No.4080>>4083
If you like Japanese folklore, then give Mushishi and Jigoku Shoujo a try.
Do you prefer any genres? Since what year have you been watching anime?
No.4082>>4083
>>4079 (OP)Oh yeah i've felt this way before, it was right around the time i stopped watching anime for good and deleted my anime to make space for more western shows/movies. Simply put, you have outgrown anime and are ready to move on to other things, like watching old HBO shows and going out to birdwatching or better yet find a new hobby instead.
Tl;dr: you are growing old.
No.4083>>4084>>4094
>>4080Thanks I'll take a look. I love stuff with folklore or supernatural folklore.
>Do you prefer any genres?I've been watching since I was a kid. I like pretty much anything as long as its good or visually appealing but I do like iyashikei, slice of life, mystery thrillers, cyberpunk, romantic tragedies, and horror. I like anime with family dynamics and rural settings too although that's not a genre.
>>4082>watching old HBO shows No.
No.4085>>4108
>>4079 (OP)>>4084Meant to post something but I’ll write it here. Seems like it’s time you are ready to explore the next step, Japanese cinema especially its golden age. Since you are interested in folklore I suggest the feudal period movies
No.4094>>4108
>>4083> I do like iyashikei, slice of life, mystery thrillers, cyberpunk, romantic tragedies, and horror.Darker than black, eureka 7, trigun, gungrave and toradora. Not sure if you have watched them or not.
>watching old HBO shows >NoWell you could always watch japanese sumo if you feel like it. Its rather entertaining,infact its pretty much the only japanese thing that I still watch on the regular. There are a lot of youtube channels that cover the sport so you can watch a few matches and see if you like it.
No.4108>>4111>>4112
>>4085Yeah, I already watch a lot of classic jidaigeki.
>>4094I wouldn't know where to start with sumo. I don't know anything about the sport.
No.4110
>>4079 (OP)My recommendation is to find another hobby. Don't force yourself into burnout on something you're no longer really interested in.
No.4112>>4174
>>4108There is nothing to know about sumo anyway, its just big fat butterballs pushing and sometimes performing throws each other.it's like playing poker, you can learn by watching. The rules can be summarised in a few lines :
>big fat butter men must bow>big fat buttermen must push eachother out of the ring>first one out of the ring or to hit the ground loses.>winner bows, loser walks away in shamethat's it.
No.4174>>4177
>>4112The sport itself is simple but there's a lot of great tradition around professional sumo. Saw a good documentary on it a while ago on yewtoob. I think it was called "Sumo: Beutuful Tradition" or something like that. Can try and find it again later.
No.4177
>>4174Sumo season will soon be upon us. Sweaty obese lardballs will battle it out in front of a stadium full of retired geriatric japanese boomers and I will be watching on tv,as I gamble my meager income away.
No.4339
it is a bit disappointing how most works have nothing to say, or are imitations of prior works made by people who don't understand them, and this doesn't matter for success in the market because the audience is also dumb. basically, whenever high quality art is made, it's a coincidence, a stroke of luck, that we're able to see that sort of thing instead of a much worse thing with the same or greater mass market appeal.
it seems like the easiest way to capture the hearts of japanese audiences is to appeal to feelings of melancholy or nostalgia about their life back when they were in high school, or to write a setting in which shintoism and various other aspects of japanese folklore are real. i like this sort of thing, so i don't have an issue with watching monogatari, mushishi, and dandadan.
a schoolgirl running late with toast in her mouth bumping into the protagonist and falling down exposing her panties was already a cliche lampooned by gainax in 1996. but understanding that everything you like has been done to death shouldn't prevent you from appreciating things.
anyway, some good recent shows are, on the slop side, jujutsu kaisen and kaiju number 8. on the "wow folklore so true" side, mononoke (movie about a medicine seller detective, recommended for you due to the unique visual style). if you want to laugh, my next life as a villainess: all routes lead to doom. dorohedoro is exceptional and in my view easily the best japanese cartoon of the last however many years.
if you want to watch some exceptionally high quality things not from the last few years, you can try neon genesis evangelion, meduka meguca, sayonara zetsubou sensei, shin sekai yori, blame!, or literally anything directed by masaaki yuasa (though you should probably start with tatami galaxy or ping pong)