| I don't think this is the case, there have been times where I watched a lot in a given day, but it was because I had jack to do and a whole lot of free time, not because of addictedness, it wasn't rare that the next day from a binge I watched little to nothing. |
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| "Do you have any embarrassing or bad memories from that period?" Not really. I loved to binge all those anime. |
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| Binge watched to get to the Chimera Ant Arc, lol. |
9765 said: do you ever think "What was I thinking at that time?" More like "How did I manage to binge so many episodes per day?" |
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| Yeah i remember doing that for Naruto and Hunter x Hunter (1999) around 2007. |
| Even though I spend most of my free time watching anime, I would never call it an addiction. Addiction makes it sound like I stop functioning as a normal human being for the sake of watching anime. I spend time watching anime the same way that people spend time watching shows, movies, streamers, reading, etc, and no one portrays those people as addicts. I don't regret spending my time watching anime, because I did it to entertain myself, and it fulfilled its purpose. I do have an embarrassing moment, which was while I was watching a Bleach filler episode where they go to the beach and Matsumoto is trying to pick up water with her "balloons" and my mom enters my room. |
| No, I find it cool that I had so much energy to binge all those series. Now I often suffer with 2 eps, or I need to take a break often from watching anime. |
| Looking back, I am actually proud of myself that I could watch as many anime as I did. Nowadays, I just stick to watching shows one episode at a time as they are airing since I often struggle to pay attention for longer periods of time, especially when a story is slow. May TikTok burn in hell for ruining my attention span. |
| That was me as a teenager and it really helped feed into the other shit that made me a horrible person back then. I pretty much acted exactly like the insufferable people I tend to call out these days. |
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| Idk about addict, but I definitely had a honeymoon phase at the start where every show was the most fun thing ever since everything was so new to me. which meant I watched at least 6 episodes a day. I still get that feeling of wanting to just watch more and more, but nowadays it happens with way fewer shows than before.... because I mean obviously. |
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Reply to Vampire_Lord
No, I find it cool that I had so much energy to binge all those series. Now I often suffer with 2 eps, or I need to take a break often from watching anime.
| @Vampire_Lord suffering with 2 eps? now there's finally someone i can actually relate to |
| I’m actually watching more anime now than when I was younger thanks to streaming (as opposed to tv & VHS/DVD/Bluray). Plus more non-Ghibli anime movies are making it into theaters here in the US in recent years. I can foresee myself being less focused on seasonals at some point in the future, but doubt I’ll ever give up anime entirely. |
OhayotakuMay 12, 2024 12:32 PM
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| Yayaya, my phase was from 2014-2020. Don't regret the time I focusing on anime, feels like a simpler time looking back. :) |
| What was I thinking at that time? I was very depressed. |
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9765 said: You know, every anime watcher has had a period of addiction (a time when they were an extreme anime addict). Do you have any embarrassing or bad memories from that period? Looking back now, do you ever think "What was I thinking at that time?" Ya I went through a phase like this... back in the early 90s. I probably watched the streamline pictures release of "Akira' over 100 times on VHS almost once every weekend since I bought it. I don't simply just look back and question what I was thinking much. I was just a horny teen back then that was easily entertained by sex, nudity, and violence in entertainment. Japanese Anime had plenty of this back then, specifically with what was actually getting released to Western Audiences at the time. I even remember getting my 1st girlfriend to watch it with me at one point where she basically told me she was appalled by the fact I watched such violent entertainment. Not like when she was ever over at my house to watch a movie alone together did we actually really spend much time watching what was playing on the screen (mostly we just made out the entire time completely ignoring anything playing on the TV). One thing I do think about is some of the Anime I was into back when I was just a Horny Teenager... I still cringe at the fact I use to think so highly of a title like "Crying Freeman". As well as looking back at some of the actual Hentai I owned back then (before it was actually even called Hentai) such as "U-Jin Brand". All I have to say is "U-Jin Brand" is probably one of the most sexist, misogynistic, and chauvinistic Anime I have ever seen in my life back then. I bought the title on a whim on VHS when I saw it on sale in a bargain bin at a local Blockbuster Video brand new for only $10 in the early 90s. Since they didn't have it to rent I just ended up buying it just to watch it. The 1st time I viewed it with a friend of mine I was laughing so hard at the time because how blatantly sexist, misogynistic, and chauvinistic the story was that I passed it off to a friend of mine at school to watch who was a Riot grrrl. Specifically so her and her Riot grrrl friends could deconstruct everything wrong with it. lol Just the look on her face after I asked what she thought about it after viewing it was priceless. I have never seen a female friend of mine so disgusted by something before in my life back than. But the reaction was predictable. |
