What's keeping you from giving up on anime?

What's keeping you from giving up on anime?

The few decent ones that come out every now and again, and the hope that as Chinese and Korean Anime grows, the Japanese step up their game.

Why would I give up on something I enjoy?

Having nothing else to do.

Anime is what's keeping me from giving up on life.

Why would I give up something that is fun to me?

I'm getting close.
I'm only watching one thing this season and only because I watched it's OVA. I'm only vaguely aware of what else is airing and I haven't the slightest idea what's going to be airing next season.

I used to watch multiple shows every season what the fuck happened?

the 3 or so popular/decent shows each year and the 1-2 actually well made shows each year

Being unable to enjoy any other hobby

Its hard to give up something you have been doing for so many years when you don't have anything better to do

No other viable hobby.

Manga.

Giving up? I am having a hard time watching everything I want every season. I love how easy it is to just get some torrents and enjoy over 20 different shows every 3 months. And then it is easy to find discussion here or read the manga/LN if needed.

Compared to the 90s, where we had to trade VHS tapes and VCDs with friends to get bad rip of some mistranlated series every months, I'd say we are living in a glorious era.

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I already did.
What I have no idea is what is keeping me from giving up Sup Forums

My dick

I'm not going to back Sup Forums dammit

It's one of the cheapest hobbies and requires little effort.

Upcoming Galactic Heroes content
Space Brothers eventually returning

That's even dumber.

I recently realised that I don't like anime at all anymore and only read a very small amount of manga regulary, like 12 or something? Which means I gave up before knowing it... Wish I could give up on Sup Forums too

Not having anything else to fill the time when I have to be awake

lolis

I like animation, and its this or Sup Forums.

I don't have shit taste for one.

When the fuck is it coming out though. I haven't heard anything since the original announcement.

the fact that i have nothing else in my life

Cute boys

I actually gave up on it because of the rise ironic weebs and normalfags weebs.

Anime is literally too mainstream for me to enjoy anymore.

Ironic weebs are the absolute worst, even worse than normalfags, and Sup Forums seems to be unaware they even exist.

>giving up on something because it became mainstream
Wew you're even more pathetic than the dude you posted

You're not wrong but I can't help it.

Boredom.

natsume yuujinchou

Wanting to finish my backlog before I die is literally the only thing preventing me from killing myself. If that goes away, I'm a goner.

Porn

The resilient hope that there will be something great among the next few shows I watch. Watching anime is essentially like gem mining. You work your way through an endless stream of dirt and (fossilized) shit, but every now and then you hit a diamond that sparkles like nothing you've ever seen before. And everytime that happens, it is the best motivator you can think of. Because had I stopped a year ago, I woul've missed this? No way I'm gonna let something like that happen.

Autism

This explains why Sup Forums hates recommendation threads.

Stuff with real heart like Uchouten serve as reminders every now and again.

The fact that life can be fucking shitty at times and anime makes those periods bearable I shouldn't have watched Madoka while being depressed

The expectation of a new masterpiece like shin sekai yori or ping pong
anyday now, anyday

>tfw so busy with university, can't even watch one episode a day

It being fucking good

>If I stop watching anime, I won't have anything to talk about
>If I don't have anything to talk about, I can't make friends
>If I don't make friends, i'll be alone
>If i'm alone, i'll go crazy
>If I go crazy, i'll kill myself
Kind of works like that.

I don't watch a lot of anime, so I probably have at least 5 years worth of amazing, old anime to watch, even if all new anime sucked, before it would be less fun to do.

Good memes, good laughs, and good inspiration for writing.

Also it's literally the only type of show that makes me feel any emotion. Live actions shows cannot compare.

Not being old and jaded.

a lack of other hobbies

I'm suffering with you, user.

Id run low on video games to play in my space time. The plus side is I would probably work on my movie backlog.

it's the only thing I care about I don't do anything else

Anime is the only thing in this world I enjoy enough to not let myself starve to death.

The oncoming era of post-anime pioneered by Kemono Friends.

last anime I finished completely broke me and i haven't got the chance to watch something moe or fun because of university.

fml

Cute girls and the silliness.

Even if I had the opportunity to turn into a complete normalfag, I wouldn't drop it as a hobby, though I would stop watching seasonal trash and limit myself to some anime movies.

