| This reason is good because for example , i am a big fan of One Piece , he's one of my favorites animes , but if someone don't want to watch it bc it's a 1110+ episodes anime , it's fine because the problem is not the length of the anime but the fact that when you watch this anime , you can't really watch anything else (who are not seasonal) at the same time for at least month , i watched One Piece during lockdown , sa i had a lot of free time , but nowadays i don't know if i would start now because my PTW is too big and i don't have the amount of free time i used to have during lockdown. |
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| 100% agree. It would take so much time to start watching it now, and the same goes with Detective Conan, which is even longer series. |
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| Yes, it's as valid of a reason as any. |
| Well, I don't think One Piece is a bad anime/manga. Unfortunately, it has too many episodes to watch. I rather watch anime with much fewer episodes. Like Senran Kagura and Hyperdimension Neptunia. But you need to have played those video games before you could understand the plots of those anime shows TBH. |
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| Yes, that's why I'll never start any anime with 200+ episodes besides One Piece and Gintama. |
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| Sure? You don't even need a reason at all, nobody is forcing you to do anything. Watch whatever you want or don't, who cares? |
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| While you have a good point I found time to watch Fairy Tail...granted it's not as long as One Piece, but I really enjoyed it especially toward the end. The only downside is that it takes up an anime slot in my daily schedule of watching one episode each of 4 different animes. It's a commitment but it's doable while still having a life. It better be really worth it if I am going to make that sacrifice again. Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest just started...lets see how long it will be, I will definitely make time for that. |
The Matrix has you... |
| Why watch random seasonal anime when you can watch One Piece forever? |
| Agreed, if I hadn't started One Piece by now, I wouldn't do it today. It's the reason why I pretty much stopped consuming fighting shounen that are very long and/or not finished. |
| People are pussies for not watching Sazae-san from the start. |
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| Theres a reason why i like my pfp & forum avatar... I want to have their powers to watch as much anime as i want... & since i dont have their powers... Then im forced to stick on mostly 11-30 episode series... |
" Kindness can sometimes lead you to trouble. "  |
| Totally valid. If an anime requires you invest a very long time for it to get decent then you're totally ok with not liking or hating it. Investment requires commitment and if someone can do that and someone can't it shouldn't be an indicator of anybody's tastes (in most cases) |
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| I would say its not a very good reason tbh. The primary consideration for whether to watch something is enjoyment and/or satisfaction. So I ask you this, if you start a series, without knowing how long it is, and you enjoy it, would you feel cheated or that you wasted your time if you learned that it actually has 1000 episodes? If its good what does it matter? Last year I watched a bit of star trek, a truly massive series with 40+ minute episodes, and you know what happened? I watched as much as I felt like watching and I called it a day. You don't have to finish an anime for it to have been worth it, I still have not seen the ninja war arc of naruto because I thought it was horribly paced and I hated watching it, but that does not tarnish all the great memories of the the earlier seasons. I do understand that it is harder to jump into a long series, knowing that you may well never finish it, and its easy to think that if you didn't experience the whole story you somehow "failed" at watching it, or perhaps you are frustrated for wanting to see the conclusion but lacking the time to do so. But honestly these are just mental blocks, like I said, even if you watch the first episode of one piece, think its really good, and never watch anything else, I cannot for the life of me see what the big loss in that is. Oh no, you enjoyed yourself for 24 minutes, what an unbearable fate. |
Reply to nirererin
"it's too long" definitely not a good reason to watch an anime... Especially for OP, Gintama etc.
