So...How often do you watch....

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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby macchinainterna » Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:53 pm

I watched whatever's made available that I can keep up with, so I would say on TV at least 1-3 series (Especially if they're on demand). As for buying anime goes, if I have the money for it I'll look into box set that looks interesting to me at the time. I haven't watched streaming episodes online since I found work again.

As for newer series, there aren't a lot that interest me at this point. The last new series I checked out were HOTD and Cannan. Mostly I've been catching up with older titles.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby Bauzi » Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:09 pm

I don't watch too much anime lately. Maybe one series in 6 months. Right now I watch way more live action movies and series. It has to do with my apprenticeship in directing and writing. I watch and analyze them. I could also watch anime for character's and their development, but in live action I get the full pack with cameras and stuff. The story is also more valuable to analyze (in my opinion) because I would like to produce for my area market and not the eastern one. Anime is just a completely different thing.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby trythil » Sun Feb 13, 2011 7:56 am

mcdirty wrote:One of the reasons it's not doing so well is because the majority of people who watch anime don't take the effort to buy it. I guess that's what happens when increasing ease of distribution meets a freeloader audience.


FTFY. A tangent, yes, but I want others to avoid the "sharing is destructive" propaganda.

It has been demonstrated that people will pay for copies of a work, even funding a new work, even given opportunity to share. The Blender Open Movie projects work out this way; DRM-free music stores work this way; releases from The Null Corporation work this way; the Humble Indie Bundles worked out this way, too. There's many more examples in many more fields; I will dig them up if you want them. They all have a common thread, though: even in the presence of zero barriers to copying, people still pay because they understand (or, well, enough of them understand) that people like to be rewarded.

(The amount of money required to fund production of a 13 or 26-episode anime series is obviously not the same as either of the two examples I mentioned: usually, that sort of thing needs (a lot) more money. There's also a lot more complexity involved in series production, and whether any of it can be streamlined is something I can't answer.)

The point, however, is that blaming the problem on "ease of sharing" is just projecting. The problem isn't sharing technologies.

No, the problem is that too many anime fans are stingy shitheads.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby EvaFan » Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:24 am

I usually just pick what looks interesting from the general anime section of the site and give it a few episodes. I rarely finish anime anymore cause they just aren't as creative as they used to be when it comes to story. This could just be from having seen so many though. Of course it would be nice if they didn't cater to otaku so much but that's for another thread.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby inthesto » Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:02 pm

trythil wrote:No, the problem is that too many anime fans are teenagers.


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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:09 pm

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trythil wrote:No, the problem is that too many anime fans are teenagers.


FTFY

They grow up and become poor college students and keep doing it.
Then they get jobs and have been doing it so long they don't even think about it any more.

I actually know a number of people making over $50K a year that don't see the point in buying anime they can just download. They hate dubs and don't feel there's any value-add from them from the fansub they could (or have already) see(n).
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby wurpess » Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:28 pm

Well, before, we would usually watch 1-2 single or double season series' a month. But while hubby was in Iraq, we both bought a lot of anime, so now we're watching a season or 2 worth of anime a week to try and catch up. >_< Currently watching Season 3 of Slayers as a filler before starting Aquarion. Just got done watching My Hime before that. As for choosing series, we usually go by either recommendations from friends, what we've seen in AMVs, or if we see a lot of cool artwork or figures from a series we've never seen, we may check it out. I think Kenichi was the last one we watched that I really enjoyed.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby CrackTheSky » Sun Feb 13, 2011 4:52 pm

I can't remember the last time I watched any anime, at all. Two years at least. I'll probably rewatch Evangelion soon, just because that's timeless and I'll always love it, but it wouldn't surprise me if I never watch a series I haven't already seen before ever again. It just doesn't interest me like it used to.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby Kaream » Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:41 am

I don't watch anime. I edit sometimes.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby TritioAFB » Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:06 am

Been recently watching a new anime. Everybody take a look to Level E, looking interesting
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby inthesto » Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:41 am

I think the last time I watched anime was the single episode of Cat Shit One.

Before that? Anybody's guess.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby JaddziaDax » Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:34 pm

I donno how often it is, but I've been trying to drive through the DVDs I own, so it's all "old stuff" for the most part since it's out on DVD in the states.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby ZephyrStar » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:53 pm

Most days of the week...depends on the season.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby Niotex » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:00 pm

I generally watch stuff with my girl. That or I'll watch something if I don't have anything better to watch during dinner.
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Re: So...How often do you watch....

Postby Elcalavero » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:24 pm

Kaream wrote:I don't watch anime. I edit sometimes.


I use to be like you. I edited for the lolz. I used anime as my source (my friend gave me the video files), only because I had no live footage (or knew how to obtain it). One day, I decided to watch the anime(FF) I was going to be editing with, only because I wanted to know what scenes I could use to match the song. I ended up liking the anime.The rest is history :uhoh: (It was the second anime I've seen, with DBZ being first)

CrackTheSky wrote:I can't remember the last time I watched any anime, at all. Two years at least. I'll probably rewatch Evangelion soon, just because that's timeless and I'll always love it, but it wouldn't surprise me if I never watch a series I haven't already seen before ever again. It just doesn't interest me like it used to.


I would recommend you watch the anime MONSTER. Quite Possibly the best anime ever made and will ever BE MADE (Imo). Its hard to even call this an anime for me since it has so many realistic elements/scenarios/locations, which relate closely to real life. Its 74 episodes long but well worth the watch. (I have watched the entire series 3 times) It could possibly spark your interest again.
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To answer the original question. I watch anime every now and then. Usually 5 episodes every week.
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