getting back into anime, or only a selected few

[Epstein]

I got into anime back in 1993 when i was 11, did the whole COMPUSERVE thing (anyone remember sunday night Anime chats?), did the whole "pen pal from japan", to get the lastest stuff. as time went on, i just got burnt out

i got super into underground music and gave up on the anime stuff. became to expensive, and people that started getting into it as i was exiting high school just scared the hell outta me (i mean i guess if you wanna dress like your fave anime dude or whatever everyday , be my guest, but still..wow) after hearing that KOR is going out of print, I thought I'd give KOR another spin, as well as macross, ranma and other 1987-1991 era anime series.

I really cant get into the newer anime stuff (that cartoon network stuff, although i think yu yu is ok), and I dunno I'm just not the superfan i was years ago, but damn, lum, KOR, ranma, maison ikkoku, yarawa and a few others totally slay.

i guess my point is anyone else feel this way? i mean anime is cool once in awhile, and man i'd love to go to japan, but i dunno

[Suiko Eiji]

I'm a lot like that. I got into anime a few years after you did while I was in middle school and was hardcore about it. I more or less created an anime club in high school, ran it with an iron fist, and acted as an old VHS fansub distro around the same time. Outside of one or two other hobbies, I practically lived and breathed anime. Being that you and I got into the hobby close to the same time, we ended up being exposed to a lot of the same era of things. After all, most of my favorite series are within the late 1970s to early 1990s (with an outlier here or there).

But when I got into college, I was excited with the prospect of being able to do more with digisubbing (Internet speed wasn't a high priority when I lived with my parents to anyone but me) and getting more series still airing in Japan. Save for a few series here and there, nothing gave me the same hook that the older series did. I'll still find a few shows interesting enough every season or so to check out, but very few of them will get past the first couple of episodes.

I encountered almost the same anime burn-out. I took a little bit of a break, but since people at Univeristy kept asking me about anime (as I had "the most experience"), I kept coming back to it. I found there were a few groups amongst the ocean of groups that were subbing "classic" stuff and I checked them out. It was floundering in between these stages that I started to be more of an advocate for "classic anime" like these and eventually started Akihabara Renditions (see below in sig) as a blog to get this deal started.

Burn out happens to a lot more people than most people might think. Some people leave it entirely; others, come back to it for a bit and may or may not stay with it. For me, anime is a connection to my adolecence and it was a strong tie for most of my friendships. Much like the guy in his mid-twenties who still gets a kick out of his Super Nintendo and PlayStation, it's a hobby I'll probably keep coming back to. To me, it's the same thing.

[Epstein]

yeah, i think alot of it has to do with just the cheese factor of the later animes, i dont mean to sound pretentious, but it's true. bgc, macross, astroboy, etc etc totally slays anything that i see on cartoon network..

again maybe im getting old? but damn, ranma was cool, and none of this new stuff compares

[Daishikaze]

I know how you feel

BTW: is your first name Juan? ;)

[TheDemonSlayer]

I got into anime some years back, and I too slowed down a bit. But once I got a computer...FINALLY!!!...and started making more friends that actually watched it, it was only natural to me once again. Now I'm not the type to cosplay, or to always quote lines from various anime titles, but I am one that enjoys getting my daily fix of anime. Whether it's from actually watching it, or just hanging around a forum like this, anime in my life is here to stay....

[Suiko Eiji]

I'll quote a couple lines here or there though, only for humor's sake. I've cosplayed a couple of times, but all in all, it really isn't my thing either.

As far as anime-related activities that aren't directly watching anime, I like the work I do for my blog, Plamo (plastic modeling), posting to forums and reading through research books and magazines, and going to conventions.