Does anyone else get depressed after finishing a series?

[Daravon]

Right now I'm just bummed because I finished FMA again for the second time. It's so good. Me and some friends were watching it every night. Now that it's over I'm just bored. And I don't know what to watch. It's like an empty feeling.

[isolatedotaku]

I get depressed every now and then. Endings like that of Fullmetal Alchemist and Azumanga Daioh (yeah, Azu's ending made me depressed), and series like Saikano (which left me depressed for about a week) usually get to me.

I can empathizes with that "empty" feeling. Even if a series doesn't leave me depressed, if I liked it enough I usually don't want it to end. Then when it does end, I have this longing for more which creates that "empty" feeling for me.

[jetfire]

I don't get depressed at all after watching a series. I mean, FMA was a great show. It's my #1 anime, but I wasnt depressed when I finished it, because I found it satisfying. If you havent seen the FMA movie yet, then I suggest you do, since it'll tide you over for another 2 hours.

Just find another series to watch, and you'll feel better soon enough. I'd suggest Blood+. It doesnt have the same comical, lighthearted factor of FMA, but it does have awesome character development and a pretty intriguing plot, like FMA.

[animanic_critic]

I just finished watching Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen, and it was one of the most depressing anime out there. Many would prefer a light-hearted ending to it, but the bittersweet approach is more to my liking. I'm depressed for two reasons:

It's nowhere as good as Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen
It marks the grand finale to the Rurouni Kenshin saga

What a way to keep me depressed for a few days than to mark an end to one of the most popular anime around...

[silan]

I was depressed after watching Violinist of Hameln. But that movie's enough to turn anyone emo and drive them to wrist-slashing.

[C0MPL3X]

No offence but movie sucked. The series was awesome though.

Now that it's over I'm just bored. And I don't know what to watch. It's like an empty feeling.
Some animes do catch me offguard, but so far I haven't fallen far enough to get depressed and empty because I am bored and have no idea what more anime to watch.

'when you have fallen so far that there is a void in your heart that only an anime can fill, you FAAAAIL~'/random quote

[bwing55543]

I just finished watching Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen, and it was one of the most depressing anime out there. Many would prefer a light-hearted ending to it, but the bittersweet approach is more to my liking. I'm depressed for two reasons:

It's nowhere as good as Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen
It marks the grand finale to the Rurouni Kenshin saga

What a way to keep me depressed for a few days than to mark an end to one of the most popular anime around...

1. True, it's nowhere near as good as Tsuiokuhen.
2. As far as finales are concerned, you're better off reading the Rurouni Kenshin manga. The manga explains the Jinchu arc a lot better.

[Johanen]

I got depressed at the end of Cowboy Bebop, but for all the right reasons lol.

[Mevolution]

I felt worse after the FMA's movie: conqueror of shamballa than i did with the series itself. even though the movie's ending had total finality, and it wasn't a depressing end, you can eve call it a happy ending.

[animanic_critic]

Another aggravating series that left me the same impression as RK: Seisouhen was Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien/Rumbling Hearts. I have to give it to them in terms of their drama, but it's just bathos at the end of the day.

Not to mention how cheesy it was, but it left me depressed because it sucked BIG time and I just can't understand the emotions that went on in the show. Screw you, Narumi Takayuki, for two-timing chicks!

[Sparrow]

Cowboy Bebop, I was depressed when it ended. But whenever I get upset about an anime being finished I think, "there is so much more anime that have not yet explored." Hey...that's kinda poetic. Aww...I feel all fuzzy inside.

[Daravon]

"there is so much more anime that have not yet explored."

Yeah but is there so much more GOOD anime to explore? That's the reason I watched FMA again, because the few new series I started watching were letting me down. I need something to at least match FLCL, FMA, Cowboy Bebop, and exceed Azumanga, suzumiya, lain, and haibane renmei.

