I used to be just like this, but then I really thought about it over the course of a few months. I came to the conclusion that your life may end suddenly, and I want to watch my favorite things before that time comes. Just like music, film (anime) is a temporal art-form. It is not like a painting, which exists permanently. It exists temporality as the medium it is made in, and that’s how it’s meant to be enjoyed. It exists temporarily, only as you watch it, and that’s what makes it even more beautiful in my opinion. Don’t hesitate to watch something because then it will be over, enjoy it that much more knowing that it will end.
Love that. Kinda reminds me of “how lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” -Winnie the Pooh. Looking at it from a different perspective, as you explained
The painting doesn't continue narratively its stays the same Just like a show thats come to an end. Also anime is permanent. You can always go back and re watch it.
I almost write the same comment, man. I respect Arkada's thinking, but I disagree with him. The feeling that we are mortal and we can die suddenly just makes me want to experience the most I can from life. You know, family, friends and, obviously anime.
That last sentence about don’t hesitate to do something even if it will be over gives me déjà vu. I felt like I have seen this theme discussed in a lot of anime.
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This is absolutely not just a you thing. I've had that kind of feeling twice: first after finishing Hunter x Hunter, and then again after finishing Sangatsu no Lion. It's the absolute worst, because they were both such great experiences. My first thought after finishing both of them wasn't "Wow, that was such an amazing series!", it was "Wow, I'm never going to have that kind of experience ever again." And so yes, I'd say most seasoned anime watchers have developed this wariness about watching anime they know they are going to have an intense experience with. In the case of those two and Made in Abyss though, the source material is keeping me going........ As long as I don't read the latest HxH chapter, there's always more......
I have this experience SOOO MANY TIMES. Both for series that I already watch (and totally love) but cannot continue ( Sangatsu no Lion season 2, Made in Abyss movie 3, and until recently JoJo part 5, and many more ), and also the shows that I KNOW for a fact that I would love, but never get to (Land o Lustrous, Death Parade, Dorohedoro, and also many more...)
Hey you seem like a pretty cool anime fan whose seen alot of anime. I'd like to talk to you about anime in this comment section. The topic is a wierd topic it has to do with L from Deathnote, Miyuki from Lucky Star, Orihime Inoue from Bleach, Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke, Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad. I know pretty misfit group of characters there, but I'd like to get you're opinion on some things regarding all of them.
This perfectly expresses what I feel and why I do that with some anime, the whole concept of once I've watched it then its gone and I'll never get to have it again. This feeling is intensified 100X when I know that the season will be the last. I've had this feeling most recently with Oregairu and Kimi To Boku, but I am glad that I got to experience that amazing anime and the fact that it affected me so much just goes to show what an amazing show it was. But I will always love watching anime and won't stop anytime soon and I am always looking forward to finding the next hidden gem that will make me feel like that again.
We have a saying in Germany: "Vorfreude ist die schönste Freude" which means Anticipation is the greatest Joy. I also have some DVD and Bluray Boxes I never opened, even though they are great shows.
@@Sw3at i'm currently watching brotherhood and i am so confused as to how 2003 became so different like there is just so much stuff that was non canon in 2003 like some characters don't even exist lol
@@crazyBloodmonkey It's because the manga was still ongoing when FMA 2003 started. They had to make their own ending, as there was nothing else to adapt after a certain point.
I've had a very similar experience with Makoto Shinkai's films! I sat on Your Name almost until Weathering with You was released, and have been waiting for the right time to watch that film ever since. I haven't loved everything he's done (looking at you, Garden of Words) but 5 cm/s and Your Name were so impactful for me that I know I want to at least try any film he's made. Part of my hesitation is that watching Your Name left me in a weird mood for like a week and I need to prepare myself for that, but a big part is that I'm afraid of the possibility that I'll know for certain there won't ever be a film that gives me the same experience that 5 cm/s did when I was a kid. But what's ultimately convinced me to watch Weathering with You sooner rather than later, is I know I'm not the same person I was when I first watched 5 cm/s and I'm even more afraid that if I wait too long then his stories just won't hit me the same way anymore, and the possibility of being unable to relate to a movie that could've been one of my absolute favorites if I'd watched it sooner is much worse than my fear of watching it too soon
I agree shinkai movies are not something to watch frecuently, 5 cm/s is an example, that movie broke me like a dry stick, your name is magical from start to finish, weathering with you has good intentions but fails were your name succeded, main characters; and is not a movie that i will rewatch any time soon, and garden of Words.. well... at least is pretty Another movie that i love to watch even more than "your name" every now and then is "A silent voice",
5cm/s relates too much with me it's terrifying. The message drafts that he kept on his phone because he couldn't send it during the 2nd chapter, the mundane 9-5 cubicle job as a young adult, that empty feeling because you know you missed your chance with your crush and now she's married, and that fucking ending song is like a punch in the face that completes my depression package. (I watched it when i was the same age as the mc on the 3rd chapter)
@@Bang_Jaws yes it relates so much and in many diferent ways for diferent persons, in my case was what I didnt said to someone that I loved and how that crush your heart as the time passes on
I sat on Your Name. Because I wanted to watch it when I was finished with High School (June 2018) and I had owned it for 6 months. And it was the worth the wait. My absolute favorite anime movie. But idk if I ever want to watch it ever again because I want to keep my memories and I was feeling back then intact.
I'm avoiding reading re:zero because I know I will love it but I want to enjoy it in Japanese... And learning a language just to read a novel isn't very smart but who cares ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@herlescraft Trying to do the same thing (not with re:zero). Learning a language for whatever reason isn't bad. I learned english so now I get to answer to you , enjoy this video and actually read a lot of mangas light novels books amd many other things (and they are a lot) that arent translated in my native language.
I kind of get how one get to that point: maybe you liked this ongoing series but you don't want to wait 1 week (or more when it gets delayed) , so you wait until it finishes airing to watch it all in 1 sitting, or at least that's the plan, but life gets in the way an you get other things to take care of an you keep postponing it an so on, the real question is "can it still be called your favorite if you haven't wached?" And having watched the rest of the video I have this to add: You don't have to consume EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF MEDIA a series produce to be a fan, I still have not watched the Heaven's feel movies because that was my least favorite route from FATE/ Stay Night, doesn't mean I hate the FATE franchise all of a sudden
I feel like there are a pessimistic and an optimistic side to this; "I might never see another show like this again" vs. "The idea that I might eventually find a show that gives me the same feeling, or even greater, is exciting. I only did what you describe once, and that was when I realized that Sangatsu no Lion was going to be one of my favorites at like episode 6. It was a dark time for me, and I wanted the ability to always watch more. Since the show aired I have seen all of the anime (I am on my 2nd Rewatch) and chosen not to read ahead with the manga. I haven't found anything remotely like it. But I get excited by the idea that I will. And that I might find it where I least expect it. Life is short, and unpredictable. Things might happen that'll leave you with way less time to spend on hobbies. Or make you have to carefully consider if you want to "risk" getting to know something new that may leave you dissatisfied or if you want to rewatch an old favorite. (or you know, unable to continue pursuing that hobby altogether) For as long as you still have time you can spend on lots of anime, try to find the ones you're gonna love the most. Watch anime from every decade, in every format and all kinds of genres. And personally, I want to make sure I get to all the ones I am most excited for sooner than later. (although excitement for various things always keeps changing around for me) There's just so much great anime, that there is no way you could run out of the ones you're going to enjoy, or even love, anytime soon (depending on personal preference, but I still believe this holds true for most people who love anime to a varying degree).
Couldn't agree more. Who knows how long we have to watch all the anime we want, so don't take it for granted and enjoy exploring and binging while you can :) Spend time finding the gems that will become your favourites, and the strange ones you'll remember even if you didn't love them.
i can't do that - i've got to finish. i *have* to finish everything. Whatever it is that i **adore** - i have to 'finish' it. All the seasons, movies, read the manga, all of it.
I'm stuck on Legend of the Galactic Heroes episode 98. Me and my grandfather were watching it together when he passed away I can't watch it. I know its amazing, but in my heart it doesn't feel right moving forward and finishing it cause I feel like finishing it will be the end of that one thing me and my grandpa had ongoing. If that makes sense or not I don't care that's why I can't finish LOTGH, but it's my favorite one of my top 5 anime of all time I just can't get passed that episode. I get what your saying it's a fear of something being finished. I mean it's not something your alone in. Death Parade I wish I could re-experience how I felt first time through and flip my shit when I ask someone if they know it and they don't. I get mad jealous that they get to experience those feelings for the first time.
Maybe you can celebrate your grandpa's life watching the remaining episodes. Or just watch one at a year in his anniversary. You know, turning it into something healing/positive. Anyway, sorry for your lost.
If it makes you feel any better your grandpa got to watch everything that was amazing about LOGH. The ending to the series still has its charm but it's really rushed. With the show having to condense a lot of narrative threads in a limited amount of episodes. The culmination is a fast paced ending with no time to really flesh out the two last antagonists. Hell one of the last antagonists never gets a backstory. Accomplishes nothing and then just dies anti-climactically. Still a masterpiece though and in my top 5 anime of all time.
Ok so the ending is not as good as the rest, but how I bet your granpa would've wanted for you to finish it. Seriously, the heavy message at the end is worth it
I have this issue where I stop watching really good anime when there’s still a few episodes left. I don’t want it to end. I still haven’t seen the last episode of made in abyss.
And now that the film is out you can just avoid watching that! Lol. But no really....the last episodes of season one are some of the most incredible things in existence. I mean that.
Same. I still haven't finished my favorite anime Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid after 2 years. I only ever get to the last few eps and then stop because I don't want it to end. Then the KyoAni fire happened and I struggle to watch any of their work. It hurts to think about. I managed to watch thru a bunch of eps of Love, Chunnibyo and Other Delusions so maybe it will get easier.
Another issue is when you say that a certain anime is your favorite anime, even though you've only seen it once, and that was many years ago. For me, my favorite anime is Fate/Zero, but I haven't seen it since 2014. And even then, only once. I should probably rewatch it at some point. There's many other anime that I remember being all time favorites, such as The Familiar of Zero, Shakugan no Shana, and Eureka 7. I still call these some of my favorites to this day, but I haven't seen them in a good decade or so. I think I'm just afraid that I won't like them as much anymore.
I also have this feeling. It's a bit like being afraid of meeting your highshcool bestfriend that you didn't see for like 6 years. Will it click again?
I did something similar, but I originally watched Fate/Zero in 2013. Earlier this year I rewatched it for the first time all the way through, and oh boy, that was a good feeling. Highly recommend. Now to get over my feelings of wanting to go back and reread Fate/Stay Night in visual novel form. I don't have the time lol
My fav film is code geass which i watched like in 2015 nd then i watched fate zero just after it (i still remember it cuz i rushed fate series just to watch the hyped zero) nd both of them r like in my top tier nd i am yet to rewatch any of those cuz after rewatching it , it makes it more obvious that its the last course nd u won't get anything more Atleast the desire to rewatch exists in me so i keep watching more anime while thinking i will rewatch cg nd zero someday
You can watch it, and then watch it again years later when you have forgotten most of it. We did this with Babylon 5. Watched it on TV, then DVD, and then watched it again five years later on DVD. Did we remember part of it? Sure. There were also parts we forgot the second and third watch throughs. Life is too short. You never know when the bell tolls for thee. Watch it and then there are no regrets. Carpe Diem. You can't assume you will have tomorrow to watch it.
this is me with Violet Evergarden. I haven't seen anything beyond the initial anime, even though it became a very important anime to me emotionally when it released. I agree with the sentiment of "I don't want to be in a world where there is no more Violet Evergarden to watch or enjoy." Heck, it part of why I haven't kept up with reading Spice & Wolf despite owning all the light novels plus 3 of the sequel series Wolf & Parchment. I don't want it to end and be over forever.
Concerning Violet Evergarden, I think you are doing the right thing for now. Both the OVA and the spin-off movie, despite being great, are not as magnificent as season 1, as they replicate that chill-out vibe of its first half. I think it's better to wait some time 'till you have come to terms with the series (for me it might even take some years) and then, when you get nostalgic, you can watch those extras. But I'll be watching that freakin' new movie anyway, for sure I will.
@@Gabriel-nz2bj So it wasn't just me who felt that the OVA and and spin-off were an emotional let-down after the stunning ending to Season 1. I hope the Proper-Movie gives another heart-wrenching ride like the season - it should if the rumors about someone's return is to be believed!
Never clicked on a video faster. Saw the title and immediately clicked! That inevitable emptiness that hits after finishing an amazing show makes me afraid to keep watching on, or even start shows I really want to watch. Bc I know they'll be over before I realise, and I'll never get to experience that same exact beauty, enjoyment and escape again. The end always makes me feel empty and wishing for more. So sometimes it seems better to hold off indefinitely, so you know there's still something to look forward to.
I feel like this is a common expression amongst things that go beyond simply entertainment, but experiences. As we experience more things, and bear witness to media that has the potential to strike us as profound, change your life, etc, we begin to fear that we're running out of experiences that are like that. And for things that are no longer being made, the fact that you could run out of things that give you that kind of meaning is scary. Sidelining to video games for a bit, this first came up to me a few years ago by a let's player called Stephenplays. His favorite series is the Mother/EarthBound series. Its how he met his wife, how he got the life he has, etc. But for years, he never played the first game. To him, it was always safe. He could go play it. Because once he did, it was over for him. There was nothing in that series left, because the author who made the games, Itoi, said the series was complete, and would never get another sequel beyond the third. He will never have that magic again. its really scary to lose the ability to experience something for the first time. In a world where what is "Marketable" and "Popular" drives everything, you have to wonder "how much stuff will be made that will speak to *me* personally?" So many experiences ultimately lack the follow through they need to stay in your mind, where you can sit back one day and still have it stick out in your mind. Not to mention, the rush gets to you. Especially if you marathon something. Like, it goes by too fast, and you love where you're at, but as you slowly approach the end, you have to wonder "what details did I miss that I'll never be able to see again? Is it right to go this fast?" because ultimately, especially if we're trying something new, we don't know what we like until we have it. And when we have it, its the best time ever... but then its over and you feel satisfied, but also empty at the same time. And you have no idea how long it will take before your next love comes to you. If you take a lot of purpose or meaning from these experiences, as a kind of fuel, it means you'll be effectively purposeless for weeks, months, ever years at a time. Having something *there* is a kind of buffer, and its nice. I mean I have several shows and games that I have started but never finished because I know "Its there if I need it" but as I go in my day by day life, and with the world in the state that its in right now, I have to wonder "Will I *ever* need it?" It feels so much safer to be in a constant mixture of "good, but not great" and anticipation-hype, than to have that wonderful, transformative experience. For a solution? I dunno. Its always good to have something in the backburner. As more things continuously come out, there is bound to be a 1/100 chance there will be something to your liking, and that can take the place of your previous emergency joy. But at the same time there is a sense of mourning that comes with it. Unless the writer or director or whatever is still active, that's it. That's all you get, and its terrifying. What I've come to is this: you should always be making progress. But you don't need to rush it. You can watch it comfortably, slowly, like a fine meal, and take breaks between your backlog of quality. Blazing through it is as much of an issue as choosing to never watch it. After you finish something, sit with it, enjoy it, and reflect on it, at least a few days, before returning it to your everyday life. In my opinion, a minimum of one experience a year for something like that (in which case I've been slacking cause I have yet to have my 2020 love yet). yes you should mourn the end, but you should be glad that it is in your life, and added to it. It is something that can never be taken away from you.
