| I didn't but now I think I do. I used to rewatch again and again. Cuz there are anime make me feel life worthy. However, since I had a list on MAL, I started pushing myself to fill more and more in order to achieve a longer list and stop rewatching. Then I started watching careless. There was months even worse that I wished for the anime I was watching end sooner and move to another entry, just to fill the list. I regret that. I'm just realize it and I wanna change. I would need some opinions of yours to clarify and concentrate my mind. What is your perspective 'bout the problem ? |
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| It really depends on my mood I guess(?) There was a time when I was binge watching series just so my my list gets bigger, but that happend with titles I actually enjoyed. Sometimes I just get the sudden urge to watch something new and I just start watching that, so that also fills my list. After a time you just start to care less about the length of your list and just whatever you want whenever you want, at least that's what happend with me. |
| Nope. I selectively watch anime so I know what I'm getting into. There's an easy way to fix your rampant watching problem. Try putting them in the "dropped" or "on hold" categories. Still fills the list? |
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MikaSouyuuri said: I didn't but now I think I do. I used to rewatch again and again. Cuz there are anime make me feel life worthy. However, since I had a list on MAL, I started pushing myself to fill more and more in order to achieve a longer list and stop rewatching. Then I started watching careless. There was months even worse that I wished for the anime I was watching end sooner and move to another entry, just to fill the list. I regret that. I'm just realize it and I wanna change. I would need some opinions of yours to clarify and concentrate my mind. What is your perspective 'bout the problem ? Just ask yourself, for what purpose do you watch anime? For me, it's for entertainment. The list is simply just to keep track of things I already watch. I have no intention to watch everything and tend to stick to my preferences. Or just let my mood decide for me. Just remember, you can't go back in time, you can't take it back. Wasting time is the last thing I wanna do, surely. |
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| 12-15 years back I think. Now I only watch stuff I know I am gonna enjoy. And I don't even update my list anymore. |
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heud said: After a time you just start to care less about the length of your list and just whatever you want whenever you want, at least that's what happend with me. This is right. It'd help me a lot. Thanks! |
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Maneki-Mew said: I rewatch more again and don't watch anime I got no motivation for, because I got much more enjoyment out of it than watching something I didn't want to start really badly in first place. These line remind me the feelings I have forgotten. I better knew rewatching is a great option as always. Thanks for responded ! |
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| Hmm I think I partly do actually. Without MAL I'm pretty sure I would watch less anime, even if there was a way just as convenient to found new anime. There's just something fun about rating it and writing a short opinion after each episode in the forum. I only watch stuff I really think might be interesting though, I don't randomly put things on my list. Before that I would just watch the most popular or high-rated shows instead. |
| No, i'm watching anime for my own enjoyment. |
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| I’m currently thinking that way, wanting to build up my list instead of choosing anime I WANT to watch. It’s come to the point where I would rather browse for one shots/ONA/OVAs/movies just to build my “completed” list to make it seem like I watched a lot of anime. I’m trying to stop this habit so I could focus on enjoying the anime alone. |
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| I think thats stupid. Why would you watch something you don't want just to fill your list. You literally get nothing out of it. |
| i think watching a lot of shows that you don't necessarily love is fine if you really care about the medium anime has helped me a lot with being more critical minded and i don't think i would appreciate my highly scored shows nearly as much if i didn't know how much better they execute the things i value compared to the average show of course, if you can't even make it through them, definitely drop them lol |
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| Me, filling the list when it's a season is finish arriving, but that's normal just two or three weeks when I sometimes watch a bunch of shit. I think it's important to watch a lot to have a valid option when it comes to the best shows from each season. I do find a lot of gems that most people ignor but I'm at the same time finiding shows that shoud never have been born into this world. But based on you list, it feels like you are new to the anime world. You have so much more to explore and enjoy. Don't force youself and get burned out. Even if I watch a lot of shit to time to time, I still love this medium and finiding so much neat things to watch. |
