How many anime series do you need to watch until you can be considered

>>137510769
Kill yourself

Old /a/: 300 anime
Modern /a/: 5 anime

Amount of manga is more important.

>>137510836
Thanks for the help, jerk. I'm just asking a question.

>>137510769
It's more a combination of amount and time.

>>137510769
It depends. If you've watched 5-10 shows I like then we're gucci baby. But if you've seen 100 shows I think I'm too good for then you're on thin ice bucko.

1000.

267*45=12015 minutes

Let's say you've watch a 100 shows, (that's not a lot, if you want to be a veteran we're talking way way more than that), and to be nice let's say they're short 13 eps long shows, 20 mins per episode.

13*100*20=26000 minutes

So even a bare minimum takes a longer time, and if you want to be a veteran we're talking at least 300 shows that can be sometimes 26 or 50 eps or more, 200+ movies and OVAs, of course you have to read manga too, why not a few VNs.
It's going to add up very quickly. I'll let you do the rest of the math.

>>137511084
>>137511086
>>137511091
Thanks for the input

>>137510769
>267 albums

Whoever told you that is a turbopleb.

>>137510769
All of them.

You also have to win 1000 internet arguments and survive with your first waifu for 10 years.

>>137511091
>200+ movies and OVAs
Kek.

>>137510769
300, with half of them from pre 2000. Also at least 100 of them should have more than 50 episodes.

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>>137510769
A lot.

>>137510769
I'd say about 9 and a half.

>>137510769
When you actually have one true waifu. Unlike those faggots just following the hype, picking any girl they think they fancy and decide "ok this is my waifu" each seasons.

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You just gotta talk the talk, there's little actual watching required.

>>137513861
Had a good laugh at this one.

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>>137513912

>>137514107
suicide you're self

>>137513912
Apparently I'm on my way to plunging the depths.
Getting there.

You've just had to experience most of the classics and popular ones, while also going out and discovering stuff on your own. Classics build up all the time and each season will have a must watch so the list gets longer
Also I only read manga and watch anime movies, not shows so I'm nowhere near veteran status

>>137510769
Why would you keep count?
Why would you care?

>>137514212
>each season will have a must watch
If only.

>>137510910
Yeah, that jerkwad is out of line!!!

well see if we're going with the /mu/ comparison then it's way easier since you can just leave an album running in the background and rate it 3/3.5 stars on RYM when it stops

It isn't really about the number you watch, it's about WHAT you watch. Someone with 1000 hours watched could easily just have watched One Piece and all the related material a few times, or they could have seen well over 100 series.

Watching obscure shit nobody knows doesn't really help, either. An "anime veteran" would be someone who can do a comparison of Kill la Kill and TTGL on the fly. They would have to be able to do an analysis on Death Note and Code Geass, explaining the moral themes and series decay over time. They would have to know where memes come from, like how School Days is responsible for "Nice Boat" and Azumanga Diaoh is why "My Waifu" exists in the first place. They would have to be able to know that Madoka and Evangelion are deconstructions of their respective Genre, but also understand that doing a gritty reboot doesn't instantly make a series a deconstruction.

Basically, if you know your shit about all of the important series, you're an anime veteran. It doesn't matter if you hate Shounen, if you haven't seen the basic shounen series you aren't a veteran of anime. Same goes for every topic, you need to experience the genre-defining series like K-On and Sailor Moon (or at least know the plot and details of the series) to be an expert or a veteran.

>>137514240
Not the anon you replied to, but it's true. Even if something ends up being shit, every season has SOMETHING worth watching. Even if it's just "Anime X is worth watching because it helped make Y genre more Z" or "It's the first anime to do ABC, which is now a common anime trope all over".

>>137514305
I can feel the autism emanating from my screen.

>>137514305
This is some retarded shit that sounds like it'd make you capable of writing popular op-ed pieces on ANN more than anything else.

>>137514358
Sure, there's stuff I enjoy every season but "must-watch"? Nothing this season is a must-watch. Nothing last season was a must-watch. I'm not some anime doomsayer, I'm just being realistic. There are only a handful of tv shows every year that are good enough to be worth everyone's time.

>>137514305
>he thinks 1000 hours is enough for one piece
All jokes aside your points are agreeable

>>137514446
You kidding me pham?
If GochiUsa ain't a must-watch, then I don't know what is.

That being said you're right about this season, it's pretty shitty tbhfam.

>>137513912
speaking of Shinbo porn, Temptation was excellent. Haven't seen most of the stuff between that and tier 3 though.

>>137514478
>your points are agreeable
I'm 50-50 on whether he's baiting, that's how stupid his points are. He was asked about how much experience you need with anime and he replied "That doesn't matter, you just have to know about the popular series from different genres and be able to talk about them!"

>>137514446
>>137514491
Its not about what's worth watching in your opinion, or my opinion, or anyones opinion. It's about watching what everyone is talking about and spewing their shit memes about.
You must watch it to get what all the hubbub is about

>>137514446
Well this season isn't over, don't forget that some of the most important things in /a/'s history only happen at the end of a season. Remember how Gainax ruined Christmas on the last day of PaSwG, or how we saw a Nice Boat on the last day of School Days. Not to mention you can't determine if something is "must watch" this early in the season, I mean what if something ends up having some super crazy twist ending and everyone ends up loving the series.

An anime vet is someone who looks at Pokemon and LoL images on anime related sites. That's who they really are.

