How do you deal with the lingering pain after finishing a series?

>>36815126
I think babylon 5 was the one that cracked me. I honestly cried my eyes out when they blew up the station.

Recently I was watching World Trigger and I got up to episode 73 and apparently there isn't any more. So I never get to find out what happens.

Every time that happens, my faith in humanity dies just a little more.

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I've stopped watching rom com and slice of life anime because the pain is just unbearable

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The show that made me stop watching anime for a while was kon and clannad. It was just too hard to get back into anything else. Idk man I try to forget about sad shows.

>>36815158
That sounds crushing. I dont know if thats worse than the feeling when everything works out for them, and the show happily ends. At least a shitty end leaves you mad, not sad.

>>36815179
BECK is my go to slice of life. Reminds me of what life could have been.

>>36815231
I havent heard of that. The thing is, its not even sad shows that make me sad. Usually good, happy ones, and im just sad when its over.

>>36815126
Same here anon it takes me like a month to recover

>>36815126
I have a huge backlog for this exact reason. Feels bad.

I never finish anything for this reason.
I know it'll only hurt me so I give up before its over

>>36816140
>>36816458
dont you like the release you feel while inside the show though? when youre really invested in them

I rewatch all my shows like once a year. I just rewatched The Sopranos and it's just as good as the first time I watched it. That second season is literally a perfect season of television.

It doesn't bother me that much. There's lots of other good shows out there and I have a few going at once just so that I'm not left dry.

>>36815126
I can't deal with the pain. Im just thinking about it for several days after i end it. After finishing Life is Strange i was crying in bed for a week.

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>>36817764
I know that feel, anony.

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>>36817764
Life is Strange is objectively a bad game. The story is nothing new and full of hole, the gameplay mechanics are pretty poor, and the characters are unlike-able narcissists.

Not really sure why it hit me so hard too. Soundtrack is amazing though.

>reading book series
>finish 9/10 of them
>refuse to read the last one
>the feeling you describe doesn't come

Just don't finish it OP.

After few months or a year or so read the final part or watch the final episode. You should be detached from the chacters enough that it doesn't matter in the end.

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This is why I don't read fiction anymore.

It's especially bad when you get to the most recent book in a series and the writer hasn't finished it yet. I'm a super slow reader, and the Song of Ice and Fire books took me over a year to read, and now I've completely lost interest in the series.

Factual books are great because there's no characters to get attached to and you learn something from it.