[KiraraKim]

For most series I really like I usually end up reading the manga which either continues from where the anime ended or in some cases is even a completely different story (and 90% of the time more enjoyable than the anime series). So I guess I don't really get depressed when a series ends I just look for ways to continue the series.

Another option is of course to rewatch a favorite series over again. Currently I am following too many new series to watch anything again but I usually notice things I missed the first time around on a second viewing,

[Mana]

I did for some series.... Rose of Versailles, Haibane Renmei, Paradise Kiss. Most I don't, though.

[aoi_n_asul]

i cried at the end of gunslinger girl and i felt waaay bad after watching seissohen that i needed a good catharsis to get out of the feeling. i felt depressed too after watching the end of cowboy bebop although i was in denial with the outcome of the series ^^

[animanic_critic]

On a serious note, Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen was the title that moved me the most, apart from Now and Then, Here and There. I felt depressed 'coz Tomoe and Kenshin really deserved to be together... rather than that loud-mouthed Kaoru.

As for NTHT, I always wonder when will Sala return home...:bowing:

[Sae]

I didn't want Gravitation to end!!! Worst Ending EVER! So many unfinished things at the end. Awful! Almost CRIED!:sweat: lol

But yeah, more on topic, Magic User's Club. :whine: It was sooo good!!! Even though the ending satisfied me, I was still really sad...grrr lol

Sae

[Dark Lord]

That usually happens to me whenever I finish a good series (especially Cardcaptor Sakura, Angelic Layer, and Midori no Hibi)... I get really depressed after finishing one that's really good... Though I would feel better if I find another one that's good... Though it usually takes me like a monthor two to find a new one... *sigh*

[LadyYuina]

I'm usually sad afterwards when I finish watching an anime series/movie with sad endings. Sometimes I feel neutral towards some though, depending on the flow of things throughout the entire show.

[animeluver]

not neccessarily. but i do feel sumthin when im done. i get the same feeling when im done watching anime period unless its to change the dvd. lol then i gtg get more anime! lol

[kyubichan]

Hmm... I don't think it's depression I feel when I finish a series, more like I feel sorry it's finished already? (I don't know what it is in English, but locally I'd say "nanghihinayang ako").. I feel sorry coz I know it's the end already, and there's no more to come... unless it was Dragonball I was watching, or Sailormoon :P

[ShinoMatrix]

Nanghihinayang... haha, I suppose that sums it up...

Yeah, I don't get all emo and "cry out blood" even when the ending to a series is sad(ish) or whatever... but I do feel a similar thing to such moments in my life when I'd have to say goodbye. It's an ending, it's a moment to let go and take from it whatever you can, but it's not something to get hung up over... move on.

[LadySage]

Depressed? No. I watch way too much anime to get depressed whenever I finish a series, or I'd never get anything done. (Not that I get anything done anyway) Sometimes, I'm relieved to finish a series, like when I had to watch that abortion of a series, Air Master.

The series that got the strongest emotional reaction out of me at the end would probably be Ranma, Love Hina, Fushigi Yuugi, and Azumanga Daioh. Those four, however, I had a deeper connection to than simple enjoyment. Ranma was my introduction to fandom, and I spent a TON of time and money on it. Fushigi Yuugi was another hardcore obsession - at the time, I thought they didn't make anime better than that. Love Hina was a series I shared with a lot of friends. Azumanga Daioh I could relate to strongly on a personal level, because the characters reminded me quite a bit of my friends. Those series had me bawling at the end...but not depressed. If I enjoy a series over a long time, I may very well feel a twinge at the end.

But definitely not depression. It's just Japanese cartoons, after all.

[bwing55543]

I was depressed after seeing the endings of Outlaw Star and Rurouni Kenshin: Seisohen for this one reason: Please tell me that that's not it! Please tell me it doesn't end like that!

