No.156248
I never watched or read Clannad because I got spoiled by that one copypasta aeons ago and decided it was not worth it.
I haven't discarded the possibility of reading it someday, I'm sure it has great music and atmosphere at least. But based on my experience with other Key stuff, I can tell their brand of storytelling is not really my thing, so it's not very high priority for me.
No.156253
couldn't care less about what is considered 'classic' since i'm not looking to fit in or anything
No.156254
>>156253I don't really care about "fitting in" myself but I do enjoy participating in discussions of anime/manga/etc that I like and sometimes I'll see good-looking threads about something that's been on my list for a while and wish I'd read it or whatever sooner.
Also as a general rule most things which are "widely considered" classic have at least something good going for them so it's a good well to draw from when looking for recs.
No.156255
I haven't watched most animes because I think most of them such total balls.
You watch something like berserk and everything else start looking like an empty shell of a movie/series.
I'm mostly in it for the aesthetic, so yeah, most things I never watched.
No.156256
I see the thread is off to a great start!
No.156263
>>156238It doesn't matter. All fiction is derivative. It's worthless in itself.
The only thing that matters is how a work of fiction affects you. For example, one of the mainly influential works of fiction in my life were Higurashi and Umineko. Mainly because I was a mentally ill teenager abused at home and bullied at school, so characters like Shion and Maria resonated with me. If I read Higurashi and Umineko at any other point of my life it would be meaningless to me. It would just be an interesting story that fails to engender itself in my mind and will be quickly forgotten in a few years.
Meanwhile, it's been 15 years and I still keep thinking about Bernkastel.
This is the difference of perspective and meaning creation. If you regret not consuming some classics don't, because if you didn't it was simply not time for it yet. I have seen hundreds of anime series, there are thousands more I can possibly see, but I don't care because I know I have seen it in some form and fashion before, and at my age they will be unlikely to affect me as much as the fictions I consumed at my formative years.
In other words, I literally don't care about fictions in themselves, only about how they make me feel and how they change/influence me.
No.156265
I've been watching anime for almost 25 years now but:
I never watched or read Berserk
I never watched Code Geass
I never watched Death Note
I never watched LoGH
I didn't watch the Evangelion until 2 years ago
Mea maximum culpa
No.156271
>>156265I have dropped evangellion two episodes before the end, I dropped angel beats one epsiode before the end, I lost interest in made in abyss s2 halfway through, I stopped watching logh after one episode and I haven't finished lucky star or azumanga daioh either despite having rewatched the first few episodes multiple times
my drop list on mal and anilist is almost as long as my completed list, and I maintain it just to enjoy the shadenfreude of having retards occasionally find my profile and go like oooooooooohh anon how could you not finish that, how could you drop this ooooooo you were so close wtf I don't understaaaaaand
No.156272
>>156238>What are some classics that you feel guilty about skipping, /qa/?Maybe Final Fantasy, Atelier, Tales Of, Fate/Stuff, competitive RTS and fighting gaming. Instead, I'm rather confident I should consume less and produce more.
No.156273
>>156265Took me 15 years to watch Death Note, but I didn't regret it at all when I did. This one also still gets random references in other media. Going to watch Code Geass and LoGH soon too. I've been catching up on a lot of old series that are usually outside of my preferred moe genres in between my seasonals, most of them hold up incredibly well and arguably often have better looking animations.
No.156278
>>156276honestly if you don't like LotGH don't bother
don't be under the impression that everyone who has seen it did it slowly or struggled through it
The first time I watched it I finished it within like two weeks.
Rewatched it last year and had a similar pace.
Either it really pulls you in or it doesn't. And if it didn't just don't bother with it.
No.156282
>>156281
wtf is a nip whore
What makes her different from other brands of whores, or other brands of nips, not sure if nip or whore is the descriptor here
No.156287
>>156278No I mean, it pulls me in, it's just life happens and I stop, and then I'm forced to rewatch the entire series from the beginning again.
No.156288
>>156271> I dropped angel beats one epsiode before the endI watched it to completion and honestly I don't get why it's considered a classic, it kind of sucks.
No.156290
I can say the same about probably 98 or 99% of classics such as they're called I mean, if you take away the best five or 10 series, that levels the playing field, but the best ones are so much better than the rest that everything even great becomes really mediocre.
