| Age? I am not sure for myself If I will be able to move on from anime. I am a woman almost reaching 30s having nieces and nephews with me whom I watch and recommend anime. At this point of my life I cant still get over with anime and I dont think I will be even if I have a new chapter of life coming to me. But you know, its always a subjective insight. It should not depend on age in which you decide to move on. It truly depends on your decision and if anime is still making you happy. If you had made your decision and that you have truly focused on doing other things that will truly make you happy and that I think people move on from anime, though time can be a variable to it. But from my experience, even as I am getting older, I am always always finding my time with anime and I feel happy with that decision I made. |
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KaiserWilhelm_II said: TolkienFan365 said: There is a woman I follow on YT who is like in her 70's doing reviews of JRPGs. Plenty of old people enjoy Disney films or other works from their childhood. haha i know a view old gamer channels on yt, but lets be honest they are an extremely small percentage, compared to our generation when we grow old. My grandparents never used a PC/internet for example. My grandma watched Heidi so thats at least one anime :D Yeah that's more due to what they grew up with though. You see more people in their 40's being tech savy or avid gamers because they grew up with it. Give it another 2-3 decades and every senior citizen will be gaming. |
| This again... Move on when you feel like it. The "I´m too old" discourse is bullshit. |
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| You move on from anime when you feel you do not enjoy it anymore. |
| At what age is it time to move on from anime? That is an answer everyone will have to decide for themselves. At twice OP's listed age, I'm still into anime with no foreseeable end in sight. |
 You're never too old to watch anime. If I ever stop watching anime, check my pulse I'm likely dead. I wake up with coffee & anime, I go to sleep with coffee & anime. Sorry if my sarcasm is bad, it's not my first language. |
| You should stop watching anime when One Piece ends (never) |
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| i've been in and out of this particular hobby. It always reels me back in somehow, so I guess I'll out live it! |
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| For most of us it's a hobby, so there is no age. You should move on if you ever feel like you aren't getting enough out of the medium, or maybe just put it on the backburner, but your age has nothing to do with it seeing as anime has a lot of anime geared towards all the different demographics. Hell, I'm sure you could go to Japan and find an older man or woman that could sing you the Tetsuwan Atom/Astro Boy theme song with a smile on their face. Don't force yourself to keep going even when your interest is waning, but also don't force yourself to quit because of something like age. |
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| It's either you no longer have time or completely lost interest in it as long you watch anime in moderation. |
| Never. It's all about time management so that you can watch as much anime as possible before you die. |
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| This thread sort of begs the question, why would you even need to move on at a certain age in the first place? |
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| Reading this made me cringe a bit tbh. Yeah sure, it could be that you've outgrown certain anime. We all get older and the industry is changing as well, but your outlook on this topic seems pretty immature. |
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Dhaarok said: A simple search on the mal tab shows how shounen and slice of life outnumbers all the other categories by 40x. Easier to write and mass produce, including the profits from waifu bait. This applies to any kind of media, really. People harp on about how art, music and literature was "so much better back then, not like the trash coming out now", but the truth is that there have always been very few great works standing atop a mountain of trash that was eventually forgotten with time. For every Sherlock novel there are hundreds of cheap detective novels that aren't worth the paper they were printed on. Same goes for the anime. Most anime and manga that don't have something to distinguish them from the rest, will eventually be forgotten by the masses. And like with all media, if you can't find something you like, you're not looking in the right places. Invest effort into looking at what you're interested in, instead of bemoaning how popular shounen is (which it has been for decades, nothing new here). |
| OP wtf lmfao, pull ya head out ya ass. I personally read a lot raging from Dickens & Dumas to the latest volume of One Piece. It's possible to be appreciate great literature and enjoy shounen. You might lose interest in anime, but it has nothing to do with age or maturity. |
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| Around mid forties, in my opinion but it just depends. |
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| I don't think you have a specific time to move on from anime, for the majority of us it's just a hobby so you can go and do something else for a couple months and still watch anime afterwards. Simple as that :) |
