How do you deal with post-anime depression?

[SirDeadly]

I watch One Piece so I have another ten years most likely before I have to deal with post-anime depression.

I did just finish my favourite book series of all time (Rangers Apprentice). The last book was fairly disappointing so I had no choice but to re-read all of the previous eleven books.

 

[RandV80]

I consume media at a very rapid pace. I can read an average teen novel in three days. I can watch your average television series season, depending on the length of the episode and the season in question, in a day - maybe a day and a half at most.

Yes for the other things but I actually wouldn't call your reading a rapid pace, I can read fantasy epics at that rate! Way back when I was a teen one summer break when I discovered Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, I burned through the first 6 available books in about 3 weeks. A more recent example, George R.R. Martin's most recent release in his series A Dance with Dragons I think I burned through in 3 days. So I would say your multi tasking is heavily effecting your reading spead

Speaking of GRRM though, that's even a worse feeling. When you're done and have that emptiness, but know there's still more to come but you may have to wait 5 years for the next fix. Or not a worse feeling but on a comparable level, finding a great series, consuming it all one in one big binge, but then catching up to the current stuff and now you only get a tiny bit at a time and have to wait a week.

Anyways, for dealing with it I tend to jump between mediums. If it's something I know will consume me completely, I've learned to be patient and wait for some down time so I can enjoy it without distraction. If I come across something that has multiple seasons/books, and the end of each has a good closure point before the next one, then I set it aside and put some time in between, waiting for a good opportunity to get into the next one. Back to my fantasy novels in this manner I was able to make the works of Joe Abercrombie with his First Law Trilogy and following 3 standalone books last a year, and the year before that I did the same with Steven Erikson's much larger Malazan series.

 

[TomWiley]

I'm surprised that enough people on the escapist are into anime specifically, so much so to the OP felt it makes more sense to just write post-anime depression than just post-series depression. Is that like how it is here? Anime as a medium is more popular than TV-series or movies I'm general?

Anyway, that's a completely irrelevant to the topic so ill just answer the question. I got over Homeland by switching over to Breaking Bad. The best way to get over a TV-series is to a find another series.

 

[Dyan]

I'm surprised that enough people on the escapist are into anime specifically, so much so to the OP felt it makes more sense to just write post-anime depression than just post-series depression. Is that like how it is here? Anime as a medium is more popular than TV-series or movies I'm general?

Anyway, that's a completely irrelevant to the topic so ill just answer the question. I got over Homeland by switching over to Breaking Bad. The best way to get over a TV-series is to a find another series.

Well it just that it's most well know as "post-anime depression" I'm pretty sure there are other names for it. It's just the one that I've seen the most.

 

[Snowbell]

I've been experiencing MID anime depression - so much anime is so cool, but then it has characters being sexy/flashing their pants & boobs, and that kind of thing triggers me into thinking I'm not good enough and never can be because I'm not as perfect as an anime girl, and so I have to stop watching u_u

 

[Hawk eye1466]

There are very few things that have ended that haven't left me with a sense of slight sadness, I remember Eragon for some reason really made me sad even though the author did exactly what I'd hoped and gave some story to see how things were going a few years after all the battles were over.

Usually I'll try and start something new in the middle of whatever I'm reading or watching or something so that I sort of have something else to fall back on if I keep dwelling on whatever it was.

I still can't watch MASH that ending was just so touching I can't go back man!

 

[Branindain]

So funny for me that you post this the day after I finish the entire fricking Wheel of Time saga. I'm just gonna be without the will to read anything substantial for about a fortnight. It's a strange feeling though, considering I started reading it in 1992. That's a long time to hold out for closure.

 

[ecoho]

Time.
Seriously waiting is the best remedy.

Other than that try to watch drama and then a comedy to heal the emptiness.

By watching it again.

If I never stop watching it, it never ends and I never have to go through a crisis situation of what to do with my life. This is probably why I've read Harry Potter around 25 times, Percy Jackson series around 10 times, Artemis Fowl around 8 times, and watched FMA: Brotherhood around 9 times, the Crash Course Histories around 12 times, How I Met Your Mother 3 times, and Supernatural 4 times.

Brotherhood 9 times?!!
I think you should go see a psychiatrist.

Brotherhood is my favorite anime and I have only seen it twice.
And the anime ended less than 4 years ago, so 9 times is really a lot.

I consume media at a very rapid pace. I can read an average teen novel in three days. I can watch your average television series season, depending on the length of the episode and the season in question, in a day - maybe a day and a half at most.

I'm also fairly picky. Take anime, for example. I don't generally have that high of an opinion of most anime, despite having made attempts to watch quite a few of them. Of course, I don't generally have that high of an opinion of most books, tv series, or movies in general either because my rapid media consumption means that I've got to constantly move from one thing to another, which limits me in many ways to reading book series that I can jump from one book to the next as soon as one's finished, watching long series like Supernatural that makes it so that by the time I finish it, some of the looser details will be fuzzy for me, or watching movie series back to back like LOTR, Harry Potter, POTC, etc. etc. etc.

And for anime, which I generally view to be quite crappy, it's natural that I go back over and over to the one anime that I view to be damn near perfect in a sea of shit, not to mention how satisfying it is compared to the rest. It doesn't help that I refuse to watch subs because I simply cannot manage that with how massively ADD I am in everything that I do. For example, even as I type this on my desktop, I'm watching a show on my laptop, playing a video game on my PS3, and roleplaying with two people while also writing a story (both of these on my desktop). I can't have my attention being put upon tiny little words all the time and have to constantly read fast while I also want to play one of my many games and roleplay with my friends.

This is crazy!
You can't focus on three things at the same time no matter how much you think you can.
You're not actually playing a game on your ps3, doing roleplay and watching a show on your laptop, your attention just jumps from one thing to the other. It's because you're not fully engaged in one thing that the details get fuzzy fast-

And I don't think it's very healthy.

And hey, I got standards too, I don't watch any crap, but I still wouldn't be able to watch Brotherhood 9 times, but considering what you said, you probably didn't watch it fully, but just left it running on the background of your computer.

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 lol

You can switch focus really fast but not focus on three things exactly at the same time, that's not how the brain works.

no I can focus on all at once that's how MY brain and the brain of many other ADHD and ADD peoples minds work. see to us (or at least to me and most people like me ive spoken to) the world goes in a bit of slow motion my body has to catch up to my brain this is not the case with my eyes which take in everything I see at once and completely comprehend it. listening to more then one thing at once takes time to get right without mixing their words together but by the age of 15 I could do it flawlessly. its actually harder for me to focus on just one thing then several hence you know the usual problems in grade school as one never works on more then one subject at any one time, though it comes in handy when I need to help multiple customers at once while working. My advice to you ,if you still don't believe me, is next time your at the doctor ask him about ADHD and ADD people they will most likely tell you just what I did.