in my experience, just give it time. i had this friend who suddenly started liking anime and went from 'yea its pretty good' to 'omg have you seen this blah blah, i saw him last year...' ...?!! something like that. they talked less about it after a week so yea! just listen or pretend to at least (￣ ‘i ￣;) reply
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