Free Talk Fridays - Week of June 23, 2017

When I was a kid, I lost the ability to ride roller coasters.

Before I was 12 or so, I loved roller coasters to death; I could ride them for hours and not get tired of them. One day, I was on a school trip to an amusement park where, thanks to bad weather, we were almost the only ones in the park and thus, didn't need to wait in any lines. I spent an hour in some ... spinner type ride, where it spun you around in something like the inside of a giant tumble dryer. At the end, for the first time ever on a ride, I felt sick to my stomach.

Something broke in me that day. I don't know how or why, but after that I couldn't spent a minute or two on any kind of amusement park ride without getting incredibly nauseous.

I had a similar experience last year with anime. I used to seek out sad, or dramatic, or edgy shows of all types. I enjoyed a good dramatic twist as much as anyone.

And then I watched a show that broke me. After I finished, my capacity for shows that were overly sad, or depressing, or "feelsy" was gone; I could only subsist on a diet of CGDCT and other light-hearted fare lest my permanently frayed nerves snap on me again.

What I'm (long windedly) saying is that Meta Spoiler was very much like spending an hour in a giant tumble dryer when I was 12.

/r/anime Thread