Diet: 99% fansub, 1% DVD. I don't have any money to spend on anime, so I only watch it the one way I can: fansubs. Occasionally, I do buy a DVD, but, like Mr. Dale North so wisely noted, it's usually only something I adore.

Media/devices: Laptop with a 14" screen. It's pretty nice when watching high-def, since I'm only two feet away, defeating the problem of screen size.

Frequency: Depends. Some days I will watch nothing, while other days I'll have a marathon, plowing through 20-sumthin episodes.

?Diet?: 98.9% fansubs the rest is either on TV or DVD(if im having a hard time finding/DL it)

Media/Device: PC an ps3; which i converted from pc an upload to my ps3. running a crap machine with only 320gb an a portable HDD.

Frequency: rarely lately

Diet: 90 percent fansub, 10 percent DVD

Media: PC running my HDTV as a second monitor via a 35ft DVI cable, works for both fansubs and DVDs

Frequency: At least 1 ep a day, if not more

damn nice setup


37" HDTV 1080i hooked to a q6600 quad core 2 duo, 4gigs of ddr2 533 ram, geforce 260 gtx, 2x 500gig sata 3 hd, 75gb raptor harddrive (10k rpm), all hooked to a simple crappy, yet working 2.1 pc speaker setup.

Would be nice to have a 1080p tv, but I ain't rich.

Hooked to my tv is a 360 elite, and ps3 w/bc (installed with a 120gig hd)

The tv is mounted on my wall and next to it on my pc table is my 22" gateway LCD for my pc gaming needs.

I watch 1 episode day, 3 shows per season normally.

If its a show thats finished i watch as much as possible over the weekend (anime marathons fTW)

I only own Last Exile Complete Box set (with figurine), Irresponsible Captain Tylor box set, Noir, and Cowboy bebeop

I don't like buying anime.

Diet: 90% fansub, 9.8% DVD, 0.2% Gurren Lagann on Sci-Fi.

Media: PC with flat screen CRT monitor about a foot away from my face with the bass and vol. turned all the way up.

Frequency: Varies. Towards the end of the week, 4-5 episodes a day, but after catching up, maybe 1-2 episodes a day.

Diet: 100% Fansubs, I watch about 5 new shows from japan every week and a ton of J-Dramas. I do buy the occaisionaly anime movie DVDs and awesome asian flicks. I usually don't have the time to watch DVDs of series I've seen before which keeps me from buying the DVDs but if it's good enough (GURREN LAGANN) I'll buy it so I can have it on while I study and do other things.

Media Devices: Modded X-Box 1 with XBMC with streaming content from my laptop. The only drawback is that I can't watch anything h.264 or mkv which limits the shows I watch unless I watch it on my laptop which can handle those filetypes.

Frequency: In the past month, I've at least 1-2 eps of a J-drama per day and an ep of anime every 3 days.

@dale

I approve of this post, you please me

BTW, DUAL MONITOR SETUP FTW

PS:

Watch anime only in a brightly lit room and sit 5 ft away from the TV. Onegaishimasu!

Diet: 90% fan sub, I don't have enough money to be buying all of the DVDs. I tend to use the subs as a try before I buy type thing and usually buy my favorite shows as I can afford them.

Media Devices: I have a dual screen setup on my PC, my HP w1907 for when people are using the TV and my Panasonic Viera 720p. This allows my to watch just about any video format/codec and have it on my TV as well.

Frequency: I like to watch an episode or two every night before I go to bed. Unless I'm hooked on a show or I'm bored I don't usually watch anything during the day.

Diet: 95% fansub, I buy the odd series off ebay or cheap at a con but that happens less and less, sometime I borrow DVDs from the library but the vast majority is fansub. HQ if I can get it but with some older series I'll watch the whole thing youtube quality or a little better.

Media/devices: Media player classic for both DVD and fansub, on the computer in my room (no internet, download on the other com) with my lovely massive LCD monitor. Sometimes watch on iPod, generally if I'm going on holidays I'll take a whole series to watch on my ipod.

Frequency: Varies depending on what else I'm doing, such as DS games or books. Varied depending on time of the month (XD), we have a download limit, so near the end of the month I can't get anything new as connection is sllllloooooow. Varies between marathoning 5 episodes a night and only watching 2-3 eps a week depending on if I suddenly get into an old series or if I have to wait for a new one.

Diet:
formerly 80% fansub/ 20% DVD, currently 60% fansub/ 40% DVD.

My backlog of DVDs combined with finally having caught up with almost everything I care to see that's coming out in fansub form has made it so my viewing of each has almost evened out. I still haven't finished watching the When They Cry DVD I bought two weeks ago, and the new season means I watch one episode of 9 different shows one day a week and then I scrounge around my data backups and DVD collection to catch up on all the shows I never got around to watching.

Media Devices:
Desktop computer with dual 22" and 19" monitors primarily. Specs include 4TB of externals for extra data storage and a 505 Watt Logitech Z5500 speaker system using the digital coaxial input from my computer for audio. Also, I use OpenGL rendering in VLC so that I can watch the same show clone-viewed across both monitors, usually with a pint of ice cream or a soda. Occasionally my suitemate will let me use his 40" 1080P Sony LCD HDTV. On very rare occasions like family trips I'll bring along either my 7" portable DVD player, or more often I'll just use my 15.4" viewing area laptop.

Frequency: I average 2-3 episodes a day. Sometimes I'll go a day or two without any, but usually on Fridays I'll make up for it by watching a few more with a friend or two.