>>137514556
If being an anime phd means having garbage taste, you can sign me right off. I'll go back to my CE degree, thank you very much.

holy fuck are y'all seeing this MAL redesign it's so shit

>ctrl+f: fuck off to
>0 results

>>137510769
Fuck off to >>>/mu/

>>137514618
I didn't say you had to complete it, I've dropped tons of shit that was popular after only 2 episodes or 5-10 chapters

all of them

I'd say a veteran seems like a decade or more experience

100-150 shows a year is pretty reasonable, so maybe 1000-1500. There should also be requirements for multiple genres, eras, levels of quality and for actually knowing stuff about anime history and the anime industry (no, not just what you get from watching Shirobako)

Honestly at that point it's kind being an "anime veteran" is likely a small consolation for spending so much time watching shit anime.

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>>137510769
Guess I'm a /mu/tant then.

>>137514556
I don't think being knowledgeable about memes equates to being knowledgeable about anime. The guy I replied to was implying that there's a must-watch show every season that gets added to that nebulous list of "classics". Not sure popularity really counts to that, since in-jokes die out if the show itself isn't a stayer.

>>137514587
Of course that's true, but it's also unlikely.

Is that album number for real? 267 albums seems to be very little no?

I've listened to way more than 267 albums and I have terrible taste in music, no idea how to play an instrument and my knowledge of music theory is barely above that shown in K-On

>>137514738
>I don't think being knowledgeable about memes equates to being knowledgeable about anime.
That's what spouters, and many evafags I believe, would like it to be.

>>137514719
Holy fuck I didn't realize they released new songs.

Thanks anon.

When you know to drop a series after seeing the first 10 minutes of episode 1 or less, then 3 months later find out that everyone objectively rate it as shit. Basically you're a veteran/expert when you can confidently say "I know it's shit the moment I see it" and is actually correct.

>>137513912
>all my favorite anime at tier 3
Guess Im gonna stay there FOREVER

>>137514856
Sounds more like confirmation bias

last fm says i've listened to 2000 albums and I wouldn't call myself a real music veteran. 267 seems awfully low. 267 for anime sounds acceptable.

>>137514856
You can't tell if something is shit or not from screenshots. Why waste bandwidth?

>>137514771
As someone who's listened to maybe five full albums in his life, that sounds like a ton.

>>137514855
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPZGx-es-iQ

>muh anime vet
>still use localized names
>would probably still list names in general as a mix of western order and original order

>>137515128
Most people start listening to music when they're like 12

267 albums in 8-10 years isn't much

>>137515138
>not using the most accepted titles and name order for the thing in question
It's like you're trying to be a special snowflake or something.

>>137515159
>not using the title that the author intended

>>137515138
Who cares about the title? Why is that a thing to obsess over?

>>137510910
kill yourself and then have your gay lover drag your sorry fucking corpse back to >>>/mu/

>>137515159
>accepted
you aren't even doing it
>i like haruhi suzumiya and uzumaki naruto!

>>137515179
I'll use the original name when it's practical (for example, calling it "Erased" is stupid as fuck), but I'm not going to call Whisper of the Heart Mimi wo Sumaseba when less than half as many anons will understand me that way, that's just stupid.

>>137515253
Everyone knows what Erased is though, and it's much shorter without being abbreviated. Not that I give a shit what you call it, I just don't see how that could possibly be considered "stupid as fuck"

>>137515332
Boku Dake ga Inai Machi doesn't mean erased and there is no reason beyond marketing to make such a big change during translation

Also when people call something a certain name for years and suddenly everyone uses a memename that didn't even exist six months ago it is pretty annoying.

>>137515332
Because I do agree with the other guy that original titles make the most sense when practical, plus it's a pretty shitty-sounding title on its own and unfaithful to boot, plus you're throwing a new name in when everyone's been using the nip for years, plus not using it helps distinguish the complete retards who heard about it on Funimation's official streaming site and don't even know the real title.

>>137515369
>>137515395
Okay, I can see how that makes sense in the context of the manga being around for a while. The localized title only popped up for the adaptation then? I'm not a manga guy.

>>137515446
Yeah, as far as I know there wasn't any official English release of the manga.

>>137514022
Pretty much this.

I'll add:
7. Use animation terms such as genga and douga, kantoku and reference film movements and international animation to confound the average reader so as to render them unable to counter your arguments.

8. Regurgitate the opinions of animation scholars such as Peter Chung to look more informed.

9. Assign political terms such as misogynist, fascist, imperialist, capitalist, consumerist and regressive to anime you despise.

10. Namedrop psychologists, academics, philosophers to elevate the anime far beyond what it actually tries to achieve as well as to display how well-rounded an individual you are.

>>137515446
The real title is Boku no Pico, don't believe their lies.

>spend all your time learning Japanese instead of watching anime
>watch a bunch of shitty untranslated OVAs from the 80s
>call everyone else a pleb for watching newshit or entry level oldshit
>nobody can refute you because they can't watch the shows

It's not that hard

>>137515544
>wasting time learning Japanese just for that
There are so many shows that got subbed a decade or two after they came out and no one even noticed, just watch those.

>>137514771
OP just made that shit up. Aside from a /mu/core chart /mu/ has never had any sort "you need to listen to X amount of albums" criteria that needs to be met.

