How do you get your anime? Assuming you're a practical anime lover who doesn't rewatch anime.
| Watch 1 episode of anime on stream. If I like it, I'll download either 720p or 1080p version. It doesn't take up too much time thankfully xD However, I'm using this method only from about recently. Until then, I was coping with the streaming. (slow speeds, broken mirrors ...) |
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| strong poverty anime viewing thread of peace.. Unlimited bandwidth practical viewer checking in... Even if your b/w is limited, who wouldn't want to watch a higher quality show if it's an option? Would you rather watch your favorite show/movie/anime in VHS or Blu-Ray format? The whole fucking point of watching an 'ANIMATED' show is to make your eyeballs orgasm. Not to mention you can save all your shit and view it at any time and any where when dat dere nostalgia hits you hard when you're a grown fuck. As for buying physical disc. Why the fuck would you care what people spend their money on? It's their money and happiness. I'm sure you've bought shit that other people would find wasteful as well. Lastly, if you're running on limited bandwidth or you're living in poverty, then streaming would be your best option. |
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| What do you mean by "practical"? What's so impractical about re-watching your favorite movies or late night episode re-runs of the Family Guy? |
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katsucats said: What do you mean by "practical"? What's so impractical about re-watching your favorite movies? This, I'm pretty practical and I buy my favorite anime on Blu-Ray/DVD, the enjoyment I get out of rewatching them and having is worth it. |
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| download, because if I am going to watch an anime once, it's going to be in clear 720p |
| I really don't care if it's 240p or 1080p. |
| Download, it's really not that long of a wait. you could even burn it and sell it....well if there's actually people that is stupid enough to buy it. |
| tuturu~!! (≧◡≦) |
| I download everything because I can't be bothered to 1) pay for stuff and 2) watch stuff in non 720p+. I don't really have to watch how much I'm downloading because America has unlimited bandwidth. Plus it's always nice to share shows with people you know in good quality. |
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| id Have to Say Stream, There are sum Good low prices on DVD, My friend bought the WHOLE series of Yu Yu Hakusho for $15 online, Not bootleg either , but for me Stream When ever i can, If They just had a anime Version of netflix where u pay monthly & they have a large enough library of anime subbed & dubbed That would be perfect, but That's a Pipe Dream |
Ponpokopii said: Download, it's really not that long of a wait. you could even burn it and sell it....well if there's actually people that is stupid enough to buy it. Yeah right, why do people buy the dvds/blu rays? Its not as if it would harm the industry or anything if no one buys them. //sarcasm out. |
stanklem28 said: I honestly don't get why people people torrent/download and/or buy DVD/Bluray anime. If you're here, I'm assuming you're a "practical" person who don't do things without a meaningful purpose. Someone who weigh the costs and benefits before taking action. Someone like me. Also, someone who don't rewatch anime. So as you can see already... For the torrent/download path, you have to waste a lot of bandwidth and time to download those "ZOMG 1080p/780p" anime. A practical person would say, "Downloading wastes time and bandwidth so I'm just gonna go stream on a semi-high-quality site or something." For the buying DVD/Bluray path, you have to use your own money and, being the practical person you are, feel that the boxes that the anime discs come in are just wastes of space. This practical person would then say, "Buying DVD/Bluray for anime is so costly and the quality doesn't seem to be that much better to me. I could just go watch it for free on a semi-high-quality streaming site. Plus, I have to drive or wait for the discs to arrive if I were to buy them anyway." I don't see how a practical anime lover who don't rewatch anime would ever want to have such super-duper high-quality anime through torrenting/downloading and/or buying DVD's/Bluray's. Don't the lines just get a little bit sharper? And the sound a little bit sharper and surroundisher? That's nothing to waste 4 hours and gigabytes of bandwidth torrenting/downloading or 40 to 50 USD not including gas money or shipping costs. If you proclaim to be "practical," yet you torrent/download and/or buy DVD/Bluray anime, explain your thinking process. Waste bandwidth? Who gives a fuck. I don't live in a third wold country that has providers that put limitations on how much i can download(looking at you US and Canada). I can waste bandwidth 24/7 just for the hell of it. To parachrase the Star Wars emperor. UNLIMITED POWER BANDWIDTH!! Time is no wasted ether. Usually when you download stuff you download them when you do something else so you can have it ready when it's the time you want it but even if i want to see an episode immediately it can be downloaded in very few minutes. Before i even manage to check what new threads have been made on Mal my episode is ready. If i download a whole series there isn't a problem ether because i actually