There is something dire occurring on /a/, something seen in every thread here.
NOBODY WATCHES ANIME.
Seriously, the amount of times people come onto this board and talk about all the reasons why they DON'T watch anime.
>This season sucks, so I'm not watching
>Anime went downhill when I turned 13, so I'm not watching
>I eat shit, so I'm not watching
Seriously, what drives people to come here specifically to talk about how LITTLE they watch the medium that is the very foundation of this board?

Do you know how long a single episode of TV anime is? 24 minutes.
You know how long a one cour anime is on average? 12 episodes.
You wanna know how long THAT is? Just under FIVE HOURS. Five hours is not a long time, most movies are half that, and this is a TV show. In five hours you can finish a whole series, or start a whole series, or try something new.
And be honest, you weren't gonna use that five hours for something better, you were probably just going to post on 4chan during that time.

For a grander perspective, imagine if you watched just three episodes of anime a day. One hour of your day on anime. By the end of a SINGLE YEAR you will have watched 1095 episodes of anime.
For comparison, you could complete the ENTIRETY of the Gundam franchise in that time. You could complete ALL of Dragon Ball in that time and still have room leftover to start something else in the last four months.

So, why is it that nobody wants to actually WATCH anime.

I don't watch anime but I do read a fair amount of manga so it's okay

>>281302345
I doubt it. You're probably one of those fags who think manga is some high artform but never actually reads the 90% that's disposable.

>>281302120 (OP)
I mostly read manga/LN.

/a/ is Anime and Manga
Anime is quite awful especially today and especially for those who just wish to see the art in motion

I just watched two episodes though. Might watch another couple later because I need to catch up on this season. Only interact with threads from OPs who do actually watch anime.

>>281302120 (OP)
I watch more than 10 anime each new season, and I was watching anime before you were even born

>>281302120 (OP)
>imagine if you watched just three episodes of anime a day
I don't need to imagine, for that is exactly what I've been doing for a few months now.

>>281303133
>Anime is quite awful especially today
How would you know, and even if that was the case, anime is still a decades old medium with thousands of shows and films.
>and especially for those who just wish to see the art in motion
Anime isn't just adaptations of manga.

>>281303218
>Anime isn't just adaptations of manga.
Yeah I love it when anime writers try to 1-up the mangaka. It always goes so well. Some original anime is still neath though

>>281303310
>Yeah I love it when anime writers try to 1-up the mangaka.
No, I mean there are anime that are just original anime you dense retard.
Why are mangafags this deranged?

>>281302120 (OP)
It's like a weird form of counter culture, where they've convinced themselves their tastes are so advanced that nothing is worth their time anymore. And you'll see some go out of their way to try and tear things down when that facade starts to crack.

>>281303345
Now if you were only able to read

>>281302120 (OP)
So many /v/irgin immigrants skipped the actually watching anime phase and advanced straight to reading isekai books that read just like their Halo books, or reading the manga adaptations because they're too retarded even for that

>>281303425
What could be worth more than the time they spend feverishly posting to keep that facade of theirs up?

I just can’t into anything anymore, I’ll force myself watch two or three episodes or a couple of chapters and completely lose interest.

>>281303425
dumb people think that contrarianism is the same thing as being elite, that by calling the masses dumb they are automatically elevated above them
popular = bad
me = smart

>>281303218
>Anime isn't just adaptations of manga.
it objectively mostly is. like 90% of it is in fact

>>281303015
>manga is a high art form
You're projecting if you think people who prefer to read manga are the type to be saying this kind of tripe. If you're that starved for a rec I'll spoonfeed you one that's short and sweet: Shibatte Mitsumete. There are tons of manga just like it, aka very well crafted but will never get an anime adaptation because they do not have mainstream appeal.

>>281303707
It ties into why they just have to keep posting too - if they go quiet they'll have to own up to their own taste. Which, might get pretty boring.

>>281302120 (OP)
Hamster...

>>281303856
>You're projecting if you think people who prefer to read manga are the type to be saying this kind of tripe.
Anytime the topic of manga in relation to anime (not even vs anime) is brought up, there are inevitable droves of people who do in fact insist that manga is high art.

>>281303856
>self-insert shit about a loser and pretty girl
Wow, revolutionary

>>281302120 (OP)
I've been meaning to!! But I just forget...
I'm gonna try to make an anime-viewing schedule, I have so much I wanna see

>>281302120 (OP)
You shouldn't be allowed to discuss something if you haven't watched it. Even if you just watched 3 episodes a dropped it, that's fine. People who complain about anime they have never even seen the first episode for are tiring to talk with.

>>281304608
It’s over, the only people who enjoy watching anime and actively contribute to the discussion write like troons. This is truly the end times of men.

>>281304942
Wtf are u talking about faggot???

>>281302120 (OP)
There's just one samefag posting about not watching. Everyone else is watching anime too much to post about it as often. I'm watching anime right now.

>>281304942
Don't be rude, nonna :3

>>281304942
I'd rather have a tranny that watches anime than a /v/tard that doesn't watch any.

>>281302120 (OP)
I'm sorry Wateru I blame executive dysfunction...

>>281302120 (OP)
>watch my garbage anime
Im good.

>>281307664
Nobody said that

>>281302120 (OP)
I'm watching like 6 shows this season and 4 more of my backlog alongside Toku stuff, going back and going season by season picking up everything that I might like or overlooked is a great way to find fun anime.

>>281304757
You can usually tell how good or bad an anime will be by looking at the cover. 9/10 I get it right. Watch enough anime and it becomes easy to tell. I knew yuri on ice was going to be gay instantly. A friend of mine told me it was fine and not gay, so I relented and watched two episodes. Then episode 3 came out.

The problem is newfags commenting when they don't know anything about anything.

>>281308771
Indeed, then you can always check the staff and chances are you might have seen one of the staff's previous works and you can go from there.

>>281302120 (OP)
I watch anime less often than I'd like to, but ime it's more because the best way I find shit is by browsing and there's no good place to browse for anime. You can visit dbs, but the closest you'll get to a "browsing" experience is MAL's interest stacks and those only show you normalfag shit you've either already seen or don't really have any interest in. I've found a number of older anime I like this way, but 9/10 it's a 2+ hour endeavour of finding nothing noteworthy. There's livechart, I guess, but manually Xing stuff out triggers my hoarding autism and I don't get anywhere there either.
It's entirely a created problem, don't get me wrong, but I wouldn't doubt a lot of people are in a similar retarded death spiral of looking for > not finding and/or getting burnt out > not watching. I could just be uniquely retarded though.
>>281307664
>night of nights.mp4

>>281302120 (OP)
Not to blogpost but in the last few months I've been binging harder than ever as a NEET
Currently watching:
>Rising of the Shield Hero
>Mattaku Saikin no Kantei to Kitara
>Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra
>Yuusha Tsuiho
>Busamen Gachi Fighter
>Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan
>Konosuba Megumin Spinoff
>Seitokai Yakuindomo
>Girls und Panzer (taking a break from this)
Finished watching:
>Re:Zero
>Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
>Konosuba
>Overlord
>Isekai Quartet
>Cautious Hero
>Frieren
>Sokushi Cheat ga Saikyou Sugite
Dropped:
>Dungeon Meshi (not enjoyable)
>Yandere Dark Elf (couldn't stop jerking off)
My brain has turned to mush, I've lost 30 IQ points and I have a sexual complex about elves now. Don't do it brothers. The last few months have been a blur.

>>281308954
>All that isekai
Holy shit, at that point might as well write your own.

>>281308954
I have a full time job and I'm following 3x that down from 4x that after dropping some

>>281308771
People like you are actually the worst to talk to.
>9/10 I get it right
I mean maybe you are right 9/10 times, but then it's that 1/10 case, and it's extremely annoying because of the complete confidence that's backed up with nothing.

Moreover, you're likely not contributing anything. No one actually wants to read your negative opinions. If it was a well-thought out post with ideas that other people can bounce off of, then that's okay, but when it's just pure negativity without any constructive criticism, well, then you're just being annoying.

>>281308975
I very well could man. I even posted a couple ideas in a thread recently asking for anime plots. What's the standard way to do that, just write a light novel on Narou? It'd be fucking funny if landing a publishing deal gets me a job, kek
>>281309021
God bless anon you're stronger than me. I do find it exciting to have all these new shows with episodes releasing on the weekends, gives me something to look forward to.

>>281303703
just don't lose interest.

>>281303703
you gotta be excited or at least curious to watch something before you start. hype builds anticipation which causes eagerness. you gotta reread the blurb or watch the trailer before starting something new, and if that doesn't get your mind nipples hard then that's not what you're in the mood for and you gotta find something else

>>281309055
As long it's on japanese even fucking futaba works.

>>281303466
I wish Halo took more cues from Marathon. The Cortanna going rampant plotline should have climaxed with Master Chief and Cortanna merging into a gestalt consciousness

>>281303707
Not to mention endlessly bitching about Tropes.
If i wanted YMMV posting i would go to that fucking site and read their utter drivel there.
>Isekai tropes bad
Can you please say something original instead of parroting pretentious libshit anitubers.
Isekai is fine, isekai is popular. Fuck off and die you yoko ono level pricks.

>>281309266
isekai is dogshit actually

>>281309046
I mean, the advice is constructive in the context of,
>people who don't watch anything,
that the OP is baiting, who in turn have "newbad" baited previously, etc. There's a lot of anime a season, from a variety of genres, and give 4 seasons, does nothing really appeal to you? When so many genres are included in this? As anon points out, looking at a cover may reveal what the gay anime are with high probability, so you can avoid an entire genre you dislike and that's one thing to do if you're having trouble finding newgood anime- that's the best thing you can say when I don't know what you find slop / non-slop.

>>281309266
yeah that's often an extension of it, it's not always the case but when it's just tossed out without elaboration or thought about the context, you can generally assume it's posturing
tropes = common = bad
me = uncommon taste = good

>>281309046
>If it was a well-thought out post with ideas that other people can bounce off of, then that's okay, but when it's just pure negativity without any constructive criticism, well, then you're just being annoying.
It's really this simple, I will happily engage with someone who disagrees with me if they actually have some thoughts to express other than "it's shit" or "generic trash".

>>281309309
Cucks Basement is that you?

