So many anime, so little time...

Chagen

God damn, I fucking hate my low attention span sometimes. I just saw the OP's to Nichijou and Steins;Gate and holy fuck, I wanna watch them.

But a combination of ADHD and being raised on the internet and video games means I can never passively sit still for more than literally about 2 minutes. So it takes me literally hours to watch one episode of an anime because I just cannot stop stopping it to check the internet or play a game or do something active....

DYRE

Get two monitors.  Have the anime playing in one, do something else in the other one.

Or if you don't have two monitors just do the same thing only with each thing open in a separate window on the same monitor.  Of course, that generally means you have to do both things in a smaller-than-ideal window.

GLORIOUSLeader

1. Watch Cowboy Bebop.

2. Watch Cowboy Bebop.

3. ???

4. Profit. 

DYRE

Oh, but you definitely should watch Nichijou.  It's really good.

Gelzo

I watch the shows I like while I eat meals. Maybe that can help.

But if the show can't hold your attention, maybe it's just not good enough for you to need to watch it.

RedEyedAbyss

"Get two monitors. Have the anime playing in one, do something else in the other one.

Or if you don't have two monitors just do the same thing only with each thing open in a separate window on the same monitor. Of course, that generally means you have to do both things in a smaller-than-ideal window."

How are you supposed to be emotionally engaged with the show if your attention is split?

Oh, that's such a sad scene...dammit, there goes my chain.

DYRE

It's pretty easy, especially considering one of the shows he was talking about is Nichijou, a slice-of-life comedy.

And even for things that do require emotional engagement... just pay more attention during the more dramatic scenes.  It's still fairly easy to watch a show while, say, reading this forum.  I do it all the time.

RocketDude

Meanwhile, I have the TV on (with the volume turned down), a YouTube video in one tab and one or more tabs.

RedEyedAbyss

Is that how kids nowadays operate? I could never pull that off. When I try to pay attention to more than one thing, my attention goes towards one thing while the rest are ignored until later.

glennmagusharvey

> How are you supposed to be emotionally engaged with the show if your attention is split?

This.

I prefer to really get absorbed in a show when I'm watching it.  I pay attention to all sorts of details, and immerse myself in the action and situation.

(Though this does not apply to comedy.)

Noimporta

I'm trying to watch 20 fucking shows right now. It's going badly.

I still don't get why you keep putting yourself through that.

Gelzo

Entertainment really shouldn't be a chore.

glennmagusharvey

I have no qualms about going through anime series/games/whatever slowly.

I actually get to enjoy it, and pay attention to it, and think about it a lot, and stuff.  It's much nicer.

ninjaclown

^^Question of curiosity, are you watching Hanasaku Iroha? Also, what is Hoshizora?

DYRE

I think there are 17 shows this season I want to watch.  Though, I've only actually started 9 of them, and I won't continue one of them because I'd rather wait for the Blu-rays which will presumably be uncensored, and the other ones... I just haven't gotten around to starting yet.  I'll get to that eventually.

DYRE

Well, no, but that's mostly because I haven't even watched one episode of Oretachi or Astarotte yet to know if I should wait for them or not.  Softeni is the one I had in mind.

DYRE

Based on the first episode, it looks like it has as much to do with tennis as K-On! has to do with music.  Which is to say, not a lot.  Rather, it seems to mostly just be ecchi comedy-type stuff.  Unless it gets more tennis-ish later on...

Myrmidon

Obligatory Goro Goro Iki plug.

DYRE

Battle Girls

I don't like it when Crunchyroll makes up English names for shows that aren't even translations of the Japanese title. It's kind of confusing...

glennmagusharvey

I think that "animé" is a collective noun.  So it would be "so much animé".

ninjaclown

I fucking love Hanasaku Iroha now, it's like the drama anime I always wanted but no one could pull it off.

DYRE

Yeah, Hanasaku Iroha is really good so far.  Though... there's a lot of good shows (or at least, shows that look good based on the first episode or two or three) this season.  Certainly it's looking better than the last couple seasons anyway.

TheMightyAnonym

My list of stuff to watch (I save the names in a txt file to keep track):

