| just dropped every animu on my watch list. I was going weeks between episodes and I just didn't care about them anymore. cold-hearted, you might say. but it had to be done. now im going to find new animu to watch. probably not going to try to watch a bunch with breaks in between. just a few, and relatively quickly finish them. |
| The decision not to watch them for a few weeks might have been a sign that you didn't care anymore xD Maybe after a one or two months, unless it's episodic. |
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| I do loose excitement, shows like Clannad got less interesting because I took too long |
FMmatron said: The decision not to watch them for a few weeks might have been a sign that you didn't care anymore xD Maybe after a one or two months, unless it's episodic. true, if I really liked something, I should be eager to watch the next episode right away. MangaZed said: I do loose excitement, shows like Clannad got less interesting because I took too long I think if it was something I really liked I could get away with taking a break, but if it's just somewhat enjoyable, and not very enjoyable, I'm not going to be as invested. |
| I don't usually loose interests in good anime despite of taking breaks. I sometimes do, if that anime isn't of my type. |
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| To me, the more it takes to end an anime, the less interest you have on the anime. That happened to me with Another. |
| Happens a lot when waiting for new seasons. I liked Attack on Titan when I was watching it, but after season 2 ended I just, kind of, never saw the rest. |
AnimeFreak-San said: FMmatron said: The decision not to watch them for a few weeks might have been a sign that you didn't care anymore xD Maybe after a one or two months, unless it's episodic. true, if I really liked something, I should be eager to watch the next episode right away. MangaZed said: I do loose excitement, shows like Clannad got less interesting because I took too long I think if it was something I really liked I could get away with taking a break, but if it's just somewhat enjoyable, and not very enjoyable, I'm not going to be as invested. I absolutely loved Clannad my problem is, is that it is my 3rd anime ever. this is what happend. Friday: I watch anime for the first time Toradora loved it. Saturday: in the morning I finish Toradora and start on Your lie in april and finish it the same day! Sunday: teary eyed watch S1 of Clannad so damn depressed. PADS.I took a week break and did nothing. then finish it in the next week or so. it ruined it a bit for me still enjoyed it very much. By the end of clannad you-what-happends I was out of tears. |
| For good quality anime, I'm always eager to watch the next episode as soon as possible. But for anime that I consider average or bad, I usually lose interest and taking a break helps me to not continuously feel bored. It also helps me gather some interest for it (well at least try to gather some...) with the hope of finishing it asap. |
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| @AnimeFreak-San That's one approach, but doesn't always have to be the case. Like I watched Grisaia no Rakuen within the span of less than a day, it was a pretty good watch, but far from the best. The are series I like more where I prefer to take my time with them. Maybe you've experienced something similar too. |
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AnimeFreak-San said: If you mean in a particular series, sometimes yeah, I do risk losing interest, though sometimes the interest just happens again on a whim, maybe because something made me think of it again. (For example I hear a song whose chords sound like the chords from the theme song.)do you loose interest in animu if you take breaks watchign it Watching stuff quickly has the benefit of keeping the story/setting info fresh in my head, but on the other hand I wanna make sure I don't watch it too quickly, or else the show might not have the proper time to "sink in" for the best experience (as opposed to that feeling where I'm just watching something to get it over with). |
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| Yes it happened to me too. I'd say the cause is that if you really liked that anime you wouldn't have taken the break, at least that's my case. On the other hand I took a break from Monster 15 epsiodes in and 1 month later I restarted it from the beginning and the experience was way better. |
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| Kinda, I guess. It's the opposite for my rewatches, the longer I take, the more I want to savour them. |
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AnimeFreak-San said: just dropped every animu on my watch list. I was going weeks between episodes and I just didn't care about them anymore Yea me too , one week is too long ofc I will lose interest |
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| I'm the opposite, I start to lose interest if i *dont* have a break from anime, especially longer ones |
| Depends. If it's an action based show then probably as I'd most likely forget all the important things that have happened in the weeks I spent not watching. SoL on the other hand is something I actually prefer to watch every so often. Maybe not every few weeks, but watching an episode of a relaxing show every few days is a nice way to unwind rather than watching it all in one go. But as someone who's been watching seasonals since 2015 I think I've managed to acquire the ability to stay interested between weekly episodes. |
