Have you earned the right to talk about anime yet?

I've known people who watch every goddamn show airing every season and claim not to drop a single one.
Then I end up watching an old show from 3 seasons back and they don't know what I'm talking about because it's like they never watched it, despite sitting through it.

>>161128208
Do you remember what you ate for breakfast exactly three years ago, or what song was playing on the radio that afternoon?

When anime is as normal and essential to my life as eating or breathing, it is easy to forget things. If a show is shit, I simply don't watch it a second time. If it's not, then I will rewatch it multiple times before the year is over.

No, I still have to watch around 900 series/films. A question to people who have watched 1000 shows: How well can you understand Japanese? To me it still sounds like nonsense.

>>161128208
When you watch that many anime you can't remember a damn thing from most of them.
Especially if it's 3 years ago and you watched it yesterday. Fuck do you expect?

>>161128391
>Do you remember what you ate for breakfast exactly three years ago,
False equivalency. You might not remember what you ate on a particular day. But if I asked you about that dish, you'd probably be able to tell me something.
>what song was playing on the radio that afternoon?
Listening to a single song (3 minutes) in the background is different to watching 12x20 minutes worth of media.

>>161128022
Depends on how anime shows are defined. Do different seasons of an anime make different shows?

>>161128416
I can recognize words and simple sentence patterns, just enough to know that the translations are shit and inaccurate.

>>161128391
If you've totally forgotten what an anime was you might as well have not wasted the time watching it.

>>161128493
But muh food analogies. It was breakfast so probably bread with eggs or something, maybe leftovers.
I remember being into /m/ and scanlating at the time so it was probably mecha.

It happens, there are series that I know I watched and I remember downloading and watching them, but I don't actually remember what happened in most of the episodes or who the characters are.

>>161128640
It just means I get to watch it again.

Theres a difference between being well versed in anime and just seeing a lot of shit. You could watch 1000 shows but if it's all trash and or you didnt pay full attention you still wont know what youre talking about.

>>161128716
Keep coping showlet

>>161128208
This is the typical MAL completionist.
I don't know why they even bother.
>look at all this media i've watched!!!!

I don't watch Anime, I feed my with the generals of /a/

>>161128652
>but I don't actually remember what happened in most of the episodes or who the characters are.
Yeah, but if I showed you a screenshot with all the important characters, would you really not be able to say anything about them at all?

>>161128789
Names are the first thing I forget and it just gets worse from there if the anime left no impression on me and I've seen possibly hundreds of series since then.

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If you watch more than concurrent shows at a time, you have no right to talk about anime.

>>161128852
>Names are the first thing I forget
I barely memorize them in the first place. That doesn't stop me from remembering most of the story.

I watched all of Naruto, Bleach and One Piece before moving on to normal anime. Wonder how many I would have watched by now if if I put all those hours to different and shorter anime

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>tfw using a quad monitor setup while watching four different episodes at 1.5x speed
>plus additional dubbed episodes on my phone, tablet, laptop and TV
Get on my level.

>>161129084
Some shows are just so goddamn slow that I can't watch them at normal speed.
I watched all of new game at 2.5x speed.

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Apparently not.

I've completed nearly 500 'titles' by my count (not counting different seasons/spinoffs of the same franchise separately) in the past decade, But I can't imagine ever hitting 1000. There aren't many older series left that I have any interest in finding, and only a handful of shows per season are worth watching to complete IMHO.

list: https://pastebin.com/Dhhy1Kbx

Lain is still unrivaled

>>161128716
>watch 1000 shows
>didnt pay full attention
It's implied that you did.
>>161128716
>but if it's all trash
You come to conclusion that anime is trash long before you reach the 1000th.

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I am almost 1/5 of the way there

got a total of 375 entries, 331 finished

>>161129335
>being so autistic he keeps an txt file because he doesn't want to use MAL because of le /a/ MAL meme xD

>>161129623
>le
>XD
Don't do that.

>>161129644
>m-muh MAL boogieman

>>161129623
more like I don't want to spend 10 hours converting my entire txt file to a MAL listing, selecting all the films and sequel series associated with the big franchises

>>161129735
Should've used MAL from the start then

or just code a script that does it automatically

>>161128208
Honestly, if you ask me what Natsuiro Kiseki or Ano Natsu De Matteru were about I'd have a hard time answering.

>>161128022
That's stupid.

>these autists exist
https://myanimelist.net/profile/DateYutaka

I broke 1k last year. Friendly reminder if you have less than 300 completed you are not permitted to post on /a/ for any reason. Another reminder that it takes less than 2 hours a night to complete literally every show airing each season.

I have 694 titles on my mal list, with something like 505 of them being tv. Considering i watch anime for about 10 years(since i got internet in my shithole), i need about 4 more years to reach 1000.

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I have completed about 600 (of which about 70 dropped) and I feel like I've seen basically every anime worth watching not counting new shows coming out.

>>161128416
>>161128573
Depends on the show. I can totally understand something with simple dialogue but I mostly do only watch R rated anime. Something like Uninhabited Planet Survive is PG and I can fully follow

>>161129451
Why do you keep changing the color scheme?

>>161130014
How the fuck would he even know what the first 1000th he watched were? Does he mean added to his completed list? It's funny he'll still never catch up to spacecowboy.

>>161130415
Why wouldn't he know?

>>161130014
That's clearly fake though

Now remove all those one episode specials/ovas/hentai from your 1000 completed

>>161129823
Natsuiro was great and simple enough to remember.

>>161130378
>Why do you keep changing the color scheme?
So people who filtered the old one will still see it.

