What do you miss from your days as a newfag watching anime?
My naive perspective and eager enthusiasm
>>142495270
The spectacle and wonder that each new season held.
>>142495270
Having fun
>>142495270
I kinda miss watching anime while being excited like a dumb kid, now a days it felt like a chore I still manage to watch a few shows probably 2 or 3 per season.
>>142495270
fun
Being able to watch even the most generic shit and feeling like it's new and cool because I hadn't seen it rehashed a hundred times.
I really miss being able to get off to fully clothed anime girls. Unfortunately that only lasted half a year until I started getting into lewder shows and then sadpanda.
Also miss loving almost every OP/ED I listened to. Now I can rarely find any that I want to listen to on repeat forever.
I miss having standards. I never used to waste 4 1/2 hours of my time watching a show only because it was airing.
Not wanting to kill myself
>>142495270
Being a 6 year old without a care in the world.
>>142495270
fapping to loli without feeling old
Enjoying dubs.
My taste. I'm getting kind of picky in what I watch now. Some stuff I wanted to watch doesn't interest me anymore
Coming home from school in the afternoon and watching Pokemonbefore doing my homework
Being able to talk about anime with people without everyone instantly thinking I'm even more weird than I come off as
Enjoying anime.
>>142495270
Finishing every show I started
No Keit-ai spam.
Getting hyped for whatever show I watch, even if it was a shitty harem
Also crying bitch tears and getting depressed after watching some drama/romance
>>142495985
Interesting, it's the opposite for me. I would force myself to finish everything even though I didn't like it that much, and I watched a lot more haremshit.
>>142496318
I regained some of my enjoyment by not always opening every thread on/a/ about everything I watch. I'm in the dark about most shitposting.
>>142495270
My virgintyjust kidding
Having good relationships with my family. Having friends and active social life. Having a scheduled bed time and plans for the next day. Being straight. Being young and enthusiastic. Inspired and uninhibited with creativity. Having big dreams and never feeling suicidal.
The melancholy and regret in this thread is almost palpable
>>142495270
Everything was fresh and exciting, but now im cynical about anime and just group it into generic categories with predictable out comes
>>142496379
Same, kinda
I watch a lot more shows now than I used to, but I don't force myself to finish a show no mater how many episodes I already completed
I wish i could relive my whole life.
>>142495270
Having loads of generally well receivedanimesto watch. Now, I'm just scraping the bottom of the barrel and hoping the current season isn't shit, hich it fucking is by the way
I just despise the classic 12 episode format with no story conclusion. Makes me appreciate Monogatari more than ever.
shitposting "What do you miss from your days as a newfag watching anime?"
>>142496493
I'm finally getting to the point where I'm not too anal retentive to ever drop anything. Must be because I've finally seen enough series to be able to find at least a couple threads to lurk at any given time.
>>142496609
That and I hated feeling like a newfag with <100 shows under my belt so I had to finish everything.
>>142496566
People shit on popular shows all the time here, but it was nice being able to fall back on dozens of different highly acclaimed shows that you could watch when you couldn't find anything else.
nothing, low res blurry as fuck compressed encodes hard subs not understand any anime jap
like anime now more than ever
Recording the openings with a microphone on my phone.
And then I discovered that those are actually real songs.
>>142495270
Having anything good left. When i first started i got people to tell me the best anime's there are, and now I have nothing interesting anymore.
>>142496809
what did you think they were?
>>142496890
No-name songs by no-name artists like western cartoons.
My smile.
>>142496425
>Being straight.
>implying you weren't always a sin
finding japanese humor to be actually funny
TL notes explaining japanese culture and puns.
>>142497064
And varied sub groups
>>142496954
Having time to watch every anime of the season.
>>142495270
Enjoying watching anime
>>142497153
Reading Yotsuba for the first time.
>>142496224
Fucking this. I thought my tastes would grow along with my age. Seems like it doesn't work that way.
Watching everything I see and enjoying everything I watch. Took me years before I dropped a title and now I'm dropping titles left and right.
nor being incredibly cynical about everything I fucking watch. I wish I I could turn my brain off and just enjoy some shlocky shows.
