Originally posted by Jayfeather
Kemono Friends actually finished last week so it's not airing anymore. Do you have a MyAnimeList account? It makes it real easy to keep track of what you are watching, and it is very easy to find new shows. It also has seasonal charts, which show all the series that are airing or will be airing each season. For example, there are actually 19 shows this season which I am going to try, which is about average for me. By the end of the season I usually only finish ~5 of them.
I feel like people often are afraid of starting new anime. Like they act like it's a massive failure on their part if they start something and don't enjoy it. If you don't, just drop it and try again with something else.
"since I'm mostly gonna watch Love Live for the memes"
I really gotta be honest, watching Love Live for the memes is doing yourself a massive disservice. Assuming it's related to Snow Halation, that only appears in one episode in the last third of the second season. If you are going to watch 20 episodes just for that you might as well just watch the 2010 music video, or find the scene from the TV series on youtube.
I want to clarify, I don't see anything wrong with watching a show because [thing] got you interested in it. But watching a show entirely for [thing] is like... setting yourself up for failure. It's a poor mindset to start a show with, and it just limits your enjoyment.
I've seen some people (including myself) watch a show for a specific reason, and they almost always ended up being disappointed.
JoJo is another show where I've seen this exact thing happen.
People like JoJo memes, so they "watch it for the memes", and get disappointed because it isn't anything like they imagined.
Even though Love Live and JoJo are two anime which have a lot of memes associated with them, they aren't "meme anime". As in, the amount of people who like it for the memes is an extremely small amount of people. Do more and more people get introduced to the shows because of memes? Definitely. Do some people like the show more because of the memes? Sure. But the amount of people who like it only for the memes is pretty tiny.
I feel like people often are afraid of starting new anime. Like they act like it's a massive failure on their part if they start something and don't enjoy it. If you don't, just drop it and try again with something else.
Originally posted by Ultima
Yeah, I actually wanted to watch that, though I'm not sure if I should keep watching JoJo and Zero no Tsukaima or watch Love Live and this (Kemono Friends might be better tho, since I'm mostly gonna watch Love Live for the memes, and Kemono Friends is also about monster/animal girls or whatever they're called there, and since I like this genre a lot...). Kobayashi-san's Dragon Maid too, though I'm already watching that so
"since I'm mostly gonna watch Love Live for the memes"
I really gotta be honest, watching Love Live for the memes is doing yourself a massive disservice. Assuming it's related to Snow Halation, that only appears in one episode in the last third of the second season. If you are going to watch 20 episodes just for that you might as well just watch the 2010 music video, or find the scene from the TV series on youtube.
I want to clarify, I don't see anything wrong with watching a show because [thing] got you interested in it. But watching a show entirely for [thing] is like... setting yourself up for failure. It's a poor mindset to start a show with, and it just limits your enjoyment.
I've seen some people (including myself) watch a show for a specific reason, and they almost always ended up being disappointed.
JoJo is another show where I've seen this exact thing happen.
People like JoJo memes, so they "watch it for the memes", and get disappointed because it isn't anything like they imagined.
Even though Love Live and JoJo are two anime which have a lot of memes associated with them, they aren't "meme anime". As in, the amount of people who like it for the memes is an extremely small amount of people. Do more and more people get introduced to the shows because of memes? Definitely. Do some people like the show more because of the memes? Sure. But the amount of people who like it only for the memes is pretty tiny.
Actually, that is mostly because of other interests too, not JUST for the memes. The thing that's actually driving me to watch these shows is the popularity, like I did with Re: Zero. Also, IMO, I dont think that many ongoing shows right now actually interest me right now, so there's not much point to make a MyAnimeList account, nor did I had much of a drive to register anyway, so...