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AceD:

--- Quote from: xShadow on September 13, 2012, 08:50:22 AM ---
--- Quote from: AceD on July 04, 2012, 11:06:33 PM ---Yes, anybody who has seen a few 100 animes will have the same problem....all you can do is wait for new animes to air...or just force yourself to check out all the average shows

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It's more that once someone has watched 100 or so shows and formed opinions on all of them, they start to get more closed-minded. You start to think that this certain subset of the stuff you've watched was probably the best ever, and there's no way you'll find anything better. It might just be a different experience. That's also a bullshit way of thinking. You're painting the "good" shows as being much better than they actually were in your mind.

At some point, just stop and, after a lot of experience with watching, try to rewatch some of the stuff you've considered good. Do it with a completely open mind. Unbiased. Pretend you're doing it for the first time. Reanalyze everything, don't just assume it's good. It will probably still be enjoyable to watch, but is it actually "good"? There's a line between those two qualifiers.

You'll probably find that not everything you've watched is as good as you thought it was in the past. It may just be shit that you thought was "good", but it's actually just "enjoyable" based on your preferences. You'll probably also come to the realization that there's just as much value in watching something for being "good" as it is for it being "enjoyable" to watch.

Well, that's a theoretical schedule of events.

For instance... I've watched all of Haganai and Acchi Kocchi. Were either of them particularly amazing? Hell no. I enjoyed watching them, though. Just get your head outta your ass.

That's not to say I think that anime isn't worse than it was before, in general. Even looking at it objectively, I just can't find as many things that are seriously "good" these days. Best thing to do is to just go with what you can enjoy watching. I think part of what's ruining anime is moe. Not because I hate moe in general, but because it seems to me like studios realized that appealing to those goddamn type B's makes them a hell of a lot more money than appealing to type A's (who probably manage their financial assets better). Even stuff that can be considered "good" these days will probably still put a bunch of ecchi and/or moe shit into it because it sells.



Why do I type this fast?

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Was that directed at me? i haven't seen just "100 or so", i've seen over 600 and try pretty much anything that seems moderately appealing to me, or is been hyped up on a forum i use. Not "closed-minded" in the slightest.

But i do have a preference of genres. I like Action, Fantasy, Drama, Seinen, Ecchi...therefor i can enjoy even the so called "mediocre" shows of them genres. Where as something like Magical Girl, i only enjoy certain things..."mediocre" shows like say Precure (in my mind at least) suck, so i can eliminate any show like Precure.

If thats having my head up my ass then so be it, the only other option is claiming all anime is watchable, which would be the same as all TV shows, all movies are worth watching, all games are worth playing....na.

xShadow:
Not really, no. I was aiming it at that entire mindset in general. I just quoted you because you brought it up first.

rivel0121:
i only started watching anime Christmas 2011 but Ive seen easily around 200 - 300 shows with 142 unwatched on my hard drive but i still find it hard to find them i usually just go through forums myanimelist and other sites just keeping my eyes out for any i haven't read about every so often i stumble upon some good ones i haven't really got a specific genre so i guess that makes it easier the first anime i watched was Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan and from then on i was was hooked when i brought my first terabyte i filled it in a month anyway i know what your saying that its hard to find good ones even for me i think all we can do is keep scouring until we hit the jackpot  :laugh: 

occasional:

--- Quote from: rivel0121 on September 13, 2012, 03:50:13 PM ---i only started watching anime Christmas 2011 but Ive seen easily around 200 - 300 shows with 142 unwatched on my hard drive but i still find it hard to find them i usually just go through forums myanimelist and other sites just keeping my eyes out for any i haven't read about every so often i stumble upon some good ones i haven't really got a specific genre so i guess that makes it easier the first anime i watched was Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan and from then on i was was hooked when i brought my first terabyte i filled it in a month anyway i know what your saying that its hard to find good ones even for me i think all we can do is keep scouring until we hit the jackpot  :laugh:

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Here's a tip: If you can't read a sentence in one breath without pausing, then it's probably too long and requires punctuation.

BowlofRice:

--- Quote from: occasional on September 14, 2012, 08:04:24 AM ---Here's a tip: If you can't read a sentence in one breath without pausing, then it's probably too long and requires punctuation.

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Hahaha, my high school english teachers would have a ball with my essays and my tendency to run on...

Back on topic, I think the problem with anime nowadays is that a large portion of it is some combination of high school moe, or high school ecchi, with some action thrown in for good measure and in the end get something like a pizza flavored cake...not that good. That's not to say that overall it wasn't satisfying, but at the end there isn't much substance. This reminded me of something my sister told me yesterday as I was watching Rideback; she said "Wow, you're not watching one of those all girls' high school anime" in reference to To Aru Kagaru no Railgun which I had just seen the other day (and liked) and exemplifies my point about what some anime studios feel they have to put into their work in order for it to sell.

Another problem is that most of the time, anime adaptations aren't done well. So what's an anime fanatic to do?
Become a manga/LN/VN/eroge fanatic! /s

Anyway, the solution in my opinion is to not limit yourself to what you think is good. Broaden your horizons and who knows, maybe you'll find you like something you never thought you would. (My personal example is Clannad, I never thought I would enjoy that show, but here I am now, recommending it to people.)

PS: I recommend reading more manga if you're not already doing so, you'll find things you'd never seen in anime form like Sun-ken Rock, for instance.

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