>>281309309
dismissing an entire subgenre is dogshit actually

>>281302120 (OP)
Honestly, the 3 episodes a day perspective does do a lot to simplify longer anime, that does actually make things feel way less insurmountable.
Even something like Detective Conan would only take a year and twenty five days with that dedication.

I've accepted that I don't care about broadening my tastes anymore.
I'm not watching an anime just for the sake of watching it.

I'm watching 3 anime currently, one of which is ongoing. And reading a couple dozen manga and 2 LNs. About 7 of those are either finished or I need to catch up to so I can sit down and read multiple chapters at a time instead of needing to wait for the next chapter.

>>281302120 (OP)
new anime suck
we already watched old anime

>>281311222
I doubt it

I've watched two fucking things this year and I watched more than 40 just a few years ago. I need to get back on my shit

>>281303466
Are you suggesting /v/ actually reads and /a/ can't?

>>281302120 (OP)
>watching

>>281302120 (OP)
Anime is shit nowadays
Simple as.
I've watched all the "legendary" anime of note that have been considered gene-defining or immensely popular.
There is nothing left to watch now.
The best is already over.

>>281312685
then why are you still here

>>281312685
Some examples of what I've watched over the years as someone born in '94:
Inuyasha
Evangelion
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop
Lain
Clannad/Clannad: AS
Toradora
Welcome to the NHK
Hunter x Hunter
Gintama
Ghost in the shell: SAC
Psycho-pass
Death note

And a helluva lot more. I've experienced too much kino, I've seen too much of the S-tier anime that have inspired all the garbage nowadays. It's fucking over.
>>281312731
For the lulz, silly anon!

>>281312786
if I hated anime, I wouldn't frequent an anime forum, but that's just me I guess

>>281311631
/v/ has fond memories of getting away with reading garbage during the "read anything as long as it's a book" movement in education, but since they only read garbage their reading comprehension skills have atrophied and they can't read too well any more
/a/ on the other hand is from southeast asia and didn't get to go to school because they had to help at the plantation and they can't afford a computer that can play games

>>281302120 (OP)
My man, look at a year like 2011, then look at current year. Why are you surprised people complain? Fuck me, even the nips are complaining on their boards about the meh variety/quality lately. It has been so bad people have actually had the time to watch their backlog stuff and then still have time to spare to poopost here.

The older I get, the more I enjoy anime and the less I enjoy video games. Aside from a few notorious genres, I feel like the quality and selection of anime has really improved over time.

>>281302120 (OP)
Nothing is occurring with /a/, the industry is just in the slums.

Hollywood is now capeshit and remakes
Anime is isekai and 1-2 cour slopshit to promote a 14 volume untranslated LN or so.
I was never a fan of dbz or bleach or many of the shows that aired during the 90s and 00s, but at least a lot of it had a beginning middle and end.

>>281312996
I don't hate anime. I hate the anime produced nowadays that isn't worth watching simply because they all end up with the most godawful unfulfilling or rushed endings despite being praised as worthy successors to the older generation. Like JJK, Attack on Titan, the Evangelion rebuilds, My hero acadameia, Don't toy with me Nagatoro, so on, so on.

>>281313189
This is me, but then from anime to manga. Manga back when I read had not so great a selection of properly translated stuff, now basically everything is being translated.

>>281313209
And I GUARANTEE that Chainsaw man, another new series that has been lavishly praised, is eventually going to fall in this catagory as well.

If this new generation of anime/manga could actually have amazing stories with excellently-paced, well-written endings, you'd never hear me complaining

>>281313234
I'm enjoy manga more as well, but I've been avoiding them on purpose because I find it ruins anime adaptations for me.

>>281313270
> Enjoy an interesting manga
> Get to it's hugely awaited end chapter
> See the discussion about it plastered online
> After years and years of serialization, the ending ends up being rushed or outright shit
> Repeat the process
This has been the entirety of manga for me in 2025 desu

>>281302120 (OP)
I watch some seasonals. I also watch older shows by myself and on streams.
But I also play VNs and read manga, and I have other shit I want to do, so I can't dedicate myself to anime more than that.

>>281313209
This is my biggest gripe with modern anime, while it was always present, I feel like nowadays the vast majority of anime is an advertisement that can not stand of its own. It just serves as appetiser for a game, a manga or a lightnovel. 13 episodes, then just nothing, no conclusion, no S2, no nothing. It would be nice if we could go back to anime actually having endings, it is starting to get rather "netflixy", a service I don't watch series on (and have long ago cancelled) because of how much gets cancelled after S1.

>>281302120 (OP)
>>281303425
>>281303535
>>281303707
>>281309266
>I have to watch every isekaislop or I will die

>>281313311
I kind of just hope that I lose interest in a long running series before it turns to shit. It usually works out because of the long delays between releases.

>>281313270
Whatever I read/see first ruins the other for me. If I watch an anime that doesn't cover all volumes, I have to skip to the point where the anime ends.
>>281313311
This is why I mainly stick with finished manga nowadays, too many grrmartins on this globe rn.

>>281302120 (OP)
What's the last anime that came out after 2015 that: 1.) Achieved enormous praise from all involved with watching it, and 2.) Had a proper ending that tied up every loose end?

Name it right fucking now, and I will watch it!!!

>>281313468
Didn't darling in the franxxx air post 2015 (I am too scared to look because it feels like 2018, but it night be 2012 or some shit). Not that it got massive praise, but it was well enjoyed and had a proper ending (and actually followed iirc a regular structure of beginning, rising action, climax, resolution).

>>281313360
>pretending that if you ignore all isekaislop there's nothing left

>>281313644
Ya, pretty much. Name me the last self contained show that had 1-3 seasons (with a proper ending), wasn't isekai, and wasn't bottom of the pile garbage.

>>281313468
>1.) Achieved enormous praise from all involved with watching it
Caring about what normalfags praise doesn't mean it will be good.

>>281313698
Apocalypse Hotel
Sengoku Youko
Kami Erabi
Dededede
Tonari Youkai-san
Shuumatsu Train
Ninja Kamui
T.P. Bon
Bang Bravern
Pluto
Birdie Wing
Gundam Witch From mercury

>>281313801
Being contrarian also doesn't guarantee whatever """gem""" you've found will be good, anon

>>281313814
Other than apo hotel and gundam that is pretty much barrel scraping. Hardly kill la kill or so...

>>281313814
>> Including yurishit witch from mercury
Discard this list

>>281302120 (OP)
Anime takes too long, I read a shitload of manga and only come to /a/ for manga discussion.

>>281313910
if you think all but two of those are scraping the barrel I think you either have unrealistic expectations or else only like anime that follows one or two very specific kind of formula the likes of which is only made by a single handful of directors and don't like any other kind of anime.
I wouldn't consider myself a rock fan if I only liked once specific subgenre of rock and thought everything else was the bottom of the barrel. and maintaining a false dichotomy where everything that doesn't blow your mind like your favorite anime growing up did must be dogshit is just shooting yourself in the foot and complaining you can't run as fast

>>281313963
>letting your second-hand political agenda get in the way of enjoying good anime

>>281314094
Not liking faggotshit means I have a political agenda?
Fucking lol, man. The absolute state of Americans

>>281314079
No. I have been watching anime since the 90s. There has always been shit anime, always. Now however there is far less good to balance it out. Compared to everything I have seen over the years, yes, I very much consider most of what you named barrel scraping. Might as well just spin a wheel and pick 10 random anime from MALs database.

>>281314079
> maintaining a false dichotomy where everything that doesn't blow your mind like your favorite anime growing up did must be dogshit
>> Having taste and holding what you watch to a gold standard is a false dichotomy
We get it, bro. You're used to shoving shit down your throat and expect the rest of us to do so as well.
No thanks.

>>281313814
You can't just list off a bunch of random anime that aired in the last few years and act like you made a point. Come winter none of those titles other than possibly gundam will be remembered or talked about here.

>>281314167
I've also been watching anime since the 90's. I also watch a lot of anime made before I was born. and I've watched a lot of absolute drek. a solid 7/10 anime is a good anime and only feels like bottom of the barrel if you have no underlying appreciation for the craft on top of exclusively considering only the best of the best to be above the bottom of the barrel.
To pick some random stuff from the 00's, scrapped princess was good, heat guy j was good, wolf's rain was good, and everything I listed in that post was as good or better than those three one way or another

>>281314079
Nothing unrealistic about the expectation. 2009-2017 gave us a multitude of bangers year after year. It went downhill the moment isekai became the capeshit of anime.

>>281314313
>anything of the last 5 years better than wolf's rain
L A M O
A
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O

>>281314210
>Come winter none of those titles other than possibly gundam will be remembered or talked about here.
that has nothing to do with enjoying the act of watching anime.
if you don't actually enjoy watching anime for the sake of watching it, and only enjoy discussing anime, you are a filthy poser

>>281314313
A solid 7/10 is hardly good, that's practically on par with average- as in something you'd finish and never consider rewatching because you know there's far better to watch out there.
I think your palate is just plain soft from eating too much baby shit, my boy

>>281314354
> that has nothing to do with enjoying the act of watching anime.
Oh yes it does, you fat bitch. The fact of the matter is simply this: The greater the anime, the more likely it's recommended, and the more it's recommended, the higher the chances of it being excellent.
If your favorite anime is forgotten about in 5-10 years, spoiler alert:
IT'S SHIT

>>281313894
Never said it did, but you really do need to learn to look beyond what gets heaps of praise. Just getting your taste from what others like (at least to the point of the enormous praise you want) severely limits what you're going to watch.

>>281314403
>these kinds of people browse /a/
How many shonenshit generals do you post in? Be honest. Because those are generally pretty highly praised and remembered.

>>281314357
>A solid 7/10 is hardly good,
A solid 7/10 is two standard deviations above average. It's something you have no doubt is better than every 6/10, and which blows everything 5/10 or worse out of the water.
>and never consider rewatching because you know there's far better to watch out there
there's less 8/10's than 7/10's. there's less 9/10's than 8/10's. and there's less 10/10's than 9/10's. Regardless of what criteria you judge things by, this is a universal truth

>>281314354
Of course it is related, exceptional anime aren't forgotten. Has nothing to do with taste, but about them leaving mark in one way or another. Sure, you can enjoy any random 1coer anime, but with the amount of people who watch anime, there really isn't such a thing as a hidden gem or a show that is "being slept on", if a show isn't being discussed, it's likely because it was as forgetable as porridge.

