Grown out of Anime.

I'm now 20 and have grown out of watching anime. Anyone else here not watching as much stuff as they used to?

;_; why?

>>2
I guess it's a bit like growing out of watching Scooby Doo. I used to love that show.

>>1
do you still read manga?

>>1
Naruto and Bleach fan.

I don't watch that much anime anymore because I'm doing something else with my free time. Stopping to watch crap anime greatly helped in that.

same here. i am almost 21 and stopped watching anime a couple of years ago. every once in awhile i will watch a series that i am very attracted to, like Gankutsuou and Maria-sama ga Miteru, but i don't watch/care nearly as much as i used to.

>>1
Start reading seinen manga.

>>4

I read a couple of manga. Not very long ones, and no mainstream ones. I haven't bothered with anything else for a while.

Start watching South Park and Invader Zim.  You'll appreciate anime once you've had enough.

>>10

I have watched every episode of South Park. And I have found that South park is better than MOST anime series. Haven't seen Invader Zim.

I feel the same way. Excpet for some stuff by Nightow (Trigun Maximum and Gungrave (Damn that show deserves more respect!)), Deathnote and Monster I really don't read that much manga as I used to.

And my anime viewing habits have really slowed down. I'm only watching shows Gankutsuou, GitS SAC and FMA at the moment. (On a side note: I can't stand the /a/ board of 4chan right now. Every other thread is about either some moe or emo (!) show like SEED or that doll one. WTF? I'm 22, why would I want to watch a show about dolls!/ Gimme something like Gungrave with the same dose of action I can get from watching a Die Hard or Desperado movie. Seriously! Sigh, I'm runnin' outta steam.

>>12
ANIME IS FOR CHILDREN

anime is for pedos

nowadays there are no good anime, nothing like evangelion or cowboy bebop. Maybe someday though..someday

>>16
I agree. I pretty much only watch older anime. Currently I'm watching Saint Seiya.

Yeah Watch the classics till a good show comes out again. Sadly it is mostly crap now

>>12
its because you are a 13 years old.

>>19

Yeah, and he's 3

>>11
Now South Park has better humor than anime (really, people getting red faces because they see somebody naked is just not funny, Japan) but for everything else, it's total crap.

>>21
What do you think people watch south park for?
It's for humor. So I don't know what you mean by "everything else"

If you mean animation then South park has got better animation that most anime series nowdays. Just look at the typical anime. It's full of pans, zooms and speed lines. The background is static, only their mouths move most of the time, or that glittery eye thing they do.

I'm almost 25 and I still haven't grown out of watching anime.  I tried growing out of it but always fell back into it, so I let it go and enjoy it for however long this interest will last.  Anime conventions on the other hand...

My first was Otakon 2003 and my most recent was Katsucon.  Maybe it's just me but with each new convention everyone looks more and more like kids.  So I'll probably stop with that soon; if I will go to any it'll probably be for any guests that show up.  I got to meet Salia at Katsucon. (-b^ヮ^)-b

>>22
I'm just saying suggesting South Park is a substitute for all anime is bullshit.

>>24


But it isn't. South Park is an american topical comedy show. Anime is from Japan and is more a type of media than a genre.

The only anime I've really gotten good vibes from recently has been Wolf's Rain and Fullmetal Alchemist. Genshiken was funny too, but that's about it really...

Correction- watch nothing but King of the Hill until your eyes explode.

>>17

Watch more phantom quest corp

Infact I demand you all watch more phantom quest corp!

hay guyz im holding a home movies marathon at my house whos coming? snert snert!

>>27

And...what?

I’ve become much more selective in the anime I watch as I’ve gotten older, but I will always appreciate a well written and well animated story. In the past 12 months I’ve only enjoyed three series enough to watch them past the first couple episodes (GITS:SAC, Last Exile, and Wolf’s Rain).

>>22 Just look at the typical anime. It's full of pans, zooms and speed lines. The background is static, only their mouths move most of the time, or that glittery eye thing they do.

Yes, a lot of the most popular anime is complete shit, but many anime fans don’t seem to care about animation quality. They say they do, but they are really taking about style. For example, I went to an "Anime Hell" showing at an anime convention, and one of the clips was from an '80s anime movie. This was smooth full-frame hand-drawn animation of classic Disney quality, but most of the audience still laughed at it.

The irony is, the slick anime style that most under-20 anime fans think is so cool is actually very generic and commercialized in Japan. In fact, the most popular anime shows among American anime fans tend to be the same shows that are commercialized and mass-marketed to a pre-teen or junior-high aged audience in Japan.

>>30 In fact, the most popular anime shows among American anime fans tend to be the same shows that are commercialized and mass-marketed to a pre-teen or junior-high aged audience in Japan.

Ok, so then I suppose this correlates to the fact that most american fans don't always know what would be considered an "A grade" title from a "B or C,D Grade" title.