>>137515128
I've downloaded around 400-500 albums within the last year. There are some people on /mu/ who do that in a week.

>>137515608
Shit, I'm just a complete musical pleb. I don't think I've listened to a single non-anime song voluntarily in the last year.

>>137514022
>screencap
>squads
>nichijou reaction
Opinion discarded, also underage newfag detected.

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>>137514618
>CE degree

>>137510769
How many slices of bread do you need to eat?

>>137514719
>BiBi
Have a well-deserved (You) for your good taste

>>137515652
Eh, it's not really a big deal, you enjoy what you enjoy. I was saying that more to illustrate a point, not to try and brag about how much music I listen to. To some people watching 100 shows would sound absolutely ridiculous.

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>>137510769
Powerlevel requirements aside, at least we can all agree that if you haven't been watching at least ten anime a season for at least the last ten seasons, you're not really an anime fan and therefore don't really belong on /a/, right?

You're probably the type of person who posts in 3x3 threads, complains about moeshit or haremshit, uses the term "deconstruction" in any context, or thinks there's only double/triple digit number of anime worth watching and everything else is shit.

>>137515658
Trying too hard there, friend.

>>137515940
You cannot prove there are even anime worth watching in the first place.

>>137510769
>How many anime series do you need to watch
Your mistake is thinking any of us actually watch anime

>>137510769
>to merely not be a noob
200+
>to be fairly experienced
400+
>to be unquestionably experienced
6-700+
>"expert"
1k+

Of course you shouldn't use your completed count as a ruler by which your opinion matters. There are people out there who are experienced and still have bad taste; some things never change.

>>137515940
How are you not banned for avatarfagging yet?

Literally almost 20

>>137515940
I don't think anyone is about to take a tripcunt's advice on the type of people who don't belong on /a/.

If you have seen less than 200 anime then you don't belong here.

>>137515959
I just put myself to read it. You can say that's quite accurately and I actually liked it, but it doesn't change the fact that he's likely to be a shitposter faggot. Do u git dee brah?

Shit like this was invented by autistic teenagers on MAL.

Nobody cares if you're a "veteran" or not except other mouth-breathing retards.

Just enjoy animu and mango

>>137516101
>but it doesn't change the fact that he's likely to be a shitposter faggot
Oh the irony.

>>137516151
I love it too. Fun things are fun after all, right?

>>137515940
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>>137514446
>Nothing this season is a must-watch. Nothing last season was a must-watch
>Konosuba
>One Punch Man

>>137515940
>watching more than ten shows a season

You're supposed to do that at the start of the season, then by midway you should have dropped at least a couple to get to around five.

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I would like to think that the minimum requirement for posting on /a/ is having read or watched over 300 anime/manga series. Unfortunately, it seems like a good deal don't even see 50.

only a niwaka worries about whether they're a "veteran" or not

if you have to ask, you aren't one
and if you are one, you don't really think about it
like you're aware of it, but at that point it's kind of small and moot

>>137516333
>he doesn't watch every anime each season

Easy there, casual.

>>137515959
Please don't respond to shitposting, friend.

>>137516347
What if I've read 500+ manga but mostly spend my /a/ time shitting up anime threads with my 50-100 powerlevel because there's not enough manga discussion?

>>137513912

Damn, I'm all over the place. My first anime was katie and the caterpillar kids and the Lensmen. I enjoy a lot of the deeper plunging shit on there, but I also really love the popular stuff too, like Madoka and attack on titan. Just finished Great Teacher Onizuka, working on a new 12 parter from the guy who made Trigun. Something something blood something in New York.

>>137513912
>Bobobo in Tier 5
Aired on Toonami ffs
>LoGH in tier 5

>>137516389
>wasting your time on trash like Grimgar, Luck and Logic, or Haruchika

Whoa there, some of us have things like backlogs to finish.

>>137516436
>he even has a backlog

Are you new to watching anime, perhaps?

>>137516436
>finishing your backlog
>ever

>>137515940
This is indicative of newfags with no fucking taste that know no better.

>>137516456

It's possible to do that if you didn't waste your time on seasonal trash.

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>>137516416
Complain to Hiro to make a separate manga board.

>>137516436
>implying a couple of episodes a week makes a difference when I watch 10+ a day

If anything, seasonal shows stop me from rushing or taking on too many backlog shows

>>137516471
No, no. Once you're a veteran you just kind of stop caring. You don't only watch the "must see" ones or even the ones you think are "good." You just kind of watch all of it as your minimum standards gradually drop in favor of just kind of watching anime to watch even more anime.

Newfags want to be vets, but once you actually are one you realize it's not so great.

Here's the inside scoop, OP.

If you feel like you can contribute to a thread, feel free to participate. If you can't, then stay out. If you, at any point, feel like you're about to reveal how new you are to the site, then just lurk more.

That's how things have been for a long time. If you don't know, you lurk more. You don't gamble and say some uneducated nonsense hoping that someone won't call you out on it, at that point you're just being an idiot.

Just watch what you enjoy and post in threads you want to discuss anime in. Lurk a bit to acquaint yourself with the board etiquette, and try to avoid arguing if you're not 100% sure about the subject.

Mentioning power levels only leads to circlejerking. If you have something positive to contribute to a thread, then go ahead. I can't care less about how many series you've seen and this is coming from someone with 900+ series seen with a lot of series unaccounted for because I swear to god you have to ascend past an ascended autist to fully update MAL or whatever autistic list that keeps track of the stuff you've seen.

