Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 13:28:06 No. 121295
>>121294 I marathon about 12 hours of anime once a week
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 14:27:37 No. 121296
Start of the season: 30+ first episodes.
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 15:29:14 No. 121297 >>121302
i try to finish a one cour anime every day but sometimes i get distracted by other otaku media
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 17:36:48 No. 121302 >>121305 >>121306 >>121319
>>121297 I go between phases of doing this and just watching seasonal anime while gaming hard. Right now I'm gaming hard and so I don't watch much of my backlog at all, though I am somewhat keeping up with a lot of seasonals.
https://haiji.kissu.moe/secret/src/1710092108432.png My goal right now is to learn JP well enough to where I can watch raws on the TV, and then I'll really start cranking out my backlog. (Or I'll start with my VN backlog first...)
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 19:13:25 No. 121306 >>121309
>>121302 Try watching some anime without subs. Most video players let you hotkey the subtitles on/off. I'm more or less in your position and watching anime raw while occasionally jumping back 5 seconds with subs on to catch words or sentences that I couldn't piece together has worked really well for me.
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 19:20:42 No. 121308 >>121433
This is just my second season watching seasonal anime, but I'm currently watching 14 shows. Having different things to watch every day really helps. Thinking of watching eight to nine shows next season.
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 20:35:45 No. 121319
>>121302 eroticute feetoes
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 20:40:21 No. 121321
one to five episodes in a night (or a movie), but most nights i don't watch
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 22:00:47 No. 121331
As an average over all the time since I started watching anime, it comes out to about 1.5 episodes per day.
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 23:01:19 No. 121334 >>121335 >>121337 >>121338 >>121344
0. I just read LNs now. I can't be bothered watching anime anymore.
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 23:04:25 No. 121336
Who are you q-- er, nevermind I see it
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 23:16:30 No. 121338
>>121334 if you read them in Japanese, do you have any recommendations? I'm thinking of doing that
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 23:31:31 No. 121340 >>121344
>>121337 Except instead of reading something of substance, they instead choose what is essentially the CJK version of YA trash
Miku 03/10/24 (Sun) 23:57:33 No. 121342
I used to watch ~250 shows a year, like 20-25 from each season and a backlog show every week or so plus slowly grinding through long series like precure or LotGH alongside that. The last few years I've only watched 100-150, the vast majority of which are seasonals. There are still plenty of classics I haven't gotten around to, but I tend to end up playing games in my spare time instead. It's funny since I do the opposite thing with games and hardly ever touch new releases, but older games tend to retain discussion and cultural relevancy better than all but the most important of old anime do.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 00:32:10 No. 121344 >>121345 >>121346 >>121348 >>121381
>>121340 >>121334 Both pretentious posts considering there are many popular anime based on them and there are good and bad examples from both mediums.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 00:38:11 No. 121345
>>121344 How do you know if someone only reads manga or LNs? They'll tell you!
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 00:44:09 No. 121346 >>121347
>>121344 I wasn't being pretentious. I literally just do not have time to watch anime. On the contrary, I can at any time read a page or two, and stop and pick it up later. I don't have the time to commit to 24 minutes of watching anime.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 01:32:59 No. 121349
>>121348 I think it says something about the LNs that become popular enough to get anime adaptions than anything else (not good, usually). I'm more interested in the good LNs that are worth reading in Japanese as learning material after watching the anime like Hyouka or Euphonium, because I agree with what you said about it being pointless in English.
I'm not familiar with the monogatari series but it has an infamous reputation for being hard to translate.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 01:40:25 No. 121350 >>121351 >>121376
>>121347 How rude. I was simply answering the OP. It's not my fault people want to gang up on me for answering truthfully.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 01:49:10 No. 121351 >>121376
>>121350 I didn't mean to come off like that, I was just joking about it.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 02:38:45 No. 121352
>>121348 There's certainly no shortage of trash LNs that anime can use to prop up its isekai addiction, but adaptations of LNs are, more often than not, really poorly done. They're similar to VNs, which also had a period of heavy adaptation, in that the amount of content in them is typically too much to fit into an anime. With VNs the anime had to either get creative with some kind of new arc or commit to enough cours to get through everything. With LNs a huge deciding factor is whether the anime is willing to take things slow and devote a whole cour to one or two volumes or cram in 3-5 where you just hit the highlights. Of course, that only works if the source material is good enough to warrant it.