>>281314432
Zero.
But my point still stands: Dragonball and Naruto, for example, are considered pretty genre-defining. No you may not like them, but just about all shounen today are influenced by them and countless other hugely popular shounen that have previously paved the way.
I'm sorry to tell you this, but your favorite battle manga "John Smith is getting his cock sucked from behind: The revenge" with it's 500 readers isn't going to make the greater pantheon of anime, because it's most likely shit

>>281314497
You still don't seem to understand that popularity and quality aren't the same thing. Amazing.

>>281314474
> there's less 8/10's than 7/10's. there's less 9/10's than 8/10's. and there's less 10/10's than 9/10's.
Exactly. That is my point. The quality of anime and manga now is regressing. The "Best of" is somehow already in the rearview mirror. It's fucked, and it's never going to get better.

>>281314354
????
My lad, as a rule good stuff isn't forgotten. Bad stuff is forgotten.
I enjoy watching good stuff. I don't enjoy watching bad stuff. So as a rule I enjoy stuff that isn't forgotten.

It isn't, like you imply, that I enjoy the anime simply because it isn't forgotten. No, I enjoy it because it is good. This is the same quality that causes it to not be forgotten.

>>281314432
But that's wrong anon, most shonen gets dumsptered on, there are several very big shonen shows that do not because they are considered good by people who enjoy that genre. Say what you like, but 10 years from know people will still be talking about bleach as much as they talk about evangelion and madoka, ain't nobody talking about this year's anime.

>>281314511
No I CAN understand that, but for some reason, you seem to think irrelevance and obscurity = hidden greatness. If an anime is great, it will be discovered. It will be talked about. You'd know about it. I'd know about it. If your lesser-known manga or anime never reaches cult classic status, it's shit.

>>281302120 (OP)
Sorry I'm too busy playing gacha games and reading light novels and shitposting on imageboards.
I still watch 2~10 seasonal anime every season but I just don't have the time to pick up something from my backlog.

>>281314581
> Sorry I'm too busy playing gacha games and reading light novels and shitposting on imageboards.
HOLY BA-
> I still watch 2~10 seasonal anime every season
Nvm

>>281314511
You don't seem to understand that they are related. Something great will always be popular, unless it goes undiscovered, but we aren't talking about cave paintings of the prehistoric era here, we're talking about anime in the age of internet. There is no such thing as an "under the radar anime", ergo there is no such thing as a good quality anime that isn't also popular.

>>281314530
>as a rule good stuff isn't forgotten
lol no. you seriously think between the years 1500 and 1600 shakespear was the only cunt writing anything worth reading just because he's the only writer from that century you learned about in school? Not to mention something is doomed to be forgotten if all copies are lost.
>So as a rule I enjoy stuff that isn't forgotten
that's just surrendering yourself to being a trend chaser with no tastes of your own

>>281314497
>>281314627
How dare you, sirs! John Smith is getting his cock sucked from behind: The revenge is an all-time classic beknown to myself and approximately 35 other people!!

>>281314652
> you seriously think between the years 1500 and 1600 shakespear was the only cunt writing anything worth reading just because he's the only writer from that century you learned about in school?
Counterpoint: Considering how he's usually referred to as the greatest author of all time, if you read only Shakespeare and nothing else from that time period, you wouldn't be missing out on much

>>281314511
>unpopular piece of mass entertainment media
>good quality
Per definition mutually exclusive. In things other than mass entertainment media you'd possibly have a point, in mass entertainment media however popularity is one of the key qualities to look at. If nobody is watching a certain bit of mass entertainment media, it has, per definition, failed as mass entertainment media. And make no mistake, anime is mass entertainment barring the two dozen passion projects one might be able to name.

>>281314652
My man, this why we didn't only read Shakespeare. You aren't making the point you think you are making simply because YOU only read Shakespeare.

>>281314689
>because it's the mainstream opinion it must be true
it's starting to sound like you just hate the idea of putting a modicum of effort into finding good stuff that suits your taste that isn't household name tier famous

>>281314652
Just admit already that you're a gay and retarded hipster, anon
It's okay to be gay and retarded!!

>>281314745
nice death rattle. rattle it again for those at the back

>>281314652
What a dumb comment, Shakespeare was a playwright, biggest travesty with Shakespeare is schools around the world treating his work like books instead of plays, one is supposed to watch Shakespeare, not read it, and that is how it would have been enjoyed by the masses back then.

Also why are you talking about lost copies, nobody is losing anime copies. We aren't in the future where the internet has been taken out. Currently there is no "forgotten anime" outside of some comiket doujin group going all out.

>>281302120 (OP)
Blame daiz.

>>281314735
If every lesser-known anime you have in mind was half as good as Shakespeare, I guarantee that we wouldn't be having this discussion right now lol.

>>281314762
Oh I'll rattle, alright
I'll rattle your fucking balls in my mouth you gay retard!!
:3

>>281314652
Anon, every writer worth rembering from that time is in fact remembered. Don't make your "only ever taught shakespear" shit education our burden. The only way this is not true is if they were A) shit B) lost to the sand of time.

When anime is forgotten in 2025, it isn't because of option B.

>>281314765
>>> We aren't in the future where the internet has been taken out.
YET.
THE END IS NIGH.

>>281314652
>people in 1500 were reading Shakespeare
You are underage and shouldn't be posting here.

>>281314765
>biggest travesty with Shakespeare is schools around the world treating his work like books instead of plays, one is supposed to watch Shakespeare, not read it
don't disagree.
>Also why are you talking about lost copies
to make a point. 'It was forgotten so it must be bad/it was remembered so it must be good' is an incredibly silly paradigm to believe in. Sometimes stuff is before it's time. Sometimes stuff is good but only to a really niche audience that might include you. Sometimes you hear about something that sounds up your alley and just forget to check it out back when it was still relevent. Sometimes you finally check out something you'd been meaning to for decades, and realize that if you'd seen it for the first time back when you first heard about it, you wouldn't have the same appreciation for it that you do seeing it for the first time today

>>281314803
UUUOOOOOOOHHH

>>281314836
And sometimes, the sky is green and the grass is blue! And magical wood elves crawl out of their tiny houses to hand out crack pipes to school children!
Shut your fucking mouth, you dumb bitch

>>281314813
>every writer worth remembering from that time is in fact remembered.
and you just believe that wholesale without any desire to see for yourself? Not even the desire to see private writings that were never published?

>>281302120 (OP)
My favorite excuse
>after a while you just realize anime is mostly shit so there's no need to watch more
>what do you mean I can't go around telling everyone how much of an oldfag I am and how I don't watch anything
Been watching anime for over 30 years, following 40 seasonal shows this season, though to be fair this is the best anime season of the decade.

>>281314869
How could you see private writings that were never published?
Are you from planet retard, or what?

>>281314866
>And sometimes, the sky is green
Indeed

>>281314875
This season has been great, but 40? Holy shit.

>>281314881
Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they weren't worth reading

>>281302120 (OP)
Once you hit 25+ years old, there's nothing new left to experience with anime. At that point, you know the tropes, you know the genre conventions, and you have your personal favorites. So why bother wasting time consuming endless hours of something that could be good, when you can rewatch something you've already enjoyed?

It's not that old anime is better, but the old anime that I watched growing up is what I enjoy most. I'll watch a new anime every once in a while, but they almost never stick with me the same as if I watched it when I was more impressionable.

>>281314905
...How would you know that, exactly?
Have you read them?

>>281314913
You don't know what you don't know. that's the whole point

>>281314836
It's not a silly paradigm at all. We as a species have been striving to "not forget" the "good shit" since we have been recording history. Some caveman painted a mural of many prey animals during a great hunt, he didn't paint the snare that failed to catch anything.
Your Shakespeare analogy falls flat on its fat face because as has already been pointed out his contemporaries have, in fact, not been forgotten.
In the timespans we are discussing here in relation to anime, being lost to time is a silly counterpoint to bring up. Is it possible that in the future great anime shows will be forgotten and never discussed again? Sure, who knows, one day the sun is going to balloon and everything on earth will be cinders.

>>281314909
> It's not that old anime is better
No, that's precisely what it is. The anime industry is fucking cooked now. It's been how long since Cowboy Bebop was released? What about Legend of the galactic heroes? Serial experiments lain? Death note?
And in all this time, nothing has rivaled them since.
Anime now is creatively bankrupt, there is no more hope. No more cope.
It's truly, finally over.

>>281302120 (OP)
>Watch more SHIT
no thanks bro

>>281302120 (OP)
>So, why is it that nobody wants to actually WATCH anime.
im not a cuck like you /a/tard

>>281314938
How do you know that you don't know what you don't know?
What the fuck are you talking about?
What next, are you going to ask me how I'd feel if I didn't eat breakfast this morning?

>>281314946
>We as a species have been striving to "not forget" the "good shit" since we have been recording history. Some caveman painted a mural of many prey animals during a great hunt, he didn't paint the snare that failed to catch anything.
most cave paintings don't even exist anymore. hell we only recently 'remembered' aka realized that there was a whole art movement in cave paintings that revolved around pseudo-animating, where moving a flaming torch back and forth would create the optical illusion of a two or three frame animation

>>281314969
there's known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns
what we know
what we know we don't know
and what we don't know that we don't know

>>281314984
> hell we only recently 'remembered' aka realized that there was a whole art movement in cave paintings that revolved around pseudo-animating
> WE
Not me nigga. I remembered all of that shit, I was there from the very beginning

>>281314900
Yeah I kind of went overboard, you are fine if you are at 20.
>Mondays
Summer Pockets
Sakamoto Days
>Tuesdays
Necronomicon
Mattaku Tantei
Turkey
>Wednesdays
Clevatess
Dainanaoji
MuuMuu
Vending Machine
Mikadono
>Thursdays
Dr.Stone
Dandadan
Restaurant
>Fridays
Silent Bitch
Yofukashi
Nukitashi
>Saturdays
Koujo Denka
Kizetsu Yuusha
Yaiba
Bad Girl
Rascal
Sonobisque
Kaiju 8
>Sundays
Living Cat
Game Center
Ugly Mug
Ruri
CITY
Puniru
Witch Watch

>>281315004
Nobody fucking asked you Saint-Germaine. Go be immortal somewhere else

>>281315003
There is no such thing as an "Unknown unknown". What you're thinking of is a "Known unknown". You wouldn't know about an "Unknown unknown" in the first place.
I think you're underage and being retarded on purpose, judging from how you type in all lowercase letters.
I am done humoring you, and this is what I think of your autism:
***LOUD FARTING***

>>281314210
>requests "self contained" shows
>waahhh they are not discussed for ages
Can't you see you are contradicting yourself? A show has a room for long lasting discussions in three primary cases:
1. It's unfinished (so people can discuss what could happen next) - 99% cases
2. It leaves a lot of questions unanswered ("deep" shows like NGE, Lain etc.)
3. A show is so massive that there's always enough newfags who are watching it right now (battle shounen)
Sure, there are a few exceptions, but mostly people keep discussing a show, or a manga at that, only if it's one of the three cases. And when you request a "self contained" title, you pretty much leave exclude first and the third case.

