/animu/ - Anime & Otaku Culture

I have a TXT file listing all the shows that I need to watch and currently watching. All of the finished stuff is either deleted or goes on my wishlist so that I can buy the physical thing later.

>>95370

>buying anime

Why do you even keep them after watching/reading them?

>>95382

Why not keep them?

>>95369

don't organize them at all, dump them all on server's anime folder so they can keep seeding for perpetuity

I keep track of the shows I'm watching on Anilist and have 12tb for my anime plus a few western films and tv. I only delete stuff I didnt watch all the way through, though if I do fill it up I'll start deleting stuff I disliked.

>>95395

GOD

>>95369

I keep one folder on my laptop that's just seasonal stuff that I download all eps straight to, then at the end of the season I put it into another folder on an external drive and stop seeding. For older stuff I download it straight to an external drive on my desktop to leave seeding and then copy to my laptop to watch it and delete it from there when I'm done.

>>95369

I have three folders: "precure", "mahou shoujo" and "other", the "other" folder is always empty.

>>95382

The same reason you don't throw a book away after you're done reading, also in case of a shit hitting the fan scenario I have all of my favorite anime saved.

>>95452

When you open a torrent file on qbittorrent it gives you the option to set the destination file and saves it as well for future torrents.

I have a directory sorted by seasons where I move stuff I really liked and stuff I downloaded with sonarr, and a backlog directory for everything else I haven't watched. I keep track of everything with trackma and anilist.

>>95604

>When you open a torrent file on qbittorrent it gives you the option to set the destination file and saves it as well for future torrents.

That's what I do, everything goes into an Anime folder on my second HDD. But I want to keep seeding shit and if I had to move things from a Backlog folder to a Complete folder each time I finished anything I would have to find them in my client and move it's destination folder. That's just time consuming without any real point, I'd rather just use MAL to see what's plan to watch and crtl-f in the folder. Whatever floats your boat though, I don't care.

>>95369

I only have a notebook with a 500gb ssd so I don't dl anything anymore. I pretty much stream everything. And the things I can't find as a stream I stream with WebTorrent

I use http://www.kanjidamage.com/

>>95369

>>>/hydrus/ and >>>/ipfs/ please, share the love <3

Tags on Qbit on what I need to seed because seeding something for 72hours is required. Otherwise I delete everything aside from that I haven't watched yet. Keeping shows is silly because new encodes for most shows get constantly made. Just visit anidb and you'll see. Improvements happen all the time.

>>95382

Hoarding gives some people purpose. It's a mental illness though. At best I keep a text file telling me which encode I watched at the time.

>>95604

>book

Is a physical object that costed money. They don't compare.

>>95680

>>what is having a source to post screencaps

What's the point of taking screencaps then?

>archiving

Fair enough. I hate it when AB deletes a torrent that is perfectly fine and doesn't replace it.

>>95387

>>95604

>>95680

You don't throw a book away because it is a physical source of information you (most likely) paid for, that you can access even without a computer. You can't just "download" it again in a few minutes should you throw it away, because it's not digital. Same goes for a physical manga, but not with anime or digital manga.

I don't see why you would hoard every single anime you've ever watched and every manga you've ever read. I'd understand keeping a file listing all the ones you've liked, but storing them seems like a waste of HDD space to me. You can always get them from somewhere on the web anyway. Don't give me the "but what if it disappears" bullshit, Japan won't ever purge them from existence, and neither will translation groups, that's for fucking sure.

Unless you're contributing to some online project to archive material for others to use as well, storing anime (or anything digital that you don't have a strong attachment to for that matter) doesn't make sense because it's the exact same TV show/mango you've seen before, and you already know how it goes down. Nothing new will be gained from keeping it when you could use the space for other things, and if you eventually get the urge to go through it again, just look it up online. I mean, how many times can you watch the same show over and over until it gets stale? Odds are you already got all the reaction screencaps you would ever want from your first viewing anyway.

Besides, even if it somehow does disappear, you've already seen it anyway. I don't see the point.

>>96211

>you can always get them from somewhere on the web anyway

All that shit you torrent is only available because people preserve and seed it. "Wasting" HD space is a meaningless concept when storage cost per GB has gotten so laughably inexpensive that even some NEET or third-world street shitter could afford to store all the anime he's ever watched.

>Japan won't ever purge them from existence

That's a stupid claim considering the industry has an extremely short memory and makes almost no effort to preserve it's history. Even now there are countless series that will never, ever get any kind of release better than VHS/LD or DVD at best because all the original footage has been damaged or lost. Then on the digital side you've also got the fact Japan is relatively harsh on piracy and the only reason there's so much available on the net at all is because of chinks and other foreigners ripping and sharing.

>you shouldn't save it because there's no attachment to it

>rewatching is pointless

You should just stream, it sounds like a perfect fit for you.

>>96218

>All that shit you torrent is only available because people preserve and seed it

<Unless you're contributing to some online project to archive material for others to use as well