Diet: 90% fansubs, 5% dvd, 5% anime on demand. The fansubs I usually watch as they air..5-15 shows a season, and sometimes when it's slow ill get an older show. I'm not rich so I only buy dvds of very good stuff like GITS and Outlaw Star.

Media/devices: My PC with KMPlayer for all except anime on demand which I watch on my 27 inch SD TV.

As for the DVDs, I only purchase the shows I absolutely adore. I had to learn the hard way about just buying everything: finding yourself broke with a bookshelf of crap anime isn't cool.

Frequency: 4-8 hours a day on average...sometimes if an anime is very interesting and fresh I can go between 12 and 18. I have a lot of free time.

I copied and pasted the format and realized I didn't delete some stuff lol, my bad.

Diet: 90% fansubs 10% DVD's. Only anime DVD's I've ever boughten are Gurren Lagann (all 3 volumes of manliness) and Afro Samurai. Everything else is fansubs because if I watched all my favorite anime on DVD, I'd be both broke and waiting nearly a year if not more after they aired in Japan.

Media/devices: A basic 16" Gateway laptop that combines both portability and efficiency thanks to an extra gig of ram I put into it. As for DVD's, my 22" Aquos HDTV widescreen does the trick and I just use my Xbox 360 to watch them since it's a lot neater to have just it plugged in instead of both it and a DVD player.

Frequency: Really depends, anything from 5 hours a day to none for an entire week if not more. I recently resurrected my school's anime club so currently it's an average of one episode a day (2 episodes on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday). I envy the people who can watch up to 4 hours a day on a regular basis, but I have other hobbies like art and video games that need to be attended to along with school and all the mundane stuff.

Wow, no wonder the anime industry's in the tank, if so many people are watching a vast majority of fansubs. Personally, I don't have enough free time to even watch all the good series that has been released on DVD to spend time watching stuff that hasn't been released in the U.S. yet. I guess if you have the time and are still putting as much money into the anime industry as you would if you weren't watching fansubs, I guess there's nothing wrong with that.
40% on TV
60% on DVD
0% fansub
Watching Code Geass and Bleach on TV. Watching several other series fairly slowly on DVD (Welcome to the NHK, Gurren Lagann, Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya), about 4 - 8 episodes on the weekend about every other week.
46" widescreen Toshiba HD TV, Playstation 3, video via HDMI and audio via digital optical.

80% fansub and 20% DVD sales.
I usually like to watch fansubs first before I want to buy it on DVD. If I like the show I download then im willing to buy DVD.

Diet: 100% fansubs ( I know, i know ). I usually start off a new season dl-ing anything I find the slightest bit interesting, then shave it down to about 3 to 5 shows. Don't buy many dvds, but I think I will start doing that soon with the release of newer anime in Blu-ray (im a bit of a quality freak).

Media/Devices: One 15" Macbook Pro hooked up to 24" hd display, a 17" Powerbook hooked to a 32" 1080i via hdmi mounted on wall above desk + a few TBs of harddrives daisychained with fw 400. Then for avi or divx files... I transfer those to ps3 hooked w/ hdmi to 42" 1080p plasma as well as optically to 6.1 surround + giant 650 watt sub.

Frequency: at least one show a night.

Diet: 75% fansub, 20% DVD, 5% TV. Mostly fansubs. A lot of stuff I loved watching fansubs, I'll buy and thus have the DVD for. I gave TV the 5% for back when I used to and now occasionally watch something on TV.

Media/devices: Fansubs are on a Sony Vaio, circa 2001 running XP. It doesn't like some of the higher def things, which is annoying but oh well. There's also my anime club meetings which use fairly new Dells and Macs with projection screens.As for DVDs, my DVD player and whatever TV is around. We have a fairly large and old one in the living room that's my roommates, and I don't know the specs off hand. Not HD though.

Frequency: It varies. I want to watch more than I do. Anime club, which is once a week, shows 5 shows. Outside of that, I'd guess 0-5 a week.

Diet: 80% fansub, 20% DVD. I watch mostly new shows as they're airing in Japan. I usually watch whatever catches my interests, used to be 3-4 shows a season but its been going up lately. If subs arent out by the time i usually start to watch somethin, I pop in a DVD. Strange thing is...I don't really watch my DVD's after i buy them...they kinda just sit there til i feel like watching again. I rewatched Ah my goddess like that pretty recently.

Media/devices: I watch on my e-machine (yea shutup...it was cheap) and 20" flatscreen. I use Zoom Player and i definitely like it better than VLC If i feel like watching on a bigger screen but terrible quality, i watch on my CRT TV.
For my DVD's i watch it out in my living room on the 60" HDTV

Like GL, i only buy the shows i love. i kinda regret buying Colorful! It's funny...but not worth the money

Frequency: I watch...way too much in a day. i average out to maybe 7 episodes a day. on light days its at least or 4 episodes episodes. on heavy days it can get up to 15. i have lots of time lol....
*sigh*

Diet. If it isn't available on Netflix and I want to watch it, I have many channels from which to find it, most of them traditional (BitTorrent, IRC, etc.) I don't like using DirectConnect, eMule or any other hub-based resources. At this point I will only watch shows based on previous anime that I have enjoyed or by recommendation from people I personally trust. At present the only shows on fansub that interest me are Slayers Revolution and Hayate no Gotoku. Most of the new shows on Adult Swim and the Funimation Channel just don't pique my interest. Had they come out several years earlier, I might have given them some due attention.

