The Old School Otaku Lounge

How much anime do you watch? (Is it healthy? (Are we getting too old for this job?))

I voted for 0-1 hours per day. As much as I enjoy anime, I just don't watch much stuff these days. I currently do not own a TV, but I could at least watch something on my laptop. Lately I've been watching Wolverine and the X-Men which is certainly not anime, but still an animated show. Most days I won't watch it, but when I do, I will watch about 2-3 episodes. So when I do watch anime, I'll devote at least 1+ hours to it. But looking at a daily average, it is not that much.

I think "daily" is too granular for our age bracket. As much as I love anime, I'm not going to watch anime EVERY day in my time between work and sleep, and I don't even have kids to deal with. But I'll watch a decent stretch on the weekend or on a given day. I MIGHT average around an hour a day right now, although the lack of anything compelling on cable TV and the not very compelling summer lineup has me lower on consumption right now. (although I watched "Summer Wars" last weekend)

I watch about 1.5 hours a day during the week and about 10 hours on Saturday, followed by around 3 on Sunday.

We watch an episode or two of something at dinner; we're working our way through Zeta Gundam, or an episode of Brygar, or Brother Dear Brother on the Viki. Might watch a movie on a weekend night, but it's not a regular thing.

Heero wrote:I think "daily" is too granular for our age bracket.

Good point. I changed this to just a general topic.

Heibi wrote:10 hours on Saturday

Wow.



I myself have been so busy working on this site and other things that I haven't been able to watch much of anything lately...

AnimeSennin wrote:

Heero wrote:I think "daily" is too granular for our age bracket.

Good point. I changed this to just a general topic.

Heibi wrote:10 hours on Saturday

Wow.



I myself have been so busy working on this site and other things that I haven't been able to watch much of anything lately...

Well, due to the weekend meetings of Central Anime I get lots of viewing time.

I echo Heero's views exactly.
Now and then I'll binge on something for a few hours straight, and then watch nothing for a week or two. It depends on my mood (and the weather--if it's too hot, I'll stay inside and watch something).

It varies a lot for me, but I still do watch *quite* a lot, in general. I do a lot of rentals from online dvd places, so that gives some built-in motivation to keep watching, to make the most of the money that goes into that.

At any given time, I'll have 6 anime discs out. During active periods, I'll go through all of those within the week and get them in the mail for next week's batch. (So an average of a little less than 12 hours/week? Assuming 4 eps. per disc, 25 minutes per ep.) I might do that for 3-4 weeks in a row, then go 2-3 weeks without even turning on the tv.

Jen526 wrote:It varies a lot for me, but I still do watch *quite* a lot, in general. I do a lot of rentals from online dvd places, so that gives some built-in motivation to keep watching, to make the most of the money that goes into that.

Hey, so when you do video streaming rentals, can you choose between dubbed or subbed? I've always wondered that. I know that with my former cable company back in the states, there were no such options. So, I never bothered watching any anime through their service.