>>161130499
Weird that he has over 20k forum posts too though so I think some of it is legit

he also has comments on various anime series he added

>>161129823
>Ano Natsu De Matteru
The girl that is a secret agent is an actual secret agent because Key did it but more intelligently. There's also rocketlaunchers and a chase scene

>Natsuiro Kiseki
The show I dropped halfway through because it's so generic. They go up into the air by holding hands in the first episode. Then they do it a couple of more times. There's this one scene where they are basically fucking eachother.

Seriously not hard.

>>161130499

Makes sense if he's Japanese and older. Some of the shit on there are minor kids films from the early 80s. Even if you had the means to watch that you probably still wouldn't.

>>161128208

That's easy to do even if you only pick a handful of seasonal shows. I tend to only remember shows I found exceptional. The problem is very few shows are exceptional. Even the ones I did enjoy I have trouble recollecting in any great detail.

>>161130584
20k forum posts is nothing though. Comparing to how much I post on 4chan that is.

I just don't think he has dropped zero shows. I think he might have started that many shows but I sincerely doubt he doesn't drop shit.

>>161130623
He's not a native.
"watching anime for years has helped me to pick up various vocabulary"

>>161130584
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if he's legit autistic and likes adding a bunch of stuff pretending he watched it.

He writes like someone with mental disabilities too.

>>161130732
>He writes like someone with mental disabilities too.
Any examples?

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>>161130762

>>161130803
That's the joke though. It's relevant to the thread. Check his other posts

>>161130499
I mean do you remember the order you watched shows? If he has that many completed there is no way he just remembered the exact order he watched shows. I broke 1000 and I don't even remember the order of the last 100 I watched.

>>161130732

An autist never needs to lie about what anime they've watched. They watch them all.

>>161130843
kill yourself

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>>161130869
I keep a diary so yes.

>>161130843
Lurk for 2 years before posting and read >>161130084. There are no problems with using Taiga, but if you use the forums or write reviews you're cancer.

>>161130881
What kind of bullshit science is that?

>>161130843
Don't rate things ironically. It's not unique or clever. Rate things only for your own personal opinion and recommendations. Use your own scale. MAL is fine if you ignore the community. Not sure why your post got deleted.

>>161130671
>"watching anime for years has helped me to pick up various vocabulary"
Where? That sentence makes way too much sense to be him.

>>161130977
his second comment.

>>161130977
>>161131019
Oh nvm. All his posts have trashy grammar. I quoted the wrong guy.

>>161130084
>reminder that it takes less than 2 hours a night to complete literally every show airing each season.
Since when did the path to becoming a connoisseur consist of consuming as much shit as you can?

>>161130732
>he's a commie retard

No wonder

>>161131058
Quantity over quality, what do you expect from retards?

>>161131058
it isn't saying you have to consume everything, people complain they "don't have time" but you can literally consume an entire season weekly by watching it less than 2 hours a night and still have time to watch backlog.

>>161131277
>it isn't saying you have to consume everything
>but you can literally consume an entire season

>you don't have to watch everything under the sun but why wouldn't you
Gee, I fucking wonder. Watching just to say you've seen an entire season is pointless.

>>161131455
literally what are you talking about? all the post said was it's possible and there is no excuse to be under 300 anime completed

>>161130972
>Rate things only for your own personal opinion.
I remember I used to score OPM and Tokyo Ghoul very high only because my friends won't stop talking about how good those two series were and I probably did it to gain apprecation.

>Not sure why your post got deleted.
Sensible to bullying. I checked >>161130084 reply saying that I needed to watch at least 300 to post here, so I inmediatly deleted it knowing that I will get hate.

>>161131277
>don't have time
But this is pretty valid for most people. Anime isn't the only thing out there.

>>161131530
I'm arguing that watching anime just to be over some arbitrary number is a waste of time and doesn't help you understand the medium any more than leaving something on in the background does. If you're watching it just to say you completed it, what's the point?

>>161131530
Well, good for those who have nothing to do i guess.
I have to give my best at uni every day and divide the remaining time between doing extra research outside class, vidya, visual/light novels, manga, anime so unfortunately i barely managed to watch around 200 shows. Forgive me for being unworthy, senpai.

>>161131277
When I come home from work, I really can't be arsed watching anime. I just cook my dinner and wash the pots.

>>161132086
then stop posting and lurk moar

>>161131993
the problem is people being otacool faggots that shit up /a/ and pretend to watch anime rather than actually watch it.
>>161132012
i'm on the same side as you, you shouldn't watch it just to complete it. but how can you say someone with less than 300 completed, when 50+ shows air each season, in a medium that has been popular for like 40+ years have any understanding of the medium? if you want to just discuss konosuba because you saw it on twitter and don't watch anime other than that and naruto, they should be on /r/anime and not /a/.
>>161132086
i've been seriously lifting for 8 years, work, study, and still have time to watch 30+ shows a season. this "you have nothing else to do" is an excuse for you not making time to do it.
>>161132121
i watch anime when i go to sleep and an occasional episode while eating. usually never during the day.

>>161132190
>otacool
The preferred term is "ironic weebs"

>>161131277
>2 hours a night
Anon, the only ones with that sort of time are mostly underage school students or NEETs, and surely /a/ couldn't be mostly made up by underaged school students and NEETs.

>>161132281
>surely /a/ couldn't be mostly made up by underaged school students and NEETs.
where the fuck do you think you're?

>>161132281
i just go to bed before i'm tired, or if i'm tired i fall asleep after an episode or 2. it isn't strict timing, just go to bed earlier. go to bed an hour earlier.

>>161132272
The correct term is "faggot"

>>161132789
No. Faggot refers to something differently.

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>you must watch 1000 anime before posting on /a/
>you must play 1000 video games before posting on /v/
>you must vote in 1000 elections before you can post on /pol/
>you must suck 1000 penises before you can post on /lgbt/

>>161132974
false equivalence. You're free to post on /v/ and /pol/ because it's just a place for little children such as yourself to hang out.

