as i've gotten older, i've had a lot less taste for anime

not saying it's bad, but it doesn't hold my attention anymore

like, i finished reading bleach after it got canned the first time and have no interest in the blood war

i still like anime as an aesthetic, but it's very difficult to get me to watch all 26 or 52 or however many episodes they've put out

that said, i still need to check out city (nichijou is one anime i vibe with) and probably eizouken as i love drawing

I was never into anime. I had the exposure through Toonami of Dragon Ball (Z), YuYu Hakusho, Inuyasha, Naruto, and a slew of others, but never could get into them. In ~2002, I watched the full 13 episodes of Helsing, and was wildly overwhelmed. I remember thinking, "This is what people are going nuts over?" Yeah, I had an extremely limited scope, but I had an extremely limited mindset.

Now, I'm not a fan of anime, but I'll watch it occasionally. I have a group of friends that will hop into Discord and kinda Mystery Science Theater 3000 their way through movies or serieseseses (that's the proper plural form of series, seriously, don't look it up). "Weathering With You" was not too bad a movie, although the plot got rrreeeeaaaal thin real quick. "School Days" was horrid, and i only watched a couple episodes before I gave up while the rest of the group soldiered on. "Space Dandy" is one they've started recently and it's just as ridiculous as I might expect.

I'll keep trying new stuff, but I doubt that I'm going to try something and it'll be like the end of Ratatouille, instantly transporting me back to a simpler time.

Just finished the latest season of Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon, and I enjoyed it much more than the last couple seasons. Good pacing, great action, and some satisfying character drama.

Before that I watched Dusk After the End of the World, which at first seemed like AI propaganda, and I can't decide if it ever moved beyond that. There definitely was some of the "Do Not Create the Torment Nexus" energy, but it felt forced and glossed-over. The vibe of the show just felt off the whole way through.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life is interesting. Some expectation subversion and good fights. The characters didn't really grab me, but I'm interested in the world and the story's conclusion.

I'm gonna have my kid watch Lycoris Recoil. She's more into anime than I am, but I'm willing to suffer for her.

Haven't watched anime in several years now. I mostly just liked the few series that aired on Adult Swim in the 00s. I would say that I'm still a fan of Cowboy Bebop, Evangelion, and Trigun as probably my top 3. Recently learned from a friend that FLCL got multiple extra seasons after that first 6 episode run which was a nostalgia bomb.