| Every season I take a look at the new anime and there is always a long list of ones that I would love to watch. I always end up with not enough time or just burning out before I can finish all of them and it makes me pretty disappointed. I just want to know if anyone else is in a similar situation where they feel like they wish they could finish an anime but just didnt have the time or effort to watch it. |
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| There is no need to rush to watch all the anime you want to. Just watch it at a natural pace and keep track of the shows that look interesting. I have a huge backlog of shows that I want to watch, but as I watched more anime I became better at telling which shows Inwould like so my backlog grew at a slower rate and now I am finishing shows more often than I am adding shows to watch. I think the same will eventually happen to you. |
| Easily, i do not watch every trash that comes from new season. |
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| Just talking about seasonals? I don't really. That is if we're talking about anything that even remotely interests me or which I think could have the potential to be fun even if it isn't very likely. I used to be like that, picking up 30 shows per season so i would make sure not to miss out of anything. But it does get very tiring and exhausting after a while. What helped me tho was simulwatching some of them with friends. Either have your own discussion thread in some club, or get together and watch it while you chat in skype or discord. It's pretty easy to finish even the more mediocre seasonals like that. Also I tend to wait these days for at least a few weeks until I consider picking up shows. Sometimes you can avoid disappointments just by looking at the score developments. If it's one of the most anticipated and popular shows of the season with tens of thousands of viewers and still gets like a below 7 rating very early on, it is most likely trash and I feel like I've dodged a bullet. Example: Clockwork Planet this season. Or Mayoiga. Or Coppelion. Most seasons have one or two shows like that. But just in general it is easier to inquire about shows once a few eps have aired so you can figure out more reliably whether you want to pick them up or not. But mainly I've started to stop watching seasonals, especially the ones I'm hyped about, while they air. I always spend the first two or weeks of a new season watching all the shows that just finished airing that interest me. I watch them more efficiently that way (sometimes marathoning them in one day) and it's just more hype and fun in general. I definitely feel like I'm spending much less time on seasonals like that compared to keeping up with them weekly, because it's more condensed. And just in general something I always did was watch the episodes you are hyped for the most as the last episodes each week. As long as you have other seasonals that have episodes out watch those first. You always want to go from 'meh' to 'awesome' and not the other way round. You'll always look forward to your favorites and watching some of the more meh shows before them will just inrease the anticipation. But watching your favorites and then something meh will make you lost motivation very quickly. So if you don't want to drop the shows that make you 'burn out' at least make sure you use your favorites to motivate yourself to watch those other shows as well. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| I don't. Feelsbadman. Watching/keeping up seasonals really is hard for me that's why I limit the shows I watch :/ |
 "... Because when you live in this world of my closed eyes... ... Being alone is very lonely...". |
| I usually pick only a few seasonal anime, 3-5 titles usually, so I don't have the same problem as you do. I suggest you to not rush yourself, watch anime in your usual pace. |
| Maybe you just don't like watching shows weekly and prefer to watch at your own pace. I always end up dropping most seasonals, I just lose interest in them because of all this waiting. I only managed to finish 3 shows this spring. |
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| Not many new seasonal shows interest me, so usually I have enough time to watch all that I want to. |
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| I wait till about mid-season to pick up a show. By that point, it becomes easy to grasp how the good or bad a show is. Additionally, I have a list of hundreds of other shows from previous seasons saved on a google doc of mine (I've been using google for a while, and when I decided to also use MAL, I thought it'd be too much work transferring all those titles). Basically, I have so many shows on that list that's I already know are good that I don't stress about keeping up. Even with second seasons of shows I know I like I wait till mid-season. Also I prefer dubs, so I usually have to wait 1 month to a year anyway... On top of all that, I tend to not binge anime during the school year, so most of my shows I watch during breaks. "How" I watch shows is through some illegal and some legal means, but I mostly use WatchCartoonOnline. |
| Usually Pick the recent decent ones rather than piques my current interest of some shows that will turned out to be crap. |