I'm around 500 but have been watching anime for well over a decade. Honestly for the most part I believe anime sucks to get any deep meaning or increase your mental capacity. I just watch anime for the girls. Seriously. Every now and then you'll get that one show that is well done and thought provoking, or just generally entertaining.

How can the industry be any good though when now it's just adaptions to promote the source and then they move on to the next? Usually the adaption sucks and usually the source sucked to begin with.

If something tries to be anime original it will more than likely flop because Japanese directors seem to be clueless where they want to go with something.

Anime is just mindless entertainment for me, but I still enjoy it. Fuck 2x speed watchers and people trying to get anime "stats". I usually drop half the shows I'm watching if I don't generally enjoy it.

>>161132974
>you must play 1000 videogames to post on /v/
Fuck, I wish someone there had ever said that.

So a 12 episodes anime is like 4 hours.
4*300 = 1200 hours
2 hours a day it would take you 600 days, around 1.82 years.
Accounting for different rythms variating from person to person it could take anywhere from 1.82 to 3.64 and even 5.26 years.
Arbitrarily assuming a given age to start, say, 16, at the most by the time you are 22 you should have watched 300 12 episoded anime.
Of course, this arrange is only about variety and nothing else. Accounting for the various possible lengths of different anime the required time can easily multiply, even grow exponentially.
Take dragon ball for example. First season + Z totals 444 episodes counting as only 1 watched anime, if you spent that same time watching anime of 12 episodes you could have watched 37 different ones.
Considering that most people aren't machines that only shit, eat and watch anime, and also the fact that the more you have seen the less desire you have to watch more, only a small group of people could reach the proposed amount before growing up and abandoning their hobby.

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>>161132974
>you only need to suck a girl's dick for your friends to make fun of you and never let it go
LIFE ISN'T FAIR

>>161133242
>girl's dick
You're confused

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>>161128022
/a/'s powerlevel is unsurprisingly low.
>>161129084
My friends are working at Kyoani, Shaft, Deen and JC Staff. I watch unreleased anime in the beta stage.

>>161133126
Most of the people that like anime started over a decade ago. Only faggots got into anime in the last 7 years. If you're under 300, which is a very low amount of people that watch anime, you're playing catch up.

>>161132190
>but how can you say someone with less than 300 completed, when 50+ shows air each season, in a medium that has been popular for like 40+ years have any understanding of the medium?
>how do statistics and sample sizes work

>>161133308
You're far too optimistic. 300 is probably 1-2 standard deviations above the mean

>>161133126
>most people aren't machines that only shit, eat and watch anime
?!

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>>161133356
>optimistic
I've just lurked longer than most of you newfags have been watching anime. 300 is the bare minimum. If you have less than that you're obviously new to anime and shouldn't be posting on /a/, you should be lurking and watching anime or fucking off to /r/anime or MAL if you want to blog about how you pretend to like anime.

468 shows and counting. i still feel like a little babby that shouldn't be allowed to post here.

>>161133426
If you had lurked so much you wouldn't be acting as if 4chan was some sort of high culture club for anime scholars.

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i've seen less than a dozen anime but the impression i get from this type of obsessive character is that he's a daft weirdo and isn't taken seriously

>>161133880
>you wouldn't be acting as if 4chan was some sort of high culture club for anime scholars
Except it always was the best place to discuss anime and /a/ culture was far better than the alternatives. The concept of lurk more didn't die, newfags should fuck off.

>>161133292
Thanks for beta testing

>>161133426
Calm down hotshot, I'm not saying it's a good thing but most people are probably at 100-200

I've been watching anime for over a decade and have finished less than 100 shows. But I've dropped over 500. If the first episode is anything less than amazing, it goes in the trash.

>>161128022
Quarter of the way there.

>>161134087
>most people
most crossboarders, you mean

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>>161128208
>ACTUALLY
>ACTIVELY
>watching anime

are you fucking serious? cartoons are meant to be background ambience on my second screen while i shitpost about them on my mongolian parchment scrolls

nigga please

I wish people would report their completion numbers accurately instead of counting every season, extra episode and BD special.

>>161134455
But then I wouldn't pass the 200 mark.

>>161134087
>most people
those cancerous faggots should not be on /a/. how is that so hard for you to understand?

>>161128022
I'll have you all know that I'm an anime savant and I have decades of experience in t he field of chinese cartoons. I only torrent my enemy because I'm not a paesant and I d o not use Vee eL See because I used GOD-tier eM Pee See. I only download RAW rips because I'm completely fluent and don't need translations. My waifu is an extremely kawaii pure maiden, unlike yours. I'm also moderator on /a/.

Goodbye and as we say - your tastes are bad and you're waifu's a shit. Top kek.

Man, who cares? I'm just gonna pretend that I've watched 2000 anime shows, and nobody can prove otherwise.

>>161129623
I used to have a MAL account but now I have a text file. Primary reason is that like him I don't count everything, and another is that I can order the list better than MAL.

I've reached 500 recently and honestly I can't imagine getting to 700 without many years worth of seasonal anime. I think my last 10/10 was in 2013 (not year of production) and I don't feel like lowering my standards just for the sake of epeen.

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I rarely post and discuss anything, just lurk occasionally.

Last anime made me want to talk about it was SSY back in '02. Nothing remotely worth in-depth conversation since.

>>161135277
What about pripri?

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>>161128022
>being proud of consuming a large amount of media
>being proud about having no life

>>161133904
>i've seen less than a dozen anime
Goddamn why are you even on this board?

>>161135663
You say that like most people here have seen much anime.

>>161128208
I watched Index/Railgun when they aired, which for the first season was almost a decade ago.