Also, having fun on /a/
still a newfag
>nor
Meant not, it's been a long day
Eureka Seven not having a sequel.
It was my gateway anime, along with Code Geass. I used to watch it every year or two until AO happened.
Being able to just marathon anything whenever I wanted too. Now it takes me a while even to finish a series I like.
>>142495270
Shock value.
>>142495270
singing karaoke
Now that I can pronounce nip, Im too embarrassed to do it.
>>142495270
Probably the feeling that there was so much to discover. Nowadays, I feel like I've seen most series worth watching and everything feels bland minus a few shows.
>>142497696
This, back in the day I used to get emotional at certain character deaths, now most of the time I realize they're just cheap plot devices to add drama to the show
>>142495270
Watching anime with my family.
Being able to look back and find amazing classics I hadn't seen yet whenever I was bored or out of fresh stuff to watch. I remember when I thought a backlog might as well be infinite and that there was an inexhaustible foundation of awesome shows I'd never run out of.
Especially having lots of sci-fi and cyberpunk stuff to go back and watch. That fad is long dead and Japan generates little to no noteworthy scifi anymore. I wish I could go back to the point when the well wasn't already dry and enjoy all of those for the first time again.
A shit but not so shit /a/. All we get these days is shit on shit.
>>142497316
Haha fuck.
I think the only reason I'm okay with loli's right now is cus I'm 'young' and short. I want to change, but at the same time I don't.
When do you think you'll grow out of anime /a/? I've been watching for so long now that it would feel weird not to, but it's becoming harder to get excited about new series.
>>142495270
The ability to watch all the episodes of ecchi shovelware without dropping it
>>142497878
B-but I don't want to
>>142497878
I've been watching less and have been pickier but I doubt that I'd ever grow out of it.
>>142497878
I don't think it'll ever happen, but my backlog gets thinner and thinner every year as more gets watched off of it and fewer worthwhile things are added to it. Watching 20 shows every season just makes it painfully obvious how many of them recycle the same characters, format, plotline and action to the point where the repetition is nauseating. It feels like my tolerance to this banal recycling gets worse every season and it's already to the point where I have to skip forward while watching an episode because a character busts out a monologue about protecting the things that are precious to them and fighting even though it's tough and says the exact same things, verbatim, as the dozen or so other similar shows that have aired this year. I just can't listen to it anymore. The fact that there's so little variation, so little creativity in so much of the seasonal time-filling garbage is frustrating. It feels like the only thing that changes from one show to the next is the colour of the character's hair and their names and it boggles my mind how it's even possible to be this goddamn derivative. Every season my backlog has fewer and fewer pallet cleansers to push me through the seasonal trash and remind me why I love this medium.
>>142495270
I miss watching anime with my friends.
>>142497878
Probably never. The issue is the time investment. Even if an episode is approx. 25 minutes or less, depending on where you're going in life, you have less free time and more responsibilities. Fewer series but the enjoyment is still there.
>>142496579
>days as a newfag
>Monogatari
school kid get out
>>142498990
>yfw Bake aired 7 years ago
I miss thinking anime was an insight into this wonderful, fantastic country called Japan that I'd someday visit.
Finding out the Japanese high school experience doesn't exist as it does in 2d was soul crushing
>>142496453
heh
>>142495270
Not knowing most anime is for pedophiles and that the shows I thought we're great were less then 10% of what anime actually is.
Not having 15+ torrents going, with a decent backlog.
Being able to somehow magically binge watch 50 episodes in less time then should be theoretically possible, when it takes me 3-4 days to get through a 26 ep anime now.
Having HDD space.
>>142499499
>Being able to somehow magically binge watch 50 episodes in less time then should be theoretically possible, when it takes me 3-4 days to get through a 26 ep anime now.
I blame the Naruto fillers for destroying my resolve to do this more
>>142495270
How to know if you're not a newfag?
>>142499499
>I thought we're great were less then 10% of what anime actually is.
Is this bad?