| @nirererin nirererin said: it's too long" definitely not a good reason to watch an anime. "its too long" doesn't mean that is bad , just that you don't have time to watch a bug lot of eps |
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| Any reason is a good reason if you feel it is, mate. Any, reason, at, all. I personally don't care, though. Anime comes out when it does, I watch it when I watch it. If I take a break, I take a break, and come back to it later. |
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| It still doesn't make sense to me, for 2 reasons. 1. If you enjoy watching an anime with 1000 episodes, the length is a positive instead of a negative, that means you found something you enjoyed to keep you occupied for the foreseeable future, compared to trying out 50 different 20 episodes series and you never know which one you would like, and which one you wouldn't. If you like every one of those 50 anime series, then I would understand. 2. A lot of the shorter, seasonal anime are not completed, the story stops mid way and once it's fully aired, there is no guarantee that you are getting a second season, and you're forced to either read the manga or the light novel. This is a huge pet peeves of mine for seasonal anime. There are so many anime that I enjoyed but would never be able to see the end of it because I do not like reading light novels, either that, or nobody is translating the manga to English. There are some people that fall into the trap of seasonal anime FOMO, they watch a lot of seasonal anime just to be up to date with any potential talking points in their friend groups, which is understandable, but I watch anime for my own enjoyment rather than FOMO, so I don't really care much about watching 50 different series compared to just 1 that I enjoy. |
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Reply to tanjiromybaby
Why watch random seasonal anime when you can watch One Piece forever?
| @JustMaya Because they are much better than one piece. |
 -Tohka is better than Kurumi. You can't change my mind. |
| I think it's valid for one major reason People wanna watch more stuff so longer shows around the 200 and more episodes type will take away from that |
| Well, some people here have a job and/or scolarship going on as surprising as it sounds. I got 2/3 hours max each evening of free time and i don't intend to spend it all watching one piece. |
trinitroglycerinAug 5, 2024 4:10 AM
| It depends on why being too long is an issue: - I'd rather watch a wider array of anime in the same amount of time (good reason) - I don't have much free time (it depends, it can be a good reason but nobody is forcing you to binge it, you could watch one episode every 1 or 2 or 3 days for example) - I'm a completionist so I'd have to watch all of it even if I hated it (not a good reason, stop being a competionist) - I fear it will only get good after 100 episodes (not a good reason, some anime do get better over time but the beginning doesn't have to be painful to watch, if that's the case just drop it) To be fair, the opposite is actually more common among casual anime fans. I mean that they'd rather watch thousands of episodes of One Piece, Naruto and MHA over several short anime. |
| I enjoy slowly watching hundreds of episodes of Pokémon forever more than random seasonal anime. Started in 2021 and now I'm midway through Diamond and Pearl arc, all subbed |
Reply to Zakatsuki_
@nirererin
"its too long" doesn't mean that is bad , just that you don't have time to watch a bug lot of eps
nirererin said:
it's too long" definitely not a good reason to watch an anime.
it's too long" definitely not a good reason to watch an anime.
"its too long" doesn't mean that is bad , just that you don't have time to watch a bug lot of eps
| @Zakatsuki_ I already watched those anime nd I didn't say anything new; I literally repeated your topic title to say to that how wrong it sounds! there was a typo-mistake, I forgot to use another not. |
| I agree. I watched one piece when i was still in first year of high school so i had a lot of times. Nowadays I even have trouble finishing a 24 ep anime. |
Itsuki >  |
Reply to Serafos
100% agree. It would take so much time to start watching it now, and the same goes with Detective Conan, which is even longer series.
| @Serafos Detective Conan technically has marginally more episodes than One Piece, however almost 50% of them are filler while One Piece only has 8% filler so it actually works out to Detective Conan being much much shorter if you skip the filler (which in Detective Conan's case one definitely should, I watched a few of the old ones and they are laughably bad) |
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| Well, as much as I enjoy anime, I cannot watch too much of it. At once. It is too much sensory overload IMO. |
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| It is just anime,so if someone doesnt want to watch it because it is too long, well it is their choice and nothing wrong with it. Long anime/shows (IF it is not just full of filler episodes) doesnt need to be bad, some stories can be great/intense. And to anyone struggling with this, what I do when i want to watch something is just assign some episodes to the week: say you just want to watch 3 episode of an anime each week because there are other stuff (or animes) that you want to do/watch. |
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| No offense, but anything with over 25 episodes is too long for me to watch. |
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| I don't have anything to add, just here to see what happens when the guy that measures an anime's value in terms of series length shows up. |
| The problem with anime is it presents the world with extreme cognitive distortions. I don't want to pollute my mind with such content. The MAIN reason I watch anime is to see what kind of new propaganda the corporations are inventing. So I can satirize it. |
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Reply to DesuMaiden
The problem with anime is it presents the world with extreme cognitive distortions. I don't want to pollute my mind with such content. The MAIN reason I watch anime is to see what kind of new propaganda the corporations are inventing. So I can satirize it.
