Black sheep of the family

Haha, noooo. I gave anime a whirl.

I’m experiencing what you are but I think we’re coming to vastly different conclusions about why.

I stopped watching anime cold turkey after my weaboo ex and I broke up. She just watched so much anime and her life revolved around Japanese consumer culture; I couldn’t stand it. Twelve years later, I decided to give it a whirl again. A lot changes in over a decade.

All of the original tropes are still there with fresh takes. It’s much more popular and socially accepted than before, so there’s greater demand and accordingly more options. There was a lot of garbage, just absolutely mindless filler material of shows, twelve years ago. There’s a lot of that same garbage now. There’s also a lot of good material now, more than before simply because there’s just so much more of everything being translated and sent abroad.

I changed in twelve years. I became acclimated to the much more subdued style of Western media and forgot how comparably over-the-top anime and a lot of Japanese media is (thanks, kabuki!). It seems weird and cringy now, so I snagged a few copies of what I used to watch pre-weeb ex and watched them. You know what? It was pretty over the top and cringy at times too. The animation style has changed, but it’s largely the same otherwise.

Many people, myself included, prefer to read. I can quickly skim an article to make sure it’s worth investing some time into before reading it for retention and understanding. I can also read far faster than a narrator can narrate the same. Overall, written word is just a significantly more effective medium for me. Others may have different reasons.

Absolutely the worst service. For my last motherboard, I had to RMA it four times before they fixed my issue. It took nearly five months to get running and lasted less than a year before dying again, this time out of warranty. Every ASUS monitor I’ve purchased in the last few years has died. I’ll never buy anything from ASUS again.

I’ll save North Americans a click: they’re not available here.

Hopefully their populations have the necessary traits. Otherwise, goodbye octopi.