. Seen HUNDREDS of different TV series, OVAs, ONAs, and movies. I once watched 180 different shows in the course of a single year. I've watched shounen, shoujo, seinen, josei, yuri, yaoi--everything short of hentai. Like just about everybody here, I witnessed the Great Anime Crash that started back in '07. I've plodded through good shows, bad shows, and everything in between. I used to follow up to 30 shows at a time. Now? I just can't get into much of it anymore. I've even looked back at the anime I've watched and in hindsight, WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING? I've seen so many bad shows that I now regret ever wasting my time on them! And this season? I've kept up on all the news and just can't find anything that appeals to me. It all seems so unoriginal now. I now only follow 5-6 shows at a time. Before I would watch both subs and dubs. Now? I no longer have the motivation to watch subbed anime. Tried starting PandoraHearts--dropped it immediately because the subtitles are timed too fast! I should not have to pause a show just to be able to know what the fuck the characters are saying! Is just watching and enjoying an anime too much to ask? Even went so far as to cancel my FUNimation subscription because their video player kept screwing up. If they're not going to fix it, why bother? I may as well have set $8 on fire every month!

There's certain genres that are now as dead to me as disco. Ecchi, harem, VN, and moe shows (Exceptions: KyoAni's product, the Nasuverse, and a few other series) are now dead to me. Those genres are the cancer that's killing anime! They're holding the medium back. Lolicon? Get rid of it! Only in the last ten years did we finally get past the stereotype that all anime is violent tentacle porn. We don't need a fucking pedophile stain on our fandom! (For starters, FUNi can drop Dance in the Vampire Bund and apologize for ever getting that "show".) Old slice-of-life shows and period pieces set in the time before Christ a.k.a. the last half of the 20th century? Except for Kids on the Slope and a few other shows, I cannot watch them without screaming at the TV over the lack of cell phones! And speaking of cell phones, 2000s anime is already starting to show its age. Flip phones? Brick phones? How fucking obsolete! Nobody or their dog uses those anymore! I can't even look at someone using a flip phone IRL anymore without either cringing or laughing at how backward they are! Where the hell did they get their phones? A time machine set to the Bush administration? Even while watching newer shows such as SKET Dance, I keep raging every time they show a flip phone. GET WITH THE FUCKING TIMES! FLIP PHONES WERE COOL...BACK IN TWO-THOUSAND-FUCKING-FIVE! WE HAVE SMARTPHONES NOW!

I don't know if it's because I've gotten older, or my tastes have refined, or if it's the times we're living in, the fact I've been going out more and picking up chicks, a mix of these, something else, or what. All I know is that I'm burned out on anime. Many of the shows I've seen have suffered from lousy writing (Horizon, Pretear), padding/fillers (Bleach, Naruto, One Piece), cop-out endings (Ai Yori Aoshi, Inuyasha before Final Act, Trinity Blood, Tokko, et al), too much fanservice (Heaven's Lost Property, Mouse), sequels that just came too late (Inuyasha again--why couldn't Sunrise just disregard the first anime and do a total remake that followed the manga?) or just plain shitty writing (Guilty Crown, Arcana Famiglia). Who the fuck wrote this shit--Vince Russo? WHAT? Did Vince Russo write this shit? WHAT? Did Vince Russo write bad shows like Arcana Famiglia and Horizon? WHAT? Did Vince Russo put all those ungodly fillers in Bleach? WHAT? I SAID DID VINCE RUSSO WRITE SUCH SHITTY ANIME? You do not end shows without resolving loose plot threads! You do not pad shounen anime with fillers and long arcs where the heroes take 10+ episodes to fight one guy! You do not cram fillers in the middle of other story arcs! (I'm looking at YOU, Bleach!) You do not set up a show for one premise and then pull a swerve that degenerates into mindless filler! (Arcana Famiglia 3:16 says I just trolled the fans!) It's as bad as WCW after the Fingerpoke of Doom fiasco!

And then you have the Great Anime Crash itself. We've seen so many great companies die a sad, ignoble death--Geneon, ADV, Central Park Media, and now Bandai. If they didn't get all the bad anime I just mentioned, they'd still be around! If the Japanese companies hadn't been such fucking Luddites and screwed themselves and the American companies by clinging to dead business models, these companies would still be alive and well! I don't know which is sadder--this or the Montreal Screwjob! They sat there and they tried shit like Bandai Vi$ual U$A and it didn't get them anywhere! Talk about reverse importation, talk about fansubs....why can't the Japanese companies adopt OUR models instead? As long as people buy the DVDs, they still get the money! Whoever came up with the idea that American fans should pay the same as the Japanese for their anime or that Geneon and ADV should have gotten all those mid and low-tier shows that killed those companies deserves a Stone Cold Stunner off the top of a ladder!

And that's the bottom line, cus Stone Cold said so!

GodWhomIsMike wrote:

ShinakoX2 wrote:

I'm almost 23 now, I started watching anime when I was in middle school - around 11 or 12. There were a few years in there where I didn't watch anime, but i just started getting back into it recently (I signed up for this site so I could watch the new episodes of Sword Art Online ASAP).

But it's not like when I was younger where I would read and watch dozens of manga and anime at a time. Now I just pick a few good shows that I want to follow or watch, but that's cause the rest of the time is filled with other things in life: school, work, video games, social life, etc.
I guess my main point it's good to take a break. You're tastes have probably changed, and you've probably been so overloaded with the same material that you're burned out. Take a break for a few months, or even longer. And when you decide to come back, choose what you want to follow. You don't have to watch every single anime out there to know what's good and what isn't.