By rewatch, I’m referring to an organized groupwatch where we watch a previously released anime on a certain schedule and discuss our thoughts in individual posts. It’s from r/anime, yes, but I think it could be a good thing to have here, particularly as a way for people to get to know each other.

Would people here be interested in this? If so, are there any anime that you’d be particularly interested in (re)watching?

  • Shin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think it sounds cool, I’ve never done one myself but I’d be down to try. I don’t know how viable it’d be till more communities fill out. On the flip side if nothing is started and we don’t make content, we’ll never amass the community to do it. Maybe try other things that don’t require as large a community to do? That way a community could be grown up until the point where that’s feasible. I’m not too sure myself, but I’m open to see what others have to say. Hopefully the anime community on this platform can become something truly special as time goes on.

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      1 year ago

      Like I mentioned before, I’ll start with a short movie-based rewatch before going into something more extensive. I’m also going to be waiting a bit before that, maybe until July or August, see how popular we get.

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        1 year ago

        Sounds smart! I’m looking forward to it. Hopefully we can all make Lemmy a damn good platform, together.

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    1 year ago

    I always liked reading along with the /r/anime rewatches, but never got around to really actively participate in them, partly due to lack of time and partly due to different timezones meaning that my comments would come pretty late to the discussion. Also a lot of commenters wrote these really long and elaborate texts, it was honestly almost intimidating.

    That being said, this is a different, still much smaller community, and the bar for visibility is lower. I think it would work with an adapted format, like one parent post per rewatch with toplevel comments per episode. The default post sorting on Lemmy takes into account comment activity, so such posts wouldn’t drop off the “front page” too quickly and not clutter the community either.

    There was some discussion about doing airing show discussions in that format, but the counter argument was avoiding spoilers for people who are not caught up. But for rewatches, I don’t see that being so much of an issue. In fact, keeping all spoilers for one show in a single post could even be an advantage.

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      1 year ago

      I always liked reading along with the /r/anime rewatches

      Same for me. I also like the idea of bringing rewatches to lemmy.

      Maybe it would be a good idea to start of with movies or short OVAs to test the waters? It would be a smaller commitment for participants.