How much anime have you watched?

I grew up in a country where anime is pretty much mainstream since about the late 70s, so i watched tons of Showa era, 90s and early 2000s ones during my childhood: Ashita no Joe, Tiger Mask, Captain Harlock, Cat's Eye, Lupin the 3rd, Hokuto no Ken, City Hunter, Doraemon, Urusei Yatsura, Dash Kappei, Love me Knight, Hello Spank, The Rose of Versailles, Captain Tsubasa, every majokko ever, Attacker You!, Heidi, Rayehart, Nadia. Slayers, Ranma, Orange Road, Slam Dunk, Virtua Fighter, Dr Slump, Kodomo no Omocha, Excel Saga, Trigun, and countless others.

I didn't even know what an "anime" was, for me this was just stuff that happened to be aired on tv.

GTO-Evangelion-Cowboy Bebop-Karekano came when my passion was as its highest, and they're still my most beloved animated shows ever, even today.

But after then, i don't know, i just stopped to care for a long time, i guess? I don't know exaclty why.

Nowadays my fujoshi cosplay crew (...) forces me to watch every single dumbest show of the season, so i'm way more up to date than ever, and even if some part of me enjoy watching effeminate boys subtly flirting with each other, i find myself to be not really that able to like modern stuff.

Digital coloration looks so much cheap and overly-bright, borderline garish, lacks that old fashoned grit, lacks humanity, i don't know.
Globally, i don't really like the average arstyle of this generation. I don't know, this feels like the less appealing japanese pop culture era ever to me, or something like that.
But maybe i'm just watching the wrong things.

That said, i really liked Ping Pong the Animation, Erased, Tatami Galaxy, Sakamoto desu ga, Detroit Metal City and some other shows i've watched recently anyway.
 
Not enough. All of DB and One Piece is my main chunk. Also watched Kill la Kill and started some other one the Easy Allies recommended but just as I got into it I discovered it had been cancelled since the manga was doing ok now.

I've watched a few others here and there but for some reason I always manage to get into a show that's either already cancelled or is about to be cancelled.
 
Don't have an actual count, but my beginnings started with samurai pizza cats, mega Man, and Ronin warriors back 91'-92'

It peaked when we had card captors on the WB (CW for the youngins) Saturday mornings, anime unleashed on tech tv/g4, dragon Ball z japanese dub on the international channel, toonami after school and adult swim late at night.

99'-01' was prime anime viewing because you could watch it anywhere on cable.
 
Less surprised by the heads who have seen hundreds of shows, and more surprised by the folks who have seen so few. I always assumed that internet people were well versed in this stuff, smh at y'all who haven't even seen Cowboy Bebop and shit.
 
The majority of the shows i watched were aired on Toonami and Adult Swim such as Lupin, Big O, DBZ, etc

I didn't watch a lot of anime outside of that but there were some such as Jormungand and Black Lagoon (i watched it years before Toonami finally aired it)

Currently, my anime watching routine is :

1. Not watching any anime.
2. Few months later, I get linked to a website that provides a TV listing (promo art and synposis) via twitter or some other site
3. Go through TV listing and don't find any upcoming or currently airing show to be any interesting at all.
4. Proceed back to not watching any anime

Konosuba was the exception since I randomly clicked on the OT thread one day and noticed how all the posters genuinely found it hilarious so I gave it a shot and loved it

Will watch the new Code Geass and Eureka Seven when they come out just to see the glorious clusterfuck :)
 
mostly 70's, 80's and 90's stuff, I actually didn't watch from the 00's, and only barely in the 10's
 
I don't know. A lot. But for the past ten years or so I've been pretty picky about what series I'll watch, so fewer series. First sign of ecchi and I'm out of there.

First I saw was Akira when I was way too young to watch it. I think I was 7. It scared the shit out of me. Only really watched other internationally released films e.g. Ninja Scroll, Demon City, GITS and Ghibli until mid 90s. It was hard to find - and expensive to get series on VHS. Bless early 00s bootleg Chinese imports.
 
