| maybe its so people can make pointers about the episode without it feeling random, since they added that event in their essay |
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| Positive thinking maybe they were training themselves to prepare their review later :D |
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| probably they also write what they felt at that exact moment of the episode with the summary |
| That's hardly the worst thing about ep/chapter discussions. At least those retelling the plot posts help you remember when you go back and look at them Now those posts that are super vague, super general one-liners that look like they were written by a bot? Yea those ones are definitely annoying. Happens more often than not in manga discussions, and it's usually the same few users who do this but man, it'd be nice if it didn't look like it was only there to boost post count every single time |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
skysurf said: I kinda feel sorry for them because it looks like hard workbut honestly after watching an episode I go to the forum to discuss story highlights, funny stuff, quality of animation, etc... not to read an essay describing everything that I just watched. Bruh we have to describe what happened at that part before we express our opinion.Also did you ever thought that the episode summaries might be helpful for those who may have forget what happened and really want to know what happened at that episode?It isn't "Hard work' if you're not lazy. Before you quote me saying that no need to be so butthurt about it I feel offended because I'm one of those who write short summaries and express my opinions in episode discussions. |
ScordoloJan 23, 2021 9:23 PM
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| I like them. Sometimes I miss things or misinterpret things in the episode |
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| Hey, I actually love it when our guy @KANLen09 writes those full summaries... Ain't nothing with noting what you see, plus it helps you remember much, especially when a season has shit loads of seasonals... |
skysurf said: i actually didn’t know that episode synopses were a thing, but you could always just scroll past the summaries anywayGoZha said: I like them Then maybe it's just the way I use the forum. After watching an episode, I like to read a bit about people's opinion on the episode, not really to read a full recap. And there's usually more than 1 essay lol. It's like going to the movies with friends and after the movie one of them is like "before I let you know my opinion, I will tell you a full recap, at the beginning the main character was (...)" lol we know, we just watched it. But anyway, it's cool to know some people may like that, I guess... For me it would be better if they input those summaries in the episode summary section of MAL (example). For those times when I actually want a quick refresher on what happened in some episode(s) (let's say a season 2 is starting and I don't remember clearly season 1), I tend to use wikipedia (example). @NewYearSameMe your profile pic is comedy gold from the anime of the season. |
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| I also just remembered another reason: that some people watch the raw Japanese episode as it airs in Japan before it is subtitled and airs in the west, so the summaries help the people that watch the raw but don’t understand the Japanese |
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skysurf said: my guess is that GoZha said: people that watch the raw but don’t understand the Japanese *confused noises* "Why would anyone spoil their own experience watching something they don't understand instead of waiting a couple hours for the sub release" <-- sounds like a good topic for a new thread :P 1) they read the manga/novel so they already know the plot so they just care about visuals and soundtrack and they type summaries to help others or read them as refreshers 2) people are too impatient to wait so maybe they even read the summaries before watching the raw episode Just my guesses; I’ve never done this |
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| @NewYearSameMe EHHHH I didn't ask for this shoutout, but it's good to have some notice. To the new users here, y'all have to understand that a typical 24-min episode has crap loads of info that basically within the 1st page of episode discussions, is VERY CRUCIAL. There's loads of content that is adapted from say pages of LNs to chapters of manga that it's hard to summarize into a single episode discussion, so it's just to take notice and then point it out within 24 mins. Like what @GoZha mentioned, the reason why we watch RAWs from Japan is to get the context of what the episodes adapted, and if there's any missing content from the source materials. Yes, you can say that it's utterly useless when creating episode discussions, but what I like to do is to lift off the original source material and compare to the anime, and that's about it. You can choose to wait for subs to come out as is the preferred method, but at most times, there's always mistranslations that Crunchyroll and Funimation will miss out, so the enjoyment factor lacks a lot during the translation. Or you could do the way that @Scordolo does it, same thing, just shorter and the same attention span. In a nutshell, think as if we're helping you do a service on the crap loads of seasonals that are coming out every 3 months, and we don't have the extended brain cells to cover 12-13/24-26 episodes at once, much less coming from someone who always does this: ISeeLifePeople said: Positive thinking maybe they were training themselves to prepare their review later :D |
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| One of my teachers often said that students are better at writing summaries than any sort of meaningful analysis. You see the same thing in reviews. |
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| My memory doesn't last that long to do that. |
 just wanna feel wanted by someone other than the police ๐ซ |