I'm in the middle of this now. Yuru Camp is so chill and calm and I'm just not watching it anymore because I don't want it to end. Seeing it in my watching list brings back the feels of it every time and I like keeping it there looking forward to the next episode. I don't usually do that though, so I think it is because of the type of show. A more action-based series I just want to marathon and then rewatch immediately lol
This is literally me with Breath of the Wild...I've been putting off finishing it for...shit... *years* now. I'm taking my sweet ass time getting all those korok seeds and exploring EVERYTHING. Of course I can always play it again when it's done BUT IT WONT BE THE SAME!
I literally would've been the same if it hadn't been for the owner asking me for the Wii U before time limit, so I had 1 week to finish it, luckily I already had finish everything else. Worth it, felt amazing finishing it as a duty after finishing everything else.
This is how I am with Skyrim lol. I have well over 1000 hours in it and I’ve never even finished the main quest. Hell, I’ve never even gotten past the third main quest.
I do this with almost every games that I like. The emptiness when they ended is very hard to bear. Usually I would wait till the sequel came out and then finish them. Just so that I still have something to look forward to again.
@@vanlewens6246 it tries to be smart by naming all the correct names of the guns then turns into some action movie wannabe where only the main characters can dodge bullets and do level 100 acrobatics like spiderman. The mc is trash, with a trash reason for going with medusas group. The plot is almost non existant and its not engaging. And dont get me started on the plot armour and the failed melodramatic moments which didnt have any effect. But if u turn off ur brain and watch it u might call it your favourite anime
Her name is koko and she is loco i say Oh No. Her name is koko and she is loco, i say Oh No. Great anime i watched season 2 a 2ed time like 2 years ago since i cheeked it out at my library.
I have the same problem with code geass. It's my all time fav anime and I would love more of lelouch and everyone but I haven't watched anything outside of the og serie. I think I am too attached and proud of the original serie that I don't want to change anything when it comes to the enjoyement I got the first time watching it when I expected nothing of the show and everything felt so fresh and natural. I might watch that extra stuff some day sure but I can totally relate to the fear of the no more stuff to watch when it comes to your fav anime.
It’s not just a you problem. I’m really glad you made this video cause I’ve been pondering this thought for so long trying to understand why I do this. This also helped me understand why I avoid videos or blogs about certain shows I watch. Thanks for the awesome video. 👍
@@lokkj1641 I didn't realise there was a date announcement for that! (and it's 5 days after my birthday so guess what I'll be watching and crying over)
I FEEL THIS SO HARD AND YOU PUT IT IN WORDS AAAAAH!!! i’m currently doing this with made in abyss, the fruits basket reboot, re:zero, and jojos and i thought it was just me but now i feel better. i also do this when new music comes out lol
Ughh I really want more of FMA. I really want to spend more time with the characters in their world. There really was this void inside of me when it ended and still is.
Hey you seem like someone whose seen alot of anime. I'd like to talk to you about anime in this comment section. The topic is a wierd topic it has to do with L from Deathnote, Miyuki from Lucky Star, Orihime Inoue from Bleach, Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke, Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad. I know pretty misfit group of characters there, but I'd like to get you're opinion on some things regarding all of them.
@@dracognia I have some questions about the characters I mentioned. 1. Is L from Deathnote an idiot/moron? 2. Is Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad an idiot/moron? 3. Is Scheska from FMAB an idiot/moron? Before you answer these questions what if I told you that according to TV Tropes and All The Tropes that these characters are provided as examples of the tropes Ditzy Genius/Genius Ditz? Now answer the questions in you're own opinion.
Clannad is one of my all-time favorite anime, but I've been putting off rewatching it recently, since it makes me cry multiple times, even when no one dies. It's an emotional rollercoaster of an anime for me.
Yes i avoid watching them frequently or continuously Cause i am scared that after i finish it i will lose it,i know everything about NGE but i have only seen till ep 4 i want to watch more but i am scared that after i finish it i will lose it.
Confession: I dropped Eva on episode 20. I don't know how to describe it without triggering anyone, but I found it kind of boring. I'm very analytical and love philosophy/psychology, yet I couldn't continue the show any further. This coming from the guy who finished Serial Experiments Lain and Angel's Egg.
i think it really depends. NGE is special because in my opinion you have to watch it to build your own perspective, especially with the movie end of evangelion after. i think this only applies to a handful of anime
This is me. Usually I'll watch till the last few episodes and then stop because I am so terrified of the fact that once it's over, I'll have nothing left of that part of my life. When I watch an anime and enjoy it, it becomes a part of me. I join along for the ride and when it ends, I gotta move on so I just stop before it ends so it's not over. Something is wrong with me. The only anime I finish are movies or if there's multiple seasons and even then, I'll leave the sequel or spin off so I can hold on to the notion that there's something else. 😭
Your relationship with a work is never "over" Whats wrong with watching more of your favorite show just cuz you dont want it to end? Simply rewatch from the beginning, right? I see lots of pepple not even consider rewatching as an option, let alone reading/playig the source material. I see people get overly concerned about never being able to have that first viewing for that specific show ever again. But personally i have found much more value in what comes after. Because you learn new things about the series and about yourself when you revisit it. That what i mean when i say your experience with a show, movie, vn, ln, manga, etc is never over. Its simply changing. First experience is some with a lot of value, but in my experience, the REAL watch is when you watch a 2nd time. Thats why i never call something a favorite until ive seen it 2 or 3 times and my feelings either dont change or grow.
You answered your own question. I've watched countless anime shows and i rewatched my favorites 5-10 times, and quite a few i watched twice, probably over 100 anime shows i watched at least twice. That was a period in my life where i just couldn't get enough of anime and i was a bit younger. I feel that as years pass, i really want to enjoy that first viewing as much as possible. Rewatching a show doesn't give the same amount of excitement and enjoyment of not knowing what will happen and seeing everything unfold, it will never be the same. I want to be in the perfect mood to watch some anime shows so i save them for that time, if i am not feeling it at a given day, i won't watch it at that time. To be honest this is done only for shows i really enjoy watching and want to have the best first viewing experience i can get.
For me I can watch clips but I never watch over because my list of anime to watch is endless. So this is how I do it. I watch the vast majority of a show I enjoy like 8-10 episodes if it's a short series or 20 episodes max if it's a full length and then I'll leave it and move on the the next anime on my list. The only time I'll finish it is if there's another season, movie or spin off waiting. I might have watched 100 anime by now and 90% of them, I haven't completed.
I rarely watch Manga or read LN, VN or anything of that nature because of time. I used to when I was younger but now I am a grown up, I gotta pick my hours carefully and that means I gotta pick, one or the other and most times the anime will win because I can either multitask or switch off and just let it happen to me.
I do this. I have rewatched one of my favorite series well over 20 times to the point where it was a serious issue of addiction that personal friends had to intervene, so I found healthier ways to avoid that. I still rewatch series if I'm really persuasive of myself to do so, but otherwise I'll try to seek out other means to enjoy the series. Sometimes I start series through LN's or VN's, some through Manga or Games or Anime, sometimes the other sources just aren't the same and offer a different experience, good or bad. But you'll never get the same enjoyment as the first time you're able to enjoy an experience, or the enjoyment of getting to share that experience with another even. It's a very bittersweet conflict that just naturally comes with the passing of time and being able to look back on your life.
I feel this way about anime as a whole. I used to be such an avid anime fan, I loved watching great shows. Now it’s been about a year and half since I’ve really sat down & appreciated a show. Or even finished it to completion. Idk what it’s because of, maybe the fact that all of my past favorite anime’s are on Netflix now & people who won’t appreciate it will watch it & judge it. Irdk why, but I miss that feeling of loving my favorites anime’s
I still haven't watched My Next Life as a Villainess, even though I am certain I will love it after having watched the first two episodes. I always just feel like... basically what you were saying. I want to watch it, but then I'll have watched it, and I'll never get that discovery again. Same deal with getting caught up on One Piece, seeing the end of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, or watching *most* of the Ghibli films... which I *own* and haven't watched yet, along with Log Horizon, Nadia, and Promare. I have so many things that I either own or have the ability to watch... and don't. I often feel conflicted as to why that is as well. I think part of it is feeling like a commitment. I know I'll love these things so much, that I never get around to watching them because of the commitment. I'm *going* to spend a whole day doing this thing once I start, and sometimes, it's just so much easier to watch a random cartoon and not think about it, than it is to watch something I'll truly love.
On a serious note, this is 100% me with my favorite series as well, I haven't watched a single episode of Re:zero S2 even though I want to watch it but for some reason refuse to. Same with Fate/zero & Code Geass etc both my favorite series which I have rewatched 5 times, but for some reason I am unable to do so nowdays. Partly I think it is because my on headcanons/nostalgia have elevated the series for me, so I am afraid the original won't hold up to those headcanons I have of them.
I love everything I see of Re;Zero havent watched it. I love Steins Gate I never watched the last couple episodes of 0. I LOVE what I see of evangelion havebt watched it. I am horribly guilty of this to the point I'm in a but of an anime dead zone. Where I am afraid to watch anything new despite the fact that when I was younger just a few years ago i watched new anime left and right. Noww I'm afraid.
I was so happy to see this video just based on the title alone and after watching it I 100% relate to everything you said. For me, I find that my favorite anime are the ones that take me on a "journey" with them, and when I think back on series I love, it's shows that I took my time watching, and pretty much then avoided consuming anything of them after the fact. I love Guilty Crown, and it took me two years to finish because I worked through it so slowly, and although I know critically it may not be the best, the time I took to enjoy that show made it special at the time. Another series, Kagerou Project, even though I've been in it since the beginning, and I own the light novels, I have never read them! Even though I know the "main story" is in them with a conclusive, happier ending than the other media works, I know if I read them, there will be nothing left to keep me tied to that series I've been in for almost ten years. I used to be the type of person who would chart out when animes released seasonally and watch as many as I could, and while I did find enjoyment in that, now that I've gotten older, its become harder for me to watch as many shows, even though I watch videos about them and know they are excellent and will reiterate them to my friends to watch them. I think part of it may be due to how fast-paced the anime industry has become since it boomed in the west. The switch to much more seasonal anime and with how many shows come out almost demand that people binge or maximize their watch time to experience so many different stories within a few months, and so it leaves little time for discussion and for series to take you on that journey. I have a friend who, the moment I mention any series, immediately drops what they're doing and starts bingeing it, even if they're in the middle of another series I suggested the other day (I am not exaggerating). And while I understand that is a new method of watching series with the binge culture that's been created from the rise of Netflix and other streaming services, to me it feels like a disservice to a lot of the shows. I know a big part of my difference in opinion comes from me having such an emotional attachment to those series, and that did come from the week-by-week journey those shows took me on, even amidst the large number of seasonal anime I watched simultaneously. Fandom culture has created this demand to consume all of a series to discuss every aspect of it the moment new content comes out, but there is something magical about being somewhat blind to certain aspects of it. It's not cherry-picking, but for me with Kagerou Project, I know I am missing a lot of the story by never reading the light novels. At the same time though, I've heard what people have said about what happens in the novels, and why would I read them when I'm content with the journey the songs alone have taken me on? You can still analyze and critique work by its parts instead of its whole, and with media like anime, where there can be so many differences in adaptions from manga, game, anime, film, and live action, however you come to that series, and however long you decide to stay in that part of it, as long as it stays special to you, that is what matters. If you don't rush a series and come to the end of it through your own timeline (whether that be watching an episode each time you come home from work, or by watching it all in one day) and you feel it took you to some catharsis or place of enjoyment, that's the journey that matters.
Funny, that’s the same thing for me for these EXACT 3 MOVIES!! I might add to what you said that this can also be procrastination and/or that we wish to be in the perfect mood and mindset to experience them. But I guess we are overthinking everything and we should simply go for it. Sometimes the most random moments are the best. Thank you btw for reminding me to watch those ;)
This fear is so illogical, it's like tasting your favourite food but not finishing it because you're scared that there will be no more of it left, not marrying the girl you love because you're scared you'll lose the spark after the marriage. In the end you'll be left with only regret if you won't pursue what you love or feel the void afterwards; the former is guaranteed, the latter depends on "how it ends".
I disagree with these analogies. Food can always be procured over and over again and marriage is meant to have new adventures with your significant other, it will never end, at least for a lifetime. As for anime, once you've finished a series, that's most likey it. The creators probably won't keep creating more. You're left with whatever exists that we have access to. Don't get me wrong, I also think this fear is irrational. I suppose I can understand people's sentiment with parting ways with something they don't want to part ways with.
I feel the same about rewatching shows. There's some shows I love and really want to rewatch like A Place Further Than The Universe, Erased and Toradora, but I feel like it I watch them again I won't enjoy them as much as I did the first time so I won't think of them as highly as I did before rewatching, so I just avoid them.
It's "your lie in April" for me. I did rewatch a few episodes of a place further than the universe when the lockdown began and it really had the opposite effect on me in that I became really depressed about being locked up at home while my life is supposed to be in motion
It's FMA:B and Psycho-Pass for me. I absolutely loved those anime when I watched them and have been telling people they're my favourites for years now (now with the caveat that I haven't seen them in a long time) but I'm scared to rewatch them because I have a feeling I will find problems in them and not enjoy them as much.
As an avid fan of toradora who watches the whole series every Christmas because of the tree episode, I am here to tell you that you will not be disappointed and you will cry tears of sadness and happiness for the music alone. It is always worth it to rewatch your favorites i promise
As I've grown a little older and don't have as much time to invest into anime, I've definitely become more picky about which shows I'll check out season to season. I use channels/people with similar tastes such as yourself to expose myself to new content. I definitely also save some series I know I'll love for a rainy day. Sometimes you just want to watch something new that you KNOW will be good. I slow burned Gintama over the course of a few years and it was great knowing that there would be something "forsure" that I'd enjoy.
Love that you're addressing this. IT'S NOT A YOU-THING. :) It's been on my mind several times, including for Made in Abyss (haven't seen the movies either!), and I've struggled to pinpoint exactly why or what this aversion is. Anime that I know for sure I will love, I'll avoid. I think it's partly the fear of it being over and done with, as you explain, but for me I've discovered it's also something else - I don't feel emotionally "ready" to subject myself to what I know is going to be an experience that actually makes an impression on me, a viewing experience that makes an impact. It's like I have to be in the right mood, almost brace myself first, kind of.. If that makes sense. I guess I'm afraid of the emotional experience to some extent. PS: would love to see a video with your views on why it is we feel compelled to buy anime merch, DVDs, vinyl etc. :)
Depending on how much you liked the first one if you think that a show which has more focus on the supporting cast without a well paced but still present plot it's not that bad. Steins gate started slow to begin with but 0 is even slower.