Not having rewatched any of it, I'd struggle to recall any real details of the plot or any of the minor character's names.
I could give you an show overview or talk about some of the main cast, tell you whether I liked it and why/why not, but that's probably about it.

>>161135714
Well, I'd hazard a guess most people here have seen at least twenty or so series. But still, it's better to watch the best anime than watch trash for the sake of completion.

>>161129623
>creating a list at all

>>161135796
I don't remember a whole lot about Railgun either, or at least not as much as I'd like. I worry about forgetting anime I've seen, but there's not time to rewatch a lot of things. I think the most recent thing I rewatched was Kemono Friends.

>>161135931
It's not good to rely on others to spoonfeed you the "best" anime and tell you what's "trash."

>>161136051
True but when I started watching anime I watched high rated series first to get me into it. If you just watch seasonal anime at the start, 90 percent of it will be trash and could put you off right away.

>>161128022
I don't have a count, but I've been at this for like 20 years so I probably passed 1000 a long time ago.

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>>161128022
Been downloading since around 2001 or so. Finally set up a small RAID (11TB Drobo that goes up to 16TB plus extra space if I fill the last slot), and have been copying old anime to it from my current big drive.

Just from what I have online, I can count over 150 series that I have watched at least a full season of. I have at least a vague memory of what most of them are about, even if they put me to sleep or I hated them. And I'm not even counting movies or incompletely watched shows, that would add at least a dozen more that I still want to finish, at least two of them raw with no subs.

I still have a bunch of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs I burned after watching stuff back in the early years when 2GB was a big drive. Gonna go dig up those old discs over the next week or two and start loading them in. Hopefully those Imation discs were as good as they seemed. Some of the no-name discs actually had visible rot after just a few months.

>>161136208
>90 percent of it will be trash
It's because of people like you that the best thing that could happen to an anime neophyte is having no contact with the community and just watching whatever they feel like.

>>161134570
The original comment was about "most people that watch anime", not about /a/. Stop sperging out and read the fucking comment, most people that would say they watch anime have absolutely not seen 300.

All this time wasted talking about meta bullshit and you could have been watching anime instead.

>>161136496
>most people that would say they watch anime have absolutely not seen 300
Who cares about the opinions of normalfags or what they do? If you are on this board you need 300 completed or you can fuck off.

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>>161136429
>not knowing Sturgeon's Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

>>161136429
Why? I'm not saying that people shouldn't watch what they want, but obviously most people will be drawn to popular, well known and iconic series. If you start anime by watching seasonal stuff and never go back to watch older anime, not only would you miss out on a lot of golden shows, but you would experience the slog of seasonal anime as your first experience.

One of my friends got into anime via Crunchyrole and ended up hating it and not liking anything until I suggested some older series, and now he actually enjoys anime.

>>161136429
To be fair mate, most anime, and most media in general is trash. You have to learn how to wade through it to get to good shit.

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The best thing about being an oldfag anime fan is having watched older anime when it was new.

>>161128416
>A question to people who have watched 1000 shows: How well can you understand Japanese? To me it still sounds like nonsense.
I've watched around that many over about 20 years and I haven't learned anything past a few basic terms.
I like to think of it as a defense mechanism since without a foreign language and subtitles, it's easier to notice that I'm watching stupid cartoons.
But that's probably just an optimistic answer and the truth is more that I'm lazy, old, and unmotivated.

>>161130014
https://myanimelist.net/profile/spacecowboy

>>161136734
More like Sturgeon's Meme. It has no basis in reality.

>>161136737
It doesn't say anywhere that you have to start with "seasonal" anime and that you can never go back to older anime. If you think watching anime is a slog then maybe anime isn't for you.

>>161136776
You just say that because you don't like anime, and this idea that you have to "wade through" things is complete nonsense.

>>161136840
Yeah, /a/ was a shitty place back then too. Tons of tripfags, no catalog either so you have 40% haruhi threads because newfags such as yourself thought it was funny to keep spamming just how much you cared about the only anime you watch.

>>161136892
>It has no basis in reality.
Name a single hobby where 90% of it isn't shit. The 10k hour rule is very real.

>>161136884
>dropped 1
I refuse these people exist

>>161136939
>Name a single hobby where 90% of it isn't shit.
Probably everything. Because guess what: Sturgeon's Law is not a law just because it has law in the name.

>>161136892
How else would one get into anime? I don't get why you are being so butthurt about my suggestion to newbies to watch highly rated series first. Should people just click on random shit until they find something they like? Why? Why not look through some more well known titles first. It is more likely someone will enjoy them, and it serves as a better initiation into the community.

I never said that watching anime itself is a slog, but finding good anime can be hard. There are tons of anime made each year, and many years most of this anime is full of moeshit and power fantasies pandering to otakus with absolutely no taste who will watch any shit to fill their worthless lives. I think you will find it is actually people like YOU with no standards for your anime that are the cancer ruining anime.

>>161136972
I have over 1k and my dropped list is about 10. Most of the time I go back and watch what I dropped.

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>>161137051
>the community
>moeshit
You can stop now, /v/

>>161137071
Having little to no dropped shows is a good sign you're just doing it to increase your number.

>>161136892
What are you talking about?

It takes a considerable amount of skill, talent and effort to make something good. These three things are not easy to achieve so it makes complete sense that most people do not create something good. It's pretty basic logic anon.

>>161137051
>moeshit
>power fantasies
>pandering to otakus
>taste
>cancer ruining anime
You are a fucking retard subhuman scumfuck and everything that is wrong with the Western "anime community." This is exactly why nobody should ever be "initiated into the community" if they plan on actually enjoying anime.

>>161137047
Fuck off to >>>/wsr/, eslshitter.

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>>161136884
HOLY HELL

>>161137100
No it isn't. You start running out of shows and have to watch shows at random or try some shit again. There are plenty of series I've gone back to for just 1 character even if they only show up for an episode.