know how to use my torrent client and put priority on which episodes to download first. Now downloading and keeping are two different things. Some download and then delete and some keep them. Well if you want to keep them then yes you would need to pay for hard disk space but obviously if you want them is because you are interested in seeing them again and you don't want to be left with nothing if you are left with no internet. Also 720P isn't super duper quality. It's quite normal. If you still live in the 20th century and you still have your CRT screen is your problem. But 480p and 360p looks like shit in any TV or screen bought in the current era. And watching shit isn't something i enjoy. As about buying. Well i have bought some series but in no time did i though that buying them was practical. I payed my ass off(no amine in the stores here) and they don't even have any use than sitting on the shelf but i knew that from the start. I bought them deliberately to support that series. That's why i only bought the few series i love mostly directly from Japan and nothing more. I simply wanted to give a message of "yeah make more of these and i'll buy" knowing very well that am wasting my money. Still though it's kind of nice having the little package and seeing it there. |
MonadJan 4, 2013 5:04 AM
| Oh look, yet another pointless thread. stanklem28 said: I honestly don't get why people people torrent/download Higher quality, genius. Enjoy your 360P streams if CR does not have the anime you want to watch. If you're here, I'm assuming you're a "practical" person who don't do things without a meaningful purpose. Someone who weigh the costs and benefits before taking action. Someone like me. Also, someone who don't rewatch anime. Watching anime has the benefit of enjoyment, nothing more. If anything, rewatching anime has less of a risk. For the torrent/download path, you have to waste a lot of bandwidth What is unlimited bandwidth? and time to download those "ZOMG 1080p/780p" anime. What is a backlog? A practical person would say, "Downloading wastes time and bandwidth so I'm just gonna go stream on a semi-high-quality site or something." No, a person who doesn't know what a backlog is would say that. It doesen't waste time at all. |
RyuujiXmemories said: Ponpokopii said: Download, it's really not that long of a wait. you could even burn it and sell it....well if there's actually people that is stupid enough to buy it. Yeah right, why do people buy the dvds/blu rays? Its not as if it would harm the industry or anything if no one buys them. //sarcasm out. No, what i meant is if there's actually people who would buy the dvd's that i just downloaded and burned, i have nothing against the dvds/blu ray buyers. |
| tuturu~!! (≧◡≦) |
Ponpokopii said: RyuujiXmemories said: Ponpokopii said: Download, it's really not that long of a wait. you could even burn it and sell it....well if there's actually people that is stupid enough to buy it. Yeah right, why do people buy the dvds/blu rays? Its not as if it would harm the industry or anything if no one buys them. //sarcasm out. No, what i meant is if there's actually people who would buy the dvd's that i just downloaded and burned, i have nothing against the dvds/blu ray buyers. I like piracy but not the ones trying to make profit out of it. Sites that make you pay to download pirated stuff put by users and people selling pirated disk should go to hell. |
| Practical??? anime lover?! You're kidding. I think what you mean is casual anime watcher. An anime lover doesn't think like you do. You're a cookie cutter casual anime watcher. |
| I could be extremely well off and buy all the anime I watch. Or I could be dirt poor and trying to do everything I can to minimize cost of living. As it turns out, I find torrenting extremely efficient in the latter. So, I torrent and download. |
| I'm 'practical' in the sense that - as a motion graphics artist/video editor - I render overnight a lot, therefore, the practical option for downloading 720p/1080p is to simply download it overnight, or while I'm watching another series I've downloaded. Having said that, I'm not practical in the sense that I do in fact buy my favourites on Blu-ray/DVD and I most certainly do rewatch shows. |
Monad said: Ponpokopii said: RyuujiXmemories said: Ponpokopii said: Download, it's really not that long of a wait. you could even burn it and sell it....well if there's actually people that is stupid enough to buy it. Yeah right, why do people buy the dvds/blu rays? Its not as if it would harm the industry or anything if no one buys them. //sarcasm out. No, what i meant is if there's actually people who would buy the dvd's that i just downloaded and burned, i have nothing against the dvds/blu ray buyers. I like piracy but not the ones trying to make profit out of it. Sites that make you pay to download pirated stuff put by users and people selling pirated disk should go to hell. The sad part is there's actually people who falls for those sites, well im not that serious at selling it anyways though if someone come at me and buy it then i would gladly sell it since "selling it, buying or watching', it's still piracy. But yeah we love piracy....but it's bad. |
| tuturu~!! (≧◡≦) |
