I sometimes click in some random clip of current anime someone uploaded on YouTube, like I dunno attack on titan or chainsaw dude, but that’s it. They look cool but despite having the time to watch it I just don’t feel compelled to watch the whole show.

I guess it’s like the Netflix virus, that you keep scrolling and picking what you wanna watch and at the end you don’t watch anything and go back to sleep. Plus, maybe it’s the depression, but I don’t like when things end most of the time. I feel empty, it doesn’t happen with movies but with anime happens, especially when the main character is a dude. The usual end is that he beats the bad guy (or triumphs in life if the show isn’t about punching people) gets the hot anime girl, and ends… I guess since I can’t get any of that irl it hits me hard.

  • @tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3•17 days ago

    I haven’t watched it or much by way of movies in general for a while. Moved away from fictional TV series before that.

    I’ve been kinda tilting away from fiction for years. I like a number of fictional video games, still enjoy that, but novels or movies or such are kinda…I dunno. Just don’t get much of a kick out of them.

    EDIT: I think that maybe, part of how much you enjoy something links into how much other stuff you can mentally connect it to. So, like, maybe if you’re super-big into the Star Wars universe, say, or some big franchise like that, then new material connects to lots of things that you know about there.

    But fictional stuff tends to only tie to other stuff in that fictional universe, so in each work of fiction in a separate universe, you kinda “start over” from scratch.

    Where with real-world stuff, you can mentally connect to other things that you know about in the real world, and your body of knowledge there grows over time, so there’s more to connect to. I do definitely think that as I’ve gotten older, I’ve shifted towards non-fiction. And while I don’t have anything to quantify it, I kinda get the impression that the same may be true of a lot of older folks out there.

    Now, okay, anime is just a medium. Anime doesn’t entail being fictional. You could, theoretically, make an anime documentary on something…but it’s not usually used for that purpose.