Be honest /a/. How bad is your animu backlog?

The more I watch the bigger it gets. Up to 2.4TB now, and that's after a hard drive failure

>>151873282
Bad enough that this show is still in it.

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>only just now reach up to 2012
My autism won't let me skip anything so shit like Ramna takes forever

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>>151873282
I love anime girls getting punched in the face.

Backlogs are for faggots.

>>151873282
I took the holiday break to catch up, but when the holidays ended, my list is even longer thanks to everyone discussing year-end AOTS and AOTY contenders. These discussions always mention older shows, and I became really aware of how much I missed in just the past couple years.

>>151873282
My backlog has actually affected my current viewing habits.
Lots of people were calling Hibike Euphonium AOTY, but I never watched it because when it came out I saw it was season 2, and I never watched season 1, so I avoided it entirely. I can't say if I would enjoy it or not because of this.

Anime, not much.
Manga, however...

Who the hell has a back log?

>>151873282
This past few seasons have been a blessing.

So much shit on display, I've finally been able to catch up on my backlog and even indulge in rewatching some old favorites.

>>151873282
i just watch whatever i come across

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enough to stay busy

haven't been watching more than like 5-7 shows per season now though and this winter doesn't look like it'll be any different

What does backlog exactly refer to?
I thought it was just not recent anime

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>>151873282
not so bad

>>151874776
That's pretty good

>>151874776
2017 /a/ in one image

>>151873282
pretty bad, been working on some stuff today though like Zestria, Pandora, and maybe Saekano, I don't know though kinda iffy on Saekano

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>>151874087
Please no, the only way you should be punching anime girls is with your lips, against hers, softly.

>>151873282
>having a backlog

There's not enough good anime a season to have a backlog. The only "backlog" you should have is knocking out classics you haven't seen yet.

Should I set up my shit for next season today or work on backlog? If I wait for next season how many weeks would you wait until catching up might be to much?

I've made some good progress in the last three weeks or so. Finished some stuff from my backlog, caught up on a few 16' shows. Overall, things could be worse.

Currently watching UFO Table's Unlimited Blade Works adaption and I'm quite pleased with it in comparison to Deen's adaption. Next I'll probably watch Jigoku Shoujo season 2.

>>151873282

Its bad that I am waiting for this season to start.

>>151873282
I made a lot of progress with it in 2016.There are only 30 animu left in it now.

What will happen to me if I actually manage to beat it?

>>151873282
Fairly big.
I need to confess, I never watched madoka, I do not plan on watching madoka

I tried actually watching things this season, found three shows I really liked, but only made it 4 episodes in before I stopped. Now I'm planning on binging to catch up, but who knows when that'll actually happen.

>>151874776
How new are you exactly? Everyone has to start somewhere but fucking hell.

I've only watched 4 anime series last year. I spend more time shitposting here instead. More instantaneous gratification this way.

Am I the only one who's like this?

>>151874576
People with jobs. It is a truly pitiable existence.

My backlog includes the back half of everything from last season, since I haven't been able to watch anime for a while. Other than that,

>>151874958
This
And I'm pretty much out of classics worthy of that title.

>>151877637
I'm a NEET with a massive backlog. I have the time to watch anime fast enough to shrink it but not the energy. Most NEETs don't

>>151873282
Literally zero backlog. I only save what I want watch.

I'm a casual and have no backlog

>>151877637
I don't think it's correlated. Yes having a job kills all desire or even enjoyment watching anime unlike when you were a NEET or even a kid, but building a backlog has more to do with method of each individual. Some people just don't have a backlog and just download a few series and go through right away, giving no mind to any other series for the duration that they're viewing it.

About 200 titles and growing faster than I can watch

Thanks to my winter break, I only have Card Captor Sakura left. I still don't feel the urge to watch it though.

About 150 I want to watch, around 20 on my computer.
Just started watching urusei yatsura, this will take a while.

>>151874776
That'd be me in the past 6 months.

>>151873282
I don't know, since I haven't watched it.

There are some shows on there that I just don't give a fuck about anymore but I can't be assed to remove them.

>>151873282
I don't have backlog. I realized I just end downloading something new instead of watching something that I already have, so having a backlog is pointless.

>>151873282
I have 300 shows in my backlog. Presuming an average of 20 episodes for each show, that's 6000 episodes. If I watch 3 episodes a day, it will take me 2000 days, or 5 years and five months for me to finish it.
Meanwhile, more shows are airing.