1. Outlaw Star:
Too many things left unexplained.

2. Seisohen:
Melodramatic ending. I wasn't even sure if Kenshin died or just passed out.

[animanic_critic]

2. Seisohen:
Melodramatic ending. I wasn't even sure if Kenshin died or just passed out.
Kenshin and Kaoru are pushing up daisies as we speak =P

[Zirilan]

Nah, I wouldn't say I get depressed when I finish an anime. Depending on the ending thoguh I'll feel different things, I might get upset b/c I missed an ep(s) that led to the ending, I might feel satisfied if I was happy with the ending and the way the story went, or in the cases like those of Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen & Seisohen I may even be brought to tears. My final mood with an anime weighs highly on the ending and everything that led up to it so my mood can end up pretty much anywhere, I can't recall ever really feeling depressed by an anime though.

[bwing55543]

Kenshin and Kaoru are pushing up daisies as we speak =P

And so are:
Tomoe
Enishi
Saito (I found out he died of a stomach ulcer)
Okita (died of TB)
Hiko
Yahiko
Sanosuke
Megumi
Dr. Gensai
Ayame
Suzume
Tsubame
Tae
and any other character I can't think of right this instant.

[Emeraldas]

I was sad to see the endings of NieA_7 and Haibane Renmei come and go. I felt I'd grown so close to the characters, and the ways that both series end make you feel you're abandoning them (Haibane less so than NieA, despite the latter being the more cheerful show).

Millennium Actress left a pleasant ache.

I'm usually relieved to finish a series. I have a feeling when I finally get to the end of Utena, I'll be sad, if only because I've been slowly trying to complete it for about 3 years now.

[Arflanger]

Only when it sucks.

[Dark Lord]

Well... I would normally feel sad... unless its a really long boring anime that I hate (Dragon Ball comes into mind)... I usually obsess over the anime I watch... so I would naturally feel depressed...

[kLaUS]

Yeah, not depressed, sad bekause a great show is over and your not gonna watch that history that got you caught up for weeks... that happened to me with last exile, azumanga daioh, FMA, gungrave (whoa , what an ending!), and right now with eureka 7, but not bekause its over, but bekause i cant get the rest of the episodes (im up untill 26 and i need to watch th rest!!!)...

[RuKiAsShAdOw]

I got depressed after I finished Azumanga Daioh. There's just so much more to tell! But I guess it's all for the best, I mean, you wouldn't want a crappy spin-off would you?

[Angi]

i just finished watching Saikano yesterday, and yeah, it left me quite depressed. i don't think they should have made the end quite so dramatic. "the world is completely destroyed and only one human remains." kinda stupid but i've been depressed all day.

[NausicaaBoy]

sometimes..but then im the freak who goes and buys all the box sets so I watch my stuff over and over again
....
:flyzapper:

I finished chobits today and was pretty well crushed (on a side note)

[Dark Lord]

To me the feeling of beginning an anime or a manga, but after reaching the middle, I suddenly can't watch the rest of the series is worse than the feeling I get when I finish a series... After all, a completed series is better than an incomplete one... That's just my opinion of course...

[Selius Raine]

The ending of Kino's Journey depressed me, because I just felt as if I wanted to see more. It just felt too short.

Also, the ending of Chrono Crusade depressed me, but that is for an obvious reason.

[Ghostmaster]

I mean I get upset that the series has to end because it's so good or it's sad.

[kobi666]

i usually don't get depressed after i finish the series.
usually i have the next one i want to see all setup for me, i just have to
buy the beer and make the popcorn.
but i have a little ceremony that i do after each anime that keeps me thinking.
i take half a day off all my duties in the house or my job or my friends and think about what the creator was trying to tell me in every mood i can get myself to be in. that's how i squeeze the anime for whatever it can bring me.
i remember two animes that made me depressed though.... EVA(first 2 times after that i was happy as a cat who smoked weed every time i saw the ending of the series) and trigun.....
at any case there's a lot of anime out there waiting for you to watch and explore their depth.
go for it and see all that intrests as long as your still alive!