{"id":83142,"date":"2020-10-05T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/poll-do-you-follow-the-three-episode-rule\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T17:00:00","slug":"poll-do-you-follow-the-three-episode-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/poll-do-you-follow-the-three-episode-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"#POLL: Do You Follow the Three Episode Rule?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#POLL: Do You Follow the Three Episode Rule?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Three Episode Rule. It’s practically anime<\/a> fandom creed at this point: the idea that at some point around Episode Three of any given show, you’ll fully understand a show or its app<\/a>eal. I remember hearing about this "rule" very early on in my fandom years that, for one reason or another, I always had to give the first three episodes a shot. While the origins are a little nebulous, for one reason or another it has become such <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>a thing <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>that it’s even been parodied in anime itself, as seen in the screencap from <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Anime-Gataris<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span> above (Go to 10:05 in the episode if you want to see the characters talk about it).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Now, we could go on all day about whether or not this rule exists or is actually useful, but one thing stuck out to me when I got in an argument with some coworkers about the rule: How exactly do you define it? Is it a personal rule? Is it how an anime is structured as a production? Will I somehow, as shown by <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Madoka<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>, be flipped on my head as to what to expect from the series<\/a> going forward? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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So help me settle a debate: How do you, as a fan, definite the Three Episode Rule? Let us know in our poll below and we’ll be publishing our findings as soon as we get some ample data together.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\nWe will be collecting results until Friday, October 9th at 5:00pm PDT <\/strong>and will release our results shortly after we have time to crunch the data!<\/p>\n

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Kyle Cardine is an Editor for Crunchyroll. You can find his Twitter<\/a> here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n