>watching chinese cartoons
>feel good
>don't want to watch too many at once so I can form a better bond with the characters thinking about them over time
>stop watching
>feel bad
>remember that life sucks
>conflicting feels whether I should watch more or play vidya or something
Why is life such shit? Post your escapism related feels.
I just get drunk/abuse benzos and listen to comfy music.
>watch high school anime
>imagine what being it would be like if I were in the class as a foreign exchange student
>imagine participating in all of the fun adventures and antics with the main characters
>realize I graduated high school 4 years ago and even if I were in that anime I would just be one of the nameless sidecharacters, just like how I was in real life high school
>>27251842
>what being it would be like
what it would be like*
oops
>Find an empty room in my uni at night to release my stress and talk weird things to myself whilst recording it
>Very cute girl catches me
>Says she thought it was some weird-ass couple discussion and is relieved
>Doesn't consider it "that weird", says she's seen much worse as a philosophy student
One day I will marry her
Yu Yu Hakusho is the only anime that consistently gives me those feels.
>kuwabara will never be your best bro
>you will literally never get to sexually harass Botan
>you will never push yourself beyond your limits for your friends who would do the same for you
>don't watch anime
>feel better over time
>start watching anime again
>start remembering how nice it is to escape into it
>depression starts hitting harder because of how boring my life is
>keep getting worse and worse until I inevitably stop watching for a couple of months again
>watch a show or read a book with an emotional ending
>get so engrossed that I start sobbing like something bad actually happened to me
I'm pathetic
>>27251976
I cry a lot every time MC turn to be alone (like the ending of Angel Beats). Maybe i have a trauma.
I have ended all of the good Slice of Life or Romance High School... it was really good escaping in them.
>reading stupidly adorable love shit
>realize that nobody will ever feel about me the way the characters feel about each other
>>27252095
I think that no one feel those type of feelings.
Anime maked me unsatisfied of the real social relationship
I'm talking all these comments and thinking to myself, "I'm glad I'm not the only one that these things happen to" recently I watched Your Lie In April and I fucking bawled. When this happens it takes me a minute to figure out why I'm crying.
>tfw you finish a romance/SoL anime and immediately have to look for a new one to get your next fix like a fucking junkie
I'm worried about eventually running out of series to watch.
>>27251842
i watch highschool animes and pretend im the one experiencing the pure love
>>27252407
I do that a lot too. I've been trying to get more into VNs lately because of this.
>tfw so dead inside that I can't feel anything
>anime, vidya and movies are not enjoyable anymore
>watch tv shows and animes and then don't remember a thing afterwards
anybody know these feels?
probably not. I am afterall the loneliest person on earth.
>>27251842
>>27252407
>>27252490
>>27252095
my wojakniggas
any VN recommendations?
>tfw my biggest fetish will never be real
(true love with a pure girl)
>spend hours cataloging movies, books, music and anime according to vibe, genre, creator etc
>spend hours discussing them online
>sit down to read/watch one of them
>can't decide
>spend a while creating a randomizer to pick one for me
>finally going to indulge
>too tired
>try anyway
>get bored and restless
>fap
>sleep
>>27252632
Fate/Night all of it
I usually have a backup schedule that covers all feels bases. Currently it's overdramatic teenage romance, dank space robots with angsty teenagers, adults working a job and a comfy comedy.
I'm starting to run out of mid 00's high school romance VN adaptations, so I'm not sure where to go next
>Walk into bar
>Bleeding, last job left me incapacitated (destroying a monster nest)
>Stumble my way into the bar, barkeep heals me up.
>After a night of pain, I can walk and move around.
>Spend the day chatting with bar regulars and drinking, spend the night sitting around the campfire, listening to guitar and zoning out.
>The next day, negotiate my bar tab.
>He needs somebody killed up north.
>Make my way out of the town, Obokan at my side.
>Freedom guys harass me on my way out, flash patch I ripped off some freedom guy weeks ago and they let me by.
>Keep moving down the road
>Slide spas off back as I near a campsite
>ID target due to his flashy exosuit, not very useful but very valuable.
>Move towards them
>Guy nearest me pulls some shitty little makarov, yells "GET OUT OF HERE STALKER"
>Whip spas out from behind leg and lay him out
>Other guys around campfire are too startled to do anything.
>second mass of 00 hits target in the face, his exosuit did not help him. Third man makes a move towards a rifle in the corner, I manage to put a shot into his kneecap.
>Execute with suppressed pistol.
>Loot all three, find some decent artifacts, although the exosuit was fused into the guy using it, so thats a no-go.
>Gather up their ammo and money, although there was not much of each. Guess these guys fell under hard times recently too.
>Walk back to town, freedom guys question me about gunshots, say I know nothing.
>Get back to bar, collect reward.
>Buy a few drinks, listen to rumors from all other patrons, get ready to leave after buying a case of fine beer.
>Stumble off into town
>In secluded corner, group of three guys are drinking shitty beer and one is playing a guitar
>Offer up my beer and vodka, they gladly accept me
>Look off into the stars, zoning into oblivion.