No.156294
>>156293>Also JC > JK, and it's not even a competition.jk saikou HOWEVER jc saikyou
No.156317
>>156293>I hate most highschool animeThere's nothing wrong with that.
No.156334
>>156238Metroid, Star Fox, half of the Castlevania games
No.156337
>>156238Regrettably, I still haven't watched Eva proper and I honestly dropped Slayers a few years back after the finale gave me misery blue balls halfway through. Never got past Part 4 of Jojo either but that's just due to circumstance.
Still need to get through things like Higurashi and Clannad too
(sorry...) but I'm starting to wonder what more there still could be that I might actually be interested in, as silly as that might sound. I'm running out of media that I ignored for years only to dive right into but otherwise still knew existed for all that time.
I thought I'd have a good Slayers reaction image for this but I apparently don't anymore...
No.156420
>>156419I assume you mean action-y battle manga stuff. Nothing wrong with that, it's just that the fans can be a bit... you know.
And speaking of shounen, series demographics sometimes don't make a lick of sense, gif related for example is labelled as a shoujo anime.
No.156445
>>156238I have never read/watched Memerashi and never will!
Despite that I know by cultural osmosis that Rika is le epin "Nipah!" girl, there's some dumb monster girl that goes "auauauaua" for some reason and the orange haired girl is evil. Also there's some grimdark tweest or something, but I don't care to find out what it is.
No.156461
>>156273Finished recognizing bulges now too. It was also pretty good.
No.156463
>>156445Yeah, that's probably for the best. It's best experienced by those that can enjoy the emotional moments in it and that's probably not you. The 00s internet did a terrible job of marketing it with those infamous GIFs and that's why I waited so long to read it.
Well, not that it was available to read back then in English I imagine.
No.156466
I watch anime at a very very slow rate and barely read Manga at all. I haven't watched a number of iconic or culturally signifigant works;
-LotGH
-Any Gundam
-Rose of Versailles
-Haruhi
-Clannad
-Death Note
-Fist of the North Star
-Initial D
-Beserk
-Code Geass
-Full Metal Alchemist
-etc
And a similar thing for video games, not having played many classics
-Any Doom
-Morrowind (played but not finished)
-Half Life (played but not finished)
-Final Fantasy
-Dragon Quest
I want to watch, read, and play these, but struggle with motivation to start things and especially find it difficult when they are very long or large franchises.
>>156463I remember recieving, and still have, the original Higurashi anime from a friend at school via external hard drive file sharing, but didn't read the visual novel until the past few years. I didn't watch the anime either because I was told at the time that it has spoilers early on and assumes you've read it first.
>>156337I found Jojo a bit of a slog to watch, only watching up to Golden Wind, and found it easier to read, although I did read it first so that may have contributed. I also found that Stone Ocean was not very good; I didn't read past it.
No.156467
>>156466the doom iwads are relatively short and do a great job at showing that baseline simplicity can still make for an evergreen experience, particularly when you get to plutonia
i'd say it's worth playing if you care about understanding game design at a deeper level, more so than the other examples
Perfect Hatred is one of the best maps i've ever had the pleasure to experience out of any kind of genre ever, extremely elegant stuff
No.156476
>>156463>not watching Higurashi after seeing one of the edgy gifsWow, you had shit taste back then anon! hopefully you improved since then
No.156599
>>156476Whomever are ye quote greener?
No.158439
>>156420Yes, stories where basic desires and morals clash and things are decided by powerscales and plot convenience. Most shounen fans are illiterate but this stupidity nurtures a very real and keenly sharpened insight into the human condition that I like reading.
Girls like butts too.
No.164733
>>156238I've dropped most anime halfway through, not because they were bad or I didn't like them or anything, but because I'd get caught up with something else and feel kinda guilty that I broke my routine of watching it regularly and just kinda drop it because part of me feels I need to go back and rewatch it first for context. I do this with shows, films and even vidya sometimes. I can count the actual amount of anime I genuinely finished on both my hands alone. I've had an easier time finishing manga and books honestly.
Shit like this along with other signs made me convinced I have some form of OCD. It's actually fucking annoying.
No.164741
>>164739The number is hyperbole, but it's still pretty grim. I've started at least hundreds of anime but the amount of them actually completed is in the lower double digits.
