Lord_Sithis said: dakotasapphire said: But you just don't play the games because meh. I don't play the other games because I'm really focused on one, and if I try to play another I can't. But it's the same effect I guess, other games don't interest me that much. Even if I bought Ikaruga and Blue Revolver, two games I really want to play right now, I think I would keep playing the other game. So it's too mucb attention to one game...Yeah that's me too, I own all the bioshock games because I enjoyed playing the first one but yet to actually finish it and the second and third... _o i'm sooo bad about playing games to the end. I've had the same experience though tbh, I got loads of games for xmas (old games that's why I got a lot) one year and I only played Dark Cloud out of all of them (Which was fun). |
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dakotasapphire said: Do you think I should start reading manga/play video games/read books for a long time and go on hiatus from anime? Or just drop any shows I find boring atm? Yes, this always works for me. Games, LNs, manga, TV series, Western cartoons, visual novels, graphic novels, webcomics, etc. |
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SomeEdgeLord said: I WILL report you from this forum if this continues. In real life, I am one of the coldest, unsympathetic, people you'll ever know, who's grown up in an even colder household, you really don't want me to break my persona, I know how to make people feel bad. YearnsforAttention said: hm who has 1656 friends on MAL that's right me bye bye YearnsforAttention said: I don't want your approval how many damn times do I need to say it I enjoy irritating you I am gonna do things MY way |
| Most anime bore me, yeah. I still watch them, though. Yaoi, however... that stuff is never boring. May be repetitive, but somehow it still holds my interest. Find something that suits you better? |
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| I never get bored with anime, but in my case anime is not my only hobby. I find that switching up what hobby I'm engaging in puts me in the mood for anime. I also work 5 days a week and that makes anime an escape from drudgery. If you live near any hiking spots I would encourage you to have a nice walk in the forest or other natural environment. Usually when I hike and view the natural world I return in the mood to watch a series or movie. |
| Boring? Then do something else, there is many things you could do, than shut yourself or watchings anime alone in your room for hours and it will make you going to be insane, soon. |
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XNoobAsianX said: You suffer from a disease known as Too-much-free-time. If you're not studying then find work to do, if you're already working then you obviously have more time to work. Basically if you're not working 20 hours a day, you won't cure yourself of this illness. Think about how much money you can make too, you can create your own otaku paradise I do sleep for 8 or 9 hours so... yeah... I've got only 6 hours in a day to do anything. Rest of the time is spent working, getting ready for work or sleeping. |
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vriskabell said: Learn to play an instrument. Write. Bake. Volunteer. Exercise. Travel. I know how to play most instruments. Except string instruments. Traveling is too expensive, writing isn't interesting, I have little free time to volunteer, i DON'T LIKE sweets so baked goods aren't my thing, excercising is fking boring too (but i'm thinking of riding my bike places. |
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| The only other things I can think of are cooking and reading. Otherwise, The Sims is a great way to kill time. |
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vriskabell said: The only other things I can think of are cooking and reading. Otherwise, The Sims is a great way to kill time. I just played the sims actually and found it tiresome. Maybe I need to find a way to have fun with it. |
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dakotasapphire said: Has this happened to you, where you've watched a lot of anime, and start to get dis-interested in them? And maybe you try to find a different medium to entertain you and it's not working? What do you do to mitigate (mend it) it? I'm just wondering because I've been having this issue for awhile where most anime are starting to just bore me and I can't get any further with them (hence my freaking huge watch list) and most were considered decent by my standards. Do you think I should start reading manga/play video games/read books for a long time and go on hiatus from anime? Or just drop any shows I find boring atm? This is happening to me too. I have a pretty big PTW list and take a glance occasionally, but they just don't seem interesting enough for me to watch any more. I recommend looking into new anime, from a recent season or the current season. Usually they give a little unique twist to normal anime I would be watching since they are hot and new. But also, if you haven't read manga yet you TOTALLY SHOULD. I wasn't a big fan of manga myself, but then I found some manga I really loved and realized what I had been missing out on. Manga is somewhat different than anime in terms of how you can really find some specific manga to suite your tastes since they aren't as hard to create and financially sustain as anime. But also, I would really recommend kdramas. If you are into drama/romance/revenge types just let me know. |
| I had a similar problem recently and maybe it's still not fully resolved but basically the things I did to alleviate it are: Going through my PTW list which was full of shows I only had there because they are regarded as time pieces or the best of the best and removing them. Same with anything I had put on hold that I was reluctant to drop. Basically leaving only the shows that I actually had an interest in watching. Watching series during a season they're best suited for. For example something homey/calming for fall/winter. Of course this differs from person to person. Not forcing myself to watch anime just to finish or keep up with something. Taking up reading, games and other pastimes to choose from when you don't feel like watching anime. Even taking a nap works xD |
