No.851413
>Every year there is more anime
>Some good
>Some bad
>Some extraordinary
I'm feeling burned out. Tired and exhausted. I can't watch everything that comes out. How do you deal with this?
No.851416
>>851413
You can easily keep up with the good ones, it's only like 30-40 series a year. I watch everything that isn't offensively bad or really boring, and it's still only 15-25 shows per season. The despair comes when you start taking VNs and manga into account, and trying to go through your backlog.
No.851450
>>851413
Only bother watching what actually seems interesting to you. If _everything_ seems interesting than you have a terminal case of weeabooitis and should put yourself down are going to hopelessly suffer unless you have enough money to quit your job and just watch anime for the rest of your life.
No.851456
>>851450
This so much. The only way to actually enjoy anime is to watch less anime in general.
No.851462
>>851413
>I can't watch everything that comes out. How do you deal with this?
Don't. Take it easy, watch what you like and try to make space for your backlog. I rarely watch more than two or three shows per season but I really enjoy those shows. Basically what >>851450 said.
Remember anon, it's about quality and not quantity. That's the key to enjoying things.
No.851475
>>851413
If you think that's bad just imagine how much hentai gets made that you will never fap to.
No.851477
>>851413
Anon, I live a busy life pretty much all the time so I get a few hours to enjoy anime at most, and to watch anime I have to sacrifice other hobbies that evening. The best answer is to take it easy and just learn to watch a pinch of anime that sound comfy. Short-term archiving exists, so if the bugmen ever go to war with Japan or Tokyo is hit by a natural disaster, you can always have your backlog built up to watch for years into the rationing.
No.851483
Ask yourself why you only feel satisfaction if you watch every good anime that comes out in a season. Why do you feel the compulsion to turn watching anime into a job just so you don't miss something that's potentially good?
No.851485
>>851479
>Please recommend me some anime
No.851490
>>851413
You simply don't watch everything that comes out. Watch what looks good.
No.851500
Being a completionist helps.
No.851503
>>851456
Doesn't that apply to everything though?
No.851512
/a/ used to swear up and down this would be a good thing. Turns out it only means a flood of garbage you drown in.
But as someone who watches every single show every single season, it's not hard at all so long as you have your phablet.
No.851515
>>851477
>The best answer is to take it easy and just learn to watch a pinch of anime that sound comfy.
This. Forcing yourself to watch just for the sake of watching it is never a good idea.
No.851519
>>851515
But then you cannot experience the pleasure of talking how shit the anime is.
No.851526
>>851483
>Why do you feel the compulsion to turn watching anime into a job just so you don't miss something that's potentially good?
I think a big part of the reason people watch seasonal anime is because they want to be a part of the discussion or the 'community' that surrounds each show. I am sure many can relate to enjoying the threads each week with anons sometimes as much or more than the show itself. I know personally this has been true for me (personal recent examples being Ousama Game and Cross Ange, older ones being Colour Wars and Panty and Stocking).
As such, its easy to see how lonely people on the internet would watch a lot of currently airing anime they don't like if they (unconsciously) feel like it could address social emptiness in their lives. This could be habit forming behaviour which is hard to break.
No.851531
I just don't follow animoo except a few rare ones I'm really interested in, like overlord. Then I download the good ones I see in places like /a/, that tends to keep my list down, I'm only watching Overlord, Sunohara and Hataraku Saibou this season thanks to it.
>>851475
Imagine organizing your hentai. I started with a few thousand files that increased a bit every once in a while. Since I decided to organize it, it's increased into 80 thousand files, and I still have GBs of doujinshi.
That's hell.
No.851532
Just follow two or three series per season. It's mostly complete trash, I don't see why would you waste your time watching everything that gets aired.
No.851556
>>851531
Organizing started me down a deep path. By logging, every show I watched and saving the ones i liked there was a subconscious need to watch more and never drop anything ever. I did this for years until MAL died. Since then I gave up logging and dont care anymore about quantity and statistics of anime watched. It was a surprising relief since I can drop shows and not feel bad about it now. That said, I haven't dropped anything this season but watching around 20 per week is not such a burden to necessitate it.
No.851559
>>851532
This is basically what I do. I only ever watch 2-3 shows as they air. However, for anything extra that I find interesting I'll catch up on in bursts whenever I have the time and alcohol. Seriously if you're actually wanting to watch most season trash you'd better do it drunk.
No.851564
Something about your post pissed me off, OP. You're complaining about the good things in life. If you don't enjoy it don't do it. Take a break and come back.
No.851566
>>851531
>download Hydrus a few years ago to catalogue my hentai
>currently stands at 2000 files tagged, 48000 in my "to be sorted" folder
No.851568
>>851566
I know that feeling, and I've given up. Let chaos reign. Image folders were never meant to have order.
No.851570
>>851512
>/a/ used to swear up and down this would be a good thing. Turns out it only means a flood of garbage you drown in.
What the fuck are you talking about? First of all, the flood of airing anime already started by the time /a/ was made. Secondly, it's evident that most things in any medium aren't going to be masterpieces. Anime is just better than most other mediums.
No.851572
>>851519
If that's what you find pleasure in, then I hope you fuck off. Every /a/non watches what they enjoy and talking shit in a thread only spreads your shit taste. You have a shit mouth with a shit tongue that only tastes and talks shit. You're spreading your shit on our threads and making everyone loose their appetite. Stop it.
The only time a bad anime is fun is when it's an enjoyable train wreck, which happens rarely, and those can be lots of fun with /a/, but usually we enjoy the things we watch, anon. It's why we're watching them.
No.851574
>>851413
What's the rush? Unless you want to participate in current show threads there's no need to rush yourself. Take your time and watch the stuff you find appealing at your own phase.
No.851575
>>851574
Please do this and post about whatever you're watching from your backlog. I'd like to see more obscure animu threads.
No.851578
>>851566
>didn't sort his doujins by artist when he downloaded them
Sucks to be you. 5k here, and it's in perfect order.
No.851579
>>851568
>Image folders were never meant to have order.
I've tried so hard, anon. I have a perfect idea to catalogue my images and even have a web of navigation set up but it'd take forever to do.
No.851583
>>851578
The doujins are at least ordered, since the downloader puts the title and artist in the filename. Though that gives me no reminder as to their fetishes.
It's the individual images from Pixiv or boorus that are really beyond hope.
No.851586
>>851566
>>851578
>86k files
>only a few dozens archived, everything else I still have to decide whether to store, delete or try and see if I can edit into something good
>barely tagged out of boorus' shitty tags
>still have 90GBs of doujinshi to sort into folders so I can auto import it with regex for creator, title, series,volume and page tags and then manually tag each file
No.851631
>>851575
Or post a backlog thread so we can collect all the smaller conversations together and increase exposure. I haven't seen one of those in a while.
No.851637
>>851568
>>851566
I think, when it comes to image folder, the only truly important data besides the image itself is the date. The date when the file was copied to your system. Thus, you don't really end up with a well organized and managed library, but a sort of a flow of time and memories.
No.851644
>>851639
Probing the limits of where benefit of doubt ends and copypasta begins
No.851879
>>851875
>nah I was sincere, I'm new
Gotta ask on /rec/ then.
No.851893
>>851631
Make one anon, there are many people that just watch older shows every season because the airing shows don't really click with them.
No.851922
>>851637
Absolutely this. It's a bittersweet feeling to flip through a folder and see a bunch of similar images all next to each other and reminisce on the thread it was taken from.