Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

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vivster said:

I always wonder how people can only watch that few animes. The only reason I can think of is that they haven't given the rest of the animes a chance.

I mean even if you only like the boring pretentious edgy stuff, there's at least 10 in every season.

Hm...well I can't speak for everyone, but I prefer to focus on a few shows at a time, rather than multi-tasking so many that they begin to blend together. If I'm invested in too many, it'll begin to affect my enjoyment of the individual anime. I know it happens a lot with my weekly manga; I'm reading 8 at the moment, and every so often I'll wonder why a certain character is still around, or why a plot point is being repeated....only to find out it was a completely different universe I'm mixing up. It's the same way with video games too...if I play more than one RPG at a time I really won't be able to enjoy the stories of either, since I'll have trouble divorcing the experience.

I suppose that's me just being bad at multi-tasking though.

With 3 anime in my backlog, and likely 4 I'll be watching weekly, I'll be pretty satisfied for the most part. Some shows, like Asterisk Wars, I already plan to watch when the season is over. It looks interesting enough to try, but with a premise fairly similar to another show I'm watching (that seemed to suit my preferences more), I feel I'd be able to enjoy them more if I don't watch them simultaneously. Also I get to marathon it!