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smurky turkey
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Looking at my own list and those here I have to say that a modern slow season still has a lot of anime on offer. I once went through the archives of a few sites to get a picture of how the average season was say 10 to 15 years ago and we really are spoiled for choice now. I remember seeing one season with 4 mecha anime and the small remainder being a magical girl show and a gory horror tale. If you were not into mecha than your season was pretty much over before it began.
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Alan45
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@smurky turkey
It was different back then. Prior to streaming anime seasons were not much of a factor. We did not get access to anything from Japan in anything like real time. Even the first few years of streaming we did not get "everything". Streaming sort of snuck in gradually so I can't say when we first started worrying about seasons. I do remember the first couple of seasonal Program Guides had to use fan subs for shows not immediately licensed. I don't think the current setup has been in effect as much as ten years but someone else may be able to say. Back before streaming, unless you were into fan subs, home release was the way to go either by purchase or rental. It usually took two to three years between the Japanese broadcast and home release, sometimes a lot more. Anime on cable was usually a sub license off the home video release and took even longer. There was no relationship between the date of Japanese release and that of the US release. Any two shows released in a given month might be several years apart in their initial airing. And oh, the home release was usually on singles so you would get a dvd or tape with four or five episodes if you were lucky with two or more months to the next release. A standard two season show could take a year or more to release. I first found ANN for the encyclopedia looking up the original Japanese release dates for anime and attempting to determine how many volumes a manga ran before I committed to it. What we have today is really different. |
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Edjwald
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I always miss seeing activity up at the top of the board in a timely fashion once I've got the new schedule down.
I think I officially subscribed to Crunchyroll (and Funimation because they were separate entities) around 2017? The second season of My Hero Academia was the primary impetus, and I seem to remember that Classroom of the Elite came out that year, and a quick google suggests that time frame. I'd been rifling through Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime catalogs and buying dvds for a couple of years before that, but I stumbled across Hulu's handful of weekly new offerings about the same time that the back supply of anime I was interested in finally started drying up, and that's what tipped me off that anime specific streaming sites even existed. If I watched 5-7 new anime a season, I considered that a decent exchange for my money back then. Of course, I was still watching a lot more non-animated TV nine to ten years ago. TV was starting to decline after the landscape fractured into dozens of different streaming services. Some of my favorite shows like Parks and Rec and The Good Wife and Breaking Bad and the Mentalist and Dexter had just ended or were ending, but USA was still putting out some strong shows, the Sci Fi channel was still putting out some good shows, Walking Dead still had some life to it, no pun intended, and there were shows like Casual and Wish You Were Dead and Justified and so on still lingering, and Netflix was putting out some crazy good Marvel shows (Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Punisher ) but hardly any of the shows I loved were network TV anymore, and one or two good shows per paid-for-streaming channel wasn't sustainable. I don't know why anyone thought it was. And, as far as I can tell, all these streaming channels tried to bulk up their catalogs by pouring hundreds of millions, maybe billions, into new shows, hiring writers and production teams and directors who hadn't really made their bones, flooding the airwaves with substandard, boring ass product (in my opinion obviously) with 8 episodes and years between seasons when TV used to put out better shows 22 episodes per year every year. That kind of killed my interest and trust level. I think the last new show I really liked was Good Cop/Bad Cop, and I didn't watch it on its original network (CW), I stumbled across it on Prime and who knows if it will be renewed or when. I guess my point being, anime has kind of grown to fill a vacuum for me. |
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smurky turkey
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@Edjwald and @Alan45, thank you for your posts. You made me go on a search to realize just how comfy it is to watch anime these days. I have been watching anime for about ten years now and the first few years of that was lots of binging, I was hungry and watched a crazy amount of shows. Hearing people talk about ''the old days'' and getting home releases or going for some copied tapes is pretty foreign to me.
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Bargain Hunter Posts: 25601 |
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I am in uncharted waters this season, folks. Having just dropped Sanda, I am now down to a mere six titles. And three of those six are ones that part of me wants to drop, but I don't think I will: Touring After the Apocalypse, Gnosia and One Punch Man S3. Only three are causing my stony black heart to skip in happiness when a new episode is available: Plus-sized Misadventures in Love, Tojima Wants to be a Kamen Rider and Gachiakuta.