>>161137159
Your mistake is thinking that things are divided into "good" and "trash." Most things are somewhere in the neighborhood of ok, decent, average, mediocre, decent, pretty good.

>>161137172
Nice post anon, pity it had no actual arguments. You just get back to autistically cataloging every show you watch and never dropping anything. Because to be an anime fan you absolutely HAVE to enjoy EVERY SINGLE ANIME otherwise you can't be an anime fan, right?

Oh wait no, that just makes you a pathetic, no life weeb.

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>>161137274
>week
You can really stop now /v/

There's no point in watching 1000 shows if you can't recall what even happens in the first few episodes let alone actually important things like themes or plot details and character developments. A monkey could watch 1000 shows, its not a hard feat. Actually being able to say something meaningful about what you watched is far more important that just boasting numbers.

>>161137274
>pity it had no actual arguments
As if you had any, dumbfuck.

>Because to be an anime fan you absolutely HAVE to enjoy EVERY SINGLE ANIME otherwise you can't be an anime fan, right?
Strawman retard nonsense.

>pathetic no life weeb
Holy fucking shit, how much of a stereotypical """""""""""""""""""""""anime fan""""""""""""""" can someone be?

>>161137220
>no it isn't
yes it is. It also means your opinion isn't valid as you like shit. Sorry to drop the truth on you.

>>161128416
I eventually learned Japanese but not through anime.

>>161137293
I have no problem with people knowing I like anime, but watching every single show to completion even if you hate it is just pointless. And it is weeby to like everything Japanese and never criticize anything.

>>161137445
Reciting discredited memes is not criticism, it's just retarded.

>>161137004
Moreover it seems to have been coined by a science fiction author. talk about ironic

>>161137324
Go on then anon, tell me how a newbie should start watching anime. And before you say, "just watch what you like", keep in mind a newbie can't actually know this because- shocker- they haven't developed a taste yet or even know where to start.

>>161136892
> If you think watching anime is a slog then maybe anime isn't for you

Oh fuck off with that. If you have sat through and watched every episode of Naruto then you are either retarded or have no taste. Stop acting like watching things that are bad is somehow worthy of praise, you sound like one of those "trainwreck" memers

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>>161130903
post excerpt

Anyone who has watched over 50 animes should kill themselves asap. What a waste

>>161137556
literally just tracking what I watched when. You can imagine what it looks like. Some keynotes on what I liked, questions I have about plot points I write down during watching then cross out as they get answered, reasons I dropped a show. That type of stuff.

>>161137512
There are any number of ways people have gotten into anime. There is not and does not need to be any system to it.

>>161137543
I have no idea how this relates to what I said.

I watch five shows per season and marathon a single-cour series from my backlog every weekend. That amounts to 70 series per year. If I did this for ten years I would still only have seen 700 series.

>>161137651
You were implying that if someone thinks watching through an anime is a slog then that means they hate all anime

>>161137762
If seasonal anime, i.e. all television anime, is a "slog," then yeah that's a pretty good indication you are not into anime.

>>161137342
you and every retarded newfag using this excuse should kill yourselves.
>it's a-all bad that is why i don't have the required completed to post on /a/!
you can watch shit shows and still enjoy them, that doesn't make them objectively good shows. lurk for 2 years before posting

I hate anime in general and just scroll down the index everyday. Is this okay?

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>>161128022
I've known several people who've watched 1000+ shows and had complete shit taste (only likes shounen, etc). Having a solid grounding in each genre and an understanding of the most influential shows is far more important than raw numbers.

Also, much like >>161128208 hinted at, the sort of people who gobble down lots of shows in some sort of pathetic attempt at validation from the anime community generally watch at double speed and/or don't pay attention at all. I pick up 10+ shows a season and can remember details from pretty much every show I've seen, because if something is boring me I just drop it like a non-autistic human being.

>>161137596
I used to do this with notepad but I lost the HDD with it and started using Taiga. I can't imagine having a physical notebook with 1k entries.

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Do you spend more time watching anime, or discussing anime?

>>161137651
>I have no idea how this relates to what I said.
What it means is that when someone says "finding good series is a slog because there are many bad series" doesn't mean they hate anime, it might just mean they are picky, or unlucky enough to find lots of bad series.

>If seasonal anime, i.e. all television anime, is a "slog," then yeah that's a pretty good indication you are not into anime.
I generally find around two shows a season that I truly enjoy, about two I hate, and most of them are too "meh" for me to bother, and I don't watch them unless they are at least good. Mediocrity isn't fun.

>>161137803
Nice strawman. 100% predicted it would devolve into this. Only further proving my point. Once you've got something to say that I believe truly comes out of your own instead of being something you say without fully understanding the meaning it will give me something I can respond to.

>>161137845
you can use notepad.

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>>161128022
I'm about 400 short.

I'll still talk shit regardless

Isn't anime for kids?

>>161137886
Watching anime. /a/ doesn't discuss anime. It's just petty squabbling over inane bullshit and looking for more fap material all the way down the catalog.

>>161137928
Not all animals are cows captain kirk.

>>161138088
hello? you there bud?

>>161137971
I wish I could have actual proper discussion on /a/. I truly do. I guess it has something to do with people simply not respecting each-other enough as they would in real life. The anonymity and the fast-pace just makes it impossible.

>>161137971
Watching anime is unnecessary. You just need to memorize some key phrases and repeat them all the time, like "everything is now just otaku-pandering moeshit cashgrabs, what the fuck happened?" This communicates that you are an informed and experienced anime watcher with excellent taste, and saves you the grueling work of having to actually waste your time watching anything.

>>161128022
People that have watched over 1000 shouldn't be allowed to speak. There literally aren't enough good anime to even come close to that amount. Its like saying you have to be morbidly obese in order to talk about food. Morbidly obese people have horrible taste in food.

