Your Patience With Waiting for New Episodes of Anime

[Milkymagic]

Somebody please beat me down if I'm going to far with these threads, but I'm absolutely positive this subject has yet to be discussed. If not, it's all good!

You can even add in memories of series that took too long to conclude their story (production-wise), or even anime that have tested your patience with their breaks in between volumes/episode counts. For lesser "in-the-know" folks like myself, I'll add in the crutch of anyone who's had difficulty completing a series back in their day, whether it be out of print, or merely a matter of insufficient funds and availability thereof.

If you're not impatient, then you are certainly not alone, though I'll state my experiences with impatience. And all pretty much happened during my first three years of fandom, well before I became more patient as an adult.

Genocyber - This was my funniest memory, I was 15 at the time, and it was my first year as an anime fan at that. I remember actually enjoying the first OVA, no joke, and was interested in seeing what twists the further episodes would hold in later viewing. I had the first volume on vhs for what felt like a couple of months before finding cheap enough volumes to dish out my paper route earnings with. Hilariously enough, I was heartbroken to find out this series didn't get ANY better. xD Oh yes! Thank you Genocyber, you suck!

Doomed Megalopolis - Still my first year of anime loving, and still 15. I bought each of these tapes separately from ebay, and finding the auctions for each volume was A PAIN IN THE ASS, no thanks to the death of Streamline Pictures well before my entry into anime. No joke, I think it took me the span of a whole year just to come across auctions for each volume (which were certainly months apart). In the end, I actually liked this series through all the vigorous work to find each volume.

Funny Note: Though not a series, well before Urban Vision re-released it, Wicked City was also an incredibly difficult Streamline Pictures product to find on vhs for myself, and it took a lucky ebay auction to get my hands on viewing it. Once again, worth the effort, even if its current ease of availability was a slap in the face for the auction price I found it for (I'm not saying how much for my own dignity).

Hyper Police - I was 16, well into my second year of liking anime. As a huge fan of this series, I discovered it through a fansite and picked up some fansubbed vhs through the mail. Unfortunately, they were only halfway through the series (about 13 of 25 episodes I believe), so my head spun when I learned I would have to wait a while before I could see more. And quite a wait it was, I think over a year before I saw the rest start to form up, checking once a week for any updates from the fansubber for more information. Yes, in conclusion, I clearly sucked as a human being. But there's always room for improvement! :D

And the only modern-day impatience I had was waiting for the episodes of Gakuen Alice to be fansubbed, as it took me by surprise in a drought of nothing but bad anime viewing. Same with BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad a couple of years back. Otherwise, I'm just peachy!

Feel free to share your current frustrations or memories of impatience with waiting for another volume to premiere on your store shelf. Or of course, an anime series that kept dragging itself along as you followed it from episode to episode, never bothering to really end itself.

[soundchazer]

There are plenty:

As you well mentioned, Gakuen Alice was in hiatus for too long. Fortunately, it seems to have picked up a bit recently.

Some anime I keep waiting upon are the new version of Glass Mask, Ace wo Nerae!, The Snow Queen, Mama is a Fourth Grader, Hiatari Ryoukou, Miyuki, Mizuiro Jidai and La Corda D'Oro, all of which are being fansubbed by different groups.

I was also very dissapointed with Bandai a few years back, because they bought the rights for Fantastic Children, but it took them forever to get it out in the market. Fortunately, it was worth the wait.

As for other older series I was pissed when Streamline didn't finish releasing Nadia back in the day. It took almost 15 years before I could watch the anime completely.

I'm still waiting for some clever fansubber to start working on Ie Naki Ko, since I know no distribution company in the U.S. these days will have the balls to pick up the rights and get it to market.

[kyubichan]

YuYu Hakusho was made back in 1992. It aired in the Philippines around 1995. The darn station aired ONE episode every week, it was like forever waiting for the next episode. And to make matters worse, they kept airing reruns! I was a kid at the time, and had no means of buying anime. I asked my dad to buy copies of whatever YuYu Hakusho thing he'd come across in Japan, but he never had enough time to look for them >.< Then, the episodes just stopped. We found out later that YYH was taken by another station, and was continued there. The final episode was aired, for the first time in national television, some time around... 1999? Whoo-ooh.

