I am about n0's age. Just watched Kiznaiver, a trigger anime about the friendships and romantic relationships between highschoolers. I used to be able to relate to these themes but honestly it's been such a long time since high school, that I can't really feel anything about any of it. It is sort of ironic given that the anime is all about being able to share other people's feelings and connect with others. I mean a lot of anime aimed at highschoolers is like that.
Had a similar experience when trying to rewatch Oregairu. I used to find the protagonist so relatable and cool but now it just feels like melodrama about nothing. Same when trying to rewatch Zero no Tsukaima.
Maybe it's cause none of my friendship from high school lasted till now, as everyone moved all over the place (I am in a different country now). Uni is not the same. Even the fan service anime that I used to be into, kinda feel unrelatable. Like, I tried to watch Trinity Seven, and I didn't feel aroused at all, at most I could muster a sense of recognition at the beach episode, the bath scene where the girls compare each others breast sizes, but given that the authors who wrote this stuff aimed at high schoolers were around my age when they wrote it, it kind of made me wonder if they felt any genuine eroticism when writing these scenes, or just included them as a commercial product to appeal to teenagers. I would be a bit sad if it's just the latter. But the bigger issue, I think, is that I no longer see any of this high school anime stuff as a crutch to form connections with others, mostly because my desire to make deep personal connections with others has mostly disappeared, and in any case it was never a crutch that worked... In that context if I were to enjoy any of this stuff not aimed at me, I would need some new way to view them through but I can't think of any.
Are there any of you here in your mid to late 20s who can still relate to and enjoy this type of anime, especially if you were into it when younger as well and could maintain your interest, I 'd really love to learn how.
I don't know if it's because of the age-gap or because I have watched too much anime, but I don't feel any connection to anime characters like I used to be able to. In the past, everytime I finished anime I was left for longing more of those characters and that story. But nowadays, I want to complete an anime as soon as possible since I know it will end anyway.
These days I seem to mostly watching narou light novel adaptations but also world-building heavy light novel adaptations like Heavy Object.
I feel more attracted to the setting and if there are any themes, I find themes that I can relate to, they're usually non-inter-personal ones, if that makes any sense. From a higher and more distant point of view, like those old sci-fi short stories that are more about the concept than the characters.
This is fine but I feel like in the process something has been lost, an emotional level of understanding is gone. I have tried to claw some of it back by writing my own story but even then I can't write a pure highschool type story. You know, the type of pre-narou light novel aimed at actual highschoolers but with a much better aesthetic than narou-kei.
Had a similar experience when trying to rewatch Oregairu. I used to find the protagonist so relatable and cool but now it just feels like melodrama about nothing. Same when trying to rewatch Zero no Tsukaima.
Maybe it's cause none of my friendship from high school lasted till now, as everyone moved all over the place (I am in a different country now). Uni is not the same. Even the fan service anime that I used to be into, kinda feel unrelatable. Like, I tried to watch Trinity Seven, and I didn't feel aroused at all, at most I could muster a sense of recognition at the beach episode, the bath scene where the girls compare each others breast sizes, but given that the authors who wrote this stuff aimed at high schoolers were around my age when they wrote it, it kind of made me wonder if they felt any genuine eroticism when writing these scenes, or just included them as a commercial product to appeal to teenagers. I would be a bit sad if it's just the latter. But the bigger issue, I think, is that I no longer see any of this high school anime stuff as a crutch to form connections with others, mostly because my desire to make deep personal connections with others has mostly disappeared, and in any case it was never a crutch that worked... In that context if I were to enjoy any of this stuff not aimed at me, I would need some new way to view them through but I can't think of any.
Are there any of you here in your mid to late 20s who can still relate to and enjoy this type of anime, especially if you were into it when younger as well and could maintain your interest, I 'd really love to learn how.
I don't know if it's because of the age-gap or because I have watched too much anime, but I don't feel any connection to anime characters like I used to be able to. In the past, everytime I finished anime I was left for longing more of those characters and that story. But nowadays, I want to complete an anime as soon as possible since I know it will end anyway.
These days I seem to mostly watching narou light novel adaptations but also world-building heavy light novel adaptations like Heavy Object.
I feel more attracted to the setting and if there are any themes, I find themes that I can relate to, they're usually non-inter-personal ones, if that makes any sense. From a higher and more distant point of view, like those old sci-fi short stories that are more about the concept than the characters.
This is fine but I feel like in the process something has been lost, an emotional level of understanding is gone. I have tried to claw some of it back by writing my own story but even then I can't write a pure highschool type story. You know, the type of pre-narou light novel aimed at actual highschoolers but with a much better aesthetic than narou-kei.
How can I have that back?