Great things don't come in packages.
>>142495270
If nothing else, the fandom was much less shit back when I started watching anime/reading manga. I feel like things have gone down hill at a very fast pace recently.
>>142499705
Lurk moar.
>>142499113
>Finding out the Japanese high school experience doesn't exist as it does in 2d was soul crushing
What specifically?
My ability to get engrossed and immersed in any anime I watched.
That and the feeling I felt when I picked up a new series back then. It felt like I discovered a whole new world filled with all sorts of fun, now I've become a jaded angry man.
>>142500357
How to know if that I'm not lurking in a place full of newfags?
>>142495270
being a useless NEET able to marathon a series every day.
>>142500447
If you're not in a general.
>>142500487
How can I trust that you're not a newfag? Show me your oldfag certificate please.
>>142500471
But anon you can always become NEET again so you can stay up all night working on your backlog!
>>142500569
>>142500569
>>142500827
My life
The ability to sit through a 2 cour show in a single day.
>>142495270
Not wanting to kill myself.
I miss not having any standards at all and being able to shovel in any garbage I could find.
Example: Tokimeki Memorial
>>142501080
I remember watching Fortune Arterial and Ninomiya-kun without flinching back then.
>>142497316
i'm somewhat reversed. Use to like mature ladies when I was younger. I'm starting to like more lolis as i get older.
>>142499499
>Not knowing most anime is for pedophiles and that the shows I thought we're great were less then 10% of what anime actually is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
Congrats on figuring that out Sherlock
>>142495310
>My naive perspective and eager enthusiasm
this
>>142495270
My hair.
Enjoying edgy shit, the me 12 years ago would've love stuff like re zero, but nowadays I just can't stomach it.
I miss being able to get a boner over normal human women
>>142501144
DON'T FUCKING REMIND ME
>>142501144
Daiz?
>>142495270
It's hard to explain but anime used to give me this strange feeling when I was a kid, I just want to start over
>>142498245
I miss having friends
>>142497878
I stopped watching anime years ago and instead turned to manga.
>>142495270
That I can't enjoy certain things for the first time ever again. Everything else is perfect, I enjoy the shit more than I used to. The more you watch, the less standards you have and the more genres you try out.
Coming out of a discussion of old shows with a high chance of something good being among the things I'd never heard of.
Now, if I never heard of it, there's a good chance it's worse than half the current shows I dropped.
Honestly nothing. I would miss having a truckload of series to binge like when I just got into anime, but I'm much too busy for that nowadays, so I'm instead glad.
>>142495310
this so fucking much
the feeling that many great series awaited me.
I can't believe I dropped YuYuHakusho a couple times before finishing it. It felt like a last breath of fresh air. I haven't watched anime for a month now.
>>142495270
Being able to stop a 24 episode anime in episode 14 until the next day ;_;
>>142495270
My youth
>>142502907
You mean actually having anime that still do more than 12 episodes unlike today.BnHA would be arguably better as a two cour anime.
>>142495270
The sense of wonder, like I'm part of an internet phenomenon or some shit.
>>142495270
Being straight.
>>142502952
There's plenty two-cour or more anime nowadays dude. Just as much as there used to be, there's just more 1cour stuff as well.
Self inserting as the main character.
Somehow. I missed myself from 14 years ago.
My mother's husband used to watch entry level shit but he is still the one who got me into the business.
I sure miss watching the old fullmetal alchemist with him, he was a total bro.
Our paths went in seperate directions, he stayed a normie while I became one with superior chinese cartoons tatse and knowledge.
He does ask me from time to time if "I know anything cool like naruto".
>>142496425
I'll be honest, this happened to me as well, I wonder why anime makes a lot of people depressed in the long run?
>>142495538
I know. I remember watching angel beats, clannad, monogatari, etc... Now, I can't stand to watch anything with any more than minimal levels of moe, melodrama or slapstick humour.
I watched diebuster recently and it almost killed me.
It genuinly took cliched to a whole other level, pissing all over the grave of poor old gunbuster.
