Anime marathons

Anime marathons were conceived as a parody of other streamers’ reaction streams and were meant to break the mould, but in the end they defeated Farost and became one of his worst nightmares, while filling the viewers’ lore with horrifying facts about what they had seen.

History

Anime marathons first appeared as part of the pupa roulettes, as two rewards: an ordinary “Anime 6 hours” and a rare “Anime 12 hours”. The idea was that Farost would occasionally run a calm stream watching 6 hours of anime, and far more rarely take on a long, full-day anime challenge.

By some irony of fate, everyone spent the early days watching Poo-Poo ignore the “Anime 6 hours” reward completely, while once a month the roulette needle would land squarely on 12 hours of anime. Then there got to be so many residents that “Anime 6 hours” started dropping in pairs, and people simply merged their 6-hour segments into single 12-hour streams.

The 12-hour marathons run by these rules:

• For the first part of the stream, the residents watch whatever anime the person who won the reward picks (12–13 episodes, or a film)
• The remaining time is decided by an anime auction roulette
• Episodes are counted in minutes, so a stream usually consists of two big chunks of 12–13 episodes plus a handful of titles watched one episode at a time “to get a taste”

At first Farost tried to take as few breaks as possible, so as to really watch 12 hours of anime without stopping. Over time it became clear that this approach was rather destructive. And the more discussions, rewinds, memes and other entertainment filled up the anime streams, the clearer it became that even after trimming the content from 12 hours of anime (28–29 episodes per stream on average) down to a strict 25 episodes, the average running time had climbed to 16 hours — literally a whole day of daylight spent watching anime.

On top of the bloated running time, in the spring and summer of 2026 anime started raining down on Farost’s head uncontrollably. Even with the “6 hours of anime” reward removed, the 12-hour rewards could drop back to back within a single minute, blowing up the chat and the Teletubby’s tummy. That’s how May ended up with 4! Saturday! anime! streams! in a row! every Saturday!!! (external factors did play a part, mind you — they forced the last marathon to be split across two days).

Together with the memes listed below, the anime marathons turned into one of the residents’ favourite events. Non-anime-watchers become anime-watchers, trembling as they wait for the next helping of Japanese cartoons. Others just laugh at how often anime comes up in the roulettes. Some enjoy the challenge of sitting through a whole day of stream and putting jigsaw puzzles together. And some are hungry to see even more naked chi…

Related memes

• TRAAAAADE (article to be added)
• The pity strategy (article to be added)
• Naked kids’ butts (article to be added)
• The Indian guy from Crunchyroll and the first ban (article to be added)
• JoJo and 67

Reference

Archive of anime marathons

Every marathon with its poster, schedule and post now lives in the archive: Anime marathons.

List of anime watched

The full watched list is there too, in the archive: what we finished, where we watched a big chunk, and what we peeked at with one eye.