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Do you ever think you'll outgrow anime?
deciduous:
--- Quote from: ilk3000 on December 01, 2009, 12:04:30 AM ---My tastes have evolved and I now have the power to say "no" to watching entire series after seeing the first few episodes. I still believe there is something interesting about each anime, but I've gotten pretty good at telling whether it will be worth it and if the anime will improve over the series.
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Took the words right out of my mouth. I think my first anime was Fushigi Yuugi and I was engrossed to the point of no sleep or food for several days. Hand that series to me now, and I doubt I could sit through the first few episodes. My personal preferences have definitely evolved, but I will never outgrow anime.
Give me a Ghibli film thirty years from now and I will still be reduced to the wide-eyed stare that had me grinning 10 years ago. Series like Hi No Tori is a tour de force and always will be within the film/entertainment industry. I doubt I'd ever outgrow stuff by Satoshi Kon or Watanabe. The only thing that changes is the way I appreciate such works. Kind of like how we all go from young love to passionate love to old love. :]
Drew:
I don't think I'll ever outgrow anime or manga (or videogames, for that matter). The world is too shitty to not have something to escape to everyday.
Humanoidz:
--- Quote from: ilk3000 on December 01, 2009, 12:04:30 AM ---My tastes have evolved and I now have the power to say "no" to watching entire series after seeing the first few episodes. I still believe there is something interesting about each anime, but I've gotten pretty good at telling whether it will be worth it and if the anime will improve over the series.
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Same. I only dl the first 3 episodes of a series now. If I don't like it by then, I skip it.
--- Quote from: costi on December 01, 2009, 09:15:32 AM ---
--- Quote from: Neco on November 30, 2009, 02:04:26 PM ---I don't think I'll ever outgrow Anime, as long as they continue to make mature themed shows, or at least something passable as mature that has a good story and action.
Its just another valid entertainment medium to me.
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Same here, tho I find it harder and harder to find a good series... the age of the target audience seems to decrease with every season :-\
Luckily, there's a lot of good older shows, and I still have a backlog so huge it'll take me a year or two to watch all that :P
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Agreed
Hiiragi:
mmmm...no. I'm 31 and still into it after more than 11 years. I honestly can't pinpoint how long ago I started watching anime. I know I saw stuff like D and Akira way back in high school, but I'd say it really started freshman year of college that I started actively hunting for anime. My tastes have evolved a lot since then and I find that the more series I watch the more I'm willing to watch, so I am always looking for more and different anime.
As long as it keeps going, I'll probably keep watching.
deadskin:
Would you outgrow watching baseball? Probably not.
Anime for me is like sports. Once you discover a passion for it, it stays in your life forever.
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