Animisery – A Blog About Living Miserably with Anime (Among Other Things)

So as you may have discerned from my overwhelming lack of posts, I’ve not been watching anime as regularly in the past month. I don’t know why but I’ve just not been able to sit down and just enjoy an anime. There’s always something in the back of my mind like “you could be using this time on something else that you NEED to do or SHOULD do” and it ruins my whole experience. It also doesn’t help that I’m trying to balance my diet better and I LOVE having snacks when I watch anime. Like I just adore chowing on some junk food and washing myself in animated goodness. It’s hard to do when you’re counting calories and thinking “ah if I eat all these then I can’t have dinner” and thusly my anime has fallen to the wayside.

I’m going to have to bang out a lot of Masaaki Yuasa’s anime for my podcast’s next month (I’m so STOKED to watch The Tatami Galaxy again, it’s one of my absolute favorites) so I better get ready but I fell off the wayside on my seasonals again and we’re already in a new season??? And a lot of them have a few episodes out??? Why does anime go so fast when I don’t pay attention? When I’m watching seasonals, it feels like the next episode can’t get here soon enough but then when I’m not paying attention then we’re already in Spring 2025 season and AnimeNewsNetwork has posted fifty articles about The Top 79 Anime You Need to Watch in Spring 2025 and I’m collapsing in a field because I’ve broken another promise to myself. I keep promising myself that I’m going to finish one candy bar (that’s anime in this analogy) before I start another yet there I am with a new candy bar in hand while the old one is on the ground covered in ants and dirt. So many anime have just been discarded because I see a new one and it’s “oooooo this one looks interesting!!!” and the 7th episode of the other seasonal I was on kind of bored me so another one dropped and another one dropped and another one bites dust.

I guess a watched pot never boils and a watched ongoing anime doesn’t put out new episodes if you’re me. I guess another issue is just competing media as well. For example, I love reading. Reading is awesome because, while there is an infinite amount of imagination that can be purely distilled into an anime, there’s like quadruple the amount that can be placed in a well written novel. Many of my favorite anime even come from novels of the light variety including some like My Next Life as a Villainess so yeah books are great and they keep me from watching anime. I’ve considered making set days be for certain hobbies but that seems so unnecessarily restricting to my hobbies (even though a friend of the podcast and reader of this blog!) suggested giving a dedicated day to seasonals which is absolutely a great idea. I just can’t do it. I’ll find a game or a book and then it’s all I want to consume and now freaking You and Idol Pretty Cure has 12 episodes and I swore to myself I was going to watch it ongoing and here we are.

Maybe I should slip into some more active anime Discords and talk there. I think that and then I remember the last Discord server I joined in for that manner ended up being strangely, uh, unkind to the people of the Jewish religion and background if you catch my drift. What’s a youngish man (and a handsome one at that if I’m to believe my mom) supposed to do? I’m sure complaining about it on my blog will help.

Anyways, I’m going to do it this time. June’s Anime Recap is going to have like 2000 anime entries because screw books and video games! It’s going to be Ani-May, baybee! It’ll also be May-saaki Yuasa month but it can be two things.

Thank you for reading my blog! Tell me what you do when you’re not watching anime! Are you a CERTIFIED GAMER BOY/GIRL (please believe me when I typed that ironically) or do you crochet? There’s no in-between. You either knit or you’re a gamer. Let me know what your anime watching strategies are and if you have an interesting hobby! Or you can just read this and not comment. That’s also a valid option. Go check out my podcast, the Anime Brothers Podcast (episode 200 and beyond), if you want to hear me scream into the void. I’d appreciate it if you did but no harm if you don’t.