Watching Anime on 3.5x Speed is What New Anime Fans Do Now 

There was an anime review channel that saw S2 of re Zero at 3 or 2 times speed and then said the season sucked and made no sense with a smug look on their faces. Absolutely wild, especially since the viewers were in complete agreement with them and defending watching it at that speed

"Meh story is so rushed and characters get not enough build up..."

@@bryangarcia5207 I can imagine that being the tiktok crowd, worst takes you can imagine with zero self-awareness whatsoever.

This is more common than you would think

@bryangarcia5207 bruh, how are you gonna document the fact you speedrun a story and then proudly shit on it 🤣🤣🤣

Fr just read the wiki page

​@@RoflCannon6idk if they even able to do it without Subway Surfers popup at the bottom of the screen

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It explains soooo much

It's not because of that, but it's a funny thought, I guess

Well, I've heard enough times that Kingdom Hearts doesn't make any sense, then I went to talk with people and colour me shocked, they skip the cutscenes and dialogue boxes...

​@@kamikaze5528Kingdom Hearts 3 made little sense to me because I didn't have a handheld system to play all the side games. I got the games on Steam now. So hopefully I can fill in those blank spots.

*Looking at you, Dragonball fans*

Me watching this vid at 2x speed 😅

Nah, it's more like only reading and ignoring art.

The most productive way to read a manga is to extract only the text and read all of it. Who has time to gawk at a bunch of drawings?

That ending was cursed. I don't want to hear it ever again lol

Tai Lopez would read the first and last panel of every chapter and post that he read the entirety of attack on titan in a day

Calling that a tourist is an overstatement. That's someone who gets enough from reading a brochure

​@@jashirei7581nah, its the kind of guy who thinks he knows a lot by being racist as balls

Aman to that

As soon as he said "I need everything in my life to be productive", I immediately thought "what a f'ing idiot". I'm pretty sure that'd be most people's reaction to this guy.

If you don’t eat ot sleep you’ll die, everything else though doesn’t really matter

theyre called casual you ***

I'd like to see his reaction to the Monogatari Series 😂😂😂

@@1фуджинкё "casual" implied all those casuals watch them similarly like him, even though there are those that watch it in their free time, *casually* watching it when you can.

@@Monika-di7vvif he watches that at 3.5x he will be the worlds fastest reader

@@1фуджинкё People who casually watch movies...dont watch it at 1.50x bro.

It's not a forgotten concept. This guy's is just a rare breed

@@ronel7836over 8k likes 💀

@@ronel7836 nah. there's a lot of them. and they're gonna grow.

Patience and Nuance are dying concepts… :(

It’s really not.

Come on bro who doesn't want to speed up and make their downtime stressful?

I tried to do that once. Even at 1.25 I feel like I’m doing something illegal

@@fvnoah I love 1.25x speed for certain shows, but only for shows that feel really slow or there is a slog in the middle (Clannad and Bleach are shows I think of where I watched some parts at 1.25). Anything above that however just feels terrible.

No if the anime is shit or just too slow, then I speed it up. I did this with certain eps in Bleach. They were soo slow.

This is proven wrong by the fact one piece exist.

At least when the pacing is good to begin with.

Literally my thoughts bro I wish anime stayed a hobby 😊

thats such a dumb take lol

@@benp.865 explain why

@benp.865 if is a dumb take then why everything is going downhill, I'm not toxic or anything ,I'm just genuinely curious to hear ur opinion

@@DevSeeMorth because something being popular or if dumb people are watching the same thing you, are the most irrelevant thing imaginable when it comes to me enjoying said thing. It changes absolutely nothing, unless anime studios start releasing anime at 3,5x speed to please these dumbasses. What exactly is going down hill? Its just the same thing but different people are also watching it now

And he's not even being entertained during that time he "lost" instead of doing something productive. He gets absolutely nothing from that time

It could be part of a hive mind thing where if you're not part of a group it's abnormal. Think of the Borg in star trek next generation I suppose.

