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AirCooledMan_2006
 Posts: 594 Location: Delaware, U.S. |
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When I start on a series, I always see it out till the very end, never skipping an episode. (Except Inuyasha fillers) When I buy anime, I'm a completist to the very core.
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Iwatch2muchanime
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Ahh.
For me, I watch anything and everything. I watch around 11 episodes a day for any series except Sunday, which is my self appointed ANIME DAY. Where I watch around 12 hours of anime and typically watch around 26-32 episodes that day. I'm a big fansub watcher, but because I don't have my own computer, I save those for Sunday, which is another reason why I watch so much. I also fit my games in through my anime watching. I'm playing FFXII, Okami and Tales of Legendia right now so I need good time management. Although I do this for entertainment, It's almost like a job to me, I stick to the schedule and the only way I divert from it is to add more anime too it. Some people I know love how it seems like a job, and they tell me to stick too it. Such as over the Christmas break. I stayed for 24 1/2 hours to watch 50 something episodes in a row. And after that, and this was last Saturday-Sunday, I stayed up for 37 hours watching anime and messing with my Myspace Layout, so I like my anime. And for any series I see on TV, I always stick too it until it's over, then I watch it through DVD later. |
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UKfan
 Posts: 280 Location: Manchester UK |
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My normal mode of operation was 24 episode series a day or 2 12 episode series a day or 3 or 4 OVAs a day.
Gundam Wing took me 3 days but that's a long series. Now I haven't got the time so I haven't really watched much anime in the past four months although I have watched some movies and short OVAs occasionally. I'm hoping that I can get into a 2 or 3 episodes a night routine but I keep putting it off as I don't like leaving things unfinished. My backlog is building up fast though so If I don't start watching stuff soon I'll never get it down. |
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jgreen
 Posts: 1325 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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This post reflects my situation so perfectly that I can't help but quote huge portions of it....
SAME HERE. I have been absolutely awful with the self-control lately when it comes to Right Stuf sales, especially the Geneon 25-for-$100 sale and the big Christmas sale. In those 2 sales alone, I got 12 complete series (lists in spoiler space for people who hate lists: spoiler[Escaflowne, Genshiken, Chobits, Elfen Lied, Paranoia Agent, Samurai Champloo, Armor Trooper Votoms, Last Exile, Mermaid Forest, Moldiver, Sol Bianca: The Legacy, Stellvia]) despite still not having watched Gasaraki from 2004's Xmas sale or a big batch of stuff from the '05 sale. I guess I just get caught up in the "It's such a bargain, I can't pass it up, otherwise I'll end up buying it later but paying a lot more for it" mentality. I swear that I'm going to hold off until I watch at least half of this stuff...or next year's Xmas sale, whichever comes first. 
I usually don't have time to do even that. I typically only watch 2-3 episodes on any given day, and there are plenty of days where I can't quite squeeze in the time to do that. One reason for this is I love a good cliffhanger, and one of my greatest joys from anime comes from when I force myself to stop watching at the end of an episode and then have to ponder for an entire day what's going to happen next. Some shows, like Mermaid Forest or Bleach, are a lot better when you only watch a couple episodes at a time because otherwise they can get repetitive, while other shows, like Fullmetal Alchemist, you just have to charge through whole chunks of it. I try to only watch 2 or 3 series at any given time because of the time it takes me to get through them, especially since a really bad series can slow me down a LOT. I can watch 26 eps of a series I like (Fullmetal Alchemist and Love Hina are recent examples) in about 2-3 weeks, whereas it took me probably 4 months to slog through Please Teacher. 
I typically buy entire series as well, usually at RightStuf sales, and usually sight unseen. I tend to do a lot of research on this site, actually, reading reviews and checking out the user scores and such. I don't always listen to this site, of course....Votoms has a user rating of 6-point-something, but I'm a sucker for 80s mecha shows (and I had seen and enjoyed a couple episodes on Sputnik7 before they stopped hosting streaminganime; what's up with that?), so I went for it anyway. I used to be really bad about buying one volume of something back in the VHS days as I'd try to sample as many series as possible, and as a result I have a ton of series that I only own 2 episodes of--this probably was exacerbated when I bought my friend's VHS collection and discovered he had the same habit I did only it didn't have to be vol. 1. How the heck am I supposed to get into Sorceror Hunters when I only have episodes 3 and 4? 
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LydiaDianne
 Posts: 5634 Location: Southern California |
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24 episodes in one day...12 hours of anime watching per day...
GOOD GOD!!! 
Don't some of you people go to school or work?! 
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pingieking
Posts: 23 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
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I seem to watch anime with an odd style compared to most of you. I give it the "four glimpse trial".
