Which Speed Do You Normally Watch At?
Less Than 1x Speed
1.2%
9
1x
62.0%
454
1.12x
2.0%
15
1.25x
16.7%
122
1.5x
11.3%
83
2x
3.8%
28
Faster Than 2x
1.2%
9
3.5x (Late Addition)
1.6%
12
732 votes
| Looking at some people's lists with high numbers of days watched, I often wonder if they are watching at faster than normal playback speeds for the sake of consuming more shows. Personally, I will only watch something at 1.12 or 1.25 speed if I start to lose interest in it, but want to finish it because I'm a bit of a completionist. For example, I watched the second season of Ajin at 1.25x. I might also do the same for an easy to process show with say, a lot of flashbacks and recaps, like Naruto or another battle shonen. Anything faster than 1.25 makes the show seem squirrely. |
AngryCactusApr 22, 2019 8:42 PM
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
| Only thing I've ever watched at more than 1x speed was Kara no Kyoukai 8. I got like halfway through it on 1x and then switched to 1.25x. |
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| No and I absolutely don't get how people can do it. It's like watching a different and much worse show in any regards except the bare bones of the plot and if that's the only thing you care about you might as well read it up on wiki. It ruins the animation, timing, pacing, acting, music, dialogue, atmosphere, everything that makes anime or any visual storytelling interesting and fun to watch. If you watch sped up, any opinion you have on the show will be irrelevant too because it's based on a twisted version and not the real thing. I'd rather not watch something at all than speed up my watching because watching a show like that would just feel like a giant waste of time. If I don't have enough patience to watch a show as it is intended, I should just not be watching it. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| people actually do that??? i just watch a show at a normal pace ... and if i really can't get through it then i just drop it or put it on hold until i feel like picking it back up again. i just don't get why anyone would do it, because you're literally changing the viewing experience so it wouldn't even be doing the anime any justice nor do i feel like you'd be able to enjoy or follow the story as well - though, to each their own i guess. |
| If it wasn't good enough at normal speed, it wouldn't be worth my time and I'd just drop it and move on to the next thing. |
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| Even if I had to marathon the entirety of Sazae-san, I don't think I would speed up an anime. Pullman basically explains everything lmao |
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Mythologically said: Only thing I've ever watched at more than 1x speed was Kara no Kyoukai 8. I got like halfway through it on 1x and then switched to 1.25x. I don't blame you, I wasn't a big fan of them apart from the first one. |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
| I only do that for YouTube videos where I'm solely interested in the content. |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| I have watched anime at 2x speed only one time before, and that was the 6 last episodes of Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei. I watched episode 21 on my laptop screen and episode 22 on my phone screen at the same time. Thats how fed up i was with that show. But I don't understand why people would speed up the all the anime that they are watching, it's not a race or anything. |
| lol, I'm the only one who watches anime with 1.12x speed. |
| Evangelion is shit |
Wesim said: I once watched a filler arc at 4x speed. I realized there wasn't much point in watching the filler if I was just going to speed through it so I started skipping them after that. That's the only time I ever went above 1x. Hahaha, is it even "watching" at 4x? That's straight up fast forward speed son. |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
| I genuinely don't understand this. If something is boring enough that I want to skip through it, I'll skip it. If a show has started to bore me then I'm done with it, there are other shows I'm interested in, and watching shows I don't like at speeds they aren't meant to be watched is just gonna make it worse |
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| Never but sometimes I skip ahead a few minutes when an episode is boring. But that usually occurs at a longer series where I don't have the patience to watch every episode properly but I'm still curious. |
Cevoy said: I have watched anime at 2x speed only one time before, and that was the 6 last episodes of Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei. I watched episode 21 on my laptop screen and episode 22 on my phone screen at the same time. Thats how fed up i was with that show. But I don't understand why people would speed up the all the anime that they are watching, it's not a race or anything. I got so frustrated with that show, physically angered by it. But I'm surprised, that's the first time I've ever heard of someone watching two episodes at once. |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