>>281314869
My dumdum, your hypothetical is no longer comparable to the discussion at hand. Anime is not being made in a 15th century cottage with the only copy being produced on a single roll of parchment.
The point still remains, if it is great, people to their best to record it to history and will talk about it long after. In fact a thing's resistance to the march of time is a testament to how hreat it was. It is why you know what evangellion is, but have no idea what Oyako club is. It is why we know who Ceasar was but not a random slave. Why Rembrandt is remembered while thousands of lesser painters forgotten.

>>281314950
LoGH is the only one of those I would even consider notable, and mostly because of the length.

Valid counterpoint to everything posted up until now: Let's steal shit and do crime in the woods

>>281314938
This does not apply to anime anon. Unless you truly believe there is an unknown studio secretly making great anime and hiding, no worse, immediately burning all footage. The greatest anime ever produced that you don't know you don't know about.

God what a fucking chuun you are being.

>>281315105
> The greatest anime ever produced that you don't know you don't know about.
Also known as "Lucky star". Heh, bet you've never heard of that before, have you? Newfag!

>>281314984
Yes, thank you. We managed to do this for cave paintings 10000y+ old. We sure as hell can manage for digital anine of the past couple of decades.
If a current season anime is forgotten by Xmas, it's because it was shit.

>>281315126
20 years later and I'm still struggling to understand how lucky star had as large an impact as it did.

Takopi is good modern anime, watch it

>>281302120 (OP)
Anime is shit, and I'm not going to watch it. Also, tl;dr.

>>281314909
If "there's nothing new" is an issue then you like novelty, not anime.

>>281315286
What's wrong with liking new anime, what a weird thing to say.

>>281314950
Dainanaoji is at least a billion times better than Cowboy Bebop.

>>281315311
Try reading my post again.

>>281315286
There's actually plenty of novelty in anime even with really common topics you wouldn't expect it from. High school girl bands are such an obvious concept, yet bocchi managed to break ground just by being serious about the music.

>>281315311
only liking griundbreaking anime is a folly since griubdvreaking anime is built on the ground levelled by previous anime. you're basicalky saying "I only like once in a decade anime that takes the past decade or more of the genre and boils it into an easy to digest form"
which is around one in 15,000 anime and if you like less than 1% of anime, you are not a fan of anime

>>281315353
Sure, but that's not the point at all. If "there's nothing new" makes something worthless to you, then you don't actually like that thing at all.

>>281315352
Yes, you are saying people who complain about there not being any new anime, don't like anime, they just like new anime. Which is a rather retarded thing to say.

>>281315384
ESL kun, new =\= groundbreaking

>>281315397
No. You can't fucking read.

>>281302120 (OP)
I've watched 100+ anime. I'm just a retard with bad opinions.

>>281315391
Anon, retard, if every anime since the 90s were isekai, and each time it followed the exact same formula, and they released 40 such shows each season, even you, yes EVEN YOU, would be bored and want something new. Stop being a retard, you hurt us more than yourself and it's inconsiderate

>>281315418
Anon, you clearly need to express yourself more clearly. The words you don't mean what you evidently think they mean.

>>281314875
>the best anime season of the decade
The bar couldn't be any lower.

>>281303133
>Anime is quite awful especially today and especially for those who just wish to see the art in motion
Summer 2025 is the best season anime has had since Autumn 2014.

>>281315286
Novelty wearing off doesn't mean you don't like anime, retard-bro

>>281315519
Not even going to open my image folder for bait this low effort.

¿ <•√::><|

> WOW, YOU LIKE READING TOLKIEN, HUH? AND YOU ONLY WANT TO READ BOOKS THAT ARE AS GOOD AS TOLKIEN'S WORK?! WHAT ABOUT [Literal who with a grand total of 25 reviews on Goodreads]?? HE'S JUST AS GOOD AS TOLKIEN, BRO! I SWEAR! YOU'RE MISSING OUT!!!
Fuck you.

>>281315599

>>281315687
What I said is a metaphor for that one anon's terrible argument about popularity not being a good sign of quality
There are exceptions to that rule, but they're just that: exceptions.
I don't give a fuck about Bojo's odd journeys written by Gulp Shitto, it's not good and it's never going to be good because nobody knows about it
Simple 'as

>>281315279
only animation is good, the story and characters are bad

>>281315526
If you don't like any more anime after the novelty wears off, then you don't like anime.

>>281315599
If The Lord of the Rings is the only fantasy novel you like, you don't like fantasy novels.

>>281316189
based retard-bro doubling down on his retardation

>>281316189
But the "more anime" would be novel, and therefore enjoyable.

>>281313814
>Ninja Kamui
>not bottom of the pile gargabe
Did you not watch it past ep5?

>>281316264
No, that's the exact opposite of the premise.

>>281316294
How is the "more anime" not new? Then it isn't more anime, that would be more of the /same/ anime (and even that is new).

>>281316423
Why pretend to be even stupider than you really are?

>>281316432
You keep saying that liking new anime means you don't like anime. You somehow think using novel(ty) instead of new somehow changes this meaning. I fear you suffer from ESL.

>>281316583
If you don't understand the distinction between "novel" and "new" then you're the one struggling with basic English.

>>281302120 (OP)
Oldfag here. You don't have to have every anime you encounter. That is fucking stupid. Back in the day we watched everything we could because there was so little of it available in the west. Nowadays each season is just loaded with more shows than an entire year from the 80s.

I have seen a lot of anime and I can guarantee you that quantity does not make people's opinion better or worse. It just gives them more perspective.

>>281302120 (OP)
As a longtime non-/a/ poster, your trademark snobbery morphed into baseless bitching from people who probably aren't watching.
The anime industry seems better than it has been in 2 decades, but you'd never know it from /a/.

>>281302120 (OP)
I agree with all of this but i'd like to say watching a 3 hour movie is somehow way less taxing compared to the same amount of tv anime.
Probably because how much faster paced it tends to be and if you're watching seasonals because you are skipping from one story to another every 24 min.

>>281316920
I find the opposite. Having breaks every 20 minutes makes it far less onerous. Plus it's far easier to find 20 minutes of free time several times than one 180 minute stretch.

I have other interest too, which means i don't have time/energy to watch anime 24/7.

>>281317147
/thread

>>281302120 (OP)
fuck animu, only mango

>OP literally just says to watch even a minuscule amount of anime a day and to stop making bullshit excuses for why you can’t
>nearly the entire thread is people making bullshit excuses and saying that not watching anime actually makes you really smart
>on the anime board
Holy shit, I think I’ve come to an epiphany- /a/ is dead.
Seriously, this is the most embarrassing thread I have ever been in. It’s droves of people saying they’ve already seen the heights of anime, and whenever they get pressed to list them the deepest cut is fucking LotGH, the most well known “anime is for ADULTS” type show most people use to sound smarter than they really are.
Beyond that, what is it? Death Note? Fullmetal Alchemist? Have you watched an anime that didn’t air on American TV?
There’s some tag saying Naruto is objectively good because it’s popular.
A guy posted his favourite recent anime, and the responses are just the fucking worst. They just go on about the two most well known anime on the list and disregard everything else.
The fucking popularity contest guy on here asking for anime that aren’t well known like this is a fucking recc thread, when this is /a/. Some of the most well liked anime on here are those unknown anime, fucking Flip Flappers was a complete bomb that was only popular here.

This entire thread just proved OP right. Nobody here on this board watches anime. It’s just a bunch of people providing justifications for why they don’t, like god, I cannot believe that people going on about “I only watch the old stuff” were talking about shit like Inuyasha. Not WMT, not Dezaki, not Tezuka or fucking even Miyazaki, they meant the shit that aired on American cartoon channels.
This board is in the saddest state it has ever been in. You could not PAY an /a/non even ten years ago to say half the shit that has been said here.

>>281317147
>One hour a day
>24/7

>>281317310
/co/ consumes more content than the average /a/ faggot desu

>>281315599
>Listen! Interesting and uninteresting is only a personal opinion!
>You’ll never find out until you watch and check them out yourself!
>So stop whining and watch!

>>281317310
I mean, I could tell /a/ was dead simply because 75% of the posts here were made between midnight and 6am EST.

>>281317334
3 ep a day is nothing but OP was talking about watching a entire cour in a day.
Most i do in a single day is 8-9 ep of seasonal anime and only 1-2 times a week.

>>281317310
Most of /a/ is shonen spics and Yuri tard generals, both of which ciclejerk 3-4 series for years and never watch anything else.

>>281317518
OP said a single cour is not a lot, but the general idea at the end was that even three episodes a day is good amount of anime.

>>281317310
Yep lol, this thread is honestly just pathetic.

>>281302120 (OP)
No, thank you.
I'm going to watch the most popular anime on MAL and call everything else shit.

>>281302120 (OP)
>umm slop is good akschually

>>281318612
>OP doesn’t say what anime should be watched
>people still insist on projecting the idea that it’s all slop
You don’t watch anime, do you

Basically this. Its sad but most faggots here don't even watch the series they complain about, same case with lit where they don't read the books and just guide their opinion on Cliff Notes (or chatgpt) tells them to think.
This season has some great anime

>>281302120 (OP)
It's pretty obvious I'm not the audience for the new stuff so I'll keep to my classics, thank you very much.