I have a rule regarding fansubs: when downloading a series, all episodes and related videos must have been released by the same group. In the case of the former, the series has not been completely covered by a single group, so it's unlikely that I'll ever get around to looking for all of the episodes (I know it's been done despite the litigation) and finishing it.

I have another rule regarding dubs: give all dubs a chance. Thanks to the Funimation Channel, I'm able to give many series that luxury. At time of writing, any series that doesn't put Laura Bailey in a prominent role will likely not be memorable to me, which is why I enjoy the dub of Shin-chan despite the graphic axe-murder they committed to the script. I can't think of anyone else whose voice hasn't made me cringe even once right now.

Devices. I learned how to encode videos with TMPGEnc in 2003 for the express purpose of making my fansub downloads portable by putting them on VCDs. Two years later I learned DVD authoring using DVD-lab Pro. (I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to do any DVD project that involves more than a simple static menu and a few titles. It's flexible enough to manifest any complex disc structure I can think of.) I don't do it as much anymore (the last DVD I authored myself was made in January) but I still have all of the tools handy.

Frequency. My schedule only allots several hours a week for anime. I didn't have as many favorite things as I did in 2004 so today I can't bring myself to watch nearly as much television as I used to. Often I download a new series and don't even bother watching it for years. At time of writing, I have all of the episodes of Air, Kanon (2006) and other series that interested me based on the criteria listed in the first paragraph on my hard drive from before they were licensed and I have yet to actually open them.

Diet: 75% fansub, 25% DVD. I'm watching a few shows this season in fansub only of course. If I REALLy like something, I'll get the DVD...such as FLCL and soon to be Gurren Lagaan.

Media/devices: My very own rig. This thing was built for gaming, but anime gets done on it, fansub style. All that on a 22" monitor, DVI hook up, on my Steelseries headphones. No one in my house likes to hear japanese at high volume levels, so i keep it to myself.

For my DVDs, a combination of my XB360 and my 55" TV and my comfy chair and the sweetness of optical digital 5.1 surround super mega ultraman sound.

Frequency: Whenever the episodes of the show i'm watching come out. For DVDs, whenever I feel like it or whenever I meet a new person and I force them to watch anime.

Diet: 95% fansub; 5% DVD/TV. I rarely watch dvds because of the budget I'm in. I still go out of the way to buy as much manga as I can. But when it comes to videos I fell that the media is not reach accessibility enough, to go out of my way to buy YET.
Media/devices: my widescreen compaq preario v6000
Frequency: I watch it when I get a chance which is about 2 in the morning when I done with all my college work. But finding time is getting harder and harder.

Diet: 99.9% fansub/raw, .1% DVD/VHS. So when I started getting into anime back in early 2003, I actually bought a few DVDs (Akira, GITS, Ninja Scroll), but later that year I started getting into fansubs (Naruto, ROD TV, and .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet--or .hack//DUSK, as we called it back then--were some of my first), and never really bought anything else myself. I did ask for a few DVDs for birthday presents and such. I should have about 20 DVDs/VHSes. As for TV... well, I watched anime on TV before I got into fansubs, but haven't looked back since. Besides, they don't air anything good here in The Netherlands anyway, and watching anime with Dutch dubs is horrible.

Media/devices: I have my Windows PC hooked up to a standard definition TV and 5.1 surround sound set and watch my fansubs on that. I think I got it in late 2003 or early 2004. It only has 120 GBs worth of storage, which has been bothersome for quite a few years now, but I don't feel like buying an extra HD just to be able to pirate more anime either. That's just... weird. I also own an 80 GB laptop that I use for school on which some of my anime is stored, but I never watch anime on it.

Frequency: According to MyAnimeList stats, I've watched 112.7 days worth of anime. Quite a bit, huh? I don't watch too much these days, though. When I first started getting into anime, I spent all my free time watching that stuff and sorta quit gaming for a while (at least at home, I still played my GBA at school quite a bit). Now I only watch a few eps every weekend. Series currently following: Kuroshitsuji (I'm gay for Ciel~

ok so just had my 360 stolen so that WAS one of my dvices fortunitly i havent used it much altely due to none mkv support XD (well i should say mkv comatability issues)

SO here it is

DIET:90% fansub 10% dvd
basicly ill watcha a couple of shows after abrief summary and stick with most tothe end just ot see if they ever get good or are awsome.Then based on that il go and buy some dvds

Devices:17" lcd monitor connected to nice speakers or 40" regualr tv with a sound system

frequency:about 2-3 a day altely at least 1 if i can

i have one of my computers hooked up to a 40" tv, i used to watch it off that... now i just use my laptop

Diet: 90% fansub; 10% DVD/TV. I get DVD when I can but only series I like and I know I am going to watch again. I buy a lot of manga thought I think its because it harder to read I have to open every separate image up it so frustrating and because it not portable but if the Kindle sported manga it would a good option.
Media/devices: Some crappy piece of shit Dell flat screen.
Frequency: When ever the hell I fell like it which normally is at night.

Diet: 90% fansub 10% DVD.. but that changes during Con season.. where i buy like a nut

Media/Devices: A crappy HP with Vista but more than likely on a youtube/veoh sized screen.. unless i DL for full screen.. which is illegal at my Dorm...

Frequency: at least one eppy a day but more than likely i'll binge watch a series in a day or so, then take a break watching J-dramas or reading Manga

@The Excel: What role has Chris Patton or Luci Christian done that made you cringe?