[Milkymagic]

There are plenty:

As you well mentioned, Gakuen Alice was in hiatus for too long. Fortunately, it seems to have picked up a bit recently.

Some anime I keep waiting upon are the new version of Glass Mask, Ace wo Nerae!, The Snow Queen, Mama is a Fourth Grader, Hiatari Ryoukou, Miyuki, Mizuiro Jidai and La Corda D'Oro, all of which are being fansubbed by different groups.

I was also very dissapointed with Bandai a few years back, because they bought the rights for Fantastic Children, but it took them forever to get it out in the market. Fortunately, it was worth the wait.

As for other older series I was pissed when Streamline didn't finish releasing Nadia back in the day. It took almost 15 years before I could watch the anime completely.

Definitely, I've just about given up on Gakuen Alice after waiting for so long, but I'm getting over it. Like my wait with Hyper Police, it shall be completed! At least I wish to remain hopeful.

Sounds like there's a lot of cool older anime that are just dying to be seen again in fansub form, you've even perked me up with that list. I really wish to see Ace No Nerae! and it would be nice to get it in completed form at that! I'll probably look up some of those others you listed sometime, just because I'm usually pretty curious about the old stuff.

Sucks to hear the wait for Fantastic Children was that long, gets me screaming at the people who've held on to the rights for Angel's Egg, which is totally not moving in any general direction right now, aside from some festival screenings of course.

And what you speak of Nadia is amusing, I remember catching some tapes from Streamline on ebay back when I was a scavenger for the distributor. Luckily, I did some research and discovered the series was indeed not finished and I waited. Luckily, AD Vision would re-release it soon after, and in the process recapture my interest in seeing it. I owned all 10 vhs, then I bought both DVD collections (soundtracks included), and handed a good friend of mine the vhs just to thank him for helping get me into Neon Genesis Evangelion (he let me borrow his vhs for a while). And yet they were both from the same director (pretty much, if considering Anno left Nadia around the halfway point).

EDIT: @Kyubichan - Oh my god! That's almost five years! xD

[7Raven7]

To Milky: pfft! What would we do without your antics? It is good having new matierial on a forum and especially ones with content. Oh, and for the love, get a dvd player and invest in the future, no wonder you've been killing yourself trying to get VHS's, it is a dead media.

So let them call you a post whore. Let them say that you overdose on caffine and have bad hair and smell funny. I've got your back!

On Topic:

For some reason, I simply cannot do that with Anime.

It might be fun with say an E.R. or LOST, waiting each week or so to see your characters' new happenings but for the most part TV is designed toward both avid followers of a series as well as to allow new people to jump in whenever.

Anime is simply not like that for me, not only do I not have a local T.V. network that will consistantly show a series but Anime series themselves I take more "seriously," if that's the right word. Without being able to watch back to back episodes in a reasonable time period I would go crazy.

Rouruni Kenshin:
My first experience with this is waiting for the Kenshin series english release. After watching the OVA's, I was starving for a bit more. I didn't really have a concept for how long a "standard" anime ran for, only that I though all/most went for about 26 episodes. So when Kenshin went past that I said, "oh, maybe this is a double." Then after 52... "uuhhh." It took a while and I did get the whole thing but I'm sure I left my fair share of dents in the wall from beating my head in.

Fullmetal Alchemist:
So for the most part since then, I've been concentrating on series that have already came out. More recently however, Fullmetal Alchemist did a release. I had seen some episodes here and there and knew this was going to be an out-of-the-park series I just had to have. Waiting for each disc to release was gruling to say the least, and there was no way I was going to wait for some boxset so I broke down and ordered all the episodes with movie.


Hajime no Ippo:
Here is a series I have loved almost since I have started liking anime and I believe recently they also released the last disc in english. I might also not have the patience to wait for a boxset, unlike more common shows there seems to be no rule when boxsets are released if they even are at all. Needless to say I'm counting my money.

[Milkymagic]

To Milky: pfft! What would we do without your antics? It is good having new matierial on a forum and especially ones with content. Oh, and for the love, get a dvd player and invest in the future, no wonder you've been killing yourself trying to get VHS's, it is a dead media.