I played the Steins gate 0 visual novel after watching the anime and i have to say that it's better as it explains things more clearly and even contains content that is important to the overall story. So to anyone who's really in to steins gate i suggest playing the VN before the anime. (Or do both if you are able, i didn't regret it)
You just took the words out of my mouth. I feel the same when i like a show i postpone every episode to savour the greatness. Oh and Made in Abyss was awesome.
I definitely feel this with certain shows, and adjacent feeling with others. My want to consume generally overrides fears I may have for sequels, but not for some special shows. In my over 8 year of anime watching, I've still not seen Cowboy Bebop beyond the first episode. I've been told episode 4 is the big one. I know I would enjoy it. I've loved other space westerns, like Firefly. Hell, my roommate and I have a portrait print of Malcolm Reynolds hanging high over an alcove in our living room - both because we find the memeing of the Jesus portrait in that way funny, but also because of a mutual love for the show. But I know once I watch it, that's it. I'll have seen what is essentially THE classic anime. And the thought of not enjoying it is hard. But if I just don't do it, then it can just live on in my mind as this fabled show that someday I'll watch and someday I'll love. One of my favorite bands is The Weakerthans. They wrote songs imbued with pure melancholy, channeling the atmosphere of a cool, overcast Autumn weekend evening with leaves falling around you and the wind lightly brushing against your coat as you walk home from purchasing a record/game/figure/etc you had been looking forward to - it's the end of a pretty shitty year, and maybe it's that purchase talking or the wind greeting you on your way, but somehow you feel a small calm inside you where you can believe that maybe - just maybe - the next one will be better. They found a way to convey lyrics that, had anyone else been singing them, would've come across as too corny or heavy or sappy. They're a special band to me and I love them. They have a couple songs from the perspective of a cat called Virtute, who's caretaker has been in huge slump and barely leaves their home, which is of great concern for Virtute. When I first read the synopsis of My Roommate Is A Cat, I made this connection immediately. And because of that, I don't know if I will ever actually watch the show. It sits there in my "Plan to Watch" ready for me to do so, but I think I'll probably always just have it live in my mind as a connection to that song and that band. It could be a show that I end up loving alongside the song, but just knowing that it's there feels like enough sometimes.
Nope after watching I re-evaluated my own anime and subsequently manga viewing and reading of late since the pandemic began and my recent health hiccups I'll call them. It's a lot to explain but thank you for sharing your experiences of late as they helped the opening process and analysis for me. Looking forward to next time!
When I know or at least strongly believe that I'm going to love a certain show I put it off for how ever long is needed for every factor to be in the right place. I need to be in the correct headspace, have nothing distracting scheduled that could potentially distract or take away from the optimal experience I want to get, have enough time to finish the show AND process it and if it's a longer show be motivated enough. Also dealing with the fact that I won't have that "first watch" experience ever again after finishing. It's immensly comforting to me when I have a bad day and I remember that to cheer me up I could watch show xxx. An example to this would be me taking 5 whole years since resolving to watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes to finally starting watching it in July. And even then something happened that forced me to stop watching half way through. In the same vein it's hard for me to rewatch shows for simmilar reasons, as I know I love them but know they require a certain mindset or I'm saving them for a shitty day.
I think there is so god damn much content out there, that even if I do indulge in the few good things I have yet to get to, there will always be more right around the corner. And there is no harm in going back and rewatching stuff I already enjoy, as sometimes you pick up on things you missed the first time. If it's worth watching, it's worth rewatching.
I've avoided Psycho Pass after season 2. I also tend to not watch the movies in a series. I loved code geass but haven't seen any of the movies. It's probably because I know that they aren't taking place directly after season 2. The only movies I can remember watching were the monogatari movies. Those were pretty good.
@@animusswtor4822 I kinda want to watch the movies but I don't think I could get into season 3. I thought season 2 was ok but it was definitely not as good as season 1.
@@animusswtor4822 i wish i had stopped after season 1, season 1 ended so perfectly that it is still one of my go to recommendations for people looking for a new show to watch. but i loved it so much that i ended up watching season 2 and 3, and i wish i could go back and stop myself. season 2 and 3 are great but nowhere near the perfection of season 1.
Oh yes I can relate to this sentiment! Its like persevering a portion of the Most Delicious food u ever had, a Devine Dish for later. As u said it is the Fear of loosing this entirely, like the end of a journey with no more of your favourite stuff left after. Done and dusted. I loved Kimi no Na but I took a loong time to watch Weathering with You (Both made by the Makoto Shinkai). Monster is my favorite anime, read the manga too. But I did not read the short SEQUEL. Wierdly enough having this thing still left makes me relieved. As for Made in Abyss movie 3 it'll be out in September on DVD/Blu-ray/and even on the Internet. The existing ones are shitty cam vids.
(I know nothing of Made in Abyss, based on your own review it really doesn't look like a show I would like so no worries on spoilers.) I have actually done that before too haha. For that exact reason - both perhaps worrying that I might not like it as much as the rest but also, like you said, enjoying the feeling of still having more to watch later if I wanted, keeping some mystery and excitement. Sometimes I'd say that even as an artist, inspiration and ideas come from imagining what _could come_ of a show, so once it's over that potential feels gone and lost and so too is my inspiration for ideas and art surrounding it. It very much puts me in a different mindset when a show is "not complete" in my personal experience versus when it is. I will say that because of the inspiration factor it isn't always a downer for me to avoid the last little bit. Like I said it can actually help to keep inspiring me and my artwork, even to keep inspiring my imagination and thought experiments, and to me sometimes that is more valuable than the ending of the show itself. I don't have that so much now because I don't watch many shows anymore. Mostly that's just because I pretty much stopped watching any shows or movies for a long time, too many repeats of the same tired tropes burned me out. I am trying to reignite that though, slowly, by trying out new genres that catch my interest. Notably I seem to be a lot more into mech anime now when I used to be not even remotely interested... One withstanding one on my list though is Ghost in the Shell. I've seen probably the same movie three or four times (not always intentionally) and never managed to finish the series, but it's on my list as one of my top favorites. That one's a little special too though because I have to be able to focus well enough to understand what the hell is going on lol. I.... I think I finished the manga? ....Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did. It helps a lot with understanding what's happening in the anime.
Agree. It's nice to have things to look forward to. I want a batch of things to look forward to. Everything has its time. I see people manically try to keep up with everything currently going and I shake my head. Gotta' wait until the right time.
I know of people doing this, and I understand why they do it. The hype about your favourite thing might very well exceed your actual enjoyment of it. But personally I don't think it's the right approach, and I'll tell you why. In short, the after is just better than the before. There is just so much uncertainty about something I haven't experienced yet, and I'll always want to know the truth. If the sequel to my favourite anime is bad, I will want to know it. It won't change the enjoyment I got out of what was before. Most likely though, I'll enjoy the sequel just as much as what was before, if not more. And I'll definitely want to have that. Also, it opens up so many additional ways to enjoy the show. Before I watch something, I only have hope in that it is good. Hope is nice, sure, but it doesn't compare to the actual experience. After I watch something, I can enjoy the soundtrack, fan art, fan fiction, jokes and memes, I can watch videos on UA-cam going into details about this scene, that character or overarching themes. I can share the show with my friends and talk with them about it. And also I can just re-watch it - if you haven't watched it for the first time, you can't watch it for the second time either, which can be another completely new experience. Although I actually only very rarely do that myself, because of another point: I still have a lot to watch which I will like, and prefer to experience something new instead of re-watching. I don't hold off on things I know I'll like because there is more afterwards which I'll like. There are five to ten shows each season I'll enjoy, so even when I've completely emptied my watch list, I'll have all the new stuff to watch forward to. And if I won't, it's re-watch time. tl;dr: Just watch the thing. Usually you can get a lot more out of the experience of watching it and what comes after than just your hype for it. Also there'll be other things you'll like a lot besides it, and you can still re-watch stuff if you've run out of things to watch.
I did the same thing with the Steins;Gate film as well as some others. I eventually got around to most of them, but there is always that void feeling when finishing an anime that I enjoyed so much. I've seen around 210 anime this past 12ish months, so I definitely can relate when you talk about not getting maximum enjoyment out of a show.
You are not alone! I am guilty of the same thing - saving things for later, and yes, sometimes its years later. I do believe that some things come to us at the right time and we shouldnt force them. Maybe there would be something in your life that will change you and then you will know you are ready to watch the thing you have been saving for just this moment. I loved watching Jojo so much, that I am postponing reading the manga for the same reason. I fell in love with Violet Evergarden the moment i saw the trailer and the reviews and sat on it until my grandpa passed away and I felt in me, drowning in my grief and pain, that this was the time for it. I cried rivers obviously and looking back now, I could have never been able to relate to Violet the same way, so yeah... Some things have to be saved.
Yeah, this is relatable. When I really enjoy a show, I don't want it to end. I don't want to recognize the fact that it will end. So I either avoid things like films after the inital series ended, or I go ham on all extra material: Manga, movies, novels, spinoffs, visual novels, etc. But if its just an anime and a film. I don't want it to end, so I make sure in my head, it will never end. (I say "end" a lot srry)
I totally understand your situation and your emotions towards your favorite anime , it is actually very depressing to see your favorite anime ends😭😭 I felt it with many animes , but precisely i should say everyone will face the same problem in the end of attack on titan Season 4 😅
The way I see it is that when you find a piece of media that connects to you on such a personal level you want to latch onto it and cherish it for as long as possible. Konosuba is my favorite LN series but as I continue reading I know I'm getting ever closer to the final volume, the end of everything, and it does scare me in ways. The dozens of hours I've spent reading and watching these characters, all their adventures and experiences that I've seen them go on and all the growth the characters have had along the way will be over. What I'm thankful for is that the story leans on this and at a point the characters are happy and comfortable with the formulaic structure of the series despite it's flaws and feel the fear and pressure of things changing as the story reaches it's end. The characters are having just as much fun as the readers are on this journey but at some point we will have to end this chapter and move on. It's an extremely interesting aspect of the series that has helped me come to terms with other series I enjoy ending or being afraid to watch a 12 episode series in fear of enjoying it too much and never getting any more of it. We have to remember that things are temporary and, while we should cherish them while we can, we do have to one day finish it and move on.
@@TheTyphoon365 Fate (2006) - Fate/stay Night Unlimited Blade Works (2014)- Fate Zero - Fate Heaven Feels (Three Part Movie Seires , 2 Are Currently Out And Third Is In The Works For 2020 Release). I Have Watched Fate 2006 And Fate UBW Just Recently And I Don't Regret It 👍 Give It A Try By Following My Watch Order. After All This Or If You Are Holding Of For Third Movie Release You Can Watch Fate/Babalonia - Khalid - Carnival Phantasm - Liya Without Following Any Perticular Order. Babalonia And Carnival Phantasm Are Recommended.
I recommend Fate Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (ufotable's version) if you want a consistent Narrative. Then the Heavens Feel movies for an 'alternate' narrative.
I get anxious about watching things that I KNOW I will absolutely love and not just anime, this applies to even books for me. I think that's the reason I hadn't watched Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood till 2020 and back in may I finally completed the series with me spending almost a month and a half on the last 12 episodes just because I didn't want it to end. I want to spend more time with the elric brothers,winry, roy, riza, scar, everyone and know more about their world which waa built with so much detail and passion by arakawa. There is really just this void. I wish I hadn't watched FMA. I wish someone had warned me that FMA wasn't just a simple must watch.
Wow, it’s like you looked inside my brain and said exactly what I’m going through when it comes to anime and other media I enjoy. My favorite anime is Made in Abyss and I haven’t seen the new movie yet, I also am still on season 4 of Jojo. That part made me feel really called out- haven’t seen the new season of Re:Zero and told myself I’d wait and binge, but will I really? I don’t have a job like yours so nothing will eventually force me to. Anyways I just thought it was crazy I had this exact same experience
I can relate to this, at least partially. When I love a series, I tend to watch everything that is available about it (unless I've only heard negative things, looking at you Psycho-Pass season 2). But that said, I have a list of shows and movies that I know I'll probably love that I'm putting off watching until I get into the right place where I can truly and fully appreciate them.
Absolutely not. I wish I could though, because I'm THIS close to reading the My Hero Academia manga after binging season 4 a few months ago. I couldn't stop myself. I watched episode after episode, and even sacrificed sleep at some points. That's how much I love My Hero. The only anime I avoid are ones I suspect might make me cry, like Your Lie In April and Violet Evergarden. I'm watching them very slowly, and very carefully, with lots of comedy and slice of life in between.
It’s the same with everything Imagine with books , getting scared to read a chapter , looking for how many pages you still have to read before the dream is all over .. The pleasure always comes from the journey not the final destination
@@sterlingmuse5808 Hey you seem like a pretty cool anime fan whose seen alot of anime. I'd like to talk to you about anime in this comment section. The topic is a wierd topic it has to do with L from Deathnote, Miyuki from Lucky Star, Orihime Inoue from Bleach, Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke, Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad. I know pretty misfit group of characters there, but I'd like to get you're opinion on some things regarding all of them.
Woah. I just tweeted about being scared to finish a popular anime because I won't find anything like it again because it's so unique, and I'm afraid that once its done, I'll never be able to experience it again for the first time. Then your video pops up. I do that with a lot of shows. I sometimes leave the finale or last few episodes so that it never really finishes for me.
I actually really sympathize with you're feelings. I literally just started trying to finish shows I started. I hate the feeling of finishing stuff. But I also hate telling people I haven't finished a ton of stuff I haven't watched like FMA Brotherhood. I still haven't finished it because I don't want it to be over and I love it, but fuck I want to finish it so I know how it ends and I can not be scared of spoilers.
Man, I’ve watched every Ghibli film (including shorts) and I’m sad at the prospect of not having any left (my favourite is Kiki with the 2005 dub that has extra lines by Phil Hartman). I’m also someone who has watched 75/100 of the highest rated anime on MAL and nearly 900 anime overall, it’s starting to feel like nothing is going to dethrone any of my top 10 anymore. Now, there are some shows that I think are great but are taking me forever to watch, like Monster which I started over 3 years ago and I’m still not done, and I’m in a similar spot with Death Note. But that’s more to do with them being pretty dark and me not always being in the mood for that. It’s hard to push through dark long form content. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still finding hidden gems or some new anime that I can add to my pile of greats and my plan to watch list is about 2600, so there’s no worry of running out of anime. I mean, I definitely think it’s sad when you finish a favourite and the journey is over but on the other hand there’s always other shows to watch and fall in love with.
