Glad you brouth this up. As mentioned before, the potential for burn-out exists for anything you spend a great deal of time in; but I think the more crucial factor is not rather a certain quantity, but rather when something feels like an obligation, or it feels like
I myself don’t really feel this with anime, but honestly it’s because I pace myself and don’t watch a whole lot in succession partially because I’m attempting to prevent myself from getting jaded to it. I have several friends that have ‘schedules’ encompassing almost 200 series! They have them listed in order they’re goint to watch them, and set out to watch a certain amount of anime every day based on adhering to the schedule (and if you recommend an anime to them, they have to somehow fit it into their pre-planned ‘curriculum’); if that’s the way you like to do it, go right ahead, but watching anime is not my job, so I’m not going to treat it as such. I know how much burnout sucks, which is why I’m attempting to prevent it happening between me and anime! 😆
But hey the good news is burnout isn’t permanent–it will fade if you distance yourself from [it] for a while.
My idea of schedules must be different from your friends.I simply made a chart and put down
what shows I will watch on what day,but not at the same time.For example under Thursday right now
I have Utena and below it Rosario & Vampire and below it Moonphase.This means when I am done with
what I have with Utena and put it away I will go next to Rosario & Vampire and watch it on Thursday
nights,etc.I also keep a list of the anime I’ve already watched.
Now as far as more recent anime,well there are too much of the kind that people have described there are also gems still out there but that don’t get too much noticed.The thing is to find the gems that are out there and not worry about the other stuff that will be forgotten 5 years from now.
