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How Do You Watch Your Anime?
Traditional TV Format (About one episode per week)
12%
 12%  [ 1 ]
DVD Release/Weeknight TV Format (3-5 episodes per week, broken up into multiple viewings)
50%
 50%  [ 4 ]
Marathon/Taped Format (Entire series available and completed in a few sittings)
37%
 37%  [ 3 ]
Obligatory 'Gouf' Option / "I don't watch any animation..."
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
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JJc14

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Inspired by an AIM chat with fdd, I pose the following to the Infolink community:

Before torrents and TiVo took off, most of us had to rely on television and DVD release schedules to get in our cartoon fix. This led to the two most common ways to watch a series: week-by-week (which usually meant one episode a week), or a handful at a time (most DVDs have 3-5 episodes a disk, and some television blocks like Toonami pre-2004 would run up to five eps per week). If someone collected an entire series, it could be marathoned all at once or in a few large chunks, but this practice wasn't really big until the ease of downloading or recording shows came into its own. Getting entire series with just a few mouse/remote clicks is admittedly a lot easier than having to borrow DVDs from others or set up times to watch them, and the prospect of having future episodes on one's hard drive/DVR/etc. typically leads to flying through episodes at a faster rate...

Now that we've all lived in this modern era for a few years, the question is simple: How do you watch your anime? I'm not asking about one's preference, just how you most commonly go about watching it now...


Me and fdd's exchange from AIM:
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finaldragoon77: i'm just tired of how anime is aired on tv
finaldragoon77: 30 minutes once a week is not how you're supposed to watch it
Aer0fan14: um...
Aer0fan14: isn't that how they dish it out in japan?
finaldragoon77: yeah but they don't mind
Aer0fan14: so thirty minutes a week would be exactly how you're supposed to watch it
Aer0fan14: =)
finaldragoon77: but look at it this way
finaldragoon77: if they stretch a story arc over 30 episodes
finaldragoon77: that's 30 weeks
finaldragoon77: over 6 months
finaldragoon77: whereas
finaldragoon77: if you had all of it on dvd
finaldragoon77: you could just sit down and watch it all in a day
finaldragoon77: that way
finaldragoon77: it's easier to remember everything
finaldragoon77: but of course you'd have to watch the annoying "let's spend the first 5 minutes of each episode going over what happened last week" junk
Aer0fan14: i guess i've just gotten used to the traditional format
Aer0fan14: seeing the episodes one at a time and having time to reflect on each
Aer0fan14: trying to figure out how things will develop before the next ep airs
Aer0fan14: that's part of why i don't typically put more than 2-3 hours into an rpg over the course of any one day
Aer0fan14: gives me some time to figure things out and maybe catch something i would've passed right over otherwise
Aer0fan14: but to each his own
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WhtHawk

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After all the sweet Right Stuf sales, I still have a couple of box sets to finish watching.

It is certainly more fun to watch anime in groups. That means either marathon runs in one big setting or several small settings. Of course anime club shows two episodes a week for a semester, but I usually watch my shows 5-6 episodes at a time and pretty rapidly.
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Beefy

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There was a time when I would watch a 26 episode series on DVD over the course of 1-2 days.

Now I just watch things as they air on TV once a week. Not live TV, instead I Tivo it and skip through the commercials.
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Gundam0084

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I don't mind stretching the story out over 6-7 weeks(box set), or even a few months(Haruhi). I don't usually go for new series on DVD, though(especially if they're more than 4 volumes long). That's what box sets are for. As for TV style, I don't mind. I actually enjoy having something new to look forward to every week(I think it worked particularly well for Eureka Seven).
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PostThu Aug 16, 2007 11:38 am
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Megagents

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Just to let you guys know, I no longer use the term anime or manga. So online I say cartoons or Japanese cartoons.

I like to watch Japanese cartoons dubbed, I have no problem with it.
PostThu Nov 15, 2007 9:53 pm
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