I agree entirely with this. Some shows I enjoy and can watch every time a new season comes out. Others, like Made in Abyss, I have avoided continuing EVEN WITH access to those movies online. I also experience something similar to what you were saying about the last Ghibli film you haven't watched: there are some anime, mainstream or not, that I have discovered, realized I would totally be into a show of its description, and have since avoided entirely, never having started them. I occasionally get the feeling that I should just watch it and enjoy the show, but I always stop right before starting the first episode. One of these days, I'll get around to watching them, hopefully.
I feel the same but in a different way, I personally only fear rewatching shows that made me cry and it's not like I'm afraid of crying... The thing is, I absolutely love crying but only because it makes me feel normal but then the fact that an anime, a drawing with voice overs made me cry kinda scares me because I do not cry in real life, I've been to 3 funerals of close family members and I didn't cry... That's the part that scares me, I can bawl my eyes out over an anime but can't cry at funerals, why? Why can I form a more emotional attachment to fictional characters than I can real people? Real people I have genuine memories with, people I've loved for as long as I can remember. That thought absolutely *terrifies* me. Anime that have made me feel this way are Your Name, A Silent Voice, Violet Evergarden, (ironically) Made In Abyss... And a recent addition to the list is Episode 1 of Oshi No Ko, that absolutely destroyed more than any show has and even still, an hour doesn't go by where I don't hear the words "I love you... aah I finally said it, that definitely wasn't a lie." It just echos in my head with that scene playing over and over and I couldn't figure out what the feeling was, couldn't tell if I was sad, angry, shocked, then I figured it out... It's grief, in my 20 years of life, the funerals I've been too, things I've seen, nothing has made me grieve before and now the first episode of Oshi No Ko scares me more than anything else because I was able to grieve over it but not over irl things. Despite all that, the shows I listed are some of my favourites ever, Your Name is still 2nd place on the list of anime that I'm afraid to re-watch, it awoke a fear in me that I never knew I had, memory loss. I've genuinely decided that if I ever am diagnosed with some kind of memory loss that I just want to be put to sleep if you know what I mean, there's just something absolutely heart wrenching about making beautiful memories with people you love, just for those memories to fade into nothingness. And Oshi No Ko despite all the trauma, has already, within 4 episodes... Hell within the first episode, cemented its place in my top 5 anime and I consider the first episode to be one of the greatest first episodes of any media ever made.
This is not just a you thing. Me and me friends all have this experience, and we call it "the pit." If we find a new anime, we'll often tell each other something along the lines of "watch this now. and join me in the pit (of despair / sadness)"
I can relate in a way to putting off some series, but others such as Ghibli movies and my favorite shorter series I like watching them for comfort when I feel down. I recently rewatched Kuroshitsuji, because my friend dragged me back into it. I remembered it an entirely different way. Watching it was like a whole new experience this time around. I think it's due to two things: Watching and sharing it with a friend and taking the viewing by being totally present, which I found difficult to do in the past. Being mindful and focusing made me see things I never noticed before which made it much more enjoyable on a second watch this time around.
I don't worry too much about this. I will always be able to rewatch movies/series I love. After a couple of years I forget details and plot lines. So it's a joy to rewatch those things.
It heavily depends on how you feel when you watch those series, I love anohana, but due to the time I watch it (been depressed.. lol) I can't watch it again, I did watch it twice but the second time I loved it but that painful, different when I watch for example other series that I love like gundam (original trilogy), oregairu (first season), baka to test to shokanju, gundam cca (well this kind of depressed me more after reading the adaptation of beltorchika children), also tokyo ghoul the manga, that I read since it was "raw" in some page when begin its serialization when it end I was so depressed, I read :re like a month after it begin cause it was painfully to read (cause, in the volume version of TG manga they basically spoiled you what happen in :re, but I read the ending on the young jump... There wasn't an explanation or anything related to :re at that moment it was a tragic end and I hate it with my soul, dunno how I make me read :re when it was announced). The way we save data in our brain depends a lot in a lot of factors, an specific memory can be tied to music or even to how you feel at that time, those electric impulse are related and that's when a new memory is created.... So yeah, what we feel at those moments really are important when you watch or play some material, and sometimes those impulse are so big that every time we wstch that content that memory holds so strong that we began to feel what we felt at that moment, and that's why every time I heard the ending of anohana I cried like a bitch (and also get emotional with beyond the time from TM network :'/). For series like baka to test I read the novels, with gundam I consume basically any material I could get (even studying japanese so I could read the novels), same with TG I could continue reading and also currently watching season 3 of oregairu and I already read the novels and some anthology novels. But in regards of anohana... Couldn't watch completely the sequel movie which was technically just a remake with the perspective of menma with some scenes of a year after the ending of the anime... Just hearing circle game (the song for that movie made by the same band that made the opening of the anime), is painful... I dislike to not end stuff so I will force me to finishing it eventually, but... It takes me back and boy, is really painful.
Guess what my all time favourite anime is MADE IN ABYSS toooooo 😭 and the movie just had me speechless!!!! Absolutely Legendary can't wait for season 2!!!! It's confirmed but ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ it will take alot of time. ;-;
When I read the title of the video, it was a resounding yes but for a completely different reason to what you described in the video but also yes to that too. I thought your title was referring to not re-watching anime that you love in fear of it not meeting your expectations. I do what you describe in the video too but I never really put it the way you did - not watching something in the fear that it will end and there won't be anything more to look forward to. I always thought of it as "saving" it for a time when I needed to be uplifted. I think it's okay to save things but there comes a point where it can be a bit of an issue. It sounds like it might be a bit of an issue for you now. There will always be more good anime to watch. Why deprive yourself of joy? It's fine to be sad that something's over but don't let that stop you from doing things you know you'll like.
Hey you seem like a pretty cool anime fan whose seen alot of anime. I'd like to talk to you about anime in this comment section. The topic is a wierd topic it has to do with L from Deathnote, Miyuki from Lucky Star, Orihime Inoue from Bleach, Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke, Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad. I know pretty misfit group of characters there, but I'd like to get you're opinion on some things regarding all of them.
@@christianwarner3360 lol K. Sure, why not. Granted I have let Clannad, Kimi ni Todoke, Love Hina aaaand Brotherhood rot in my "Plan to Watch" list for years 😂 Anime is absolutely my favorite way to consume media. lol You have a MAL account?
@@yuukichan12 have some questions I want to ask you about each character. 1. Is Miyuki Takara from Lucky Star an idiot/moron/bimbo? 2. Is Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina an idiot/moron/bimbo? 3. Is Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad an idiot/moron/bimbo? 4. Is Orihime Inoue from Bleach an idiot/moron/bimbo? 5. Is L from Deathnote an idiot/moron? 6. Is Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood an idiot/moron/bimbo? 7. Is Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke an idiot/moron/bimbo? Before you answer these questions what if I told you that according to TV Tropes and All The Tropes all of these characters are provided as examples of the tropes Ditzy Genius/Genius Ditz? Now answer the questions logically?
Is that the same kind of thing? For me, I always put that in the same category as anime filler episodes, and so I had no plan to watch it. Then again, I DID watch those OVA episodes for Brotherhood, and I don't think they were from the manga either... Maybe I should watch Milos
This is me with everything. Games, anime, and a bunch of things. I never qualified it like this, but I feel like I avoid watching a lot of things to completion. It might be that I feel the same way as you, but I want to be better. I want to strive to live to the fullest and go for things that I like because they're there.
You are not alone. I don't recall doing it much nowadays, but since years ago I did it with the original Teen Titans cartoon. I never watched the last season because then I wouldn't have more to watch. I did eventually see it, and boy howdy that last episode..! *grinds teeth*
I don't need to watch the video to answer the title. Yes, I am. I've avoided Violet Evergarden and similar stuff for the very same reason that I'm afraid of liking it so much that i wont enjoy other anime for a while.
You put it in exact words and it's great. I'm holding off on watching Stein's;gate 0 and go through the Visual Novel because I know that I'll feel empty after.
That's an understandable point of view for sure. Personally, I used to feel the same way. But now I kinda look at it as Im very glad that I got to experience a certain show or shows and they hold a special place in my heart and gave me a whole new perspective on the world I live in actually. Thankfully for me they were back to back when I first started getting into anime, that I watched all of what today i consider my favorite shows. Berserk, Jormungand, Vinland Saga, gangsta and Banana Fish all come to mind first. I will always be in love with dark action because of those shows and I'm very happy I got to experience them and kind of view everything in the world through a lense of... "Post amazing show viewing" that changed my perspective on alot, if that makes sense at all.. So in a way... Having watched my favorite shows.. my life was just improved mentally and physically too.. berserk and jormungand especially motivated me to work out more lol. So life over all just got better with that anime sitting in your headspace AFTER you finish it, even if you can't watch it again without knowing what it is..
I dont really get this idea. To me, if I love a story then I will actively pursue learning more about the world and characters, even if the cost is catching up and having to wait. That patience can be rewarding too.
What I've done about this for myself is learning to enjoy the different states of things. While it is enjoyable to watch something for the first time, the full joy - for me at least- is not in that original viewing. There are those enjoyable states of existence pre and post finishing of a piece of media, both of which are pleasurable, but to then be able to return again to the beginning and see all the lead up to that inevitable end with full context... ah, there is something special about that too. The state of existence in which no fear of yet unreached knowledge being revealed before it has been discovered in the natural course of the story ( a complete lack of the fear of spoilers) frees a conversation between two admirers of the same media to then be completely forthright with the twists and turns of the shared dream we call "entertainment". Regardless of the type of entertainment we appreciate, once we have done so solitarily we inevitably seek out other admirers like ourselves to share it with. This cannot be done fully and completely without having freed oneself of the constraints of that a fore mentioned fear. So, in this understanding I find myself in a more pleasurable state of existence after consuming a piece of media completely, rather than leaving it unfinished in my mind, still with hesitation for possible spoiled twists and turns in even passing conversations about shared interests. This sounded a lot more wordy, and heady than I was expecting when I started. Apologies. In short: A finished anime discussed is more pleasurable than an unfinished one avoided... At least for me. ;P ~ Adam
This is one of the reasons I enjoy reactions or watching stuff with friends. I live vicariously through them and in a way get to re-experience my favorite thing.
Only thing I’ve religiously avoided is Psycho pass after season 1, just think it wrapped up pretty perfectly and have the feeling a sequel would destroy my initial love for it Also except for some certain scenes I will not rewatch „Girls last tour“, it’s one of my favorite anime/manga ever but everyone I so much as think about it I get f““ing depressed
Psycho pass sequels are great. I really enjoyed both the other seasons and all the movies. You should watch them, they really enhance the show and characters.
wish they stopped after season 1. i watched all of it and everything after the first season was subpar. the first season is one of my all time favorites. but i find it hard to recomend now cause i know people gonna ruin it for themselves by watching the sequels..
This is exactly me. But obviously things have to end at some point. It was me with K-ON, Girl's Last Tour and plenty plenty other anime. Rewatching them or reading the manga helped me, experiencing it again and getting used to that Void which is so familiar yet strange to me. It is not just a you problem, I do it, people do it. I've been putting off a rewatch for a few shows, I want to build up that hunger, wait for the perfect moment, but it never comes.
I did feel like this once, but as I got older with more responsibilities, I prefer to be more selective with what I watch. In the case of Made In Abyss, I binged it on a long weekend. I watched a camcorder version with subtitles of the 3rd movie. It was really well done, it stayed faithful to the manga, which I also binged right after. Now I can go on doing other things while more stuff comes out. Cheers from Calgary!
I used to be just like this, but then I really thought about it over the course of a few months. I came to the conclusion that your life may end suddenly, and I want to watch my favorite things before that time comes. Just like music, film (anime) is a temporal art-form. It is not like a painting, which exists permanently. It exists temporality as the medium it is made in, and that’s how it’s meant to be enjoyed. It exists temporarily, only as you watch it, and that’s what makes it even more beautiful in my opinion. Don’t hesitate to watch something because then it will be over, enjoy it that much more knowing that it will end.
Love that. Kinda reminds me of “how lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard” -Winnie the Pooh. Looking at it from a different perspective, as you explained
HunterXHunter says hello : ]
The painting doesn't continue narratively its stays the same Just like a show thats come to an end. Also anime is permanent. You can always go back and re watch it.
I almost write the same comment, man. I respect Arkada's thinking, but I disagree with him. The feeling that we are mortal and we can die suddenly just makes me want to experience the most I can from life. You know, family, friends and, obviously anime.
That last sentence about don’t hesitate to do something even if it will be over gives me déjà vu. I felt like I have seen this theme discussed in a lot of anime.
I feel like this is the real world version of hording items because "I might need it later"
Hobojo153 alt real world hoarders also exist you know
Compulsive hoarding, also known as hoarding disorder, is a behavioral pattern characterized by excessive acquisition of and an inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment.
"Do I OWN a record player?
...NO."
perfect delivery, that.
This is absolutely not just a you thing. I've had that kind of feeling twice: first after finishing Hunter x Hunter, and then again after finishing Sangatsu no Lion. It's the absolute worst, because they were both such great experiences. My first thought after finishing both of them wasn't "Wow, that was such an amazing series!", it was "Wow, I'm never going to have that kind of experience ever again." And so yes, I'd say most seasoned anime watchers have developed this wariness about watching anime they know they are going to have an intense experience with.
In the case of those two and Made in Abyss though, the source material is keeping me going........
As long as I don't read the latest HxH chapter, there's always more......
I have this experience SOOO MANY TIMES. Both for series that I already watch (and totally love) but cannot continue ( Sangatsu no Lion season 2, Made in Abyss movie 3, and until recently JoJo part 5, and many more ), and also the shows that I KNOW for a fact that I would love, but never get to (Land o Lustrous, Death Parade, Dorohedoro, and also many more...)
Hey you seem like a pretty cool anime fan whose seen alot of anime. I'd like to talk to you about anime in this comment section. The topic is a wierd topic it has to do with L from Deathnote, Miyuki from Lucky Star, Orihime Inoue from Bleach, Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke, Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad. I know pretty misfit group of characters there, but I'd like to get you're opinion on some things regarding all of them.
This perfectly expresses what I feel and why I do that with some anime, the whole concept of once I've watched it then its gone and I'll never get to have it again. This feeling is intensified 100X when I know that the season will be the last. I've had this feeling most recently with Oregairu and Kimi To Boku, but I am glad that I got to experience that amazing anime and the fact that it affected me so much just goes to show what an amazing show it was. But I will always love watching anime and won't stop anytime soon and I am always looking forward to finding the next hidden gem that will make me feel like that again.
Is this the reason why American comics and movie franchises tend to be eternal?
We have a saying in Germany: "Vorfreude ist die schönste Freude" which means Anticipation is the greatest Joy. I also have some DVD and Bluray Boxes I never opened, even though they are great shows.
Are opening any museum 🙄
I feel like Germans have a word or phrase for everything. Two of my favorite words that I have learned recently are Eichhörnchen and Weltschmerz.
This is Gigguk with Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
😆😆
Because he knows he shouldn't make the same mistake that a lot of weebs did, and watch FMA 2003 first.