>>151873282
I suck making lists so I just watch as I go. Although if a recommendation comes up it becomes top priority in the back of my mind.
>>151874079
Are you me?

Not too bad
About 37-45, mainly because some series have multiple seasons, plus 5 of those are movies.
Its also likely a handful of them I might drop for being shit.

Though I haven't touched my backlog in 2 years.

If I don't think about my backlog it doesn't exist

Not only do I have an insane backlog, I keep starting new series all the time and not finishing them. There are some 20-30 series I'm "currently watching" and actually intend to finish some day. And each new season just grows that number until I have time to binge a series or two.

>>151873690
I know the feeling. I have about 4tb and it grows faster than I can clear it. I'm not worried about failure, though, as I have a few nice external WD drives and a proper NAS server.

>>151877899
That's wrong though. Having a job makes me appreciate my free time and hobbies even more, it's literally just a matter of me not having time. I spent the last 4 days of my vacation playing video games and only left my room to get food and use the bathroom. The 4 days before that I spent at Akiba buying things and at comiket waking up early to line up to buy more stuff. It was all really fun.

>>151874484
This. I barely watch anime anymore. But I've got hundreds of series in my manga backlog.

I cut my seasonal intake down to 2-3 shows so now I have time to slowly work through the little backlog I have.

>>151880249
I keep telling myself I will but I always end up at about a dozen shows each season.

>>151880321
I didn't need any convincing. I used to low SoL and such but now I need a gripping story to keep interest.

At this point my only chance is to get my spine broken.

>>151880373
I enjoy most every genre if it's done well, so I end up picking up a lot.

>>151873690
I'm sitting on 10 Tb here...

>>151873282
I don't have a backlog. If I can't make time to watch it while it's airing, then it wasn't interesting enough to be bothered.

I have over 40 series in my backlog but probably only plan on actually watching 5 or so of them. Probably only have about that many series downloaded but left unwatched as well.

I remember I used to watch about 80 series a year. Now I'm only doing ~10.

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It's dropped from around 300 a year ago

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Getting bigger everyday

>>151880932
My penis gets bigger several times a day.

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>>151881011
thanks for sharing

I've literally killed my backlog. Last thing on it was Naruto and Shippuden because I loved the manga as a kid. That fucking shit took me almost all of 6 months to watch from start to finish. I'm sure a couple episodes will come out over the weekend of currently airing show that I'll watch Monday or something.

>>151873282
I don't know. I watched 42 shows previous season and it seems I burned out. Most of my backloged stuff turned out to be worse than I expected.
When Lupin III (part 1) is gonna get good? I'm on episode 6 and it so meh.

>>151873282
>Strike the Blood OVA & Season 2
>Fafner Exodus 2nd half

I'm focusing on harem for now, and even that takes forever

>>151881466
It took me like 3 years to finish all of Lupin III. It's overall very meh. Never really was bad and some episodes, movies and OVAs were solid 10/10 entertainment.

I watch whatever shows are currently airing and then start maybe one show from my backlog to fill the gaps. But then over a season I add 2-3 more to my backlog so it keeps piling up.

>>151874776
>>151878921
Fucking hell. I need a new sekreet club.

>>151873282
The previous season gave me a lot of time to watch shows from my backlog because it was so shit.

>>151883040
/a/ has been this way since 2007 and probably even earlier. Always been casual af

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H-how do i do ?

>>151881744
Why the fuck would anyone do that?

>>151883223
>/a/ has been this way since 2007 and probably even earlier. Always been casual af
At least most people were pretending.

>>151883248
The minimum should be 400 completed, but you're probably better than most newshitters.

>>151883276
A lot of the people who've seen <200 shows think they're anime experts who belong in the seekrit club because they know they're supposed to hate Naruto

>>151874941
But they are not living their lives correctly

>>151883330
Many years ago the minimum was often said to be 100 completed, without counting shitty 5 minute shorts. I guess it makes sense to raise the limit over time though.

>>151883040
>35 shows in the past 6 months
Dunno mate, that's far more than what the past two seasons had worth being even looked at.
Great reading comprehension there.

>>151873282
Only like 700 things total.

Actually not that bad. I add and remove stuff from it all the time so it's pretty reasonable. I've been meaning to watch Mushishi and Ping Pong for years though, I even have them on my HDD

The last 2 seasons are in my backlog and new seasons keep coming.

They need to stop for a season or 2 to help me a bit.

>>151873282
I have zero.

Recommend me something.

I haven't watched anime since 2011. Not many people here do you know.

>>151884297
I want to yell at you, but half this board is probably like that. If the half that actually watch anime, half of them probably stream, post on MAL and reddit, and watch maybe 8 shows a year.

>>151883855
I recommend you to lurk moar

>>151880680
defintley start white album 2

>>151873282
since '13

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>>151883330
Almost there!

>>151874079
Keep it up anon, we believe in you.

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My goal in any given year is to watch more things off of my backlog than I add to it.

I usually fail because of you dinguses. Thanks.

>>151884863
My goal is to not miss any airing anime that I would want to watch later.

>>151873690
Just got a 4tb from a 2.5 tb. Fuck everything.

>>151884863
I may be a dingus, but atleast I'm no dongus.

>>151884863
Man, you sure aim high.

>>151873282
https://mega.nz/#F!68UUXa6T!exujtbU1Yp5NzZizZTpd8Q

>>151884586
What if he doesn't like garbage romantic melodrama.

>had hundreds of torrents paused with various series
>at some point i filled up my drive just with first episodes
>had to delete them all
>don't even remember what they were

all i know is that im in the hundreds with what i've seen, hundreds with what i haven't. it's really awful. it sucks mixing it with work and university too. how do you lads do it?

>>151885551
By living alone and spending my free time at home watching, reading and playing things.

Tons of stuff. I just finished oreimo today and I'm emotionally devastated it didn't go the way I wanted it to. I don't feel like watching anything else right now.

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It's getting pretty bad.
But a lot of it is obscure 80s OVAs another films, which'll be easy to get around to.

>>151885839
*and other films

I don't call it a back log, I call it the shitlist of sh*t I haven't seen but might be interested in but won't ever watch unless there is some other factor involved, like a sequel is announced or something.

>>151885832
>oreimo
>emotionally devastated
Don't think about it too much, oreimo was fucking garbage.

>>151884863
>800

How do you do it? I got to about 400 and everything seems boring or more of the same ever since.

>>151884469
No, thanks.

>>151884348
If you count current shows I watch less than 5 a year normally, but I have a fuck heug backlog thanks to only learning english in the last 5 years, and they don't produce many subs in my native language.

>>151873282

3 years worth at 1TB, luckily I have been cutting into it hard.

Pros: If SHTF I would have anime for years
Cons: I haven't watched anything new since 2012

>>151873282
doesn't exist
i'm a whimsical creature

pretty bad. especially after I skipped this entire season.

A little over 100 to go, but a bunch of them are hundreds of episodes so it still feels like an insurmountable wall. It's no longer growing though, so eventually.

>>151873282
don't have one

I remember 2009 was the last time my anime folder was bone dry and I was desperate to pick anything up.

>>151883275
Sometimes you need to watch a lot of shit to truly appreciate what's good

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>>151885957
You have to stop looking for novice or good writing and settle with things, themes, genres and cliches you love and would love to see more and more again and again. That way things that someone would find "generic" would still be fine and enjoyable for you in a way and actually good shows would be a pleasant surprise. It's easy.

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ya know, it's actually settled down and is steadily getting smaller because i've been more consistent in finishing shows rather than watching a couple episodes then saying "ill come back to it later". Working helps because all i do when I get off work is either gym or chinese cartoons.

You're not supposed to complete your backlog. The whole point of it is just keeping track of shows that may interest you.

>>151885921
>>151885832
>Kusonekofags
Your tears sustain me.

>>151886535
>implying
Oreimo was trash regardless of who won.
First season was fun lighthearted comedy, and S2 was a convoluted annoying mess.

>>151886581
>Only watching the anime
>Actually thought it was just a simple story about two siblings learning to get along again with some otaku humor
Found your problem.

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>>151874776

when you've been casually into manga/anime for over 15 years and don't really try

Started the Macross franchise about 2 months ago and went from 80 to 100 titles on my ptw. I don't drop anything and watch a whole franchise at a time and shit like Macross 7 gets fucking boring. Also there's quite a few series that are currently airing/not airing so I'm planning to watch them when they finish airing.

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>>151874776
I still feel like I've barely watched anything compared to most people here since I started a lot later. Maybe I'm not as bad off as I thought though.

