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.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Always been picky about what anime I watch. Haven’t watched any anime in the past few years, though, my life has been hectic the past few years. I guess I don’t like ‘anime-esque’ anime. Ones with an endless parade of episodes and filler, or over-the-top fighting or magic.

    Highly recommend Jin-Roh.

    Canaan was a somewhat guilty pleasure.

    Anything by Miyazaki.

    Black Lagoon was hit-or-miss, but when it hit, it was damn good.

    Ghost in the Shell - preferring the movie over SAC, but both were good.

    Cowboy Bebop naturally, and, on a lighter note, Space Dandy.

    Pop Team Epic is hilarious.

    Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure I like despite its other qualities. It’s an absolute fever dream that makes no apologies for itself, and I respect the hell out of that.

    I wonder if there are any that I’ve liked but forgotten? My memory is like a sieve…

  • mtchristo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I would like to think that I have outgrown anime. But in reality anime had outgrown me. The type of shows I like have ended in the 2000s. I can’t stand today’s anime themes and styles.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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    17 days ago

    I never really got into it. I did enjoy cowboy bebop and have seen a couple ghibli films, but never went out of my way to watch anything else. I suppose it’s funny since I now live in Japan.

    Also, you should work on yourself including therapy, probably, as someone who had issues with depression for years

    • pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      10 days ago

      howd you get around to moving to japan? hoping to move internationally, not necessarily japan, but always wondering how jobs/visas/etc worked for people.

      • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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        10 days ago

        Studied the language a bit (just as a hobby and to meet people in a new city). Went on vacation. Liked it. Got laid off of job and decided to take an extended vacation there. Still liked it. Saved money, finished university (I hadn’t bothered by that point, but it made the visa process much easier), and came over on a student visa. Studied at Japanese language school, found a job, and then it’s just life as usual.

        Definitely visit (preferably for a longer time on a fixed budget) anywhere you plan to move. Expect to possibly take a pay cut (some jobs just don’t pay as much in Japan) and expect take-home pay to be less due to taxes (though things like medical and dental care are much cheaper than the US, though that’s not a high bar). Think about how long you plan to be in the place. Does it make sense economically with the cost of moving? Can you retire there?

        If you’re a US citizen, you get the added bonus of needing to figure out a whole bunch around yearly taxes, whether you need to pay state and/or local taxes to be able to vote in your area (which probably means double-taxation after some point), investments (being a US citizen sucks for trying to do banking stuff in any country with which the US has an agreement), existing investments (many retirement vehicles can’t be contributed to in some cases which can happen for those overseas), keeping a phone number for US bank 2-factor auth, and a whole host of other ugliness.

        • pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          9 days ago

          incredible overview thank you. can i ask what field you’re in? techs getting grim so im not sure if i should double down or just give up and get an mba

          • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
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            9 days ago

            Software engineer. I had about a decade of IT experience when I came over (I started in tech support and went from there). I used to be full-stacl, but I’m just backend these days. If you want to move to another country, you might see if an MBA or language courses make more sense.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Well, most anime has always been trash… like all media. The majority of it is trash, and there’s diamonds in the rough.

    Back in the day Cowboy Bebop was a fluke, an exception, not the rule. There’s plenty of easily forgettable anime from the same time period.

    I’ve just gotten more picky about my media as I have gotten older, but I also have become more open to watching bad things for the sake of mocking them as I do.

    I haven’t watched the Nier Automata anime, but if it’s anything like the game, its a rejection of anime tropes and subverts and overthrows them. The game is very anime-in-style. Most deeply humanist game I’ve ever played and I cried at the true ending.