@@adnanmoin7799 seriously 😆🤫
@@Sw3at i'm currently watching brotherhood and i am so confused as to how 2003 became so different like there is just so much stuff that was non canon in 2003 like some characters don't even exist lol
@@crazyBloodmonkey It's because the manga was still ongoing when FMA 2003 started. They had to make their own ending, as there was nothing else to adapt after a certain point.
Ah yes, this is what I like to call Schrodinger's anime
I've had a very similar experience with Makoto Shinkai's films! I sat on Your Name almost until Weathering with You was released, and have been waiting for the right time to watch that film ever since. I haven't loved everything he's done (looking at you, Garden of Words) but 5 cm/s and Your Name were so impactful for me that I know I want to at least try any film he's made. Part of my hesitation is that watching Your Name left me in a weird mood for like a week and I need to prepare myself for that, but a big part is that I'm afraid of the possibility that I'll know for certain there won't ever be a film that gives me the same experience that 5 cm/s did when I was a kid. But what's ultimately convinced me to watch Weathering with You sooner rather than later, is I know I'm not the same person I was when I first watched 5 cm/s and I'm even more afraid that if I wait too long then his stories just won't hit me the same way anymore, and the possibility of being unable to relate to a movie that could've been one of my absolute favorites if I'd watched it sooner is much worse than my fear of watching it too soon
I agree shinkai movies are not something to watch frecuently, 5 cm/s is an example, that movie broke me like a dry stick, your name is magical from start to finish, weathering with you has good intentions but fails were your name succeded, main characters; and is not a movie that i will rewatch any time soon, and garden of Words.. well... at least is pretty
Another movie that i love to watch even more than "your name" every now and then is "A silent voice",
5cm/s relates too much with me it's terrifying. The message drafts that he kept on his phone because he couldn't send it during the 2nd chapter, the mundane 9-5 cubicle job as a young adult, that empty feeling because you know you missed your chance with your crush and now she's married, and that fucking ending song is like a punch in the face that completes my depression package. (I watched it when i was the same age as the mc on the 3rd chapter)
@@Bang_Jaws yes it relates so much and in many diferent ways for diferent persons, in my case was what I didnt said to someone that I loved and how that crush your heart as the time passes on
Exactly... I sometimes fear that void to
I sat on Your Name. Because I wanted to watch it when I was finished with High School (June 2018) and I had owned it for 6 months. And it was the worth the wait. My absolute favorite anime movie. But idk if I ever want to watch it ever again because I want to keep my memories and I was feeling back then intact.
"Who avoids watching their favorite anime?" is the real question!
to save it for later
I'm avoiding reading re:zero because I know I will love it but I want to enjoy it in Japanese... And learning a language just to read a novel isn't very smart but who cares ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me
Although I really don't have a favorite yet to be honest
@@herlescraft Trying to do the same thing (not with re:zero). Learning a language for whatever reason isn't bad. I learned english so now I get to answer to you , enjoy this video and actually read a lot of mangas light novels books amd many other things (and they are a lot) that arent translated in my native language.
I kind of get how one get to that point: maybe you liked this ongoing series but you don't want to wait 1 week (or more when it gets delayed) , so you wait until it finishes airing to watch it all in 1 sitting, or at least that's the plan, but life gets in the way an you get other things to take care of an you keep postponing it an so on, the real question is "can it still be called your favorite if you haven't wached?"
And having watched the rest of the video I have this to add: You don't have to consume EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF MEDIA a series produce to be a fan, I still have not watched the Heaven's feel movies because that was my least favorite route from FATE/ Stay Night, doesn't mean I hate the FATE franchise all of a sudden
I normally wait for a while before watching my favourite anime in order to keep myself fresh on it, and reestablish my love for it again and again.
I feel like there are a pessimistic and an optimistic side to this;
"I might never see another show like this again" vs. "The idea that I might eventually find a show that gives me the same feeling, or even greater, is exciting.
I only did what you describe once, and that was when I realized that Sangatsu no Lion was going to be one of my favorites at like episode 6. It was a dark time for me, and I wanted the ability to always watch more. Since the show aired I have seen all of the anime (I am on my 2nd Rewatch) and chosen not to read ahead with the manga. I haven't found anything remotely like it. But I get excited by the idea that I will. And that I might find it where I least expect it.
Life is short, and unpredictable. Things might happen that'll leave you with way less time to spend on hobbies. Or make you have to carefully consider if you want to "risk" getting to know something new that may leave you dissatisfied or if you want to rewatch an old favorite. (or you know, unable to continue pursuing that hobby altogether)
For as long as you still have time you can spend on lots of anime, try to find the ones you're gonna love the most. Watch anime from every decade, in every format and all kinds of genres. And personally, I want to make sure I get to all the ones I am most excited for sooner than later. (although excitement for various things always keeps changing around for me)
There's just so much great anime, that there is no way you could run out of the ones you're going to enjoy, or even love, anytime soon (depending on personal preference, but I still believe this holds true for most people who love anime to a varying degree).
Couldn't agree more. Who knows how long we have to watch all the anime we want, so don't take it for granted and enjoy exploring and binging while you can :) Spend time finding the gems that will become your favourites, and the strange ones you'll remember even if you didn't love them.
i can't do that - i've got to finish. i *have* to finish everything. Whatever it is that i **adore** - i have to 'finish' it. All the seasons, movies, read the manga, all of it.
I'm stuck on Legend of the Galactic Heroes episode 98. Me and my grandfather were watching it together when he passed away I can't watch it. I know its amazing, but in my heart it doesn't feel right moving forward and finishing it cause I feel like finishing it will be the end of that one thing me and my grandpa had ongoing. If that makes sense or not I don't care that's why I can't finish LOTGH, but it's my favorite one of my top 5 anime of all time I just can't get passed that episode.
I get what your saying it's a fear of something being finished. I mean it's not something your alone in. Death Parade I wish I could re-experience how I felt first time through and flip my shit when I ask someone if they know it and they don't. I get mad jealous that they get to experience those feelings for the first time.
Maybe you can celebrate your grandpa's life watching the remaining episodes. Or just watch one at a year in his anniversary. You know, turning it into something healing/positive. Anyway, sorry for your lost.
If it makes you feel any better your grandpa got to watch everything that was amazing about LOGH. The ending to the series still has its charm but it's really rushed. With the show having to condense a lot of narrative threads in a limited amount of episodes. The culmination is a fast paced ending with no time to really flesh out the two last antagonists. Hell one of the last antagonists never gets a backstory. Accomplishes nothing and then just dies anti-climactically. Still a masterpiece though and in my top 5 anime of all time.
When does that series start to get good? I lost interest after the first few episodes.
Ok so the ending is not as good as the rest, but how I bet your granpa would've wanted for you to finish it. Seriously, the heavy message at the end is worth it
@@liberalsockpuppet4772 people say after 20 episodes, but i was hooked at episode one, so maybe the series just isn't for you.
I have this issue where I stop watching really good anime when there’s still a few episodes left. I don’t want it to end. I still haven’t seen the last episode of made in abyss.
Yearly-senpai Says the guy with Bondrewd as his avatar 😭
And now that the film is out you can just avoid watching that! Lol. But no really....the last episodes of season one are some of the most incredible things in existence. I mean that.
Same. I still haven't finished my favorite anime Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid after 2 years. I only ever get to the last few eps and then stop because I don't want it to end. Then the KyoAni fire happened and I struggle to watch any of their work. It hurts to think about. I managed to watch thru a bunch of eps of Love, Chunnibyo and Other Delusions so maybe it will get easier.
@@rattlinbones i do not approve of profile pic
….Holy crap.
Another issue is when you say that a certain anime is your favorite anime, even though you've only seen it once, and that was many years ago.
For me, my favorite anime is Fate/Zero, but I haven't seen it since 2014. And even then, only once. I should probably rewatch it at some point.
There's many other anime that I remember being all time favorites, such as The Familiar of Zero, Shakugan no Shana, and Eureka 7. I still call these some of my favorites to this day, but I haven't seen them in a good decade or so. I think I'm just afraid that I won't like them as much anymore.
I also have this feeling. It's a bit like being afraid of meeting your highshcool bestfriend that you didn't see for like 6 years. Will it click again?
I did something similar, but I originally watched Fate/Zero in 2013. Earlier this year I rewatched it for the first time all the way through, and oh boy, that was a good feeling. Highly recommend.
Now to get over my feelings of wanting to go back and reread Fate/Stay Night in visual novel form. I don't have the time lol
My fav film is code geass which i watched like in 2015 nd then i watched fate zero just after it (i still remember it cuz i rushed fate series just to watch the hyped zero) nd both of them r like in my top tier nd i am yet to rewatch any of those cuz after rewatching it , it makes it more obvious that its the last course nd u won't get anything more
Atleast the desire to rewatch exists in me so i keep watching more anime while thinking i will rewatch cg nd zero someday
Yep, end of evangelion is one of my favorite movies but I haven't seen it in years
You can watch it, and then watch it again years later when you have forgotten most of it. We did this with Babylon 5. Watched it on TV, then DVD, and then watched it again five years later on DVD. Did we remember part of it? Sure. There were also parts we forgot the second and third watch throughs. Life is too short. You never know when the bell tolls for thee. Watch it and then there are no regrets. Carpe Diem. You can't assume you will have tomorrow to watch it.
this is me with Violet Evergarden. I haven't seen anything beyond the initial anime, even though it became a very important anime to me emotionally when it released. I agree with the sentiment of "I don't want to be in a world where there is no more Violet Evergarden to watch or enjoy." Heck, it part of why I haven't kept up with reading Spice & Wolf despite owning all the light novels plus 3 of the sequel series Wolf & Parchment. I don't want it to end and be over forever.
Concerning Violet Evergarden, I think you are doing the right thing for now. Both the OVA and the spin-off movie, despite being great, are not as magnificent as season 1, as they replicate that chill-out vibe of its first half. I think it's better to wait some time 'till you have come to terms with the series (for me it might even take some years) and then, when you get nostalgic, you can watch those extras.
But I'll be watching that freakin' new movie anyway, for sure I will.
Me too.
@@Gabriel-nz2bj So it wasn't just me who felt that the OVA and and spin-off were an emotional let-down after the stunning ending to Season 1. I hope the Proper-Movie gives another heart-wrenching ride like the season - it should if the rumors about someone's return is to be believed!
@Kap Yes it is heresy.
@@nicholasdalli6303 @Gabriel Pieralisi
THANKS GUYS Really wanted to be spoiled about the emotional impact :/
Never clicked on a video faster. Saw the title and immediately clicked!
That inevitable emptiness that hits after finishing an amazing show makes me afraid to keep watching on, or even start shows I really want to watch.
Bc I know they'll be over before I realise, and I'll never get to experience that same exact beauty, enjoyment and escape again.
The end always makes me feel empty and wishing for more. So sometimes it seems better to hold off indefinitely, so you know there's still something to look forward to.
Exactly... I have the same feeling sometimes too.
My same feeling with the monogatari series rn.
and never seeing the characters again and imagining how their lives would be 🙃only me ?
I feel like this is a common expression amongst things that go beyond simply entertainment, but experiences. As we experience more things, and bear witness to media that has the potential to strike us as profound, change your life, etc, we begin to fear that we're running out of experiences that are like that. And for things that are no longer being made, the fact that you could run out of things that give you that kind of meaning is scary. Sidelining to video games for a bit, this first came up to me a few years ago by a let's player called Stephenplays. His favorite series is the Mother/EarthBound series. Its how he met his wife, how he got the life he has, etc. But for years, he never played the first game. To him, it was always safe. He could go play it. Because once he did, it was over for him. There was nothing in that series left, because the author who made the games, Itoi, said the series was complete, and would never get another sequel beyond the third. He will never have that magic again. its really scary to lose the ability to experience something for the first time. In a world where what is "Marketable" and "Popular" drives everything, you have to wonder "how much stuff will be made that will speak to *me* personally?" So many experiences ultimately lack the follow through they need to stay in your mind, where you can sit back one day and still have it stick out in your mind. Not to mention, the rush gets to you. Especially if you marathon something. Like, it goes by too fast, and you love where you're at, but as you slowly approach the end, you have to wonder "what details did I miss that I'll never be able to see again? Is it right to go this fast?" because ultimately, especially if we're trying something new, we don't know what we like until we have it. And when we have it, its the best time ever... but then its over and you feel satisfied, but also empty at the same time. And you have no idea how long it will take before your next love comes to you. If you take a lot of purpose or meaning from these experiences, as a kind of fuel, it means you'll be effectively purposeless for weeks, months, ever years at a time. Having something *there* is a kind of buffer, and its nice. I mean I have several shows and games that I have started but never finished because I know "Its there if I need it" but as I go in my day by day life, and with the world in the state that its in right now, I have to wonder "Will I *ever* need it?" It feels so much safer to be in a constant mixture of "good, but not great" and anticipation-hype, than to have that wonderful, transformative experience.
For a solution? I dunno. Its always good to have something in the backburner. As more things continuously come out, there is bound to be a 1/100 chance there will be something to your liking, and that can take the place of your previous emergency joy. But at the same time there is a sense of mourning that comes with it. Unless the writer or director or whatever is still active, that's it. That's all you get, and its terrifying. What I've come to is this: you should always be making progress. But you don't need to rush it. You can watch it comfortably, slowly, like a fine meal, and take breaks between your backlog of quality. Blazing through it is as much of an issue as choosing to never watch it. After you finish something, sit with it, enjoy it, and reflect on it, at least a few days, before returning it to your everyday life. In my opinion, a minimum of one experience a year for something like that (in which case I've been slacking cause I have yet to have my 2020 love yet). yes you should mourn the end, but you should be glad that it is in your life, and added to it. It is something that can never be taken away from you.
I'm in the middle of this now. Yuru Camp is so chill and calm and I'm just not watching it anymore because I don't want it to end. Seeing it in my watching list brings back the feels of it every time and I like keeping it there looking forward to the next episode. I don't usually do that though, so I think it is because of the type of show. A more action-based series I just want to marathon and then rewatch immediately lol
This is literally me with Breath of the Wild...I've been putting off finishing it for...shit... *years* now. I'm taking my sweet ass time getting all those korok seeds and exploring EVERYTHING. Of course I can always play it again when it's done BUT IT WONT BE THE SAME!
I feel that. I got it when it came out and I just finally beat Gannon a couple days ago.
I literally would've been the same if it hadn't been for the owner asking me for the Wii U before time limit, so I had 1 week to finish it, luckily I already had finish everything else. Worth it, felt amazing finishing it as a duty after finishing everything else.
Oh fuck this is me too, I literally just out my save on hold whilst my brother has already finished it more than once
This is how I am with Skyrim lol. I have well over 1000 hours in it and I’ve never even finished the main quest. Hell, I’ve never even gotten past the third main quest.
I do this with almost every games that I like. The emptiness when they ended is very hard to bear. Usually I would wait till the sequel came out and then finish them. Just so that I still have something to look forward to again.
