Personally for me, definitely. I'll have more anticipation as the series goes on since I know what happens, but the ending will have drastically lower impact.

To those who aren't impacted by this, I envy you.

I knew the ending to Your Lie in April, but it didn't make it less sad. It was also a pretty predictable ending too.

Nope, actually i enjoy being spoiled unless it's a mistery/murder anime, spoilers usually save me a lot of time since i can drop animes after 3-8 bad eps and search for the end, 99% of the time the anime sucks.

i definitely think it ruins the experience but ill still love the anime an ex would be i want to eat your pancreas i knew what happened yet i still love it i just wish i could have not been spoiled

Fuck everything and everyone that spoils you something, can be as small as an event or a dialog, or as big as a character death, no one likes spoilers, if they didn't ask for them

For me i consider spoiling as motivation to watch the anime or read the manga xddd

I don't like spoilers of any kind, but I'd definitely rather be spoiled on normal plot points than plot twists

I don't mind spoilers, I usually get hyped up because of them haha

Depends on the person, but for me it's hard to want to watch a show if you know someone you'd probably like will die at the end/somewhere in the middle. For me, it also ruins that big emotional moment because you're there waiting for it to happen, it's the sense of expecting what's happening.

for most anime I would imagine that spoilers wouldn't ruin it. but for things like the first season of attack on titan where the good moments are the big reveals and fight scenes I think that the surprise would be way lessened.

well for me it kind of depends on the anime. if it's an anime that i really enjoy or am looking forward to it definitely ruins the experience. i just try to not think of the spoiler much when watching the anime and hope i end up forgetting lol

Unless the anime in question is horribly written then no, a spoiler should not ruin a show for you. What a spoiler ruins is the anticipation or excitement factor which can damper a person's will to finish something

Spoilers can ruin anime that's obvious, but it also can help reignite flames for you when you find out something cool happened in the show that you stopped watching, in my personal experience getting, Naruto spoiled for me was the best thing for me, cause i was considering just giving up so i just watched some videos on the anime and it got me hyped and ready to watch it again, so i think it can help or ruin a show for you depends on the show.

Definitely. It ruins all the build-up for the show.

Expectations or spoilers can alter your view of the present when viewing an anime. Sometimes it's for the better, sometimes it's for the worst. If you're constantly thinking about the spoiler while watching the anime and it's interrupting your present viewing experience, I'd say it's for the worst.

Stories often take audience expectations into account. When a story relies heavily on subverting expectations, being spoiled on it can give you a first-time experience the creators didn't intend. You results ultimately depend on why you watch/read in the first place, but some people (myself included) won't be able to adjust back into the intended flow easily after a major spoiler.

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No,
I also got a great amount of Naruto Spoilers but I still enjoyed it!!

I got spoiled too.But i dont let spoilers ruin my experience.Idc what happened, i dont know what kind of events let that happen, so i still have a chance to enjoy it.
Or maybe im too optimistic about it.

It does ruin the experience if you actually cared about it, if not then no

Yes.

bro someone told me a spoiler from assassination classroom abt the ending even though i was pissed and knew what was going to happen i still cried...

yeah especially those youtube videos that have the spoiler in their title

i'm usually more interested in how something happens, not what happens. there are some shows where i felt more emotions from the events leading up to it, knowing certain things that will definitely happen. it's not like i actively search for / avoid spoilers, but i try not to view them in a negative light

I hate spoilers. I hate fucking spoilers. But I can’t stop spoiling shows for myself because when I’m really into any series, I start googling a bunch and get spoiled. I’m a dumbass. Ignore me.

First to have this discussion, people would really need to agree on what a spoiler even is. Sure you could say "well some information that learning could spoil the work" but to that end what does that even mean. What does it mean to "spoil a work" or what kind of information, provided in what contexts is egregious? And its with those thoughts in mind that I think people are largely extremely over-reactive towards spoilers.

Firstly the idea of "spoiling" a work.

If knowing about some detail ruins a work for you, then it likely wasn't a good work in the first place. It means that it works purely or almost entirely on shock value. Knowing a spoiler is really just making the initial watch into a rewatch which shouldn't be a bad thing. Being in the know of various details can actually help improve a persons understanding of a work and let them see how everything fits together much better. They aren't spending as much time trying to figure out and guess whats happening or whats important. They already know whats going to happen so now they can see everything that is being done to set up those later events. A person who has been "spoiled" will likely have a much better understanding as a result.

Now thats not to say people should spoil themselves or that being surprised is a bad thing either. You can clearly enjoy being surprised by a new event and just save future watches to better understanding how a work was set up and why/how it did everything so well or so poorly. However the important distinction to remember here is this is with the earlier stated caveat that you still enjoy it on rewatch. So being spoiled shouldn't really ruin a show for you unless its from an angle of personal annoyance/frustration/rage which is more of a personal issue that a person needs to address rather than take it out on a work.

So to that end I think there can be value in not being spoiled but pretty much any large compliant is likely being exaggerative.

So to the second part:

"What kind of information can even be considered a spoiler". I have known some people who view learning about "who the mid season pretty cure who gets added to the roster is" a spoiler. I have seem many people argue that previews in eps are spoilers (Legend of the Galactic Heroes is one people like to point to with how in the episode preview they announce

the death of one of, if not the main character of the show.
I have seen people say "Openings and Endings are filled with spoilers!"

All of the above situations I would generally not consider a spoiler within their own contexts. The first situation is typically something that is so painfully obvious and unimportant towards the narrative of the work that it really can't be considered ruining a work. Wrt to spoilers in previews, the previews are part of a work. The creators included those aspects in them for a reason. You can functionally view it as "figuring out this aspect isn't important and shouldn't be my focus during the episode, I should focus on other things in the episode". For OPs and EDs I use largely the same logic. They are intended to get you hyped, to get you primed for a show or to have you reflect and primed towards something being the conclusion. (this is also why they will use the OP/ED themes in the shows as insert songs, because due to watching it every ep you should be gradually getting psychologically primed for being excited when it kicks in. Also any visual displayed is there based on the direction of the creators of the anime. If something is included then it needs to be understood that they view it as some mixture of "not important" or "super obvious".

In Conclusion

I think spoilers are largely an issue of a persons own making and they need to personally realize they are being silly about and move along with their life. This is based on how to respond to all sort of insignificant slights a person may experience throughout their entire lives.

However, spoiling something outside of context or personally going out of your way to spoil a show or to not be aware that others do care about spoilers and spout them out without consideration still makes you a total asshole. Just because I don't think spoilers are that important or that people should care about them that much doesn't erase that people do in fact care about them and we should be considerate of that.

I used to hate spoilers.

But then I got myself a boyfriend (who is now my fiance) who loves to give off spoilers.
I got pissed at first, but now I just got used to it. On the bright side, I became more attentive to the details that I usually not notice in the show (like foreshadowing and such). Also, I can now keep up with the latest memes (which are usually high quality)

In short, I don't mind spoiler now. Instead, I love it, and sometimes I purposely look for it myself lmao

I live a good life where I've never been spoiled for an anime, usually after I finish watching an anime all of a sudden youtube videos that would've spoiled it for me show up in my recommended feed, like death note's ending.

depends on the spoiler, if its a small one idc really but if its something big like someone who dies or the end or sumn then yeah it sucks

I don’t think spoilers ruin the experience l, BUT they do affect how you react to the spoiler itself. So when you seen it in the anime its still cool but you already knew it was coming