Super Official Anime Discussion Thread

[vivster]

Super_Boom said:

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!

The other weird thing is that people who only watch a handful of animes in a season tend to watch the shitty ones. I mean if you only watch that few you should concentrate on the creme de la creme instead of random harem #52340. I can do this since I'm watching all interesting and good animes anyway but people are seriously missing out if they don't pick carefully.

This season has so much variety on shows that it's simply not necessary to watch the mediocre ones.