My first anime was cobra back then in 1986 I think, i also watched at that time Rose of Versailles and Robotech. Several years later passed and then went full animu with saint seiya, Ranma, Dragon Ball, Zenki, Rurouni Kenshin. Since then i've never stopped.

How much animu i've watched?, no idea, but shit tons.
 
basically stuff that was on tv. i don't normally seek it out.

tv:
cowboy bebop
serial experiments lain
trigun
dragon ball z
tenchi muyo
tenchi universe
tenchi in love
gundam: 08th ms team
pokemon
blue gender
ghost in the shell stand alone complex
ghost in the shell: stand alone complex 2nd gig
read or die the tv
hellsing
samurai champloo
inuyasha
fullmetal alchemist, the good one
fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood
eureka seven (big hiatus here because of this show)
knights of sidonia
kill la kill
katanagatari
daily lives of high school boys
toradora
wagnaria
wagnaria 2
arakawa: under the bridge
everyday tales of a cat god
genshiken: second generation
madoka magica
gurren lagan
psycho-pass
fate/zero
the devil is a part-timer
neon genesis evangelion
seven deadly sins
fate/stay night ubw
princess jellyfish
welcome to the nhk
little witch academia

movies:
spirited away
ghost in the shell
princess mononoke
nauiscaa
my neighbor totoro
howl's moving castle
porco rosso
castle in the sky
ponyo
the girl who leapt through time
cowboy bebop: knocking on heaven's door
the trigun movie
the first fullmetal alchemist movie
your name
pyscho-pass: the movie
madoka magica: the rebellion story
akira
 
Likely a lot higher in reality since there is a lot from growing up that I don't remember or didn't feel like putting down, but here are my stats on MyAnimeList.

TV: 99, OVA: 1, Movies: 9, Spcl.: 1, Eps: 2757, Days: 45.57

Like, despite the fact that I watched all of DBZ growing up, I don't actually have it on my list (I have Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Kai though)
 
urgh I give up, I've been going at this for hours.

For shows/ova/movies aired from 1985 -2004 alone, I have completed:

TV: 401, OVA: 242, Movies: 121, Spcl.: 17, Eps: 13550, Days: 225.84

That's not including series like one piece, HxH, where I'm unlikely to have caught every ep or most hentai titles.

This is sad considering I probably read triple amount of manga titles.

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First show ever watched: Doraemon
First movie: Laputa
First anime VHS purchase: Macross 7
First manga purchase with my own money: 3x3 eyes volume 20 @ age 9.

When you grow up in Asia, liking anime is just the usual thing for kids.
I didn't realize I'm a fan till I moved back to the US in the 90s and desperately seek it out.
The era when Viz use to sell a chapter of EVA manga for $3 like normal American comics.
 
Not as much as I used to. Probably like 1 highly recommended gem per season
IdreamofHIME said:
Quite a lot, but that usually because I watch it at 1.5-2x speed.
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How tf do you read subtitles at that speed and still appreciate the animation? I find myself taking an hour to fully absorb an episode sometimes lol
 
Mysterious Cities of gold, that ulysses 31 show from the samw guys.

Bit of DBZ, Claymore, Bleach and that Clannad oh and samurai champloo.

All of the chibli movies, pretty much all the well rated anime movies.

Don't consider myself an anime guy what so ever. But appreciate a good story.
 
i think I was around 300 entries on MAL before I stopped using it/drastically slowed down how much anime I was watching a few years back.
 
Elfstar said:
I grew up in a country where anime is pretty much mainstream since about the late 70s, so i watched tons of Showa era, 90s and early 2000s ones during my childhood: Ashita no Joe, Tiger Mask, Captain Harlock, Cat's Eye, Lupin the 3rd, Hokuto no Ken, City Hunter, Doraemon, Urusei Yatsura, Dash Kappei, Love me Knight, Hello Spank, The Rose of Versailles, Captain Tsubasa, every majokko ever, Attacker You!, Heidi, Rayehart, Nadia. Slayers, Ranma, Orange Road, Slam Dunk, Virtua Fighter, Dr Slump, Kodomo no Omocha, Excel Saga, Trigun, and countless others.

I didn't even know what an "anime" was, for me this was just stuff that happened to be aired on tv.

