<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #f8f8f8;">The Yuletide season is upon us &mdash; and what better time to mull over the choices we&rsquo;ve made, and will continue to make in our respective anime-viewing lives, as the year winds down to a close.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #f8f8f8;">A lot of us, I&rsquo;m sure, are in eager anticipation of the coming holiday breaks which are fast-approaching. Rather, they can&rsquo;t come any sooner really. A period of joyful celebration with the family, followed (ideally) by some well-deserved downtime. Some may argue that weekends alone are already a nice reprieve from the mundaneity of everyday life (be it from school or work) and while that may be true, it still doesn&rsquo;t beat not waking up at some ungodly hour on a Monday &mdash; though I say that, I really do wake up that early anyways; time is precious dear reader :p



<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #f8f8f8;">Precious indeed, especially for us anime fans but, I digress. Another year is about to end (at the time that I&rsquo;m writing this at least), and I simply can&rsquo;t help but think about all the anime that I ended up watching in these past twelve months. Ever since I started watching anime seasonally (which would be Fall 2010/Winter 2011, specifically with Index S2 *coughcough <del>IndexS3 in 2018 get hyped</del> cough*) I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ve ever really &ldquo;ran out&rdquo; of things to watch.

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #f8f8f8;">I almost always try to follow at least three shows per season at the minimum. If I end up not picking &ldquo;the&rdquo; show of the season I&rsquo;ll go back to it in the interim between seasons if I can. If not, I&rsquo;ll mark it down on my un-ending backlog of stuff to watch. It can&rsquo;t be helped. Some of us just don&rsquo;t have the time to watch as many anime as we may have had in the past (one of the more grim-er realities I&rsquo;ve come to realize as an adult). I&rsquo;ve come to terms with the fact that I won&rsquo;t get to watch every &ldquo;good anime&rdquo; that comes out every three-four months anymore, and at the very least I can pick them up down the road whenever I do have the time (I even very stiffly talk about this back as early as 2012 xD)

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #f8f8f8;">The list of titles that I want to finish continue to rack up, leaving me to wonder whether I&rsquo;ll ever cross everything out in my anime-viewing lifetime, and as I think about this predicament I came across this quandary &mdash; at the rate that I watch anime as it is, would there really be a time to rewatch anime?

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #f8f8f8;">There&rsquo;s this mentality that I&rsquo;ve adopted for quite some time now for reading (books) in that there will always be something new out there to read. Not &ldquo;new&rdquo; in the sense that they&rsquo;re books published recently, but new to me. I&rsquo;m not the biggest reader (in so far as being appreciative of &ldquo;classic literature&rdquo; is concerned) and I&rsquo;m surely not the fastest either (I must&rsquo;ve finished only close to twenty titles this year, counting light novels which are generally short to begin with, so I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s a lot at all), but I do love it. Reading, that is. In fact, ever since I got done with my undergrad thesis the number one thing I was most excited about was that I&rsquo;d be able to read for leisure again, when at the time I read only things relating to my research.

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #f8f8f8;">A reality of sorts befell on me while I scoured through dozens of scholarly articles and journal publications at the behest of my adviser, and that is: while I&rsquo;m reading something, I&rsquo;m not reading something else &mdash; so why read something I&rsquo;ve read before, if I can read something new. Of course, this was in the context of me having to build a proper review of related literature for my paper, but as the practice had become part of my life for about half a year, I couldn&rsquo;t help but take on this perspective and apply it to my consumption of media in general; anime included.

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #f8f8f8;">That is to say; while I&rsquo;m watching something, I&rsquo;m not watching something else &mdash; so why watch something I&rsquo;ve seen before, if I can watch something new.

<p style="margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: #f8f8f8;">There&rsquo;s also the idea that just because something is new, doesn&rsquo;t mean it&rsquo;s good, so you might end up wasting your time on a show when you could&rsquo;ve just as easily enjoyed an anime that you know is good. Then again the argument comes back around when you realize you won&rsquo;t really know whether something is good or not if you don&rsquo;t sit down and watch it.