It takes so long for me to watch anime

[chobits4]

If you don't get what I mean, it takes me like an hour to watch 1 episode. I always pause it and go do something else like read forums or play video games for a while, only to remember that I'm watching something. Even if I've never seen it.

I always end up pausing and then randomly making shit up like if Star Wars was in this anime so some other anime or a video game. Yeah I'm fucked like that.

Hell, right now I'm watching episode 2 of School Days and it's been paused at 10:49 for about half an hour now.

I don't know why I do this but I do. Expcept with Lucky Star. I can watch like 10 episodes without pausing it once for some reason.

So, how can I stop this problem?

Also if I put this in the wrong forum then tell me. This is about anime so I though it would fit here.

[blitzfx]

You can't stop the problem because I too, believe it or not, have the same issue lol .

I actually think it's a sign that you are getting way too into it and pondering other possibilities instead of just going with the flow and enjoying it. I do that a lot with quite a few animes (but I suppose that's because I have an inquisitive mind).

Some animes i don't do it because it's interesting enough so much so that you look forward to what happens next and don't really have time to think about it mid-show. Perfect example is Code Geass. I don't think I did that with school days though. But I did actually hesitated to watch the NEXT episode after some .....bad/disturbing event had taken place like makoto's threesome was very upsetting and rather immoral from Sekai's perspective so I didn't feel very good about it. I kind of felt like "Oh I feel like shit now, feeling sorry for Sekai/Katsura. I know if i watch the next episode, it'll be bad and I know I'll make myself feel worse" kind of situation lol.

I stopped a few times in KGNE since some parts were so slow going. Other times it'll probably be from some stupid situation or some fanservice. I don't know why it makes me feel uneasy, it shouldn't lol.

Another time I watched Soul Link (which is a crapped up rip from the H-game) I paused a billion times. Dragonaut I paused a billion times so much so that I only finished watching it 2 weeks ago since following it from the very start. Maybe they were boring or unstimulating.

Never really thought about why I did this so deeply before lol.

Probably around start of College did I start watching anime properly because right now, the only spare time i get is on holidays (so better make use of the time)

[chobits4]

Originally Posted by blitzfx

You can't stop the problem because I too, believe it or not, have the same issue lol .

I actually think it's a sign that you are getting way too into it and pondering other possibilities instead of just going with the flow and enjoying it. I do that a lot with quite a few animes (but I suppose that's because I have an inquisitive mind).

Some animes i don't do it because it's interesting enough so much so that you look forward to what happens next and don't really have time to think about it mid-show. Perfect example is Code Geass. I don't think I did that with school days though. But I did actually hesitated to watch the NEXT episode after some .....bad/disturbing event had taken place like makoto's threesome was very upsetting and rather immoral from Sekai's perspective so I didn't feel very good about it. I kind of felt like "Oh I feel like shit now, feeling sorry for Sekai/Katsura. I know if i watch the next episode, it'll be bad and I know I'll make myself feel worse" kind of situation lol.

I stopped a few times in KGNE since some parts were so slow going. Other times it'll probably be from some stupid situation or some fanservice. I don't know why it makes me feel uneasy, it shouldn't lol.

Another time I watched Soul Link (which is a crapped up rip from the H-game) I paused a billion times. Dragonaut I paused a billion times so much so that I only finished watching it 2 weeks ago since following it from the very start. Maybe they were boring or unstimulating.

Never really thought about why I did this so deeply before lol.

Probably around start of College did I start watching anime properly because right now, the only spare time i get is on holidays (so better make use of the time)

Wow, I didn't think anyone else did it. I have a friend who downloads like me and he says I'm fucked up if I acually do that. It probably doesn't help that like 3 months ago my mom told me I have ADHD.
When I pause it's not because I'm bored or anything, I just think about some random thing that might happen for some reason like when I was watching Clannad, I kept thinking about an alien race coming and blowing them all up then another comes and kills the other aliens. Yeah I'm crazy I know.

Kinda like that girl from Shuffle! but not romantic fantasys.

Sometimes I dream up some completly random thing happening and then un-pause the anime and it acually happens. Those couple of times were a shocker!

[chaos_greg]

I mostly never pause anime, when I watch and it's interesting I just keep watching and nothing distracts me... when th eanime gets bored I mostly make it smaller and start talkign to msn with people while watching it once in a while just to check up the story.
haven't had that with the last animes luckily :p as I moslty never recall what happend anyway :p

[chobits4]

Originally Posted by chaos_greg

I mostly never pause anime, when I watch and it's interesting I just keep watching and nothing distracts me... when th eanime gets bored I mostly make it smaller and start talkign to msn with people while watching it once in a while just to check up the story.
haven't had that with the last animes luckily :p as I moslty never recall what happend anyway :p

I wish I could do that.

[blitzfx]

you mean you wish you could multi task

I used to do something similar to greg except I did it while playing cs. Every time you died in cs, you had to wait until the round ended before you could play again so during that time I just alt + tab to watch the anime then back again. I think I did that a few times for shuffle. Oh except i paused it while i was playing

[mari-chan]

I do it too
mostly because I'm talking with people on msn who answer WAY too slow
or I'm watching something and suddenly I feel the urge to watch a PV (music video), and I can't concentrate on the anime anymore and sometimes I miss full lines and have to play back and stuff
and when I do watch the PV I start watching others and I totally forget about the anime until I want to close down my pc and I see the window is still open...

[chobits4]

Originally Posted by mari-chan

I do it too
mostly because I'm talking with people on msn who answer WAY too slow
or I'm watching something and suddenly I feel the urge to watch a PV (music video), and I can't concentrate on the anime anymore and sometimes I miss full lines and have to play back and stuff
and when I do watch the PV I start watching others and I totally forget about the anime until I want to close down my pc and I see the window is still open...

Yeah, that happens to me a lot. I always start watching then feel like playing video games or reading forums then come back later and realize I'm watching anime.