stanklem28 said: For the torrent/download path, you have to waste a lot of bandwidth and time to download those "ZOMG 1080p/780p" anime. A practical person would say, "Downloading wastes time and bandwidth so I'm just gonna go stream on a semi-high-quality site or something." Wastes bandwidth? it's not a waste if you are doing nothing else with it. Most of times i just download something while watching something else. |
Shrabster said: katsucats said: What do you mean by "practical"? What's so impractical about re-watching your favorite movies? This, I'm pretty practical and I buy my favorite anime on Blu-Ray/DVD, the enjoyment I get out of rewatching them and having is worth it. Second both of these statements. I wouldn't buy my favorite shows if I didn't want to rewatch them. Then they wouldn't be called my favorite shows anymore. |
| stream but if I like the anime or there isnt an existing good player online i get the torrent |
 People's faces when they realize "High Definition" animation is nothing more than high saturation and gamma to make the colors seems stronger. Anyway, I stream most of the time. I only download if I am planning to watch it on my iPad. There's some series I want to buy DVD's for even if it's just to collect them and display them, but box sets cost the same as a 1/8th scale figure, and I usually end up buying the latter. |
| First of all less than 5% of stuff is worth paying for and half of that isn't even available via legal means. Secondly most legal streams are crap aimed at nerds who prioritise fapping to their shows and they're not even good for that due to being censored. |
TsukikageRan said: Practical??? anime lover?! You're kidding. I think what you mean is casual anime watcher. An anime lover doesn't think like you do. You're a cookie cutter casual anime watcher. I was hoping I wouldn't have to be the one to point this out. I stream anime. If I like it enough, and it's been licensed, I'll buy it because I'll more than likely be rewatching it. I'm still not a practical person. I collect records and shit, for god's sake. |
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mecharobot said: First of all less than 5% of stuff is worth paying for and half of that isn't even available via legal means. Secondly most legal streams are crap aimed at nerds who prioritise fapping to their shows and they're not even good for that due to being censored. Don't know where you live so I can't know for sure, but amazon.com for example delivers anime worldwide. So saying they're not available threw legal means is bullsh*t. You simply don't want to give your precious money to the industry because you're greedy, so you call people who do support the industry nerds to make yourself feel better. |
RandomPerson3 said: Don't know where you live so I can't know for sure, but amazon.com for example delivers anime worldwide. So saying they're not available threw legal means is bullsh*t. You simply don't want to give your precious money to the industry because you're greedy, so you call people who do support the industry nerds to make yourself feel better. Nope. It just means anime is crap and I do entitle myself to be selfish enough to demand it at least has subs in the languages I know and preferably not be region locked (although over half of my stuff is). I love collecting anime and games. What can I say man? I just have standards. But you're right that I still have some stuff missing, but I'll get there eventually. |
| I download the anime per episodes using IDM.. so it's not HD or something (only 50 mb per ep) but at least it's still ok for my eyes I've never rewatched whole eps of an anime before, but usually I rewatched some scene that I like |
MyReminiscenceJan 4, 2013 7:43 AM
| You know you can be both 'practical' and re-watch? One has nothing to do with another. And I think we already had this talk couple of times... |
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mecharobot said: Nope. It just means anime is crap and I do entitle myself to be selfish enough to demand it at least has subs in the languages I know and preferably not be region locked (although over half of my stuff is). I love collecting anime and games. What can I say man? I just have standards. But you're right that I still have some stuff missing, but I'll get there eventually. Yeah I get what you're saying. Regionblocking sucks, why do they even do that anymore? |
| You make it sound like downloading a series is some sort of difficult task... Get real dude. You click a button and the entire series is yours in 8-10bit within the hour. That means you can acquire a specific episode within 1-2 minutes]. Most people's internet service at least has high download speeds these days, and if it you don't well too bad for you because you probably let yourself get ripped off. Man stanklem no wonder you are having a hard time enjoying anime, you're watching it in shit quality streams LOL! Personally I've always found streaming anime to be 100x more of a pain in the ass. Bad quality and sometimes the streams take time to load right in the middle of the anime even with 1 mb+ speeds. Streams are dirty and make me feel like taking a fucking shower. |
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| Even if I didn't intend to rewatch anything, I would still use torrents for the higher quality. I have unlimited bandwidth. They're also pretty easy to find. |
| This thread confuses me. It's not like I get charged for using up bandwith (past a max cap I can't break every month). May as well use it up for torrenting. |
