Did anyone get out of anime, then fall back in love with it?

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Jamari

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That's happening to me again as I haven't been in TZ in along time and barely visited the Anime forum, but strangely....I'm getting back into it, and re-discovering it..did this happen for anyone else?
 
I think my schedule's calmed back down enough again for me to watch it again.
I think the extent to which any given season is going to have something I'm absolutely enamored of has changed though. Haibane-type/grade shows are a lot fewer and farther between these days. Still, I can usually pick up anything in a given genre and atleast enjoy it to some extent - I just have time to pick stuff up again.
 
I'm sort of in that category. I used to watch Tenchi, Sailor Moon, Hamtaro, and Dragonball when Toonami was around, and I watched DBZ when they showed it before AS. Then I was angry when it disappeared, and I sort of fell out of anime. I got back into it when I got my first manga a couple years ago. I started off slow with the Miyazaki films, and now I'm back into series.

You can't really get anime around here, so believe me, getting a card was the best day of my life.
 
... Just now, actually. XD;; I used to like anime because of stuff like Sailor Moon, Sonic X, Tokyo Mew Mew, but then I later found myself bored to death with it and jumped off the bandwagon.

I'd occasionally find myself into things like FLCL and Elfen Lied, but just recently have I found myself a lot more interested in anime and a lot more open-minded. Currently, I'm really into Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai and since I'm a lot more open-minded on anime at the moment, I'm thinking about trying to watch Death Note again, with hopes I'll get into it this time. I recently watched a later episode that was actually pretty entertaining, so maybe I should have given it more of a chance.

I do know that most anime that appeal to me are horror anime... if anyone has some good suggestions, let me know. C:
 
Oh, definitely vicious. There's nothing hilarious about sending a kid to the red light district as a mercy-calling.
 
I'm definetly in the 'The honeymoon is over' phase, where the wide eyed wonder has been replaced by a good amount of jaded cynicism. Although given my main hobby is an anime, I'm obviously not too cynical...
 
Yeah that happened to me. So far the only current series I keep tabs on is One Piece, and occasionally watch Fist of the North Star. So far I'm looking at the older stuff, and whatever some of my frienRAB recommend.
 
not really, I mean theres times where I like anime less, but ive never fallen out of, there our some anime series i look back at & say man why did i watch that!? but ive never actually fallen out of anime.
 
Heh, I used to watch nothing but Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece & DBZ...so then I started getting bored and left anime all together, but now it just piqued my interest again
 
I never really did get out of anime, nor did I fall out of love with it. The wide-eyed wonderment just got... narrowed down as time goes on. Not so much for the rather turgid fare that clot the market, but when time, other interests, and money became a bigger factor in my life I kindof had to narrow down my anime investment to suit that.

So I'm just focusing on a smaller, nitpicky market, but the love (or at least the admiration of it) still remains, just a bit more subdued than it once was.
 
Well, I used to watch a lot more anime in the past, but that was due to networks trying to cash in on the popularity of them and showcasing a large variety of them.

Nowadays, the lack of exposure has lead me to watching less stuff from Japan, but I have been keeping track of Kodomo no Jikan and I plan on checking out Basquash and Soul Eater.
 
I sort of grew out of it. I sometimes look for a new series, but most of it is... stuff that doesn't appeal to me. I think the last one I actually enjoyed was... uh... Mega Man Star Force.
 
Yes and no. No, I have never gotten out of anime, but at the same time, I am so sick of anime. Every series that has come out in the last few years minus a select few (Death Note, Gankutsuou, Hellsing Ultimate, Code Geass) are just recycling the same story over and over. How many freaking series do we need that deal with a death and rebirth ending? Mecha shows have become a joke, as if you have seen one, you have seen them all. While other series were enjoyable until they got way too long for their own good (sorry One Piece fans, I love the show, but its length has ruined it for me to the point where I just do not care anymore). Not to mention they seem to be staying safe with the character designs nowadays. Where are the great unique designs used in series like Cyborg 009 and Reign? And why does every girl have to look cute? Why can't she be cute, but also look dangerous? And I am sick of school uniforms. How many series do we need where the heroine is wearing some stupid looking sailor-like suit with a skirt? Or a shirt with a tie and a suit coat? How about some vinyl, boots, fishnet stockings, and gloves? Or have the main male character not look so pretty?

Ick, I'm losing my thought, but I just need something new, something fresh, something to put a new spin on the industry. Something that is not afraid to take risks to be outstanding.
 
I never truly leave anime, but there have been times I haven't watched any sort of anime in months, usually because of burn out or that I haven't found anything I want to see. I've been around the block (been watching anime for 12 years, longer if you count Nickelodeon's 80s imports like Maple Town and The Noozles), I know all the cliches and plot points and characters, so nothing is really shiny and fresh - it happens, but it's rare. So, I'm a lot more picky, it's not as "foreign and strange" as it was to newbie me and that means less interest in certain things.
 
I haven't gotten into anything new in probably two years, but this probably just comes from the fact that I don't watch really any TV at all anymore and anime isn't an exception. I will however get into some of my boxed sets. I still pop Bebop on every couple of months, and Kenshin when I've cycled through ATHF enough times while I'm trying to sleep.
 
I go in fits and spurts, and I've been doing that for almost 20 years now. Sometimes I take a break, and sometimes I go on anime binges.

The truth is, if you're going to stay in this hobby for a long time, you are simply going to have to work for it. That means not just watching what's in front of you or what's hyped. If you do that, you are going to get tired of anime very fast because you're only going for what's "in" or "popular" instead of looking for what suits your specific individual desires. And if your tastes are limited, you are likely going to have to broaden them.

That means paying attention to some of the shows that get less attention than the others. That means standing at the anime section in your local anime stores and browsing the back of the disc cases every once in a while. That means reading story outlines for some of the shows being released. And most of all, it means knowing EXACTLY what you want.

There are a lot of crap in anime, especially these days. But there's so much of it that usually there is always going to be at least a few anime shows out there that you haven't seen yet that you will like. The dilemma is if it is worth your time to look for that anime.

But I stay in the game because I believe a great anime is comparable to a great live action TV show or movie. I do believe in anime as an artform and I think there are anime that are just of worthy of deconstruction/analysis as much as any classic live action film. I look at all the heady discussions/analysis of a great TV show like, say, The Sopranos, and I think there *are* anime out there that are just as deserving of the same treatment. If I didn't I wouldn't stay in the game.

If you think all anime is just basically action-fighting shows or harem shows, it would be like saying you think American movies is just all about superheroes and chick flicks.
 
I am with you on the waves thing. I never truly get back out in all the years, I just take time out after a bit and then plunge in deeper than before.
I am currently waist deep in shows I am watching. Which just coming home from Sakuracon in Seattle did not help

I believe the larger lists is do to the many outlets for titles, and because I took time out and am now ready for a refreshed pallet. Almost like eating a small salt cracker, to revitalize taste.
 
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