So let them call you a post whore. Let them say that you overdose on caffine and have bad hair and smell funny. I've got your back!

As they say "Honesty is the best policy," even if it's about somebody's living habits! :D

And yes, even after I got a dvd player in 2000 (my second anime viewing year), there was still the urge to buy vhs thanks to availability (certain anime weren't on dvd at the time). However, I'm all about updating my classics onto dvd, and I'm excited for the new Gunbuster set to hit my door!



Rouruni Kenshin:
My first experience with this is waiting for the Kenshin series english release. After watching the OVA's, I was starving for a bit more. I didn't really have a concept for how long a "standard" anime ran for, only that I though all/most went for about 26 episodes. So when Kenshin went past that I said, "oh, maybe this is a double." Then after 52... "uuhhh." It took a while and I did get the whole thing but I'm sure I left my fair share of dents in the wall from beating my head in.

Fullmetal Alchemist:
So for the most part since then, I've been concentrating on series that have already came out. More recently however, Fullmetal Alchemist did a release. I had seen some episodes here and there and knew this was going to be an out-of-the-park series I just had to have. Waiting for each disc to release was gruling to say the least, and there was no way I was going to wait for some boxset so I broke down and ordered all the episodes with movie.


Hajime no Ippo:
Here is a series I have loved almost since I have started liking anime and I believe recently they also released the last disc in english. I might also not have the patience to wait for a boxset, unlike more common shows there seems to be no rule when boxsets are released if they even are at all. Needless to say I'm counting my money.

Man, you sure went for the REAL heavy-hitters, the episode counts for all those series combined must be insane. And it was funny to hear the daunting task of staying with Rouruni Kenshin after each and every volume, yow!

And to bring "The Almighty Boxset" back into the limelight, that certainly helps in my persuasion for getting a longer anime series. Anime like Macross and Gundam always seem more appealing when there's a box to encompass all of those episodes, given how many individual volumes would be made for them.

[fugupinkeye]

We have to learn patience? Well, how long is that going to take?

Well, in official releases, it seems like forever waiting for the original Captain Harlock series, and Galaxy Express 999, still waiting. But then again, older titles aren't exactly hot commodities.

In fansubs, GX999 gets released about one ep per month, and Gokinjo Monogatari (a sort of prequel to Parakiss) maybe one ever two or three. Not that I don't commend these folks for subbing these titles at all (a million thank yous), but I just can't shut my veruca salt ('I want it now') side up.

As for patience rewarded, After all these years, I finally got not one, but two series of Ah My Goddess, and Blood+ finally came out to build on the seemingly squandered potential of the single ova.

So, despite a little pacing from time to time, life is good in animeland.

[Ghostmaster]

Ergo Proxy is taking forever to get their episodes and it makes the show even more boring than it s getting to be already. I just want to finish it and be done with it already.

[soundchazer]

What? Ergo Proxy was completely "released" by fansubbers months ago.

[Major Tom]

The time that first comes to mind when my patience was tested was when Haibane Renmei was being released over here. I had been following the series avidly, and was awaiting the final disc with baited breath when the news had come through:

the final disc's release would be delayed by one month.

A month. A whole entire month! I did not know if I could hold on that long, I really needed to find out what would happen to Rakka and Reki. Needless to say, I complained bitterly to anybody who would listen.

Anybody who had been following Yukikaze would also have been tested......until they forgot that it had even existed. I did, until I heard news that the final disc would finally be coming out. Then it was like 'oh, yeah, Yukikaze! I've got that....somewhere'

I can remember anticipating the releases of Saikano, but for reasons more similar to why Milky collected Genocyber.....in the hopes that it might actually get good. Yeah, well Saikano remains the only anime series that I have ever sold. And I got a shit return on my investment.

Noir was another series that had me bouncing up and down outside of shop fronts waiting for them open (well, not really, but you get the idea) so I could snap up the latest disc and follow the story along.

[Mana]

Normally, I have a hard time waiting for episodes. I only really buy single DVDs at release or download individual episodes if it's something I REALLY want to watch, or a new release I just want to check out.