>>281308771
It's about men's ice skating, of course it's gay. Your friend was either naive or retarded.

>>281318928
You don't need to be spoonfed or told what to watch. Go check the chart and pick something that interests you, or just do so randomly and see where it goes.

>>281316711
Wrong ESL kun.

>>281317310
Faggot, you couldn't get old /a/ to watch 99% of the shit airing today. /a/ died because anime went to shit and became soft.

>>281319002
Your entire enjoyment of that garbage anime comes from spamming (softcore) porn in the threads, don't kid yourself Industry Shill-san.

>>281319128
This, modern anime just hits different.

>>281319128
The classics of /a/ included fucking Code Geass, Lucky Star, FliFla, and Kyousougiga newfag

>>281319134
More like fun facts about mineralogy but how would you know if you don't watch anime. Anime about niche hobbies are the best

>>281319134
this
the rock autists are a small subset of the actual audience
also what the FUCK is an industry shill you fucking retarded nigger

>>281319249
He’s from /v/, so everyone who actually wants to engage with their chosen medium is actually a shill.
On has to wonder what all these people who don’t watch anime actually do here.
I guess they’re probably making those constant low quality Naruto threads.

Do you remember when /a/ had 15 pages and no captcha?

>>281319309
If only, they are the ones shitting up all the popular anime threads and all have the same writing patterns with words like "CHAPPIE" and the same degenerate focus on derailing threads. They seem to congregate on CSM threads and from there move to the rest.
Either they're discord shitters (because they reference user names as if they knew each other), glowies or the worst brand of mental illness I've ever seen.
>>281302120 (OP)
Its true, 3 episodes a day isn't much and actually enriches you culturally. Hell, the best practice is to watch stuff you normally wouldn't watch to break bias and get a wider understanding of life.
I do the same with books and its surprising how much you can learn in 1 year

>>281319225
Keep lying to yourself.
>>281319249
A "person" who excuses any and all shortcomings of the current state of the industry, as bitterness, cluelessness or malice on the critics side.
A great example would be Disney Star Wars fans.
>>281319309
Speaking of low quality >>281176742 but I guess it's fine if the low value shitposting is /a/ approved.

>>281319477
Interesting how you pose as someone who cares about the state of the catalog but ignores the festering AI spam general. I wonder who's lining your pockets

Go spam a shounenshit thread instead

>>281302120 (OP)
> Manga.
> Novels.
> Games.
get turned into: Anime and the only rarely good ones don't get an anime adaptation. That's the main reason I've been blanking out on watching anime for multiple seasons now. Fable (that yakuza manga based one) was last good one.

>>281319477
>Call out the large amount of shitty Naruto threads that get posted every day
>anon INSTANTLY runs defence for them by going “what about this other completely unrelated thread??”
Sounds like I was right on the money with that one.

>>281319477
Might be more convincing if you actually had any criticisms of the industry rather than being obviously clueless and directly stating you don't even watch anything.

>>281319622
The Fable anime is complete garbage.
There are original anime every season.

>>281319206
Yes, and nothing new holds a candle to those.

>>281319622
>More excuses that just boil down to “I’ve seen everything good”
Yeah yeah, you’re 20 and know everything about everything, what’s Dunning-Kruger again?

>>281319660
If you were alive for most of those anime, you’d hate them and say that all new anime was shit.

>>281319206
>shitting on classics
You would only understand if you were there for the threads, new shows just don't garner the same traction on /a/, they miss the requirements for it.

>>281319409
Yes, we had the rei bot for months shitting up everything, which was funny until it wasn't.

>>281319665
> You must be young to think our current shit is trash.
You are a zoomer lol. Anime quality has never been as bad as it is now, the art part is disappearing from it and over-reliance on using the format as a marketing application rather than delivering anything worthwhile to the audience.

>>281319688
No, wrong, again, you would only understand if you lived through /a/ back then, which you clearly didn't. What a fucking poser.

>>281319690
According to you, and Naruto, Bleach, Dragon Ball Super, and Chainsawman actually not only meet, but EXCEED those expectations and are obviously the greatest works ever made.
>inb4 some bitterly ironic words of agreement
>inb4 the person I’m talking to doesn’t watch anime

>>281302120 (OP)
Especially putting into perspective how much anime you can watch with just doing an hour a day, 3 episodes
A lot of people, myself included, drop off on things after becoming fully employed, but if you're consistent (and make up for lost time one weekends) you can still watch a lot of anime, read a lot of manga, read a lot of vns / lns
It's doable and enjoyable

Also side note but I have noticed tons of new anime fans don't know how to find shows, and I don't mean they make recommendation threads, I mean they need to be TOLD ver batim what they should watch, it's odd, anime should be a never ending hobby of discovery of your own tastes

>>281319725
>Anime quality has never been as bad as it is now,
You don’t watch much anime.

>>281319767
I bet you love one piss.

>>281319736
>fails to even craft a noteworthy response outside of “no u”
You don’t watch anime.

>>281319772
Thanks for proving me right.

>>281319772
Is a shitty anime that's been running since the 90s supposed to be proof of "old bad" or "new bad"?

>>281319526
>>281319628
>he didnt explicitly call out every general on the catalog
>now I can accuse him of what i was doing
Maybe if you had some self awareness, you'd realize that the shounenshit generals are a direct result of the low quality shitposting generals that /a/ enjoys.

>>281302120 (OP)
>Anime went downhill when I turned 13, so I'm not watching
I still watch new stuff but the average quality of anime coming out was objectively at an all time low in the last couple of years. I think it's slowly coming out of that slump, but it's hard to tell.
>>281313189
This is me exactly. But I'll admit it's mostly because I'm both lazier than before and constantly tired and stressed, so passive mediums like anime, manga and LN are easier on my brain.
>>281312786
this list has to be bait. born '94 and all the "legendary" shows you list is the most normalfag watchmojo "top 100 anime of all time" anime. they're not bad, but it hardly seems like you've ran out of stuff to watch if this is what you consider to be the best examples.

>>281319815
So you'd take AIslop generals over shounentrash generals?
I don't see you spamming in those.

>>281319809
> Anon is going to say Jujitsu Kaisen is the best shounen battle anime next...

>>281319815
>he didnt explicitly call out every general in the catalog
That’s what you did. When you linked the Hidamari thread after I said you were probably the type of person who spams Naruto threads.
You’re a retard who doesn’t watch anime.

>>281319744
Are you having a psychotic break. What are you even babbling about?

>>281319790
The problem is that you have only just started watching anime. You are out of your element.

>>281319763
Exactly this is what is most curious. I don't see many going to the charts and checking out what they're interested in.
Rather, they seem to base what they watch on what is popular or (worse) youtubers and "influencers"

>>281319865
Well, all those series have constant threads in the catalog, so they have a lot of traction, obviously /a/ loves them just like Lucky Star (lol) and Gayass, loves them even MORE since a lot of those don’t even have anything releasing and still get threads!

>>281319128
/a/ died because greener pastures emerged

>>281319899
Same with Fate. I see at least 1 thread every 2 days and they are the same old story. I'm not counting FGO because that's cancer

>>281319888
>only just started watching anime.
You projecting or something? Probably are, since every time one of your types is pressed to list the anime they watch, it’s shit like >>281312786

This motherfucker probably IS an AIslopper
Why else would he ignore its presence?

>>281319890
I've mostly used MAL when I'm curious about a genre and what there is regarding it or some other database when it comes to a niche manga-only genre (like high-stakes gambling type of manga/psychological horror which is usually not done that much in Anime) and then hunt down rest-akin-to-that series.

>>281302120 (OP)
If anime didn't go and quit after 1 season every fucking time maybe I would.
I'd much rather read the manga or the VN/LN if i find a series I like but I'm not going to pretend anime is this superior medium.
Cause it's not.
Anime sucks.

>>281319840
I'd rather all generals get moved to /trash/, make /ag/ for all I care so the mentally ill shitposters can have their safespace.
>>281319849
You perfectly encapsulate everything I called out. Maybe someday you will notice your hypocrisy.

>>281319972
Why are you here

>>281319984
Did you cry while writing that? Lol.

>>281319984
Generals keep people from shitting up the other threads

>>281319987
the board is called anime and manga

>>281308954
what did you think was missign in dungeon meshi, that you were able to find in all of the isekai?

>>281319987
/a/ anime and MANGA
also, learn to read.

>>281319984
So you're not actually going to "do anything" about them like you're trying and failing to "do something" about this thread?
And you just admitted you're cool with AIslop, didn't you?

>>281320007
Yeah but you clearly don’t have much investment at all since you just see anime as manga adaptations.

>>281319984
>gets irrationally mad in a thread about how people should just watch anime instead of making up excuses for why they shouldn’t
>the reason he’s mad is because… people aren’t calling out the right generals?
Were you in a special needs class by chance?

>>281320022
How many anime don't have a different source? Very few of them, right? Anime exists to sell manga, LNs, VNs, and DVD box sets.

>>281320051
like 5% of anime is original, and even that's probably being generous

>>281320058
There are in fact a lot of original anime projects, as well as many adaptations who supersede the need to even touch the source material despite not “adapting all of it”. Pretty much any Shaft anime comes to mind for that one.

>>281320074
I'm stupid and fucked up my quoting but whatever
>>281320022

>>281302120 (OP)
There is a mentally ill contrarian who doesn’t watch anime and yet spends all day posting thousands of times about this or that anime sucking. He is here for the sole purpose of shiting up the board.

>>281319725
>oomer
way to prove his point.

>Hey guys you should watch more anime
>”NOOOOOO ALL ANIME SUCKS AND YOU SUCK AND I’M SO BASED FOR KNOWING THE REAL CLASSICS LIKE INUYASHA”
>”NOOOOOOO ALL ANIME ARE ADAPTATIONS OF MANGA AND THE PRETTY PICTURES AREN’T MOVING THE WAY I WANT THEM TO MOVE, DON’T ASKW HY I WENT TO THE ANIME THREAD IF I ONLY READ MANGA”
>”NOOOOOOO THESE OTHER GENERALS ARE THE CANCER, WHY HAVEN’T THEY BEEN DISCUSSED IN THIS UNRELATED THREAD”
So, watching anime is too hard for /a/?

