Pro tip: I used to watch 3 episodes a night chasing my backlog, now I do 1 ep and sit with it
Back in January I was blowing through 4 shows at once on 1.5x and could not tell you a single thing that happened in any of them. Now I finish one ep, then spend 10 minutes reading the discussion thread before starting the next, and I actually remember character names. Anyone else find that slowing down made anime stick way better?
Whoa, wait, 1.5x speed on FOUR shows at the same time? That is wild. I tried 1.5x once on a rewatch and even then it felt like the characters were on fast forward, so doing that with new stuff sounds like a blur. No wonder you could not name a single thing that happened, your brain was probably still on episode one while your screen was already on episode nine. The part that gets me is reading the discussion thread for 10 whole minutes between eps. I could never, I would end up down a rabbit hole of fan theories and never start the next one. But honestly it makes total sense that sitting with one episode actually makes it stick.