How To Deal With Post Anime Depression 

POV: you search this up, you're not alone

when you finish darling in the franxx: PADS edit: I just finished bunnygirl senpai and it has the same effect

Also when you slowly fall in love with the character. Having to realize that they’re not real. Their a drawing and that there’s probably no one that could ever be like them

This video explains exactly how I feel. This is also the main reason I'm recently watching less and less Anime. Not because I don't like it, but because it hurts. Finishing an Anime or even an Episode can left me feelin empty even though I was happily smiling seconds ago. This is more apparent with people who don't like the real world and use Anime as an option of escapism. People like me. (I don't care if it sounds edgy.)

I just wanna cry dude. Even after finishing an anime everything hits different. Even Lil peep can’t help with that. You just lay down and you start thinking “what the hell am I living” and “why is my life so trash”. It’s just unexplainable the way you admired that anime and its characters. You just wish you were in there and have a reason to live and move forward. This feeling is slowly consuming me....

The anime doesn’t even have to be sad. When I finish adventure anime such as konosuba I got PADS, it’s like my heart feels empty and my mind makes scenarios that don’t actually happen in the anime, but make me wonder what could’ve happened. And the journey you go on as the viewer, watching the character has their moments is just hard to get over. At the end of the day, I realize that I’ll never be able to experience the same love and happiness that the MC’s have.

I just finished rewatching Horimiya and I got PADS and guess what, PADS hits harder if you’re an adult. Aside from the feeling of emptiness there’s also a pinch of regret and frustration because you didn’t experience slice of life things during your youth.

For me the end of an anime is like seing all of this characters dying at the same time because there is no way you’ll see them again keep going in there life or adventure, it’s so hard to deal with

Good timing, I’ve watched toradora and angel beats about 6 years ago, I just rewatched them and I’m getting the post depression again😂

My Tip: If it's a sad ending then think positive things about the character after the show like now atleast they'll live happily. If the protagonist dies then think about the things they have done and how it was necessary and think about everyone else's perspective. Best Tip: Imagine the story yourself bc it depends on you, how you take the story. Even a non popular sad anime has many alternate versions, so just think about an alternative favourable to you yourself. BTW that's my plan for AOT S4 part 2..

Its even worse when you keep looking up if there will be another season. Then you find out it will never happen. 😔

Attack on Titan isn’t even finished but I still have pads🥲😭

I feel like there is a hole in my heart, anime felt like I was away from the real world, now thats over. Now I’m back to reality and it doesn’t sit right with me. Now all I can do look up at the sky and breath and think there is more to life then just anime/manga. I wish it wasn’t over though.

This video is EXACTLY what I’m feeling, thinking about, or just relating too. I love it!!!!!!

A lot of people commenting about darling in the franxx. That is why I'm here it feels good to not be alone

i wish darling in the franxx had 500 eps

Hope you guys enjoyed the new vid! Comment any other topics you'd like me to cover 😄

I always get so immersed in the anime, I feel like I live in that world, then after the episode ends, it's like my soul comes back into my body

Just finished the attack on titan manga. Wish I could watch it again for the first time.

Just finished Darling in the Franxx now im sad

i have actual depression but post anime depression hits different fr

Honestly this gets soooo much worse in the romance comedy genre I feel, especially when ya binge watch entire shows. Often for me I find that it isn't cause the show ended, but often because I can feel quite attached and can relate to certain characters or story plots as maybe I have the same characteristics or have memories of similar events. Often I find that I feel this way is because I miss and wish to relive such memories and see the people in those memories.

You saved my heart bro I would’ve spent hours thinking about it and all night dreaming about more lore but waking up to disappointment

I somehow cure my depression by thinking about the future and try to watch another anime.