>>281320141
more like anime studios are too lazy to commit to anything but Frieren, Dungeon Meshi, and Kimetsu no Yaiba to the end.
Why should i wait 43 years for the anime to catch up to the manga or the light novel? I'm going to get hooked in, and just read it. I'm not waiting 4 more years for the next season of Konosuba, the LN's done. Demon Slayer's manga is done. Mushoku Tensei's LN is done.

>>281319763
>2nd point
People like that are passive consoomers instead of being actually invested into the hobby.
They are probably like that with other media too.

>>281320013
Exactly

>>281320141
TRVTH

>>281302120 (OP)
I have seen all of the good animes

>>281320195
>completely ignores the point
>reveals he only watches the most popular shit

>>281320196
> Bentendo.
> Good-Tendo.
> Three buttons instead of 4.
Gross, that 3 buttons part.

>>281319206
these were popular for a good reason:
>code geass
popular on /a/ because of how absurd it is and how fun the threads were with all the shitposting.
>lucky star
popular on /a/ because it had references to internet culture and had a cute anime girl, the combination of both makes it a good candidate for a mascot of internet culture. the same occurred on the japanese side earlier and that culture bled into /a/ guaranteeing Konata's popularity. Haruhi is popular for exactly the same reason, mixed with code geass' insanity and memes.

these 2 however were mostly popular because elitists thought they were obscure:
>Flip Flappers
it did have fun threads when it came out so it's remembered fondly for that, but it's not really on the same level as the others in terms of popularity. it's mostly just a decent show that wasn't very popular when it came out that got latched on by a few elitists.
>Kyousougiga
elitists picking a random niche imaginative work with good animation and calling it their favorite, a tale as old as time. it's somewhat of a hidden gem but I doubt it would have been remembered if not for it's inclusion in the various mandatory watching charts.

>>281320226
> Posts chang manhua comic panel.
> Yen instead of Yuan to slide it in.
Nice try, you don't fool anyone with that meme bro.

>>281320228
Those were just examples of stuff that anime studios commit to for more than one or two seasons. I read all kinds of obscure manga.

>>281320058
I am watching 3 (one short) original anime this season and 2 last season.
Every season has them.

>>281320255
And the point was, why even come into a thread about watching anime to go “Uh yeah, well actually, I read manga, and my tastes are pretty deep there alright, and anime just doesn’t get it, okay?”
It makes you sound like an annoying self-absorbed faggot experiencing the heights of Dunning-Kruger with your own assessments of the medium.
>inb4 recc baiting

>>281320308
it's a bait thread.

>>281320308
> Has to cope with toy-commercial tier anime adaptations and sloppy seconds.
> No... You are retarded because... I consoooom and you don't!
lol.

>>281320340
>bait thread
And what is bait about it, beyond your irrational obsession to spam about manga?

>>281320346
>implying the vast, vast majority of manga artists aren’t untalented who primarily get by on abusing two page spreads, can’t panel for shit, and have their lackluster writing covered up by speed reading
The vast majority of manga are objectively improved by a good anime for this very reason.

>>281302120 (OP)
i don't watch anime, per se.... i basically just goon to it. that counts though, right?

>>281320002
Demonstrably false
>>281320017
What am I doing here exactly?
>you're cool with the AIslop
Where?
>>281320051
OP and the people vehemently parroting the same talking point don't care about "watching anime", they care that people have any criticism towards something they feel they have to defend.
>the reason he’s mad is because… people aren’t calling out the right generals?
Retard accuses me of being a low quality naruto spammer, I reply, in a roundabout way, that that the entire catalog is a low quality and you take that conclusion? Seems like you are the special needs kid.

>>281320022
this season has 6 originals
36 anime adaptations
13 light novel adaptations
1 novel adaptation
2 visual novel adaptations
1 video game adaptation
everyone who's jaded about anime should still bother to check out originals, but it's pretty easy to see why people would get jaded about anime in general and not bother. when 90% of shows are adaptations and 90% of those will never be complete adaptations, it's not surprising when people don't even bother
>>281320308
the board is called anime and manga. it's composed of viewers of anime and readers of manga. a thread telling the entire board to read more manga would get lots of responses about how anime is simply the superior medium and why would I bother reading in black and white when I can watch it animated in color with voice acting and music. that's just something you have to deal with unless we get a dedicated manga board.

>>281320402
> The cope continues.
hahaha.

>>281320425
Nah, you just got mad that I said Naruto instead of Hidamari.

>>281320431
> Waifushit.
> Fujoshit.
Thanks for proving the point.

>>281320431
>that image
People who get mad about incomplete adaptations are probably retarded, since most of those anime were great on their own.

>>281320433
>no rebuttal
I accept your concession.

>>281320449

>>281314892
Aurora Borealis? In this thread? In this time of the year? At this hour? Localized entirely within your pic related?

>>281314875
Are you a NEET?

>>281320425
>criticism
Most of the criticism in this thread is the shit OP was talking about.
Either vague responses about how “anime has gotten worse” said by people who go on to show that they barely watched anime in the first place, or something OP didn’t mention but is equally retarded- people mad about incomplete adaptations. Which hardly matters in the majority of anime which treat singular seasons as complete narratives and adapt to showcase that.
One can hardly tell works like Ninkoro, or the first season of Hanako, or Onimai are adaptations with how they are adapted as storylines that only needs to fit the 12 episode run.

>>281320195
Waiting is inherent to being a anime/manga fan.
You either get used to it and embrace it or you will drop out.
Manga readers have to wait for new chapters and when the mangaka almost dies for the fifth time.
Non japanese readers have to wait for translations.
Anime fans have to wait for adaptations then a week for every episode then x years for season 2/3
You could bypass this by waiting (heh) for manga to finish or anime to be complete but then you'd miss interacting with the community and be completely out of tune with them.
Get used to it or find another hobby.

>>281320671
> Waiting 43 years.
That was his point, not waiting for a month or a planned schedule. Any human being can handle that. You are misreading and misinterpreting things to your advantage, dishonest loser.

>>281320431
>why would I bother reading in black and white when I can watch it animated in color with voice acting and music.
Reminder that Visual novels are just anime with click to continue dialog

>>281320808
> Just anime.
Heh.
> INTERACTIVE CHOICES.
> THE WHOLE PLACE MELTS DOWN!

>>281320808
Spoken like someone who doesn’t read VNs.

OP is right, insane amounts of cope in here.

>>281303015
I'm still catching up on the JoJo storytime. Then i'll either read Full Metal Alchemist, Joshi Kouhei, or something else entirely.

i applaud the one man spam trying to get this thread to the post limit in order to have it pruned
concentrated autism and we'll never know what set him off in the first place

>>281313468
Pui Pui Molcar

>>281321328
A lot of /a/ too offence to the simple idea of just watching anime.

>>281321421
it's like telling /v/ to play video games. it simply isn't going to happen

>>281321451
More like, its like telling /v/ to play video games that aren't your FOTOM slop for more than couple weeks.

>>281314570
You're putting words into my mouth. I'm not saying the opposite of what you're saying is true (that popular = bad and unpopular = good), I'm saying that what you're saying is retarded (that popular = good).
>>281314627
>>281314693
>doubling down on popular = good

>>281320195
Ignore other anons and just pick up stuff that is finished or is an OG anime (i.e. will have an end within X episodes/movies). This is how I have enjoyed both anime and manga for over 30 years now. I'll follow along live with a longer series every now and again. People like the ones ITT who will have a hissyfit over that being the wrong way to enjoy it are just something to laugh about.
Also, consider 99% of people you interact with here do not speak nihongo, so take everything they say about how to take this hobby seriously with a massive grain of salt. A whole world of LNs and manga forever out of their reach because they'd rather shitpost here about the correct way to enjoy a hobby than spend that time learning the language of that hobby. Not all anons are like this, but the majority are, especially the ones with all the esoteric "rules" on what decides whether or not you enjoy anime.

>>281315599
>I BASE MY TASTE ON HOW MANY RETARDS ON SOCIAL MEDIA WATCH/READ SOMETHING!!!

>>281320671
>miss out interacting with the community
Considering you exist this is a pro, not a con. Nu-/a/ is shit, I'm only here out of some unironic "here forever" addiction/habit. If you are getting into the hobby this place is garbage, especially for older stuff, as shown ITT.

>>281320141
so it seems....so it seems

>>281321896
On the contrary, this is one of the few remaining places where you can talk about the hobby freely. For all its issues, /a/ at least still can allow you to say what you think instead of forcing you to conform to what the sheep think.
Unless you want to go to the deep web (which is quite empty and gatekept so not as much of a community either) where else can you even hope to go? Plebbit? Shitcord? Xhitter? Yeah...right...

>>281321451
More like telling /v/ they don't enjoy vidya because they aren't systematically working their way through the steam catalogue sorted by "new releases". Then being surprised when people tell you to fuck off with your bait thread.
Who am I kidding though, because not even /v/ mods would have tolerated such a shitty thread, that is a feat accomplished solely by /a/autistic mods (probably OP=mod come to think of it).

>>281321896
CITY thread. it's so painful because you know no-one in that thread genuinely enjoys it but they're pretending they do because they want "comfy" community vibes.
nostalgia chasers? is it delusion? or maybe people are just lonely. real sad to see either way

>>281320308
Honestly, any time someone on here says "anime" I assume they're including manga. It really does not enter my mind that people would be talking solely about anime.

>>281314528
It is not regressing.
Your 90s faves were dogshit and irreparably ruined your taste.

>>281314134
You are either American or some combination of Arab/Slavic. Either way your opinions are worthless because you come from a failed society.

>>281321988
No it's more like correctly identifying that a person isn't a fan of [thing] if they haven't enjoyed [thing] in 10+ years and think every release for over a decade has garbage.

>>281322008
>I don't like this thing so nobody else can! They're faking!
unironically touch grass, for your sake as well as ours

>>281314210
Sorry that Bang Bang Bravern didn't shit the bed at the end because the producers failed to manage the budget so you could spend a decade 'dissecting' the finale like it was some Gainax slop.