There is something for him and it's especially for him. It's called Microsoft excel. I think he'd have a blast being fast and productive on it. He might even 100% complete it in a week

It's called being a narcissist

wtf are we talking about? If speeding it up allows it to be for him, then who are you guys to gatekeep the medium? How trashy.

@@hagelmannen gatekeeping is good. Also, the point is that if you have to watch something at 4x, just do something else. It's not like he has to watch it for work, but he's treating it like work. It is OKAY to judge people

While when you're watching naruto you don't want to spend 10 mins listening to I want to get stronger repeatedly

It's equivalent to skipping

Bro, One Piece….

@@DeathWing572 if you read fast its not skipping at all

@@Jirachi_OFFICIAL weird that you say that bc I finally watched Naruto and Shippuden bc my son said it was good. He is almost 15 and the only parts I skipped were the filler. I like listening to OP and ED of anime but I don't have attention problems.

He will probably 3x speed the manga too😂

Let's say you want to watch Domestic Girlfriend. Would you watch that in normal speed?

I understand the feeling of having to speed run stuff. Especially since I'm reading the Bobobo manga. Apparently its taken me 2 months to read the manga and I'm 15 chapters away from completing the manga. And it's been a journey while I would have loved to spend run the manga it just wasn't possible.

​@@NexenTrizwould you even want to watch it period?

​@@elimDBZThe manga was good though...

EXACTLY

Imagine thinking these people care about “meaning.” /s Gosh this irks me to no end. I never watch anime on 2x speed, never 3. Absolutely no point in watching then because I won’t retain anything about the story.

They are better off just watching WWE

Same with me, I agree with the guy who does this but only for 1980-2000s anime. Older anime, I don't do this shit. I started in 2016 when I was 9 and I quit in 2022. Gaming was better.

​@@mielkavraK?......?.

bang bang bang And more, on this episode of In the anime-field

"here's your rope, don't hang yourself with it"

Yeah like he didn't learn anything from the audio books words will just fly by the head, and reading is the best way to learn.

fax like I doubt you were paying attention to anything they were saying at 3.5 speed

I tend to speed up livestream vods and basicly 1.25 is fine, 1.75 is fine as long as you only pay attention to what they say 100% of the time and anything starting from 2 is just impossible to comprehend. Let's not even mention reading subtitles, you can't even understand speach at 3.5x even if it's correctly processed and the worlds aren't just high piched noises (which they were with that shit extention)...

Thanks for the ableist remark but that's literally what blind people do. You're jsut supremacist for your own perceptions on how life works. People are always making the bigoted takes about things, like simple adjustment is some savantism and "I could never do it". Because you GIVE UP when you have the easy way out of your existing senses. You make the point that there can't be anything in common with you and a person who is differently specialized, and the seeing are not allowed to acquire any skills of the blind. And yeah, that's specifically ableism. You make the LIMITATION the entire point of it and nothing but an excuse "they're so pitiful because they odn't ahve the ability". Even now you're apping about "attention span" to vilify them not having that ABILITY: ableism. It's the same kind of thing as some black man happening upon Egypt, getting enslaved there and then they say "because of your skin color that's a bit darker". The slavery is the crime, but the -ism is your criminal mind, mens rea.

I'm listening to AI generated audio books in 1.5× speed, and sometimes don't get everything. But the main reason I miss stuff is probably not the speed, but because I listen to them in the car. And maybe because English is not my mother tongue.

There's a similar problem with comic books "fans". I'm tired of people getting their Batman lore from memes rather than official material; they've turned him into an irredeemable bastard in their minds.

Watching yt shorts and think you know everything about anime is honestly fucking funny ain't no way😂😂😂😂

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Not just anime, but TV and movies in general.

Ur acting like this is something new. It's always been a thing. Some people just like to watch them at faster speeds.

