OP BREAK (Just 1 Week) (Patreon)

The short version: I'm taking next week off watching OP. Tuesday I'll be replacing it with other reactions, but Thursday I'm going to use that time to do my Nezuko photoshoot (my custom outfit finally arrived). I will be watching 4 episodes of OP again on 29 June (so not next week Tuesday, the week after - just one week off OP). 

The longer version (why I am taking a week off). There is no need to read the below, I just want to share some thoughts. 

Last night I was rambling a lot in the last two episodes, but somewhere during 676 I realised that the reason I was overthinking things, was because I felt like I needed to find a reason or justify not particularly liking something. I react to many different, some very popular shows in which some people take strong offence when I don't like (or particularly enjoy) something as much as they wanted me to. This has got me into the habit of always painstakingly trying to explain or justify my thoughts/feelings on anime, which is mostly fine, because I enjoy talking haha. But I don't think one ALWAYS needs a reason to just not particularly like something.

So at the end of episode 676 I tried to explain although I understand that there are reasons for these characters act how they do and I don't need that explained to me, it doesn't mean that I have to like certain characters/decisions they make. Sometimes, I just want to be able to not HAVE to like or agree with a character without getting into a 1 hour discussion with every person about why I'm wrong to disagree/not like something. 

After posting everything, someone messaged me after watching 675 already explaining things to me, and I asked them "please finish 676 and you'll understand". They replied saying there seemed to be a misunderstanding in the OP chat so I went to clear it up. Others were discussing/trying to explain to me the reasons for certain actions, and the more I kept saying "you don't have to explain to me, I just don't have to like it" the more arbitrary and hypothetical the conversation began (e.g. "this or that would not have worked because of this or that"). 

I kept trying to say I don't want to discuss hypotheticals, because there is no way for us to know what might have happened if different actions were taken and (like I said in the video) I do understand the reasons, but I don't always have to like them and I think that's fine sometimes.

Somehow the conversation just kept going on and I kept being tagged, and then responding, trying to explain that I just didn't feel like discussing hypotheticals, because I don't feel it's productive. You can't know anything that might have happened unless it did happen in the story so it would just be an endless discussion of "well it would have turned out this way" and then "no it would have turned out this way" without actually getting anywhere or achieving anything. Of course this is fun sometimes, I have endless discussions with people every week with hypothetical discussions from OP, AOT, Naruto, Made in Abyss, MHA and more (old anime that I've reacted to get brought up a lot too). I thought that this one time, if I said "I just don't HAVE to like this and I just don't think I need to justify my opinion on it" that people wouldn't try to "prove me wrong or right" and just be okay with me having an opinion that's different from there's on certain characters/actions. 

But not even a day after posting my videos, people already seemed to ignore what I said at the end and well... it just made me feel like watching OP isn't fun when it's like this all the time, and it's not even about main characters. So that's why I feel like taking a week off from OP, not watching it, not talking about it, will be good. I'm hoping I miss it a bit and get excited to get back to it, instead of feeling apprehensive about it since I would once again need to justify every single thought and sometimes even expressions (if I don't have the right expression in certain scenes, I need to explain that to people as well - "why did you role your eyes at X?" or "why weren't you more excited when X happened?"). 

Yeah anyway I'm hoping y'all will understand not everyone has to agree with you about everything and not everything needs to (or can be) be "proved". I don't understand why there has to be a right or wrong way to think about a characters actions, because even in real life people don't always make the right decision, but you can't change the decision so you just have to deal with what you got from making that decision. Of course you CAN talk about "what would've happened if different decisions were made", but in the end, there's no real meaning to it (except for being fun/interesting when you care about the characters) so I don't always want to have those conversations when I don't particularly care about the characters. I hope you can understand and I hope that a little break will help me to just relax around certain things and not always feel the need to defend myself/opinions and justify every little thing.