Stupid End-of-Series Nostalgia

Does anyone else get this weird kind of nostalgia when you finish an anime series (or occasionally a book)? It's nice to get the ending, but... dammit. It's also OVER. God, it's such a slippery irritating feeling. Stupid involving, good characters...

Only for some things. Usually when I get that feeling I don't want to watch or read anything else for a bit (like a couple of hours, maybe the rest of the day), not really sure why.

I get this feeling almost every single time...sometimes resulting in a small depression(especially if it's a good series). Usually, I'm over it by the next day though.

mmhmm, I usually get this with a series that I really enjoyed, and it usually lasts for about a week. During that week I look up as much fanart/doujinshi as possible, lol.

Yeah, I tend to do the same... >_>

But it's easier or harder depending on the anime... this time I actually finished Clannad After Story, got nostalgic-y, and then to deal with it I (Foolishly) watched Kanon again (which i haven't seen in a year and a half or more... IDK), which didn't help at all... Now it's worse.

And music does it the most to me. I can't help but continually listen to the intro/opener of the finished anime because my brain automatically associates it very heavily...

Yup, that sounds a lot like me. After Clannad: AS, I immediately watched Kanon, and it just made me miss Clannad even more. Now I have Dango Dango Daikaizoku as my ring tone.

Yeah there is always that feeling that I want there to be more. I feel as if most series should end there, but it's like why it can’t do a little more. After a while it goes away, but even that short while bothers me a lot.

Always. It never stops for every anime I watch. Sometimes I feel like I want to be part of the anime, or that it was part of reality, so I can make it continue. >.> It always feels wierd...take Toradora! for example. I knew it was supposed to end, but I just wanted MORE. It gave me the feeling for a whole day -_- Anyone else wish anime were real? :P

Macross Frontier is a series I wanted at least one more episode out of before saying, "That's it, this series is finished". It's just that a bunch of questions were left unanswered for me which is mostly on characters personal lives after the climax of the end.

Code Geass is also one other series that I believe one more episode should have had an episode go over individual characters lives. I don't know though it does leave me wishing more from Zero and his knights but meh series is over and the ending of R2 was probably meant to keep it that way.

If I went on with other series it would probably just be me ranting on about series that strayed from the manga and came with crappy plots that would make my eyes bleed from watching.

i get it pretty bad i tear up at the end of most animes and even good video games

As often as I watch something exceptionally good/captivating (with an adequately good ending). Doesn't ever last long and accompanies only serious, emotional anime that got me to root for a character(s). It's also nothing compared to the feeling I occasionally get after finishing a visual novel (Fate/Stay Night or Utawarerumono come to mind). Those damn things can really get under your skin...

Yeah I get that feeling as well, more along the lines of "Damn, it's over?"

The more I miss the anime, means the more I liked it. After dozens of animes now I can take it better. But when I started, I remember watching Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, and I was depressed for a whole week! Damn it was too good (it was my favorite anime till Clannad AS came along).
I also do that thing, searching for mangas and VN's of the anime, so I can keep feeding my love for that anime.

I also get that feeling. Like I wanted more, but either it's over like that or I'll be on pins and needles for the sequel series.

If I really get into an anime or something, I get somewhat pissed that the series I liked is over.

Yeah... I don't think I could do that. If I kept hearing the intro/ending music, it would just keep the nostalgia going T_T

Especially since I had seen Kanon once before, the music really got to me this time... Especially Mai's theme. That's good stuff. And the ending song...

And then *surprise* at the end of the last episode, there's a trailer for Clannad. Playing the intro music. Which just exacerbated EVERYTHING, like a big loop.

Nooo! There is a Clannad trailer at the end!? I have to remember not to watch that far, I'm on episode 23 of Kanon....

And if Dango Dango was my ringtone, I think every so often I'd start sobbing when someone called me.

True, true, but I found a remix of it online and it makes it a little bit more upbeat. Trust me, for about two months after AS ended, I would cry as soon as the song came on. Here's the link to the remix if anyone is interested.




And here's another remix I just found today:

*afraid to listen*

Also glad I'm not the only person who wanted to watch Kanon after Clannad AS...

And I thought I was weird for having these feelings... seems there are others as well.

I'm even afraid of the ending sometimes... even dropped animes because of that (Peach Girl comes to mind).

The better the character design and character development, the more nostalgic I get :\ Goes for games, too... the Persona series really cracks me up in that regard... P4 bad ending was the worst...