Sorry for the terrible Code Geass pun but I’m in that mood today thanks to this. While being away for a week without really any anime blogging I kept thinking a lot of things. Today is all boiled to the surface and I have decided to do a restructuring of this blog.
If you want to skip reading the details I’ll put it plain & simple: My anime burnout has hit its limit. I’ve just had enough. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy watching anime time to time but it’s no longer my “top priority”. While being gone and getting my new desktop, the first thing I did? Play Pangya. I didn’t go watch the anime I missed, I didn’t go attempt to blog something that aired the day I had even 10 minutes of free time. I went to see how well Pangya would run on my new system.
Let’s face it, after watching anime for 9 years (and cramming like 20 years of anime into those 9 almost 10 years) things just start to look the same. I’ve lost count of how many childhood friend, tsundere, yandere, bishie, yaoi, buttsecks, robots, spaceships, loli, shota (and the list goes on) shows I’ve seen since 1999. The point being here is, I’m sick of trying to say something about these shows EVERY week when ABSOLUTELY NOTHING happens.
I used to watch anime and actually laugh out loud during the funny scenes. Now I may just roll my eyes and if the show is lucky I’ll crack a smile. Tomorrow I am turning 25, I mean how long do I have to keep running this conveyor belt? I picked up a lot of shows this season, but a lot of these shows I’d rather just quietly watch and maybe do a cumulative review like I did with Code Geass. I don’t want to blog about these shows every week.
To be honest, Skip Beat bores me. It’s nothing innovative and frankly I have no anticipation for the “next” episode. It’s not as exciting to me as Itazura na Kiss was, and at the rate it’s going, I can’t see it becoming the next ItaKiss either. I’ll continue to wach it to give it the benefit of the doubt. As far as Clannad goes, I’ve played the game, I know what happens and frankly I’m sick of trying to write about “I KNOW WHAT HAPPENS.” Okay, I know what happens, the end. I’m tired of writing about Soul Eater when there aren’t any Soul x Maka moments. Sure Death the Kid is cool and his episodes may have a LOL or two, but I just hate forcing myself to write an entire post just for that one funny scene. Like come on where are the S&M holding arms/hugging scenes already!
Not gonna go into detail on every show but that’s basically how I feel. I want to only write about an episode if something JUMPS out at me. When I pick up a “show for the season” I only want to write about an episode that’s actually worth writing about. Right now the only show that actually makes me pump out a long post is Innocent Love cause it’s so fucked up and you just don’t know what’ll happen! That makes me want to write about it weekly! But seeing the backstory of a girl who has an electric tongue or a shrine maiden who dances in a maid costume, I’d rather spend my time doing some kind of fanart instead.
I’ve been ignoring my art side for a while because every day I’d come home thinking “oh shit I don’t have time I gotta blog xyz today.” I’m so sick of doing that. I want to ENJOY my anime for once. I actually ENJOYED Code Geass because I didn’t have to write about it until AFTER I finished it. Back in the day I marathoned all my anime and I enjoyed them because I watched them in batches rather than forcing myself to sit through boring moecrap every week.
I don’t know how Aroduc does it (or what possesses him to put up with this garbage) but I’ve just had enough. I’ve been running this blog for 2.5 years and for the first time I realized that it’s just no fun doing this weekly thing anymore. I want to go back to the days where I actually had something to write! I want to write because something really MOVED me rather than keeping my brain constipated for 12 episodes until the plot finally moves in episode 13. I’ve found it more fun to write in my game blog because I was writing for myself, because I had something to fangirl about.
A lot of these shows leave me feeling like and well frankly rather than bitching about this in every post of every show every week, I’m going to stop. It’s just not worth it, and I’d rather use my time for other things now.
For those who didn’t bother to read no I am not quitting blogging. What this basically means is that I will only post about an episode if I actually find it interesting and worth writing about. However I DO want to do a cumulative end of series post about the shows I watch. At this point the only show I’ll probably continue doing weekly is Innocent Love. I can’t think of anything else right off the top of my head that I actually anticipate.
I know I’m going to probably lose like half my readership but that’s okay. I appreciate everyone who stops by and reads this blog and comments. You guys kept me going for a while but I’ve reached my limit and it’s time to slowly drop some baggage off my Nice Cart. Thanks for reading.
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