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umbreonlover4
09-25-2011, 01:48 PM
on dvd? tv? online?
animeyay
09-25-2011, 01:55 PM
bittorrent or online streaming (such as Crunchyroll)
Kokorokisses
09-25-2011, 01:55 PM
Sometimes DVD when I have the money. But I mostly watch my anime on my TV on demand and on the internet.
Elukien
09-25-2011, 02:14 PM
Mostly watch online, mostly.
If the series is pretty decent then I'll buy it.
Masakisu
09-25-2011, 05:13 PM
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As such, I torrent my anime (sometime DDL) and buy what I feel like.
Arrisu
09-25-2011, 05:48 PM
I also watch all my anime online, it's been like this for the passed 4 or 5 years. When I was younger, I used to watch it on television but I don't have YTV anymore.
Souhi
09-25-2011, 05:56 PM
Torrents, and DVD collections of what is licensed and what I can afford. Anime is impossible to find on TV on local cable here since that Canadian content limit thing they buckled down on a few years ago. Such a shame.
Arrisu
09-25-2011, 06:05 PM
Torrents, and DVD collections of what is licensed and what I can afford. Anime is impossible to find on TV on local cable here since that Canadian content limit thing they buckled down on a few years ago. Such a shame.
Isn't it such a shame, though? The only thing that ever plays on my cable television is Bakugan, the new Yu-Gi-Oh and once in a while I see Pokemon. :l So dissapointing.
SuXrys
09-25-2011, 07:21 PM
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If I want to watch a anime I almost always watch it on the computer. The only bad thing is that watching directly on a streaming site is fine, but I don't like all the commercials that usually plays in the beginning. If you are watching several episodes in a row, or just want to look a little bit on a certain episode, than all those same commercials gets really annoying. I understand that those commercial must be played as long as I want to be able to see those animes online but.... still.... very annoying for me as a person.
Anyway. Like many already have said getting your hands on animes are hard if you don't live in a place where they are very common. I live in Sweden and getting your hands on animes on a dvd requires often that you need to order them from another country. That just takes to much time. So watching them directly on a internet page is a much better options for me.
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And this is how I enjoy those animes that are played on my computer:
(kind of like this)
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Just look at this amazingly paint skill!
Mostly I watch anime by looking at it from the computer. I sit on thte floor between my table and my sofa (like Im doing at this very moment), resting my chin on my hand which is on the table while looking at an anime on the computer. It's really comfortable! I don't know why, but I have always enjoyed sitting on the floor. Maybe I am a little weird when it comes to this but I actually think it's often more comfortable then sitting on a sofa. When I am together with my family and... oh I don't know, for example..., watching a movie on the television then they are all sitting in our sofas and I am laying on the floor resting my head on one of the foot "chairs". I have been this way since I was a kid. Im stuck in this "bad" habit of mine. ^^
heki_11j
09-25-2011, 07:58 PM
online :P. Internet always has it ^^
FluffyDango
09-25-2011, 08:00 PM
Download, mostly ddl, torrent if the admins on the site I ddl from is too slow with adding ddl links.
I might stream very few times, I mostly hate it becaus of shitty quality and poor translation/timing.
By downloading, I can watch some anime even if the net were to go away for days(becaus of storm or something else).
-RukiaKuchiki-
09-25-2011, 10:46 PM
online
Zainox
09-26-2011, 01:09 AM
I either buy or download..
Gjallarhorn
09-26-2011, 02:06 AM
Legal streams (FUNi, CR, ANN)
DVD (Or Blu Ray if the animation is worth it)
Illegal downloads - if there's no legal streams available or if I can't buy it.
ACBlackJ0ck
09-26-2011, 02:12 AM
I stream anime. Always have since last year. I don't mind ads. They usually go away with an ad-blocker
Masakisu
09-26-2011, 09:42 AM
I don't understand why so many people stream.
Unless it's legal streaming, that's acceptable. Just.
OtakuInu!!!
09-26-2011, 10:28 AM
I usually watch anime on DVDs whenever I get the time and money. If the DVD doesn't work (it's broken or the DVD player can't read it) I watch the anime online. I do watch some animes online with or without DVDs such as Naruto, and weekly too. It's hard to catch up. >_<'
November
09-26-2011, 10:40 AM
I watch anime online.
Gjallarhorn
09-26-2011, 02:46 PM
I don't understand why so many people stream.
Unless it's legal streaming, that's acceptable. Just.
Most anime aren't really of high enough quality to make watching them in 720p a greater experience; 480p is fine. The animation of One Piece, Naruto, Fairy Tail, and Bleach are equally shoddy no matter what the resolution, and the excess of school-fantasy and moe shows are incapable of making better use of increased resolution. I just don't get the notion that anime can't be enjoyed unless it's in as high a resolution as possible - I'm pretty sure we were all content with with 480p up until 2006 or so when most shows also began broadcasting in 720p. If you can clearly see what's on the screen, that's good enough.
There are some shows that you can justify requiring 720p - those with heavy CG (Tiger&Bunny) or very high quality animation (Kara no Kyoukai, Gundam Unicorn), or animation with special art effects (Gurren Lagann's action sequences, Panty & Stocking) or careful gradients and landscapes (5cm/s, Katanagatari) become an import part of the art direction.