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vriskabell said: Learn to play an instrument. Write. Bake. Volunteer. Exercise. Travel. That's basically saying, "get a life." Valenthius said: I just watch series and movies with my parents, until i open up MAL and think to myself: "Hey, i could go for an anime right now". What kind of series you watch with you family? |
| I got bored of most anime a while back. I still am. I'd have it no other way; since getting bored I started analyzing everything I watched, not too much and only while actually watching the show, but it mad everything far more interesting. Finding a bad show and mocking it, looking for plot holes and otherwise looking at why I think a certain bad show is bad is infinitely more fun than I was having with seven or eight out of ten shows before I got bored of them. I do this for good shows too, though it's not as fun when the show is. Shaking things up once in awhile always helps. I play discount Crunchyroulette (hitting the random button and watching at least an episode of whatever comes up) regularly and that never bores me, probably because I'd never willingly watch anything that comes up most of the time. I'd recommend reading manga too, since some of it probably won't ever see an anime and there's a lot of great stuff. A lot of anime don't really do the source material justice either. Notable mentions to Beserk, Vagabond, One Piece and Onanie Master Kurosawa. |
Valenthius said: I just watch series and movies with my parents, until i open up MAL and think to myself: "Hey, i could go for an anime right now". What kind of series you watch with you family? [/quote]Anything that's on really. Most recently the new season of Wayward Pines. |
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| We don't know, if you think that you need a change of pace, then go out and socialize or turn to another medium then return back to anime after the rest. |
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| I have the same thing. I haven't watched/read any anime/manga for months now, and not only that, my mood for even watching a movie, is pretty low. Few weeks ago, i started watching an anime movie, i watched the first half, went to sleep, and never watched the 2nd half. 2 days ago i actually watched a (live action) movie. First time in months i actually do something like that |
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| This sounds more like anhedonia than anything else. Anhedonia is the inability to enjoy activities. Clear signs is if you can't enjoy basic things like food, sex and music. If this sounds like it applies you, maybe try professional help? |
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| It's the medium. I'm bored of anime too but I love hearing japanese, I started watching some dramas, you should check them out (some are excellent) Cheers |
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TheBrainintheJar said: This sounds more like anhedonia than anything else. Anhedonia is the inability to enjoy activities. Clear signs is if you can't enjoy basic things like food, sex and music. If this sounds like it applies you, maybe try professional help? Well. I'm not one to have sex a lot like other people anyways (well I'm not jumping people and I don't go to parties and yeah I don't ask people out so gl...) that's not easy to determine. Food I haven't enjoyed fully in a long time but I attribute that to lack of good food. Music I still enjoy sometimes when it's new (new to me, but I do like me some alternative british rock). I've thought about if I had that, and if I do it's very minor. Thanks though. I did do what one person suggested though, I had been watching One Piece non-stop for a month so I decided maybe I should watch something the opposite of it, A slice of life, and maybe a couple of them. So now I'm watching pet girl, sweetness and lightening and going to watch K-on at some point. |
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| I'm like this too but not to the same degree anymore, before I had just stopped & took a break from anime hung out with friends, do some drugs you know fun shit then came back to anime but I've stopped marathoning every single anime I watch n watch between 2 & 5 eps a day I haven't completely come back from the boredom but I'm not trying to just ignore anime anymore This doesn't help in the question you asked op but just informing you that I'm also one of the people who have & are still going through this |
Mr_Perv_ said: I'm like this too but not to the same degree anymore, before I had just stopped & took a break from anime hung out with friends, do some drugs you know fun shit then came back to anime but I've stopped marathoning every single anime I watch n watch between 2 & 5 eps a day I haven't completely come back from the boredom but I'm not trying to just ignore anime anymore This doesn't help in the question you asked op but just informing you that I'm also one of the people who have & are still going through this And I appreciate you responding. <3 I was wondering if this is happening to other people too, that's great that you'd say something. I'm able to watch some of the seasonal stuff atm, Drifters (what else?) you know... But I've been watching TOO much one piece I guess and i'm seeing too much of a pattern with the show and it's starting to make me dislike anime. |