There's also that other little word that sells, violence. And we can't forget about sex either. Look at most torrent sites and the most snatched titles are hentai most of the time. So, while we might be different from the avergae american consumer, not minding subtitles or foreign flicks but deep-down, we still have the same tastes in violence and sex. It's sad but inevitable.

| This was smooth full-frame hand-drawn animation of classic Disney quality
This shows that the animators wasted their time doing zomg-smooth-full-frames! instead of effectively conveying meaning, effect and content. Effective compositioning of scenes carries far more impact than ZOMGFULLHANDRAWNFRAMES.

Don't they teach you this shit in language classes in school? And I don't mean those repetitive, predictable XYZ Lit. classes.

Anyone who thinks there is no good anime anymore just isn't paying enough attention.  If you look past the Rozen Maidens and Mai-Otomes and Narutos you'll see there are plenty of series that have, well, real stories, artistic merit, etc.  I've become selective in my anime as I've aged, but to say you can "grow out of it" is like saying you "grow out of" watching movies or reading books.  It just shows that you've never really thought of anime as a viable artistic medium, and in all honesty it's fine by me - preferable, even - to see another such "fan" lose interest and disappear.

Wow, that sounded rather mean.  Vitriol much?

Rozen Maidens, Mai Otomes, and Narutos have good stories!!! Enuf to pried open millions upon millions of wallets....

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“I'm now 20 and have grown out of watching anime. Anyone else here not watching as much stuff as they used to?”

Yeah, anime doesn't USUALLY mix with college/girlfriends (unless you have low standards for both... lol). Anime for me is a closet fandom... seriously, thats the only way I can maintain normal social relations and a good GPA

At 19, I still watch only the best 2-3 shows per season. (I'm not going to waste my time on the likes of GIRLS BRAVO, etc). I've kind of moved on to reading Japanese manga... since, I'm getting a double major (and it's less time consuming). It's been like 12 years since I used to wake up at 6:00AM on Saturdays & Sundays to watch DBZ on UPN or Saturday Anime on Sci-Fi, but I figure I'll probably be a fan until after grad school.

However, if you're not in college or have a crappy minimum wage job(and perhaps ungroomed and overweight), then perhaps you should concentrate on getting an education (and some excersize), and put anime aside. I always kind of felt sad for those never-do-well anime nerds I knew in high school. (Especially when they failed Japanese).

Also, normal japanese television is kind of more entertaing... i <3 my dramas T_T

>>32 Effective compositioning of scenes carries far more impact than ZOMGFULLHANDRAWNFRAMES.

Bull. Full-frame hand-drawn animation goes a long way towards making a character feel "alive", which is significant for generating the feeling of empathy for a character. Plus full-frame hand-drawn animation is the best way to express body language without resorting to pasting comical icons of viens and sweat-drops to character's heads.

I started getting into anime after I got out of highschool back when there was very little liscenced. Now is the time to pick and choose, as opposed to then where the choices were Dominion and Project A-ko. Sure there's a lot of crap out there, but there's good stuff too. And I don't see a cut-off age. *shrug*

I don't think you can just "grow out of" anime in general because it's an artistic medium. It might suck that there aren't so many good animes appearing now, but the next time a great series comes by, would it really be justified to say "I don't want to watch it because it's anime"? It's argument over stupid semantics, but I don't think you can grow out of anime, because any movie or book that you like could have been created as an anime instead, and chances are you could have liked that as well.

me, i haven't really grown out of anime.  i don't watch as much now as i used to, but that's just because i'm more selective than i used to be.

when i was in high school, anime was some big new thing, everything was interesting because it was so different.  now, i've seen so much anime, most of it's pretty much the same to me, much like regular north american television shows.  i used to watch television regularly when i was younger too.

but if there's something particularly interesting, something that's makes it a new experience again, i'll jump on it and enjoy it.  whether it's anime or not is irrelevant at this point.

i still find that anime provides more new and interesting concepts for me.  whether this is because creators have a higher degree of creative control in Japan than here, or if it's just because they're drawing from a culture so different than the one i live in, i don't know.  frankly, so long as they pump out interesting stuff, i don't really care either.

>>40
I agree. I was rabid for anime back when I was in HS, but a few years ago there was a point that I didn't watch any anime. I don't think I 'grown out', it's more like 'grown bored' of it.
Fortunately, a happened to catch a few good and unique ones and I'm back in the loop again.

Lately, I've been preferring unique (story, concept) anime than the popular, fan-favorite ones. If nothing catches my attention, I'll just grab dvd's of the older shows and it's just as good as I remember. Sometimes better.  

If you're worried about growing out of anime, join an anime club at your university. You'll end up watching interesting things you'd otherwise never have heard of, instead of formulaic mass-market crap.

bump

the only thing that tends to be classified as mass-media anime that I watch is one piece and FMA. utter kickassery and SUBBED. 4kids dub is the spawn of what defines the scum of the earth, and FUNI dubs avoid, I avoid dubs in general.