GTO-Evangelion-Cowboy Bebop-Karekano came when my passion was as its highest, and they're still my most beloved animated shows ever, even today.

But after then, i don't know, i just stopped to care for a long time, i guess? I don't know exaclty why.

Nowadays my fujoshi cosplay crew (...) forces me to watch every single dumbest show of the season, so i'm way more up to date than ever, and even if some part of me enjoy watching effeminate boys subtly flirting with each other, i find myself to be not really that able to like modern stuff.

Digital coloration looks so much cheap and overly-bright, borderline garish, lacks that old fashoned grit, lacks humanity, i don't know.
Globally, i don't really like the average arstyle of this generation. I don't know, this feels like the less appealing japanese pop culture era ever to me, or something like that.
But maybe i'm just watching the wrong things.

That said, i really liked Ping Pong the Animation, Erased, Tatami Galaxy, Sakamoto desu ga, Detroit Metal City and some other shows i've watched recently anyway.
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If I may venture a guess....Italy? Boy they love them some Lupin out there.
 
I've watched a lot in waves. I watched quite a fair bit in the mid 00s. Then just lost interest for the most part in 2008 and didn't watch anime again til like 2013. Then it lost my interest again last year. I struggle to make myself watch anything, so why bother. Doubt I'll really touch it again til Promare, and I'm not sure if I'll ever be "into" it again.

This excludes Ghibli stuff of course. I don't think of it as "anime".
 
Not that much.

Tokyo Revelation
Outlaw Star
Dominion Tank Police
Angel Cop
Princess Mononoke
Ghost in the Shell
Urotsukidōji
Ninja Scroll
Shadow Skill
Lucky Star

Don't really watch it these days.
 
I was one of those kids trading manga with friends in highschool in Asia. There's isn't a lot of stigma here and most people grew up knowing the popular series.

But as far as I know, I'm the only one that's still reading manga broadly. These days I much preferred short, humane, whimsical stories like these in recent years.

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This image sums up my total count:

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First Anime was either Voltron or Battle of the Planets when I was very young. Both were bought at random garage sales as VHS tapes so I only had a few episodes which I watched over and over.
 
A few years ago I watched Cowboy Bebop, Love Live, Bacano, Golden Time, Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill, Gurren Lagann, Danganronpa 3, Lucky Star, and a couple others, but the only ones that felt like they were worth my time were Sailor Moon, Death Note, and the king, Yuru Yuri. Probably about 20 all time not including films.
 
I honestly don't have a concrete number but it's probably scary. I no lifed anime when I was 13 and up. And then when I dropped out of HS I spent a few years doing nothing but watching every anime I could get my hands on. Now I'm 31 and I still watch somewhere around 5 shows per season.
 
Lupin the Third said:
If I may venture a guess....Italy? Boy they love them some Lupin out there.
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Meditteranean Europe and Arab countries had a very rich prime time anime output in the 80s and anime voice actors were celebrities. They were also prolific in audio books,just like their Japanese colleagues.

Thanks to Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset...

Also read that the guy who brought the best anime in America im the 80s was a Christian fondamentalist
 
Way less than probably most in the Anime OT, but a decent amount. I've been watching it on and off since the mid 90s and just got back into watching stuff on a regular basis thanks to Netflix and VRV ($9 for Crunchroll and Funimation is a godsend).

First anime I actually followed was Dragon Ball Z, though I had watched stuff like Sailor Moon, Ronin Warriors, and Samurai Pizza Cats when it was on TV in the US. Sci-Fi's Saturday Anime, Fox's early morning anime block during the week, and stuff like netork shares and bit torrent kept me up to date with a good deal of anime during the late 90s and early 2000s.

Last series I wrapped up was Mobile Suit Gundam - Iron Blooded Orphans. It reminds me that while I tend to enjoy most Gundam shows, you always have to deal with some level of bullshit in each series. Kind of like a fair amount of anime to be honest.
 
Do Ghibli movies count? Most of those.

Besides that, just Gurren Lagann, One Punch Man, and Cromartie High School. Scattered episodes of other stuff when I was younger, but nothing I sought out to finish.
 