ColourWheelMay 12, 2024 7:36 PM
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| In my case it's just because my entire life I always need to have one or multiple things - an intense main interest - at any given time. Sometimes the phases of periods of intense interest in that topic lasted for days or weeks. Sometimes for months and years, or ever since I first developed it and never stopped. I still have other areas of obsessive interest, though they fluctuate in intensity and prominence (the share of time and energy devoted to them compared to the other interests and everything else), but I would say that I've been like that with respect to anime since my discovery of it in 2016. For example, another of mine which is lifelong is the study of history and particularly specific periods or eras of history, and that is still very much with me from around 10 years-old to this day, but I will say that currently and in the past several years I just don't spend as much active time on it daily, but it's still there in the background. |
WatchTillTandavaMay 12, 2024 4:43 PM
| Glad I was a closet weeb in those middle school days. My most cringe memory of it was just trying to learn japanese. |
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| I would binge any yuri I could find at one point even if it wasn’t very good and just ate that shit up rewatched them a lot too lmao that’s a funny memory of being younger and going through some self discovery |
| I'm glad I spent time watching anime because it brought me happiness. There's no point regretting something that made me happy. And the past can't be changed. I regret not doing anything more productive and failing to enjoy high school and university when I had the chance. I should have waited until I had finished high school and university before binging anime. I learned Japanese to an intermediate level because of anime. And was able to talk with people. I'm actually proud of that. |
creepylurkerMay 12, 2024 5:23 PM
| I am still addicted to anime atm btw... |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| I am still addicted to anime tbh. Nothing wrong with that. |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
Reply to Auron
I don't think this is the case, there have been times where I watched a lot in a given day, but it was because I had jack to do and a whole lot of free time, not because of addictedness, it wasn't rare that the next day from a binge I watched little to nothing.
Auron_ said: I don't think this is the case, there have been times where I watched a lot in a given day, but it was because I had jack to do and a whole lot of free time, not because of addictedness, it wasn't rare that the next day from a binge I watched little to nothing. Same here as I was pretty much watching anime to either kill time or something to enjoy. |
| not a single chotto matte moment so all is well |
Reply to Vampire_Lord
No, I find it cool that I had so much energy to binge all those series. Now I often suffer with 2 eps, or I need to take a break often from watching anime.
Vampire_Lord said: Now I often suffer with 2 eps, or I need to take a break often from watching anime. Why? i see a lot of people in the same case of you but i don't really understand (no judgment) what happen for changing your capacity of watching anime |
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Reply to Zakatsuki_
Vampire_Lord said:
Now I often suffer with 2 eps, or I need to take a break often from watching anime.
Now I often suffer with 2 eps, or I need to take a break often from watching anime.
Why? i see a lot of people in the same case of you but i don't really understand (no judgment) what happen for changing your capacity of watching anime
| @Zakatsuki_ Just a phase or I hope it is, last year I finished more than 100 titles, the most of them were seasonal ones btw, and even re-watched Bleach. But this year only around 20 with re-watching. Gaming is my #1 hobby, btw, often I don't have time for both, and when I'm playing anime related games like Visual Novels or Persona series games for example I've zero interest in watching anime. |
Vampire_LordAug 3, 2024 10:52 AM
| When i first got into anime, i was so excited to learn about how vast it was outside of the mecha and shonen-action shows i grew up with. But i never knew where to start, so i watched a shit ton of ecchi. Why? Well cause i just thought i'd get to boobies so if the show was bad, it wouldn't have been a waste |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| I barely watch any anime. Outside of MMDs vids on Youtube, of course. Like this one. 【原神/Genshin Impact MMD】 なにやってもうまくいかない 【 Furina 】 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtfHhJ0hXwE |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
Reply to rohan121
Glad I was a closet weeb in those middle school days. My most cringe memory of it was just trying to learn japanese.
| Trying to Learn something is Never, EVER "Cringe" inducing... especially not when the subject in question happens to be one of the most difficult written/spoken languages ever devised by humanity... |
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| Not embarassed about, but I wish I didn't sacrifice some sleep for anime when I was in high school. |
| Can't really say I went through that "phase". I pace myself and still manage to watch a ton of anime while maintaining a somewhat normal life. The most embarrassing time would be suffering through corny Pokemon episodes and terribly passed Dragon Ball Z episodes. Growing up I was more obsessed with video games...and we will leave at that. |
The Matrix has you... |
Reply to ToumaTachibana
It isn't a phase for me. I'm still an extreme Anime addict.
| @Nurguburu Same. It's rare I watch fewer than 2~3 episodes of any anime per day. When I'm binging, I can easily burn through an entire series in a sitting. |
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