@DesuMaiden Satirize it like I've been satirizing Rozen Maiden? |
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| @Daviljoe193 yes just like that. Thanks for pointing it out. |
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| Agreed. Especially if said anime isn't your cup of tea. |
| I mean, it is a reason at least. Not for the reason you bring up, though. You're not forced to just watch one anime at a time nor are you forced to binge long anime as fast as possible. |
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| If you like a show, you’d want it to be with you for a long time. And I personally love the feeling of getting engaged in a piece of media so much that you just don’t want to do other things and just wanna reach the end |
| My favorite anime shows are super degenerate shows. Like Hyperdimension Neptunia and Senran Kagura. Unfortunately, there isn't nearly enough of that degeneracy being produced. |
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| @animegamer245 AG and DP were translated to Brazillian Portuguese by a fan group called Bruthais Fansub. Kinda crazy to think these arcs of the most famous anime in the world are available subbed only in my native language. They even had OS fully subbed many years before SOSSubs did it. If you want to watch it, search for the website "Narutoshinihon", the entire series subbed is there. If you can only watch in english, better wait for the next SOSSubs releases, which will be AG and DP. Hope they don't take too long |
| Agreed. I'm just not going to watch something if it's over 100 episodes unless it looks really good. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
Reply to Kruszer
Agreed. I'm just not going to watch something if it's over 100 episodes unless it looks really good.
@Kruszer don't have anything to do with your post but i really love the gambit quote , such a cool character o x-men , it's just infortunate that he was cucked by Rogue with Magneto(they have a crazy age gap btw)  |
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| Absolutely. I've got other things to do in my life than watch cartoon folk do the anime stuff. |
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| a month? for OP? you mean at least 6 monthS. |
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| A lot of people would put off a long anime due to its length, but honestly, it should be more so about interest than episode count. There are a ton of people who have watched shows (live action) that are 1 hour long, 10+ seasons, and people still watch them. This is especially true of long running dramas and other shows. One show that immediately comes to mind is Supernatural, which has 326 episodes with a run time of around 40 minutes without commercials. It takes 218 hours to watch. Of course, you have other shows, like cop dramas, that are well past season 15 with a run time of 1 hour (around 40 minutes without commercials). Doctor Who is another good example. A standard 23 minute (without commercials) anime with 1000 episodes (exactly) would take a little over 383 hours to watch. Sure, 383 hours is a lot, but if you're watching 3 episodes or so a day, a little over an hour's worth, one could easily hit that 1000 mark in a little over a year. For long running shows with many episodes, the goal isn't to have it finished within a short binge. It is a show you want to enjoy for a bit. That is why interest plays a key factor. I spent years being stuck at around the episode 150 mark of Detective Conan because I never watched past the dub, and before I knew it, it had so many episodes. I am around episode 500 now, but I don't watch it constantly. I watch it on and off and have slowly gotten closer to catching up. Of course, sometimes I'll binge it if it is a particularly good arc. Interest is the main thing. If one finds something interesting, spending a year watching it isn't a task - it's fun. There's no point in watching an anime that you have no interest in, short or long. As for One Piece, that show I do not see myself ever trying to get into. I've seen about 20 episodes or so in the past, wasn't fond of the plot, wasn't fond of Luffy, etc., so I will not embark on that. Will I continue with Detective Conan and catch up on day? Yes, because I enjoy it. |
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| Only if you are not caring enough about it to warrant keep watching it to the end. Why wouldn't you want to (eventually) finish something you are caring enough or more than enough and is adding enough value to your life? What point there is in choosing to finish something you don't care about "but it's short" over something you are caring about "but it's long"? It isn't a rational decision. |
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