>>161138229
>food analogy
Find me one that works. 1000 total shows (includes both dropped and completed) is totally possible.

>>161138229
Yes let's all just watch only the anime that the "community" deems "good."

>>161138349
If you have liked 1000 anime to the point of completing them, you have shit taste my dude. There are not 1000 good anime in existence.

>>161133292
>strawpoll

Well, apparently my MAL list has 599 completed shows and I haven't updated in at least two years, so probably closer to 700 at this point. Getting there.

>>161138453
I complete shows I find interesting enough to continue watching. That doesn't mean they're good or that I find them good.

>>161128208
How do you know those are the same people when posting on an anonymous imageboard?

>>161138453
Maybe some people aren't dumbfuck kids like you flaunting their retarded "taste," and want to see things for the sake of seeing them and developing a more thorough understanding of anime.

The "shit taste" meme is cancer on steroids.

>>161138348
1000 anime for the majority of /a/, no. Anime hasn't been relevant or even existed long enough to warrant 1000 anime in 2017. If anime continues in future decades at the rate that it is progressing, absolutely.

>>161138715
>anime hasn't been relevant enough
>muh majoirty
I literally do not give a flying fuck about your arbitrary standards. A total of 1000 shows counting both dropped and completed is totally possible.

>>161138759
Cool blog retard

>>161138715
Most people don't have over 1k but anime has been around long enough that people should at least be over 300 completed easily. Unless you only got into anime in recent years which is coincidentally the same time it blew up with normalfags, which probably makes you a normalfag.

>>161138795
If you don't have anything to say don't say anything.

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>>161138795

Are there even 1000 animes? That's crazy. How much bullshit can Japs even write about? Most of their culture and society is encapsulated in just a handful of animes / mangas, and the rest are all variants.

>>161138578
I guess if they are interesting then fine, but don't watch things you find boring for the sake of it.
>>161138607
>and want to see things for the sake of seeing them and developing a more thorough understanding of anime.
>want to see things for the sake of seeing them
Yeah, you're retarded.

>>161138834
Anime doesn't need to be about japanese culture. Not even about ficitonal ones.

>>161138845
No, you are retarded. Do you think people who are serious about film only watch stuff that's already widely accepted to be good?

>>161138834
post your mal big boy

>>161138882
I do think those don't watch children's movies just because people tell them they're good though.

>>161138834
By that standard there also shouldn't be a thousand American movies or books.

>>161138915
What do children's movies have to do with anything?

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>>161136358
>I still have a bunch of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs I burned
Dug up a few spindles. Wow, I'm reading CD-R that were burned back in 2001. Imation fuck yeah.

I'm not even close. That's why I can only shitpost.

>>161138834
>animes
>mangas
Lurk for 2 years before posting.

>>161139029
>That's why I can only shitpost.
And no one's going to stop you. God Bless 4chan.

>>161138882
When were we talking about "serious" watchers? Last I checked I was talking about newbies and relatively new people. Do you think that newbie film watchers should view shit like "The Room" as their first experience? No, they should watch critically or audience acclaimed things before they start to hate film.

And why be a "serious" anime watcher anyway? It doesn't sound like much fun to watch things "for the sake of it". I thought anime was supposed to be an entertaining hobby, not a militaristic check list.

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>>161138990
definitely Nichijou

>>161139060
>When were we talking about "serious" watchers?
Right here: >>161138607

>Last I checked I was talking about newbies and relatively new people.
Newbies have not watched a thousand anime.

>And why be a "serious" anime watcher anyway? It doesn't sound like much fun to watch things "for the sake of it". I thought anime was supposed to be an entertaining hobby, not a militaristic check list.
You are a fucking moron.

>>161138990
3x3s are shit. I don't care that they're /a/ culture

Does watching a 6 episode season of 2:00 long episodes count as one "show"?

>>161139292
Yes.

>>161139292
It certainly does. However if you're trying to min max your anime stats you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

>>161139292
> 2:00 long episodes
What show does this?

>>161139372
Those five minute shorts with OPs and EDs.

>>161139423
oh I read that as 2 hours. My bad.

>>161139292
it does but your 300 minimum can't be primarily movies/ova/shorts. there are commercials and music videos and shit you can complete that count as a whole series on mal, but that doesn't mean you've complete 300 series.

>>161139292
Yes, and don't let autists tell you that you're not supposed to, or that you're just trying to increase your watch-count.

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>>161128022
No, give me a decade or so

>>161138882
>Do you think people who are serious about film only watch stuff that's already widely accepted to be good?
No, but what about personal taste? The way you are talking it is like you are saying having taste is a bad thing. I kind of get watching bad or mediocre anime if you enjoy analyzing it, but if you are only continuing a series so you can add it to some list, I just think that is the wrong reason to watch anime.

You need a reason to watch a show- be it enjoying it, analyzing it, critiquing it, wanting to see how bad/ good a series is etc. Watching a ton of shows just to have watched them seems pointless to me.

lets find out http://www.strawpoll.me/13708182

>/fit/
>post body
>/a/
>post MAL count
this is great, everyone's wrong and I get shitposting material

>>161139566
Yes, your epic "shit taste" meme is a bad thing.

>>161139573
This poll doesn't work because people have different ways of counting.

>>161129735
It doesn't take that long especially since you got all the shows names

there is a quick add feature as well on MAL made for the likes of you

>>161139040
I've been on the site since 2008. Suck my dick faggot.

>>161139622
Ok dude, nice response. I'm not even calling anybody's taste shit. I'm saying that most people have SOME kind of taste. It has nothing to do with general opinion, but personal opinion. You've never dropped a series before? You must have at least considered it.

