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During my random MAL user stalkings, I have come across a guy that happens to have 1300 days spent watching anime and 1500 days reading manga. That is almost 8 years of pure time. What scared me even more is, I did not recognize almost anything on his list nor shared any of the anime as most of his was really old. It shocked me how far and deep the history of anime actually goes.

It made me wonder - how much anime there actually is? I could not find any statistics on this site, like total runtime and amount of episodes accounting for every single anime in the database. Is there some information regarding this matter?

The most recently added anime to the database was this http://myanimelist.net/anime/14829/Fate/kaleid_liner_Prisma_Illya

Note the 14829 in the link. That's how many are in the DB.

As for manga this is the most recent

http://myanimelist.net/manga/40285/Sora_ga_Haiiro_dakara

So 40285

Fake list is fake~

So, the first anime in the database would be Cowboy Bebop?

Yeh, presumably the creator of MAL loves Bebop so much he/she added it first :D

How do you check the most recent added anime?

Instead of choosing from the drop down menu itself, just click the "anime" tab next to the "profile" tab.

Upcoming and recently added links are next to the alphabetical search. You can do that with the manga tab aswell.

Ohh didn't see that, thanks.

but there are many many deleted anime on MAL, and also many entries missing, so I doubt that number is accurate.

Not to mention specials are also counted as unique entries. So I imagine it's a considerable amount lower.

MAL currently has 7263 anime and 20924 manga

http://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?type=&limit=7260
http://myanimelist.net/topmanga.php?type=&limit=20910

Note, though, that there are a lot of things that are not included on MAL.

Jealous?

Deleted? What for. Double entries? What to you mean by entries missing?

Yes, duplicate entries, but also people attempting to submit things like "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", as well as things like Robotech which originally had their own entries, but were later merged with their Japanese parent series.

All judgement calls(Avatar/MLP have no influence on the accuracy of the MAL's anime count) which might mean there's going to be a margin of error but due to the amount of effort put into this site I'd wager it to be an accurate means of estimating how many unique anime titles have been made.

The authors of the anime encyklopedia made an estimation that 18 years worth of anime had been produced by the time of its release in 2001. I don't know if it's correct or not but it seems reasonable enough.

No? Anyone can add a shit ton of anime and manga to their list.

maybe that fellow no life those anime for 8 years?

i wonder what kind of lifestyle he led.

You can't watch anime back to back nonstop for 8 years.

Even though there is nearly 15k anime listed, please be aware that the site lists both OVA's, Specials, and any other kind of shorts even on MAL seperately. Some series might have 3 seasons with multiple specials, a movie and a such which takes up like 10 of the count meter, apply that with a lot more series, that number isn't really 15k.

A example off the top of my head would be Shakugan no Shana. 3 seasons, 7 different specials, 1 ova and 1 movie. 12 out of those 15k anime are the same series.

Another example would be Detective Conan. Nearly 2~3 pages on MAL's search. 20 titles per page. That's 40+ of the count being just Detective Conan.