| There's a story I always tell that my experience with Kidou Senshi Zeta Gundam was so terrible that my brain "shut down" and made me incapable of review anime for a while until I noticed that I hated that anime. In the meantime until it did there was an anime I watched: Kidou Senshi Gundam 0080: Pocket no Naka no Sensou. The only thing I can remember about it was that watching each episode felt "tiring", as in "overwhelmed", like "too much stuff happened". To this day I can't understand that sensation: Perhaps it wasn't it's fault, but rather still the aftermath of Zeta, so I would have to rewatch it in order to know. Have you ever had a similar experience? |
| Yeah, it was with Gundam Seed Destiny. |
| that's because you are pulled by earth gravitational power problem is not the anime, it's too good for simple minded shallow people who watch moe blob shit |
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| If that happens I usually drop them or put them in the "On Hold" list because it's a sign of my disinterest. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| Tiring? Too much for you? Feeling overwhelmed? Must be because you're an Oldtype |
| Sure, I tried quite a few anime that felt tiresome. |
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| I can't trust someone who doesn't like Zeta Gundam, your opinion is invalid. |
| Watching something I dislike does in fact tire me out. Are you surprised? |
| その目だれの目？ |
| Saint Seiya and recently Inuyasha - Inuyasha even made be to actually take breaks to watch something else, which I rarely do. The repetition of plot-points, all-over the place pacing and small emotional investment was killing me, in both of them. |
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| If that happens to me, I stop watching that anime. It's also a sign to take a break from anime, and do other things for awhile. |
| Taiga best girl forever. |
| You phrase this question weirdly, "has it ever" suggests surprise that it's even possible. You must not watch seasonals Every single second of my life spent watching Magic Maker was a slog. Getting through 28 entire episodes of Frieren made me want to down a bottle of Liquid Drano. This season we have New Saga, which is only slightly better than Magic Maker because of hilarious bullshit like those CGI horses last week that made me laugh every time they were on screen (and they were on screen A LOT, as if the makers thought their 3D horses were just FIRE) ......so it's only slightly more entertaining not in a good way than any other generic fantasy slop. Tiring is exactly the word I would use for watching this stuff. |
| Yeah, that's usually a good sign to take a break from the medium all together. |
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| I normally do either a decent amount of research before picking up a longer anime title or, in some other way, make sure that it's something that I have a good idea I'll be able to get through in an enjoyable way. However, Re:Zero continues to baffle me in that, on paper, it should be something enjoyable to me, yet is anything but to this point. Can go back to that sunk-cost fallacy thread, but I'm still hanging in there hoping, at some point, that it either gets better, or what everybody else finds good about it becomes apparent to me. On the plus side, once I caught up with it, at worst now, it's one episode a week out of my life at most. |
| Kemono No Souja Eren had an incredible first 7 episodes and then just meandered to the point where I just skimmed it |
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I normally do either a decent amount of research before picking up a longer anime title or, in some other way, make sure that it's something that I have a good idea I'll be able to get through in an enjoyable way.
However, Re:Zero continues to baffle me in that, on paper, it should be something enjoyable to me, yet is anything but to this point. Can go back to that sunk-cost fallacy thread, but I'm still hanging in there hoping, at some point, that it either gets better, or what everybody else finds good about it becomes apparent to me. On the plus side, once I caught up with it, at worst now, it's one episode a week out of my life at most.
However, Re:Zero continues to baffle me in that, on paper, it should be something enjoyable to me, yet is anything but to this point. Can go back to that sunk-cost fallacy thread, but I'm still hanging in there hoping, at some point, that it either gets better, or what everybody else finds good about it becomes apparent to me. On the plus side, once I caught up with it, at worst now, it's one episode a week out of my life at most.
Briekimchi said: However, Re:Zero continues to baffle me in that, on paper, it should be something enjoyable to me, yet is anything but to this point. Can go back to that sunk-cost fallacy thread, but I'm still hanging in there hoping, at some point, that it either gets better, or what everybody else finds good about it becomes apparent to me. On the plus side, once I caught up with it, at worst now, it's one episode a week out of my life at most. Could you expand on that: Where you're currently are in it? What are you disliking about it? |
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Briekimchi said:
However, Re:Zero continues to baffle me in that, on paper, it should be something enjoyable to me, yet is anything but to this point. Can go back to that sunk-cost fallacy thread, but I'm still hanging in there hoping, at some point, that it either gets better, or what everybody else finds good about it becomes apparent to me. On the plus side, once I caught up with it, at worst now, it's one episode a week out of my life at most.
However, Re:Zero continues to baffle me in that, on paper, it should be something enjoyable to me, yet is anything but to this point. Can go back to that sunk-cost fallacy thread, but I'm still hanging in there hoping, at some point, that it either gets better, or what everybody else finds good about it becomes apparent to me. On the plus side, once I caught up with it, at worst now, it's one episode a week out of my life at most.
Could you expand on that: Where you're currently are in it?
What are you disliking about it?
| @thewiru I finished season 3 (a bit behind everyone else but I got there eventually). I don't usually like listing out what I find the faults to be with it because Re:Zero fans are very hostile towards anyone who doesn't think it's the best thing ever made. But in short, the most meh part of the production, for me, is definitely the dialogue. I've tried subbed, dubbed, referred back to the LN's and every time, it's just waffle-y, unnatural and poorly-written. I also find the characters to be excessively numerous, bland and uninteresting. Like very few of them are more than cut-outs to serve as plot fodder. There are attempts to give some of them character or personality, but a lot of these attempts are overly-used. I also dislike the focal characters of Subaru (annoying) and Emilia (personalityless). So it's difficult for me to get invested. There's also this assumption that because you enjoy Mushoku Tensei, you should also enjoy Re:Zero, but to me anyway, MT doesn't suffer from any of the issues that Re does. Ok, that felt good to write. 😂 These are my problems with it and no judgement towards anyone who enjoys it. If anything, all those people are part of the reason I continue to give it a chance. |
| Yes. That is one of the main reasons why one drops a show: either its tiring (wasting energy on), which can correlate to it being boring. Times where the characters are so unbearable that it irritates your opinions on the anime, or something like terrible pacing or a anime simply not achieving much within its span of airtime, etc. Or u can choose to put a show on hold to take a break if dropping isn't something that ur interested in. |
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki I rate by enjoyment |
| In a "too much stuff is happening, I'm overwhelmed" way? Looking through my list, nothing's sticking out to me. In a different manner, I have been exhausted by certain shows, including the last one I watched, Takopii |
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