>>161139717
>You've never dropped a series before?
When did I say or imply I haven't?

9 get check em

>>161138597
Writing style cues. There's actually software to detect it automatically these days.

>>161139702
You hearing about 4chan in 2008 and actively lurking since then are very different, cancer.

>>161139731
Because I keep asking what motivates you to watch a series if you don't like it and you keep saying I'm an idiot for having my own tastes in shows. You are putting words in my mouth- not once have I called anyone's taste shit in this thread. I don't care what people like, or what they get out of anime, but it confuses me that people watch things they don't enjoy purely to be able to say they have seen it.

>>161139825
You're an idiot for dismissing the concept of taking anime seriously and watching some things for reasons other than quality.

>>161139868
I'm going to act just as retarded as you for fun.
>he watches anime *solely* for the resolution! what a faggot!

>>161139915
What the hell are you talking about?

>>161139754
Nah, in all the time I posted here I can at most recognize like 5 or so people, I don't know about generals but even then that's a small number and I could be mistaken.

>>161139825
You're putting words in people's mouth by assuming that they're only watching shows to pad their watch-count. It's the same shit.

>>161139929
>quality
>resolution
>implying you can only understand one meaning of the word
>but you didn't even manage to get that

>>161139993
What the fuck is going on here?

>>161139791
Hahahahahahha so funny.

No, seriously, I've been here for a decade almost, and if it offends you that much that people who have been here longer than you don't watch anime all the fucking time and don't realize that le precious Nihon has shit out more than 1000 animoos then you should probably work on preparing a nice noose to hang your pathetic self with. You FUCK.

I've seen less than ten animes. Does that fucking trigger you?

That's some weak bait.

>>161140013
>reddit spacing
>trigger
>animes
>mangas
Kill yourself.

>>161140086
>reddit spacing
Please end your life. They are called paragraphs.

>>161140086
I had to use "reddit spacing" for editing wikis, blackboard assignments, forum posts, etc. The habit stuck.

>>161129335
>unrivaled
Paranoia Agent.

>>161140148
>ellipses
>animes
>>>/wsr/
>>161140113
>Hahahahahahha so funny.
How is this a paragraph, you unironic redditor? Kill yourself.

>>161140387
How the fuck am I a redditor, you dumb fucking piece of shit?

>>161140416
>can't recognize reddit spacing
>defending that blatant newfag typing like a faggot and randomly capitalizing words mid sentence
you should be lurking and not posting

>>161140447
There is no such thing as reddit spacing you fucking newfag tryhard moron.

>>161140148
>...
>animes
Nigger.

>>161140500
Abuse of double spacing now is called reddit spacing because it's annoying as fuck and apparently people on reddit use it, seriously lurk the fuck more even if your spacing is correct.

>>161140500
He literally just used it in that post off the very first line, you fucking mongoloid. Lurk more.

>>161140591
Lurk more newfag moron.

>>161140604
Lurk more newfag moron.

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why are you people talking about reddit?

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>>161140447
>reddit spacing is new

>>161140686
These are actual paragraphs though. Unlike your post.

>>161140686
Giving it a title is a recent thing. People used "lol" and "rofl" and shit 10 years ago, we don't anymore. Board culture moves on, lurk more retard. Most of those are actual paragraphs, which isn't even the definition of reddit spacing.
>>161140706
>need to learn that you'll never get more users on your website if you're spewing hatred toward people like me who come from other sites.
Nobody on /a/ wants them. Fuck off to your containment website or lurk for 2 years before posting.

Watching 1000 shit shows is just bad taste. How are you with the classics? Did you watch all the highly rated shows from the 70s and 80s?

>>161140686
Not that anon, but there's nothing wrong with spacing out paragraphs like that, since that's how writing works. It makes it easier for the reader to absorb and process the information they are seeing. The problem is when people type out one or two sentences then add double spacing for absolutely no fucking reason. They then repeat this shit multiple fucking times, making their post even more irritating to read. This phenomenon is what people refer to as "reddit spacing", and it happens far too often.

>>161140706
it feels a little weird, you should only continue writting without the enter after every point.

>>161140807
>muh taste
Fuck off.

>>161140810
Reddit spacing is not a real thing you newfag moron.

You need to have seen at least 300 anime to be able to post on /a/. It doesn't even matter if you don't watch seasonals, there are easily 500 essential anime that every anime fan must have seen to have a worthy opinion.

>>161140807
>bad taste
I did watch all of them. A lot of us have been watching anime for many years before you started.

>>161131687
You will get hate for acting like a retard, too.

>>161140888
Every TV anime is seasonal. And no, there isn't 500 essential anime everyone needs to have seen.

>>161140878
it is a real thing you blind faggot, that post originally was using it. the faggot is obviously new and hasn't lurked enough to be posting on /a/ because he would know not to say fucking "animes" here. seriously fucking kill yourself

>>161140810

Posters complaining about 'Reddit spacing' is one of the surest signs they confidently go through life not having a clue what they're talking about. It's also a tip-off that they're a possible redditor themselves.

Reddit uses Markdown for formatting, which means that you *must* double space between two paragraphs or they will be merged into one. So redditors, being retarded, assume that anyone who uses double spacing for any reason is a fellow redditor. When questioned, they cannot explain themselves because they do not even know what Markdown is; they think of it as "reddit formatting". This is how they think; anything they have seen on reddit, they assume must have come from there.

I don't know which is worse, the redditors who hypocritically point this out or their newfag sycophants trying to fit in.

>>161132272
What you prefer up your butt is your business.

>>161140935
It is not a real thing, newfag moron. Kill yourself.

>>161140921
You're probably some pussy who watches anime from reddit lists

>>161140943
>is one of the surest signs they confidently go through life not having a clue what they're talking about
What the actual fuck are you even babbling about? Stop posting, you are just typing to type and your posts have zero substance.