Normally I'll buy box sets or download entire series, mostly just so that I can watch at my own pace. It's not like I'm inpatient or anything, but I have a harder time following things if I have to wait a week/month/etc in between episodes, and lack of available product may just lead me to forget about something all together, like Hataraki Man.

The only thing I can remember really, truly waiting for a release of was the last manga volume of Paradise Kiss. There was an insanely long wait between volumes 4 and 5 in Japan as well as America. By the time I finally got the ending, I ended up reading the entire series over.

[Milkymagic]

I can remember anticipating the releases of Saikano, but for reasons more similar to why Milky collected Genocyber.....in the hopes that it might actually get good. Yeah, well Saikano remains the only anime series that I have ever sold. And I got a shit return on my investment.


You know something, the only anime I've ever returned in my lifetime (for a full refund no less) was Super Atragon, and I remember really not liking its execution. I think every other bad anime (or anime I merely didn't like) was left on my shelf, as I never had it in me to get rid of them. Having bad anime around reminds me what makes an anime good as I observe them over the years. Of course, if I'm strapped for cash, they'll be the first to go! :D

Normally, I have a hard time waiting for episodes. I only really buy single DVDs at release or download individual episodes if it's something I REALLY want to watch, or a new release I just want to check out.

Normally I'll buy box sets or download entire series, mostly just so that I can watch at my own pace. It's not like I'm inpatient or anything, but I have a harder time following things if I have to wait a week/month/etc in between episodes, and lack of available product may just lead me to forget about something all together, like Hataraki Man.

The only thing I can remember really, truly waiting for a release of was the last manga volume of Paradise Kiss. There was an insanely long wait between volumes 4 and 5 in Japan as well as America. By the time I finally got the ending, I ended up reading the entire series over.

I try to get the whole series in one shot myself these days, even if I'm a little more patient, having the whole package is more appealing.

And when you mention rewatching a series after a hiatus, I did that with Hyper Police after my year-long wait, just forgot to mention it. :p

[Mouse]

These days I'm fairly patient when it comes to anime and waiting for dvd/fansub releases. As with poor story endings, it is just expected. That is not to say I don't still have my moments of frustration, because I do, but they are short and quickly followed up with resignation.

I learned my lesson early on though. As a kid I was hooked on Ranma 1/2, but getting new episodes (from my supplier the big brother) were few and far between and usually not in episode order. I didn't really care about order (it's not really the kind of show where it's important), I was just happy to see more, but it took forever to get that more. It wasn't until my teen years (~1994-96) that I tried to relieve my want of more Ranma by purchasing VIZ's VHS releases. Well, that was a huge mistake fueled by impatience considering how damned expensive they were for only 2 episodes per tape, still having no idea of their order, and seeing no end in sight. Not to mention, my very un-tech savvy self was further punched in the gut by the growing popularity of dvds. :suspiciou

Nowadays, I'm not really watching too much *new* anime, but one show I am patiently following the sporadic releases is Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto (see sig image ^.^). It employs lots of antiquated Japanese so giving fansubbers trouble, but they're doing it and I thank them. I stopped watching for the time being, though, until I get all the episodes.

Otherwise, I had a moment of 'onoz' when Gundam Seed was licensed like 5 or so episodes away from the ending and the fansubbers were ordered to stop. Well, I didn't want to wait that long for Bandai to get to the last few dvds and neither did a less scrupulous fansubbing group. Also, Monster was fansubbed so slowly I finally gave up deciding to pick it back up once it was completed.


Anybody who had been following Yukikaze would also have been tested......until they forgot that it had even existed. I did, until I heard news that the final disc would finally be coming out. Then it was like 'oh, yeah, Yukikaze! I've got that....somewhere'
Heh heh. That happened to me, only I forgot about it and didn't notice the release of the final disc. I still need to get it and I haven't because I'm not sure I care anymore. IIRC, it wasn't that good and I probably should try and sell what I do own.

[Major Tom]

Heh heh. That happened to me, only I forgot about it and didn't notice the release of the final disc. I still need to get it and I haven't because I'm not sure I care anymore. IIRC, it wasn't that good and I probably should try and sell what I do own.

