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PantsGoblin
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First, I need to mention I am completely opposed to the idea of watching anime at a faster speed, even if you can still understand it. I don't care if you can still understand it, or if the anime doesn't interest you either, that's not how it was supposed to be watched, and completely goes against the interest of the creators. I would rather someone not watch the anime completely than watching it fast-forwarded.
But I have one friend who does this (something I don't approve of, but I can't stop him). He says he mainly does it for anime he's not really interested in but still wants to watch. So I'm just wondering if anybody else actually does this? I actually haven't ever heard of anybody else doing such a thing, so I'm curious other opinions on this. |
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Nom_Anor
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He's a newbie. REAL otaku have their computer set to 3 screen desktop and run three different anime at 2.4x speed all at once.
It seems such a waste. If it isn't worth watching at normal speed, it probably isn't worth watching at all. |
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LilacShadow
 Posts: 165 Location: Kentucky |
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That is weird.
 I've never heard of anyone watching anime fast-forwarded. That seems like it would ruin the experience, if that makes sense. I don't see how someone could really understand an anime by watching it faster. And like you said, it goes against the interest of the creators.
Also, if someone isn't interested in watching an anime, why would they want to watch it? If something doesn't interest me, I probably won't watch it. |
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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I have never heard of this phenomenon and don't know anyone who does anything similar, anime or not.
I do have a question though. When he watches it fast, does the sound play? Even if I play my DVDs at 125% the sound cuts out and most of the subs won't appear either. I just am wondering. Unless you are only talking about fansubs, which are hardsubbed. *testing* Nope, even when I play them fast the sound cuts out. Just wondering. Or he might have a program that does play the sound. |
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Emerje
 Posts: 7430 Location: Maine |
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Oh, I actually used to do this all the time in the 90's. Back then I was pretty much anime starved, you couldn't just run to the FYE and pick something out, you were at the mercy of whatever was at the rental store offered. My brother and I along with my best friend would pretty much rent everything sight-unseen, it wasn't like you could just jump online and check a review so we ended up with some abysmal stuff. However, being "pioneering otaku" (ha!) we would often just fast forward through the slow stuff until it looked like something interesting was happening, just so we could say we watched the show.
 Ah the good ol' days.
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NocturnalUX
 Posts: 448 Location: Portugal |
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This is odd...I suppose it might be somewhat amusing to watch some series on fast-forward if one is already familiar with with them. Say, re-watching Excel Saga on fast forward might be fun.
But as a rule I'd say that I fail to see the point. |
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Keonyn
Subscriber Posts: 5567 Location: Coon Rapids, MN |
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This is the first time I've heard of somebody regularly watching anything in fast forward for any reason other than to get a laugh out of it. I just fail to see the point, it'd be hard to follow, you'd miss some details and everything would look and sound out of whack. That's like picking up a book and reading the first and last page of each chapter.
I guess if he doesn't care enough about the series to watch it normally then why bother with it at all? |
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Vortextk
 Posts: 892 Location: Orlando, Fl |
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I see where he's coming from.
I can watch just about anything, movies, anime, or playing video games. As long as it's average or better, pretty much any genre works for me. With that said, it gets VERY old sometimes. Sometimes I just want to finish an anime just to finish it but it starts to get very disappointing. This is how witchblade is turning out for me. It's tough to sit through something that you don't really care about but you just want it over. Still, while I see how fast forwarding could help, I'm too much of a perfectionist to do that. Hey not like you're gonna live forever, guess he saves some time this way, heh. |
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Redbeard 101
Oscar the Grouch
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The good ol' days of VHA rentals from Tower Records with no idea what the title is beyond the name. So many blind rentals that ended in horrible experiences. Like the La Blue Girl rental because of hey the 1 sentence said she fights monsters.......just simply failed to mentioned she fought monsters and their tentacles with her crotch. Oy. I did the same back in the day. I mean there was no ANN back then to give us info on a show. It was simply try it and see. Like how I thought video game anime would be awesome.  Then rented Virtua Fighter and Battle Arena. Oh God the memories...the painful painful memories.
Now a days with reviews everywhere and ways to preview anime I don't do it anymore because there's really no need now. Back then was a different matter, but now there's no need to with reviews everywhere. You're not going blindly into a show. Sure some of us, myself included, will pick up shows randomly but regardless now even though we might not know much about the series we do about anime itself. So we can still make educated guesses about what shows we may like. If you don't like a show don't watch it. Why waste your time fast forwarding through it? This is a practice I feel is best left in the past for a time where it was more practical. If I don't like a series now I simply stop it. If I do like it why would I want to skip through some of the material? |
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Kruszer
 Posts: 7994 Location: Minnesota, USA |
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I frankly do not understand why in the world someone would do that. A crappy anime is a crappy anime no matter what frame rate it goes by on your screen.
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Clodus
 Posts: 497 Location: Kansas |
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i have actually but very seldom. i have done them for naruto fillers when the episodes weren't nearly as interesting. its not like i go around bragging that i have seen the entire series however but i thought instead of avoiding the fillers like many have suggested, i would give it a shot. it wasnt as interesting so i decided to fastforward some of the episodes. a couple of times for one piece as well, especially when they just add a filler episode out of nowhere or right in the middle of an intense arc.
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caseclosedfan414
 Posts: 264 Location: Missing In Action |
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I remember I was tempted to do that for quite a few shows. I never actually did it, though. Noir, Serial Experiments Lain, the Vampire Hunter D movies, The Place Promised In Our Early Days, Lunar Legend Tsukihime, and Melody of Oblivion are all examples of this.
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DuelLadyS
 Posts: 1705 Location: WA state |
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I don't know anyone who does this, nor do I see the point at all. If he just wants to know what the show's about, why not read an online synposis? It'll be faster, and he can just say "I know that one- it's so-so" whenever someone asks.
If he must 'watch' it, why not do so as a 'background noise' thing? Play a game boy, read a book, do homework/websurf with it on... same thing, and less time wasted due to multi-tasking. All fast-forwarding does is give a vague idea of plot/ animation style... you're not going to absorb enough of it to do you any good. |
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bahamut623
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I do do it often, but it's only to recap. Like say I'm watching episode 17 of whatever show, and it's been a while since I saw 16, I might fast forward through 16 just to refresh my memory. I never do it on a first viewing though, that's plain crazy.
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Rakushun
 Posts: 116 Location: Hawaii |
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I don't understand this either. Maybe you can watch the images faster, but you'd lose the music and speech. To me the sound and voice tracks are essential to watching anime, even the bad ones. By watching it in fast-forward, it would make a bad anime shorter but also less enjoyable.
The only reason I can think to do this is to complete anime for the sake of completeness, and that just sounds unreasonable. If it's so bad that you want to fast-forward through it, is it really worth remembering that you watched it to the end? Maybe I can understand fast-forwarding if I was watching a bad dub from the 1980s, then added a dub track MST3K-style. |
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