No.164763
>>156238I never finished the monogatari series....
No.164797
>>156255same here, i used to be an anime fanatic back then. watched youtubers discuss anime, watched seasonal animes of the time etc, etc. most animes nowadays are usually copy and paste and i find it annoying but i think most of the reason why i barely watched anime is also the fact that I have stopped consuming media in general. same like you, am also mostly in it for the cute aesthetic
No.164798
Since we're currently on the topic: I care neither for specifically following anime as an animation genre, nor for the "cute aesthetic", I just watch what looks interesting to me the same way I do for /co/ and /tv/ content. I enjoy browsing Kissu for the (mostly) genuine conversations and because I just so happen to still like Touhou, Japanese games and NND culture for their quality and / or humor, even if I don't feel the need to obsess over the majority of the characters.
I also prefer 2D-centric imageboards over non-2D because those harbor far more stereotypical mainstream personalities and seem to have a distinct hate for 2D and its followers more often than not, which is something I don't share.
No.164800
>>156238I just drop whatever I don't find interesting, I used to feel guilty about dropping series that were considered classics by others but now I just don't care. One that comes to mind was Your Lie in April, I heard lots of reviews about how it was so good and the ending was so sad or whatever, tried to watch the first episodes but it's just them playing piano, boring. The ratings in myanimelist are kuso, Reddit is unironically better for recommendations. Also Gintama, only 1 episode and it was extremely dreadful and unfunny, fuck Gintama.
No.164924
i'm not proud of some of my past behaviour on 4chan, sometimes repulsed even. there's a handful of ritual post/spamming shticks i've started that gained varying degrees of notoriety across several boards, sometimes i had people cheering me on depending on what is was. in the past two years or so, i've gradually made an effort to try and curb the tendencies, but sometimes i relapse. there are some days where i just cannot help myself and go "fuck it, i need to let loose and be the most autistic faggot imaginable right now"
part of what makes me regret such behaviour is seeing how much better some of these other image boards are than 4chan, like Kissu. other times it's interactions i've had with people irl. one time a woman ending up making me wait in line a little too long at the grocery store because there was an issue with her credit/edbit card. i never verbally complained, but she willingly paid for the drink i was going to buy as an apology. i then thought to myself "what if that women was somebody i may pissed off with one of my spamming shticks?". i know, yeah, probably not very mamy middle aged women on 4chan, highyly unlikely that she was, but still, it's theoretically possible that she could have been, however low the oddds are. another thing is just how unhinged some other posters tend to be that convinced me to not be like them.
i don't think i should specify what boards i use and what i'ved posted just to avoid derailing the thread with too much off site drama, but i'll just say this: i'm sorry to anybody i might have pissed off or annoyed with my behaviour, even if you won't know what it is i've posted. whether or not you forgive me isn't that much of a cocern, it's moreso about realizing that i behaved poorly at times and that it wasn't right to do that. i'll feel better getting this off my chest
No.164925
>>164924well fuck me for being an impatient dumbass, i just saw "confession thread" without realizing it's about specifing not watching/reading certain anime/manga
No.164926
>>164924I forgive you, Anon.
No.164927
>>164800>>164861I can't forgive someone who shits on Gintoki. Get better tastes.
No.164929
>>164924Aside from a 4chan user, also ADHD low attention span... And they said God didn't punish twice. Is so over.
No.164969
>>164958I do definitely care about cuteness when it comes to animals and such, 2D or 3D, which is why I love watching Koupen. For human characters I think I'm just wired differently and don't really perceive it unless the character comes off as very helpless, like the elephant man from the live-action movie of the same name.
In 2D I tend to be more drawn to "cool" things or concepts, like robots or Berserk; Black Lagoon; Sakuya and her powers or the game of wits in Death Note.
No.164970
>>164969So you basically like chuuni anime?
No.165010
>>165008Are you ever going to stream the entire series?
Like fuck it why not.
No.165017
>>164970I can't say for sure because I'm not familiar enough with the scope of the categorization, but I assume it's that or at least very close.
>>165008I do visually and I'm pretty sure I would even more if I watched the show! It's a little hard for me to commit to full episodes nowadays, but Onegai is part of the shows that I think look really cute and intriguing. I also like Hamtaro and Shirokuma Cafe.