I seem to be very picky with fansubs, as I don't have the patience to keep up with any more than 4 series at a time. I'm only watching 2 fansubbed series now so I'd say it's 35% laptop, 15% television broadcasts and 50% DVD (I have a fairly large DVD library).

Diet: Mix it all up.

Singapore TV isn't fantastic for anime, so it makes about 5%. Hopefully, if they ever bring in Haruhi, it'd go up more. As if.

DVD, 10%. Cost is a factor, and the recession doesn't even it up.

Which puts fansubs at 85%.

Medium: For shows that I don't entirely fancy..... Youtube. Yes, that's how I watched Evangelion. Youtube.

For shows that I want to try out... video streaming.

Other then that, torrent.

Frequency: I am taking a sabbatical from anime watching. Universitgy life is hectic. May go back to viewing proper during the exams (hey, anime motivates you ! That's what Love Hina did for me. I swear. True story)

Diet:
80% Fansub 20% DVD about the same as you dale.

Media/Devices:
32" Toshiba Flat screen, hooked up to my computer with:QUAD core processor, 200GB drive, with my Logitech 2.1 40W speakers.

Frequency:
I tend to watch as much as I can when I'm getting really into the show, as of right now I'm watching Gundam 00 every Sunday when I get it earlier then the menclave site :D, maybe like 10 epi's a night when I'm not caught up in an anime or something like that.

Diet: 100% fansubs either torrented or occasionally gotten from crunchyroll. Generally avoid commercial titles, but will break that if I feel a company is acting unethically, or it gets picked up after I'm deep into a series, which is rare.

Why no DVD: it's not so much cost as the fact that I don't like putting discs in to watch something. A cheap direct download service would interest me for a very few series.

Media: standard laptop. Nothing special.

Frequency: 1-2 eps a week.

I watch about 90% fansubs 1% DVDs and 6% on TV and 3% streamed. I mix dubs and subs and would probably watch more dubs if they were more available to me.

My monster computer with my widescreen monitor and Zoom Player gets me my buzz quite well. And if I'm watching it on TV I hijack my families big beautiful widescreen TV.

I'm almost always watching, that is, when I'm not studying, doing homework, or playing a game. I literally watch each show of the new seasons trying to find reasons why I shouldn't watch the show. Though the shows are usually good to some degree so it's hard, you can't even imagine the crazy backlog it can cause at times. It's really bad when I need to watch an older show and it just sits there instead of being watched (multiple Slayers series are still waiting).

Almost all anime I watch is English fansubs I download using torrents or eMule (I prefer torrents). I watch them in my PC, in a 19" wide LCD display. I don't care too much about hard/soft subtitles or karaoke: I just wait for a good translation to complete before starting downloading the entire series. The exceptions are a very limited list of series (Sailor Moon, Heidi, Candy Candy... Card Captor Sakura if I can get it) which I rewatch in Latin Spanish (my mother tongue) because that's the way I've watched them originally and also that's the way I can share them with my daughter, who doesn't speak much English yet. AniDB is my source of anime information about new releases, completed fansubs, etc. I really don't have the money to spend on any DVDs (I've got only three series in DVD, two of which I received as gifts!). I watch about 4~5 episodes a day when I have the time. In total I watched *at least* 65 days of 310 anime (according to anidb); the fact is that I am old enough to have watched much more anime that I can remember.

I'd like to buy more, but I'm just too broke. So it's mainly fansubs through HDMI to the TV or at my desk with noise canceling earbuds.

Very cool topic!

Diet: 40% fansub, 10% TV, 20% VOD, 20% streamed off internet, 10% DVD. Fansubs are way better than dubs but I still try to be legit. TV and VOD are really good for a gradual legit fix. I buy more dvd's during the summer when I have a job and extra cash.

Media/devices: I have a comp I built for mild gaming and as a media PC with a 1080p Projector that projects a 110 inch screen, 5.1 Surround and all that awesomeness. 4gb RAM, 2.5 tb memory, intel duo 2 quad core, xfx 9800 gt graphics card.
I also have my laptop and a 750gb external for on the move or when someone else is watching TV on the projector.

VLC Player is the best for every possible video codec every I have yet to find a codec it cant play.

Frequency: At least 2 episodes a day normally more. Homework and working out totally jack it up, though.

Diet: 60% Fansub, 40% DVD
I love dubs and buying the DVDs. Nothing beats the feeling of being able to LOOK at that special edition of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. (Very materialistic.) But, I usually only buy series that I had watched fansubbed before. If I like a show, and watch it's entirety fansubbed, then I'll probably buy it when it's licensed. I prefer dubs over subs, really.

Media/devices:
For fansubs, I download/watch them all on my Mac. :) (Macfag.) G5, 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, updated with Leopard, OSX 10.5.4. Nothing really special. Before this, just watched them on my PC. (GASP)
I either watch animu on Quicktime or VLC Player. Depends on the file type.
I'll either watch my DVDs on my computer or DVD player. Big surprise there.

Frequency:
I use to download and watch fansubs ALL THE TIME. But now, I MIGHT once a week. I download the show, for sure, but I may not get around to it for awhile because I'll have homework or be "busy" with something else. That's what happened with Gundam 00 and Desu Noto. I've been stuck on episodes 6 and 9 for a few months now.

Diet:100%DVD I currently own about 50 complete series on DVD. I watch them on my PS3 connected to a 50inch 1080p HDTV.

Frequency: When I get a new series I tend to watch the entire thing in a single day unless it's something larger like Blood+ or Eureka Seven then It will take me two days to watch. I'm almost always watching something be it something I already have seen or something new. For example I have rewatched some of my favorites like Onegai Teacher and Azumanga Daioh at least 10 times each.