| If it's not good enough for you to watch on normal speed just DROP IT . |
PsychoEkin said: lol, I'm the only one who watches anime with 1.12x speed. I can totally see where you're coming from, don't get me wrong. A lot of shows can seem slow, but I feel like once you make the switch to faster speeds it's hard to switch back. |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
AngryCactus said: PsychoEkin said: lol, I'm the only one who watches anime with 1.12x speed. I can totally see where you're coming from, don't get me wrong. A lot of shows can seem slow, but I feel like once you make the switch to faster speeds it's hard to switch back. Haha buddy you need to try watching https://myanimelist.net/anime/7785/Yojouhan_Shinwa_Taikei More than 1× speed It'll make you switch back to 1× |
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| It's wrong to watch by any speed other than 1 but I can't understand what's with this much hate Pullman said: No and I absolutely don't get how people can do it. It's like watching a different and much worse show in any regards except the bare bones of the plot and if that's the only thing you care about you might as well read it up on wiki. It ruins the animation, timing, pacing, acting, music, dialogue, atmosphere, everything that makes anime or any visual storytelling interesting and fun to watch. you won't understand until you try yourself But seriously those determined just by director, if it's get better "for you" by speeding up still is wrong but won't ruin those elements... Wasn't the main purpose of watching anime to enjoy it? Then if seriously they enjoy it more with speeding up and have more fun with the show, they don't deserve at least this much hate Also why dialogue?! That means it's always wrong watching the dubbed version of everything |
| This reminds, the same discussion happened a few years ago and there was even an spped watching club. I would never do that though, I rather skip entire parts than "waste" my time not really watching it. A friend of me does this with normal movies and shows though, just skips forward when she doesnt like something or bores her. Mostly the romance drama parts I think. So I guess those people do exist for anime as well. Pullman said: I want to give you an upvote for this but I cant.No and I absolutely don't get how people can do it. It's like watching a different and much worse show in any regards except the bare bones of the plot and if that's the only thing you care about you might as well read it up on wiki. It ruins the animation, timing, pacing, acting, music, dialogue, atmosphere, everything that makes anime or any visual storytelling interesting and fun to watch. If you watch sped up, any opinion you have on the show will be irrelevant too because it's based on a twisted version and not the real thing. I'd rather not watch something at all than speed up my watching because watching a show like that would just feel like a giant waste of time. If I don't have enough patience to watch a show as it is intended, I should just not be watching it. |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| The only time I've ever done this was once, with the final episode of Boogiepop. I was around 15 minutes in and the characters were having long ass boring conversations, so I thought what the hell and increased the speed because I was honestly getting a bit bored. Didn't really affect much as it was just conversations concluding things and it wasn't too hard to keep up with the subs. But... I do think its kinda stupid to do it for a whole show. Like, if you can't sit through the entirety of at least one episode of a show then... maybe just don't watch it. Seems like you're forcing yourself to suffer at that point. |
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| Nope, why would i want a good anime to end faster? When you start speeding anime up, just drop it. The only anime i could see this being beneficial for is One Piece. |
| Uhh, sometimes, if I'm more than half way though the anime and it's really not that great. x) |
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| No. I don't watch at fast speeds because it defeats the purpose of watching and ruins a bunch of things especially audio wise. Also it causes inaccuracies of statistical numbers and I ain't about that life |
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| @Pullman hit the nail on the head. 100% agree with you. |
| Okay who actually put less than 1x speed, I'm interested in you |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