| I don't download and I'll stick to my pleb ways of watching anime. Doesn't mean I'm practical, just means I'm too impatient to wait hours upon hours for a single episode to finish downloading on bad Internet speeds. |
 Just this once, I'll fulfill whatever your wish is. |
| I usually stream on ANN, which pays Hulu for the anime, and Hulu pays the anime companies, so I guess you could say that that is SOMEWHAT supporting the anime industry. But if it's a series I really like I'll buy the whole set on Blu-Ray. (Namely FMA:B, looks amazing on Blu-Ray) But I guess I'm not the most practical person, my Xbox PS3 and Wii are gathering dust while my twenty-year-old SNES gets played daily. |
CNileJan 4, 2013 9:11 AM
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| hmm..In the poll, I chose the first one.. I torrent/download anime.. after I completed it, I re-watch it again.. It's nice to re-watch anime.. hehehe..xDD I started torrent/download anime when I have my own laptop..Now, I'm having problems because my hard disk is almost full now.. and 2013 just started.. new anime series/movies/OVA's are flowing.. and I torrent/download Adventure Time too.. |
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| Torrenting is the way to go, the benefit of files is just too good to miss, 0 loading times and no stupid ads, i can seek, skip and resize whenever i like Not to mention i can sync them onto my phone during holidays |
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| I torrent completed series and sometimes ongoing ones, but that's rarely. The higher quality visuals/sounds are totally worth it, especially when you're watching something such as Nekomonogatari, to give a recent example. Plus I travel/stay at my grandparents' quite often, so it's always nice to have a bunch of shows downloaded and not have to to rely on internet connection. |
| OP has many strange delusions. |
LoneWolf said: @Josh makes me sad to call myself Canadian. |
| For someone who declares to love high quality animation and gory content, it blows my mind that you just posted such non-sense. A) Torrenting/Blu-ray = higher animation quality. Being ripped off of TV broadcasts, reformatted, and downsized back into a streaming site means tons of loss in quality. B) Most streaming sites don't update their anime after being uploaded for the first time, which is probably 4-5 hours after they are broadcast in Japan and subbed by their respective groups. This means that for gory anime that are heavily censored for TV broadcast lose tons of their gore content on streaming sites. The uncensored versions come out with the DVD/Blu-Ray releases, which make their way to local stores, which are bought by sub groups, subbed and put online. Some people take the courtesy to put them on youtube, but youtube also downsizes videos, which means loss in quality. Sometimes I really wonder what you're thinking, Wikiboy. To answer your question, I torrent series that I feel like are worth torrenting, and I torrent every movie I watch. |
I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
stanklem28 said: I did mention that this thread is kind of reserved for non-rewatchers. Hey, I can't stop liars, and neither can I stop rewatchers from coming into this thread and commenting. Why don't you want re-watchers though? |
stanklem28 said: I did mention that this thread is kind of reserved for non-rewatchers. Hey, I can't stop liars, and neither can I stop rewatchers from coming into this thread and commenting. I don't even see how re-watching anime is relevant to whether or not someone streams and/or torrents anime. |
Just this once, I'll fulfill whatever your wish is. |
Slyr3do0n said: Because of the plot summaries on wikipedia.stanklem28 said: I did mention that this thread is kind of reserved for non-rewatchers. Hey, I can't stop liars, and neither can I stop rewatchers from coming into this thread and commenting. Why don't you want re-watchers though? |
| I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
stanklem28 said: This is like that rec thread you started. You turn a blind eye to logical explanations and say some redundant and offensive shit that would be better kept in your simple mind. Wanting to have the highest quality version of something has no relevance with wanting to re-watch it. Deleting it off your hard drive is simple... And why are you ignoring what I said because "not a thread for re-watchers" bullshit. So typical of you, wikiboy.Why would one torrent/download and/or buy DVD's/Bluray's of anime? Is it mental sickness, compulsion, or is there no reason? But if there is no reason, then one is not practical as one claims. It's like an Ouroboros question. |
| I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
| I stream, always did; was thinking about trying to download tho (i wonder if the quality would be that better). Just bought DvD once (not counting with a couple of DBZ VHS's), which was the ''Flying Castle'' or something, bought it today. If it was what i was thinking about it was supposed to be from 1986, this one looks more like a remake and im not even sure if it got the original japanese voices (probably dubbed in english) which would suck. edit: i thought it was Laputa, but seems like it is Howl no Ugoku Shiro (i hate titles translated in my main language), that's ok since i wanted to watch this one as well. Still if it is dubbed i will trade it for something else lol. |
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