If you're a low powerleveled newfag and you start trying to inflate your ego by arguing about something you're not 100% sure about or you try to command authority with your nonexistent credibility, then you need to leave.

Do you get it, OP? It's a very simple advice: don't be an idiot. I've been here for an incredibly long time and this is the best advice I can offer you.

>>137516512
>couple of episodes

At least 20 or 30 shows air in a season. Most of them are garbage. You could save yourself 20+ episodes a week if you filter the garbage out.

>>137516516
Newfags watch everything, then as you move on you periodically burn out and come back on and off for years, then you just watch shit, enjoy it and don't make fucking awful meta-threads.

>>137516555
That's still only 3 a day

>>137516557
you're clearly not a veteran yet, friend

I just watch cartoons while I do cardio. So yeah. I end up watching a lot, wanted to come here to see what the refined taste of /4chan/ would recommend. Appearently you hate sword art online and love monster masume.

Pro tip, and this is for the entire fucking site here, if you take anything fucking seriously you're getting trolled. Just watch shit and if you want to discuss it discuss it.

>>137514719
>boobies wonderland
Good taste.

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>>137516572
By all means, go back to ebaums.

>>137516565

Which adds up to a shitton as time goes by.

>>137516555
That's fucking nothing. I watch at least six episodes per day. I watched about 10 today. A whole 20-30 a week is nothing. If anything, it's necessary to sustain the amount of anime I watch.

>>137516590
i want the casual to go

If you're even thinking about how many anime you've seen you're not a veteran.

>>137516482
Nigger, most of my backlog is "seasonal trash," because I'm not some faggot who exclusively watches unique masterpieces.

>>137516651
Veteran spotted.

>>137516581

Don't be upset that 4chan isn't a magical font of good taste and refinement. It is what it is.

There's a difference between love and infatuation.

>>137510769
There is no limit. If you watch anime for a number of years you can consider yourself what ever you want.

>>137516881
Anon, no. You need the validation of others to feel good about yourself, of course. You need those upvotes and likes. What others think of you is paramount.

Get out of here with your "self-confidence" bullshit.

>>137510769
It doesn't fucking matter, ThatAnimeSnob/roriconfan has watched over 1000 and his opinions are still horseshit

>>137515940
Kill yourself stupid tripfag, Jesus Christ

>>137516938
>ThatAnimeSnob
>>>/reddit/

>>137510769
Watching the essentials is more important than arbitrary amount of anime, most of which is probably new shit

>>137516974
ayy even reddit hates him

>>137516918
>Anon, no. You need the validation of others to feel good about yourself, of course.
Nah. Your in the wrong hobby. I get ur fuckin around but nah.

>>137515940
>if you don't force yourself to eat shit you're not a true fan
I love this /a/utist mentality, no one on /mu/ says you're not a true music fan if you don't listen to shitty scenecore and popshit among acclaimed stuff

>>137517073
Music is a much broader medium and music theory is much more defined

>>137517073
Anime is about quantity, not quality. Similarly, you have to spend a certain minimum amount on merch to be a true fan. If you don't own even a single fig, you're indisputably a casual. There's a lot of requirements to be a true anime fan.

>>137516938
>disregarding opinions just because they are shit
The only opinions that should be disregarded are uninformed and biased opinions.

>>137510769
>267 albums
Nah, I prefer to save my favorite tracks only and delete the rest, because it doesn't important anyway. i'm 165 tracks, btw

>>137517107
>biased opinions
As opposed to?

>>137517141
I do this with anime

Why watch an entire series when you can just watch the most popular episodes?

>>137517147
Objective opinions, of course.

>>137517073
Anon, "popshit" is different from "everything that airs this season." No one's saying you have to love the top-seller of every season, but if you don't enjoy a good amount of stuff that comes out, you don't belong here and should stick to your shitty music board.

>>137517159
Personally, I like to start with the first episode, then the last and keep going back and forth seeing if I can figure out how it got from point A to point B before I finish in the middle.

Can't believe these casuals who just watch a whole series in chronological, broadcast order. I think Haruhi proved that's not the right way to watch anime.

>>137517183
>Personally, I like to start with the first episode, then the last and keep going back and forth seeing if I can figure out how it got from point A to point B before I finish in the middle.
This actually sounds like it'd be funny as fuck to watch someone do for the right series.

>>137517183

If you pull my legs any harder they'll fall off.

>>137517202
>Clannad
>Geass
>Air Gear manga

>>137517073
The scenecore and popshit of anime is daytime stuff, anon. That's the big name stuff for people who aren't into it.

>>137517147
Biased as in only watching one genre or completely ignoring genres.

>>137517183
This would be pretty interesting for White Album 2, especially if you somehow removed the flashbacks from later episodes

>>137517105
>There's a lot of requirements to be a true anime fan
Hahahaha

>>137517176
Maybe because people on other boards have higher standards

>>137516570
I know, faggot. Neither are you.

>>137517306
>Hahahaha

Oh man, you're right. It should read "there're." Can't believe I fucked that up. Sorry.

>>137517107
>uninformed and biased opinions
That's exactly what snobs opinions are

>>137517329
>no u

a niwaka like you might find another community more suitable

ITT: shameless dick measuring

I get why MAL threads are banned now

>>137517183
Did you know Amagami was omnibus when you watched it?