Hard relate. It takes me months to finish like a 2 season anime. Literally JUST finished Jormungand because I didn't want it to end.
jormungand is bad
@@dfeelres1704 It's not bad but it's not great either, it's a decent show to get entertained for a bit lol
@@dfeelres1704 why?
@@vanlewens6246 it tries to be smart by naming all the correct names of the guns then turns into some action movie wannabe where only the main characters can dodge bullets and do level 100 acrobatics like spiderman. The mc is trash, with a trash reason for going with medusas group. The plot is almost non existant and its not engaging. And dont get me started on the plot armour and the failed melodramatic moments which didnt have any effect.
But if u turn off ur brain and watch it u might call it your favourite anime
Her name is koko and she is loco i say Oh No. Her name is koko and she is loco, i say Oh No. Great anime i watched season 2 a 2ed time like 2 years ago since i cheeked it out at my library.
I have the same problem with code geass. It's my all time fav anime and I would love more of lelouch and everyone but I haven't watched anything outside of the og serie. I think I am too attached and proud of the original serie that I don't want to change anything when it comes to the enjoyement I got the first time watching it when I expected nothing of the show and everything felt so fresh and natural.
I might watch that extra stuff some day sure but I can totally relate to the fear of the no more stuff to watch when it comes to your fav anime.
I'm siting on code grass for 3 years now I only watched first 12 eps. And loved it.
It’s not just a you problem. I’m really glad you made this video cause I’ve been pondering this thought for so long trying to understand why I do this. This also helped me understand why I avoid videos or blogs about certain shows I watch. Thanks for the awesome video. 👍
Confession: I want to see Arkada with a beard.
Okay a little moustache will also do
I second that.
Agreed
A beard would be cool
Confession: I want to see Arkada stop acting like a girl
Solid Snake - a beard would help. Maybe he should hit the gym
reason he didn't watch the movie: deep and emotional
reason i didnt watch that movie: cant pirate it and thats problematic.
Same with me lol, the blue ray version is coming out on the 25th of September then it will be widely available online
@@lokkj1641 I didn't realise there was a date announcement for that! (and it's 5 days after my birthday so guess what I'll be watching and crying over)
@@lokkj1641 wait are you serious? thats today wtf? time to head for nyaa
@@privatemak8901
25th September not August
@@lokkj1641 shit yeah i checked
And i'm just over here: "I'm avoiding this because i can't emotionally handle that thing right now, sooooo i just... not... gonaa deal with it."
Yeah... I can relate
oyasumi punpun....is the one for me...i want to start it but not in the correct frame of mind
I FEEL THIS SO HARD AND YOU PUT IT IN WORDS AAAAAH!!! i’m currently doing this with made in abyss, the fruits basket reboot, re:zero, and jojos and i thought it was just me but now i feel better. i also do this when new music comes out lol
I relate to this suffering! This is LITERALLY me with FullMetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and other FMA material
Ughh I really want more of FMA. I really want to spend more time with the characters in their world. There really was this void inside of me when it ended and still is.
Took me 5 months to watch "Rascal does not dream of a dreaming girl" beforehand I knew it would be an emotional rollercoaster
I still haven't watched it. I want to wait awhile so if there is a sequel it won't be too long of a wait.
@@Kage-jk4pj tbf both the TV series and the movie end satisfyingly narratively
What a strange title, like what does that even mean lol
@@Kage-jk4pj I think the whole series has ended and there wont be a sequel to the movie
@@TheTyphoon365 watch it and you will know.
I didn't watch "A Silent Voice" for two years despite owning it, knowing full well that it was probably a masterpiece (which it is)
Hey you seem like someone whose seen alot of anime. I'd like to talk to you about anime in this comment section. The topic is a wierd topic it has to do with L from Deathnote, Miyuki from Lucky Star, Orihime Inoue from Bleach, Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke, Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad. I know pretty misfit group of characters there, but I'd like to get you're opinion on some things regarding all of them.
@@christianwarner3360 Have only seen Death Note, FMA/FMA:B and Clannad, so can't help with those other characters
@@dracognia I have some questions about the characters I mentioned.
1. Is L from Deathnote an idiot/moron?
2. Is Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad an idiot/moron?
3. Is Scheska from FMAB an idiot/moron?
Before you answer these questions what if I told you that according to TV Tropes and All The Tropes that these characters are provided as examples of the tropes Ditzy Genius/Genius Ditz? Now answer the questions in you're own opinion.
Clannad is one of my all-time favorite anime, but I've been putting off rewatching it recently, since it makes me cry multiple times, even when no one dies. It's an emotional rollercoaster of an anime for me.
Yes i avoid watching them frequently or continuously Cause i am scared that after i finish it i will lose it,i know everything about NGE but i have only seen till ep 4 i want to watch more but i am scared that after i finish it i will lose it.
Confession: I dropped Eva on episode 20. I don't know how to describe it without triggering anyone, but I found it kind of boring. I'm very analytical and love philosophy/psychology, yet I couldn't continue the show any further. This coming from the guy who finished Serial Experiments Lain and Angel's Egg.
i think it really depends. NGE is special because in my opinion you have to watch it to build your own perspective, especially with the movie end of evangelion after. i think this only applies to a handful of anime
@@00HoODBoy you are right but i know just everything about it and i want to watch more of it but i know if i do I will get really bad Depression
@@dopehub5875 ye i hear you, best to get out of the mindset though and make a decision for one of the two and stay wit it. good luck
This is me. Usually I'll watch till the last few episodes and then stop because I am so terrified of the fact that once it's over, I'll have nothing left of that part of my life. When I watch an anime and enjoy it, it becomes a part of me. I join along for the ride and when it ends, I gotta move on so I just stop before it ends so it's not over. Something is wrong with me.
The only anime I finish are movies or if there's multiple seasons and even then, I'll leave the sequel or spin off so I can hold on to the notion that there's something else. 😭
Your relationship with a work is never "over"
Whats wrong with watching more of your favorite show just cuz you dont want it to end? Simply rewatch from the beginning, right? I see lots of pepple not even consider rewatching as an option, let alone reading/playig the source material. I see people get overly concerned about never being able to have that first viewing for that specific show ever again.
But personally i have found much more value in what comes after. Because you learn new things about the series and about yourself when you revisit it. That what i mean when i say your experience with a show, movie, vn, ln, manga, etc is never over. Its simply changing. First experience is some with a lot of value, but in my experience, the REAL watch is when you watch a 2nd time.
Thats why i never call something a favorite until ive seen it 2 or 3 times and my feelings either dont change or grow.
You answered your own question. I've watched countless anime shows and i rewatched my favorites 5-10 times, and quite a few i watched twice, probably over 100 anime shows i watched at least twice.
That was a period in my life where i just couldn't get enough of anime and i was a bit younger. I feel that as years pass, i really want to enjoy that first viewing as much as possible. Rewatching a show doesn't give the same amount of excitement and enjoyment of not knowing what will happen and seeing everything unfold, it will never be the same.
I want to be in the perfect mood to watch some anime shows so i save them for that time, if i am not feeling it at a given day, i won't watch it at that time. To be honest this is done only for shows i really enjoy watching and want to have the best first viewing experience i can get.
Amen, doesn't work as well for all shows but my absolute favourites have been rewatched to oblivion and I still love them
For me I can watch clips but I never watch over because my list of anime to watch is endless.
So this is how I do it. I watch the vast majority of a show I enjoy like 8-10 episodes if it's a short series or 20 episodes max if it's a full length and then I'll leave it and move on the the next anime on my list.
The only time I'll finish it is if there's another season, movie or spin off waiting. I might have watched 100 anime by now and 90% of them, I haven't completed.
I rarely watch Manga or read LN, VN or anything of that nature because of time. I used to when I was younger but now I am a grown up, I gotta pick my hours carefully and that means I gotta pick, one or the other and most times the anime will win because I can either multitask or switch off and just let it happen to me.
I do this. I have rewatched one of my favorite series well over 20 times to the point where it was a serious issue of addiction that personal friends had to intervene, so I found healthier ways to avoid that. I still rewatch series if I'm really persuasive of myself to do so, but otherwise I'll try to seek out other means to enjoy the series. Sometimes I start series through LN's or VN's, some through Manga or Games or Anime, sometimes the other sources just aren't the same and offer a different experience, good or bad. But you'll never get the same enjoyment as the first time you're able to enjoy an experience, or the enjoyment of getting to share that experience with another even. It's a very bittersweet conflict that just naturally comes with the passing of time and being able to look back on your life.
I feel this way about anime as a whole. I used to be such an avid anime fan, I loved watching great shows. Now it’s been about a year and half since I’ve really sat down & appreciated a show. Or even finished it to completion. Idk what it’s because of, maybe the fact that all of my past favorite anime’s are on Netflix now & people who won’t appreciate it will watch it & judge it. Irdk why, but I miss that feeling of loving my favorites anime’s
I still haven't watched My Next Life as a Villainess, even though I am certain I will love it after having watched the first two episodes. I always just feel like... basically what you were saying. I want to watch it, but then I'll have watched it, and I'll never get that discovery again. Same deal with getting caught up on One Piece, seeing the end of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, or watching *most* of the Ghibli films... which I *own* and haven't watched yet, along with Log Horizon, Nadia, and Promare. I have so many things that I either own or have the ability to watch... and don't. I often feel conflicted as to why that is as well.
I think part of it is feeling like a commitment. I know I'll love these things so much, that I never get around to watching them because of the commitment. I'm *going* to spend a whole day doing this thing once I start, and sometimes, it's just so much easier to watch a random cartoon and not think about it, than it is to watch something I'll truly love.
This is way too bizarre. I have been avoiding watching Made in Abyss. I have it sitting in my DVD collection right now.
this is an attack against my person, and I don't like it.
On a serious note, this is 100% me with my favorite series as well, I haven't watched a single episode of Re:zero S2 even though I want to watch it but for some reason refuse to. Same with Fate/zero & Code Geass etc both my favorite series which I have rewatched 5 times, but for some reason I am unable to do so nowdays. Partly I think it is because my on headcanons/nostalgia have elevated the series for me, so I am afraid the original won't hold up to those headcanons I have of them.
@@Lordwarez good job replying to your own comment and not editing it
@@TheTyphoon365 oh no
It's good to know we're not alone aye.
I love everything I see of Re;Zero havent watched it. I love Steins Gate I never watched the last couple episodes of 0. I LOVE what I see of evangelion havebt watched it. I am horribly guilty of this to the point I'm in a but of an anime dead zone. Where I am afraid to watch anything new despite the fact that when I was younger just a few years ago i watched new anime left and right. Noww I'm afraid.
I was so happy to see this video just based on the title alone and after watching it I 100% relate to everything you said. For me, I find that my favorite anime are the ones that take me on a "journey" with them, and when I think back on series I love, it's shows that I took my time watching, and pretty much then avoided consuming anything of them after the fact. I love Guilty Crown, and it took me two years to finish because I worked through it so slowly, and although I know critically it may not be the best, the time I took to enjoy that show made it special at the time. Another series, Kagerou Project, even though I've been in it since the beginning, and I own the light novels, I have never read them! Even though I know the "main story" is in them with a conclusive, happier ending than the other media works, I know if I read them, there will be nothing left to keep me tied to that series I've been in for almost ten years.
I used to be the type of person who would chart out when animes released seasonally and watch as many as I could, and while I did find enjoyment in that, now that I've gotten older, its become harder for me to watch as many shows, even though I watch videos about them and know they are excellent and will reiterate them to my friends to watch them. I think part of it may be due to how fast-paced the anime industry has become since it boomed in the west. The switch to much more seasonal anime and with how many shows come out almost demand that people binge or maximize their watch time to experience so many different stories within a few months, and so it leaves little time for discussion and for series to take you on that journey.
I have a friend who, the moment I mention any series, immediately drops what they're doing and starts bingeing it, even if they're in the middle of another series I suggested the other day (I am not exaggerating). And while I understand that is a new method of watching series with the binge culture that's been created from the rise of Netflix and other streaming services, to me it feels like a disservice to a lot of the shows. I know a big part of my difference in opinion comes from me having such an emotional attachment to those series, and that did come from the week-by-week journey those shows took me on, even amidst the large number of seasonal anime I watched simultaneously. Fandom culture has created this demand to consume all of a series to discuss every aspect of it the moment new content comes out, but there is something magical about being somewhat blind to certain aspects of it. It's not cherry-picking, but for me with Kagerou Project, I know I am missing a lot of the story by never reading the light novels. At the same time though, I've heard what people have said about what happens in the novels, and why would I read them when I'm content with the journey the songs alone have taken me on? You can still analyze and critique work by its parts instead of its whole, and with media like anime, where there can be so many differences in adaptions from manga, game, anime, film, and live action, however you come to that series, and however long you decide to stay in that part of it, as long as it stays special to you, that is what matters. If you don't rush a series and come to the end of it through your own timeline (whether that be watching an episode each time you come home from work, or by watching it all in one day) and you feel it took you to some catharsis or place of enjoyment, that's the journey that matters.
Funny, that’s the same thing for me for these EXACT 3 MOVIES!!
I might add to what you said that this can also be procrastination and/or that we wish to be in the perfect mood and mindset to experience them. But I guess we are overthinking everything and we should simply go for it. Sometimes the most random moments are the best.
Thank you btw for reminding me to watch those ;)
This fear is so illogical, it's like tasting your favourite food but not finishing it because you're scared that there will be no more of it left, not marrying the girl you love because you're scared you'll lose the spark after the marriage. In the end you'll be left with only regret if you won't pursue what you love or feel the void afterwards; the former is guaranteed, the latter depends on "how it ends".
I disagree with these analogies. Food can always be procured over and over again and marriage is meant to have new adventures with your significant other, it will never end, at least for a lifetime.
As for anime, once you've finished a series, that's most likey it. The creators probably won't keep creating more. You're left with whatever exists that we have access to.
Don't get me wrong, I also think this fear is irrational. I suppose I can understand people's sentiment with parting ways with something they don't want to part ways with.
I feel the same about rewatching shows. There's some shows I love and really want to rewatch like A Place Further Than The Universe, Erased and Toradora, but I feel like it I watch them again I won't enjoy them as much as I did the first time so I won't think of them as highly as I did before rewatching, so I just avoid them.
Yeah... I get the same feeling sometimes too.
It's "your lie in April" for me. I did rewatch a few episodes of a place further than the universe when the lockdown began and it really had the opposite effect on me in that I became really depressed about being locked up at home while my life is supposed to be in motion
It's FMA:B and Psycho-Pass for me. I absolutely loved those anime when I watched them and have been telling people they're my favourites for years now (now with the caveat that I haven't seen them in a long time) but I'm scared to rewatch them because I have a feeling I will find problems in them and not enjoy them as much.
