Thread 281505730

Anyone went from an active anime watcher to a passive fan like me.
I am 40 btw. I used to watch at lest 5 or more shows a month. Nowadays i watch like 1-3 at best occasionally i might not even watch an Aime one month and its usually only stuff that is ether critically praised or seams interesting specifically to me.
I dont even watch stuff right as it airs anymore. I only started watching Beastars yesterday for instance. And the anime i watched last month and a half was Onepice Vano country arc. And bore that i watched Isekai Uncle and Freiren in a single month but nothing else.
And ironically its not that i dont have the time i think in general i started caring just as much about other forms of media like movies or TV shows.

I'm old too but I mostly just watch things that are airing. My viewing has gone down a lot just because there have been seasons in the last couple years with nothing I want to watch.

>>281505730 (OP)
Don't you have a family to take care of? Go back

>>281505730 (OP)
BOOMER

>>281506630
I spent more time watching anime than usual when i was on child standby because video media is easy to pause and less annoying when you get interrupted while watching it.

>>281505730 (OP)
I am the opposite.
Passive anime watcher in my teens (toradora!, cowboy bebop, dragon ball, etc.) and in the last year have suddenly started watching dozens of anime and reading LNs.
People get bored of things and switch it up from time to time. Maybe you'll get back into it again in the future.

>>281505730 (OP)
I'm 29 and I have been for years just watching shit when I feel like like anything else, anime doesn't go anywhere unless you die anyways.

>>281506630
>taking care of your family means abandon your hobbies
lmao

>>281505730 (OP)
You get burnt out doing the things you enjoy. It happens. Sometimes taking a break and then coming back to it can rekindle the same excitement you've had before. I stopped reading manga earlier this year and started playing old jrpgs instead, something I never really did before. I'll get back around to my watch/read list when I inevitably get burnt out playing jrpgs.

>>281508222
I noticed this is exclusively a problem for people who live in the USA and spend abnormally long time in transit or overtime and also had to move too the other side of the country leavening family behind but also the economy being so shit you cant get a baby sitter.
I live in Serbia which is considered a second world country.
And yet i spend only 20 minutes total a day in transit on my bicycle (I have a car) my parents and my wife parents help me take care of the kids often in fact i borderline have to limit how much time they get to spend whit the kids and i almost get constant Kid free weekends that make me feel like i am in my 20s again.
And even then because of the kids being in school and school in my country having morning and afternoon shifts switching each weak and kids going to bed early i often even get 3-4 hours for myself a day.

You dont need to dedicate every single free moment of your life to your kids.Unless your work life balance is so fucked up like it is for most people in the USA that the litle free time you do get has to go entirely to taking care of the kids and you have no one else in your life to help out.

>>281508690
It doesn't help that the Economy in the USA is so fucked up that even Grandparents have to work in retirement just to survive.

>>281508690
You know that people in America and Anglo countries can work and live local too, right? Because that's what you've described there and it's not exclusive to countries other than those I mentioned.

Aside from that what matters is how many hours per week you work and how much money you have, and what it's actually worth.

I do 40 hours per week and 40mins per day commuting. I have a good 3+ hours either side of work to myself. I wouldn't want kids, too many people already, but a wife might be nice.

>>281505730 (OP)
No, I at no point in my life had enough time to just binge shows day in day out, so there is no feasible way for me to have seen everything worth seeing.

There are currently about 4500 anime TV shows.
Lets assume half are so dogshit they really are absolutely not worth your time. That leaves 2250 anime shows. Lets assume each show only has one cour of 12 episodes. Finally lets assume every episode is merely 20 minutes. To watch all of that you'd need:
2250*12*20 = 540000 minutes = 9000 hours of anime

If you watched 2 hours of anime religiously every day (with our assumptions above that is equivalent to watching half a series daily), it would take you 4500 days = a bit over 12 years.

Now realize that the average no. of episodes per cour is above 12, that the average no. of cours per show is more than 1, that the average episode length is closer to 24 minutes and that most people in fact do not manage to watch 2 hours of anime EVERY DAY for 12 years straight, and you can likely double that number of 12 years.
In other words, assuming you have a relatively balanced life, like to read manga, have other hobbies etc, anime has enough content to entertain for 20+ years.

>>281513450
Oh, and the number of current anime TV shows is actually closer to 5000

>>281505730 (OP)
Sometimes I dont even watch an anime in a year.
For some reason I can only dive into it when Im genuinely happy. When Im down I just browse a once in a while.
I dont think its age. Bcs thats how it has always been. One year I watch a few dozen shows. Next year I watch nothing.
And also newer shows are just not that engaging. 75% Isekai slop which drag out one premise over several episode and 25% sequels of older shows that should have ended a decade ago.