I always figure that in Japan anime that airs is set to air at a specific time for all of japan. At that time whoever is interested will stop what they are doing and watch a specific show. This means you can watch the show with friends. You can watch the show and chat about it online with people live as it's happening. You can call people immediately after and talk about what happened in the show. Or you can go to school/work the next day and discuss the show with your friends and such. It always kind of saddens me to think wee miss out this being non native japanese speakers or not having anime air on "western" tv. Everyone has to wait for their respective sub groups or specific release to come out and then wee can discuss what wee've seen/liked about anime over time.

I think wee miss out on that whole "it's happening right now" aspect of anime and it saddens me :/

so I guess, would you agree that wee miss out? Do you have any comments? Or do you think somehow wee actually gain more from this type of system as opposed to the watch it live system?