As an avid fan of toradora who watches the whole series every Christmas because of the tree episode, I am here to tell you that you will not be disappointed and you will cry tears of sadness and happiness for the music alone. It is always worth it to rewatch your favorites i promise
As I've grown a little older and don't have as much time to invest into anime, I've definitely become more picky about which shows I'll check out season to season. I use channels/people with similar tastes such as yourself to expose myself to new content. I definitely also save some series I know I'll love for a rainy day. Sometimes you just want to watch something new that you KNOW will be good. I slow burned Gintama over the course of a few years and it was great knowing that there would be something "forsure" that I'd enjoy.
Love that you're addressing this. IT'S NOT A YOU-THING. :) It's been on my mind several times, including for Made in Abyss (haven't seen the movies either!), and I've struggled to pinpoint exactly why or what this aversion is. Anime that I know for sure I will love, I'll avoid.
I think it's partly the fear of it being over and done with, as you explain, but for me I've discovered it's also something else - I don't feel emotionally "ready" to subject myself to what I know is going to be an experience that actually makes an impression on me, a viewing experience that makes an impact. It's like I have to be in the right mood, almost brace myself first, kind of.. If that makes sense. I guess I'm afraid of the emotional experience to some extent.
PS: would love to see a video with your views on why it is we feel compelled to buy anime merch, DVDs, vinyl etc. :)
Me: *sees title and thumbnail*
Also Me: *cries in steins gate 0 noises*
it was alright. not necessary tho
Crap compared to the original, decent compared to most anime.
Meh, it's alright. You're not losing much.
Depending on how much you liked the first one if you think that a show which has more focus on the supporting cast without a well paced but still present plot it's not that bad. Steins gate started slow to begin with but 0 is even slower.
I played the Steins gate 0 visual novel after watching the anime and i have to say that it's better as it explains things more clearly and even contains content that is important to the overall story. So to anyone who's really in to steins gate i suggest playing the VN before the anime. (Or do both if you are able, i didn't regret it)
You just took the words out of my mouth. I feel the same when i like a show i postpone every episode to savour the greatness.
Oh and Made in Abyss was awesome.
I definitely feel this with certain shows, and adjacent feeling with others. My want to consume generally overrides fears I may have for sequels, but not for some special shows. In my over 8 year of anime watching, I've still not seen Cowboy Bebop beyond the first episode. I've been told episode 4 is the big one. I know I would enjoy it. I've loved other space westerns, like Firefly. Hell, my roommate and I have a portrait print of Malcolm Reynolds hanging high over an alcove in our living room - both because we find the memeing of the Jesus portrait in that way funny, but also because of a mutual love for the show. But I know once I watch it, that's it. I'll have seen what is essentially THE classic anime. And the thought of not enjoying it is hard. But if I just don't do it, then it can just live on in my mind as this fabled show that someday I'll watch and someday I'll love.
One of my favorite bands is The Weakerthans. They wrote songs imbued with pure melancholy, channeling the atmosphere of a cool, overcast Autumn weekend evening with leaves falling around you and the wind lightly brushing against your coat as you walk home from purchasing a record/game/figure/etc you had been looking forward to - it's the end of a pretty shitty year, and maybe it's that purchase talking or the wind greeting you on your way, but somehow you feel a small calm inside you where you can believe that maybe - just maybe - the next one will be better. They found a way to convey lyrics that, had anyone else been singing them, would've come across as too corny or heavy or sappy. They're a special band to me and I love them. They have a couple songs from the perspective of a cat called Virtute, who's caretaker has been in huge slump and barely leaves their home, which is of great concern for Virtute. When I first read the synopsis of My Roommate Is A Cat, I made this connection immediately. And because of that, I don't know if I will ever actually watch the show. It sits there in my "Plan to Watch" ready for me to do so, but I think I'll probably always just have it live in my mind as a connection to that song and that band. It could be a show that I end up loving alongside the song, but just knowing that it's there feels like enough sometimes.
Nope after watching I re-evaluated my own anime and subsequently manga viewing and reading of late since the pandemic began and my recent health hiccups I'll call them. It's a lot to explain but thank you for sharing your experiences of late as they helped the opening process and analysis for me. Looking forward to next time!
Yes because I don't want them to end ever.
Confession: I've done Arkada's intro hand gestures in the mirror too many times
you mean the whole "greeting ladies gentlemen and others"?
@@HANIMEME yep, exactly that 😂
And also, "let's jam" with the finger click 😂
When I know or at least strongly believe that I'm going to love a certain show I put it off for how ever long is needed for every factor to be in the right place. I need to be in the correct headspace, have nothing distracting scheduled that could potentially distract or take away from the optimal experience I want to get, have enough time to finish the show AND process it and if it's a longer show be motivated enough. Also dealing with the fact that I won't have that "first watch" experience ever again after finishing. It's immensly comforting to me when I have a bad day and I remember that to cheer me up I could watch show xxx. An example to this would be me taking 5 whole years since resolving to watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes to finally starting watching it in July. And even then something happened that forced me to stop watching half way through.
In the same vein it's hard for me to rewatch shows for simmilar reasons, as I know I love them but know they require a certain mindset or I'm saving them for a shitty day.
I get the same feeling sometimes too....
I think there is so god damn much content out there, that even if I do indulge in the few good things I have yet to get to, there will always be more right around the corner.
And there is no harm in going back and rewatching stuff I already enjoy, as sometimes you pick up on things you missed the first time. If it's worth watching, it's worth rewatching.
I've avoided Psycho Pass after season 2. I also tend to not watch the movies in a series. I loved code geass but haven't seen any of the movies. It's probably because I know that they aren't taking place directly after season 2. The only movies I can remember watching were the monogatari movies. Those were pretty good.
Me after season 1 because I think it wrapped up pretty perfectly and don’t wanna ruin how much I loved it ^^
@@animusswtor4822 I kinda want to watch the movies but I don't think I could get into season 3. I thought season 2 was ok but it was definitely not as good as season 1.
same here
@@animusswtor4822 i wish i had stopped after season 1, season 1 ended so perfectly that it is still one of my go to recommendations for people looking for a new show to watch. but i loved it so much that i ended up watching season 2 and 3, and i wish i could go back and stop myself. season 2 and 3 are great but nowhere near the perfection of season 1.
Oh yes I can relate to this sentiment! Its like persevering a portion of the Most Delicious food u ever had, a Devine Dish for later. As u said it is the Fear of loosing this entirely, like the end of a journey with no more of your favourite stuff left after. Done and dusted.
I loved Kimi no Na but I took a loong time to watch Weathering with You (Both made by the Makoto Shinkai). Monster is my favorite anime, read the manga too. But I did not read the short SEQUEL. Wierdly enough having this thing still left makes me relieved.
As for Made in Abyss movie 3 it'll be out in September on DVD/Blu-ray/and even on the Internet. The existing ones are shitty cam vids.
(I know nothing of Made in Abyss, based on your own review it really doesn't look like a show I would like so no worries on spoilers.)
I have actually done that before too haha. For that exact reason - both perhaps worrying that I might not like it as much as the rest but also, like you said, enjoying the feeling of still having more to watch later if I wanted, keeping some mystery and excitement. Sometimes I'd say that even as an artist, inspiration and ideas come from imagining what _could come_ of a show, so once it's over that potential feels gone and lost and so too is my inspiration for ideas and art surrounding it. It very much puts me in a different mindset when a show is "not complete" in my personal experience versus when it is.
I will say that because of the inspiration factor it isn't always a downer for me to avoid the last little bit. Like I said it can actually help to keep inspiring me and my artwork, even to keep inspiring my imagination and thought experiments, and to me sometimes that is more valuable than the ending of the show itself.
I don't have that so much now because I don't watch many shows anymore. Mostly that's just because I pretty much stopped watching any shows or movies for a long time, too many repeats of the same tired tropes burned me out. I am trying to reignite that though, slowly, by trying out new genres that catch my interest. Notably I seem to be a lot more into mech anime now when I used to be not even remotely interested... One withstanding one on my list though is Ghost in the Shell. I've seen probably the same movie three or four times (not always intentionally) and never managed to finish the series, but it's on my list as one of my top favorites. That one's a little special too though because I have to be able to focus well enough to understand what the hell is going on lol. I.... I think I finished the manga? ....Yeah, I'm pretty sure I did. It helps a lot with understanding what's happening in the anime.
Agree. It's nice to have things to look forward to. I want a batch of things to look forward to. Everything has its time. I see people manically try to keep up with everything currently going and I shake my head. Gotta' wait until the right time.
I know of people doing this, and I understand why they do it. The hype about your favourite thing might very well exceed your actual enjoyment of it. But personally I don't think it's the right approach, and I'll tell you why.
In short, the after is just better than the before. There is just so much uncertainty about something I haven't experienced yet, and I'll always want to know the truth. If the sequel to my favourite anime is bad, I will want to know it. It won't change the enjoyment I got out of what was before. Most likely though, I'll enjoy the sequel just as much as what was before, if not more. And I'll definitely want to have that. Also, it opens up so many additional ways to enjoy the show. Before I watch something, I only have hope in that it is good. Hope is nice, sure, but it doesn't compare to the actual experience. After I watch something, I can enjoy the soundtrack, fan art, fan fiction, jokes and memes, I can watch videos on UA-cam going into details about this scene, that character or overarching themes. I can share the show with my friends and talk with them about it. And also I can just re-watch it - if you haven't watched it for the first time, you can't watch it for the second time either, which can be another completely new experience. Although I actually only very rarely do that myself, because of another point: I still have a lot to watch which I will like, and prefer to experience something new instead of re-watching. I don't hold off on things I know I'll like because there is more afterwards which I'll like. There are five to ten shows each season I'll enjoy, so even when I've completely emptied my watch list, I'll have all the new stuff to watch forward to. And if I won't, it's re-watch time.
tl;dr: Just watch the thing. Usually you can get a lot more out of the experience of watching it and what comes after than just your hype for it. Also there'll be other things you'll like a lot besides it, and you can still re-watch stuff if you've run out of things to watch.
I completely relate to this, believe me it's definitely not just you.
I did the same thing with the Steins;Gate film as well as some others. I eventually got around to most of them, but there is always that void feeling when finishing an anime that I enjoyed so much. I've seen around 210 anime this past 12ish months, so I definitely can relate when you talk about not getting maximum enjoyment out of a show.
You are not alone! I am guilty of the same thing - saving things for later, and yes, sometimes its years later. I do believe that some things come to us at the right time and we shouldnt force them. Maybe there would be something in your life that will change you and then you will know you are ready to watch the thing you have been saving for just this moment. I loved watching Jojo so much, that I am postponing reading the manga for the same reason. I fell in love with Violet Evergarden the moment i saw the trailer and the reviews and sat on it until my grandpa passed away and I felt in me, drowning in my grief and pain, that this was the time for it. I cried rivers obviously and looking back now, I could have never been able to relate to Violet the same way, so yeah... Some things have to be saved.
Yeah, this is relatable. When I really enjoy a show, I don't want it to end. I don't want to recognize the fact that it will end. So I either avoid things like films after the inital series ended, or I go ham on all extra material: Manga, movies, novels, spinoffs, visual novels, etc. But if its just an anime and a film. I don't want it to end, so I make sure in my head, it will never end. (I say "end" a lot srry)
I totally understand your situation and your emotions towards your favorite anime , it is actually very depressing to see your favorite anime ends😭😭
I felt it with many animes , but precisely i should say everyone will face the same problem in the end of attack on titan Season 4 😅
The way I see it is that when you find a piece of media that connects to you on such a personal level you want to latch onto it and cherish it for as long as possible.
Konosuba is my favorite LN series but as I continue reading I know I'm getting ever closer to the final volume, the end of everything, and it does scare me in ways. The dozens of hours I've spent reading and watching these characters, all their adventures and experiences that I've seen them go on and all the growth the characters have had along the way will be over.
What I'm thankful for is that the story leans on this and at a point the characters are happy and comfortable with the formulaic structure of the series despite it's flaws and feel the fear and pressure of things changing as the story reaches it's end. The characters are having just as much fun as the readers are on this journey but at some point we will have to end this chapter and move on.
It's an extremely interesting aspect of the series that has helped me come to terms with other series I enjoy ending or being afraid to watch a 12 episode series in fear of enjoying it too much and never getting any more of it. We have to remember that things are temporary and, while we should cherish them while we can, we do have to one day finish it and move on.
Probably the most relatable thing I have heard in a long time and wow can I mention a lot of cases were I have felt exactly the same
Totally me with the Fate franchise. When I'm ready, the continuation is waiting for me.
I don't even know where to start with Fate, it's so confusing I just avoid it entirely.
@@TheTyphoon365 Just Take Leap Of Faith Like I Did.
i just watched fate stay night
i want to watch fate zero but i cant i dont know why
@@TheTyphoon365 Fate (2006) - Fate/stay Night Unlimited Blade Works (2014)- Fate Zero - Fate Heaven Feels (Three Part Movie Seires , 2 Are Currently Out And Third Is In The Works For 2020 Release).
I Have Watched Fate 2006 And Fate UBW Just Recently And I Don't Regret It 👍 Give It A Try By Following My Watch Order.
After All This Or If You Are Holding Of For Third Movie Release You Can Watch
Fate/Babalonia - Khalid - Carnival Phantasm - Liya Without Following Any Perticular Order. Babalonia And Carnival Phantasm Are Recommended.
I recommend Fate Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (ufotable's version) if you want a consistent Narrative.
Then the Heavens Feel movies for an 'alternate' narrative.
I get anxious about watching things that I KNOW I will absolutely love and not just anime, this applies to even books for me. I think that's the reason I hadn't watched Fullmetal alchemist brotherhood till 2020 and back in may I finally completed the series with me spending almost a month and a half on the last 12 episodes just because I didn't want it to end. I want to spend more time with the elric brothers,winry, roy, riza, scar, everyone and know more about their world which waa built with so much detail and passion by arakawa. There is really just this void. I wish I hadn't watched FMA. I wish someone had warned me that FMA wasn't just a simple must watch.
Wow, it’s like you looked inside my brain and said exactly what I’m going through when it comes to anime and other media I enjoy. My favorite anime is Made in Abyss and I haven’t seen the new movie yet, I also am still on season 4 of Jojo. That part made me feel really called out- haven’t seen the new season of Re:Zero and told myself I’d wait and binge, but will I really? I don’t have a job like yours so nothing will eventually force me to. Anyways I just thought it was crazy I had this exact same experience
I can relate to this, at least partially. When I love a series, I tend to watch everything that is available about it (unless I've only heard negative things, looking at you Psycho-Pass season 2). But that said, I have a list of shows and movies that I know I'll probably love that I'm putting off watching until I get into the right place where I can truly and fully appreciate them.
Absolutely not. I wish I could though, because I'm THIS close to reading the My Hero Academia manga after binging season 4 a few months ago. I couldn't stop myself. I watched episode after episode, and even sacrificed sleep at some points. That's how much I love My Hero. The only anime I avoid are ones I suspect might make me cry, like Your Lie In April and Violet Evergarden. I'm watching them very slowly, and very carefully, with lots of comedy and slice of life in between.
It’s the same with everything
Imagine with books , getting scared to read a chapter , looking for how many pages you still have to read before the dream is all over ..