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| In recent years yes.. in a way I think I do. Like yeah, I'll watch shows that I'm interested in but I'll make myself watch even if I'm not in the mood to in order to knock another entry off my list. It isn't healthy and I'm trying to correct it. I've been watching Anime all my life but have only been seriously watching it for a little over 10 years.There's other things I'd like to put my time into rather than Anime at this point. I doubt Anime will ever not be in my life but I'd like to not dedicate as much time anymore. Nillwas said: Me, filling the list when it's a season is finish arriving, but that's normal just two or three weeks when I sometimes watch a bunch of shit. I think it's important to watch a lot to have a valid option when it comes to the best shows from each season. I do find a lot of gems that most people ignor but I'm at the same time finiding shows that shoud never have been born into this world. But based on you list, it feels like you are new to the anime world. You have so much more to explore and enjoy. Don't force youself and get burned out. Even if I watch a lot of shit to time to time, I still love this medium and finiding so much neat things to watch. Why do you think that you need to watch a lot in order to have a valid opinion of the best show of the season? |
ZeroflamezJan 19, 2020 9:54 AM
| @Zeroflamez, is it not true? A lot of people all over the internet is watching very few shows from each season. After they have watched this few shows, they think they knew it all and seen it all from that X season. Ofc, I'm wasting a bit of time watching some shows that I don't really enjoy but it's so few and I got a huge amount of free time, so I don't really care about that. But after I started to watch a lot of shows from each season, I learned that most people out there doing top 10 best shows to watch or the worse show from that season. Is just talking bullshit, they don't really know what is good or bad. Or, I'm wrong ? In my eyes you can't talk about the best and worse when you have ignored 75% of the shows that got released that X season. It make no sense in my point of view. @Zeroflamez, most people in this medium is ignoring way to much content and they still think they know it all and seen it all. Mod Edit: Merged duplicated posts; please use the edit button. |
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Nillwas said: @Zeroflamez, most people in this medium is ignoring way to much content and they still think they know it all and seen it all. I do agree that if someone is doing a best Anime if the season video, and they are saying their #1 Anime is objectively better than every other show that season but haven't watched everything, it's not very valid. However if it's just someone making a video of what they think in their opinion is best Anime of the season I don't see an issue with it. Not everyone has time to watch EVERYTHING coming out like you may have (I mean no disrespect by that, please don't take it that way) nor do they want to. Most Anime Youtubers are bullshitting and haven't seen much Anime in general, never mind seasonal. The big Anime Youtuber's especially is the last place I'd go looking for a top 10 list. Only a small minority of Anime Youtubers are worth going to for an opinion. |
| Nah because to me the days stat is notably more worthwhile than the completed list and if I was really watching just to raise that up rewatches would probably be the most direct method. Both because I could half pay attention and focus just on shows I know I'll enjoy. It's super easy to fill up the completed list with short anime or standalone OVAs so it's easier to shrug it off as a wasted endeavor if you're committing to underwhelming full length series. |
| Nope, i don't want to have a burnout. |
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| ummm no. It may not look like it, but I pick what I watch pretty carefully. |
| Many years ago, no. I was more excited over anime when I was younger. Nowadays, yes I even finished some boring SOL anime online or whatever else I borrowed from the library. I have the similar issue with watching K-dramas, I couldn't get into the hype over most of the popular/highly rated dramas last year but I forced myself to finish them since I watched half of it already 😕 meanwhile I enjoy lower rated stuff that no one really cares about... |
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| No, not really. I still watch new and old anime just for fun. And of course I rewatch a lot of shows. |
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| No,because in the time i used to watch One piece i could have used it to watch a million other shows and increase my list.But i chose not to,because i genuinely liked watching it and had the motivation to catch up to 900 plus episodes.It does give me a real sense of satisfacton though when i get the chance to add a show to my completed list. |
SummerynJan 20, 2020 4:28 AM
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| I stopped having a list long ago though I actually got up to 400, almost 500 I think. I started with 200 which took me an entire afternoon to enter all. Switched accounts- but that's an excuse. i had no plans of continuing that anyway. I think I fell off either 2018, or 2017... Around the time Shouwa Genruko Rakugou Shinjuu s2 finished. I don't think I did exactly that although perhaps you could say there were anime that I finished and didn't drop bcos of that. Never started a series just to fill the list though Also- if you just wanted numbers then you can just watch shorts and inflate the numbers real fast- although that won't reflect on your days of anime consumed. |
| I watch anime to entertain myself, I guess |
