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.

couldn't care less about what is considered 'classic' since i'm not looking to fit in or anything

>>156253
I 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.

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.

I see the thread is off to a great start!

>>156238
It 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.

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

I didn't watch the next episode and Lina went berserk.

>>156265
At least you did end up eventually watching EVA. References to and influence from it seeps into pretty much everything so it's also a must watch in the sense of giving context to everything else rather than just watching it to experience it.

>>156265
I 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

>>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.

>>156265
Took 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.

>>156271
Actually 2D4U.

I am struggling my way through LoGH. I haven't it yet despite having it for a couple of years.

>>156276
honestly 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.

>>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

I feel like an idiot for not having watched Clannad beyond the first season and that was over a decade ago.
I spent far more time looking at CCS fanarts than on watching the show.

>>156278
No 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.

>>156271
> I dropped angel beats one epsiode before the end
I watched it to completion and honestly I don't get why it's considered a classic, it kind of sucks.

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.

>>156282
A Japanese slut

I have tons of confessions:

I hate most highschool anime unless it is CGDCT. Also JC > JK, and it's not even a competition.

I hate most jrpg dialogue and can not get into a lot of popular games because of it. Especially series like Persona (With the exception of older titles), Fire Emblem (With the exception of older titles), and the Trails series. I know it's marketed toward teenagers, but I hated it even then.

I like the Dragon Quest Dubs. One of the only english dubs I like for any Japanese media.

I am not against streaming anime even if I prefer to torrent. Streaming is very convenient when you are poor and can't afford more drives at the moment.

>>156293
>Also JC > JK, and it's not even a competition.
jk saikou HOWEVER jc saikyou