I tried watching anime at 1.5x speed for a week and here's what happened

I got tired of falling behind on new seasonal shows so I bumped the playback speed up to 1.5x on Crunchyroll. At first it felt like everyone was rushing through their lines, but by day three my brain just adjusted to it. I managed to clear 7 episodes of a 24 episode show in one sitting last Tuesday, which was wild. The downside is I missed a lot of the quiet moments and sound design that makes slower scenes hit harder. I also caught myself reaching for the speed button on a movie I was watching with friends, which felt wrong. Now I'm back to normal speed but I keep thinking the characters talk too slow. Has anyone else messed with playback speed and found a sweet spot for action shows versus drama shows?

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miab1611d ago

Seven episodes in one sitting is just insane to me. My brain would turn to mush after two, maybe three if the show was really good. I feel like you skipped half the reason people even watch anime, the animation is as much about the pauses as the action. Missing the quiet moments is a huge deal, those are where the character work actually happens. Watching something on 1.5x feels like you're just checking a box instead of actually living in that world. I get wanting to catch up but that's a whole different way of consuming it, I couldn't do it.