Shutting down?

Starting off, I don't mean to slam other peeps threads since I've recently made a thread in this section awhile ago. Though I've been thinking, I don't mean to sound like a stereotype but I had a conversation with crimson875 on RO and along with Space about certain animes that I have been questioned if I watched. And I gave them their due answers. Recently I have found myself starting some series and not following through with them, in other words not finishing them. Lately I have found myself without motivation to do so whatsoever. Now the same thing could be applied to video games, awhile back I had conversations with Spalose and Zeriam about Xenosaga; I still haven't made progress or found any inspiration to progress in it.
And recently I've started watching the anime opposed to finishing the game itself.
Now onto the topic at hand, do any of you find yourself in this same situation? Not having any motivation to finish something you started?

I guess I'm the same situation too...

I used to be open to almost all kinds of anime but now...I'm beginning to choose only a few of them to watch. I'll only download like, first 3 episodes...and try to see the "potential" of the anime. If I don't see any, I'll stop watching it.

I think I'd watch anime that can give me some special feeling only for now...

^ Problem with that is that most anime's are never very interesting until halfway though the series. Probably because the first few episodes are just to do with boring character development and plot development.

I don't like to leave things half finished, but sometimes I do. I'm not too bad about that on anime though. I usually read a lot of reviews before I pick something to watch, so I'm usually right on the money before I even download the first episode.

I'm a bit pickier when it comes to manga though. Fruits Basket was a good example. Read several reviews that said it was good, read the synopsis and thought it was interesting enough, but I can't get past chapter 12. It bores the shit out of me. *shrugs*

the only times i stop following an anime are the following:

1)Boring Story
2)Production seriously starts dropping
3)Better animes to watch

but i only have like 1 anime per season that fall under these categories otherwise i finish watching/collecting the series

When I have a massive backlog of unwatched anime due to various life issues, or waiting for a particular sub-group to sub an episode. Whatever the case is, I'm so behind on anime that I don't really care. I figure during the breaks I catch up on anime.

The other reason is that more recent anime just tank. It's all fanservice and no plot or character development or cheaply done remodelizations of something already done, e.g. eroges or light novels or manga. This current season makes me wonder if more than half the anime touted by the FAKKU! community is actually worth watching.

I haven't seen the last episode of Kanon, and I stopped during the last 10 minutes of Gai-Rei Zero I had to stop watching. I never could go back to see the end. I think part of me doesn't want to know the ending in fear of it being a bad ending (like that !@#$% anime AIR or Shuffle!!).

For me a lot of these past seasons seemed to hit the tank pretty hard, as well as jump into a foxhole only to find a grenade smiling at them.
Its pretty hard now to figure out if a series is worth watching or not; like princess lover and canaan, both looked like they could be pretty good but nope, they pulled back too hard at the end.
And unfortunately now it's hard to gauge a show as to watch it to the end or not since most things tend to happen towards the end.
Pretty much all i can do is delete the show after its finished so my hard drives are free for better animes.

I'm in the middle of 8 animes. And currently watching only one of those 8. I mostly stop because of problems with the uploaders. Sometimes the file is corrupted, or the voice and video aren't synched. It's normal for these things to happen. And then 1) I contact them about it and hope for a miracle (that they actually read it and reupload it) or 2) move on to another uploader or fansub.
During the pause I forget bits of the story, and the thought of having to watch it all again makes me not want to continue watching the anime at all.

Actually I think I am sort of since because I couldn't keep track of all the series I never finished so I decided to make a list that way when I actually do get motivated enough I can finally finish them. Top priority atm is to finish 00 Gundam, but I won't until I can first finish college and second give myself enough time to do so.

If I get far enough into a show I feel I have to finish it or it will have been a waste of my time. Of course I often find when I force myself to finish a show it seems like more of a waste because I actually watched all of it. It's a lose-lose really.
But I'm pretty good at telling whether I'll like a show or not from the first 2 or maybe 3 episodes. Sometimes I drop shows with low potential but come back to them later just to see if I've changed my opinion.
My instincts often prove right though as the shows I pick back up always get dropped again.
And I've learned to not get sucked into ecchi shows. At first when there seems to be no plot development, it's okay because the boobs and whatnot, but after 6 or 7 episodes I hate the show and hate myself for thinking something might actually happen.

