I don’t know if I’m getting older or if it’s the therapy working, but I’m finding it harder and harder to get invested in animes.
A lot of the shit I used to watch now seems unbearably stupid and/or edgy, and even when it’s decent I still have trouble staying interested.
For example I dropped Avatar: The Last Airbender after half a dozen episodes. It’s not that it was bad, just that I felt… bored.
Recently tried watching Youjo Senki and I don’t know if I’ll get around to finishing it. I like a lot of things in that show: the whole parallel universe thing means it has all of the good things about a time travel story without actually being a time travel story (thus avoiding the fuckton of plot holes those stories typically have, see for example Bioshock Infinite); the interplay between the main character and everyone he has a conversation with (namely the fact that he’s constantly trying to get a comfy job away from the frontline and always fails due to misunderstandings) is also really good.
But at the end of the day, it all seems like a really stupid excuse to have a nazi loli make overly exaggerated crazy faces and be a stereotypical anime psycho.
Ironically, the first Valkyria Chronicles game is probably still the best Japanese anime about World War-time Europe (at least that I know of).