Back when I started posting on /a/ the consensus was that you didn't know shit until you'd watched at least 100 days of anime. That's 2400 hours.

People occasionally used MAL to track it back then but the real cool kids used excel spreadsheets.

>>137517429
>2400 hours
Imagine if you were allowed to post on /tv/ only if you watched at least 1000 movies

>>137517429
>anime is such a complex medium you need 100 days of watching to understand it

Watching 100 days of recent shows is not worth shit if you still have no idea how industry works and don't look up information from other sources

>>137517472
Sounds good to me. /tv/ is a literal shithole where most people have barely seen any real film.

>>137516420
>Just finished Great Teacher Onizuka
the anime is shit SHIT

watch the original LA drama

http://www.dramanice.to/great-teacher-onizuka/watch-great-teacher-onizuka-episode-1-online

>>137517472
Maybe it'd actually be good.

>>137517510
>>137517554
If only

>>137517503
How the industry works is a completely different set of knowledge. If you just talk about anime and don't try to make shitty claims about the production process or whatever, then I don't care if you even know what a studio is.

>>137510769
>On /mu/, it's 267 albums
That's awfully specific.

Anyway, I'd say it's not down to a number of shows, but a wide variety of genres and from different eras, not just the last couple of years. It's hard to pin down a way to define that with numbers, though.

My irrefutable math says you must watch no less than 473.4 shows before you may achieve veteran status

>>137516557
If we're going in terms of veteran animerpro seriously, veterans are self awared of what they're watching thus they enjoy anime for what its have to offer "solely", and kinda don't follow treads/bandwagon. That's the big difference. Seasonal anime barely matters.

KLK, panty&cartoon, little witch kickerlick, umaru for exemple, are one among few titles that we are likely to not give any attention. However, Veterans isn't a good term to qualify who's who, a jackass who have spent considerable time on the grand scheme could be called veteran, if he genuinely like anime or know/says anything trustworthy is another story. People get in things for various personal ends which aren't always loyal to the subject/fandom.

>>137515940
Now i know why people think that tripfags are autistic.

>>137517478
You must have excellent filters to not be bothered by newfags posting nonsense all the time because they don't understand anime tropes or japanese culture.

Honestly it's not even that hard to watch 100 days of anime over the course of a year or two, even just following what's airing and watching a few classics in your downtime. I got it in my first 18 months after getting on /a/.

>>137517604
You're retarded.

>>137510769
Just watch EVA then you're good to go

>>137517680
>Honestly it's not even that hard to watch 100 days of anime over the course of a year or two

Spending literally a quarter of your time watching anime isn't achievable for basically anybody.

>>137517680
>You must have excellent filters to not be bothered by newfags posting nonsense all the time because they don't understand anime tropes or japanese culture.

Because half of them are trolls just pretending. There isn't even much culture you need to learn that requires 100 days. Maybe 10 days are needed, and even that's pushing it.

>>137517702
News at 11. Veteran are those who has been on the road for a long time, they could be anyone, and that's the problem.

Calling anyone Veteran as a opinion seal approval is retarded.

>>137517728
If you work five hours a week, a six-hour-a-day average is easily doable.

>>137517771
I meant five days a week, fuck.

>>137517728
The average American watches 5 hours of TV per day, according to a quick google. That's 35 hours per week. At that rate it'd only take about 70 weeks to hit 2400 hours. Not hard at all.

>>137517789
Technically maybe, but you'd burn out on that very quickly.

>>137513912
Most of tier 2 through to tier 4 could be one tier, as it is there's things all over the place that don't really belong above other shows in obscurity to westerners.

Cardcaptor Sakura for instance should be tier 1 even. Girls Und Panzer somewhere in tier 2, K-On! and Space Dandy should be higher up etc. etc. Ergo Proxy, while old, isn't all that obscure either. Probably belongs near Toradora!

>>137517680
>Honestly it's not even that hard to watch 100 days of anime over the course of a year or two
Maybe if you have no job and interests outside of anime
I got barely 50 in 4 years

>>137517799
>the average American watches 5 hours of TV per day

Wow, no wonder they have an obesity problem.

>>137517823
I did it while double majoring in uni.

Granted I didn't go out partying or anything, but I wasn't anti-social either.

>>137515128
how...? are you one of those strange people that doesn't listen to music? mainstream being complete shit isn't an excuse either, there's good music for anyone willing to search for it

>>137517850
Music is just a bunch of sounds created by people. If you don't like it you don't like it, just like video games and movies.

>>137517680
>Honestly it's not even that hard to watch 100 days of anime over the course of a year or two

I've watched 2500 episodes over the last 11 months and even that feels like way too much, I can't imagine upping it that much and still understanding any of what I watch.

>>137517850
I just don't care.

I don't know the actual point at which you become a veteran. I want to say around 300 series. Most people don't get that deep into anime though. The common thing for casuals is to burn out on anime by their mid 20s, after exhausting the pool of shows that fit their standards/tastes. They don't actually like anime per se, they just like certain kinds of stories and content. Once they run out of shows that meet their criteria they rapidly lose interest and just stop watching anime. That or they stubbornly persist on staying in the anime scene and complaining that nothing caters to their tastes. You see these types even on /a/, who post here despite not having watched a single anime in years. They are the most pathetic type of burnout.