mhkr said: It's wrong to watch by any speed other than 1 but I can't understand what's with this much hate Pullman said: No and I absolutely don't get how people can do it. It's like watching a different and much worse show in any regards except the bare bones of the plot and if that's the only thing you care about you might as well read it up on wiki. It ruins the animation, timing, pacing, acting, music, dialogue, atmosphere, everything that makes anime or any visual storytelling interesting and fun to watch. you won't understand until you try yourself But seriously those determined just by director, if it's get better "for you" by speeding up still is wrong but won't ruin those elements... Wasn't the main purpose of watching anime to enjoy it? Then if seriously they enjoy it more with speeding up and have more fun with the show, they don't deserve at least this much hate Also why dialogue?! That means it's always wrong watching the dubbed version of everything Personally I can't imagine speeding up and ruining all those elements I mentioned could ever increase my enjoyment of anything, it feels like it's just a way to get over with something that you aren't enjoying either way. But if people actually think they enjoy it more like that then by all means they can watch it like that. But they can't expect me to really take their opinions on it seriously as I don't feel like we really watched the same show for the most part. If someone watched a show sped-up and then wants to tell me the pacing or atmosphere was bad or whatever, I'd just laugh at them. But I don't care how people watch shows in their privacy, I just don't understand it. It's when they think that their opinions on what they saw have any relevance for the rest of us who watched the show as intended that I might get a bit snappy. Because I really don't think they have. As for the dialogue, there is a lot that goes into it from intonation to timing to emphasis and pauses and a lot of that would get lost or at least much harder to pick up on when you speed up a show. I study linguistics including conversational analysis so I'm probably more tuned to stuff like that than most people but even if you aren't consciously aware of all the elements involved the way you intuitively pick up on stuff based on how things are said often plays a big role. It's not just about the content of what is being said. And yes, if you watch a dub it's hard to compare your opinion on the dialogue to that of someone who watched the original audio. There's plenty of examples I've come across, sometimes to the point of complete reviews making no sense to someone who saw the original version because they talk about how the 'author created a lesbian SJW wish-fulfilment anime' when it was really only the dub script that gave people that impression (Dragon Maid). Mind you I'm not saying a dub has to be worse or 'wrong' by default, I'm quite fond of a lot of dubs, but it's undeniable that they provide a slightly (sometimes even very) different experience in terms of the script and voice actors so it's hard to compare those particular aspects of the show. And people having seen two different versions(dubs) might very well end up having different opinions because of it. It could be on some details like a particular scene or dialogue or character, or a big one like with that Dragon Maid review I mentioned. The difference to speeding up is that you a) still get the full experience of the dialogue at the intended pace instead of a diminished one, just a slightly different one and b) none of the visual or musical or pacing elements of the show are impacted. Watching dubbed shows makes a lot of sense in many cases since there's plenty of reasons to prefer not needing subtitles and you're only 'sacrificing' one or two element of the show (instead of almost all of them) which might not even be worse, just a bit different. It isn't really the same thing at all as far as I'm concerned. I hope that cleared things up. I don't hate people who regularl do it, I just have a deep lack of understanding for them and would feel weird talking to them about shows since we had very different viewing experiences. I'll just stick to discussing them with people who watched them as intended like I did because I can at least try to relate their opinions to my own viewing experience. |
AlcoholicideApr 22, 2019 4:54 PM
| I probably regret this post by now. |
Pullman said: mhkr said: It's wrong to watch by any speed other than 1 but I can't understand what's with this much hate you won't understand until you try yourself But seriously those determined just by director, if it's get better "for you" by speeding up still is wrong but won't ruin those elements... Wasn't the main purpose of watching anime to enjoy it? Then if seriously they enjoy it more with speeding up and have more fun with the show, they don't deserve at least this much hate Also why dialogue?! That means it's always wrong watching the dubbed version of everything Personally I can't imagine speeding up and ruining all those elements I mentioned could ever increase my enjoyment of anything, it feels like it's just a way to get over with something that you aren't enjoying either way. But if people actually think they enjoy it more like that then by all means they can watch it like that. But they can't expect me to really take their opinions on it seriously as I don't feel like we really watched the same show for the most part. If someone watched a show sped-up and then wants to tell me the pacing or atmosphere was bad or whatever, I'd just laugh at them. But I don't care how people watch shows in their privacy, I