I am a new anime addict, & I just watched darling in the franxx, & I have post anime depression now

My Post anime depression is so bad that I can't even see the cover of the show or ill start getting upset again

Everyone who’s feeling sad over darling in the franxx, the manga has a different ending where they’re both alive and live happily ever after. I was going through PADS but finding out abt the manga ending helped ease it a lot. But I still feel empty either way so 🥲

Glad to know I’m not alone, and that it’s normal. It makes me feel better

im having post depression right now after watch Darling in the franxx

When i first started watching darling in the franxx my brain was like "alright you already know there will be an end to this anime" then when i finished it i was sad soo i just kept watching it over and over but while i was watching i was just thinking about the ending and saying to myself "atleast they met at the end so stop being sad" soo yeah but until now im still kinda sad : (

i just finished cyberpunk edgerunners and pads hit me the hardest it has ever done bro i was full on crying and shit. thank you for this video bro

The best way that alleviates the PADS for me is being able to talk and gush about whatever I just watched with other people. It makes me feel like I’m not alone and it’s not over, I can still enjoy it in discussion and reminiscence.

Do not get attached to jojo characters. For the love of God dont do that.

YOUR LIE IN APRIL IS JUST A MASTERPIECE 😭❤❤

Great video. Thanks for sharing and helping others with PADS.

thanks for the tip, especially the first tip, now i starting to get some idea for my plan

Just a friendly reminder, Depression acts up in many different ways. Some are sad, some are mad. When you have depression you aren't always sad, some people get really mad and act mad all the time. Depression isn't like what it is in the moves, some people just forget what is happening and ends up daydreaming, or getting lost in their thoughts. Including anime/mangas, It's just as sad at it is. It gets to show that not all endings gets to be happy, shows how much pain we can go though to put it in our daily lives. Keeps hunting me :)

I suffered from pads after seeing bunny girl senpai

Thanks dude, just went through Oshinoko in a day it was a rollercoaster of emotions for me

Thank you so much,this helped me since I just finished a real life related anime and I couldn't sleep for days and my heart was hurting

i watched your lie in april 3 months ago and til this day any time i see a scene from that anime i tear up

My friends recommended me Toradora a long time ago and I finally got around to it. I’ve never had PADS so hard in my life. I ended up watching Rent-a-girlfriend. I have no idea why but the that rent a girlfriend kinda just made me feel better. The show was strange but it was light hearted fun

Literally no one: Also literally everyone: *TALKING ABOUT DARLING IN THE FNAXX* me: *sigh...* same.

POV: You've finished an anime and searched this

**Me seeing Darling in the Franxx tts** Me: Maybe i should watch this it looks funny! Also me finishing it: **literally depression for 2 weeks**

Never thought Gen Z could become depressed like this...

I watch it and I fall in love with everything thing they have. I love the show. And the people in it become my friends. I don’t have any friends so that explains why I feel this way. Then the comparison starts I start wanting everything they have and I become sad and hating myself. I don’t know why. I admire the determination the character later have and how life is for free. Nothing repeats excepts the happiest moments. I have a hate/love relationship with anime.

I just binged the whole EVA series inclduing the movies and the clips from the movies in this video made it a lot easier to relate, thank you for this.

I've started watching so many animes, but I'm scared to finish them because I know I'm going to be sad.

When I finished darling in the FranXX I was shaking

Thanks dude, you help me alot to get over it!

Watching this after finishing My dress-up darling especially remembering Marin saying "see you later" at the end.

i honestly love how chill you sound

U just explained everything that happened to me after watching a anime series

Thank you i really needed this.

Thank you for making this video :)

It’s not that I can’t forget. It’s that I don’t want to. I don’t want to feel this way, but I want to remember these characters and deaths and moments😢.

Watching AOT is just Unimaginable pain. It feels like im drowning in Tears and pain... SCREW PADS

Thx man that helps out a lot that I know that it has a name and people feel the same way keep up the good work

Thanks for ur tips, and feeling description, very helpful for me

After watching Your name...i am here😢😢😢

i just finished my first anime and its darling in the franxx and i REGRET IT

Your lie in April. Shit was insane. It has been 5 months since I watched it first but I still feel things when I watch clips.

A silent voice was one of the most depressing anime I've watched

I have depression and my default state will always be lonely. I recently just finished Oregairu and it's rough PADS on top of my already depressed state. Thank you, this made me feel better. Also, quick tip: read bad reviews of the anime. It's a way of removing the rose-colored glasses that we see the anime through and pulls us back to the ground. It's like remembering the bad times and reasons why you broke up in a bad relationship. With anime though, you don't actually have to believe the bad reviews but it'll electrocute you back into the state of "It's just a show."