So to actually reach veteran status you have to like anime as a medium, and often that means having diverse taste in content and genres. To get to the point that you can predict a show's quality and direction in the first episode requires watching many anime of similar quality and style. There's no substitute for that kind of experience.

>>137517728
I watched two cours+ every day for a few weeks in like September. I wasn't getting nearly enough sleep, though.

>>137517973
I think most of us have gone through a phase like that at some point. It's not hard to watch a lot of anime for a short period of time.

Sustaining that is a lot harder though.

>>137518002
I was like that in my senior year of college. I didn't have that many classes per term and just filled my hours with anime. Was watching 30 seasonal shows plus a different series from my backlog every week.

I doubled the amount of lifetime anime I watched in those 10 months. These days I watch maybe a third that much anime.

>>137517973
i watched all of gintama over two weeks two weeks ago
i kept from burning out by taking a break and marathoning whole cours of other series
i would wake up, watch gintama until i fell asleep and repeat

there really is a limit to how much you should watch in a time period, anon

>>137518101
fuck
i meant two years ago

>>137513912
Pre-60s anime master race.

>>137518156
Tora-chan to Hanayome>Suteneko Tora-chan

Fact.

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>>137517967
This. Today many failed with /a/ but not you. Great post.

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>>137517073
>force yourself to eat shit
You're exactly the type of person I was thinking of. There's like fifty new anime every season. If you really can't find even ten anime a season you enjoy, and if you actually believe that people are forcing themselves to watch shit they don't enjoy (instead of, you know, watching it because they actually like them), you're probably not really an anime fan and should stop trying to force yourself to like anime when it's clearly not working.

>>137510836
>>137515213
Don't forget to take your pills raging autist

When and if you get your phd in Slice-of-lifeology, then you can be considered a veteran and an expert.

>>137518297
One of the few true pieces of veteran advice in this thread.

>>137518323
Don't forget, anonymous posts don't belongs to any tripfaggot nor does their summary.

>>137518297
Pretty accurate

>>137517967
Shut the fuck up

>>137518297
There's a hundred of metalcore albums and tons of capeshit movies coming out every year and only a small number are actually worth your time

Also some people have higher standards and after watching enough they are more capable of deducing what is worthwhile or not

>>137518323
Stop samefagging tripfag

>>137518322
Don't tempt me. I have the GI bill and I've already considered getting my PhD in Japanese history, specifically the Sengoku era.

>>137518297
People forcing themselves to watch shit they don't enjoy does happen, though. Back in my not-quite-NEET-but-not-far-off-it days I watched some utterly terrible anime. Often in their entirety. For simple lack of anything better to do.

>>137518297
Kill yourself

>>137518366
>>137518394
Autism speaks.

>>137518297
I wonder how many anime made before 2000 you have watched faggot

Someone who loliposts shit threads like these to page 10

Fuck off all of you

>>137518471
How's life with autism

>>137518416
Please. I wouldn't post without my trip and pretend to be someone else.

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>>137518468
I refuse to have my powerlevel questioned by a faggot who considers 90s anime "old anime".
I'm pretty sure I own VHS tapes that are older than you.

>>137518562
>vhs
>not betamax

Please

>>137518297
>There's like fifty new anime every season
Yeah, a rushed VN adaptation, a shitty LN adaptation, obligatory waifubait, a shitty kyoani show, mecha shit, cute girls stuff, cute girls with guns show, awful unfunny comedy, cheesy high school drama, new or ongoing shounenshit and 5 actually decent looking shows from which 3 or 4 will suck
Wow,so much great stuff to watch!

>>137518593
You should try letting yourself have fun.

>>137518562
Actually even anime made before 2005 are considered old for most faggots here

>I'm pretty sure I own VHS tapes that are older than you
Cool story kiddo

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>>137510769
Probably around 200-300. I've only finished around 65 shows so far.
I'm trying my best!

>>137518593
>cute girls with guns show,

i wish there was one of those every season

>>137518297
>90% of everything is shit
>0.1 * 50 = 5 good shows per season

>>137518633
>Probably around 200-300

No, no. That's a decent level to say you've finally started, but certainly not veteran level. 200-300 is really a bare minimum at best.

>>137518401
>worth your time
See, this right here is the problem. People treat anime like some sort of investment rather than as an actual hobby. Why do you watch anime? To enjoy yourself, right? You decide for yourself how much you enjoy something. You can enjoy any anime if you want to.

It's a shame that so many people get caught up in having "superior tastes" so they can show off on an anonymous image board. They're afraid of being looked down on for liking things, but when they dislike something, who can say otherwise? I bet this is how the whole "/v/ hates video games" thing started.

tip: there are no veterans on /a/

the true veterans? the absolute oldfags? they only talk to each other

because nobody else is really on their level so it's just a waste of time to them to talk to people with lower power levels

that's just how it is

>>137518562
Like it or not, something made in the 90s is old now. It's not like something being old means it's automatically not worth watching. It can be hard to accept something you remember being new being old, believe me I understand that, but we can't run away from the reality.

The end of the 90s was 16 years and some change ago now. Sure that's not old when you think in terms of, say, the silent era of cinema. But something more than 15 years old can't really be called new.

>>137518707

Yeah, "worth your time" means enjoyable. Most anime are shit and not enjoyable. That's just how it is with all entertainment mediums.

>>137518744
>the current, popular anime i watched when i first got into anime are "old" now

fucking hell what am i doing with my life

Do you think that the combined userbase of /a/ has watched every anime ever made?