​@anonisnoone6125 it doesn't even count as watching it, and no it hasn't always been a thing.

@@anonisnoone6125 That doesn't make it any less stupid.

Most people probably didn’t even make it that far *cough* but yes lol 😂 that side eye

Basically the same as YT since with most anime speed makes no difference. But some shows like Grimgar or Mushoku (S1 mostly) do benefit greatly from the intended 1x pacing, in which case you do slow it back down

@@quake4love not it’s pretty different. Most RU-vid is not professionally made, so it’s different

I watch yt vids at 2x speed aswell even when I try it on 2x or normal it feels the same so I leave it on 2x

@@thomasffrench3639 I would argue that most anime are not that much more professional as well. In general unless there is a reason to slow it down (vibe/emotional moment/heavy dialogue etc) I don't really see any issue with speeding things up. But it depends on who you ask ig

​@@quake4love your argument is invalid. Making an anime even the most basic and terrible anime takes at least 10k USD per episode. That amount of money requires a standard of professionalism that YT videos don't need to adhere to

You are wasting time passing pages. Better to hear a recap at 5x

Manga takes even longer for me. I'm a slow reader. And it's much worse in general. I'm recently read the newest One Piece chapters, and I couldn't get immersed at all. I'll likely skim trough most of the speech bubbles which don't seem that important, I don't know what to focus on, it's only black white. Most of the time I just ignore most of the pictures. Animated manga is better, where they cut out parts of the panel and let them fade in or zoom at the important parts. And generally for books and manga, I have to actively read, which is more effort. There is no predefined pacing, so I can read it slow or fast. And sometimes my mind just drifts away while reading sentences and I have to read a whole page again. And there's also no marker like in games, where I only see the one text box at once, which I read and then I press A to see the next one. So I'm often not sure what I've already read and read some parts multiple times or in manga even in the wrong order.

How much you wanna bet he just looks at something else in the meantime

@@DarkyBoy then I am just pausing it.

Ironic thing is, he wrote a book called "Feel Good Productivty" which is all about preaching journey before destination. Dude is a hypocrite.

Makes me wonder if they've ever enjoyed a single show like this that wasn't shounen or some other thing with lots of flashy fight scenes. I mean, if you skip all the dialogue in dialogue heavy shows, no wonder you'll never enjoy anything. Then again, they're probably the kind of people who believe they can read a summary of a story and not miss anything important.

Lol “slow” your brain is at normal speed. I have seen people say in fighting games “that character is too weak” no they are balanced you are using something broken. Trust me man you are not “slow”.

"It's kind of boring, but I still want to watch it" or "I have to go to bed because I have work tomorrow, so with normal speed I won't be able to finish watching this 4 hour video today"

That anime isn't slow. It has the perfect pacing. I would say something like one piece, which makes its episodes super slow (adapting 1 or sometimes less than 1 chapter per episode, only to avoid catching up to the manga mid arc). That is why I always tell people to READ one piece, but most people don't have the attention spans to read unfortunately.

I used to watch this guy's videos years ago (this video made me unsubscribe) and I can verify that StalxD is telling the truth.

Any other 4x brothers hiding out there?

​@@theanarchist4312how u even get 4x?

@Black-Knight007 perks of riding the high seas. Apparently old timers had 8x

Gigachad

There is a browser add on called YT enhancer that adds some functionality like increasing the video speed with your mouse wheel to infinity

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Thank you for sticking around brotha

Same lol.

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Yeah he’s giga cringe

Nah it wasn't. He was being serious. I used to be a former subscriber of this guy. He pretended that video doesn't exist ever since.

More common than you realize

THATS SO TRUE

Anything over 1.5x is very hard. There are shows out there where even bumping over normal speed would be insane and pointless. Few examples would be: The Tatami Galaxy and Monogatari.