>>151885957
When you have more experience with anime, there are things you can enjoy that anime noobs can't enjoy. People new to anime (and I'm talking like 250 is still new-ish) haven't seen enough anime to be able to accurately evaluate shows in relation to other shows. Like a wine taster needs to taste a lot of wines to be able to tell in what ways a specific wine stands out (I don't want to sound snobbish, this is just a convenient example). This causes them to miss the aspects of a show that stand out in relation to other similar shows. When you have more experience you can enjoy certain things that are done well whereas newer people will not gain enjoyment from these things because to them they seem normal. This is why I mostly stopped browsing /a/, there are too many people with strong opinions who aren't able to properly evaluate shows and it got too frustrating.

I'll give a really controversial example, and regardless of whether you or anyone else agrees or not, I hope you get the point. I think Kirito from SAO is a good character. Mainly due to his relationship with Asuna. He acts very maturely during his interactions with Asuna (like when they go live together near a lake but also in many other occasions). The way he acts is miles above the great majority of shounen protagonists you will ever see. Aside from that, he actually acts pretty maturely in general instead of the typical optimistic "LET'S GO I'll BEAT THE BAD GUYS FOR SURE". People call him edgy, a loner or no personality because of that but he really only acts like a normal person in contrast to most shounen characters. I immensely enjoyed SAO because of his character and because it's a solid show in general, something that people can't appreciate without having watched many comparable shows in the past.

In summary as you watch more things you can enjoy lots of shows that would seem entirely generic to less experienced viewers. I probably shouldn't have bothered typing this.

>>151887819
>(and I'm talking like 250 is still new-ish)

Are there even 100 anime worth watching? WTF

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>>151878137
Same here 150+ although I think it's bigger now.
It gets tedious when I think about, and I stop enjoying the anime I watch after some time.
So I learned to take it slow, get a beer,and watch cartoons.

>>151883330
>400
I'm only at 239

>>151873282
Soul crushing.

I stopped listing them.

Non-existent

I actually am rewatching things because i am unsure of what to watch next.

>>151888249
Depends on your standards of what is worth watching. But you'd have to watch a lot more than 100 anime to feel like you watched 100 "definitely worth watching" anime, because no one watches only good anime. You have to like anime in general to find top tier anime. Someone who wanted to watch 100 really good anime would certainly have more than 250 total.

>>151886315
>>151884863
>not dropping shows
Come on now, that just screams my taste is shit.

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2016 was the year my completed list finally eclipsed my backlog. Also seems like everyone organizes differently. I place things on my backlog into "On Hold" and stuff from upcoming seasons into "Plan To Watch." Anything I've seen a couple episodes of even if I've forgotten about it goes to "Watching." Please don't tell me I'm doing it wrong.

446 titles and counting.

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>>151873282
Since I don't watch garbage, and good shows that appeal to me are a rarity I don't have a back log.

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>>151886765
>Reading a shitty LN

>>151873282
I'll never finish it.
I like anime when I watch it, but it feels harder and harder to commit to starting a series or watching episodes now if I don't feel pulled in or interested from the start.

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What should I watch next?

>>151889167
It's actually pretty decent. Not S&W or KnT, but not garbage like DxD. And remember, if you can't actually read moon and haven't tried reading them, your opinion on their quality is literally worthless.

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>>151890391
>You need to know moon and read the originals in moon to know that escapist, low brow, short form mass media isn't good

>>151890471
Reading garbage translations destroys prose and cadence, not to mention differences in how thoughts are expressed different between languages. Those are as important as scene composition or OST in anime. On top of that, you don't even know what the story is to begin with, given that you haven't read it and the anime adaption actually butchered the story. Not like most LNs where people pretend that not putting shitty internal monologue that the MC has directly into the anime 1:1 means the adaptation was unfaithful, but the story was actually changed by a stupid waifufag director, similar to Bokumachi and Dagashi Kashi.

And before you want to pretend that it's still low brow and therefore inherently bad, keep in mind that Shakespeare was effectively toilet humor and sex jokes.

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>>151889632
wat

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>>151891082
>Muh prose
It's a fuckin light novel mate, this isn't Heian period poetry or anything
>cadence
Non-poetic every day Jap is ugly as fuck in flow though.

>Thoughts and their expression
Only valid thing in here and it's not a major complaint since again we are talking about more or less common level writing here and the differences really only accentuate themselves when very nuanced thought streams are developed.

>On top of that, you don't even know what the story is to begin with, given that you haven't read it and the anime adaption actually butchered the story.
There's such things as translations ya dongus.