Yukikaze wasn't bad overall. It did end with a WTF? kind of ending, but it was understandable enough. The dogfight sequences were droolworthy though, but that might only appeal if you are a plane nut.

[Tremolo]

Waiting for the final ten episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist to come out was torture. And they were subbed on time and everything, but jeez. So hard to wait a week inbetween.

Eureka Seven's release rate was slooooooooooooooooow. I did cheer heartily when people haxxed the fansubbers website, stole all the translations and released their own torrent of the final 12 episodes or so, though. I devoured that shit.

Ergo Proxy is taking forever to get their episodes and it makes the show even more boring than it s getting to be already. I just want to finish it and be done with it already.

Like SC says, it's all done and has been for awhile. Boring?! You didn't like episode 16? With Pino on the stilts? You have no soul. If you don't like it now you're going to be in for such a nasty shock when you get into the final batch of episodes, let me tell you. Expecting an action-packed climax?! Fuhgeddaboudit, it's slow-paced psychological bullshit all the way and I dug almost every moment of it. You can read my forthcoming Anime Secrets review as to exactly why. >_>

[ShinoMatrix]

Dang, when I was collecting Chobits, the DVD releases were sporadic at best. It got so annoyingly frustrating when the final DVD was being made, and I never quite remember or found out why the delays, but I tell you that was an excercise in patience. Chobits in retrospect isn't the greatest of anime, but damn it, back then it was an anime I loved, well, I still like it a lot now ^_^

I know Ergo Proxy is out now however I've given up on it because it was one of those series which I felt didn't get enough loving, and hence very unpredictable releases in subtitled formats. I haven't seen the last third of it and quite frankly don't have the will to seek it out either *shrugs*

NANA right now is my most frustrating show to wait out for. That's all I'll say about that.

[Two-twenty]

Back in the day, Madman Entertainment used to be unreliable with their release schedules, I can remember getting very annoyed with waiting for FLCL. Nowadays, most of my frustration is geared towards Tokyopop and their slower-than-snails releases and fansubbers who just take on too much or suddenly decide to stop subbing (Flag, Hataraki Man, Bartender anyone?).

[Chr0nic_STDs]

yea i have a very short attention span, if i don't stick with somethin consistently then i just lose interest, i have not seen death note, nana, or kannon in weeks, and i want to start again, but it's just not happening. so for me if i can't watch a series on a daily basis, and i have to wait like a week for it, then more then likely i'll just stop watchin........except for the O.C. (don't judge me!) i watched that religiously on a weekly basis until i started workin nights :D

[Milkymagic]

Back in the day, Madman Entertainment used to be unreliable with their release schedules, I can remember getting very annoyed with waiting for FLCL. Nowadays, most of my frustration is geared towards Tokyopop and their slower-than-snails releases and fansubbers who just take on too much or suddenly decide to stop subbing (Flag, Hataraki Man, Bartender anyone?).

Tokyopop does confuse me a bit, I think the wait between volumes of some products is incredible. I've read volume eight of Hyper Police from last month, and now I must wait until the end of spring (just before Summer hits) to get another volume, how depressing is that? The funniest fact to this whole story is that the first volume of Hyper Police was published in January of 2005, so now it's hitting the two-year mark and we've reached eight volumes. I'll get over it, being there's probably a reason for such a wait, but I can't help and be a little bummed out over it.

Of course, I've got other things to keep me busy anyway, so it can wait until the time comes I guess.

[Ghostmaster]

Dang, when I was collecting Chobits, the DVD releases were sporadic at best. It got so annoyingly frustrating when the final DVD was being made, and I never quite remember or found out why the delays, but I tell you that was an excercise in patience. Chobits in retrospect isn't the greatest of anime, but damn it, back then it was an anime I loved, well, I still like it a lot now ^_^

I know Ergo Proxy is out now however I've given up on it because it was one of those series which I felt didn't get enough loving, and hence very unpredictable releases in subtitled formats. I haven't seen the last third of it and quite frankly don't have the will to seek it out either *shrugs*

NANA right now is my most frustrating show to wait out for. That's all I'll say about that.
Agreed NANA takes forever I am only up to episode 22 because whatever subbers put them up now put them in this weird format MKV or something and they won't work.