@Heero Yuy:
I haven't seen a lot of dubs lately other that what comes on the Funimation Channel so my opinions are more biased than the next guy. If the monthly meetings of the animation club at my college are what I think they are, this could change.

I didn't like Chris Patton's voice as Sousuke in Full Metal Panic at all. I've heard some of his other roles, particularly in The Galaxy Railways, Kodocha and Black Cat, and I rank those performances as average. Not particularly bad, but not memorable.

Luci Christian probably has made me cringe and I have yet to realize it, but I loved her performance as Yukari in Azumanga Daioh, so if she has, I'll forgive her for that. I see she played Amelia in Slayers Premium so now I want to see the dub of that.

It is my belief that all voice actors have a place, even if it's in the dumpster. I also believe that most of the actors that either I or other people say are bad aren't actually bad, just tragically miscast most of the time. One example is Greg Ayres. I met him personally and he's a rather amiable person to talk to, but I think a lot of the roles he was given doesn't fit his distinct scratchy voice, such as Tsuyoshi in Kodocha and Negi from Negima. I believe that he has had some roles that worked for him, but I can't think of any at the moment.

Is there a site that reviews voiceover artists?

great responses, everyone. keep them coming!

Diet: 60% DVD; 40% fansub. This has changed in the past few months - 90% DVD; 10% fansub.

Macross Frontier, Gundam 00, Blade of the Immortal and Casshern Sins has really pushed fansubs up. I generally watch fansubs on my Philips Upconverting DVD player through its USB port. The player is connected to my 32" 1080i HDTV. The player can only watch DIVX encoded files, so if the file is MKV, I use my Acer Aspire One and run it through my television. I really love watching anime on my television.

[quote]Diet: 60% DVD; 40% fansub. This has changed in the past few months - 90% DVD; 10% fansub.

Macross Frontier, Gundam 00, Blade of the Immortal and Casshern Sins has really pushed fansubs up. I generally watch fansubs on my Philips Upconverting DVD player through its USB port. The player is connected to my 32" 1080i HDTV. The player can only watch DIVX encoded files, so if the file is MKV, I use my Acer Aspire One and run it through my television. I really love watching anime on my television.[/quote]

I almost forgot to mention: I only watch subbed anime. I avoid it on broadcast TV since it's dub only.

Diet: 95% fansubs, 5% dvd's, I usually only buy series I absolutely love, and even then it's hard with that and 360 games.

Media/devices: My 500gb external carries subs, and if it's either mp4, wmv, or avi, then on my 360, and if it's any other format then I watch it on my pc.

Frequency: Usually I'll keep track of around 3 series at a time watching each new episode when it comes out, and then when there is little or no shows I like I will watch old series that friends gave me copies of, so usually 3 times a week, and once in awhile an entire series in one day if I have nothing better to do.

Diet: 10% fansub (it used to be zero but Chaos;Head's been calling me back), 5% DVD, 35% On Demand 50% Online leagally.

Media/devices: Mac G5, TV (with Comcast VOD).

Frequency: 5 episodes every week.

Diet: 35% fansub (Naruto, Bleach and various unlicensed anime), 60% DVD/TV, 5% streaming

Media/devices: 17" Widescreen laptop, occasionally stream to my PS3 which is connected to a 47" widscreen HDTV.

Frequency: anywhere between 7-10 episodes a week, usually binge (watched 6 episodes of Code Geass on Friday night)

Diet: 95% fansubs 4% dvd and 1% VOD.

Media devises : 21" computer screen for subs and 35" SDTV for watching dvds and VOD.

Frequency: No constant table because of hectic schedule. Most of the time i'll not watch ongoing shows for weeks at a time and then just 1 week i'll completley catch up to what im watching. So on a catch up week, maybe 12-15 episodes. When i feel i have extra free time i start a series (usually 12-24 eps) that has already finished but never got around to watching.

Diet: 99% Fansub, I have not the money to buy anime although just the other day I won a raffle at London's MCM expo, winning 3 games, and two box sets. Although I doubt I'll watch them because the box set of Gundam seed has eps 26 to 50, and I want to watch the first set first heh. And if I'm watching the first bunch of eps online I might was well watch the rest online and keep the box as mint as possible. The other 1% I havent accounted for is on the rare occasion I have money lying about and I buy and watch something, or I watch it at someone elses. Once I get an income I can watch more on my widescreen then.

Media/devices: I watch everything on whatever laptop I'm using at the time. I keep switching with my mates back and forth. But in either case I use my Wacom 12wx tablet and a a pair of large headphones which provide better quality than the speakers I have. If I'm watching dvd's theyre normally on my 32" widescreen tv with surround sound, but turned sometimes as not to wake our neighbors children.

Frequency: I watch only anime that catches my eye, and currently I only watch 3-6 series' so maybe 2/3 eps on wednesday and/or sunday.

Diet: 85% fansub, 10% TV broadcast, 5% low-qi streaming.

Media/devices: Media Player Classic, VLC, whatever TV's available, and Hulu/Veoh/YouTube/GoogleVids.

Frequency: Unless I'm following as it airs, I usually marathon through series so it's hard to say. I watch anime at least once a week. I marathon a series whenever I get a chance, which seems to be in bulk a few times a year.

Diet: Long ago 75% DVDs and 25% fansubs. Recently, 99% fansubs, 1% DVDs.

