How do you deal with post-anime depression?
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I have a nasty habit of not really having enough time left in the day to finish whatever anime or game I'm watching or playing, but I'm so close to the end that I stay up late to finish it. So I end up going to bed and getting up the next morning with this dreadful sense of emptiness and longing.
As for getting over it... I agree with watching a comedy. If you've just got off an emotional rollercoaster, jumping onto another emotional rollercoaster can be a bit jarring I find. Better to just distract my brain with something funny for a while until the shock of not watching SAO or FMA any more has worn off.
As for getting over it... I agree with watching a comedy. If you've just got off an emotional rollercoaster, jumping onto another emotional rollercoaster can be a bit jarring I find. Better to just distract my brain with something funny for a while until the shock of not watching SAO or FMA any more has worn off.
-Immediately start looking for new series to fill the void
-Read the manga/LN
-Watch show/movie that was done by the same writer/director e.g. finished Katanagatari in one sitting and was eager to see anime with a similar style of dialogue, characters and general narrative philosophy, so I decided to watch Nisemonogatari and Monogatari 2nd season, which both LNs written by the same author of Katanagatari (I had already seen Bakemonogatari previously)
-Listen to the music of the show
-Go to the YMMV section of the show's Tvtrope's page to get a grasp of how viewers reacted to the show, certain scenes and characters
-Discuss it on forums (e.g. MAL boards)
-Watch a show that is similar in style
-Read the manga/LN
-Watch show/movie that was done by the same writer/director e.g. finished Katanagatari in one sitting and was eager to see anime with a similar style of dialogue, characters and general narrative philosophy, so I decided to watch Nisemonogatari and Monogatari 2nd season, which both LNs written by the same author of Katanagatari (I had already seen Bakemonogatari previously)
-Listen to the music of the show
-Go to the YMMV section of the show's Tvtrope's page to get a grasp of how viewers reacted to the show, certain scenes and characters
-Discuss it on forums (e.g. MAL boards)
-Watch a show that is similar in style
I don't think it's crazy at all. You've probably watched more manga or anime than I have and probably read more books than I have as well. Just take that time that you spent watching new things and apply it to re-watching your favorite things instead. Brotherhood isn't that long. I could shotgun within a week at most if I had a lot of work to do. 64 episodes is nothing. That's relatively light compared to some of the series that I watch. I've spent far more time watching Supernatural than I have with FMA: Brotherhood. I've spend more time watching Scrubs than I have both Supernatural and FMA: Brotherhood. Combined. There's no need to pick on me for one wimpy little 64 episode long series with about 21 minutes per episode that can be easily completed before a week's been done when both Supernatural and Scrubs have around 180 episodes to them and have their episodes at around 40-45 minutes.Full Metal Bolshevik said:
Now, if you want to pick on me for those, I will accept that as fair, but FMA: Brotherhood is one of the shortest media that I consume, which is the only reason why I've watched it as much as I've had.
The only difference is that I rarely move onto new things because of how picky I am (notice that I'm not using the word standards, as sometimes I don't even mean quality) and so I'll just keep watching the same thing again and again until I do find that new thing to watch that passed by my picky metrics (lately, it's Doctor Who; oh, how I do love David Tennant).
By watching multiple anime at the same time. Once I finish one,I continue on where I left on the others I've been watching and so on.
I just get over it. There have only been three anime that ever got me that way (Steins;Gate, Death note, and Fate/Zero), and their are no anime that are like/as good as those, so there is nothing I can do about it.
Often I usually immediately think the series or anime over afterwards (Since I watch/finish it late and go to bed) in detail and then I think about it before I go to sleep.
After that I usually have no problem with watching another one.
If it is something like Clannad for Clannad Afterstory, well I usually do something different to pass the time.
Play a game.
Read a book.
Visual novel.
Movies.
I have a number of ways to deal with it before going back into the big anime list I have.
After that I usually have no problem with watching another one.
If it is something like Clannad for Clannad Afterstory, well I usually do something different to pass the time.
Play a game.
Read a book.
Visual novel.
Movies.
I have a number of ways to deal with it before going back into the big anime list I have.
actually you can, as I myself can watch TV, read a book, and carry own a conversation at the same time. This is due to my ADHD and how I learned to control it, drove my teachers bonkers in high school though as I would be reading a book while they were talking and was still able to take notes and tell them everything they just said lolFull Metal Bolshevik said:
Someone who understands me, my ADD brother! It's surprising how much you can do with ADD if you can learn how to control it and I've learned how to control it since I was 12. Since then, practice just made perfect.ecoho said:
Same here. The wallpaper thing especially; I've got like 2050 wallpapers rotating on my laptop because of my image binging. I try to talk about the show with my friends, too. Helps me articulate = and come to terms with how I felt about the show and what I can learn from it.[Kira Must Die said:
Eh, fortunately, many of my franchise have been ruined forever, so I get fed up and quit before reaching the end...
More seriously, yeah, is a pain. Still, better when there's a big satisfying ending, I find, where everything is wrapped up properly.
More seriously, yeah, is a pain. Still, better when there's a big satisfying ending, I find, where everything is wrapped up properly.
The only two book series that fall under that category for me is the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series (which I started reading right when the first book came out until the last book of that series came out during my early years of High School) and the Artemis Fowl series (which despite getting into the series before I left Elementary school, I have yet to finish that particular book series). Though, it mostly relates to the Ga'Hoole series because I remember reading that series alongside my two best friends (at the time) up to the final book of the series (while we all simultaneously ended up in the same schools and even the same classrooms until the series ended) and we even went to the book series' movie premiere together...Kajin said:
That was the only time where I really didn't want to go into the spin-off series by the same author involving the wolves of the Ga'Hoole book canon... It's not because I hold the Ga'Hoole series to a higher status or that I feel like the series would disappoint me in any way... (I mean, I REALLY want to read this particular series...) It's just that it will remind me of all the times I've spend reading the original series with my best friends and it will feel weird reading this particular series on my own without them reading alongside me and discussing each of the books along the way... I can't really do that particular scenario now because I now only keep track of the one best friend I knew since Kindergarden and I haven't seen or heard from the other best friend since graduating High School...
TV shows, anime series, and movies in general I can just go to the next one without it totally burning through my mind all day and night to the point of wanting it on DVD and/or Blu-Ray... (which is not to say certain series or movies have not done that before...) Books, on the other hand, are the one's that stay on my mind even when I get done reading the final words written down no matter if I have liked the book or not... and it's not easy for me to just go to another book entirely like that... (and that's where my manga collection comes in to pass the time before I'm really ready to start another book, let alone another books series in general...)
Yeah... That's basically what I normally do... except if I own the series on DVD and/or Blu-Ray where I just binge on every episode in a row and then go back to watching the multiple series I was originally watching (while simultaneously adding new one's into the viewing mix...)Risingblade said:
