>>73061 As it airs The discussions.with others are half the fun

>>73061 >Do you watch seasonal anime as it comes out? Only for things I really like. >Do you wait until the season is over to binge? Most of the time yean. >Do you not follow seasonalshit at all? Only really follow 1-2 shows per season. >And perhaps most importantly regardless of your previous answer, do you then go read the source material if you liked it? It's rare for me to find something through the adaptation, and usually when it happens it's through the manga. So yes usually I do go and read the source material.

I only read manga.

>>73061 sometimes it's more bearable to watch something mid without clifhangers. i'm finding that out with a WN, and anime ends up being similar. but i do miss discussion in that case.

>>73096 >i'm finding that out with a WN, and anime ends up being similar. Why? What do you mean?

>>73061 I watch a few shows at the start of every season, and decide if any are worth following every week. Usually I'll watch one or two shows that hold my interest and wait for the rest to be fully out before watching

>>73112 Pretty boring answer but I imagine this is what most people do.

>>73126 It kinda sucks. I might end up enjoying a show I previously dropped more than I expected and end up going back to read the threads for each episode from the archive. As for the last question which I forgot to answer: I almost always read the source material afterwards, with the caveat that other anons need to vouch for the manga/ln not being a trashfire later on

>>73061 I try to watch it as it airs but usually at some point I miss an episode or two and then the backlog grows and I end up finishing it months after it finished if ever.

>>73127 Is being part of the discussion really that important to people? Never got the appeal of it myself.

>>73130 It's a mix of loneliness and retarded fomo brain. I'm sure there are plenty of others, although not on the level of going to the archive for it

>>73061 >Do you watch seasonal anime as it comes out? No. >Do you wait until the season is over to binge? If I was looking forward to a series, yes. >Do you not follow seasonalshit at all? Not at all. >And perhaps most importantly regardless of your previous answer, do you then go read the source material if you liked it? I very rarely find something through anime or manga first.

>>73061 Oh yeah forgot to reply to the OP like a fucking retard. >Do you watch seasonal anime as it comes out? Not all of them, unironically tend to just watch the isekai/fight ones (while avoiding shounenshit). >Do you wait until the season is over to binge? I try to so I don't have to wait a week after cliffhangers, but depending on the series I end up watching along anyway. >Do you not follow seasonalshit at all? I guess I am a seasonalfag yeah. >And perhaps most importantly regardless of your previous answer, do you then go read the source material if you liked it? A lot of the time yeah, especially if anons in the threads shill me that particular novel while hanging around in the discussion threads.

>>73061 >Do you watch seasonal anime as it comes out? Can you even call yourself an anime fan if you don't? >Do you wait until the season is over to binge? Only for low priority stuff with shit first eps. >Do you not follow seasonalshit at all? I do. >And perhaps most importantly regardless of your previous answer, do you then go read the source material if you liked it? I don't see the point in consooming the same thing twice or more in different formats, so not really.

>>73101 i'm finding a general theme in my experience, that i sometimes don't mind pausing a WN i love when it has a weaker arc, or when i already missed a day in reading. it's then very pleasant to binge it. with anime cliffhangers tend to be a whole week so it's even worse during action arcs.

>>73130 Depending on the show it's either half the fun or most of the fun. If the show it's good then half of the fun is also being hyped with anons and posting memes. If it's dogshit then most of the fun is making fun of it with anons.

>>73084 >>73152

>>73163 I still don't get the point honestly.

>>73161 >with anime cliffhangers tend to be a whole week so it's even worse during action arcs. Oh that. Yeah fuck that. I have gotten weirdly good at predicting when a fight is going to be split into multiple eps and not watching from that point onward to binge later.

>>73133 Honestly people need to start learning to enjoy things on their lonesome instead of relying on "the community".

>>73217 Back in the day that's just how things used to be.

>>73235 Back in the day what? Seasonalniggers have been a plague since moot killed /a/ by allowing shounenkuso.

>>73217 Counterpoint: If you have nobody to talk about it with, what was the point?

>>73241 The enjoyment I get out of reading lns and manga even knowing that I'll have no one to talk to it about outside of one or two "have you heard of x?" is always worth it. I find that anime is a more shareable experience and so I naturally want to discuss it and experience it with others

>>73241 I unironically can't relate. If anything it's the opposite, I take pride in some of the stuff I have read that I know basically nobody in the west will ever know.

>>73241 Why the fuck would I want to talk with someone else about something I like, their opinions are fucking WRONG anyway.

>>73061 >Do you watch seasonal anime as it comes out? >Do you wait until the season is over to binge? Depends on how it's structured. I'll watch more episodic anime as they air, but otherwise I prefer to binge. For example this season I've been watching PSG and waiting for Seishun Buta. >Do you not follow seasonalshit at all? Not for the sake of it at least, and I don't tend to follow the discussion surrounding any of it either. I do still make the time to check out what's airing each season however, there's always at least a few things worth watching each year. >And perhaps most importantly regardless of your previous answer, do you then go read the source material if you liked it? Sometimes, but usually it's the other way around. If something's being adapted from a game or VN there's typically a lot lost in translation. In these cases I'll just go straight to the source and watch the anime afterwards.

>>73251 BASED

>>73260 >I do still make the time to check out what's airing each season however, Anything you have your eye on for this fall season?

>>73061 I used to be a seasonalfag around the late 10s when I got into anime (yeah kinda newfag, I admit it) but got quickly burnt out and started to only watch stuff that really grabbed my attention, it's far more fun that way. I rarely follow seasonal shit even when it interests me too, I hate weekly cliffhangers. Don't care about the discussion either.

>>73294 Not much, unfortunately. I'll give Shuumatsu Touring and Digimon Beatbreak a shot but don't have high hopes for either.

>>73061 I follow seasonalshit. I know I shouldn't and that modern anime is all garbage and I should only watch 90's anime instead. But I still follow seasonalshit. I still watch isekai kuso knowing it's going to be the most fucktarded plot you can imagine like Mizuzokusei no Mahoutsukai. I still do all this dumb shit. I'm a fucking retard.

>>73354 >Le isekai le bad >Le anime is trash and so am I Ecelebs really are a cancer especially when they promote kike culture like this kind of pointless self hate.

>>73355 What eceleb moron? Do yourself a favor and watch a good isekai like Garzey's Wing. You'll realize that "modern" """anime""" is just worthless kuso. True anime died long ago and it's never coming back.

>>73358 >Garzey's Wing >Good. Maybe if you're a pseud more interesting on virtue signalling how mature your taste is than anything else lol.

>>73358 This you?

>>73367 I don't need you to tell me I have good taste. I know it. By the way, we're living in the post-moe era with moe flanderized into retarded shit because people thought Clannad and K-on were what moe was supposed to me. Real moe means a 00's anime with pantyshots. Like Needless.

>>73368 Generic moe/isekai hater taste out of 10.

>>73370 I wish my taste was generic. That would mean more people would have good taste.

>>73377 Your taste is dogshit tho.

>>73367 Do people even actually watch LOGH? It's such a slog I question the average normalnig today can sit through it, and as far as I know there's no real video essay scene behind it to pretend to have watched it.

>>73260 >If something's being adapted from a game or VN there's typically a lot lost in translation. At this point I can't remember the last non-manga adaptation that didn't have a lot lost in adaptation. Actually to think about it, as of the tail end of the 10s and now the 20s, basically the only adaptations that can improve over the source material are shounenshit, and only modern shounenshit at that. Which is kind of a problem and I can't really put it into words, but shounenshit art and paneling now really feels low effort with a "the anime will fix this" mentality, no idea how explain it in detail.

>>73414 LoGH is great but also overrated. People praise its writing but there's a massive gaping plot hole that I've yet to see anyone mention. t. watched it

>>73368 >Diebuster No, your taste is genuine garbage.

>>73458 >but there's a massive gaping plot hole that I've yet to see anyone mention. I think at this point not mentioning that seems like a collective in-joke for those that watched it and have a brain, I also noticed it back in the day wondering if it was caused by the adaptation butchering that part of the plot or not. By now I have gone so long without mentioning that I also actively refuse to mention it aside from vaguely pointing at it. I will also request you to not mention it either, it's way fucking funnier this way.

>>73459 Stop trolling. Diebuster is the best anime.

>>73469 >trolling I already wrote a review airing out my grievances with it years ago. >>1787 One of the most disappointing anime I've ever watched.

>>73477 This is the problem with a lot of old anime mind you, especially pre-2000s stuff which is what people consider the cutoff "before moekuso ruined everything", it tends to be overrated as fuck off the sole fact that it is indeed old.