That makes no sense. Not liking it is the best reason for abandoning a hobby. After all, that's what they are: hobbies, things you put money and effort and time into. If you are not enjoying yourself or you find them a waste of time and resources, there's no point in continuing to pursue them. For anime, I genuinely do not enjoy anime aside from older stuff and occasional new release now. I have spent a lot of time and years with this hobby in particular. I am highly knowledgeable about it and I know that from the current trajectory, continuing to try to pursue it is fruitless. I didn't say I'm going to like, throw out every anime dvd or blu ray out right now or whatever, I just know that as a hobby and something you put time into seeking, I'm kinda over it. Like how an old seasoned comic vet may still read the funny page but take issue with going to a comic store and picking up the latest Batman or whatever. The same is true for games. Play a game when you're bored, play a game after work to cool down, spend the entire evening playing games. Whatever, I know how it works and there's nothing wrong with it, but ultimately, I could be doing something more important or something that will better myself and help me reach my goals. Those hours stack up. The game that made me realize this was probably Samurai Warriors 4. Such mediocrity, yet I kept on playing. 30 hours clocked and I don't even like it much, and I'm barely having fun, because...I don't know the reason. 30 hours wasted that could have been spent drawing, and trying to reach my career goals. 30 hours wasted I could have spent re-learning guitar. 30 hours I could have spent bettering relationships. 30 hours wasted I could have spent on any thing else. I mostly play or played games for escapism, especially gender escapism. I tend to play games where you're engulfed by a game world and there's lore and characters and sometimes an involving storyline and I can play as a girl. But these days, I don't have a need for an escape, for obvious reasons. Real life sounds and looks so much sweeter than the virtual version. When I play games, I don't feel like I'm bettering myself or on the road to bettering myself. It's just something to pass the time, and right now, I don't have the time nor the luxury to waste time, especially since I'm moving to such a competitive place. It doesn't help that overall I don't enjoy games much anymore at all aside from mobile games. The games I liked are dead, and let's be honest, do you really see anything you haven't seen before from games in the near future? I don't! Is this forever? Who knows. Who even cares. But for the time being, it seems important to grow as a person, learn new things, and become stronger because of it and I sure as fuck don't have the time to continue fucking around with things I don't even enjoy anymore just because I liked them in the past out of some odd sense of duty. I'm certainly not doing this because I'm "grown up" and that's what grown ups do. There's nothing wrong with enjoying anime or games. But I think it's important, if one is a goal-minded person, to consider WHY they do the things they do rather than just continue to do follow the same steps of yesterday.VIDEO