The skip button hack that saved me from anime burnout

I was getting to where I couldn't finish a single new anime season because I kept dropping shows after two episodes. The problem was I'd force myself to watch every episode all the way through even when I was bored out of my mind. Then last month I tried something simple - I started skipping scenes that felt like filler or reused animations. Not whole episodes, just the slow bits. Turns out I finished three shows in one week that I'd been stuck on for months. The trick is to stop treating anime like homework where you have to see every frame. Has anyone else found a way to speed through the fluff without missing the good parts?

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charles8366d ago

Hard disagree. Skipping scenes means the creators wasted their time on those parts for nothing, and you're basically admitting you don't respect the pacing they chose.

taylor9576d ago

Honestly, respecting pacing means knowing when it's working and when it's not. If a director spends 15 minutes on a slow montage of someone walking through a forest with no dialogue and nothing important happening, that's not pacing, that's them being self-indulgent. Skipping that stuff isn't disrespecting their work, it's acknowledging they messed up the pacing in the first place. The whole point of pacing is to keep you engaged, and if you're bored enough to skip, the creator failed at their job, not you.

ward.anna5d ago

My friend Dave skipped a whole ten minute chase scene in the latest action movie because he said it was just the same car explosion over and over. He didn't even miss anything plot wise, the villain just got away again. @charles836 would probably say that's disrespecting the director's craft, but Dave told me he paid for the ticket and his time, not the director's ego trip. If a scene is just filler, isn't skipping it just common sense?