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| Personally, I think you can move on from anime when you want. There are plenty of anime with different age restriction so it's not like ~ kid stuff ~ that many adults say it is. I mean, I'm 31 and I have like zero plans to quit. There are so many different animes and new shows show up every season. Unless you get bored of anime and can't find anything that interests you, maybe it's time to hang up the pc... sort off. Saying you don't have time is also BS since it's like saying not having time to workout due to family and work but anyone can find an hour or two a day to just be alone. So those are just bad excuses. |
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| i don't think there really is a age where you're supposed to move on from anime. there are genres like josei and seinen where they are targeted for adults, more mature serious shows, so anime has genres for any age. |
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| I feel personally that I will never stop watching anime, however as I grow older I feel I will just watch a lot less of it due to further commitments like children etc. I already watch a lot less anime then I did when I started mainly because of work and home life |
| If you're of the mentality that there is a certain age where you're supposed to "grow out" of anime, that just means that your passion/appreciation for the medium was never deep enough in the first place, no matter how much time you've spent on it or how vast your knowledge is. That's how I view it, at least. There's always more stuff out there, you're just looking at the wrong places. |
| Death. It is only proper answer to this question. |
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| When you move on due let me know, and I'll give you that answer. |
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cipheron said: caprisan said: Around mid forties, in my opinion but it just depends. That's because the image of people who are *currently* in their mid 40s isn't of an anime fan. If you look it up, the average age of a comic book collector is 50+. Pretty old for a pre-anime thing that was supposed to be only for kids and that people would clearly grow out of, right? https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/398907-the-future-of-comic-book-collecting-amp-investing/ "Mature" is whatever the last generation was into. Look at grannies who still play their old Elvis records. That's because they were teens or young adults when that stuff was new. They were supposed to grow of that teenager devil music, but that clearly never happened. These days you think "middle age" and it's some dad or grandad rockin' to ACDC or the Rolling Stones. All the age bands of what's supposed to be mature in terms of mediums just shifts along with people as they age up: we just associate specific things with people of a specific age range, and that moves along with them. If anime is the thing now, there's no reason to expect that to be mainstream youth culture forever, it could be displaced by Hololive or something else, and people stuck watching anime seen as old fashioned. ^ Honestly this is the best answer. My perspective is that just because people grow up doesn't mean they give everything up that they found enjoyable and become boring. My mom loves Peanuts (Snoopy, not the food) and collects memorabilia, and she clearly rubbed off on me because I collect anime figures/merch. My dad was a gamer and sci-fi/fantasy nerd when he was alive, and he put a SNES controller in my hand when I was 3. These things don't go away just because "you got old." Sometimes what people think to be fun and interesting changes and refines, or the way you enjoy the same things changes (i.e. your perspective changes, and you find new details and points of view in things you already loved). Not everything needs to be a life-long interest, but if you leave something behind, it should be because you're no longer interested, NOT because you've reached some arbitrary age. I'm 31 and an hour ago I opened a box from the Pokemon Center containing a Ball Guy plush and a life-size Yamper plush, and I am delighted. No one can take my hobbies from me just because I'm "old" now. |
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| Like many of the responses posted, I don't believe there is a particular age to "move on" from anime. Like any other hobby or passion or entertainment, when you begin to lose interest that's usually a sign to back away...at least for a bit. If you're not having fun with it, then what's the point? I'll be the first to admit RL sucks, and sucks often. There's gonna be times when it will make you prioritize things in your life. I've had to give up several hobbies because of it myself (lack of time, expenses, family issues, etc.). And yes, there were times I simply lost interest in them. Some I returned to once the love was rekindled, and some I never took up again. But never did age have anything to do with it. Having said all that, I suppose my opinions come from a little different point-of-view than most anime fans. I didn't grow up with it. I never really paid it much attention, in fact, until much later in life. I tested the waters about 3 years ago, and now I can't get enough of the stuff. Anime and music have become my favorite means of entertainment (behind my two kids, of course). The fact that you're asking makes me think it isn't so much about an age or level of maturity than you've simply lost zeal in the art. It could be you're just tired of certain genres. Anime, as they say, has something for everyone. Give fantasy a break and try a little slice-of-life. You never know where your next favorite anime is hiding. And if that doesn't work, then hey, get away from it all for awhile. Find other things that interest or entertain you and indulge in those for a bit. I guarantee you, my friend, that anime will still be around -- awaiting your return. It won't matter if you're 18 or 78. |