Is this simply a blip and next season I return to be an anime chomping maniac? Possibly. But it is also possible that after almost 17 straight years of faithful anime consumption, I am starting to weary of the form. I still enjoys me an anime that grabs me, but the number of shows that grab me seems to be shrinking rapidly. I guess I'll get a better idea during Winter 2026. |
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Piglet the Grate
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Since they are 3-minute shorts the show will not get its own thread, but anyone who wants to see adaptations of classic faerie tales with kawaii kitties should check out Ugoku! Neko Mukashibanashi (Cat Tales).
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Alan45
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@Blood-
If you want to take a test, pick up a couple of shows that really did it for you when you first saw them. If when you watch them this still have some of the old appeal (except you can't see them for the first time) then the problem is the anime out currently. If the bloom is off the rose no matter what you watch then you are suffering burnout. In the mean time why not work on your backlog. I'm sure you have a few hundred episodes there you never watched before. |
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Bargain Hunter Posts: 25601 |
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@ Alan45: oh yeah, the backlog will get chipped away for sure!
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Edjwald
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I was going to suggest the same thing as Alan45 - It's taken a while, but I took advantage of the slim pickings situation and started rewatching Monogatori: Malevolent Spirits, which may not be a classic anime for all generations or anything, but which is a personal fave. I'm thinking of rewatching The Angel Next Door is Spoiling Me Rotten next. Again, not an anime of the year recommendation, but it had something I liked.
Another thing worth trying is retrying shows where you saw potential but something just wasn't clicking because of whatever was going on in your life or your mood. A while back, I woke up at 2 in the morning and couldn't go back to sleep, so I rewatched Insomniacs After School cos it seemed appropriate. I liked the first 4 episodes the first time, but it just seemed kind of slow and didn't pull me in, but the second time around I loved it. I've still got a couple of shows like that on my backburner (Delish in Dungeon, Dark Gathering), shows where something stuck in my memory like a fishbone in my throat except, y'know, in a good way. I know I'm going to like Gachiakata at some point, and I've dipped my toes back in the show, but I'm going through a period where I'm dealing with a lot of small annoyances and distractions at work, and a jarring dystopia with a loud adolescent just isn't what I'm in the mood for at the moment. But watching anime isn't a moral obligation (nor a moral degradation despite the rep it gets because of some elements). If it's feeling like homework and adding to a sense of exhaustion or something, take a break and find something else that gives you energy instead of drains it. |
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Edjwald
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BTW - I totally get having a meh reaction to this season. I'm genuinely enjoying Kamen Rider, Spy Family, Grieving Soul, Campfire Cooking, and May I Ask For One Final Thing a lot even if I don't want to write their titles all the way out. And I've been pleasantly surprised by Banished Court Magician after almost giving up on it the first episode. But everything else I'm watching, it's like I don't have anything against them but could easily drop them and still might.
I said in another thread somewhere that I'd love to write review blurbs for some of the anime this season. "It Might Help You Escape Crushing Loneliness For Half an Hour!" "You'll easily be able to follow it while texting on your smart phone!" "Infinitely rewatchable since you won't remember what you just saw five minutes after the anime is over!" "A great experience for people with heart conditions who can't afford to get too excited!" |
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Bargain Hunter Posts: 25601 |
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Welp, I'm down to 3 titles: Plus Sized Misadventures in Love, Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider and Gachiakuta.
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Edjwald
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Yah, I'm still solid on my six "Thumbs up" shows, but the "Thumbs horizontal" shows are extremely hit or miss. I've straight up dropped My Status as an Assassin and Hero Without a Class, and I've skipped all the other "Meh" shows at least once.
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smurky turkey
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I have a fair bit more than that on my list thankfully but I will admit that the vast majority of the shows this season are not all that memorable. Looking back on this season in a year or so will likely elicit a lot of ''oh right, that was a thing'' from me.
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 10364 Location: Virginia |
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I'm not currently watching any of this seasons offerings. I would say I was burnt out on anime but I still enjoy rewatching my old favorites and my default activity is reading light novels and manga. I think my taste just doesn't work with what is currently coming out.
Back when I started I watched almost anything I could identify as anime. Recently I've gotten very picky. |
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Bargain Hunter Posts: 25601 |
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@ Alan45 - yeah, you've been off mass consumption of anime for a while now and I'm curious to see if I'm headed in the same direction or if this is just a blip. My sample size is just too small to make a dependable judgment.
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