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Potemayo
Digi Charat                                      
pani poni dash    
07 ghost                                     
Samurai Deeper Kyo                                    
power puff girls z                                     
Yatterman                                               
Kyo Kara Maoh                                     
doraemon A               
Bobobo Bobo Bobo.
Twilight Q
Eat-Man
Project A-ko
One Pound Gospel
Alien Nine
Samurai X: Trust & Betrayal
SUMMER WARS
letter bee
Boogiepop Phantom
Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Saber Marionette J
Tokyo Mew Mew
Gunsmith Cats
ex-Driver
Card Captors
Magic Knight Rayearth
hamtaro
Mugen no Rivaiasu
Toradora
Princess Tutu
Cat soup
Durarara!!
Chaos;Head
Hikaru no Go
Hyakko
Katanagatari
Kowarekake no Orgol
Kure-nai
Kiddy Grade
Kiddy Girl-and
Ookami Kakushi
Pandora Hearts
Paranoia Agent
R.O.D.
Strait Jacket
Shinigami No Ballad
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Jigoku Sensei Nube
Shugo Chara
Minami-ke
Magical Pokaan
Mokke
Otaku no Video
S-Cry-ed
Sakura Taisen
Gyo
Ryofuko-chan
Doki Doki School Hours
Hidamari Sketch
Gokusen
Letter Bee
Sumomomo Momomo
Kuroshitsuji
World Destruction
Telepathy Shoujo Ran
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure
Muteki Kanban Musume
best student council
Happy Lesson
Umineko No Naku Koro Ni
Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni
To Aru Majutsu No Index
Genshiken
Heroman
Tatami galaxy
Shikabane hime
o Aru Kagaku no Railgun
Ai To Yuuki No Pig Girl Tonde Buurin
The Littl Bits
Takeshi's Castle
El Hazard The Magnificent World
Macross
Haiyoru! Nyaru-Ani
Simoun
Kino's Journey
Ore No Imouto Ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake Ga Nai
All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku
Gun X Sword
Cowboy Bebop
Comic Party
Death note
Dot Hack
Full metal panic
Gintama
GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class
Hundred Stories
Princess ressurection
Melody of Oblivion
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror
Rumic Theater
Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica
Thriller Restaurant
Texhnolyze
nfinite Stratos
Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
Level E
Yumekui Merry
Uninhabited Planet Survive
You're Under Arrest
Yozakura Quartet
Shiki
Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru
The World God Only Knows
Murder Princess
Wakfu
Ookami-san
Sketchbook
Red Line
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Chrome Shelled Regios
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0
Gun Grave
Saiyuki
Ore No Imouto Ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake Ga Nai
The Legend Of The Legendary Heroes
Marie & Gali
Ichinensei Ni Nacchattara
Negima!?
Ga-rei-zero
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Feel free to look those up.

Sammy

"Feel free to look those up. "

I don't need to look up "All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku" to know it sucks.

Watch Texhnolyze first. Then most everything else will look worse by comparison, saving you untold amounts of time.

DYRE

but nothing's been as good as Hourou Musuko, Level E, or Madoka.

Haven't seen Level E, but I thought Hourou Musuko was kind of disappointing, and Madoka was... alright, after I decided not to take it seriously, but still not great.

letter bee — Read the manga instead. The pacing in the TV series is pretty bad. Though, some of the filler episodes are pretty good anyway, so I guess the anime isn't too bad. Still, if you just watch it without reading the manga, you're missing out.

Card Captors — You sure as hell better mean Cardcaptor Sakura. Cardcaptors (the heavily edited dub by Nelvana) is infamously terrible, while the original is actually very, very good.

Princess Tutu —

Kowarekake no Orgol — also

Paranoia Agent — very strange... but also very good. It's a shame the DVDs are out of print. I'd definitely buy it.

Ryofuko-chan — ...why? Honestly, even I couldn't find much enjoyment in this, and I'm me. The loli fanservice is literally the only redeeming feature it has, and... that's not really enough to make up for its horribleness otherwise.

Letter Bee — You already have this on this list!

To Aru Majutsu No Index — Watch Railgun. It's really good. I haven't seen Index, though...

o Aru Kagaku no Railgun — ...oh... so you were already planning to... nevermind then

Ore No Imouto Ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake Ga Nai — This is very good too.

Death note — Haven't watched the anime, but I read the manga. It's decent, but the Yotsuba arc is really boring...

Yumekui Merry — Merry is sexy. I don't really have any other comment on this show, to be honest... >.> Well, I guess I like Mistelteinn's voice actor. She did a really good job.

The World God Only Knows — Ugh. This... was really boring. To me anyway. I could barely get through the first season of the anime, and it was only like 12 episodes.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica — First 3 episodes and last 3 episodes are good. Middle 6 episodes are... not.

Ore No Imouto Ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake Ga Nai — You also already listed this!

Marie & Gali — Unfortunately, only the first 25 (of 40, and then 30 in the second season) episodes have been subbed. Too bad, since I wanted to watch this too)

Ichinensei Ni Nacchattara — This is a good manga. I wish there was an anime adaptation of it, but... oh well.