Damn, i just finished darling in the franxx yesterday and i really feel sad about the anime ending. Why did they make the anime that cruel? While in the manga, hiro and zero two survived the battle and be together forever? Damn, i just wished they do the manga ending instead of the anime. Just wishing for season 2 tho for a proper anime closure :)

cant wait to see how hard the post anime depression hits the people that watch one peice

This is why I like to spread my attention to different hobbies so I don’t just rely on one thing and be so depressed if I’m deprived of it.

Shingeki no kyojin will do us dirty 8 years of my fav piece of art ever

i started watching hitorijime my hero like 4 hours ago, now i can’t get over of how they have such a touching emotional love life, makes me want to cry sometimes i imagine if these people were real in the past, they died, and it satisfies me, i don’t know why

Winter 2022 gonna hit hard man!😩

Thank you for this video :) toradora really just hit different

I finished JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 2 days ago, and I managed to keep my mind off of finishing it by spending time w/ my family until now. Now the realization has really hit me. It's over. I know there's more seasons, but they just feel so different. I was so attached to the crusaders and the plot of that season in particular, and I prolonged it as long as I could so bc I knew something like this was going to happen. So now, here I am, crying over it. I've started rewatching it, and that made me feel a bit better, but now I'm getting stressed out too bc my best friend is telling me to watch another anime (I started it before JJBA but after I got to SDC I dropped everything for JJBA). However, my PADS is making every other anime I try to watch seem boring. I want to explain to her, but I feel like she's not going to understand and she's going to tell me 'just go watch the next season' or she'll think that the anime she recommended me is boring and I don't want her to feel that way. It wasn't boring before I got PADS, and it's not even just that anime, _everything_ feels boring now. I also have ASD, which causes me to have special interests (which are full-on obsessions for me), and Stardust Crusaders is my special interest, which makes it hurt even more to finish. I don't even want to tell anyone I finished it bc they'll force me into watching something else that'll seem boring. On top of that, now my brother, who's also a weeb, is telling me to watch another anime that he watches and I'm afraid I'll just disappoint everyone. He got mad at me for finishing a different anime and rewatching that one even without PADS, as I knew there would be more seasons and the manga is still going on, but I got over that obsession and now my obsession is SdC and ofc there's no more content for it. I think I'm going to try reading the manga and rewatching it. I also remember the rush of happiness I got from first watching it, and whenever I think back to when I started it I just get so sad. I want to experience that again. There are some songs I listened to a lot around that time, and now whenever I listen to them it feels bittersweet. I'm going to try rewatching it, bc I know I won't be able to let go for a while. Sorry for rambling, I just needed to get that out. Edit a month later: It's still here :")

I finished Darling in the FranXX and I decided to try and forget about the anime so I don't get PADS and IF season 2 of Darling in the FranXX ever comes out then I will start watching it again.

Clannad messed me up, I’ve never cried so much over an anime. I couldn’t stop my heart just couldn’t take it anymore.. I literally couldn’t stop thinking about it for weeks..

Some more tips I would recommend are: 1. If you liked the music from the show, there are a places on the internet to find and download the music from soundtracks, vocal songs, and even character CDs with new songs to listen to in the voices of the characters from the show. It's a chance to say "sure the anime is over but I can carry the music forward wherever I go next." 2. As shown in the video, make some fan art, or at least print some artwork of your favourite characters and have them in your bedroom or a motivation poster or something. Even a custom badge with the character's face may lift your spirit. 3. Dress up and have fun being the characters of your show at a convention, whether you buy or make the outfit. Someone may even recognise you. 4. Make a list of things you've learnt from the anime, whether it is memorable quotes, phrases or real life facts 5. If the show had something food related in it, try making or just eating that food.