@@TheHandHistoryVault Tatami galaxy is insane even on normal speed

@@geogeo3733 yep xD

It is different. Anime doesn't have sponsored ads mid episode that detract from it.

Yeah lol, their attention span is already too low and they can't accept the truth.

If it’s an instructional video where I’m just trying to learn something, I’ll go to 2x because I can absorb the information at that speed. Going higher than 1.5x during entertainment (usually a podcast) would just mean that I’m not enjoying it

FACTS THATS RIGHT

@@-._____- I mean, I just manually skip those parts. I don't see why the rest of the video has to be in 2x speed just for the ads.

be careful bro, its a very slippery slope

You will be very sad to hear those people still make the same amount from you watching their videos, even if you watch them on 2x speed (unless youtube changed it after spiffing brit made his video covering that fact)

@@AroWolfArts oh i know they get paid the same. But at least it doesn't waste as much of my time

@@ninjablade-kk1eh been doing it for years. I'm good

It only becomes a problem when they LARP as knowledgeable as the series when they just skimmed the surface leve details. Don't forget, this guy claimed that anime has no inherent value by claiming it's "unproductive".

In terms of “watching” you right there shouldn’t be a issue of how someone watches something, however when it becomes beyond watching like a discussion or a opinion is when the way you watch something then becomes important. Like for example if you want to have a discussion with your opinion on the voice acting of a anime you are watching, if you are watching this anime in a speed up form where all the voices becomes mumbled or a edited (outside of what has been professionally edited) state, you literally not hearing the voices at all in their normal natural state. Question then brings up to those people, how can you tell if the voice acting is any good or not? The actual answer for these people, they have no idea because they can’t actually tell. You of course have people who try to explain but normally they ended up getting disproven, you have to be super human to even tell a natural state on something that’s going fast as most people cannot do that. That is the issue at play, by watching something that is sped up you then start sacrificing your full right to have a discussion or opinion of whatever you are watching mainly outside you generally talks, it especially becomes more sacrificing your right to review something as why should someone that speed watched something review anything when there’s a good chance they missed a lot of details. So again it’s not the actual watching but what comes afterwards is what the issue of speed watching something comes at play. (Side note, the reason why games do not have a right or wrong way to play them is because it’s just that, you “play” with video games and there’s definitely no such thing as a right or wrong way to “play” something. Watching on the other hand does actually technically have a right or wrong way to watch something mainly when doing it for learning something, as yes there is a right & wrong way to watch something to learn something. That’s why I don’t get why you try and used the right or wrong statement for video games in this because “playing” & “watching” are two separate types of action, entertainment & words)

Game journos were using this very same argument to support the idea of FromSoftware games having easy modes (which defeats the whole purpose of how those games are designed). There ARE right ways of experiencing each individual piece of media, the ones intended by the author, and trying to find "alternative" ways is almost always like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

@@inendlesspain4724 Not always true. Take Smash Melee for example. It was made to be a casual party experience, but people were able to have fun turning into a hyper competitive game, even though that wasn't what the dev intended. Same for other games where certain challenge runs are popular. But I agree that people who want to dumb down games to have forced easy modes are just trying to get participation trophies for doing the equivalent of watching the game on RU-vid while tapping on a Bop It Toy. I liked early Touhou game's approach to easy mode: If you play on easy mode, you get the automatic bad ending and you don't even get the right to fight the final boss.

@@-._____- What you describe is usually done by players who've already played said games the intended way hundreds of times over anyway. My comment was mostly directed at people who want to dumb down not just games but entire mediums, even at the expense of the creative vision, because they refuse to adapt to the work and instead demand that the work adapts to them. Usually the same people who won't shut up about how gaming "needs to grow up", and their idea of gaming becoming a "mature" medium is turning it into movies with QTEs.

Na, it's not gonna be the case. The comments and re-tweet discourse shows that this guy is a rare breed of Alien

He's gonna watch her take it from 3.5 guys.

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