>>281321676
Not doubling down, stating facts. Mass entertainment media needs to be popular to be successful, else it is dead. It could be the most cutting edge avant garde well thought out literal divinely created anime, if it is not popular it gets axed because anime is a by and large an advertisement first, a stream of revenue second, and art third, which is pretty much the crux of what has Miyazaki's panties (rightfully) in a twist. It is also why we will see more and more AI slop in the seasonal 1-2 court shows. Proper works of art made with love for the medium will become fewer and fewer.
It is the audience's fault for steering anime the way of mindless mass entertainment with their wallets though, Anno was right all along about g00ners.

>>281322008
I don't think it's fair to assume people are just pretending to enjoy something. I've been reading the City manga for quite a while and am enjoying the anime (though I have my criticisms). I'm just not one of those people who enjoy these cringy generals though (Hidamari Sketch is another series I like, but I also don't post in every one of those threads for the same reason), but people do enjoy them. So I don't go into every thread, but just because people do doesn't mean they're just pretending to enjoy the series.

>>281302120 (OP)
I sit in bed for hours doom scrolling but starting an anime is hard.

>>281322192
>Not doubling down
>Proceeds to triple down
Zero self awareness

>>281320308
They can't conceive of being perceived as annoying because they have no empathy for others, so to them it's a taste flex and we're all buying it.
It's a low IQ/EQ thing.

>>281322144
>counterpoint opening is some unoriginal zoomer lingoism
compelling argument by someone whose opinions are worth listening to

I get more invested in manga than in anime, always been this way

>>281321956
what can you say on 4chan that you cannot on any of the places you mentioned? I don't go there so I don't know.

>>281302120 (OP)
Currently watching Game Centre Girl and before it was picrel. I think Kodomo no Jikan permanently ruined my taste in anime.

>>281322273
you can say anything anywhere, fags just get upset that there is a number attached to how unpopular their opinion is (up/downvotes, likes etc)

>>281322233
It would be a waste of time to formulate a serious argument against a brainless retard who can't conceive of other people having different taste than him. The only thing to be done with you is to dismiss you with as little effort as possible, you are incapable of participating in actual discussion.

>>281322273
It's not about what you can't say but about what others won't say. Others won't bitch and moan about "problematic" portrayals, relationships, and themes, and they won't tell the mangaka to "do better." People here love anime for what it is, not for how close it gets to imposing western imperialist values onto the reader or viewer.

>>281321956
You can not interact with a community. Or even better, spend your time you might spend on /a/ on learning Japanese so you can follow the creator's feeds and enjoy content licked behind a translation barrier. Easily the worst part about the hobby in the west is the community, I agree that /a/ is likely the best place left, yet it is still shit. I'd advise newfriends to find a handful of people who enjoy anime/manga and interact with them on a more intimate level (I know for instance r/a/dios IRC is still going strong) and spend time otherwise shitposting here on, as I said, learning Japanese. It is what I would do if I weren't already lost to the quicksand of this place.

I'm watching 5 anime this season and can't keep up, all stuff is good and it feels like its recovering.
>>281322273
Go. I wish 4chan had a gatekeep function, if so by the week you'd be here again begging and crying to be let back
>>281322298
As if, those shitholes actually ban you for any idea that goes against their narrative and worse, are highly political and radicalized. I'm not sure if they're paid to silence any discourse, otherwise their existence is really sad.
>>281322365
>Or even better, spend your time you might spend on /a/ on learning Japanese so you can follow the creator's feeds and enjoy content licked behind a translation barrier
I'm finishing German and then will move to Japanese because of that. I want to check out 2ch and the other places.

>>281322299
so let me get this straight:
>you acknowledge the idea that people have different tastes
but
>you go scorched earth from the get-go because someone doesn't like the anime which you like

brother you are so astoundingly unintelligent that i'd rather you keep your opinions to yourself because i am not interested in what you're selling

>>281322113
But who are we to decide that? Maybe [thing] has simply become shit and barely has any relation to [OG thing].
I think we can all agree we have "golden years" and "slump years". I do 't really take an issue with people saying modern anime is shit compared to old anime, quite frankly I have simply not seen enough of the old stuff to fairly give an opinion on that, maybe that is a fair assessment, maybe not. What I *do* think is a silly notion, and have seen it repeated several times ITT, is the idea that because current anime is "bad" all modern anime is doomed to be forever bad. That's just silly doomerposting.

>>281321988
Literally the OP says is to watch more anime. Why does this make you mad?

>>281322220
I was not that anon, simply agreeing with the notion that anime has become mass entertainment that needs to popular to be successful. Anime is barely a craft in and of itself anymore, it is verging ever more on being purely promotional material for other media.

>>281322323
This is a lie. Post any opinion about any anime and your thread is guaranteed to get shat on by at least one shitposter.

Big anime fan here. So big I basically can't watch the stuff anymore. I like to think of myself as 4chan's director or editor - that's usually where I spend my time.

>>281317310
> ahh no one watches anime anymore
>NOOO NOT THAT ANIME
retard

>>281320014
It's really tough to put into words, but I'd say when I was watching it, I felt this really weird sense of corporatist, American influence. It just didn't feel like anime, it felt like a western director made it, which surprised me when I found out the director was japanese. And then, after every episode, the big fucking Netflix logo pops up on screen, kek. Don't get me wrong, it was definitely watchable, but I didn't find myself wondering what happens next episode. Even something extremely derivative and simple like Sokushi Cheat was more interesting to me even if I knew in advance that he was just going to instakill every enemy.

I think it's a nice show, and Marcille is cute, but maybe I got filtered because I'm retarded.

>>281322697
Nobody said that. In fact, the point was that those anime were all that they had watched- past tense. They’ve experienced the heights of the medium because they watched Hunter x Hunter and Bleach.

>>281321896
You don't know a thing about me.

>>281322570
When do you think anime was not promotional material for other media? Mecha and magical girl anime have pretty much always been made to sell toys, as far back as the 70s. And adaptations of manga have also always existed. Even if in the past they tended to be more of their own thing (not always) do you think the people involved just ignored that the source material existed? Just like today you would have announcements in the magazine the manga ran in that the anime was airing.

There's also always been multi-media projects, where the anime and manga were made concurrently. It's somewhat difficult to determine for some things if they were decades ago (especially before the internet) if this was the case but I've seen it said for Sailor Moon and Tokimeki Tonight for instance. People think there was some magical time when anime and manga were completely separate and that they were focused on "art" rather than selling something. Even completely anime originals that weren't trying to sell toys were still trying to sell their home releases and other merch.

Pic related is from 1982.

>>281322432
>let me get this straight
>proceeds to get it twisted
You are not fooling anybody.

>you go scorched earth from the get-go because someone doesn't like the anime which you like
That's not what happened at all, and I'm not sure whether you're playing dumb or are actually this dumb, in either case I'll spell it out for you.

You did not get that response because you "don't like CITY", you got it because you confidently stated that NOBODY can actually like CITY, and that everyone in all of those threads is faking enjoyment. You are the one who went scorched Earth bringing it up out of nowhere and calling everyone who participates in those threads lonely and delusional. Brother, YOU are lonely and delusional, malding about an anime and a thread that you have no interest in.

>>281322740
shut up retard. that's exactly what is being said. if they're not watching the latest seasonal slop then they don't like anime.

>>281322891
>malding
>get it twisted
yoyoyo thanks for the prime sub anon and welcome to the kappa club, say hello to him chat lets hit that sub goal frfr you know it
just stop already it's fucking embarrassing

>>281322891
>malding about an anime and a thread that you have no interest in
Let's get that guy and the dude who makes MT threads every day in a room together. They'll achieve some sort of autistic singularity and create the godform, kek

>>281322924
OP don’t say that though.
In fact, nothing in the OP is about watching seasonals.

>>281322483
We are rational creatures who can safely dismiss the opinions of people who haven't had a stake or interest in our hobby in 10+ years and now dismiss every single thing since that time as bad. I don't have an issue with preferences or golden ages either, you can like old anime more than new anime, but that's clearly not what this is about if you read through the thread.

>>281323047
>but op didn't-
retard. don't reply to me. read your own shit thread

>>281322723
would you say that DM spends a lot of time developing its worldbuilding and characters, but sort of neglects the progression of the actual main plot which keeps you away? that stuff comes in heavy in the latter part of the manga, but what you're seeing right now is the "process". it's the housekeeping that they do while on the journey.
as for netflix, yeah i get your point. someone above me said that all anime is an ad for something and i generally feel the same way. it's not just netflix, but prime video and other streaming platforms have been investing heavily on anime and live action drama series in the korean and SEA markets because there seems to be a lot of potential money and growth in these industries. there are a lot of anime, movies and drama series i thought would never get adapted but american investor money just manifested it into existence, which is going to be the norm for anime moving forward

>>281322806
You keep on listing pros.

>>281323148
The only person saying to watch seasonals is you, sperg.

>>281314094
Even the Japanese know that not everyone wants faggot shit, why do you think yuri and yaoi are segregated you dumbass. I don't like it either, so I just avoid it.

Also hilarious that disgust over something that is morally wrong is a political agenda lol.

>>281322392
>finishing German and then will move to Japanese because of that. I want to check out 2ch and the other places.
Nice

>>281323217
You seem to think other comments itt are also me, which is not the case.

>>281322984
pathetic, but I accept your concession

>>281322984
Get it twisted is an incredibly common and old phrase.

>>281323250
Yaoi is one thing but how is yuri segregated when it's so widespread, even in the form of yuri bait with no actual progression? Especially when the example was Witch From Mercury that, even if you don't like it, was pretty big in both Japan and the west?

>>281323250
bro Japan literally puts yuri in their children's shows

>>281323018
It's probably the same guy, but yeah get him/them in the threads with the Kensuke spammer too.

>>281323300
yeah zoomers are telling on themselves, er wait "self reporting"

>>281323281
when 100% of the things you say are unoriginal buzzphrases which you've heard from somewhere else, you are no longer human - you're a bot
and where do you get off calling other people lonely when you're obviously a chronic livestream watcher as well as a 4channer?

>>281323192
I'd say the worldbuilding and the characters were actually above average IMO, and the plot is just okay. I might pick it up at some predetermined point where people say "damn it gets fucking GREAT from this episode onwards!". Any show with elves is a show for me.

Maybe it's just missing the fan service. I just looked it up and plebbit is bragging that the show will never feature "inappropriate sexualizing themes" and how that's apparently a good thing. Not that I need titties and pantsu with every show, but the lack of them lends the series a sort of sterile and lifeless feel. The kind of person that thinks "I don't like how they portray women in anime, they're too objectified" is someone I want to stay far, far away from.

