How to deal with manga/anime addiction healthily?

Apr 15, 2016 3:34 PM

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Apr 2016

I just finished a lovely manga, and I feel very empty inside. I read mangas in chains. after consuming one manga, I just have to search for the next one or I feel very grumpy the whole day.

Mangas are beautiful and funny, brightening up a sad or lonely day, when they are GOOD/ fit my taste. What doesn't feel good is when I've ran out of the ones I really like and I'm just mindlessly reading another manga to take my mind off another.

(for example...I went from fluffy shoujos [i love them] to ecchi highschool mangas with dense mcs [nothing wrong with them though, they just frustrate me])

When I wake up, I have to read at least 10 chapters or something before I feel cheerful. So yeah, if I've finished a good manga the night before and go to sleep happy, I wake up feeling lost haha.

How do you guys deal with the feeling? Is this normal?

Jul 20, 2016 12:52 AM

Mikee44

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Jul 2016

I feel the same way. What I do is after I finish the manga series, when I do feel empty inside, I try to imagine the story in my head and making up my own version until I finish my own story about it.

Jul 20, 2016 2:27 AM

digihara

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Feb 2015

Yeah I do get 'withdrawal symptoms' without turning to anime/manga/games too. Maybe that's why I consume all three forms of media - in case I run out of things to watch/read/play.

But again, I guess it's the same for people who enjoy other forms of hobbies. Music, cooking, planting, sports, etc.

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