>And before you want to pretend that it's still low brow and therefore inherently bad, keep in mind that Shakespeare was effectively toilet humor and sex jokes.
Shakespeare is highly overrated, sure he advanced the form in his day writing for plebs, but he's hardly deserving of the praise that's still heaped upon him today. I guess one ought to blame the brits, they suck his dick like hungarians suck the cock of Madach.

>quit anime cold turkey from 2011-2015

I've been mostly rewatching older shows lately, while peppering in some of the newer ones. That 5 year gap is intimidating as hell, but I don't want watching anime to become a chore again, so I'll just try to take it easy and slowly chip away at the backlog.

>>151891357
>Prose and cadence don't count because I say so
>I understand the differences in expression of thoughts on the languages
>I've actually read it to know the story
0 for 3, anon.

Shakespeare is a bit overrated, but he's still good as revered for a reason.

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>>151889632
>Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu Season 2

>>151889632
The best thing in this image is Oda Nobuna no Yabou 2, 3, 4, 6. And Seto no Hanayome 2.

>>151889632
>>151891627
FUCK FUCK FUCK
YOU FAGGOTS ACTUALLY MADE ME LOOK

>>151891534
>they don't count because I say so
No because they really don't fucking count in garbage literature and when talking to a general audience using simple vocab in a structured language like Japanese. Don't be so disingenuous to pretend that these things really matter in this kind of popular simple mass media, because they don't. It's like saying that some cheap genre fiction garbage churned out in English can never 'reeaally' be appreciated if not read in English, because of their beautiful prose and cadence, when we both know that they have neither in any appreciable amount.

>It's impossible to understand differences in thought expression because of language
Yeah nah, as already stated it's fucking common knowledge that simple expressions of thoughts are basically universal and translate between languages easily. Almost always it is the complex expressions which diverge and cannot be translated. and as already stated LNs don't possess that in spades

>Y-you can't read any of the available translations and understand the story, it's inconceivable
Great argument.

>>151873282
14 years. I stopped counting backlog in concrete bytes decade ago.

>>151873282
Perfect. I don't hoard animu.

>>151873282
Bad, i keep adding shows but never watch them.

>>151873282
If something is in my backlog, then it's probably not worth watching. Man fuck hoarding TBs of anime.

I just watch whatever I can and move on with life. Going to be another 40 odd shows with each coming quarter anyway of which I'll watch 5-10.

>>151891729
>It didn't count as it's garbage writing because I say so
>I read (or at least pretended to) read a subpar translation between two languages that are literally as far apart as possible, and I only actually speak one, but I'm qualified to comment on differences in expressions of thought and how prose is constructed in the language I don't speak
You're aggressively retarded.

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>>151873282
TV: 131, OVA: 24, Movies: 76.

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>>151873282
When i was younger i couldnt afford internet and a computer so when i saw or heard of a series I'd write down on paper and wait for it to show up on vcr or dvd. Whenever i did get a computer i was going through my list like crazy
Then i took a 7 year break in order to get more material to watch and id also just steal manga from the school library back then
So ive got 7 years worth of hentai, anime, OVA and movies to watch

>>151873282
5 shows

>>151873282
ANIME
59 series, 13 OVAs, 7 movies
MANGA
100 series

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Can any of you hope to measure up?

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Not bad, not bad.

I drop most shows 3 episodes in, so I'm AWWRIIIGHT

It's gone since my hard died. Kind of feels like a heavy weight was lifted from me.

>>151893183
Danm son
The only show i recall dropping was gintama

>>151887819
>Kirito is a good character
Holy shit fuck off with this shit taste. Sao is pretty bad but hes the worst part about it.

Impossible amount to catch up to

>>151893338
If you think you can take down my wall of text with such a weak post you are gravely mistaken.

>>151893183
How many of those shows 'On-Hold' are you actually going to watch?

>>151893387
Not him, but if you think quantity equals quality, you're the one who's mistaken.

>>151873282
I estimate it would be ~6 months if I started running episodes & movies back to back. Not as bad as most, probably.

>>151883248
>mean score 6.8
Stay in /mal/

>>151873282
non-existent at this point. too busy IRL to bother, i'm just watching whatever i've been looking forward to when it comes out

I don't have a "backlog." Watching anime isn't a chore to me and I'm not trying to impress anyone with the list of things I've watched. I just watch what I want to when I want to.

>>151896698
Are you retarded? A backlog is things you want to watch that you haven't had time to watch yet. Only faggots care about their MAL list.

So, which one should I watch?

http://www.strawpoll.me/12042290

A literal black hole desu