/a/ - Animu & Mango

It can get to the point where I avoid finishing something because I don't want it to end.

However, there are always future shows that, though different, are good enough to make me feel the same way, so it's best to enjoy a show's ending and move on.

>>925188

>It can get to the point where I avoid finishing something because I don't want it to end.

I ended up feeling that way about a series recently. I do agree that it's good to watch the ending eventually and obtain closure for the story.

>>925189

>Tfw a series has a final page showing the protagonists after a major time skip

>Bonus points if its a young adult romance that has a final shot of a loving married older couple with some kids.

I know that feeling from video games but rarely for anime, since most of the time an anime ending is just continued with the manga. I would be lying if I said I didn't experienced it at all though, especially for Kemono Friends season 1.

>>925186

Shut up. So tired of people like you trying their hardest to just stifle discussion with meaningless rules masturbation.

>>925192

Sing it, brother.

>>925192

The problem is that, given the state of not only 8chan, but the Internet as a whole, it is necessary. One can no longer trust the average user to behave, so someone has to take charge, and rules need to be implemented. There is no escape.

>>925185

But this existence isn't meaningless, and existential nihilism has been done to death in Japan. Anitubers love it for some reason, and normalfags think that's "deep".

>>925237

How is it deep when its the most barefaced truth most people turn and flee from through escapism?

>>925237

Nothing OP said particularly sounded like a stealth request for recommendations, but say it was, what's the worst thing that happens? We move into a discussion of lesser popular anime that people may have passed over? I'll take that over the Spanish Inquisition.

>>925244

Throw it in Gensokyo while only mentioning major youkai in passing and it sounds perfect.

>>925185

>do you feel the feel i am feeling deeply?

Yes. I feel it whenever I watch a CGDCT series too quickly. When I watched Azumanga, I refrained from watching the final episode for a few weeks to try to head it off, but I think I felt a small amount of it anyway. Other series that made me feel this way are Last Exile, Kemono Friends and Little Witch Academia. For me, it's more like the tiredness that comes after socialising too much, and less of the getting sad that more like whatever series was just finished is not coming out. It's a strange feeling of simultaneously being hungry for more and being sated, and I tend to process it by reading the Wikipedia article or the Wikia about the series afterwards. Or the manga.

>>925441

I actually fail to finish a lot of SoL shows. They get depressing when I can feel them starting to wind down, so I stop watching. Still don't know how K-On ends. Don't really want to.

>tfw a show you love has a dramatic drop in quality after an arc/season and you stop watching

Sure you don't get to watch the creators make that thing you loved anymore, but since you'll never see the canonical ending, the characters are free to live forever in your imagination.

>>925441

The end of Azumanga Daioh hit me really hard the first time I watched it. I actually came pretty close to crying.

I think it hurts most to see them moving on with their lives, especially when they're all going their separate ways. It feels like a very final ending with the knowledge that they're unlikely to ever share those fun times together again.

>>925492

I find the closure cathartic actually, knowing that they end up okay at the end heals me more than the knowledge that the show is over.

>>925185

You say this and dare talk about the anime when it has only a fraction of the atmosphere the manga has? "Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryoko" is an example of the difference between a perfect and a good manga: the art actually suits the content as much as possible. I'd argue that "Goblin Slayer" or the Baki serie are also good examples; Baki, to the point where it wouldn't work without the grotesque body proportions.