>>142495270
I actually spent most of my time watching anime and little time shitposting on 4chan, now it's the opposite
>>142504005
You use up the feel good chemicals in your brain faster than you produce them. Anime is MDMA yo.
>>142497255
: (
It felt like I was 60% through reading until I hit the last page. I then noticed how the last chapter had been so perfectly representative of the manga and that the ending was so at peace.
>>142504392
It numbs you doesn't it.
You start the episode with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJuBcIFIgE
And you know that when it ends your whole world will be that bit less exciting.
Ignorance to the fact that that some fansubs were absolute fabrications
>>142495270
Definitely not reporting blog threads
>>142504503
Are you me? Hello, me.
>>142495270
Jokes on you, i'm still a newfag
>>142495270
Finding new shows, bands, music, people to talk to about it on a regular basis with my friends as a giant fucking weaboo. Sure was an awkward time but god damn if it wasnt fun.
What I really miss though is not having a backlog
>>142496224
>>142496230
a lot of this too.
>>142495270
Having shit taste
>>142495270
I used to hate it, but now I like it.
>>142505079
This right here. Nowadays if I see people talking about anime, I don't think that it is nice they like it but instead only about how they have shit tastes.
>>142504374
this desu
>>142495270
Watching and enjoying dubs regardless of their quality.
Any of you who are feeling disillusioned with anime, have you done a deep-dive? For every post-2000 classic, can you name at least three older works that directly inspired the creators? Have you watched at least an episode of every anime that Lucky Star references? Did you watch the untranslated 1982 OVA that your favorite director did inbetweening for?
For some reason i can't get into marathoning shows like i used to, even when i have the time.
I watched the entirety of Code Geass in 2 days like it was nothing, but now i'd probably have stopped after 5 or so episodes.
What was the last recent show you genuinely enjoyed,
and what is the show you miss the most?
>>142507654
At that point you might as well start from the ~1950's beginnings and work your way up.
This might be possible if you watch anime series over a certain importance threshold.
Popularity may work, or budget and revenue.
>>142507949
Flying Witch.
I miss watching Soranowoto together with /a/
Actually enjoying things.
>>142495270
Not paying so much attention to how good the animation is.
Or the voice acting.
Thinking that Japan was an amazing country.
>>142495270
Every new series was great. Watching Mushishi for the first time.
>>142495270
I've only been watching anime for 2 years, with probably 100 series so far and 200 manga. I fear the days to come when i have nothing good to watch
I first got into anime because I thought it was deeper and covered more themes than some western stuff. While stuff like Eva met that standard, now anime in generals lost that mystique and some of the shit I watch is just pure shit.I still enjoy it.
Subscribed to all your amazing blogs!
Being so eager and enthusiastic about something as crappy as Nogizaka Haruka No Himitsu because "her clothes are so kawaiiii" and shit.
Being naive and careless
>tfw i'll never again know the happiness of being a carefree weeb roaming around in striped socks,plaid skirt,pigtails, without a care.
>and everything feeling so new and special and interesting
>>142514902
Ｌ Ｏ Ｎ Ｄ Ｏ Ｎ
Pronoucing Sasuke as Sa-suit and Hokage as Hot-cage.
>>142496309
does that even count?
im pretty sure most normal fag close to your age watched pokemon after school
>>142495310
Oh yeah. This.
Once you grasp the concept of formularic animes, stuff can become very boring fast.
>>142496162
Basically this. Being a little kid watching Astro Boy and Captain Harlock for the first time was really fun.
>>142495270
stopped enjoying dubbed anime
>>142495310
Damn those were the days... I basically watched anything and everything. Went through all the shit and watched every fucking series I could get my hands on.
Nowadays I'm super critical and watch around 2-4 shows/season.
>>142495310
This and I seem to have a shorter attention span
Enjoying anime
>>142497326
this
>>142497316
Fuck I need to stop liking lolis soon
>You will never watch your favorite anime for the first time
>>142519428
I thought I kinda did.
>>142519622
Yeah, I fucked up. I meant
>You will never watch your favorite anime for the first time again