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dakotasapphire said: Mr_Perv_ said: I'm like this too but not to the same degree anymore, before I had just stopped & took a break from anime hung out with friends, do some drugs you know fun shit then came back to anime but I've stopped marathoning every single anime I watch n watch between 2 & 5 eps a day I haven't completely come back from the boredom but I'm not trying to just ignore anime anymore This doesn't help in the question you asked op but just informing you that I'm also one of the people who have & are still going through this And I appreciate you responding. <3 I was wondering if this is happening to other people too, that's great that you'd say something. I'm able to watch some of the seasonal stuff atm, Drifters (what else?) you know... But I've been watching TOO much one piece I guess and i'm seeing too much of a pattern with the show and it's starting to make me dislike anime. I haven't watched that many shows that caused me to take a break from anime which was a good month the genres that caused this was Slice Of Life & Romance at that time I just kinda shunned anime, I was marathoning any & every Slice Of Life & Romance combo type anime I could find as of now I'm trying to stay away from that combination so I don't relapse back into staying away from anime & probably letting it go from how I had felt when I hit that point |
Mr_Perv_ said: dakotasapphire said: And I appreciate you responding. <3 I was wondering if this is happening to other people too, that's great that you'd say something. I'm able to watch some of the seasonal stuff atm, Drifters (what else?) you know... But I've been watching TOO much one piece I guess and i'm seeing too much of a pattern with the show and it's starting to make me dislike anime. I haven't watched that many shows that caused me to take a break from anime which was a good month the genres that caused this was Slice Of Life & Romance at that time I just kinda shunned anime, I was marathoning any & every Slice Of Life & Romance combo type anime I could find as of now I'm trying to stay away from that combination so I don't relapse back into staying away from anime & probably letting it go from how I had felt when I hit that point Lol shtttt, That's action for me. But I did see 'my love story' and that's romcom sol and it had great art but it really turned me off to that genre too. I do like regular SOL... |
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| Yup, this happens to me pretty often & since I have many interests, I try to focus on different things like playing video games, reading or watching Tv shows & movies! I'd say take a break & focus on something else c: |
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dakotasapphire said: TheBrainintheJar said: This sounds more like anhedonia than anything else. Anhedonia is the inability to enjoy activities. Clear signs is if you can't enjoy basic things like food, sex and music. If this sounds like it applies you, maybe try professional help? Well. I'm not one to have sex a lot like other people anyways (well I'm not jumping people and I don't go to parties and yeah I don't ask people out so gl...) that's not easy to determine. Food I haven't enjoyed fully in a long time but I attribute that to lack of good food. Music I still enjoy sometimes when it's new (new to me, but I do like me some alternative british rock). I've thought about if I had that, and if I do it's very minor. Thanks though. I did do what one person suggested though, I had been watching One Piece non-stop for a month so I decided maybe I should watch something the opposite of it, A slice of life, and maybe a couple of them. So now I'm watching pet girl, sweetness and lightening and going to watch K-on at some point. Why'd you subject yourself to watching One Piece non-stop? I suggest first trying a variety of anime. Maybe One Piece's monotony has something to do with it. |
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TheBrainintheJar said: dakotasapphire said: Well. I'm not one to have sex a lot like other people anyways (well I'm not jumping people and I don't go to parties and yeah I don't ask people out so gl...) that's not easy to determine. Food I haven't enjoyed fully in a long time but I attribute that to lack of good food. Music I still enjoy sometimes when it's new (new to me, but I do like me some alternative british rock). I've thought about if I had that, and if I do it's very minor. Thanks though. I did do what one person suggested though, I had been watching One Piece non-stop for a month so I decided maybe I should watch something the opposite of it, A slice of life, and maybe a couple of them. So now I'm watching pet girl, sweetness and lightening and going to watch K-on at some point. Why'd you subject yourself to watching One Piece non-stop? I suggest first trying a variety of anime. Maybe One Piece's monotony has something to do with it. Ever feel the need to get to the end of something? Also maybe I was trying to get to the time skip... ahaha. I did and meh... I do think the mermaid island arc would be interesting though. So I guess I'll watch the rest eventually... I didn't think One Piece was monotonous till I watched it... Also I've seen plenty of anime after one piece, most didn't keep me interested past an episode. I mean, pet girl is pretty cute... |
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dakotasapphire said: TheBrainintheJar said: Why'd you subject yourself to watching One Piece non-stop? I suggest first trying a variety of anime. Maybe One Piece's monotony has something to do with it. Ever feel the need to get to the end of something? Also maybe I was trying to get to the time skip... ahaha. I did and meh... I do think the mermaid island arc would be interesting though. So I guess I'll watch the rest eventually... I didn't think One Piece was monotonous till I watched it... Also I've seen plenty of anime after one piece, most didn't keep me interested past an episode. I mean, pet girl is pretty cute... I'm interesting in getting to the end of most anime I watch. These anime are short, though. One Piece is a lifetime commitment and I think we got better things to do. |
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