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What does TB mean?

@Dan_ALves "TB" is the acronym for the "Tokyo Blade" arc of the Oshi no Ko manga series. This arc will get adapted into the second season of [Oshi no Ko].

@marquinti2 Thank you. Good arc?

@Dan_ALves Definitely! It's the top-tier for many people, and for myself as well! 😄

@marquinti2 Can´t wait then. If a year ago somebody told me I´d like a story about idols and reincarnation so much I would laugh really loud, but here we are.

@Dan_ALves I know, right?! 😄👌🏽 Well, in my case, what got me to watching Oshi no Ko in the first place is because of the promotional banners MAL puts out, as well as the YouTube reviews surrounding the first 3 episodes of the show. Anyway, I am glad I tried this show, but have the need to try and watch the other anime shows I have put on hiatus. ☺️

@marquinti2 I had a week vacation when the show started. I kept hearing about all the hype this had, the first episode was generating such a buzz and it was the length of a movie, so I was intrigued and decided to take a peek. I´m glad I did.

@Dan_ALves I didn't even know the first episode was the length of a movie until I watched it. 😄 Anyway, when buzz happens on any anime, that's when I feel drawn as well. This Fall 2023 anime season, the buzz I am hearing about shifts to "Sousou no Frieren". But, I haven't even tried watching the anime yet. I have so many anime on hiatus. Some of them, I don't even care anymore that I just put them on "dropped" mode. That's why, I am hesitant to start a new anime / a new manga unless I am going to commit.

@marquinti2 With Frieren, I really feel you should start watching it. Everything in it is beautiful. I like it a lot, really.

@Dan_ALves Sousou no Frieren has been the top airing anime for 3-4 months! It beats Fullmetal Alchemist in the All Anime MAL ranking. When a show persists on the top rankings like that, it's sure drawing viewers' attention (including mine, even though I haven't watched a single episode on it yet).

I'm just overwhelmed by anime. That's why, I stopped watching 11 shows per week (I used to do this back in Fall 2021). Now, I can only watch 1 airing show per week.

I just need to breathe a little. Hopefully, I'll come around to watching more than one anime show again soon. 😀

@marquinti2 I totally understand. I watched to many shows in the last season of 2023 and I enjoyed a lot of them, but it was too much. Even this season I´m watching too many, even if it is less than the previous season. That said, when it comes to Frieren, give it a shot when and if you have the time. There´s 17 or 18 episodes out, so If I were you I would just wait until it´s done so you can watch it all without waiting.
Yeah, I got back into anime in the Summer of 2022 and since then I have only been watching anime and I´m feeling a little burned out on it.

@Dan_ALves Wow! That is quite an achievement! What dedication! Here in MAL, there are some users that stand out! Those kinds of MAL users revamp their MAL profile fabulously, and they meticulously list the thousands of anime they watched. If anime or manga or video games are intertwined in your daytime job, I completely understand how a person can become a top-tier MAL user. As an ordinary woman with an ordinary job, anime/manga is job a pasttime to me.

@marquinti2 I´m an ordinary man with an ordinary job too. I didn´t just ate, slept and watched anime for the last year and a half, If that´s what you´re thinking. :-D
It´s just that since that Summer of 2022, all the shows I have been watching were anime.

@Dan_ALves Ohhhhh... I see what you mean now. My bad. 😅 You mentioned Summer 2022. My interest in anime rekindled a little bit earlier: Fall of 2019 (when Fruits Basket reboot series premiered). Those were my good 'ol days. I was craving for manga and anime around those days. So, from Fall of 2019 to Fall of 2021, my dedication to watching anime/reading manga were limitless.

In your case, I think it's amazing you're still keen and interested to continue watching as many anime shows! You have the motivation! 😀. It's good that you have the motivation cause mine has been dwindling since Fall of 2021 (hence, the drop in the anime shows I've watched starting on Winter of 2022).

I'm aware of the shows I want to watch this anime season (like Oshi no Ko: Season 2). But, right now, that's the only anime show I care about.

I could go back to the habit of watching more than one anime series per season, but lately, my heart is not just in other anime shows nor in any other manga series.

When I want to watch an anime series thoroughly (or read a manga series chapter by chapter), I need to have the mindset to be able to do so. Lately, the shows that I've been watching are just animated movies available on Netflix (animated movies by Dreamworks, Illumination, etc.) and some Barbie movies available on YouTube.

Even if there are many anime shows available on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, and other streaming platforms, I just want to return to Western media (even if it's only for a week or two).

When I dive straight into anime medium, I forgot to appreciate what the West has to offer (in terms of animated movies, I mean, as I couldn't care less about the animated TV series the West has to offer right now to its audience).

The Western animated movies are just the right length for me: they don't take too much of my time, they are consumable within an hour or two, etc.

But, when it comes to Japanese animation (I only watch Japanese animation as I don't care that much about other animated movies produced in China or other countries), I need my mind to be ready to consume lengthy series.

A 12-episode series is not that lengthy. But, still, I have to dedicate a few hours of my day or (a few hours of my two days) in order to finish a 12-episode anime series. And, if I'm intrigued by the 12-episode anime series, I also read the manga counterpart (so I can have an idea of the source material).

I hope my lust and love for anime and manga will return soon. I guess I'm still in an 80% hiatus mode (from anime and manga) given that my tendencies and desires have been rerouted to Western media in the past few days.

@marquinti2 Yeah, clearly a misunderstanding. :-D
I grew up with a lot of anime, even though I didn´t know it was anime at the time, it was just cartoons. Dragon Ball, Rurouni Kenshin, Beyblade, Doraemon, Pokemon, Digimon, Sailor Moon...and then I fell out of the medium for about 20 years. There were still shows that were big enough for me to hear about them, like Naruto, Bleach, Death Note, Attack on Titan, One Punch Man or more recently Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen.
I just really fell off the animation medium as a whole, even western shows. Then around Summer 2021, I was looking for a cyberpunk-themed show and came across Psycho Pass (which I really recommend, particularly S1) and that show stuck with me to the point that made me think that maybe I should delve deeper into this medium. A year later, Summer of 2022, I finally decided to watch this show called Attack on Titan and see at last why everybody was so hyped over it. And from that point on, every show I´ve watched is anime. So much that I really didn´t watch almost any movies that came out last year. I would end a show and start another one right away.
However, like I said in my previous comment, I´m feeling a little burned out on it. There´s still a lot of shows I want to watch, but I´m not feeling that pull to do it. Right now I´m watching Gintama (apart from the other weekly shows) and I think when I´m finished with it I might go back to western media again and start watching some shows from the last few years, because this side of the world does good stuff too.

Usually, a show with 12/13/14 episodes will take me about 3 days to watch, around 4 episodes a day. If it´s a longer one, around 20-26 episodes, it might take me the whole week. Even longer shows will take a lot longer, obviously. Gintama, for example, has around 360 episodes. I started in June/July and just now I´m arriving at episode 300. Granted that that´s not all I watched, I barely watch any episode in August, for example, but still it´s taking a long time. I´m not complaining about the show, I love it, but yeah.

I hope you get the bug again. An healthy and balanced bug, so you can consume the product and not get tired of it.