Why Do We Feel Sad After Finishing An Anime? (Post Anime Depression Syndrome)

Why Do We Feel Sad After Finishing An Anime?

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[kumariis]

When the anime is super long and great, it just feels like you grow with them everyday you watch one of the episode. So when you spent time so much time watching the characters grow and improve, it feels like you are apart of their journey, thus growing more attached to it. However when the day finally comes, the realisation that the anime is coming to an end soon hits you, you feel empty and lonely. It feels like a part of you is gonna leave you.

[Mazkk_]

It honestly feels like leaving your best friend that you’ve known since childhood,

[plxyaboiace]

For me it's because it opens and fills a void in my heart, but when I finish it, it becomes empty again. (But this low-key feels like the people who say "it's more than just a cartoon, it's life"."

[Theblueskullll]

Here after finishing Aot... Literally the best anime to exist and it will always hold a special spot in my heart ❤️

[tonyvanhoogstraten]

Just finished watching bunny girl senpai and im feeling like im at my lowest low ever. Watching anime is a great and beautiful way to escape from reality, but the consequences are heavy.

[xPoemi]

I'm currently going to the worst case of Post Anime Depression I ever experienced and it just consumes me...

Funnily enough, it's a manga that I finished reading for the first time over 10 years ago. The name of the manga is "Anatolia Story" (or "Red River" in some countries) and the physical paper volumes have sat untouched on my bookshelf for several years after I first read through them. For some reason, I recently decided to reread the manga. I still had a vague memory of the story and characters, but much of it was just a blur.

I never expected that this manga, years after its initial purchase, could shatter me so emotionally. I was probably too young at the time (I was about 14 when the manga was completed) to really understand the story and characters, and to be fully emotionally invested in this world.

Reading the last chapter really caused me physical heartache and by the time I reached the last page, tears were rolling down my cheeks. It was as if I had found old familiar friends and a familiar world and lost them just as quickly. I spent endless hours looking for more material on this manga (funnily enough, it was made into a musical in Japan about three years ago), but the emptiness inside me is still painfully present. Knowing that these characters never really existed in this form almost tears my heart out at times.

Although I am immensely grateful to my 10 year old self for originally discovering the manga quite by accident in a bookstore, I have also thought that I could have avoided this pain simply by never touching the volumes again.

In any case, I sincerely hope that these feelings will soon pass and I can look back on this fantastic story with positive feelings.

[shinon_oni]

can i say a sad thing, when i finish an anime, i feel empty for weeks i try to cover it up by watching another anime but after i do, i just feel more empty and in the end i forget it and its just so sad. I imagine heaven would be a place where everything wrong is right and this includes it. :(

[yvricz]

Just finished "This Art Club Has A Problem", just randomly clicked on it and I got attachted to it. It's a very underrated and short anime. Finished all episodes in 2 days and I feel empty inside after I finish. I felt sad.. that I can't experience what the characters did after the ending, I miss their smiles, cries, voices and happiness. I felt sad.. and it's more sad that the characters I liked were never real in the beginning.

[happyyazan]

Terror in resosnace ending really hit different, the twist in the last part of the last episode was a big surprise turning from a happy calm ending into a depressing ending.

[ClarkKnt]

It’s definitely an escape. And it sure feels like I’m scrambling to find something new to fill it with. It sucks because you wish you could run away to a place that you might be accepted and be loved. When you live your life alone in your own head with no friends or even family at times you do anything to try and find some glimpse of relief. I just feel like it’s been getting harder to find any. I think animes portray what you wish your life could be like with everyone helping everyone with their problems. I’m sorry nobody really gonna read this long ass thing but if you do thanks! It just sucks being alone but it’s not alone like missing being in a relationship. It’s just like I have no one 0 zilch. But I’m there for anyone and everyone that I can. I give all of my friends 100% of my effort when they’re having a hard time. But I’m always the adhd kid that’s never sad. It just hurts to be extroverted with no friends that’s all folks thanks for coming to my Ted talk

[JoaKingIII]

I just finished watching "Horimiya" and it made me feel so depressed but also made me realize that you should always cherish the moments you have with your friends (if you didn't know, I'll be a Junior in high school). I also love how the community shares about their "PADS" and it makes me feel relieved that I'm not alone. After this, I'm going to start spending more time with my friends and family. Thank you all!

[Anonymous]

This happens mainly in slice of life and romance genre since we can really relate to it. It just hits really hard when u realise that cannot watch them progress, having fun in their life ....

[mohammedzaid]

dude
I've been feeling this "emptiness" since I watched "your name" 4 days ago and I find this video very therapeutic
thank you so much for the video and keep going!

[moderately]

I just finished Solo Leveling an hour ago and I’ve gone and cried. I wished for a world like this so much because it was just so cool. I looked at the side stories and saw the world built in it and how it’s a parallel to the world I want to have. That’s why I’m experiencing my own Post Anime Depression.

[lochlanbasile]

Such an underated video. Finished assassination classroom and I haven't felt this kind of depression for a while. You wouldn't think that such a show would impact you this much. I remember watching half of the show a few years ago and stopping because I thought it was bad. Man was in wrong. So recently I decided to give it a try again. And this time I finished it and realized how incredible it really was. Guess it shows how I've grown a person because now that I've watched it again, I can appreciate all the things it had that I didn't before. Anyways I love that show and it will always have a special place in my heart. Keep up the videos!

[flloos]

I just finished Kaguya-sama and god i feel empty . This show was such a trip... I first thought "meh" and after have finished the anime and the manga, i can say Kaguya-sama is one of the best work of fiction ive seen. Sometimes it hurts and it contibutes to make me feel really empty, but the moments that hits the most is when all these amazing characters have a good time together. We are living the story with them, are nostalgic with them about the funny moments that happened and can feel what they feel. I think Kaguya-sama Love is war is really a masterpiece that goes well beyond just a comedic romcom anime. I dont even know why this show impacted me that much. Not like Cyberpunk Edgerunners (which has hit alot too), because the event that make you feel that empty is obvious. To this date I just dont know how Kaguya sama impacted me, but I know it did pretty hard.
If you read that, im sorry for the bad english :(

[arthytcritch]

finishing a romance anime hits diff man, i want to continue spending my days emerged in the anime

[joshwhitt]

I tend to feel like this too when a character leaves the anime, even is its temporary, it still hurts. For example when Eris left in jobless reincarnation, that hurt..😢

[Darnell_]

Really sad when shrek ended 😭😭 the best anime 😭😭😭

[will_of_europa]

I think you hit the nail on the head. It's a realization that you don't have any close connections like what they show in the story. The people around us are so... disappointing.