Literally nothing but bilibili shit this year.
I see bilibili and I turn it off.
I pirate all my anime and I won't even watch chinkimation for free.

>>281323550
there's an episode later on that has 2 girls bathing together but that's the most fanservice it'll ever get
you should probably just stick to isekai

>>281320250
That's a 10000 yen note, anon.

>>281323550
something that plagues the DM threads is people wanting to ship 2 of the main characters together. isekai enjoyers generally consider relationships to be complete when they see them go from strangers to friends to lovers. well, not just isekai but anime in general. platonic relationships without ecchi or sex frustrates them because they see no obvious progression from start to finish, which isekai gives you plenty of

>>281303015
No, manga is fun and well crafted

>>281320013
xth post best post

>>281323740
I should say that fan service is absolutely NOT required for me to enjoy a series. I love Kijin Gentoushou and all the women are in sengoku period traditional dress, that's a show where the plot is fucking awesome and it's tied to history and folklore. Ghost in the Shell's "fan service" doesn't really count because they're robots, still they're beautiful and perfect in a technical sense, and the plot is great.
>>281323891
The polar opposite of DM for me (of the shows I watched) would be Seitokai Yakuindomo. It feels like they were made on completely different planets. That student council is horned up man.

>>281323891
Shipping is possible without any actual progress though. I'm pretty sure that's what shipping is actually. Pairing two characters that don't actually get together. Maybe there's some overlap with actual relationships, but it seems like autism to me to not be able to ship characters unless they're actually confirmed in a relationship. It's like people who are incapable of seeing yuri in series where the characters don't actually start officially dating (though some series do bait too hard to the point where it feels disingenuous).

It may be the same kind of thing as self inserters, where they can't enjoy various parts of a series without being able to see themselves in it. That being said, I like Rin, and I don't need to self insert or have any confirmation of anything to be able to like her.

>>281302120 (OP)
I don't have time to watch anything anymore. When I don't work I read manga. It takes way less time.
Might be a difficult concept to grasp for a neet.

>>281323891
???
I tend to stay away from nu-isekai because so far all I've seen is endless teasing with no real progression. Overlord just goes nowhere, eminence goes nowhere, re:zero I dropped because in 2 seasons it actually went backwards, shieldhero also went backwards, slime dude goes nowhere. It is why I am apprehensive of even starting them now. I don't mind the truckkun plot device per se, but so many of these shows just sort of bob around on the water like a boat without oars.

>>281324424
This. The only anime I watch are OG series in the weekend. Otherwise the source material (99% LN or manga) is nearly always superior.

>>281324424
I do like manga more than anime but the fact that so many people on /a/ read manga simply because it allows speedreading is fucking cancer and it's probably why manga threads on here are so fucking terrible. Because they're full of people who prioritize speed in watch/reading media over actual enjoyment and comprehension (the latter of which is important if you want to talk about stuff with other people).

>>281320195
Imagine making this post and include Frieren on it LMAO.

I watch 40 shows a year, so more or less 10 per season to make sure i can talk about current year anime without falling into the very real pit trap op is talking about of judging new stuff through "vibes" or worse "popular" (aka normalfags) opinion.

Having said that, i do think anime is worse now in the 20's, but not in a retarded "everything is shit hurr durr" sort of way, but more in the sense that there are less 8/10 and above shows than before and way more just good 7 and 6 shows or mediocrity of 5/10s around.

Part of that is just being more experienced and there are still sone great shows being made, but i still feel when i pick up some less known 90's or 2000's show on a whim i still end up having a more fun time than a seasonal most of the time.

>>281325502
Same. I also find it's been a while that I have seen a stand out banger of a show. Not that I am not enjoying it, but it has been done time that I actually got excited for a show (and no, its not because I am jaded, I get very excited in my other interests).

>>281320626
And here's my second favorite excuse
>I don't have time! Only a hikineet could follow seasonal anime!
>yet I spend most of my day posting on 4chin and other social media...
No, you are just jaded and simply can't enjoy this hobby anymore. I like to use my brother as an example, he works virtually the entire day, not counting taking care of all of his children and putting up with his wife, as a matter of fact I'm not sure when the fuck does he sleep, and yet he watches a couple of anime episodes every day, sure that amount to about "15 seasonal shows", but that's precisely why I disregard anyone using the "I don't have the time!" excuse.

On that note, a little tip. Most people don't realize just how much time consuming posting on 4chan is, but it end up being A HUGE chunk of your free time, simply stop using it for a while or try getting banned, you'll see just how much time you have to do your shit.

>>281325978
Interacting on 4chan is part of enjoying the hobby for me though. I don't have endless time, just like anyone else I have 24 hours in my day, some of which I use for work, sleep, chores, eating and shitting. What I have left I spend on hobbies/interests. I prefer manga over anime, so I read manga and talk about it here. I indeed watch very little anime. I could watch anime, but then I would have to spend less time here or less time reading manga, but I prefer doing those things over watching anime.

>>281325502
This is a perfectly reasonable and nuanced opinion. You are still clearly a fan of the medium and noticing trends in quality is not the same as making sweeping retarded generalizations like half of the posters ITT who assume that there has been nothing worth watching since Harambe was alive.

>>281325978
Yeah it's pure cope. Anybody who takes the time to come here and pontificate about how they have no time to watch stuff is not worth listening to.

>>281326117
>I just prefer doing other things than watching anime
Bro, just be straight about it, no excuses. And I didn't say to quit using 4chan forever(though you should).

>>281326795
I am not making excuses though. I literally said I prefer other things over anime. Just adding my 2cts to this thread. Mind you, I don't go into threads going "waaah, all anime shit, why watch anime, everything garbage, reee". I don't expect people to enter the manga threads going "waah, manga shit, why read when you have eyes, reee, everything garbage" either.

>>281302120 (OP)
Anime needs to start taking notes from American television.

>>281327469
And what do those notes say?

>>281327535
More niggers and cucking.

>>281327617
Try SAO and Zero no Tsukaima, they have a lot of that.

>>281324424
>I don't have time to watch anything anymore.
Do you work 80 hours a week or something?

>>281326795
But Manga is a big part of the Anime & Manga hobby. There's often both a manga and an anime of the same series, therefore, I think it's valid to partake in any of those depending on your preference.

>>281326795
Kinda dumb take. Most anime are spin offs from manga. Why would someone who enjoys manga over anime need any excuses. Dumb secondary take.

>>281325978
>>yet I spend most of my day posting on 4chin and other social media...
Projection.

I don't know why faggots on this board bitch and moan about how anons don't watch anime or there wasn't enough gatekeeping or how /a/ isn't good anymore or there's no OC or whatever other pointless nonsense. Times change, culture shifts, get used to it. No one gives a shit if you aren't watching 30 anime each season. Watch or read whatever you want, bitch about whatever you want, do whatever you want, it doesn't matter. I'm watching 2 dozen shows this season and I'll still go into threads to call shows I'm not watching shit. It makes no difference.

>>281328908
>just don't care about the one site you can talk about your hobby going to complete shit bro!!!

>>281329060
You can care, sure. That's not going to make a difference. You act like the anons who came before you didn't care that the site was going to shit. You simply can't stop the culture from shifting.

>>281329082
All those faggots just left and only come here and complain during christmas and nye.
If they stayed here and gatekept surely that would've made some difference.

>>281328908
Imagine being proud of shitting up the place and not comprehending why normal human beings would complain about you, absolutely fucking unreal.
The changes and shifts are negative precisely because of this attitude. The fact that people can't stop you from being retarded and wrong does not make them wrong to try, it's a moral imperative to fight against agents of decay.

>>281329465
4chan has always been shit.

>>281329515
everything has always been shit, the best you can do in life is try not to make things worse

>>281329616
I went down another path. A path of acceptance. I let the shit in when others tried to keep it out. I have made it my home. I shit where you eat, accept it.

So in conclusion, /a/ doesn't and will never watch anime.

>>281317310
>>281302120 (OP)
>a board filled with retards that only congregate around generals for manga they don't even like but still participate in because it's the only form of company they have isn't all that prone to reaching out and trying out new anime
Who would have thought? If this board pulled a /v/ and banned generals on sight, I guarantee you the post quality would dramatically increase.

>>281331399
Generals did get banned, but no moderator wants to actually ban cyclical threads or create an offshoot to filter them out.
The big general ban was pretty shortsighted all in all. Just this "I can save /a/!" moment that went nowhere because what do you do about cyclical threads for ongoing works? Technically "ontopic", right?
And that leads to nobody enforcing the rule unless the thread has general in the name.

>>281302120 (OP)
I watch and watched a lot of anime since the mid 90s, then again I barely post on /a/ anymore because this board/site sucks balls so you might be into something.

>>281331156
/a/ doesn't watcwatch anime
/v/ doesn't play vidya
/tv/ doesn't watch films
/mu/ doesn't into music
And nobody over on /fit/ lifts

>>281302120 (OP)
Nice one

>>281331399
But you and that fag are posting in the designated old good new bad general

>>281331957
Nothing on the OP suggest that schizo, this is a meta thread if anything and that anon is right by the way, /a/ is just a bunch of generals where schizos like you roam without talking about anime/manga at all, just posting images, ragebaiting and being retarded.

>>281331957
>half the thread is mad at OP for "telling people to watch seasonals"
>now anons are saying this is the old good new bad general
People will say anything to not watch anime.

>>281331996
Nice so you won't mind if this waste of a general dies and doesn't get replaced right?

>>281332038
This isn't a general thread though

>>281332038
It will die very soon and you don't know what a general is newfag, lurk 2 years before posting.

>>281332061
>It will die very soon
Given the current state of /a/, it'll die in an hour.

>>281317310
>>281317534
>>281331399
TL:DR if you don't want to read all the bullshit on the thread

Why did that guy spam his reaction image folder for like 2 hours?

>>281333353
For whatever reason, a large amount of people felt personally attacked by this thread.
It was probably some autistic attempt to kill the thread by blocking all discussion, while also bringing it closer to bump limit.

>>281333353
Just remember that people only ever get angry at the truth.

>>281333419
nah, people also get angry at retarded shit