The pleasure always comes from the journey not the final destination
Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.
@@sterlingmuse5808 Hey you seem like a pretty cool anime fan whose seen alot of anime. I'd like to talk to you about anime in this comment section. The topic is a wierd topic it has to do with L from Deathnote, Miyuki from Lucky Star, Orihime Inoue from Bleach, Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke, Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad. I know pretty misfit group of characters there, but I'd like to get you're opinion on some things regarding all of them.
@@sterlingmuse5808 are you quoting The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson?
@@katiewright3309 Yep. He's my favorite author, and Stormlight is one of my favorite series.
Woah. I just tweeted about being scared to finish a popular anime because I won't find anything like it again because it's so unique, and I'm afraid that once its done, I'll never be able to experience it again for the first time. Then your video pops up. I do that with a lot of shows. I sometimes leave the finale or last few episodes so that it never really finishes for me.
I actually really sympathize with you're feelings. I literally just started trying to finish shows I started. I hate the feeling of finishing stuff. But I also hate telling people I haven't finished a ton of stuff I haven't watched like FMA Brotherhood. I still haven't finished it because I don't want it to be over and I love it, but fuck I want to finish it so I know how it ends and I can not be scared of spoilers.
Man, I’ve watched every Ghibli film (including shorts) and I’m sad at the prospect of not having any left (my favourite is Kiki with the 2005 dub that has extra lines by Phil Hartman). I’m also someone who has watched 75/100 of the highest rated anime on MAL and nearly 900 anime overall, it’s starting to feel like nothing is going to dethrone any of my top 10 anymore.
Now, there are some shows that I think are great but are taking me forever to watch, like Monster which I started over 3 years ago and I’m still not done, and I’m in a similar spot with Death Note. But that’s more to do with them being pretty dark and me not always being in the mood for that. It’s hard to push through dark long form content.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still finding hidden gems or some new anime that I can add to my pile of greats and my plan to watch list is about 2600, so there’s no worry of running out of anime. I mean, I definitely think it’s sad when you finish a favourite and the journey is over but on the other hand there’s always other shows to watch and fall in love with.
6:18 "what is the best way to describe this?"
I don't know but I totally understand you
I agree entirely with this. Some shows I enjoy and can watch every time a new season comes out. Others, like Made in Abyss, I have avoided continuing EVEN WITH access to those movies online.
I also experience something similar to what you were saying about the last Ghibli film you haven't watched: there are some anime, mainstream or not, that I have discovered, realized I would totally be into a show of its description, and have since avoided entirely, never having started them. I occasionally get the feeling that I should just watch it and enjoy the show, but I always stop right before starting the first episode. One of these days, I'll get around to watching them, hopefully.
I feel the same but in a different way, I personally only fear rewatching shows that made me cry and it's not like I'm afraid of crying... The thing is, I absolutely love crying but only because it makes me feel normal but then the fact that an anime, a drawing with voice overs made me cry kinda scares me because I do not cry in real life, I've been to 3 funerals of close family members and I didn't cry... That's the part that scares me, I can bawl my eyes out over an anime but can't cry at funerals, why? Why can I form a more emotional attachment to fictional characters than I can real people? Real people I have genuine memories with, people I've loved for as long as I can remember. That thought absolutely *terrifies* me.
Anime that have made me feel this way are Your Name, A Silent Voice, Violet Evergarden, (ironically) Made In Abyss...
And a recent addition to the list is Episode 1 of Oshi No Ko, that absolutely destroyed more than any show has and even still, an hour doesn't go by where I don't hear the words "I love you... aah I finally said it, that definitely wasn't a lie." It just echos in my head with that scene playing over and over and I couldn't figure out what the feeling was, couldn't tell if I was sad, angry, shocked, then I figured it out... It's grief, in my 20 years of life, the funerals I've been too, things I've seen, nothing has made me grieve before and now the first episode of Oshi No Ko scares me more than anything else because I was able to grieve over it but not over irl things.
Despite all that, the shows I listed are some of my favourites ever, Your Name is still 2nd place on the list of anime that I'm afraid to re-watch, it awoke a fear in me that I never knew I had, memory loss. I've genuinely decided that if I ever am diagnosed with some kind of memory loss that I just want to be put to sleep if you know what I mean, there's just something absolutely heart wrenching about making beautiful memories with people you love, just for those memories to fade into nothingness. And Oshi No Ko despite all the trauma, has already, within 4 episodes... Hell within the first episode, cemented its place in my top 5 anime and I consider the first episode to be one of the greatest first episodes of any media ever made.
This is not just a you thing. Me and me friends all have this experience, and we call it "the pit." If we find a new anime, we'll often tell each other something along the lines of "watch this now. and join me in the pit (of despair / sadness)"
Haven't watched Rosario to Vampire or Ah My Goddess in years.
I can relate in a way to putting off some series, but others such as Ghibli movies and my favorite shorter series I like watching them for comfort when I feel down.
I recently rewatched Kuroshitsuji, because my friend dragged me back into it. I remembered it an entirely different way. Watching it was like a whole new experience this time around. I think it's due to two things: Watching and sharing it with a friend and taking the viewing by being totally present, which I found difficult to do in the past.
Being mindful and focusing made me see things I never noticed before which made it much more enjoyable on a second watch this time around.
I don't worry too much about this. I will always be able to rewatch movies/series I love. After a couple of years I forget details and plot lines. So it's a joy to rewatch those things.
It heavily depends on how you feel when you watch those series, I love anohana, but due to the time I watch it (been depressed.. lol) I can't watch it again, I did watch it twice but the second time I loved it but that painful, different when I watch for example other series that I love like gundam (original trilogy), oregairu (first season), baka to test to shokanju, gundam cca (well this kind of depressed me more after reading the adaptation of beltorchika children), also tokyo ghoul the manga, that I read since it was "raw" in some page when begin its serialization when it end I was so depressed, I read :re like a month after it begin cause it was painfully to read (cause, in the volume version of TG manga they basically spoiled you what happen in :re, but I read the ending on the young jump... There wasn't an explanation or anything related to :re at that moment it was a tragic end and I hate it with my soul, dunno how I make me read :re when it was announced).
The way we save data in our brain depends a lot in a lot of factors, an specific memory can be tied to music or even to how you feel at that time, those electric impulse are related and that's when a new memory is created.... So yeah, what we feel at those moments really are important when you watch or play some material, and sometimes those impulse are so big that every time we wstch that content that memory holds so strong that we began to feel what we felt at that moment, and that's why every time I heard the ending of anohana I cried like a bitch (and also get emotional with beyond the time from TM network :'/).
For series like baka to test I read the novels, with gundam I consume basically any material I could get (even studying japanese so I could read the novels), same with TG I could continue reading and also currently watching season 3 of oregairu and I already read the novels and some anthology novels.
But in regards of anohana... Couldn't watch completely the sequel movie which was technically just a remake with the perspective of menma with some scenes of a year after the ending of the anime... Just hearing circle game (the song for that movie made by the same band that made the opening of the anime), is painful... I dislike to not end stuff so I will force me to finishing it eventually, but... It takes me back and boy, is really painful.
Guess what my all time favourite anime is MADE IN ABYSS toooooo 😭 and the movie just had me speechless!!!! Absolutely Legendary can't wait for season 2!!!! It's confirmed but ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ it will take alot of time. ;-;
Same here. Have you read the manga?
@@unidentified2026 yes and it's really amazing
Also I drove 2hrs to watch the third movie of made in abyss, love your channel! ❤️❤️
When I read the title of the video, it was a resounding yes but for a completely different reason to what you described in the video but also yes to that too. I thought your title was referring to not re-watching anime that you love in fear of it not meeting your expectations. I do what you describe in the video too but I never really put it the way you did - not watching something in the fear that it will end and there won't be anything more to look forward to. I always thought of it as "saving" it for a time when I needed to be uplifted. I think it's okay to save things but there comes a point where it can be a bit of an issue. It sounds like it might be a bit of an issue for you now. There will always be more good anime to watch. Why deprive yourself of joy? It's fine to be sad that something's over but don't let that stop you from doing things you know you'll like.
Brother, I haven't related to something this heavily in a loooong while lmao! You have no idea!
Hey you seem like a pretty cool anime fan whose seen alot of anime. I'd like to talk to you about anime in this comment section. The topic is a wierd topic it has to do with L from Deathnote, Miyuki from Lucky Star, Orihime Inoue from Bleach, Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina, Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke, Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad. I know pretty misfit group of characters there, but I'd like to get you're opinion on some things regarding all of them.
@@christianwarner3360 lol K. Sure, why not. Granted I have let Clannad, Kimi ni Todoke, Love Hina aaaand Brotherhood rot in my "Plan to Watch" list for years 😂 Anime is absolutely my favorite way to consume media. lol You have a MAL account?
@@yuukichan12 have some questions I want to ask you about each character.
1. Is Miyuki Takara from Lucky Star an idiot/moron/bimbo?
2. Is Mutsumi Otohime from Love Hina an idiot/moron/bimbo?
3. Is Kotomi Ichinose from Clannad an idiot/moron/bimbo?
4. Is Orihime Inoue from Bleach an idiot/moron/bimbo?
5. Is L from Deathnote an idiot/moron?
6. Is Scheska from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood an idiot/moron/bimbo?
7. Is Sawako Kuronuma from Kimi Ni Todoke an idiot/moron/bimbo?
Before you answer these questions what if I told you that according to TV Tropes and All The Tropes all of these characters are provided as examples of the tropes Ditzy Genius/Genius Ditz? Now answer the questions logically?
This is me with Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos. Never watched it and have no interest in watching it.
Is that the same kind of thing? For me, I always put that in the same category as anime filler episodes, and so I had no plan to watch it.
Then again, I DID watch those OVA episodes for Brotherhood, and I don't think they were from the manga either... Maybe I should watch Milos
This is me with everything. Games, anime, and a bunch of things. I never qualified it like this, but I feel like I avoid watching a lot of things to completion. It might be that I feel the same way as you, but I want to be better. I want to strive to live to the fullest and go for things that I like because they're there.
You are not alone. I don't recall doing it much nowadays, but since years ago I did it with the original Teen Titans cartoon. I never watched the last season because then I wouldn't have more to watch.
I did eventually see it, and boy howdy that last episode..! *grinds teeth*
I don't need to watch the video to answer the title. Yes, I am.
I've avoided Violet Evergarden and similar stuff for the very same reason that I'm afraid of liking it so much that i wont enjoy other anime for a while.
No as I'm currently watching Macross 7 and loving it all the way. Plus one character is voiced by Dio Brando's VA.
Really? I watched it a while back, but I never noticed, who is it? Basara's father figure? The Captain of the Macross 7?
@@nerobiblios4086 no Gamlin.
@@barrybend7189 wow, now that you say that he does sound a lot like Dio. I can't believe I didn't notice that before, thanks man.
You put it in exact words and it's great. I'm holding off on watching Stein's;gate 0 and go through the Visual Novel because I know that I'll feel empty after.
That's an understandable point of view for sure. Personally, I used to feel the same way. But now I kinda look at it as Im very glad that I got to experience a certain show or shows and they hold a special place in my heart and gave me a whole new perspective on the world I live in actually. Thankfully for me they were back to back when I first started getting into anime, that I watched all of what today i consider my favorite shows. Berserk, Jormungand, Vinland Saga, gangsta and Banana Fish all come to mind first. I will always be in love with dark action because of those shows and I'm very happy I got to experience them and kind of view everything in the world through a lense of... "Post amazing show viewing" that changed my perspective on alot, if that makes sense at all.. So in a way... Having watched my favorite shows.. my life was just improved mentally and physically too.. berserk and jormungand especially motivated me to work out more lol. So life over all just got better with that anime sitting in your headspace AFTER you finish it, even if you can't watch it again without knowing what it is..
I dont really get this idea. To me, if I love a story then I will actively pursue learning more about the world and characters, even if the cost is catching up and having to wait. That patience can be rewarding too.
There's a sequel film to Made in Abyss!???? What!? Aw man, I need to see it
Hope you like canned lolies XD
@@Blank-pv9kv I'm going to smack you.
What I've done about this for myself is learning to enjoy the different states of things. While it is enjoyable to watch something for the first time, the full joy - for me at least- is not in that original viewing. There are those enjoyable states of existence pre and post finishing of a piece of media, both of which are pleasurable, but to then be able to return again to the beginning and see all the lead up to that inevitable end with full context... ah, there is something special about that too. The state of existence in which no fear of yet unreached knowledge being revealed before it has been discovered in the natural course of the story ( a complete lack of the fear of spoilers) frees a conversation between two admirers of the same media to then be completely forthright with the twists and turns of the shared dream we call "entertainment". Regardless of the type of entertainment we appreciate, once we have done so solitarily we inevitably seek out other admirers like ourselves to share it with. This cannot be done fully and completely without having freed oneself of the constraints of that a fore mentioned fear. So, in this understanding I find myself in a more pleasurable state of existence after consuming a piece of media completely, rather than leaving it unfinished in my mind, still with hesitation for possible spoiled twists and turns in even passing conversations about shared interests.
This sounded a lot more wordy, and heady than I was expecting when I started. Apologies. In short: A finished anime discussed is more pleasurable than an unfinished one avoided... At least for me. ;P
~ Adam
I relate 100%
This is one of the reasons I enjoy reactions or watching stuff with friends. I live vicariously through them and in a way get to re-experience my favorite thing.
For some reason, I thought you were going to say you've never seen Made In Abyss... Like AT ALL
THE LIES!
Only thing I’ve religiously avoided is Psycho pass after season 1, just think it wrapped up pretty perfectly and have the feeling a sequel would destroy my initial love for it
Also except for some certain scenes I will not rewatch „Girls last tour“, it’s one of my favorite anime/manga ever but everyone I so much as think about it I get f““ing depressed
Psycho pass sequels are great. I really enjoyed both the other seasons and all the movies. You should watch them, they really enhance the show and characters.
wish they stopped after season 1. i watched all of it and everything after the first season was subpar.
the first season is one of my all time favorites. but i find it hard to recomend now cause i know people gonna ruin it for themselves by watching the sequels..
completely agree with you on psycho pass, sadly i watched season 2 and 3, i wish i hadn't they kinda ruin the amazing end of season 1.
This is exactly me. But obviously things have to end at some point. It was me with K-ON, Girl's Last Tour and plenty plenty other anime. Rewatching them or reading the manga helped me, experiencing it again and getting used to that Void which is so familiar yet strange to me. It is not just a you problem, I do it, people do it. I've been putting off a rewatch for a few shows, I want to build up that hunger, wait for the perfect moment, but it never comes.
I did feel like this once, but as I got older with more responsibilities, I prefer to be more selective with what I watch. In the case of Made In Abyss, I binged it on a long weekend. I watched a camcorder version with subtitles of the 3rd movie. It was really well done, it stayed faithful to the manga, which I also binged right after. Now I can go on doing other things while more stuff comes out. Cheers from Calgary!