Parasyte/Kiseijuu (If you’ve played Resident Evil 4 before and you get deja vu, then its because Resident Evil 4 borrowed elements from this sci-fi/horror classic)
Blade of the Immortal (Of course, its still an ongoing manga, but its probably a good time to pick it up as the anime just came out)
Monster
20th Century Boys (I heartily recommend both of these and any description by me will be a big fail)
Dragon Head (post-apocalyptic survival)
Vagabond (a fictional and vagabondic approach to Miyamoto Musashi by creator of Slam Dunk)
National Quiz (A satire where Japan is a lone, totalitarian superpower and revolves around a quiz show)

That’s a couple; let me know what you think… : d

I think you could just rewatch some of your faves or even resume some you may dropped or put on hold. (I just quickly skimmed your anime list and I feel that there’s at least ten or so that you may like)

Also, that whole ‘moe’ complaint is legit and it IS getting pretty ridiculous. I for one like some of these shows don’t get me wrong. But there’s so many manga out there that I feel deserves an adaptation and it makes me wonder WHY they haven’t done it yet.

Just so you know, I’m a late bloomer to anime (I watched when I was a kid, but through highschool I largely ignored anime watching because I thought it was ‘uncool’) so while I can’t say that I know as much anime as you do but I do have my roots in comics/manga in general so if you want I can throw in a few recommendations. Just give me a reply and maybe a couple of stuff that you’re looking for and stuff.

@ Shin Getter - I happen to have SRW on my hard drive and I didn’t finish that, same thing with Gurren Lagen. Sensei, teach me about konjo, hard work and passion!

@ thenullset - that’s an interesting thought. Perhaps it’s time for this disciple to bring someone else to the dark side.

My recommendation: first, take a break from blogging. Don’t worry about keeping up with news. Second, try getting into some other hobby. Watch other sorts of shows/movies. Delve into different comics. Or explore something quite different, like music or theater.

To Shin_Getter: H games have existed since before ‘92. See http://www.shii.org/geekstories/eroge.html

As for impossible situations, that is why “kill them all tomino” exists. I demand you go back and review the “galactic gigadeath event” animes where everyone must die in the last episode!

Well, it is not that there is a lack of material in the general otaku domain of manga and games but anime companies don’t find it worthwhile right now. With a 13 episode format, it wouldn’t work that well anyways, so only anime companies that can sustain a 26×2 or 52 episode season can do it. Now if only all those clutter go away and we finally get our next FMP or even get MuvLuv Alternative animated…..

You are right, it is not the anime but it is you. Everyone likes a good story, the first time they read it. With every passing reading the enjoyment degrades.

That doesn’t mean you have to move away from anime culture altogether, it merely means you have to readjust yourself. Look at the folks at tvtropes.org where they deconstruct every piece of media creation down to its bones and find enjoyment in that. Or look at the experience of old gundam otaku that has been in the anime world for a decade or more and had seen a dozen *stolen gundam!* plot lines. They literally have seen everything and have every reason to loath every new series, but they find little pleasures in the weird things like analyzing orb MS design path or skipping around the anime to understand parody doujinshi. (alpha’s 4koma in the self-parody level GSD….haha)

cut back on the filler anime like the numerous moe moe anime per season and watch stuff that actually have new premise (say SHnY) or outside the traditional genre or in a different time period. New shows today generally feature incremental changes over the previous one so that is why they look so similar. However jump ten years and everything changes, for example look at the anime lineup in the era where eroge didn’t exist.

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Finally, self reflect on whether it is the anime or just the general mood of things that prevents enjoyment in general.

And yeah, lower those expectations. Sturgeon’s law dictates that 90% of everything is crap so 9/10 animes that you watch will be crap.