>>137518679
>200-300 is really a bare minimum
Maybe for someone with no life like you

>>137518778
>having a life

This place isn't for your kind.

>>137518795
>>>/r9k/

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You have to score at least 50%+1 in those "guess the name of the anime by the opening" tests that have been posted here before.

In my imagination veterans are always old because they have years of experience with one thing.

Then again I know a 20 year old guy who's watched every anime out there because he's a shut-in autist

>>137518773
No. Some of it is really obscure. As in, lost longer than anyone on /a/ has been alive, only shown once at places nobody here was, only available to citizens of certain countries, etc.

Literally impossible.

>>137518763
Dunno about you, but I'm spending time watching stuff I enjoy watching. For all we oldfags complain about how much shit there is each season, I've always found enough that's entertaining enough to be worth my time watching. Sometimes it's something really well-made and thought-provoking, sometimes it's pure guilty pleasure, often it's somewhere in between. And there's always stuff from years gone by to discover or re-watch.

>>137518820
how many years is "years"

i've been watching this shit for over 13 years and i'm only 24

>>137510769
you need to watch enough anime so that you under stand why evangellion saved anime.

>>137518822
Yeah. There's a ton of stuff from the early days of the Japanese animation industry that's simply lost to time, that no-one who wasn't in Japan in the 60s could possibly have seen.

>>137518808
Post one so I can see for myself.

>>137518890
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Johnny/101AnimeOpenings

That's made up excuses that allow free pass for /v/erms like yourself.

100 series to be allowed to browse /a/.
250 series to be allowed to post on /a/.
500 series and 100 days to be allowed to start threads on /a/.

>>137513912
It really depends on where you live. A lot of 4/5-tier shit on that chart is considered entry level here.

>>137518910
>6 seconds per anime
That is an Aspergers test, not an anime test.

>>137518928
>>137518707
Heh

>>137514022
How to be an hipster in six easy steps.

>>137518930
I've got over 1000 series and 200 days. What do I get?

>>137518943
Buddy, this is like the easiest out of all the anime quizzes.

>>137518953
For announcing yourself like a bigot, a kick in the teeth.

>>137518969
I'm a masochist so I'll take it.

>>137518990
Why not get a tripcode while you're at it, faggot.

>>137518967
And that proves what, exactly? Apart from the obvious fact that Aspies like creating that sort of "test"?

>>137519009

Good idea.

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I've only watched 400+ and still feels like too little personally.

>>137519025
If you have to ask, you'll never known.

>>137519040
Kill yourself.

If you want to become a vet get off /a/. Once you stop spending time shitposting about anime on /a/ and actually watching it, you'll start blowing through your backlog.

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>>137518626
>Cool story kiddo
Just the other day I was looking for something up on the attic and found a Robotech VHS tape dating from the late 80s and a yuri manga by the guy who made Gantz that I bought in Italy some 15 years ago.
They might not be older than you, but they're certainly older than the average person on this board.

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>>137518910

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>>137510769
You will now when you do for the time being just keep watching anime.

when you turn gay from watching anime you're finally a vet

>>137519139
>but they're certainly older than the average person on this board
Just like your circlejerk?

>Tier 5 Long-Standing Anime Obsession
>Anyone at this level is already obsessed, and has probably been watching anime for a number of years.
>a number of years
How few years are we talking about? Because
>viewers will actively seek out older shows that time has completely forgotten
Doesn't sound like a tier 5 thing. It didn't take that many years until I had already exhausted what the past had to offer. You wouldn't expect someone at tier 5 to actually have a backlog, would you?

Only on /a/ are you going to get chastised for "only" watching 50 days worth of anime.

>>137518838
Himouto Umaru-chan is my guilty pleasure

>>137510769
I just realized I made a typo, whoops. I don't know if anyone pointed it out yet, but oh well.
Your*

>>137519381
I must be Tier 5 because I'm willing to forgive a show with glaring issues as long as it has lolis.

>>137514719
Singles aren't albums.

>>137519528
>:^)
>>>/out/

>>137519623
>>:^)

>>137519668
>>>:^)

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Just 5 of them.

>>137513912
Is this bait/ a joke?

Sayonara Zetsubuo Sensei doesn't belong where it is. Let alone Serial Experiments Lain, EoE, and definitely Jin-Roh.
Those are all relatively popular, and that's just skimming through that.

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>>137516389
>said the casual
There are things called VN, LN, Manga, JRPGs and studying japanese, so wasting 1-2 hours every day on shows you don't even enjoy is a complete waste of time that results in you being exhausted.
You anime only plebs are the true casuals, no matter how much anime you watch.

>>137520892
>JRPGs
>>>/v/

>anime veteran
I have watched more anime than you xDD

>>137520892
But if you're still studying Japanese, how can you read LNs and VNs?

This is a bait thread. When I'd watched 30 or so series in 2009 and I didn't feel the need to tell all the people who believed I hadn't watched enough shows that they were wrong. I just lurked. It takes a special kind of autism to come to a new board and expect everyone to change for you

>>137520971
By reading untraslated VNs/LNs and looking up words/sentence structure I don't know?
I read the translated ones too

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>>137516347
>got into anime relatively late in life
>started lurking on /a/ after having watched <10 shows
>that was four years ago
>ive now watched 319 series/movies and read over two dozen mangas

help me

>>137521043
Who are you quoting?

