No.4080
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
>>4079Oh 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
>>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
>>4079>>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
>>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
>>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
>>4079My recommendation is to find another hobby. Don't force yourself into burnout on something you're no longer really interested in.
No.4112
>>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
>>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)
No.4496
>>4339>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 thingJapanese probably like these things because modern, industrial life is spiritually draining and totally soulless. So there is a feeling of melancholy at life and nostalgia for a time when kami, youkai etc. seemed real and there was more to life than an empty mechanical world and purpose beyond being a wage slave/mindless consumer zombie. In America, the psychic reaction to this problem was to embrace edgy reddit atheism where religion becomes the big monster we all struggle against. In Japan, it was to turn folklore/Shinto into a consumer product, a spectacle for audio-visual masturbation where viewers can eat up the fantasy of living in a world where it is still possible to believe in these things. Nostalgia about high school is very simple to explain. Most of us hate our lives and wish we could start over.
No.4557
I too am growing old. Lately for my Japan fix I've been watching the golden age of Japanese wrestling from the 80s-90s. Which gave us great matches like the Bathhouse Deathmatch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJi3dJG4mko No.4559
>>4557I also suggest old King of the Deathmatch tournaments. Japanese wrestling was insane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly28p4jTGU0 No.4560
>>4557>>4559Sorry for triple post. So hard to find decent copies of that old Japanese stuff now. I also highly suggest most everything produced by FMW. Finally found a channel that has the exploding ring match without horrible American commentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doSM6OIRXMEBack then they used to bring in a lot of gaijin stars and put them in insane matches with Japanese guys. Barbed wire for ring ropes. TNT in the ring. Thumb tack boards and lots of other crazy things. It has gotten really overboard these days and I won't watch it anymore. But that older stuff is always either comedy or brutal gold.
The non-hardcore stuff is really good too. Generally better than everything that was going on in the west until the late 90s. Most of the things that got hot in the mid-late 90s in America had been going on in Japan for over a decade by that point. They pretty much just ripped off what the 2 major (and later 3 major) Japanese wrestling promotions had been doing for years.
Japanese TV in general is a mind fuck most of the time. I can understand why it's still so popular compared to the west where it's mostly re-runs and reality tv now. I can't stand watching TV in my own country anymore but even regular day time talk show stuff in Japan is still pretty interesting. Game shows are fun too.
No.4568
>>4079I went through this years ago, my solution was moving-on from anime to manga, because manga has way more variety and interesting stories. Why don't you give manga a shot?
Stuff like dorohedoro, dai dark, usogui, berserk, firepunch, BLAME!, beastars and idk a ton more of mangas have nice stories.
Plus by the time you grow out of manga and into light novels and normal novels, you will already have some new good animes to enjoy.
I only found out about Frieren like a month ago, before that I had my head buried in a pile of manga and the overworld lligh novel. It's nice to enjoy things, just make sure your 'meals' are varied, or you'll grow sick of the same thing over and over!
No.4592
>>4568I think you're right about this. There's tons of great manga out there. Too much to keep up with really. I'm very happy with how much stuff is being made. But I struggle to keep up with the manga I'm reading too. I'll be slow to keep up with new issues or something will happen in life and I'll go on a hiatus that goes from a few months to years. There's so much stuff I need to catch up on. I really like discussing stuff and following conversation on things. Nowadays, it seems the fandom are just utterly brain dead. You can't have a serious conversation about anything and they gravitate to the most vapid material.
No.4597
>>4592Oh but you don't really need to keep up with the manga if you don't have the time, I mean, fandoms don't exist anymore so what's the point?
Unless you have friends to discuss the manga with, you can enjoy it at your own pace.
Since the fandoms are braindead indeed, I just find myself writing about the mangas I've read instead of discussing it with people. It gets lonely at times (especially compared to the past) but I guess that's our current reality.
Hopefully it changes in a few years!