Masakisu
09-26-2011, 03:05 PM
Most anime aren't really of high enough quality to make watching them in 720p a greater experience; 480p is fine. The animation of One Piece, Naruto, Fairy Tail, and Bleach are equally shoddy no matter what the resolution, and the excess of school-fantasy and moe shows are incapable of making better use of increased resolution. I just don't get the notion that anime can't be enjoyed unless it's in as high a resolution as possible - I'm pretty sure we were all content with with 480p up until 2006 or so when most shows also began broadcasting in 720p. If you can clearly see what's on the screen, that's good enough.
There are some shows that you can justify requiring 720p - those with heavy CG (Tiger&Bunny) or very high quality animation (Kara no Kyoukai, Gundam Unicorn), or animation with special art effects (Gurren Lagann's action sequences, Panty & Stocking) or careful gradients and landscapes (5cm/s, Katanagatari) become an import part of the art direction.My computer isn't powerful enough to play 720p files (and often has trouble with 480p mkvs) but I agree that streaming is simply inferior. I refer again to this (http://img.fakku.net/images/uploads/13146871202.png), specifically the second argument.
Gjallarhorn
09-26-2011, 03:38 PM
The second counter-argument makes no sense. The argument is not that the resolution isn't inferior, but that the quality of the animation is not of high enough quality that switching from 480p to 720p is going to make any difference. You can look at a 2MP picture of a stick figure and a 10MP picture of the same stick figure, and it's still going to be a crappy stick figure. You can watch Naruto in 1080p, and the animation will look just as mediocre as it does in 480p.
If the only difference between the animation of a 480p series and 720p series is that one is simply larger, there's no point in the 720p. The advantage of HD resolutions is that greater levels of detail can be clearly represented on the screen, and if a series isn't animated with that level of detail in the first place, then the advantage is lost. If a series is animated with a high framerate, and the artwork is high in detail, then 720p is justified in order to clearly see it, as it likely won't carry down to 480p without blurring away.
Anyway, for that second counterargument itself, "I don't care" is valid. They're not saying "I don't see the difference" or "there is no difference", they are saying they simply don't care about whatever difference there may be. To that person, they are just as entertained by a series when watching it in 480p as in 720p. If you'll enjoy it to the same extent in either way, the viewing method chosen isn't going to matter.
Hanamaru Kunikida
09-26-2011, 03:43 PM
I always download on 720p/1080p when I can, and when it's available on DVD/Blu-ray, I'll buy them.
kaspar
09-28-2011, 03:43 PM
Download when I can and DVD/Blu-Ray.
Albear
09-29-2011, 01:40 AM
Like a baws. DVDS and sometimes online.
Meroty
09-29-2011, 02:51 AM
In torrents, as usual and sometimes in tv when there are too many episodes to download.. haha! :P
TomoyoSakagami
09-30-2011, 02:57 PM
I watch after I download.
Though lately with recent series, I've been buying the blu-rays as well (Blue exorcist, Dantalian no Shoka etc). I'm such a whoar.
mimichan1000
09-30-2011, 04:20 PM
I watch them on dvd.
i prefer to buy up as much as possible.
~*Red*~
10-01-2011, 08:19 PM
I watch it online most of the time :]
Godzilla
10-02-2011, 03:32 PM
I watch anime online first. If I like it, nine times out of ten, I buy it.
PunkiePie
10-02-2011, 03:36 PM
I mostly watch it online but if I really, REALLY like it then I'll buy it.
gelfling9
10-02-2011, 03:53 PM
I like to have a collection, so I usually watch one or two episodes online to see if it's worth investing in - I appreciate you can't always get the gist of what is going on with just one or two episodes, but I think you do get either a good or bad vibe about it!^^
chrisw00
10-08-2011, 11:59 PM
I download the anime's I watch :)
.Miki~
10-10-2011, 08:57 PM
I like to have a hard copy of my anime so I usually buy it, here lately I have been watching some online, it doesnt feel the same as watching it on a tv though.
Ragenomics
10-11-2011, 03:44 AM
If it's licensed and available locally I'll buy it. If it's not available locally (out of print, not licensed, etc.) I'll torrent.
Aulos
10-16-2011, 09:53 AM
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I really hope that's a joke.
I almost exclusively stream (legally), myself. I don't care about the quality because to be honest I haven't paid a cent to stream any of it and it's not anywhere near as bad as so many make it out to be.
Plus, I've just never felt like I was entitled to illegally download anime onto my computer. I think that's very wrong, especially when the companies have worked out deals to stream it to us.
This is what I hate so much about the anime/manga fandom - they're so full of false entitlement. Like you're actually entitled to download an anime so you can have HD and your silly words like "nakama". You live in England so you don't have access to the One Piece simulcast, but those who do and make these excuses not to watch it I have absolutely no sympathy for.
Nadeshiko01
10-16-2011, 07:38 PM
well, I have the wii, so I use the internet and I see the animes in youtube, or tu.tv, megavideo, etc...
Its like see them on TV :D
jamesedwards
10-26-2011, 10:31 PM
I watch anime streaming online.
Kazetori
11-01-2011, 01:53 AM
Stream only because I have shitty satellite internet with a bandwidth limit and downloading would take forever, despite my 2TB harddrive... Don't bitch at me, I would download if I could, I hate streaming...
I buy a lot of my anime and manga though, I don't have many bills at the mome,t though I imagine once I move out this will have to change... Going to Japan for 4 months though in January, so it's not going to change before then bwuahahahahahhahaa.
solidarmor
11-01-2011, 08:31 PM
I watch my anime on an oversized couch...with a potpie on a tray table kickin my feet back and forth.
Goblet
11-01-2011, 08:35 PM
I watch it online, under a big fuzzy blanket with a cup of hot tea
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