just don't understand it. It's when they think that their opinions on what they saw have any relevance for the rest of us who watched the show as intended that I might get a bit snappy. Because I really don't think they have. As for the dialogue, there is a lot that goes into it from intonation to timing to emphasis and pauses and a lot of that would get lost or at least much harder to pick up on when you speed up a show. I study linguistics including conversational analysis so I'm probably more tuned to stuff like that than most people but even if you aren't consciously aware of all the elements involved the way you intuitively pick up on stuff based on how things are said often plays a big role. It's not just about the content of what is being said. And yes, if you watch a dub it's hard to compare your opinion on the dialogue to that of someone who watched the original audio. There's plenty of examples I've come across, sometimes to the point of complete reviews making no sense to someone who saw the original version because they talk about how the 'author created a lesbian SJW wish-fulfilment anime' when it was really only the dub script that gave people that impression (Dragon Maid). Mind you I'm not saying a dub has to be worse or 'wrong' by default, I'm quite fond of a lot of dubs, but it's undeniable that they provide a slightly (sometimes even very) different experience in terms of the script and voice actors so it's hard to compare those particular aspects of the show. And people having seen two different versions(dubs) might very well end up having different opinions because of it. It could be on some details like a particular scene or dialogue or character, or a big one like with that Dragon Maid review I mentioned. The difference to speeding up is that you a) still get the full experience of the dialogue at the intended pace instead of a diminished one, just a slightly different one and b) none of the visual or musical or pacing elements of the show are impacted. Watching dubbed shows makes a lot of sense in many cases since there's plenty of reasons to prefer not needing subtitles and you're only 'sacrificing' one or two element of the show (instead of almost all of them) which might not even be worse, just a bit different. It isn't really the same thing at all as far as I'm concerned. I hope that cleared things up. I don't hate people who regularl do it, I just have a deep lack of understanding for them and would feel weird talking to them about shows since we had very different viewing experiences. I'll just stick to discussing them with people who watched them as intended like I did because I can at least try to relate their opinions to my own viewing experience. @Pullman Thanks again for the insight on this topic. If you don't mind, could you elaborate on the Dragon-Maid SJW thing for a bit? It sounds amusing. I'm also curious to what you would say about watching something at an very slight, perhaps unnoticeable change in speed, say .97% or 1.03% speed?? |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
| No. This is so strange that even the concept of this hadn't crossed my mind before. Like, this wasn't even a possibility before this thread was made. |
| The higher the speed I'm watching anime the worse it is. I mean, I wouldn't want to speed up something I enjoy, but when animation is lackluster, pacing is too slow and just everything is so boring, I start increasing speed until I decide that I had enough and it's time to drop this shit. But actually 1.5x is still pretty comfortable to watch in most cases. |
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AngryCactus said: Pullman said: Personally I can't imagine speeding up and ruining all those elements I mentioned could ever increase my enjoyment of anything, it feels like it's just a way to get over with something that you aren't enjoying either way. But if people actually think they enjoy it more like that then by all means they can watch it like that. But they can't expect me to really take their opinions on it seriously as I don't feel like we really watched the same show for the most part. If someone watched a show sped-up and then wants to tell me the pacing or atmosphere was bad or whatever, I'd just laugh at them. But I don't care how people watch shows in their privacy, I just don't understand it. It's when they think that their opinions on what they saw have any relevance for the rest of us who watched the show as intended that I might get a bit snappy. Because I really don't think they have. As for the dialogue, there is a lot that goes into it from intonation to timing to emphasis and pauses and a lot of that would get lost or at least much harder to pick up on when you speed up a show. I study linguistics including conversational analysis so I'm probably more tuned to stuff like that than most people but even if you aren't consciously aware of all the elements involved the way you intuitively pick up on stuff based on how things are said often plays a big role. It's not just about the content of what is being said. And yes, if you watch a dub it's hard to compare your