| Simple reasons : 1) You can experience the same highs as before. 2) It can change the overall perception of an entire anime, probably for good (for eg - Re:Zero in particular) 3) You are unable to find anime in the current season that give you the same feel as the anime you watched and enjoyed earlier. 4) You are not guaranteed to remember every detail of your favourite anime over the years. Go to point 1) Life is too short indeed, so you need to enjoy whatever you have within your grasp. |
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| For the same reason i like to listen to my music playlist many times |
| Most underated anime on mal: https://myanimelist.net/anime/4651/Yume_no_Crayon_Oukoku?q=Yume%20ni%20crayon |
| I usually only rewatch a series if it's been a really long time since I've seen it and I remember really liking it, OR if I'm getting a friend into it. |
| When I usually rewatch a show, it's through a reactor on youtube. Of course it's because I liked the show, but Im mainly there for the reactors personality. Very often you also start seeing stuff you didn't notice the first time you watched the show. Interesting parallels, foreshadowing, all the rules and plot points coming in play before they were even explained. All that cool stuff. |
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TheServant said: I want to hear your opinion too, OP. So next time you make a thread, please put your own view/explanation first. We do not need more of low-effort threads like this on MAL. Thank you. Nicely put. Because sometimes threads like this looks like a bait, which may or may not be one and OP might actually want a legitimate explanations. Back to the topic and to OP, anyways, I'll take the hook and bait and all. Thank you very much. How blunt of you to quickly regard it as wasted. Let's just say time enjoyed wasting is time not wasted. To each their own, as always. |
RedDesireSep 19, 2018 7:32 AM
| it helps if you didnt know stuff the first time you watched it. i didnt know about the john titor lore the first time i watched steins;gate so i missed some pretty obvious jokes, references, and just the entire internet phenomena revolving around that as a whole. the second watch was more enjoyable to me |
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| isnt playing video games a waste of time? youre not doing anything useful yknow |
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| because I enjoy the show and I don't see any reason agaist doing it again if I can enjoy it even knowing what is going to happen, and believe me, I've rewatched a fuckton of shows a fuckton of times. |
| Because there are certain anime series that I love to death. |
 Ｓｗｅｅｔ♥I guess, as long as I have life, all I can do is fight with all my might. |
| Sometime i find it more enjoyable to rewatch something i like rather than watching something i don't know yet. And i won't even try to consider rewatching as a waste of time, because logically watching any anime already a waste of time for me. |
| because it's fun. simple as that really |
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| Why wasting your time to WATCHING ANIME? Life is too short. |
| There are plenty of worse things you could do than rewatch anime. |
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| because a big majority of anime is garbage, so rewatching something you know you like will result in more enjoyment |
| Re-watching is a weird thing, I have watched Inazuma Eleven 3 times. Do I regret it? No, cause it's a show that I hold dear to myself cause I was younger when I watched it. Sometimes, you just want to re-experience something, and re-watching is excellent for that purpose. |
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| I almost don't rewatch anything, until now. I've watching anime for a lot of time so now I started to do it. It's nice to watch something that you loved after so much time with a new point of view. But I usually try new stuff to open my mind a bit. Btw, I dislike people that watched 5 times the same show in less than a year, a lot. |
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TheServant said: RedDesire said: How blunt of you to quickly regard it as wasted. Let's just say time enjoyed wasting is time not wasted. To each their own, as always. I never said anything was wasted, so just we're clear. Ah my bad, I forgot to redirect my discussion towards the topic and OP. Sorry 'bout that. |
| Yeah man I sometimes rewatching anime because I rejected humanity... |
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| I wasted way to much time of my life posting this reply |
| There are two reasons I'd rewatch a series. One) The series is so good (probably in my favorites) that rewatching it would be a nobrainer. I'd enjoy the time most likely. Two) I considered a show bad years ago for whichever reason. Due to it's popularity I'll give it a second chance though. Maybe the mistake was on my side, mood-related or whatever. Number two works occasionally. I did it with FLCL (which I still think sucks) and Hibike Euphonium (which turned out WAY better). The next anime would be Honey and Clover since after watching 3-Gatsu no Lion, it gave me a good grasp of the authors works. (they 're both from the same author) So,yeah... |