I find myself watching more and more obscure retro series than I am trying to find something to watch weekly, I mean I usually wait until the BD is out anyway but I find this is a good method to keep me busy until the BD rip is out.

>and Sup Forums seems to be unaware they even exist
I don't communicate with anyone about anime or manga outside of Sup Forums and most Sup Forumsnons probably act the same

Fate/Stay Night's anime, because NASU's insanity is literally my headspace. I've rarely if ever had such a powerful feeling that I was watching the work of someone who I understood. Someone who treasured his childhood chuuni bullshit, and realized that if there was anything legit about HEROES OF JUSTICE at all, the only way to prove it would be to make the poor bastards toboggan down a mountain of shit, broken glass and AIDS, on their face, while the author was using them as a snowboard. And if you reach the bottom and that motherfucker stands up, then shit is well and truly real. andthecrowdgoeswild.png

So maybe anime's not going to be miserable 13 (then 12, then 11, then 10) episode adaptations of unfinished mango, or even worse, one-season adaptations of *finished* mango looking to cash in on the fanbase, then never call back after the pump-and-dump. Maybe anime will still find stories worth telling, and actually tell them.

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You better read the VN secondary

brother

This. I work literally just so I can comfortably watch anime.

Movies are just as shit, kiddo. You could call them spicy shits. Don't fool yourself though, you've always been a normalfag.

I go between getting really into animu and vidya. Whenever I get bored of one I just switch. Right now I can't give a shit about anime because the last few seasons have been trash and a lot of good games have come our lately.

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The crippling loneliness that slowly grows larger and larger as I distract myself from it with endless and mindless anime.

>Implying I haven't given up already.

>You better read the VN secondary

Partway through it already.

I'll be fucked if I play a 2hu game tho

Masaaki Yuasa.

LWA and Uchouten Kazoku

I like LWA overall but some of the episodes are kind of boring. It doesn't help that they repeat how much Akko wants to be like Chariot so much.
UK is perfection though.

I actually picked up a new airing show for the first time in a couple of years or so. Normally I watch old stuff, so I'm pretty pleased so far.

There seems to be at least one show per season that peaks my interest.
Sometimes I just stumble into a show because of memes, though.

What am I supposed to masturbate to if I stop now? It's way too late to stop being a virgin at this stage, I'm in it for the long haul now.

i've been consistently enjoying it again for like 4 years. i took a break because i got fed up with it but picking up every show each season made me like it a lot more.

My backlog, modern anime is shit but there's still plenty from the 70s-00s I still need to watch.

This, but I like listening to you guys, believe or not.

I already have. Now aside from a couple airing shows I just watch toku.

I'm a normie and I still watch anime in my free time.

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Do you space out how often you watch toku? It feels like they get really old quickly to me.

A long backlog of things I want to watch which by the time I finish there should be enough good new stuff to hold me for a bit after that.

>00s
>not shit
That decade is mostly horrid until near the end when animators finally learned how to use digital properly.

I find them pretty engaging. I think it's an acquired taste sort of thing. Almost all of the series I've watched were not really interesting in the beginning.

I feel the same about giant robo, pretty unappealing if you binge watch it.

Japan is never (ever) going to stop making cute stuff so I will keep enjoying this hobby until I die (next decade I guess).

I gave up pretentious 2deep4me and now only watch the seasonal kyoani and jcstaff moeshit

I do read a shitload of manga though

How old are you?

Old enough to post here.

I just remember how shitty western media is.

Try to live longer than a decade then.

My alcoholism, I always need something to watch while drunk and I drink a lot.
Also, drunken anime is super fun.

Nothing. I don't care about anime as a medium. I only like specific things.

This, except my backlog keeps growing.

I hang around here to discuss things I like, I find new stuff that I like, and the cycle builds on itself.

Most western cartoon suck ass, and I hate english voice actors.

I'm ocd about anime and need to finish watching all things in this picture

Kinda depressed in the morning.
Watch one episode of current healing show (Flying Witch).
The warm simple pleasantness of it all engulfs me.
Go to work and make it through most of the day with a bit of joy in my heart.
Rinse and repeat.

Holy shit. There is some real garbage on there. Don't do it son