Yes. I never had the motivation to finish playing a lot of games I started on and some animes. Though I get kinda far and play/watch for very long. I just get bored of it.

Kind of hard to do that since the anime only covers episode 1.


I don't think the "Fakku community" has touted much in the way of anime this season. It seems like everyone is just doing their own thing with the only exception being DtB2. Some people may be acting more excited because no one will bother them since everyone knows this particular season isn't spectacular in the least.

On topic, I sometimes lose my motivation to watch things. Just yesterday I watched Clannad's Kyou Arc for the first time and I still have half of After Story to go, yet I'm watching Kodomo no Jikan now instead. Every season there are several anime I had intended on watching, but I just never find the time/effort for them. Also, my motivation works in strange ways. First example, I finished FF12 with 70+ hours even though I didn't like it at all (fuck you ADBS). Second example, I finished Index running on only Mikoto and Kaori since it was full of shounen speeches and garbage plot. Also, I get my full of romcoms like Akane-Iro, Nagasarete, Kanokon, To-Love-Ru, etc., etc. so how I haven't finished After Story is a complete mystery to me.

I dropped Metroid Prime for a few months after getting my first Game Over screen. I finished Knights in the Nightmare first despite having Riviera and Yggdra Union for at least a year before that. I haven't beaten Tales of Phantasia (SNES) yet despite being at the final dungeon for the past year. My ability to motivate myself works in freakishly odd ways.

I've watched some first eps for some but I dropped it cause it was rather uninteresting and boring. Started Haruhi S2 but couldn't find myself continuing it. After reading on Endless Eight, good thing I stopped. I started Shana back in July but got lazy to finish till Korou knocked some sense into me. I'm kinda ticked at myself for holding off on Shana for so long. And as for Gundam, there's only 1 Gundam series I've yet to finish. Victory Gundam. I can't find time nor the motivation to dl the rest of it.

@ZeroOBK: Many of the new threads dedicated to this seasons anime (you've visited them yourself) is all but ecchi, fanservice, and extrapolated from another source. I'm just not very interested in that sort of shit anymore, and lately I've been downloading and watching old time pre-NGE OVA series that are awesome from BakaBT.

WOW, i thought i was the only person in this situation!

Lately i noticed that i dropped about 10 Anime only after watching the first 5 episodes of each one. Normally i would stick around to watch an anime even if i did not like the direction it was going in, but recently that has not been the case! I seem to lose interest in them very Quickly these days.

I had come to the conclusion once that maybe i stopped watching them because of the generic storyline...but if that was true i should have dropped tones of other animes i had watched before.

Hmm, what i have noticed is that most anime that comes out now seems to be missing "something"! I'm not sure what it is, but they just don't have the same Spark or Effect on me like a few older ones do!

I agree with Hoshi.

This makes me think they should make new seasons of perviously successful anime/mangas instead of coming out with new stories that wind up generic and cliche. I think the lack of A+ titles the year's end is what also influenced InuYasha to come out, so maybe they are leaning that way.

I understand. I'm just saying that no "touting" has taken place and everyone's expectations have been pretty low about this season for a while now. That's all.

That something is quality. And originality. 2 things that many animes don't have. And not just the new ones.

After watching so many animes (over 50 complete. Dropped a crapload even more of them) i've gotten really picky. I can't watch most of today's animes. They're usually just so retarded, boring and unoriginal. Specially ecchis. I mean, if I want to see asses and boobs, I have doujins for that. I'm not wasting my time watching cheesy teasers.

The good old golden advice: try every anime. Even if the genre or the plot doesn't attract you (or even if it's old). Download the first few episodes and try it. There are some beautifully crafted animes that need the proper recognition. I learned this the good way (through my own curiosity), and I'm so glad I did.