ZedLeppelin006 said:
Hello anime GAF, while I've seen quite a few anime related threads around here, I haven't seen anything in regards to how much a GAFer has watched and how long they have been a fan of anime.

So it's simple, how much anime have you seen, when did you start watching and what was your first show you watched?

I'll start us off via my MAL account info:

TV Series - 345
OVAs - 79
Movies - 145
Specials - 35
Total episodes - 10,977
Total Anime - 605

My first show watched was Samurai Pizza Cats in 1992 that I discovered randomly on fox's saturday morning lineup when I was five.

What's yours?
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Yeah like most of them.

DarknessTear said:
I honestly don't have a concrete number but it's probably scary. I no lifed anime when I was 13 and up. And then when I dropped out of HS I spent a few years doing nothing but watching every anime I could get my hands on. Now I'm 31 and I still watch somewhere around 5 shows per season.
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Are you employed?
 
I have watched Death Note,Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Devil May Cry Anime, Attack on Titan and everything about Dragonball.
I watched these in the past few years.

Also a bunch of other anime when i was a kid but I can't remember them all(Like that football/soccer anime with the special shots for example).
 
A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) is a really great movie that everyone should watch.

According to MAL I have seen 74.3 days worth of anime. Aside from childhood stuff like DBZ and Pokemon, I mainly got into it in High School when a friend made me watch Death Note, and then I somehow go roped into Bleach and Naruto as well. I've watched a few series each year since then. The real standouts to me are:


  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  • Monster
  • Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood (I think I slightly prefer the original tbh)
  • Gurren Lagann
  • Hunter X Hunter
  • Ping Pong: The Animation
  • One-Punch Man
 
Lupin the Third said:
If I may venture a guess....Italy? Boy they love them some Lupin out there.
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Well, of course, i'm a foreigner but i live there since when i was a child anyway.

People are particularly obsessed with Mazinga-Jeeg Robot-Lupin the 3rd-Hokuto no Ken-Tiger Mask-Captain Tsubasa, in some case probably more than Japan itself probably is.

We even made an italian live action sequel for Love me Knight because Toei didn't bother to make a legit one, but i guess you already know that.
 
A lot; but lately the last couple of years I only read manga. Anime is to time consuming at times; I can get through like 1 or 2 major arcs in a hour or two in what would probably take a day or two(if not more)

I only watch anime that's on Netflix or Hulu and maybe some must see episodes to see how they compare to their manga brethren.
 
5-10 new series a year. Idk what in total but I'd wager in the high double digits.

This of course only is stuff I actually watch fully. I watch at least 5 minutes of every garbage show that comes out a season before deciding to drop.
 
I'll only list the ones I've watched all the way through.

Series

Cowboy Bebop
Welcome to the NHK
Death Note
Paranoia Agent
Monster
Hajime no Ippo (those first 74 episodes anyway)
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (but not the original series)
Kaiji
FLCL
Gurren Lagann
.... Golden Boy (lol.....it was a friend's suggestion)

The three series that I've seen the most episodes of but didn't finish are School Rumble, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Ranma 1/2.

Film

Every Miyazaki besides The Wind Rises
Angel's Egg
Akira
Summer Wars
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie (friend showed it to me before I had seen anything related to FMA)

I still haven't seen the Cowboy Bebop movie despite watching the series twice.
 
Lots and lots of Pokémon and Yu-Gi-oh, one Miyazaki film (Spirited Away) and the first two episodes of Bleach after a friend forced me lol.

That's practically nothing compared to some but most just don't appeal to me. I do plan to watch a lot more Studio Ghibli in the near future though, Spirited Away is spectacular.
 
71.8 days watched according to AniList. 158 TV shows, 82 movies, 63 OVAs.

Outside of Monogatari, I haven't really been super passionate about anything lately. Also more into manga than anime too.
 
True Savior said:
Several. Girl smoking is Cowboy Bebop. The two guys are Sanctuary (ova). Credits are wicked city (obviously). Girl crying is Dagger of Kamui. Don't know about the rest (the gun and the city shots).
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Really? Shit.... I thought it was all one film lol. Shows how much anime I watch.
 
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