I can't enjoy anime anymore bros, there's nothing I want to watch, I'd start something and then don't like it or get bored of it.
I long for the days where I stayed home from college and binged JOJO or Hunter Hunter
Everything new nowadays seems like a gamble, you get invested and then it turns bad, also 70% of the shows are the same exact unfunny comedy thing.
I just can't bring myself to watch anime when I can spend that time playing vidya
This but Vidya and Anime are switched.
I understand you completely then user.
I feel like I watched everything I'd like and don't want to watch something just to consume
Move on to film and literature.
Alright, the door's over there.
I thought the same, turns out new anime is just bad right now. Try watching something older.
Last new anime I liked were Attack On Titan S3 and Mob Psycho 2, loved both a lot and eagerly waiting for new seasons
But it seems like there's no new anime that's good, just new seasons of old already good ones
I hate to be one of those "anime was better in the __'s" guys but TV anime was definitely more adventurous in the aughts. In the last week I sampled a bunch of acclaimed shows from the last 4 years and there was nothing remotely as strange as, for example, Boogiepop Phantom, Paranoia Agent, Kuchuu Buranko, Windy Tales, Kino's Journey, Kaiba, the list goes on. There are still plenty of 'Well Made Shows' like Mob Psycho 100 and Little Witch Academia, but tonally and stylistically they're too approachable for me. They don't really challenge the viewer in any way and can be consumed with no resistance. It's as if every good anime became Birdy Decode - a fun genre exercise but not nourishing enough on its own. Even the bad shows seem more boring; I was never a fan of SHAFT but at least it was fun arguing if a new show of theirs was hack or not.
Attendant to the above is that basically every major anime director is either gone or washed up. Oshii, Dezaki, Takahata, Miyazaki, Anno, Kon, Nakamura all gone. Penguindrum will somehow end up as Ikuhara's best post-Utena work despite being a colossal mess. Yuasa, the guy whose every project used to be unique and sui generis, makes PA Works shows now. Trigger is Gainax without the twists and curveballs, and Imaishi went from making homages to 70s anime to making homages to himself. Koike is basically a franchise director for Lupin now. Hosoda is so thoroughly disappointing he doesn't deserve much mention. Many more promising creators have either disappeared or greatly scaled back their ambitions: Rie Matsumoto, Kenji Nakamura, Osamu Kobayashi, Koji Morimoto, Takashi Nakamura. The only potentially interesting director to emerge in the last 5 years is Kiyotaka Oshiyama, and we'll see if he can raise enough capital to make anything longer than a short film (and anything better than that trash Flip Flappers show). Absent the largesse of a Madhouse or Studio 4C it seems like it's harder for unique voices to break through.
It's not even the "strangness" it's the boldness. Everything nowadays is essentially the same anime.
Same type of humor
Same type of character
Same cliches
You watch 10 you've seen all of them
An anime for something like Kurosawa, pictured in the OP, would NEVER work in this day and age.
It'd never work, no studio would fund it, and there's no directors ambitious or skilled enough to handle it. It sucks.
And I think Madhouse has all the rights to FKMT, Tonegawa was a pleasant surprise
I don't want to derail or hijack the thread but i'd appreciate it if we could circle jerk about how great Kurosawa is and at how much of a retard i was for not checking it out even though i've been seeing the "am i as significant as that ant ?" spread for years and if maybe people knew about similar manga
>anime
read manga
>similar manga
maybe the classic Welcome To The NHK or Tatami Galaxy? They do scratch the same itch for me
Just watch the old stuff then, or grow up and go outside to seek female companionship.
How much did you watch and how much variety did it have?
Find a new hobby
>JOJO or Hunter Hunter
really? that's the best you can do?
>Everything new nowadays seems like a gamble
Well that's how things work in any medium
Nothing. But Seizon Life is decent.
Haven't seen Tatami Galaxy yet tho so can't comment on that.
take a break from instant-reward media and get your entertainment from books for a while.
Gaming has never been better no matter what autists tell you, people forget the shitty stuff
Just read manga like a patrician man does
>I just can't bring myself to watch anime when I can spend that time playing vidya
I understand that feeling, one day you will find a show/manga that WOWs you and gives you the sense of enjoyment you felt so long ago and all this wait you are currently doing will make it sweeter.
Pic actually related, sometimes you just have to take a gamble despite your instincts telling you to avoid it.
I read Watership Down after Kurosawa mentioned it at that one part. It was good.
Same vidya just isn't fun anymore
Good. Now read more literature and start watching film. They are larger mediums than anime and have a higher quantity of good content.
No matter how repetitive some anime get I never get tired because I always remember: at least it’s not western Hollywood garbage. Even the worst anime is superior to the “best” shit performative media puts out in this age.
I feel like that's a pretty bad comparison, honestly kinda doubt you even believe it. Not only are there some interesting or otherwise decent movies made every now and then (Midsommar, Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse to name a few recent and popular ones), the film industry is a lot more global than just America, so that shouldn't be your only point of reference. And the worst of anime is terrible, just unwatchable. That's not an inherent flaw or anything, it's a toxic industry and it's only getting worse.
Holy fuck dude.
Research shows before you watch them, how about that?
Dig through old seasonal charts.
See what was popular in Fall 2008 or some shit.
Stop being so fucking pathetic holy shit
Man, Windy Tales was fucking GREAT. Thanks for reminding me about it user!
Right? It's absolutely killer, and completely unique.
read manga? watch some classics?
like anons said, watch a movie, something classic that is basically guaranteed to be good.
seen The Godfather? it's like 10 hours all in all or something. go watch that.
Maybe anime just isn't for you
>being nostalgic about the Jojo and HXH anime
I predict we're in for a renaissance.
If he's talking about the 90s then it's perfectly possible
On what grounds?
Americans never got the original HxH anime until like 2010 though, and the few that did watch it back in the early 00s probably aren't posting about how they can only play vidya.
It would take anime's current model dying almost completely for that to happen and that's not happening.
I know that feeling
I can't get invested in new series because it feels like I've seen it all before. I used to binge romcoms now when I try to pick up a new one everything seems way too predictable
Probably because it is, anime abuses tropes and cliches more than any other medium
But the girls are cute so we consume it anyway.
>similar manga
A lot of Fukumoto's work is thematically similar