Take It or Weeb It

Here’s a more in-depth list of instructions for the game that will ruin your life and credibility:

Go to Crunchyroll

If you haven’t sold your soul to crunchyroll and do not have a paid account, you may also want to open KissAnime or your anime viewing site of choice in another tab.

Unless you’re a goodie two-shoes and you want to watch legally, or you’re some weirdo who actually likes ads

Click Crunchyroll’s “random” button. Wait and pray that the random button actually fucking works this time, because it’s flaky as shit

Your randomized anime should now be loading. Buckle your seatbelts and prepare to let the dumpster fire begin.

If you’ve decided to say, “Fuck Capitalism”, and are pirating the anime today, open up the anime that shows up in your preferred anime streaming website

Set the Timer

Set a timer of your choice for five minutes. Seems like a short amount of time, right? Wrong. It will feel like 84 years when you’re trying to get through some of the awful 80s anime out there.

House Rules

Now, at this point, there are a few different ways to continue game play. You can start the timer, let the anime autoplay, and just fuckin go for it. Alternatively, you can pause the anime and do a quick google search to make sure the anime complies with the House Rules*. Our preferred method is letting the anime autoplay while frantically googling it at the same time on another computer.

The House Rules are determined by the participants. These are rules you can use to instantly skip an anime. These rules should allow you to avoid triggers, squicks, and other uncomfiness. For example, when we play, we outlaw incest, nudity, and excessive gratuitous T&A (tits and ass). However! These rules are NOT designed to allow you to skip non-squicky bad anime. That’s why it’s called Take it Or Weeb It. You are forced to watch a lot of awful shows.

MyAnimeList is a good site to use. In one quick search you can get (1) the maturity rating, (2) the genre(s), (3) a short summary, and (4) the year the anime came out. All of these are fun shit to know.

Watch the Anime

Pretty straight forward. Watch the anime until the timer goes off. Then you move onto the next step....

Vote

At this point, you’ve seen five minutes. Hopefully, you have an idea of what this anime is like. You know what you’re in for. Now, you have a choice to make. You can....

Say ‘Fuck This’ and move onto another anime. You’ve done your time. You’ve taken all you can take, and now it’s time for something else.

Finish the scene. Maybe the five minutes cut you off in the middle of a really weird or confusing scene, and you want to see how it pans out before you ultimately discard this anime like the trash it is.

Strap in, reset the timer, and Weeb it. You’re interested. You want to see what happens in the next five minutes. Hit ‘Play’ and give the show another chance to prove itself, and then reevaluate it when the timer goes off again. Repeat the “vote” step.

Keep in mind that you can only choose Option 3 until the end of the episode. You may not watch more than one episode of any single anime. Even if the episode ends on a cliff-hanger, even if you find the best anime you’ve ever seen, even if you happen across your favorite anime in the world—you must move on. Nothing gold can stay, my friends. The suffering must continue.

Repeat

For as long as your brain can take it.

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We hope that these instructions have helped you to realize your true weeb potential. Please do not send us anon hate for the suffering this game may cause you. If you like this game, though, let us know, or give us a follow to watch our TIOWI antics. Thanks for reading!