Wake up to my life in suburbia, with no struggle or problems in the last month, no adventure, only existence.
Fuck this. 1 year till I get my SO contract.
Untill then. Gnight.
>>27252375
I'm actually in this situation. HELP ME SENPAI.
I'm too worried about i haved watched everything. I can't find any good romance sol anymore
>>27252617
I'm in this situation.
I have watched anime/tv series since 3 years from now and then.. some months ago: blackout.
I can't enjoy anything anymore. I'm always feel bored, i want a real social relationship. In this months i have only losed time shitposting on internet.
I have no one but my mother (that hates me as well) and it's the first time that i'm feeling so depressed in my life, maybe the anime was saving me.
>>27252759
start watching shitty shows
you're at the stage of addiction where you're mainlining toilet water just to feel the rush
>>27252632
>tfw society is so fucked that true love with a virgin is an unattainable """fetish"""
>>27252847
Shitty shows bothering me. I was thinking about start to play vidya, but i can't afford a pc with the specs for gaming so idk
>>27252844
I know man. I really hate the fact that I missed out on teenage friendship and love. Teenagers look so happy and cheerful. Truly enjoying their lives.
I was a lonely piece of shit in highschool that no one ever talked to. Even bullies ignored me.
>>27252632
I just started playing Majikoi and got such bad feels I haven't touched it in weeks.
>tfw no close knit group of friends
>everyone is a lovable character
>some hilarious scenarios and choices
>fun adventures
>the highschool life I never had, but always wanted
I played it for a while, went to sleep, woke up feeling great and happy. Then I remembered what made me so happy was just a game. It was just a game.
>>27252860
ye
>i don't fuck sluts, no hymen no d-
>OMG MYSOGINIST YOU HAVE A VIRGIN FETISH , EDGY RACIST LOOSER!!
That's why i used the term
>>27252928
>went to sleep, woke up feeling great and happy. Then I remembered what made me so happy was just a game. It was just a game.
i'm gonna cry
no stop this thread my meds are starting to wear off i dont want to come back
When you have really NO ONE friends, it's so hard to play this games. You can't know is the friendship is really so pure like in VN, ANIME eccc.. or not. All look like scifi.
>>27251818
>be failed normie
>have a piss up
>oneitis leaves her coat at my house by accident
>look at it, smell it, pretend she loves me.
>>27251915
I remember when YYH first aired on Adult Swim. It was midnight Eastern time when I caught it. This was back when adult swim had an hour of ATHF/Sealab/SpaceGhost/Brak in some combination, then anime until 2 when it repeated. I remember what caught my attention was watching him die because I frequently had dreams that were similar. There was a weird connection with those first few episodes, and it got me hooked on the show.
I would force myself to stay up to watch it, and usually had a 2L of soda I'd drink with it. I remember waking up to the Bebop opening after dozing off quite a few times.
I'm 27 now. Those times are long gone.
>idealizing love and friendship
Once you get out of this mindset you can escape and immerse.
>inb4 dude social animals lmao
>watching Saki
>imagine myself as part of various mahjong teams
>imagine myself as some overpowered original-character-donut-steel
>think about what kind of mahjong powers I'd have
>think about all the fun I'd have with my clubmates
>fantasize about married life with my favorite ones
>realize I'm shitty at mahjong and can't even get past 2d rank
>realize I'm not a lesbian
>followed a twitter bot of my favorite character and it blocked me
>>27251887
aw anon :3 thats really cute
ask her if she wants to record weird stuff with you, btw why do you record it?
>tfw escaping from life by learning Japanese
>Don't watch a lot of anime because I usually don't like the topics.
>Everything is about high school aged kids, just makes me depressed thinking about everything I missed out on.
>Whenever I do watch something I usually love it and always fall in love with one of the girls.
>Kind of ritualize watching the series, sort of like the OP. Like only watching at night close to sleep, and no more than two or three episodes a day.
>Start to feel panic near the end of a series because I know I'll never be able to live in that universe for the first time ever again.
I wish there were more animes starring adults. I would like to know that life doesn't end when college ends, you can still go on crazy adventures and save the world, and that girls can still be cute past their teens.
>Katawa Shoujo demo released however many years ago.
>Play through the demo at least 5 times.
>Puts me through a bit of a quarter life crisis.
>Still haven't read through the full version.
>Haven't found a good chunk of time where I think it would be a perfect time to read it.
>Afraid that it will send into another quarter life crises, maybe even worse than before because I'm so much older.
Soon though. I'm mostly NEET until next winter.
>>27253481
> I would like to know that girls can still be cute past their teens.
Sorry anon, but they can't
>watching Hibike Euphonium
>end of episode 2
>"Be careful. Three years go by fast."
I wasted my high school life and regret it. Even if I could go back, it wouldn't change much. I was ugly and no one liked me.
>>27251818
Escape what? What would be an example of a life without escapism?
>>27253766
Im marathoning hibike euphonium tomorrow just based on your post
take comfort in the fact you've steered an anon back to moe anime
>>27253814
How long have you been training?