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| I guess I would, but the real question is why would I randomly stop watching something for multiple weeks? |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| Yes, which is why I prefer to binge watch shows when I can because I know I will enjoy it more that way. |
 What's the difference? |
| Not that I lose interest, more like I like to get everything I can from a series and most of the time when I pause and come back to a series after a break I feel I might be missing out on details or important aspects of the story or what the author intends to tell with it and feel the need to start the anime from the first episode. |
| It happens but I don't drop them, I just put them in my On-Hold list and watch it from the first episode some day later |
| it kind of depends i guess, a lot of the time i'll keep an anime on my watch list for a long time not because i've lost interest but just that for the moment, i'd rather watch something else or i've suddenly gotten very busy. i'm more tolerant and willing to keep at an anime now than i used to be though - i used to have a "five episode policy" where i'd immediately drop an anime as soon as i could tell i wasn't feeling it within five episodes. but nowadays, i'll usually go back to a couple of oldies and see if my feelings have possibly changed. i'm also a pretty slow watcher so it's normal for me to take a long time to complete shows. |
| i dont know about losing interest, but i will forget to watch 'one piece' for a month and go "oh shit i didn't realize it had been that long" but then theres new seasons of shows like 'food wars' or AOT that are no where near the top of my "next to watch" list |
| i know what u feeling. But sometime, take breaks really worth it to refresh your mind XD  |
| I took the longest break from One Piece then eventually came back to it after a year, it really depends on the show. Took a break from Future Diary and never came back to it because for obvious reasons same thing happened with Yuri on Ice. I usually put shows I haven't watched in a long time on hold because I don't like dumping a bunch of shows in my dropped section and I probably do want to end up finishing it. |
| Even if i love my cute girls shows, it can be a bit much time from time. And if i don't feel it i don't watch it and take a break. Usually its not a problem for me to pick it up later |
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| I think I don't lose significant interest in shows even if I take breaks in between. There are numerous shows that I put on hold for one reason and another; one such reason is that I realize (while still enjoying the show) that this show would impact me more if I watched it at a more opportune time. There could be an emotionally powerful drama, but I'll put it on hold if I'm more in want of soothing slice of life. I.e. after days of challenging work, my spirit needs to be soothed by slice of life rather than go through gut-wrenching turns from a drama. On a side note, I took a break from watching a lot of shows back in Fall 2018. From then to the recent, I got bit with an immense urge to play ARPGs. A few weeks back, I decided to continue 10-13ish Fall 2018 shows. On the first episodes of starting again, I felt a little disoriented with trying to remember what happened six plus months ago. By the start of the second episodes, I had recalled most of the content, and having a blast with continuing to watch those Fall shows. |
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| yeah if i stop watching for a while i lose interest in watching it to the point where its been on my watch list or on hold list for like months or years, but when i do finally pick it up again, i can usually binge it pretty easy |
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| I think the fact you take breaks between watching them is already a sign that you've lost interest in the first place. However, I do feel it's harder to get into a show when you abruptly take a break from watching it. |
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| only if I wasn't really interested in it in the first place. For example I have Juushinki Pandora on my Currently Watching List because I watched 3 eps of it on Netflix at some point, but it was very mediocre and I haven't been back since, probably never will finish it. But I also have Kaguya-sama on my Currently Watching List because I watched the first 9 eps and then ended up starting a bunch of other recently aired show, like Kaze ga, Tsurune, Piano No Mori, Hinomaruzumo and so on. But I'm still quite looking forward to those last 3 eps of Kaguya, it's more like I'm saving them for a rainy day rather than avoiding them because I have no more interest. There is also Lupin III on my Currently Watching List which I only watch sporadically and haven't watched in maybe a year but definitely plan to continue and finish at some point. So yeah, if there was only a minimum interest to watch something in the first place, that minimum interest will be gone if I take a break. But any more fundamental interest in a show will remain even if I go on break for years like I did in some cases. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| not really, but those breaks aren't really self-inflicted to begin with. I have to balance my free time with work and college among other things, so more often then not I have to sacrifice time watching anime. But because it's not something that I do because I want to, there's never the feeling that I actually feel like I'm losing interest. If anything it just pushes me to want to watch even more. |
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