After finishing 'Your lie in April' 🤧😪 We all 4 siblings had drawn the beautiful moments and I'm also working on one its soundtrack to cover :) It kinda gave me relief but I'm still in!

i loveed darling in the franXX soooooooo much i cried for a straight month and im still not over it :(

Thank you for this bro ❤️👊🏻

The quintessential quintuplets left me feeling depressed,disappointed and dissatisfied

Evangelion thrice upon a time got me here after finishing it I don’t know what to do anymore the end hit me so hard and as soon as the credits started playing the tears started ah flowing

Violet Evergarden... Finished the S1, Special Episode, 2019 movie and now the 2020 movie. The series have come to an end. I felt really happy at the ending but my emotions are getting mixed up and I can feel every change in me. I try to think how Violet (the character) will do or think or speak in a particular way and I'll try to do that. Sadness and depression is also very visible and I just feel like crying always and try to tell myself that Violet is in a better place even though I know this doesn't exist. Trying to overcome it guys so don't worry, things, problems, depression and sadness are like passing clouds. They come and go and never stay forever! Just hang in there and its okay to feel like this and have changes or feel sick. It'll be fine and dont forget to watch other great animes. One more thing that you'll experience the same emotions after like a month or week suddenly but it's ok. Everyone has been there. Ya just gotta hang in there. Cheers! ❤✌

AOT was my fifth anime, it came out when I was a kid who was carefree and had so much less to worry about, but... I'm not ready... I'm not ready to let go, I dont want that era to end.

It's not just anime you can get this felling on any story you like the most or it is related to you or you like the characters (I feel sad very much but you encouraged me thank you)

I am crying 😭 after watching DARLING IN THE FRANXX 😔😔(right now)

hunter x hunter just rewatch it and i feel depress now 😔

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!

needed this

Most of the ppl here are after the darling in the franxx, I just loved it, hope their were more seasons but currently PADS have taken me currently

Me after seeing darling in the franxx : discovering post anime depression in this video Me after seeing akame ga kill : seeing this video 2nd time Me after seeing Angel Beats : seeing this video 3rd time .....to be continued

shits real, when you go through that stark contrast, between that absolute euphoric and great feeling of all these emotions waving over you, than it ends, and your in reality, where it really isnt like that at all. It can easily easily get you depressed if you become attached to the anime. I binged 2 seasons of rezero and at the end, i shamefully hate to say i fell into such a burst of suicidal intention if i had a gun i genuinely doubt i would be alive. I became so attached to the show because of how mundane my normal life is, that instead of trying to accept reality, i escaped and pulled back into the anime, and when it ended, i was slingshotted head first into the brick wall that reality is. It was by far the greatest anime i had ever watched and i had never ever gotten so emotional over any anime, i loved the entire thing. But it ended and when it did i really did feel like i had lost part of my heart.

glad to know I'm not alone who is going through this .

darling in the franxx left a hole in my chest

The thing is, I relate the anime to my life and just think "Man my life is really boring" I just feel there is nothing interesting in life to do(only for a day, I literally feel better the next day and forget the feeling of pads)

I watched and finished Horimiya last night. And the ending made me put somethings into perspective and made me realize a lot about life. It's got me in a weird kind of depression. I've never had a show do this to me. It's not even depressing just really fucked me up about how real the ending feels.

For me it was a short anime, Darling in the FranXX, I was EXTREMELY connected to the characters and loved experiencing what they were doing and it made me happy , but it ended and made me fell empty

I never knew finishing the demon slayer manga could make me feel so empty. Demon slayer was such a masterpiece and I wish I could savor the feelings and hype more. Now that it's gone I feel sad and can't believe it is over. I have had this feeling before and it usually goes away after a week, but damn... every time I finish a great anime I feel so empty like I lost something important to me.

I always was aware of this feeling after finishing a great anime but I've never had to look for ways to deal with it until I finished FMAB yesterday

Thanks for this

I have always had severe pads .. i have watched all last 3 seasons of attack on titans in the last three days.. n i can’t control my brain anymore .. i dream abt it .. think abt it .. the sounds n music rings in my ears all the time and the scences just repeat in my brain over n over.. n i feel very very sad .. i have asthma already n its making it worse.. i might have to quite anime for life