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>>137521043
>319 series/movies
>two dozen mangas
>4 years
Are you implying that's a lot?
Kek

>>137521043
There's no helping you.
There's no helping any of us.

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>>137521086
I'm implying that you're probably one of those people who finger their assholes while they masturbate.

>>137521209
Not him but that actually feels good

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>>137521209
>futabashit

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If we take the "10,000 hours to master anything" approach then around 550 series should be sufficient.

>>137521365
How do you master anime?

>>137516423
This. Bobo in tier 5 is like, what. and fist of the north star is only a couple above that.
I guess that's just like, the creators, like, opinion, and stuff, man

>>137510769
>On /mu/, it's 267 albums
Fucking christ, it is not. I've listened to 1000 albums according to last.fm, and I have hardly been going out of my way to listen to new music lately.
But then again, /mu/ is so fucking shit at the moment, it wouldn't surprise me if 267 was above average for the average /mu/tant.

what is the purpose of counting albums or anime watched? can't think of any practical application of documenting this unless it's an attempt to impress someone else with "i've seen / heared xxx things, isn't that cool?"

I've seen around 250 and don't feel like a veteran, I am still an anime newb. I have seen enough popular stuff to know basic history and hold decent discussions, but still a lot to learn too.

>>137521813
I never share my last.fm or mal with anybody, but it's nice to have. I personally find it fun looking back at what I've listened to throughout the years, how my tastes have changed etc. And for mal, it's a great tool for easily keeping track of what you're watching and what's coming out, as well as finding everything related to a franchise.

But yes, socializing with any of them is a fucking retarded thing to do. If you can't enjoy a medium without the acceptance of others, you're an insecure fuck who needs to become an hero.

>>137518679
Only if you watch a lot of seasonal anime, it pads out your numbers. 250 shows or manga of only old shows and modern classics will seem like a lot more than 250 shows if you keep up with what's popular each season, a lot of which will be forgotten.

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>>137510769
>You are average album

>>137510769
About a 1000. Seriously.

>>137513912
just about teir 6 but not there. yet.

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>>137521966

100 days watched.

anime_expert says it's at least 334 anime. You have to watch them completely, though.

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>>137510910
How do we keep getting faggots like this.

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>>137523048
>Manga
>To be an anime veteran

There aren't even 300 good TV anime, you can't prove me wrong.

>>137513912
5cm/second is on it twice.

>>137523075
by being faggots all on your own

>>137518192
What? No way. Suteneko had that bizarre thunderstorm musical number. Neither of the other Tora-chans topped that.

I watch what I like. People who force themselves to follow multiple shows every season have severe autism. This is entertainment. Maybe invest that effort into a skill and you won't be a NEET anymore.

>>137510769
>tfw this thread was 2nd last in catalog earlier today with 8 replies

well played

>>137514617
Kek.

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>>137516256
I hadn't seen Konosuba, but as you said that I checked it out and oh my jesus. I haven't laughed at an anime like that for a long time; Hits me right on the head of the nail. Especially towards the more recent episodes like 4-5. Cheers for that one f a m. Don't kill yourself.

>>137524236
You know, some people want to be neets.
I don't disagree with you though. Making anime watching a chore is a quick way of killing your interest.

>>137510769
>267 albums
Jesus christ that's nothing. It shouldnt be a solid number like that. I've listened to few thousand albums but can only recall under 100 of them due to just shuffling my library with different discographies
4chan really is underage

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>>137513912
What idiot put Kill la Kill in tier 2? Even I know it's tier 1.

>>137526491
The OP is just casual, the true /mu/tants listen to at least 3-4 new albums every day

>>137510769
I have started and stopped watching prematurely over a hundred animes finishing maybe two dozen. I think to get /a/'s approval it'd be more about what you've watched but what care what /a/ thinks because /a/ has shit taste in anime.

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>>137514022
>Cite Kyoani as the best studio
I'll admit, I laughed

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>>137518910
>tfw I got 52%

>>137510836
How do I kill myself if I'm already dead inside?

>>137513912
Is Angel's egg really that unheard of?

>>137518910
Damn, I only got 57.

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>>137518910

I'm so sorry /a/

>>137530565
>Neon Genesis Evangelion
What the fuck?

>>137530655

That's odd and I didn't notice that, it accepted my answer but didn't go though. A Cruel Angel's Thesis is probably one of the easiest ones there.

>>137510769
I've watched about 150 and I don't know what's going on here half the time.
I would suggest at least 100 if you want a satisfying, arbitrary number.

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>>137513912
How's my experience rate /a/? Half circle for partial inclusion or at least one cour watched, underlined for completed.

>>137530878
The fact that you didn't finish Samurai Flamenco lets me know you have shit taste regardless of ho much you watched and the fact you didn't finish lain but finished precure lets me know you pretend to like deep thinkgs but don't

>>137531073
I'm actually fairly casual and Flamenco has since been picked up, on episode 10.
Stay jaded dork.

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>>137530878
>Early-2000s shows you've never seen anyone mention
>90s shows you've never seen anyone mention
You're only allowed to circle these if you've looked up those anime on the archives and found zero results.

>>137531187
One or two is still true then. Uncle was huge into importing VHS's.

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>>137531263
>Uncle was huge into importing VHS's.
Wait, your uncle was a weeb?

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Thanks, I will be using this pic.