Those are all the shows from that list that I've seen.  Well... except for Marie & Gali, which I've only seen a few episodes of.

glennmagusharvey

Likely to watch or continue watching: Magical Shopping Arcade, Alien Nine, Angelic Layer, Mai-HiME, Infinite Ryvius, Spice and Wolf, Uta-Kata

Want to try out: Air Gear, Ancient Books of Ys, Baldr Force EXE Resolution, The Tower of Druaga: the Aegis of Uruk, Full Metal Panic, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gunslinger Girl, Lost Universe, Moyashimon, Nodame Cantabile, Planetes, Crest of the Stars (and Banner as well), Taishou Baseball Girls, The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye, Wangan Midnight, Zillion

Not likely to continue or not likely to try out: Nerima Daikon Brothers, Samurai Pizza Cats, Suzuka, Shakugan no Shana

On my list but not sure if I still want to continue or try: FMA Brotherhood, Halo Legends, Voltron, Magic Knight Rayearth (season 2), RahXephon, Durarara!!, Asobi ni Iku yo!*, Ga-Rei: Zero*, Kite Liberator*, Martian Successor Nadesico*, Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (I may want to start at the beginning of the Gundam series instead, but I dunno yet), Paranoia Agent*, Read or Die OVA, Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight, Scrapped Princess, Soukou no Strain: Strategic Armored Infantry, UFO Princess Valkyrie, Utawarerumono*, The Tatami Galaxy, Yokohama Shopping Log,

* I don't even remember why these are in my list.

DYRE

And if we're just going to post our list of things we plan to watch... this is a somewhat incomplete list of things I want to watch (actually, very incomplete).  Incidentally, the only show that GMH mentioned that I've seen was Paranoia Agent.

30-sai no Hoken Taiiku
5 Centimeters per Second
A Little Snow Fairy Sugar
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
Big O, The
Brigadoon Marin to Melan
Canaan
Candy Boy
Cencoroll 2
Chu-Bra!!
Cowboy Bebop
C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control
Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z
Escaflowne
Fushigiboshi no Futagohime
Gakuen Alice
Hen Zemi
Hen Zemi TV
Hidan no Aria
Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai 2
Kanamemo
Kiki's Delivery Service
Kiss x sis
Kiss x Sis TV
Kobato.
Kodomo no Jikan: Rin's Classroom Diary
Koi Kaze
K-On! Movie
Kyou no Go no Ni
Kyou no Go no Ni TV
Lotte no Omocha!
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu
Manabi Straight!
Marie & Gali
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2009)
Mobile Suit Gundam 08th MS Team
Naisho no Tsubomi
Nanatsuiro Drops
Netrun-mon The Movie
Nodame Cantabile
Ojamajo Doremi
Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi
Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai
Otogi-Jushi Akazukin TV
Pretear
Record of Lodoss War
Record of Lodoss War OVA
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Saki
School Rumble
Shigofumi
Sketchbook ~full color's~
Sky Girls
Sky Girls TV
Slayers
Strike Witches
Strike Witches Movie
Sugar Sugar Rune
Summer Wars
To Aru Majutsu no Index
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
Vanishment of Haruhi Suzumiya
Working!!
Zero no Tsukaima
Zoids Chaotic Century

glennmagusharvey

To the people who know the animé scene better than I do: What does my list say about me?

TheMightyAnonym

"I don't need to look up "All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku" to know it sucks. "

It has a kitty robot thing. -is still going to watch-

"Watch Texhnolyze first. Then most everything else will look worse by comparison, saving you untold amounts of time. "

-nods thoughtfully-

*rearanges list order*

"Card Captors — You sure as hell better mean Cardcaptor Sakura.
Cardcaptors (the heavily edited dub by Nelvana) is infamously terrible,
while the original is actually very, very good."

I'll have to keep that in mind. Normally I go for the sub anyways.

"Ryofuko-chan — ...why? Honestly, even I couldn't find much enjoyment in
this, and I'm me. The loli fanservice is literally the only redeeming
feature it has, and... that's not really enough to make up for its
horribleness otherwise."

It was just bizarre and random sounding, though there might have been another reason. In any case, I won't be wasting my time with it.

"The World God Only Knows — Ugh. This... was really boring. To me
anyway. I could barely get through the first season of the anime, and
it was only like 12 episodes."

I was on the fence to begin with. *removes from list*

"Marie & Gali — Unfortunately, only the first 25 (of 40, and then 30
in the second season) episodes have been subbed. Too bad, since I
wanted to watch this too)"

I wanted to watch it though!

"You already have this on this list!"
" You also already listed this!"

Yeah, that happens. It's a really big list and is hard to navigate...

DYRE

I was on the fence to begin with. *removes from list*

You might like it though. I know a lot of people did. You should probably at least try a couple episodes and see if you like the formula.



Also...
For anyone familiar with anything on my list... WHICH ORDER SHOULD I WATCH STUFF IN?

TheMightyAnonym

I happen to love School Rumble. Tenma is almost a loli, by the way.