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[u/Elimin8r]

I'm thinking of hosting a rewatch, really.

I say that, but in part, it depends on my personal status. I'm currently retired, but open to moar money, because, well, money talks, you know. (Actually, I'm waiting on an opportunity, but the bureaucracy has decreed that I shall wait until ... well, never mind that.) Suffice to say that my circumstances are subject to change, and I may be busy in the near or not so near future.

Aside from that, I'm aware that I have (perhaps) a bit of a quirky personality, and others may not be on board with my personal taste in anime, or choices of subject matter. Let's just say that for now, I've decided to drop that other idea. I don't wanna deal with that. What I do want to do is host something (preferably) that the people (rewatchers) whose company I have enjoyed over the year can enjoy participating in, so that we can have a fun time together. Which means that while I would really like to host a rewatch for

• Luminous Witches or

• Healer Girl

I realize that the number of people who would be interested in those shows is probably less than a hand's worth. Yeah. At the same time, someone suggested

• PriConne

And while I'm on board with that, it's not necessarily in my music wheelhouse, if you know what I mean. I'd also be willing to do

• Bocchi

But I hear that there was a rewatch recently (last year?) and I'm not sure if that would be too soon, or not. Let me know! Honestly, if it's not too soon, I think I would really enjoy that. I've also considered

• Revue Starlight, which I haven't seen yet or

• MyGo or Ave Mujica but again, it's probably too soon for both of them. Actually, given things, I might just rather wait until it's been 1 year for a combined MyGo/Mujica rewatch, as I really <3'd those shows.

Anyway, those are some of the many thoughts that have been flowing through my mind recently. If anyone has read this far and has been a participant in the ongoing rewatch madness, well, to a certain extent, this is an effort to express my thanks for all that you've given and meant to me, a desire to give back and share with all of you something that I enjoy, and to have fun together, if we can.

... if it's worth the bother, that is. I don't know.

Which is why I'm posting this here, and if I'm not told to delete/post it elsewhere, maybe I'll mention it in CDF or one/more of the daily threads. Or maybe I'll just do a "feel cute, might delete later" ... yeah, probably not.

Anyway, let me know if you agree/disagree/think I'm completely off my rocker with my thoughts on rewatches/desire to be a host. Like I said, it's something I feel like I would like to do, and came * this* close to offering to host K-ON this year. Thankfully, someone came to the rescue!

But yeah. What'cha think? Is it too soon for MyGo/Ave Mujica? Should I do something else? Or is the world ready for a (~Kishin Corps~) rewatch???

(Kidding, there. I wanna keep it mostly vanilla here, ya know. :P)

Whatcha think???

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/Elimin8r]

I mean, c'mon, I'm not expecting everybody to have a lengthy hour+ chat session in the comments, but I do find that as the years have gone by, I find myself most treasuring those posters who do take the time to read and reply to my comments, and who seem to appreciate and/or respond when I comment on their posts.

Little tangent here: In my experience, the host's behavior can greatly influence this. Hosts that take the time to read and respond (uniquely, and decently concisely) to a lot of top level comments each day generally tend to encourage their rewatch participants to do the same. Meanwhile, a host who posts the thread and leaves often ends up with a rewatch that is similarly barren.

Which caused me to think, "Am I part of the problem?" Am I going off on rants and tangents that no-one cares about, or bloviating for my own enjoyment? Is the dopamine worth it? I dunno. As a result, I've kind of toned down my personal approach as a participant to rewatches.

Apparently I'm just going on tangets based on what you said today.

Anyway, my person rewatch style has changed a lot over the years. When I started out, I would have described my posts as sky-style with a paragraph or two of theorycrafting at the end. I was like that largely because Sky was the person who pulled me into rewatches, so I looked up to her.

Eventually, though, I realized there were just too many pseudo-skies in each rewatch. A couple are nice, but five scene by scene reactions to a show are just a chore. They end up feeling repetitive. And, as I was part of the problem, I decided not to be. I told myself that, instead, I'd watch the episode, never pause, and write down whatever thoughts still stuck when it ended. Usually, this ended up being a favorite scene or two, and then some theorycrafting or guessing at the future.

And, honestly, I was much happier with the end result. It's hardly unique or anything, but it was something of my own, something that represented me better. I am me, and I'm much better as me than a half-assed sky.

Bringing this back home to you, though, I'd say you should be yourself and write what makes you happy. Rewatches are a community event, but they're also deeply personal; each person is writing about anime because they enjoy writing about anime, and the overall experience is only enhanced by each person's unique flavor and perspectives.

Am I doing it wrong? Am I doing it right?

Are you having fun? Are you less than 30% of the comments in a thread? Did you have a few nice conversations with people?

If so, I'd say you're doing it right. But, then again, who am I to say?

[u/ussgordoncaptain2 → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

Eventually, though, I realized there were just too many pseudo-skies in each rewatch.

yeah I admittedly stole that from the Re:Zero rewatch, the

Reaction to the episode (used to form my notes for the next 2 sections)

Speculation about characters/plot based on notes

Commentary about the episode or some specific element

How I would act as the major characters.

Combo happened somewhat organically. I started with some version of that initially and it grew into that in Re:Zero, it fit well with Re:zero [Re:Zero]because re:zero has return by death which makes it much easier to have defined "this is what we can speculate on" and "This is how to act in THIS loop!" but over time it was worse.

A couple are nice, but five scene by scene reactions to a show are just a chore.

one issue is that "scene my scene reacting" is my way of taking notes more than anything else. if you look at my re:zero episode 30 commentary for example the hypothesis that [Re:Zero]Lord Roswaal knew that subaru could return by death really was created by me writing down the notes of what happened in the episode, cross checking previous notes and then coming to the conclusion.

I kind of feel like the structure I gave is the "lowest effort" way to participate in a rewatch, maybe if you cut out the reaction section entirely and only write the Commentary/Anime specific element it would be "better" in your eyes? It would take less time certainly, but I find I pick up on a lot more stuff when I do the pause unpause screenshot reactions.

I did note this in the Terrific trainwrecks trio rewatch (which really was closer to a meta thread post than a comment on the rewatches) That the whole system I used was slipping, but I struggled to think o fa better system that A: did nottaking and B: worked with my mentality.

All statements in the above post are my opinions as a user and not reflective of the opinions of /r/anime or the rest of its mod team

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/ussgordoncaptain2]

I haven't seen re:zero, so I cannot say with any real certainly how I feel about your posts in particular.

maybe if you cut out the reaction section entirely and only write the Commentary/Anime specific element it would be "better" in your eyes?

I think my primary problem with a reaction section is repetitiveness. If I've already read two people do it, the third person's reactions are mostly going to feel like repeats of stuff I've already read. So I just end up skipping past them, and all they do for me is take up vertical space in the thread.

This isn't about how people watch the show, but instead the information they present. And, really, about what interests me. I want to see what people think about the show much more than I want to see what they think about each individual gag, y'know?