Used to buy DVDs all the time, especially when DDD would have their massive 20% off everything twice a year. But this was when series were around 6-8 dvds each and did single releases. A lot of my box sets were released as "limited editions" with sayings of no boxes were ever going to be released again. ie ArgentoSoma, Samurai Deeper Kyo, .hack//SIGN, Scryed. After spending over $100 to complete all those, and then seeing Bandai and Co release new (slim) box sets for cheap down the road I stopped buying a lot of dvds.

Media/Devices: ~80% my own computer with a dual 22"/20" monitor setup. 15% at friend's on his 27" HDTV setup from his computer when watching series together. 5% from a 20" laptop waiting around on campus or at friend's and watch by myself.

Frequency: Varies a lot. Used to watch more of a broad scope when I was in a dvdrip group and ripping my own discs and quality checking other series. Then moved to a fansub group for awhile as an editor and QC. Now I've been watching stuff that has been backlogged for awhile so I can watch the whole series at my own speed.

Usually about 1-2 eps a night of an older complete series, and up to 5 additional eps a week of whatever current shows are being aired that I'm keeping with.

I also keep up with ~8 different tv shows every week at the moment during this fall season.

Diet: 50% fansubs, 50% DVDs. I basically buy the anime I watch fan subbed when it comes out on dvd. I watch about 6 or 7 shows a season fan subbed and 6 on dvd.


Media/devices: For fan subs, I use Media player classic and use MKVs on my 17in HiDef LCD monitor.. The codec pack I have installed is Combined Community Codec. For DVDs, I use my 360 with my crappy 20 in. SD TV. Sounds comes through a 1000watt surround sound system I got last year from RCA.

As for the DVDs, I purchase things I watched fansubbed because if I don't like it, I dont finish it. Also, sometimes I just buy something that got good reviews, like Haruhi and Full Metal Panic.

Frequency: 3 to 4 a night normally. Days that I get a DVD, I watch the full disk, if I get a box set, I watch the first disk and maybe half of the second. Then it goes on my shelf and I rewatch it when I'm bored or havn't seen it in a while.

Diet: 60% DVD/40% fansub. Sadly, I'm slowly falling out of anime so the majority of what I watch is via CSU's anime club, where they only show licenced stuff. But I'm getting into the new fall shows this season, so that ratio might change again...

Media/devices: Again, DVDs are through CSU's anime club, where it's played on a computer through a projector. Fansubs are watched through Media Player Classic. The file extention dosn't matter-- I've fallen in love with that program.

Frequency: Mostly through Club, once a week. And even then my attention span for anime lasts AT MOST 3 episodes. Fansubs: whenever I have free time at home and there's not a good hockey game on, so it's ~2-3 episodes per week.

Diet: 80% DDL fansubs, 10% streaming, 10% DVDs

Media/Devices: .mkv using KM Player on my PC, .avi using my 360

Frequency: about 5/6 episodes per week

Diet: % fansub, 45% tv from anime on demand,iatv and Sci-Fi channel.

Media/devices: For the fansubs,i use my PC 70gb and a 320gb external hard drive. i play the video using Nero Showtime or Windows Media Player, normally i hook it up to the surround sound. Big Sound! AHHHHH! very loud.sometimes i wake up the people next door.


Frequency: Right now i'm wacthing about 6-8 shows both dubs and subs. I have to have it before work or play it my stress outlet.

sorry fansub 55%

Diet: 100%

Media/devices: My computer attached to my 38 inch (I think?) LCD TV. Can't watch anime without it. Though i remember the days when i used to lay on the floor and watch my computer.

Frequency: 2-3 episodes per day on a normal basis. Though on days off usually more. I usually try to watch 2 older series to catch myself up along with the new season's shows.

I will never comprehend how anyone can settle to watch anime fansubs via stream.

Diet: 85% Fansub, 14% DVD, 1% TV. I only buy DVDs if I can get a deal. I'd rather watch fansub first to see if its good or not.. And I sometimes see Bleach on TV..

Media/Devices: All fansubs on my MacBook (VLC Player). I watch most of my DVDs on my Mac as well. Rarely on a tv..

I only stream long running shows like Bleach, One Piece and Soul Eater, though I do download them sometimes.

Frequency: I try for 1 episode a day. On weekends I can watch like 5 episodes a day..

The internet the best invention ever is my source of anime. In canada they charge you an arm and a leg for buying anime especially if you don't live in a city which i don't. I have a huge variety of favs: Bleach and Naruto Shippuuden are musts, Soul Eater, D.Grayman, Rosario + Vampire, Hellsing!!, Spice and Wolf, Rahxephon, Chobits, Elfen lied, etc

Diet: 100% Fansub. I'm watching about 5-6 anime from the current season (This season is horrible in it's excellence) and then recently I've been following 1 or 2 old anime (Code Geass and Sailor Moon) + I still need to finish up some stuff from old seasons.

Media: About 5% of my anime I'll watch on a huge Tv that has a computer set up to it, while most of my anime I'll just watch on my normal flat screen moniter.

Frequency: I have a routine of waking up, showering, making coffee/breakfast then watching an episode of anime while I eat. Then when I eat something after school I'll either watch a n episode of anime or half of one. Then sometimes I'll watch a 3rd one later in the night.

Now Visual Novels, that is something that's hard to fit into the schedule.

Diet: 95% fansub, 5% DVD. I watch both new shows and old ones while waiting.

Media/devices: For the fansubs, they play on a my IBM Thinkpad connected to a 22" widescreen monitor purchased exclusively for anime and the like. Its on my desk.