AlexanderHD said: In a sense, I still do it from time to time, although just recently I somewhat dropped this ideology. Either way though, I'm glad this forum was created because I thought I was the only one who did this. You are not the only one who did this, also you are not the only one left who can't comeover the problem. Watching anime is OK, but don't ruin your life for that. Moreover, I hate myself because watched carelessly. I never spoil myself for anything. |
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| I watch for enjoyment and only watch anime now when I have the chance to watch anime and feel like watching anime. I don't care about filling a list although I used to watch to fill the list, because before I used to make yearly anime goals such as watch 100 a year etc |
| damn looks like MAL's indirect influence for you to watch more anime and use this site more is a success lol why not join that Anime Watching Challenge too? lol here https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1759336 as for me nah im too lazy for that shit thats why i just watch what i want |
deg said: damn looks like MAL's indirect influence for you to watch more anime and use this site more is a success lol why not join that Anime Watching Challenge too? lol as for me nah im too lazy for that shit thats why i just watch what i want I've switched to watching older anime so joining Watching Challenge may not my option. or there are some challenge suited for me ? |
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| I thought I was the only one who experienced this. I also found myself in the same situation a few years back. What I did was to simply ignore the digits on my list (which is hard at the beginning) and learn how to drop a series if I don't enjoy it anymore. Being selective also helped me a lot. If you want to reach a certain number of completed series, no worries. You'll get there soon if you won't lose your interest in anime. |
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petran79 said: No, I even avoid adding short 5 minute anime to my list or dropped series at 1-2 episodes It's aleatory tho. I watch things because I wanna try new ones, new feels, so I can't even figure out do I actually want to see an anime at first place. I rarely drop any because Madoka Magica and Made in Abyss taught me to watch whatever right to the end. |
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| @crush_on_Kona sorry i do not know any other watching challenge besides the official MAL one |
mshitsugaya10 said: What I did was to simply ignore the digits on my list (which is hard at the beginning) and learn how to drop a series if I don't enjoy it anymore. Being selective also helped me a lot. You'll get there soon if you won't lose your interest in anime. You're right. I've always thought that "I have to watch as much as I can until I lose my interest in". but I'm better have a same perspective to yours. To enjoy every minute better. |
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| I can't deny that a part of me is probably guilty of that but I do re-watch a fair amount, especially lately. As such, I reckon I'm just about in the safe zone but who knows. In fact, I've got plans to re-watch Seishun Buta Yarou tv series in preparation to the Movie later this upcoming weekend (banzai to Chinese New Years' Holidays) and likewise for Made in Abyss if the Recap Movies are still unavailable, and Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei sometime in Spring hopefully in advance to the 2nd Season too. Moreover, feeling a strong urge to go through a few light-hearted + a pinch of romance, e.g. Kimi ni Todoke, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Acchi Kocchi, Nijiro Days etc., shows at the moment too so hopefully I'll find the time to do so in the near future. |
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crush_on_Kona said: My solution to this is to not watch any anime series until I actually feel like it.I didn't but now I think I do. I used to rewatch again and again. Cuz there are anime make me feel life worthy. However, since I had a list on MAL, I started pushing myself to fill more and more in order to achieve a longer list and stop rewatching. Then I started watching careless. There was months even worse that I wished for the anime I was watching end sooner and move to another entry, just to fill the list. I regret that. I'm just realize it and I wanna change. I would need some opinions of yours to clarify and concentrate my mind. What is your perspective 'bout the problem ? Like you say, there's no point to simply watching something to fill a list. Everyone can put stuff on a TV or computer screen and let it play while sitting there. There are no prizes to be had. For me, the value of anime is not found in simply watching things, but watching them to satisfy my curiosity or desire to see that thing. So I basically don't watch anime until I have a specific thing in mind that I want to watch, and I feel like the moment is right. This probably contributes to why I watch things so slowly. But I'm fine with it. |
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| No since im new to mal not have thought about it or never will. I even had series i didnt listed yet cuz i watched only bunch of random eps bef4 like Yugi-oh,Major, Digimon, detective conan, etc.. |
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| No one is going to praise or reward you for the number of completed anime on your list, even those MAL badges are pretty useless so just watch or re-watch any series that you enjoy and forget about numbers. |
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