[Alex San Lyra]

Lol... yet another Milkymagic thread.

Well, I havn't had this sort of expirience to often really... most of the anime I buy are older, complete series. But recently I bout the first two DVDs of Ergo Proxy... I don't know if it's done out there, but here in Brasil it's just coming out and the other DVDs aren't available just yet... I'll probably have to wait a few eeks or maybe a few months.

I never really had problems with impatience since I really began to collect anime after my 20th birthday... hmmm... When I was smaller though, I used to watch Zillion and hell I hated waiting till next week to see the next episode. I was about 14 then I think.

[Roark]

After nursing Rose of Versailles, erm, acquisitions at .4 kb/s (note the decimal point) for several months, one could say my patience approaches that of the Budha.

This was before a certain vital, ungood entity decided to start pushing the show in a massive rush of downwards-falling water.

[kirara the cat]

im a verry impaitent person so it kills me to wait on the next one to be released

[Dark Lord]

Hmmm, this goes for both anime and manga:

When a new episode/volume won't come out, I just go on with my life and wait patiently for the download to finish or for the episode/volume to come out. Then, I regularly update myself to check if it gets released already. If it still won't come out within a specific time, I get desperate and research on all the spoilers I can find on the subject.


My most memorable one was when I waited for the last few episodes of Ouran High School Host Club to come out. I was patiently waiting for episode 23 to come out. But suddenly, due to an unfortunate turn of events, I found myself in a position where I was unable to download anything for an indefinite amount of time. Because of this, I was forced to rely on a blog to tell me what exactly happened. So, in the end, my impatience got the better of me.

[Milkymagic]

Lol... yet another Milkymagic thread.

Not just another, one of many! :D


My most memorable one was when I waited for the last few episodes of Ouran High School Host Club to come out. I was patiently waiting for episode 23 to come out. But suddenly, due to an unfortunate turn of events, I found myself in a position where I was unable to download anything for an indefinite amount of time. Because of this, I was forced to rely on a blog to tell me what exactly happened. So, in the end, my impatience got the better of me.

I've done that a couple of times, but only for series I didn't care to see the rest of typically. Still, your example is quite understandable.

Reminds me of a story involving the anticipating of new episodes and spoilers:

I actually had a friend spoil the entire Cowboy Bebop ending before I could see the last four episodes, and I was so anxious to watch the rest of the series prior. Unfortunately, after he raved about how awesome the series ended, I was bummed out I had to hear it and didn't pursue viewing it since then.

I'm sure one of these days I'll get back to that series and watch the rest, but it is pretty heartbreaking when you wait, and then somebody drops a "Spoiler Bomb" on you and kills the mood.

[LadyYuina]

Yuppers, when I was younger I was pretty impatient with anything I fancied, and couldn't watch whenever I wanted to. However, I now understand that people creating such said anime have lives (well, most of em?) and whatnot, so they can't go making episodes every damn day...:smash:

[IceDemon]

LOL. Im still impatient as ever, i can't wait a week for the next episode even; I want to see it now. But then i think everyone would want that too, especially with anime series that each episode is continuous so u need to see the next one for it all to make sense. The cliffhangers are annoying. Still i'll get to see everyone episodes so its workable.

[Ender]

Ara ra,

Whenever I get impatient with the release of episodes, I just remind myself of when I was 10, and I saw the first episode of Giant Robo.

For those of you who do not know, Giant Robo took six yearsto finish seven episodes.

I saw the first episode on an early US Renditions VHS tape in 1993--about a week after Batman: the Animated Series started! And I saw the last episode at the beginning of my sophomore year of highschool (1998), via fansub tape.

It was long, but it was worth it.

So everytime I think Damn, this is taking too damn long to come out! I remind myself of that little OVA series that had me gnawing at my knuckles for five years. -_-

[Milkymagic]

Ara ra,

Whenever I get impatient with the release of episodes, I just remind myself of when I was 10, and I saw the first episode of Giant Robo.

For those of you who do not know, Giant Robo took six yearsto finish seven episodes.