Frequency: I watch anime on average a few hours a day. Whenever I'm doing anything on my laptop, there would most likely be a show running right there. I documents my shows; I reached 5000 episode last month and I am currently on 5276.

Diet: 95% Fansub, 5% DVD, whatever looks good!

Media/devices :
Pc with 22" lcd or
Pc running mediaportal, connected to infocus projector on the big screen. Sometimes the big screen does not work for shows though, it's just way too big, I watched Macross Frontier on the LCD for that reason.

Frequency: 2-4 episodes per day, depending on how I feel. Mostly at night.

Diet: Recently it's about 90% fansub and 10% DVD. I'd love to add more anime to my collection but can't afford to do so often. I have a great collection already, though it's mostly older stuff I've seen a lot. Pretty much it's just any way I can get it I'll take it.

Media/Devices: Generally I watch the fansubs on my normal PC. It has Windows Media Edition on it and I can just kick back and watch them on my 22" widescreen monitor I have for my art.

Frequency: Lately I've been slacking off as I've just not had the time to sit down and watch, but I like to at least see a few episodes a week if not more. I have pleeeeenty stock piled for future viewings.

Diet: 80% Fansubs, 20% DVD. I prefer watching fansubs because im poor lol. If i like a show enuff ill buy the legit DVD when i can afford it. otherwise when im in the area ill buy some from the asian bootleg mall. 5$ per disk or 10 for 40? yeah cooooool.

Media/Devices: when i watch it on my TV its on a 26" HD Toshiba. on my PC its a Core 2 Duo with a gig of ram. on a 22" widescreen monitor, and some nice speakers (cant remember the info on em lol)

Frequency: any shows that are running at the time its when they come out (Gundam 00 right now) if im starting up on an anime thats been out for a while (i started 00 just after ep 1 of season 2was out) ill watch it all in 2-3 days so like... 5-10 eps a day. plus ill usually toss something on when i go to bed. lately ive been falling asleep to the sweet sweet screams of Berserk lol. but i also download a LOT of animes that sit there til i randomly decide to watch em. but all in all its prolly, on average, 5eps a day.

Diet: 75% Fansubs 24% DVDs. I will never watch anything on TV or dubbed. I find it horrible. I am the same way with foreign films. I buy what I truly like. I have bought tons of series. Mostly in box set form. I tend to buy them when they are on sale. For instance, I recently bought Full Metal Panis at Borders when they sent me a 40% off any box set coupon. Making a $75 set $43 or so. And, Fumoffu!? when Best Buy had 25%. Borders is also how I bought Azumanga Daioh. If I can't do it that way or want the special edition, I comparison shop. I used to have over 20 series, until I had to sell them all when I went through an extremely tough time.

Media/Devices: I use my HP Media Center PC with a Quad Core Duo and 22" widescreen monitor. I use Zoom Player to watch any downloads. You have the ability to adjust the screen size manually and not have much loss in resolution, ie. pixelation.

Frequency: Not to often, recently. When I do get a chance, I tend to burn through several episodes. I am currently backlogged with three full series, several single episodes, plus all the shows I watch that are broadcast in the States.

diet: about 50/50 id say. i like to watch series as they air in japan or dl shows that will never/have yet come to america and such, i also liek to buy dvds (i like to physically own a series.. not just have it on my hard drive). i have become more picky about my dvd buying, i only buy series that i've watched b/c of fansubs and liked or old classic series ive yet to see or loved and need to own (like esclaflowne, gundam wing, cowboy bebop; etc). i used to be less picky and end up with shitty series like .. brain powered.. which is real bad.
media: my ps3 for watching dvds hooked up to my 40" HD samsung LCD tv with a hdmi cable and a macbook pro and use VLC to watch the shows in.
frequency: i tend to watch an episode right after it downloads. but usually ill throw in a new dvd or an old series i love and watch a couple episodes while i do hw.. i only really download 2 series per season (right now being gundam 00 and nodame cantabille paris chapter).

Diet: 70% fansubs, 20% DVD, 10% raw. I don't include TV only because I don't really consider that anime time as I never really plan it. Those are just times that I have to kill and don't have access to a computer so hopefully something not completely horrible is on the Funimation channel.

Media Devices: I swap between my laboratory of laptops (the desktops are too old to play .264); so I'm in the same situation as some of the others have said in that I don't have a large 60" 1080p screen to watch, but I sit close enough to the 1600x1200 screen it makes up for the fact. I do however have my laptops hooked up to one of the better external soundcards which then runs an optical out to my 5.1 surround sound. I might not see large, but I can at least feel the action as if it's gigantic.

Frequency: A complete series every 2-3 days (past series I never had a chance to watch, or classic series that were out before I really got into anime). For currently airing series I normally track ~15 depending what interests me and also based on whatever is fansubbed or if the raws aren't too hard to understand.

Diet: 100% fansub. We don't have many anime releases on dvd around here...

Media Devices: I have TVersity installed on the PC, so I stream the episodes to my PS3 and watch them on my not so great 29" 1080i TV. The good thing is that TVersity transcodes xvid, MKV and pretty much everything to MPEG2 on-the-fly, so I can see everything on a bigger screen and with great quality. Don't have a sound setup =/

Frequency: Time is being a problem lately, but I'm not following any new series right now (just watching the usual Shippuden every week). I'm currently watching really old stuff like Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop, so I save them for the weekends and watch at least 5 episodes in one shot.

Diet: 100% Fansub. What can I say? I don't like paying for anime DVDs or dubs.

