who else here /cantwatchanimebecauseitstoodepressing/ ?
I feel like I can't even enjoy anime anymore. So many cute, decent girls. Whether they're lustful or pure-hearted, they're all preferable to real women, but they aren't real. Watching anime girls interact with each other as well as engage with their love interests makes me needlessly lovesick. I love anime but I almost never get
>tfw no gf
unless I'm watching it. Seeing useless whores irl makes me feel like celibacy is the right choice, but sweet vulnerable and love-struck anime girls make me re-evaluate my life decisions.
It's unhealthy, and I think it's time to give it up.
Honestly I think waifus are the worst. Having a 2D waifu just conditions you to be a 3D orbiter.
Pic semi-related, Koyomi's phone call with Senjougahara in Owarimonogatari pushed me over the edge.
I really get where you're coming from.
I've tried stopping, but I just end up pining for my anime girls, even when it's been months since I did anything related to anime.
>>25151996
The only anime that ever came close to helping me was Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou, but it wasn't enough.
I can't wait to fucking move and socially start over from scratch
Anime cured my feel when no gf so different strokes I guess
>>25151959
That's how I'm feeling OP. Every time I marathon a show I always become infatuated with the relations and circumstances when cute girls are involved. Hell, even movies do this for me nowadays.
I was really hoping things would get better the older I got but it's just getting worse. I really don't know what to do, I know I should stop but I love anime too much. I've been watching it my whole life, I've invested years of time and finance to just end it all.
Oh well, I'll just ride this train until it falls off the tracks.
>>25151959
Same here. What I found to be "helpful" is just to watch moe shit or female characters only. With no real male characters, the whole romance thing is eliminated (except those cute lesbians). Just avoid stuff with a real plot or romance and you should be fine.
>>25152366
I try to focus on manly shows but they always sneak a love interest in. It's hard for me to sit through cgdct.
>>25151959
same here man. although it can be depressing, anime has a lot of positive and motivational moments too.
"staying unfortunate is negligence. not trying to become happy is cowardice"
>>25152366
This is what I do, it's bliss and one of the few things that still makes me happy.
Occasionally the topic of love will still make me uncomfortable in them, e.g., in Non Non Biyori
>Is there anyone you're in love with?
>I'm so immature because I've never been in love
I've never had a waifu. The idea of myself being involved with any character just seems disgusting to me. I'm shit, and I can't imagine myself in an anime world without tainting the whole thing.
Instead when I watch it I feel depressed knowing that I'll never be likable or have an interesting or happy life like the animes do.
I'm in a similar situation, OP
Only the reason anime is depressing me is that I'm a manlet and a spic, and I always end up comparing myself to the male characters in animes/mangas and feel pathetic and inadequate
This is especially bad because all my favorites are battle series
Anime/manga were one of my last escapes from reality and now I can't even enjoy that
>>25152366
even yuru yuri hurts my heart because cute girls like that dont exist.
>tfw you will never have a daughterfu
>>25153048
Sorry to here that mane. I just love watching shit like that because it helps me escape real world bleakness. It just allows me to see something innocent and cute before I go back to hell.
One of the shittiest things is that 2D girls don't even necessarily represent some unrealistic ideal that real women can't aspire to. For example: don't cheat, don't be a whore, don't be an asshole. Weeeeeeeeeeew so difficult to accomplish.
I never finished the last 2 episodes of Toradora because of this.
>>25153939
Toradora went to absolute shit after the Christmas episodes
>tfw two cuties fight over some deadbeat fag
it hurts my heart
>>25153048
>ywn be akane
>>25154400
fuckkkkkkk
kill me now
>>25151959
Exact same with me, didn't hit me until I tried to watch Kiniro Mosaic. Couldn't even get through the first episode.
I know what you mean OP. I avoid shoujo and romance anime/manga because 3D boys will never be like the perfect 2d boys. I just stick to my fujo-baiting anime because they tend to have less or no females. If I do end up watching an anime with a relationship between a girl and a boy I just can't shake off that feeling of >tfw no bf
>>25152871
why would you feel inadequate next to beta faggots? Anyway, just remember who make and to who anime is targeted and you'll feel...Probaly inadequate, but for other reasons.
>>25154267
The thing that got me mad was thelet's run away together to Ryuuji's grandparents. Our friends TOTALLY support us, so it's the rigth thing to do!
Thenight kissscene was nice though.
>>25154644
>that feel when you're well over the demographic most anime airing are intended for.
Luckily I have a huge backlog and watch an episode every once in a while.
Also the new digimon adventure sequel hit me right in the feels when Butterfly started playing.
>>25154713
If you mean age, late night anime is aimed at the late teens and adult audience. A lot of movies that get released in America aren't intended for any more grown up audiences than anime, but they aren't animated so people think they're automatically more mature.
People call it 2D perfection for a reason OP. not only are the girls perfect looking but their personalities are also meant to make them the perfect girls. it is unhealthy, but a guy whos gotten so little attention from woman and struck out a hundred times might turn to it real quick because its easier than following around some real girl who will never notice him.
>>25151996
Japan: no kids, coming to a nation near you.
I get that same feeling watching porn now. I feel utterly disgusted by porn, especially chatterbate.
> see girl on chat
> taking about how many past partners she's had
> lost her virginity at 14
>laying naked on her boy friend talking about her boyfriend's penis size and get preferences
At that point I closed my browser, closed my laptop, and took a deep sigh.
Im honestly considering beginning a monk but I don't know if that kind of thing exists still.
I need to stop watching anime and porn.
I need to completely reevaluate my life.
I can't keep living like this..
I will never marry a virgin, my life never be complete.
>>25154682
that pissed me off too
and thenlol im just not gonna see you for a year but then it will be all chill.fucking delusional.
>>25155142
>I will never marry a virgin, my life never be complete.
I'd rather die alone than be some whore's nth boyfriend.
If a female equivalent of me doesn't exist, then so be it.
>Honestly I think waifus are the worst. Having a 2D waifu just conditions you to be a 3D orbiter.
wat. OP you fucking retard, you have no idea what having a waifu is.
Anyone else feel like they're getting too old for anime now? I used to watch it religiously through high school and the first year of college but now I can't sit through an episode. It's not like I think I'm too good for anime now because I WANT to get into a good series again but it just feels so empty lately.
>>25155597
Maybe you're burnt out.
Abstain from watching for a few years, then return to it.
>>25155597
I got into anime in my mid to late twenties. I'm 31 now and there are no breaks on the otaku train.
>reading mushoku tensei
>start loving the MC like my brother
>he's doing everything I wanted to with his life
>has the same regrets and trying to fix them like I want to
>in the end he dies as a satisfied old man, surrounded by his whole family
>cry like a bitch and depressed for weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBRA7kWingA
this shit gets to me, really hard
doesn't help that she's my waifu and I have four figures of her and countless other merch
>>25156039
This is one my favorite tracks from the series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iWdwFtg1TU
Because of 1:45.
>>25155142
I can relate anon. What helped me cope with these feelings was stoicism. Some things you cannot change and simply have to deal with, for example the sluttification of the west. But one thing you can change is your porn browsing and anime habits.
I recommend that you only allow yourself half an hour worth of porno per 24 hours and then slowly wean yourself off it by decreasing that length and quality of the smut you are watching.
>Soon you'll be able too jerk your gherkin to shitty clips shot with old cellphone cameras.
>>25155440
it was not a year, it was just a month or so