| If you see me at the episode forums (especially during the Fall 2020 seasonal animes) I used to enter REALLY LONG POSTS in the episode threads and here's my reason why. Sometimes you just watch an episode (and if you're like me), you're always observing and catching the tiniest of details that might be fun to point at or share for the forums. But in exchange of that, I kind of summarized almost everything that happened in that episode. It can even take me as long as 10-15 minutes to post all my thoughts and it's really time-consuming. But there's an upside to that, once you come back to a certain episode forum thread and search for your own post, you see again almost every details that takes you back to that episode. You suddenly remember the points and the events that happened, and sometimes it is fun to actually see what your thoughts were just right after you post it in the episode thread. And that's the positives of that in my opinion. (This is pretty much how I post back then and even now. Sometimes I post much more longer than this, and when I mean long I mean 5 PARAGRAPHS WORTH OF LONG. But recently I've been trimming my posts to save some bit of time, so hope this tip of mine helps @skysurf lol.) |
raiderublazeJan 24, 2021 6:15 AM
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skysurf said: This is your comment from Slime s2 episode 1. Now tell me lol which is better. This or a those long comments? This type of comment make you seem like a bot lol. No offense btw."That time I reincarnated as a Recap" Also just gonna tag you since you pointed it out in your comment. @Short_Circut |
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NewYearSameMe said: Hey, I actually love it when our guy @KANLen09 writes those full summaries... Ain't nothing with noting what you see, plus it helps you remember much, especially when a season has shit loads of seasonals... It's funny how his episode summaries are much longer than his reviews, kinda like the two books meme, not complaining in the least btw. |
| @raiderublaze Yeah kinda true, though I'll just stick to my usual formula. We all have our own formulas of enjoyment outta the shows we watch. @MegamiRem Maybe some people don't like a super long attention span, and here for alt account bot reasons LOL. Also no offense to @skysurf, but it just sounds that way. @CaptainKenshiro Pretty interesting EH? |
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MegamiRem said: skysurf said: This is your comment from Slime s2 episode 1. Now tell me lol which is better. This or a those long comments? This type of comment make you seem like a bot lol. No offense btw."That time I reincarnated as a Recap" Also just gonna tag you since you pointed it out in your comment. @Short_Circut bruh that ain't even that bad lol, comparing to ones like Life is tough. Time to face the reality and accept it. This chapter had a peculiar feeling of despair or Heh, some people think it's a big deal. or From confession to proposal and these are all full posts rip edit: who could forget the best one of course: SingleH said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Premiered @ 9:30am CST on Crunchyroll. GoZha said: skysurf said: my guess is that *confused noises* "Why would anyone spoil their own experience watching something they don't understand instead of waiting a couple hours for the sub release" <-- sounds like a good topic for a new thread :P 1) they read the manga/novel so they already know the plot so they just care about visuals and soundtrack and they type summaries to help others or read them as refreshers 2) people are too impatient to wait so maybe they even read the summaries before watching the raw episode Just my guesses; I’ve never done this don't forget the people who want to rush to get the first post in the thread lmao |
Short_CircutJan 24, 2021 8:48 AM
'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
Short_Circut said: Ah yes the one and only, god tier man. I remember this one too, it's from TOG finale.edit: who could forget the best one of course: SingleH said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Premiered @ 9:30am CST on Crunchyroll. |
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MegamiRem said: LELS this is historical HISTORY.Ah yes the one and only, god tier man. I remember this one too, it's from TOG finale. @skysurf Try and find forum posts that don't make sense and tell me how you feel about them. As a starter, find this user's posts (Ringare) and you'll see why. Just giving you a crash course. |
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| I personally do that so I can either fondly look back on what I liked about it to my understanding, or better as a point reminder whenever I want to go back and refresh my memory for a point or recap when I watch a sequel or whatever. It's basically my own notes which I don't post in my database's comment section anymore. |
| bunch of weebs and gays talk like women do |
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| I get you OP, I was also so confused the first few times I go to discussions forums when I see recaps, and not just one at the top. But it's not a bad thing, and I guess you can quote that recap to point out which scene the opinion you wanted to discuss came from. |
| I like to thank them because sometimes I might've missed something in the episode and their episode recaps just say everything that I could've potentially missed. They are as useful as quizlet makers and anime piraters |
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| to remember the stuff that happened in that episode in case they wanna revisit. I post in episode discussion when there's something big on my mind or something annoys me or I have some crazy theory |
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Ciezul said: They are thrash. They will never understand thing called SPOILER. I never go to episode discussion before watching the episode. You better do so, cause people usually want to spoile the fun... Why would you go to the episode discussion before watching the episode anyway...? |
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| Eh, it's just your usual impressions writing on the episode?.. Some do it in one form, some in another.. If you won't like one type of comments - just skip, and look for other ones.. |
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