Media/Devices: Mostly through my hp laptop, but when I get my 360 back from being repaired I like to stream it though our 42" tv

Frequency: uhh...this varies. Most days i will watch nothing. But I usually will take a few hours and catch up on everything sometime during a week. Though when I rewatch stuff, I can go through a series within a week or two. I used to watch much more than I do now.

Heres what I do. I use 2 programs on my laptop called Livestation [Video is good quality but not perfect] KeyHoleTv [Youtube quality] to watch Japanese tv stations [i.e Tv Tokyo, TBS, etc]. I then hook up my S-Video cord from my laptop to my tv and watch it on there the only problem is i get no sound so I have to resort to listen with my headphones hooked in the laptop or without. I might be getting speakers for it though! My favorite channels are mostly TV Tokyo and TBS though since I get to watch animes unheard of in the US like SoulEater. As well as dramas like Bloody Monday, Scandal, and Cafe [my Katakana isn't up to par to understand yet.] But yeah just look for it. It's a great experience and can help with understanding whats on the mind of the average Japanese viewer.

Oh and one more thing I have the movie Battle Royale on my PS3. Loved the manga so much that I had to see the movie. I also have another movie which is my favorite martial arts movie called "Legend of the Drunken Master". Even though this is not Japanese and its Chinese I still love it.

Diet: 90% fansub, 10% Raw. I watch mostly whatever is on Air in Japan, lots of animes and J-Dramas. Peak season i'll have over 45 titles per week. This season it's down to 17 titles after dropping >10 series. because JDrama Subs are rare and slow, so i watch raws first till whenever the subs are out(if they are ever subbed).

Media/devices: my Laptop. even DVDs. I don't buy the DVDs, i'll watch whatever my family members buy on dvd (usually J/K Movies).

Frequency: uh... depending on the season, atleast 3 animes ep and 1 ep of JDrama.(more during the weekends) I usually watch whatever i downloaded that day. how else would i be able to watch that many series?

ps: i actually create a list for the animes + jdramas that i'm watching so i can keep track of what to download everyday.

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I watch the fansubs first, just like the Japanese get to watch the series on TV first. It's only fair. Then, if I like it, I will purchase the DVD. Fansubs serve the same purpose as initial television broadcasts. Just because we have to get them from secondary sources doesn't make it wrong. If it weren't for fansubs, the anime industry would only get a chance to sell the tiny percentage of anime that make it to american TV. We would never even get a chance to see see if we even like all the awesome new series that come out every year. If the anime industry wants to have a hand in all this, then they need to run sub sites of their own. They would have made much less money from me if there were no fansubs. I didn't see Gunslinger Girl, Haruhi, Chobits, Mai-Hime, Elfen Lied, or scads of other series on TV. I saw them on fansub sites, fell in love with them, and decided to buy them based on that fact. I don't buy things on recommendation or rumor, I only buy them after seeing them.
As for equipment, I watch my fansubs on the crappy 14" monitor of my four year old Dell XPS 400. I use Anime Fever and Crunchyroll. I sit on an uncomfortable leather stool, and listen to it all through a pair of Sony headphones, as my family is either watching TV or sleeping.
My frequency of viewing depends on excitement. When I was watching fansubs of Death Note, before it made it here to the States, I would watch as many episodes in a row as my ISP's Fair Use Policy would allow... about three per two-hour period. When it is a series I'm not as giddy about, I watch about two episodes per week.
So, there are both my habits, and my two cents.

Wow, I guess nobody really supports the industry 'eh. This kinda depresses me. :(

Diet: 70% DVD, 30% Fansubs, 0% TV (can't stand dubs)
I watch maybe 1-2 shows a season subtitled on average. Most stuff I buy in thinpaks/collections.

Media/Devices: My PS3 for upconverting awesomeness with DVD's, or with fansubs I have my PC connected to my HDTV for dual monitor support.

Frequency: On average I watch about 2 episodes a day.

90% Fansubs, 10% DVD..

On average l would try to watch a couple of hours each week 6-10 of various shows (current/classic)

Or, furthermore, perhaps the anime industry could partner up with cable/satellite providers to produce a channel which features current Japanese-television-running anime. They could do up a quick sub of each episode after it airs in Japan, and feature it on American TV the next week. Heck, if Hikikomori working alone in dark bedrooms and basements can do it, I'm sure the industry could pull it off. Then, when we see the episodes, we either love them or we don't, and we rush off to the online stores to buy, buy, buy! No need for messy, stupid liscensing, dubs, middle-men, or any of the crap that forces us to currently rely on fansubs. The actual anime industry would get all the money, not just what's left after the U.S. producers, directors, technicians, actors, liscensors, and other unnecessary people take their cut.

My diet consists of 95% fansub, 5% DVD. 360 games and monthly MMO fees add up, which means I can only buy DVD releases when the anime is absolutely epic. I diligently tune in at the beginning of each season and try to go through as many shows as I can with a fine tooth comb, weeding out the crappy.

Media Devices: Desktop with a flatscreen. I use Windows Media Classic for the sheer simplicity.

Frequency: Whenever I'm bored, or when new shows show up on torrent.

I watch everything on DVD. Purchased, 99% of it. From Our Australian Distributor Madman. I also wait till the box set comes out before I buy anything. I've been known to watch some Lucky Star, Gurren Lagann, & a couple of others on Youtube, though It's to make sure that It's something I acutaly want to buy first.

Thats it! Oh, I did do the bad thing & buy ARIA, subed on Ebay from some seedy fello. Oh well, It was worth it.