I usually download or borrow DVDs from my friends, and my method is: watch the first 8 minutes of the first episode, the last 2 minutes of the last episode, and two 10 minute segments from 2 episodes randomly chosen from the second to the second last episode. (I might do more or less depending on the length of the series) From there I decide if: 1) I keep watching. 2) Give up now. 3) Save it for when I'm in the right mood. After I've started to watch a series, I will finish that anime before 3 days have passed, or I won't touch it for at least 2 weeks. If I drop a show most of the time it is because the show had overwhelmed my brain's ability to comprehend (Ergo Proxy), and sometimes I just wasn't in the right mood/state of mind (Elfen Lied). My main problem is that my regular dose of anime is 8~20 hours. It's becoming rare for me to pull a 20 hour run because I'm running out of long amine that I like (FMA, Gundam Wing, Gundam SEED+Destiny, and FMP+Fumofu+TSR were all done in 20 hour runs, and Blood + run is planned for this Friday-Saturday). If I don't have at least 8 hours I just go find something else to bother my brain with. For anime with 13 episodes or less, it HAS to be done in one sitting (Elfen Lied was an exception because I wasn't in the mood for a bloody anime). For 26 episodes, one sitting is preferred but not always achievable. Note: Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny were done in two separate 20 hour sittings with a 14 hour sleep period separating them. Similar situation applied to FMP. |
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coffee
 Posts: 170 Location: Florida |
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Reminds me of when I watched the first disc of NGE, went to sleep for a few hours, woke up and marathoned the rest of the series and the two movies.
I don't accomplish much of anything on my days off save massive doses of anime and/or video games. |
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Klampo
 Posts: 93 Location: Pennsylvania |
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I usually work till 10pm so I go home, eat dinner and watch anime from like 10:30 to 11:30. These are subs on the PC then I got school work and stuff till like 3am. Usually doing school work and watching food network. Usually watch anime from like 3:30 to like 4:30 or until exhausted then I go to bed! These are DVDs
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Mr.Diction
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My watching habit really depends on the time, in the summer seasons, i plow through....12-13 series a month, i binge on anime for days. Then i start the school year by agreeing to follow only 10 anime over the year and watching those new episodes weekly. Then next summer, i catch up on all the stuff that wasnt "quite" good enough to make the cut.
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Ragnarokus
 Posts: 3 Location: Netherlands |
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For me it kinda depends on how good the series is, if its realy good, a 26 episode anime is done in 2 days
somewhat unhealthy I agree but once I start its like crack. watching on a weekday to 2-3am is kinda normal for me now. And I need to get out of bed at 7am to work too 
The somewhat lesser good series take about 1 or 2 weeks. |
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Mylene
 Posts: 2792 Location: Indiana |
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That's quite unique, to say the least. It's a very interesting way of giving a show a chance without just watching the first few episodes (which are often some of the worst). As for me, one of my habits is watching anime while riding my exercise bike. I ride for one episode or two episodes, depending on how busy am I, how I'm feeling, or how good the next episode looks and if I want to restrict the current series to exercise-only viewing. This isn't the only way I watch anime, but it's great for series that I'm having a hard time sitting through (SuperGALS! for the first 20 episodes), a great way to get me to exercise (I especially like using good but fluffy anime like A Little Snow Fairy Sugar or Kaleido Star), and a good way to get through the anime I've got stockpiled on the shelf but haven't watched yet (just finished riding while watching an episode of Kimagure Orange Road). I have a recumbent-style exercise bike, so I'm not moving so much that it makes it hard to watch subtitles, and I tend to only choose anime that don't have the most depth (no way am I trying to do this while watching something like Lain or Utena). Anyway, as for my more normal viewing habits, I tend to have several series going at once. I'll watch a couple of "classic" [1960s-1985] or "modern classic" [1985-1998] anime (Candy Candy to something more like Nurse Angel Ririka SOS) that I'll often watch fansubbed because some of them literally don't exist in other forms, a handful of "modern classic" and fairly contemporary anime on DVDs I own that I watch with my husband, and 3 rotating series that I rent from Netflix that I watch alone (because my husband is suffering burn out and can't keep up with my pace). The Netflix tend to be "modern classic" or fairly contemporary. The anime watched with my husband usually involves watching one episode while we eat dinner. With so many series going on at once, I usually have something around to fit my mood, or I can find a way to fit my mood around it. I typically only watch 1-3 episodes of anime a day, but as I come up towards the end of a series, or to the point where it pulls me in to a point that I can't resist watching, I might watch more. I'm a grad student and only a part-time worker, so right now I tend to have a fair amount of time to myself that allows me to watch anime without it interfering with social/school/work activities or interpersonal relationships. |
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