You know when it happens...you've been watching so much anime that you've just got bored of it. Days pass, and weeks pass, and you don't feel like watching any of it.
The reason why I brought this up is because I exited a period of burnout two weeks ago. I had watched a lot of anime and J-dramas earlier in the summer, and stopped watching it after July 1. Completely. I watched two episodes of Lucky Star on August 1, but was still in the burnout phase, as I wasn't really that interested. I finally exited it on September 11, around 70 days after I entered it. During that time, I had been watching a lot of British television and other movies - anything other than anime. I got out of it because I felt like watching another episode of Lucky Star, and remembered why I liked anime - it felt cute, unique, and distinctly Japanese. I had seen some other slice-of-life shows before that, but I hadn't watched any anime in a while, so it felt like I was getting into it again for the first time.
Since then, I have been limiting myself to about 1-2 episodes of anime per day (with 3 at the very most). I might skip a day or two, and watch something different. Before, I had been watching anywhere from 4-7 episodes per day (every day), and it had evidently wore me out. Now, I have more of a balance, and I hopefully won't burn out anytime soon.
Has anyone else had an experience where they had burnout? (This doesn't include something routine - if you only watch anime once every other week, and that hasn't changed, it's not burnout.) If so, how long was it? |