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| we're actually the same, 9 or 10 hours of school then tons of paper works life is so fuckin tiring every midnight i plan to watch something but always ends up sleeping |
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| I know how you feel. I don't watch anime as much as I did when I started. I used to watch 4-5 episodes every night, and as many as I could bear during the day if I didn't have anything to do. Now I don't even watch it every day. And if I do, it's usually 3 episodes max. I want to watch anime more and be into it like I used to, but I just don't feel like. People have told me I'm just burnt out, but I've felt like this since last year. Burn out doesn't feel like a good term for me anymore. Especially since I'm probably on MAL more than I watch anime. But I don't sweat it. I have my whole life to watch anime and it isn't going anywhere. |
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| I'm a pretty busy person myself, but despite that I always find time to watch anime. And yes there are times when I can't really watch even a single episode of the anime I'm currently watching, and it's really frustrating. But heck I'm still young, and I think I can finish all the 300+ anime in my PTW. Haha! |
     "Maybe he's trying to take a shit, but the shit just won't come out." Captain Levi, 2014 (／^-^)／☆♪  ♪☆＼(^０^＼) |
| I don't which is my my plan to watch list has hundreds of things in it. |
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| in the words of the prophet jacob, 3.5x it |
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| I only pick a couple seasonals from each season to watch and don't watch them until after the season is finished, but even without seasonals weighing down on my anime watching time I still don't have time to watch everything I want to. There are so many anime out there that this isn't a plausible goal for me. Just watch at your own pace and don't worry about which great anime you want to watch but know you never will. |
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| Well you can finish a 13 episode anime in just a few hours. At least you can pick the best looking ones from the list and watch those, most of it is bad anyway. |
| For Seasonal: I pick whatever interested me in the synopsis or if I like the character designs/animation. It also helps if one of my favorite studios are working on it or if my favorite voice actors/actress is dubbing. Which ends up being 10-15 series. By the end of the season I usually end up dropping 2 series or put them on hold if I don't like it as much. Then the period between each season I just pick whatever I've been meaning to watch or heard good things about. If I don't find anything I like while I wait for a new season, I end up just trying to finish what I put on hold. I also try to watch 2-cour series so I don't lose interest quicker or feel burned out. Anime is the same as television, I just can't watch 100+ episodes all at once without ending up hating it or feeling burned out. That's why I avoid anime series like One Piece or american television thats in their 5th or 6th season...I also avoided Gintama and Hunter x Hunter for a while but I ended up watching them though it took a long time. |
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| for me, watching an ongoing series is much easier than the completed one. Because you know, theres only one episode per week so you can like watch 2 or 3 everyday. It wont take much of your time. |
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| I rarely watch any show while it's airing. TBH, I'll only watch the long-running shonen Anime while they are ongoing. But for your standard 1-2 cours, I usually watch after they have ended. So for the new shows I watch, a lot of the time they were airing the season prior to me watching them. And it works better that way, because I like to know if a show I'm watching is actually good before I spend my time watching it. |
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| I watch like five-ten minutes of something and drop if it's trash. It's usually trash. I should actually mark on my list so I remember how trash things are. |
| start everything then drop half of them after 2 eps, thats what i do |
| Hottest Take Ever, fite me: Fairy Tail is better than Seiya, Bungou Stray and Hitman Reborn |
| My recommendation is to take your time and enjoy what you're watching. I'm learning that really good anime is a finite resource, so there's no need to get through it all at once. |
| during school days i prioritize school so i do my homework first, after that is out of the way i have all the leisure time my heart desires :) I usually watching airing animes and watch them daily so around 3 eps a day or so depends on when it airs. |
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| How do I watch all the anime I want? I dont. And I feel thats probably the same with eveyone. It takes seconds to add a new series to your list but hours to actually check one off it. So the list keeps getting longer and longer... |
| If you prioritize anime over other hobbies like video games, sports or whatever you're into, then you will find that you have time to watch all those shows you want to watch. |
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