| Because Asuna's rape scene is just that symbolic |
| I rewatch for 4 reasons: 1) Enjoyment 2: Missed something the first time 3) Didnt understand the plot the first time 4) Refresher course for a new season Yeah its a waste of time, but hey, its my time to waste. I do however only rewatch anime at night that way I can use the day time to watch anime I havent watched before. Its my little system I have set up. |
| I only rewatch shows that I love and when rewatching those I usually have a good time so it certainly isn't a waste of time. |
| Wasting time is what life means, who cares if I re-watch or not? |
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| Preference. Some people enjoy re-watching things they enjoyed before rather than picking something up that they may or may not enjoy. It's good to do it while waiting for a new season of shows to come out to refill your plan to watch. |
| because sometimes you need something to watch while you wait for new episodes |
| I rewatch almost everything with my mom so she understands me. |
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| Because re-watching an Anime is often times much better than watching some new shitty Anime. |
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CordobezEverdeen said: You do know that there isnt an unlimited ammount of good anime right? The ammount of anime that you will enjoy (unless you are a degenerate that likes SAO then you dont count since you have no taste or criticism whatsoever) personally is limited. Dropping or finishing a show that is absolute garbage are painful experiences (that i for the life of me cannot understand. If you are going to give a show a 1 why the hell do you waste your time finishing watching it). So rewatching something is sometimes the solution when you dont have any good anime in your "to watch list" or simply you arent interested into looking for a good anime for the time being. So anyone that likes SAO has shit taste??? Wow you sir sound like a fucking elitist. |
| I agree, i would only re-watch something if it's a favorite of mine, otherwise i would prefer to be watching new things, even if they are bad. |
| Life is too short to watch bad new bad anime. Its better to re-watch good ones. |
| Its not a waste of time, there are times that by re-watching them you notice different things and understand more stuff (Like with FLCL for example) Also, you'll be only re-watching what you like, so its not a waste of time. Of course, I wouldn't be rewatching something "big" like One Piece, that would be a real waste of time (if watching that wasn't already a waste of time xP) |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
| When I don't feel like going through a bunch of shitty anime to find a good one that I haven't seen, I re-watch what I already know is great. There's a lot more bad anime out there than good. |
| because it's enjoyable, why else would you engage in entertainment? isn't it more of a waste of time to watch new stuff you don't even like than to enjoy something you love? |
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| For three reasons: 1. To watch the other version of the show (sub/dub) 2. Enjoyment 3. To see if your opinion change on the anime. |
Mnanoha said: I never rewatch an anime. It's just a waste of time. Much better than wasting time on watching shit anime. |
| Basically to experiment the enjoyment all over again. I personally don't rewatch too much anime myself, not counting movies, but when I do it's nice to revisit the hype, emotion, and love for a series. |
| I only re watch anime i forgot cuz i hate re watching something i fully remember |
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| Because finding more anime in genres that I enjoy becomes more and more difficult, so I watch things I know I love, not things that get ever more hit and miss, since I watched most of the high rated stuff that I am interested in early on. |
| There are things I'll go back and rewatch maybe a year or two afterwards. Mostly when I pick said series up on Bluray. I adore shows because they put me in a certain headspace. I go back to remember but also to judge whether I was correct in my initial judgement on some of the older stuff. |
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| if you're enjoying yourself whats the problem |
| SWFC We're all Wednesday arent we? |
| it really depends on the person and their preference. personally i LOVE re-watching so i don't see it as a waste of time. and i feel like sometimes you need to watch something more than once in order to appreciate it/understand it deeply. but that's just what i think |
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