>>27251818
>get completely immersed in anime
>forget about shit life for 23 minutes
>once it ends i get depressed thinking about how anime isnt real
Fuck this earth.
>>27253814
it's not moe
euphonium is one of the most refreshing anime i've seen in a while
>>27252638
Exactly the same. I just wait to get tired enough to fap and sleep. Then fap and sleep. Yesterday for example.
>wake up
>attend some shitty courses
>get 5/10 when everyone gets a 9/10 or 8/10
>dad calls and asks "I saw something furry you liked in your facebook and suicide, son, what are those?"
>get even more depressed
>go dorms, problems with student ID card, lost $15
>search for an anime to watch
>realize that I'm already watching like 10 anime?
>listen loud music until i get tired
>sleep
>repeat
Thanks world.
>>27253481
SoL/romance anime about college-aged or older characters:
Genshiken
Golden-Time
Shirobako
HenZemi
Beck
Moyashimon
Natsuyuki Rendezvous
Maison Ikkoku
Urusei Yatsura
Eden of the East
Welcome to the NHK
NieA_7
>>27254247
Groovy. I'll save these.
>tfw you realized that for more like that
>>27253814
>>27253766
That reminds me that I need to rewatch this soon
Should help me forget how shit Phantom World has been
>>27254247
Isn't Beck about teenagers though? The main character at least was a high schooler
>>27252375
>>27252759
Learn the language of Japanese and read the mangas and novels that don't get animes. Also video games.
>>27254770
Or end up using the skill to watch untranslated hentai when you realize that most untranslated manga and LNs are not that good
>>27254801
Is that so?
How much manga/LN don't get anime? What is the overall percentage?
>>27254770
Please use your knowledge to translate the final volume of Boys On The Run.
>>27254878
You're better of putting in the effort to learn moon yourself than waiting for some anon to do it
escapism feels
wake up
>dude weed
go to work
>dude weed
come home
>dude weed
through the night
>DUDE WEEEED LMAO
with periods of jacking off, eating meals, and playing old 360 games interspersed
escapist hobbies for me all lend themselves to the same bitter outcome, their novelty runs out and they become boring and predictable making reality an even more cruel place to return to with no way to escape from the unbearable emptiness and crushing despair
i no longer enjoy anything anymore, reality or fantasy or otherwise
how the hell does one fulfill themselves enough to survive at this point, perhaps the next logical step is insanity
>>27254247
>Golden Time
It feels like they're high schoolers anyway so it's the same shit. The whole ghost thing is so stupid and I feel bad for Linda.
>>27253068
U and me both brudda. U and me both.
>tfw you graduated high school 10 years ago
>you are a kissless virgin that has never held a job for longer than 2 years
>your degree is STEM but still worthless because immigration and because boomers won't quit their jobs
Electronic forms of escapism no longer give me any good feels. I have to go out into the woods, miles from any roads, to get any more escapism.
>>27256720
u're not trying hard enough :^)
>>27252756
privyet stalker
AH NU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE
>>27252759
If you want to ride a roller coaster of feels, Little Busters
That show fucked me up, I have the entire 2 seasons downloaded on a backup drive in case I ever want to watch it
Haruka is my waifu forever now, no other anime has ever hurt as much at the end as this one did and the Kurugaya route shattered my fucking soul for a good 2 weeks
>Be in high-school 3 years agp
>Used to watch harem animes a lot
>Delude myself into thinking my life is a harem
>Hang around girls
>Think they're my friends
>Realize I was just a creepy dude who stood near them
>Break down, go home, watch My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
Should I just end it? Am I that deluded?
>tfw cant even watch slices or other "happy" anime
whenever I see MC in a happy relationship I get instantly turned off. That includes every harem too.
Anyone knows that feel?
>>27256899
>My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU
Speaking of which, can anyone recommend anything like this? I've watched quite a bit of anime, but this was one of the few feely ones for me.
>>27256949
White Album 2
>>27256949
>>27256961
Also Clannad and After Story if you haven't seen it. Not the same, but will hit you in the feels no matter what.
Plastic Memories if you want some more feels.
>>27254145
>liking autistic shit on fb for all to see
Shiggy
>>27253068
>>27251915
>>27256680
I loved YYH too, was like a more brutal and heartfelt DBZ. I don't think AS or Toonami ever got around to airing past the dark tournament so I had to wait once a month to see 4 episodes at a time buying the Funimation DVDs as they were releasing at Best Buy because I didn't know about pirating back then
>tfw this started playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFMp44UbCMM
>>27256922
I don't know, you sounds like me when I start growing out of harem or romcom animes back in 2011. The last time I felt happy seeing two couples get together in anime was School Rumble and Ichiban Ushiro Daimaou.
Now, seeing two anime character in intimate relationship won't excite me anymore unless it is between two girls.
>>27256961
>>27256975
Thanks lads, really appreciate it.
>>27251945
Opposite for me, I escape into anime and my mind subconciously acts as if the characters were my friends and shit, since i dint have any in real life.
When i stop, i just think about how im a fucking loser all day.
I want to fuck Aoi