opinion on the dialogue to that of someone who watched the original audio. There's plenty of examples I've come across, sometimes to the point of complete reviews making no sense to someone who saw the original version because they talk about how the 'author created a lesbian SJW wish-fulfilment anime' when it was really only the dub script that gave people that impression (Dragon Maid). Mind you I'm not saying a dub has to be worse or 'wrong' by default, I'm quite fond of a lot of dubs, but it's undeniable that they provide a slightly (sometimes even very) different experience in terms of the script and voice actors so it's hard to compare those particular aspects of the show. And people having seen two different versions(dubs) might very well end up having different opinions because of it. It could be on some details like a particular scene or dialogue or character, or a big one like with that Dragon Maid review I mentioned. The difference to speeding up is that you a) still get the full experience of the dialogue at the intended pace instead of a diminished one, just a slightly different one and b) none of the visual or musical or pacing elements of the show are impacted. Watching dubbed shows makes a lot of sense in many cases since there's plenty of reasons to prefer not needing subtitles and you're only 'sacrificing' one or two element of the show (instead of almost all of them) which might not even be worse, just a bit different. It isn't really the same thing at all as far as I'm concerned. I hope that cleared things up. I don't hate people who regularl do it, I just have a deep lack of understanding for them and would feel weird talking to them about shows since we had very different viewing experiences. I'll just stick to discussing them with people who watched them as intended like I did because I can at least try to relate their opinions to my own viewing experience. @Pullman Thanks again for the insight on this topic. If you don't mind, could you elaborate on the Dragon-Maid SJW thing for a bit? It sounds amusing. I'm also curious to what you would say about watching something at an very slight, perhaps unnoticeable change in speed, say .97% or 1.03% speed?? You can just google and I'm sure you'll find plenty of posts or articles going in-depth about the controversy of that dub. It was frequently mentioned around the community back when it came out, but I've never watched the dub myself since I watch most seasonals before they ever get a dub. I just recently stumbled upon a conversation on someone's profile about that review I mentioned which is why I brought it up. IIRC there's also been a similar controversy about some lines of the Hajimete no Gal dub. Tho the best example for what I mean is probably the Ghost Stories dub which literally has nothing to do with the original script and changes it into a completely different show. As for small deviations from standard speed, obviously the less the deviation the less noticable it is and the less difference it makes but it's still not gonna be quite the same so I don't really see the point either way. But it is a different story than watching at 2x speed. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
HelloDarkness52 said: No. This is so strange that even the concept of this hadn't crossed my mind before. Like, this wasn't even a possibility before this thread was made. I'm glad that I've created a somewhat original thread, but you did notice the lil button for playback speed at some point right? |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
| I'd normally just watch anime at 1x speed, if I started to lose interest partway through an episode I would just skip some seconds ahead in order for me to end the episode faster. If I felt like I missed a key point while skipping, I'll just go back and watch that segment. |
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HelloDarkness52 said: No. This is so strange that even the concept of this hadn't crossed my mind before. Like, this wasn't even a possibility before this thread was made. That's how I felt when I saw the first thread about it years ago. But I've seen dozens of threads about it since then, although some of them were probably trolls. At this point I think that maybe 5% or so of the community regularly do it to some degree, maybe even more. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
AngryCactus said: HelloDarkness52 said: No. This is so strange that even the concept of this hadn't crossed my mind before. Like, this wasn't even a possibility before this thread was made. I'm glad that I've created a somewhat original thread, but you did notice the lil button for playback speed at some point right? Of course, I meant more in the sense that I didn't realize that this was a thing that some viewers do. |