>>161140975
You are probably projecting. Kill yourself you piece of shit.

>>161140807
I don't watch any Miyazaki/Ghibli/Toei shit regardless of what 'adults' praise them to be. I'm not 5 years old anymore.

>>161140921
There are hundreds at least that are mentioned often enough on /a/ to warrant you watching the show. Your problem is you haven't been lurking long enough or watching anime long enough so you try to justify having 150 completed. Accept you're a newfag and lurk and watch anime rather than posting.

>>161141026
>I'm not 5 years old anymore.
Yeah, you're 15 instead. What a fucking accomplishment.

>>161141050
Being mentioned often on /a/ does not make something essential, and you are the one who hasn't lurked enough or seen enough anime you fucking newfag piece of fucking shit.

>>161140878
>newfag
Projecting. I said that people refer to it as "reddit spacing", you tryhard. Not that it's real. You're the one who's been sperging out about whether it's real or not. I simply describe what I see.

>>161140943
Projecting.

>>161141060
I'm not 15 either. But age has little to do with being an 'adult' anon. I can safely claim the thing I claimed regarding adults in the previous comment.

>>161141114
You are projecting, newfag. Reddit spacing doesn't exist. Fuck off.

>>161141140
>I'm not 15 either.
So you're even younger.

>>161141151
>Fuck off.
You first.

>>161141219
Fuck off.

>>161141188
You're the only childish person in this conversation and you've said nothing so far in both your replies to me. If you're not going to put any effort in your posts don't expect people to.

There are so many obvious summerfags in this thread I don't know how it hasn't been pruned yet.
>>161141151
>>161141102
>>161140995
>>161140943
>>161140965
>>161140878
>>161140706
>>161140148
>>161140500
How are these 3 fucking retards still here?

>>161141250
Fuck off you fucking child.

>>161141256
How are you still here? Fuck off summerfag.

Compelling arguments I'm seeing here.

I regard individual seasons (whether they be 10 episodes or 52), as well as films and OVAs of over 40 minutes as single anime for the purpose of counting.
Is this acceptable?

>>161141364
If each of those count as 1 completed yeah that is how you're supposed to do it.

>>161141364
Anything regardless of runtime counts in my book. It's all about consuming a variety to get a good idea of what constitutes a good story.

>>161138132
>I wish I could have actual proper discussion on /a/.
Then learn the lingo, faggot.

>>161141530
As you can see in my post nothing relating to either complaining about the lingo or a misinterpretation of it. I believe I've already laid out my conclusions perfectly fine. If you want to respond to the contents of my post next time I would appreciate that.

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Yes

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>>161138826

>>161138826
You should kill yourself

>>161141256
The same reason >>161139687, >>161141024, >>161138434 and all the other garbage posts still exist, because mods are dead.

>>161136358
>Drobo
You should have just dumped a linux on an old box and filled it up w/ HDDs.

>>161139666
It doesn't work because people have dynamic IP and the time to dick w/ things.

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I bet the people who have less than 1000 down their anime logs are white.

>>161141725
Mods aren't dead, they're just reprehensible newfaggots themselves.

>>161140686
Those are paragraphs on a long post, see >>161140706 for shitty annoying double spacing.

>>161140943
>Reddit uses Markdown for formatting
Wow, I knew Reddit was cancer, but I didn't know it was made of cancer too.

>>161140943
　　　I do it because 4chan eats tab characters.

>>161141917
Evidently not

>>161141750
>Drobo
I got it used (with no drives) for 20 bucks. I didn't even realize what it was for months. I'm using it over Firewire 800, and not with MemeSoft Windows. I don't know why anyone would unironically use USB 2.x with it.

>>161140796
Pretty sure the second person was being sarcastic.

>>161141978
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　It does. Just try it.

>>161128022
Completed? Only ~700.
I had watched at least 3 eps of 1,500 shows tho.
Can I comment or not?

>>161143109
>bumping from page 8 and not saging
>not reading the thread
No because you're fucking retarded.

no u

>>161143135
>actually reading this garbage thread
Nice.

>>161132281
Please be a Burger.
Having less than two hours of free time a day is slavery and unthinkable for an intelligent person in a first world country.

>>161135277
>'02
Only SSY I know of is Animal Farm: Bonobo Edition and that show came out in 2012.

>300 completed
>200 dropped
Feels fucking good not to have wasted hundreds of hours finishing bad shows. Completionist fags should an hero.

>>161138128
I wonder if it was really too complicated for this anon.

>>161143676
No you're doing fine. I do think you've dropped a bit too much though but maybe that's just an unlucky streak going.

>>161141724
>>161141693
Using a phone doesn't make your samefaggotry any less obvious.

>>161138990
I'm not sure I have ever seen a worse 3x3 and they are all generally shit.

I have seen 5 animes

>>161140706
>all those relies taking his joke seriously
Natsu da.

I study at the Annie Maye School of Japanology. Am I qualified to submit my opinions on these superior Nihongese works of art?

>>161144130
Yeah I was hoping that "Upvote if you agree" would at least tip people off.

Nope and I am proud about it. I only watch what really interest me. Not just anything and everything. I don't think I've hit 100 anime. Maybe in manga but not anime.

>>161143924
More like he has bipolar ADHD.

>>161144400
You tell him champ!

>>161142033
　　　　　　newfags can't triforce

>>161128416
ive gotten so good at it that i can lipread anime

>>161128208

The term "forgettable" exists for a reason, anon. You can't honestly tell me that you remember every detail of every piece of media that you've consumed over the past two years, can you?

That said, it's definitely a waste of time to sit through entertainment media that's not entertaining you. I'll only pick things up if the chances that I'll like it look fairly high, and if I'm not enjoying myself, I won't finish them.