I saw the first episode on an early US Renditions VHS tape in 1993--about a week after Batman: the Animated Series started! And I saw the last episode at the beginning of my sophomore year of highschool (1998), via fansub tape.

It was long, but it was worth it.

So everytime I think Damn, this is taking too damn long to come out! I remind myself of that little OVA series that had me gnawing at my knuckles for five years. -_-

Sounds like you have the record for this thread so far, I could probably imagine myself waiting, and possibly even forgetting after such a time. That span could potentially break me.

Lucky for me the kind folks at the Media Blasters stand at Animefest 2006 offered me the Giant Robo boxset (with the Ginrei Special included) for $30, I could not reject it! I haven't got around to watching it yet (been watching other series at the moment, aside from a brief hiatus entailing video games and writing earlier), but I expect good things when I decide to put some time aside for viewing it! :D

[Sanda]

I don't really have much... but the thing is:

Can I do anything to fasten the anime production?
NO

Can I force them to do whatever I wish?
NO

Can I stop the network from airing the annoying reruns and show new episodes?
NO

SOOOOOOOOO... I just sit back and wait... After all, that's all I can do!

Oh... There's one other thing I do... I surf the net for info on the other episodes. I don't mind spoilers... that's the level of my curiosity! hehe

[7Raven7]

After all, that's all I can do!


Untrue! Let me reveal...

Raven's things to do whilst waiting for a series to be completed:

1. @#$%^ about it.

2. Pace around endlessly. You may, if you wish, also pound your fists into an inanimate object or your head into the wall.

3. Memorize and/or act out the previous episode. Feel free to do this in the original language if you get really bored and start screaming it if you are looking to get evicted.

4. Put in and watch NGE in it's entirety. shampoo, rinse, repeat.

5. Write letters / emails / post in forums; you can either do this toward the animation company, who will in turn venomously delete them, or toward a community and pose, for example, how the next episode will be like, that there is some secret script someone found, or what color hair the new character is going to have.

[Akito]

Waiting for Kodocha to be released in its entirety is giving me blue balls. While the release dates are consistent, the fact that Funimation still has to release 67 more episodes is really testing my (lack of) patience.

I would totally pursue the... er, less-than-legal ways if it means acquiring the whole series, but it's pretty much impossible nowadays. T_T

[Sanda]

Untrue! Let me reveal...

Raven's things to do whilst waiting for a series to be completed:

1. @#$%^ about it.

2. Pace around endlessly. You may, if you wish, also pound your fists into an inanimate object or your head into the wall.

3. Memorize and/or act out the previous episode. Feel free to do this in the original language if you get really bored and start screaming it if you are looking to get evicted.

4. Put in and watch NGE in it's entirety. shampoo, rinse, repeat.

5. Write letters / emails / post in forums; you can either do this toward the animation company, who will in turn venomously delete them, or toward a community and pose, for example, how the next episode will be like, that there is some secret script someone found, or what color hair the new character is going to have.

Huauauauauau, great options you got there, but then again I'd rather watch some new animes to fill in the blank left by the not-finished one. ^_^ This way I won't get tired of the unfinished anime and will also enjoy the pleasures or disappointments of another great piece of japanese animation! RIGHT? ^_^

[Angi]

I try to watch anime after it's been completed. it's way more comfortable. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to do that with Naruto, so i'm just dogging whatever new episodes i can find online.

EDIT: Kinda sad, isn't it?

[kurah]

Nodame Cantabile and Code Geass sure has got me checking ep releases site twice a day, especially cg grrrrr... so I just rewatch the old eps over and over - only ones in which I'm super impatient with.

[Sanda]

I try to watch anime after it's been completed. it's way more comfortable. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to do that with Naruto, so i'm just dogging whatever new episodes i can find online.

EDIT: Kinda sad, isn't it?

I wouldn't call it sad. I've done this with many different shows. If we were to wait for every show to be completed we wouldn't be in tune with the new animes and that wouldn't be good, would it?

I've just bought two dvds of Ergo Proxy... I only watched until episode 10 but I don't regret it. Of course I'm dying to watch the rest, but I can wait a little! ^_^

The same is going on with Tsubasa Chonicles.