Pullman said: AngryCactus said: @Pullman Thanks again for the insight on this topic. If you don't mind, could you elaborate on the Dragon-Maid SJW thing for a bit? It sounds amusing. I'm also curious to what you would say about watching something at an very slight, perhaps unnoticeable change in speed, say .97% or 1.03% speed?? You can just google and I'm sure you'll find plenty of posts or articles going in-depth about the controversy of that dub. It was frequently mentioned around the community back when it came out, but I've never watched the dub myself since I watch most seasonals before they ever get a dub. I just recently stumbled upon a conversation on someone's profile about that review I mentioned which is why I brought it up. IIRC there's also been a similar controversy about some lines of the Hajimete no Gal dub. Tho the best example for what I mean is probably the Ghost Stories dub which literally has nothing to do with the original script and changes it into a completely different show. As for small deviations from standard speed, obviously the less the deviation the less noticable it is and the less difference it makes but it's still not gonna be quite the same so I don't really see the point either way. But it is a different story than watching at 2x speed. I don't know a lot about dubs, I've only seen three or four. Do dub scripts sacrifice being faithful to the original script to prioritize matching the frames of the lip flaps? |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
| If I'm unsure about if I want to drop something I might watch an episode on fast forward or skip around to see if anything looks like it will be interesting, otherwise I watch on normal speed. |
HelloDarkness52 said: AngryCactus said: I'm glad that I've created a somewhat original thread, but you did notice the lil button for playback speed at some point right? Of course, I meant more in the sense that I didn't realize that this was a thing that some viewers do. I figured, I was only jesting. But I usually find that if a way of doing something exists, someone will ultimately do it that way, its just a matter of how many people. |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
| I don't do it with whole episodes but I sometimes will do with boring scenes or with anime that I'm just killing time with and that speeding it won't really make a difference. Pullman said: It ruins the animation, timing, pacing, acting, music, dialogue, atmosphere, everything that makes anime or any visual storytelling interesting and fun to watch. To be fair, a lot of anime doesn't really need to be watched at 2x speed for that. |
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AngryCactus said: Looking at some people's lists with high numbers of days watched, I often wonder if they are watching at faster than normal playback speeds for the sake of consuming more shows. Personally, I will only watch something at 1.12 or 1.25 speed if I start to lose interest in it, but want to finish it because I'm a bit of a completionist. For example, I watched the second season of Ajin at 1.25x. I might also do the same for an easy to process show with say, a lot of flashbacks and recaps, like Naruto or another battle shonen. Anything faster than 1.25 makes the show seem squirrely. I mean if you are a goddamn fool, like the majority of the anime community, then yeah I'm sure you'd watch anime at a different speed. I don't because that doesn't sound like a good time ; ( |
| you're cool |
| Is this a low-key return of the 3.5x gang? |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
CatSoul said: Is this a low-key return of the 3.5x gang? Was there ever such a gang? Were you a member of said gang? |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
AngryCactus said: CatSoul said: Is this a low-key return of the 3.5x gang? Was there ever such a gang? Were you a member of said gang? There was indeed such a gang. Never joined because I don't watch anime at 3.5x but I was invited. |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| This sounds like a great way to ruin just about everything about a show. If I'm not enjoying a series I'll just cut my losses and drop it. Speeding it up for the sake of completion just sounds like torture on overdrive. |
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CatSoul said: There was indeed such a gang. Never joined because I don't watch anime at 3.5x but I was invited. Far out. I mean, I can see myself watching a singular episode of something I'd already seen at ludicrous speed for comedic effect. But nothing other than that. 3.5x is right out |
It's not like I like anime or anything. |
| I don't force myself to watch shows I dislike enough to the point I have to watch in a sped up format. The audio alone is basically like listening to that nightcore crap which I detest. |
I do not, you can fact check me if you want via web archive. I watch a normal amount of anime at a normal rate year after year after year after year. I watch less anime per day than regular people do with TV/netflix. It's just that I've been watching anime a long time, I actually started actively watching anime right around the year you were born. Anime to me is like TV/netflix, does anyone increase the speed with that stuff? Or it is like an anime-only community thing people do? |
| Please no, not this shit again. 3.5x speed to fast for me. |
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