CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

For those of you who absolutely dread these things, what are some ways of trying to avoid a possible spoiler in an anime? For me, I usually ignore what's in the back of the DVD covers, since some of the packaging tend to release spoilers as a summary.

Even more ridiculous are the "Favorite Anime Endings" or "Saddest anime moment" threads that pop up in many message boards. I avoid these threads like I do the plague, as they are filled with nothing but spoilers. There's no point in reading everyone's posting unless one of them happens to be a show you've completed from beginning to end.

Start a "spoiler tag" campaign, encouraging otakus everywhere to use the spoiler tags for their God-given purpose.

Why avoid them if you can prevent spoilers alltogether? See, you wire up people's brains, so that when they THINK about posting a spoiler, they'll recieve an electric shock. Thus, they are taught to avoid posting spoilers to avoid the shock - negative reinforcement, baby.

JUst tell those spoilers you have a gold-rush era debilitating disease or imagine them as pizza.

"I've got the cholera!"

Bobtheduck wrote:"I've got the cholera!"

And you've got extra cheese! Ah-ha ha ha ha! Oh, pepperoni!

So did you see the ending to FMA where....



HAHA Got ya. I don't even watch FMA.

Personally, I've done it by avoiding ALL fan sites and discussion threads for any series I'm following. Particularly, Furuba. I've had more than enough of that spoiled for me already. *clovers her eyes, runs for the thread door, and slams into a wall.*

Mangafanatic beat me to it... you pretty much have to avoid all discussion of a series. To get information it is best to ask someone you know can answer your question without telling you more than you wanted to know.

Or you could watch/read anime/manga as they come out, so spoilers aren't possible.

uc pseudonym wrote:Or you could watch/read anime/manga as they come out, so spoilers aren't possible.

Of course, you'd need to know Japanese to do that....

MorwenLaicoriel wrote:Of course, you'd need to know Japanese to do that....

Not with fansubs and scanlations you don't.

Unless you prefer to learn other languages. If that's your thing, cool.

Mangafanatic wrote:Personally, I've done it by avoiding ALL fan sites and discussion threads for any series I'm following. Particularly, Furuba. I've had more than enough of that spoiled for me already. *clovers her eyes, runs for the thread door, and slams into a wall.*

That reminds me of the time in Furuba when...

uc pseudonym wrote:Or you could watch/read anime/manga as they come out, so spoilers aren't possible.

That's a good idea for most shows that are broadcast on TV, but it limits the spectrum on shows that are only available on DVD.

I guess that qualifies towards making blind purchases or renting decisions. Usually the technique I use if I wanted to do this would be to simply look at the bar graphs for the individual series that are in Anime News Network's encyclopedia, and find the average rating for a series.

Not much description there, but a really good consensus if I wanted to save a little time on anime DVD's.

Allegro wrote:That's a good idea for most shows that are broadcast on TV, but it limits the spectrum on shows that are only available on DVD.

Ah, that is true. I hadn't considered that, as I tend to be very selective in what I watch. Then again, spoilers don't bother me, so perhaps I have no room to talk. Again, I would point to asking someone you trust, because I certainly don't support completely blind purchases.