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| Never?? In my late 30s and love it way more than I did as a dumb teen. Expand your views. Even considering this choice, leads me to assume you've only seen: 4Kids/4KMedia dubs Ghibli films Battle Shonens |
cipheron said: caprisan said: Around mid forties, in my opinion but it just depends. That's because the image of people who are *currently* in their mid 40s isn't of an anime fan. If you look it up, the average age of a comic book collector is 50+. Pretty old for a pre-anime thing that was supposed to be only for kids and that people would clearly grow out of, right? https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/398907-the-future-of-comic-book-collecting-amp-investing/ "Mature" is whatever the last generation was into. Look at grannies who still play their old Elvis records. That's because they were teens or young adults when that stuff was new. They were supposed to grow of that teenager devil music, but that clearly never happened. These days you think "middle age" and it's some dad or grandad rockin' to ACDC or the Rolling Stones. All the age bands of what's supposed to be mature in terms of mediums just shifts along with people as they age up: we just associate specific things with people of a specific age range, and that moves along with them. If anime is the thing now, there's no reason to expect that to be mainstream youth culture forever, it could be displaced by Hololive or something else, and people stuck watching anime seen as old fashioned. But anime was always a thing, yes, its more popular now than before but it will never seen as "old fashioned" in the future. If that's true, then films in general that existed for several decades would be considered old fashioned rn. |
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| when berserk ends are when I stop watching anime. i other terms. NEVER |
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| You quit when you don't feel like anime is doing anything for you anymore, there's no specific age for that. I was 18 years old back in 2012, found most of the new anime I bothered to watch to be garbage and it just seemed to me like anime isn't for me anymore, so I quit, only to go back to it in 2016, admittedly I was kind of dragged along by a friend who really wanted me to watch Steins;Gate. Regardless, from there on I slowly got interested in anime again, I wanted to see what I missed out on, not just in the three years I spent avoiding anime, but also the older stuff I didn't check out, and I don't really know at what age I will be quitting again. |
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| @cipheron >To say something current won't ever seem old fashioned You're right.....anime was less known before but you forget that as long as the technology continues to exist decades later -and everyone can access-, anime will never be seen as old-fashioned (just adapting to changes but it will continue to be seen as something normal in the future, in fact more normal than now). >But, that can't keep going on forever, it's going to stall out, then you're going to get a "demographic bubble" that's aging out, similar to gaming. This is debunked when films are immensely popular and everyone and their mother watch movies. Anime and games are just following the same route. You didn't answer my question, if everything has a shelf life then why films especially American films are still very popular after existing +100 years? Yeah, everything was new once but movies were never seen as old fashioned after several decades. And no, Hololive is not going to replace anime. Its just like the popular game of the moment that will be forgotten later. This is important, I still don't understand if you are talking about: -"anime is going to disappear in the future and people still watching anime are going to be seen as old fashioned" or -"classic anime from 2010s = old anime several decades later by people from the future". The first is not true since I used movies as an example, the second option is true, for me, every anime released before 2005 is old and ofc people from several decades later are going to say the same thing with several shows from 2010s. Can you explain to me what you mean? |
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| Why does there need to be a time to give up? Anime is merely another form of media, created for all ages. That's like saying there is an age to stop watching movies. |
| Age doesn't matter one bit. you move on vvhen you consider you dont like it anymore. |
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| Anime is entertainment. If it fails to do that exactly, entertain you any longer, then perhaps its time to take a break or move onto something else. There's no point to force yourself to do something you're not enjoying with your free time, we adults dont have enough of it as it is :< |
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| Never. You‘re never too old to watch anime. Period. |
| About the same time that you give up everything else that gives you enjoyment in life, I suppose. |
| there's not a definitive time to "stop watching anime" thats why theres so many different shows that appeal to different age groups (i.e. shoujo appeals to young teenage females, josei appeals to older women) |
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| No age where you have to move on, do it if you want. |
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