I heard the new official Monogatari translations are pretty solid. The thing is that most of the awful LN MTLs being shat out are for equally awful isekai/romcom/battle harem trash that no sane person would learn a language to be able to read. The good stuff tends to attract better translators. All of Kamachi's stuff, for example, gets translated by the same guy and so is of consistently good quality. There's also a growing number of official LN translations which, while certainly not good, are at least readable.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 03:21:34 No. 121358 >>121363 >>121364
There was a time I tried to watch a lot of seasonals, but I found that in a typical season there isn't actually a single show I want to finish. On average I think I add about 4 shows per year to my backlog, though I usually watch older anime anyway. Maybe around 3-5 episodes per month on average, but it varies. I spend more time reading manga. There are shows I started 15+ years ago that I haven't finished but still don't consider dropped.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 03:35:42 No. 121363
>>121358 mine is maybe a bit faster
i've been watching smile precure for about half a year now, halfway through it
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 03:39:54 No. 121364
>>121358 >There are shows I started 15+ years ago that I haven't finished but still don't consider dropped. I'm:
>>121303 and this applies to me too. One day I'll finish Galaxy Angel. One day. My focus right now is Dr. Slump because of Toriyama though.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 03:53:56 No. 121365 >>121368 >>121372
I get not being that into watching things, but doesn't the drive to watch it come and go?
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 04:35:50 No. 121368
>>121365 I like anime, but whether I'm in the mood to watch it is another matter. But yes, it comes and goes. Sometimes I binge a show in a day or two, other times I go years without watching any anime at all. It's the same with video games, or anything really. Maybe I'm just very fickle, and I never sit down to do something I'm not in the mood for if it's for leisure.
I also have specific shows I've been saving for years, that I know I would love, but feel like I need a specific mood for.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 05:08:54 No. 121370 >>121371
Used to watch every single seasonal and actively discuss it in /qa/ (and smug/a/) but now I barely watch anything. My backlogs been ever increasing so even watching anime feels like a chore...
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 05:11:25 No. 121371 >>121374
>>121370 Why not just stop paying attention for a while? Watching every single seasonal sounds like a great way to get burnt out
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 05:12:03 No. 121372
>>121365 >Do you even like TV that much if you're that slow to watch it? I'm that slow to do basically anything. I have a terrible attention span.
Miku 03/11/24 (Mon) 05:14:20 No. 121374 >>121443
>>121371 nah, it was fun.
I didn't get burnt out, per se. That was all during covid. After covid ended and life started, it's never been the same. Wish I could go back.
Anonymous 03/11/24 (Mon) 09:37:31 No. 121381
>>121344 A person prefers one medium over another. What's so bad about that?
Anonymous 03/11/24 (Mon) 15:10:22 No. 121394 >>121438
No time for anime, too busy gaming
Anonymous 03/11/24 (Mon) 15:17:55 No. 121395
gamers are the strongest race
Anonymous 03/12/24 (Tue) 00:07:46 No. 121437
>>121294 I dont watch anime i only care about SHABs
Anonymous 03/12/24 (Tue) 00:39:33 No. 121439
>>121438 I can only watch animed that are 10 mins long
Anonymous 03/12/24 (Tue) 01:34:35 No. 121443
>>121374 Yeah that sucks if life is pulling you away from your hobbies, at least maybe some time in the future you'll be able to find a way to get back.
Anonymous 03/12/24 (Tue) 04:10:26 No. 121444 >>143458
>>121438 Usually when people say they don't have time for something, they really mean they don't care enough to make time for it.
Anonymous 03/12/24 (Tue) 13:36:34 No. 121473
>>121469 Ironic, or maybe there's a better word, but I think this will be the worst season yet.
But I think this lineup is a bunch of cashcows
Anonymous 03/12/24 (Tue) 13:37:13 No. 121474
cashcowcats
Anonymous 03/12/24 (Tue) 14:31:37 No. 121481
>>121469 Nooooooooooo Euphonium is boring
Anonymous 03/15/24 (Fri) 17:38:04 No. 121606 >>143393
>>121469 What site is this?
Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 23:47:07 No. 143451
>>121294 Ever since isekai got really popular, zero. Before that, probably around 2 hours a night.
Anonymous 04/15/25 (Tue) 23:50:07 No. 143458
>>121444 Sometimes it's too hard to do anything but lie in bed. Not anime's fault.