| How long have you been watching anime? Do you regret spending so much time on watching or do you have pride in being dedicated to something you enjoy? |
| I been watching anime since I was around 4 if you count kids series. I think it toom around 21 years of watching to hit 1000 mark though I usually watch longer anime. I do not regret devoting my life to anime and games. I still work a job though. I think time enjoyed is never wasted. |
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| If you only count when I started watching anime as an adult it took under 4 years. From 2019-2022. If you count when I started overall then it would be 1998-2022. I do not regret the time. But it's not a prideful thing either. It's just what happened. |
| List things out... First anime I seen: Original Macross as part of Harmony Gold's Robotech series on a VHS tape when I was 6 or 7 years old in the early 1990s. Became a full-blown fan: 2002 when I dabbled more into anime with the 2000s anime boom with Toonami, Adult Swim Action, and a few random anime movies and OVAs via Showtime Beyond. Hitting 1000 mark for viewership: Around early 2010s. At least per an old anime review site I frequent, 1000th anime I reviewed would have been Toaru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku (Princess and the Pilot). Regrets: Maybe killing enough spare time on it as I got into my 20s. Still even as I've reduced the amount of time I devote to seeing titles and had my occasions of burnout, been 21 years and still watching titles when I have time for it. |
| I can only give an estimate, around 8-10 years I would guess. I watch a lot more anime today than I did back then, especially seasonal stuff, as gaming and live action have taken a backseat. There's the common "could have been doing something more productive" point, like "lEaRnInG aN InStRuMeNt" or "sTuDyInG a LaNgUaGe" basic examples lol, but my mindset has always been, as long as you have your shit together (work, housing, independence, etc), it shouldn't bother you or others about what you do in your spare time. I'm still really into tennis as well, tennis and anime take up a sizeable chuck of my daily life for sure. |
| Slightly over a decade. I watch anime because I have nothing better to do. |
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| It took me about 8 years to reach 1000 Anime. The difficulty of achieving 1000 Anime depends on what you watch, honestly. For me, I'll watch a lot of content within a franchise (such as all of the One Piece movies, OVAs, etc) which really adds up fast. However, I have also watched quite a lot of long shows which balances it out. If you stuck to 12 episode shows, I'd imagine it wouldn't take too long to reach 1000 Anime completed. However, if you allow yourself to indulge in 100+ episode shows, it'll likely take you (at least) half a decade to reach 1000 Anime completed. As for regrets, not really. I don't think you should ever regret the things you enjoy doing. As long as you understand your priorities, you should wither away as much of your time to Anime as you wish. |
| Counting only after I made this account something between 3 and 5 years. I dont feel any pride tbh. At some point I really wanted to reach de 1000 milestone, but after that I stopped caring. And no, I dont regret the time spent. |
| How long have you been watching anime? I've been watching anime for 13 years. I think it took me 10 years to hit 1000 Do you regret spending so much time on watching or do you have pride in being dedicated to something you enjoy? No, I don't regret spending so much time watching anime. |
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| It took me more or less about 4 years to reach 1000 animes. I remember it was with Robot Carnival and I currently have +1700 after just over 8 years. |
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| I think I still qualify to answer that question despite being nowhere near the thousand shows completed. The reason is because some shows have just 1 single episode (movies, for instance), while others have hundreds. Thus even with my low completed stat, I still have watched the equivalent of more than a thousand regular 12 episodes shows. It's not really pride what I take in having so much of my life dedicated to anime, it's more like realism. I don't take pride in eating veggies, even though I like them a lot. Likewise I don't feel like I can be smug about watching lots of anime. That being said, there are some titles I regret wasting my time on, mostly from the time when I used to force myself to complete everything I started, parroting silly deepities such as "I love the medium, so I can still enjoy bad shows". It was kinda like saying "man I hate curry it tastes like crap and I always get a stomach ache when I eat it... Still gonna eat it though. Because I like food in general, so I can still enjoy curry". |
| 4 years or something like that. I'm not sure. |
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| Watched in the really young days, but ramped out quite a bit 7 years Once I hit 200th, that's when I ramped it up, so from that time so 445 days to hit 1000. Majority no regrets since I saved money doing this kind of hobby, but still a sort of regret of how far I took things |
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| "Users with 1000+ anime watched, how long did it take you?" I am watching anime since I was 5 so...45 years? Till the 2000s I had very limited access tho. |
| More than 10 years I have watched different anime. |
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| I think I started mal with around 140 anime from my kiss anime account back in 2019 and hit 1000 mark a few months back, so it's taken 4 years. However we had numerous lockdowns over this time which I spent almost exclusively watching anime as there was not much else to do. I enjoy delving into this medium and look forward to exploring it further, especially large franchises like Gundam and Lupin, plus older fantasy and sci-fi OVA's. |
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| I reached 1000 anime sometime in 2018 and that took about 20 years roughly Watching anime since forever because it was on tv but I've watched more even since 2010 when I started watching it on the internet, before 2010 I completed about 70 anime Now I am close to 2000 |
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| I had 100 something anime watched over a span of around 10 years when I made this account. I've had this account for 7 years and I watched a bit more than 1000 anime since then. |
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| 24 years , 7 episodes on average per day give or take..this year is my 25th year since I started watching anime 365x24x7=61320 episodes or it's close to my Mal stats.. I did only watch 2 or 3 episodes per day during my university years.. Now I watch like 12 episodes or it just add up in the end.. |
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| 6 years. maybe 8. I'm not a fast watcher. at all. |
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| Since 2007. More actively from 2015 when I started following seasonals. Mind you, there are a lot of shorts, ovas and specials listed among those numbers. The list doesn't invoke any type of emotion, it's just a list that helps to keep track of things. It is certainly not an achievement in any way. It could be shorter but ultimately it doesn't matter. |
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| 13 years. 179 watching days. Not too much for such big period of time. |
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| 20 years, I've been watching anime since 2003 |
Always the same… Every age, every generation. Human beings are infinitely more cruel and selfish than any demon in hell ~Dantalion (Makai Ouji) |
Reply to RentNoGirlfriend
I think I still qualify to answer that question despite being nowhere near the thousand shows completed. The reason is because some shows have just 1 single episode (movies, for instance), while others have hundreds. Thus even with my low completed stat, I still have watched the equivalent of more than a thousand regular 12 episodes shows.
It's not really pride what I take in having so much of my life dedicated to anime, it's more like realism. I don't take pride in eating veggies, even though I like them a lot. Likewise I don't feel like I can be smug about watching lots of anime.
That being said, there are some titles I regret wasting my time on, mostly from the time when I used to force myself to complete everything I started, parroting silly deepities such as "I love the medium, so I can still enjoy bad shows". It was kinda like saying "man I hate curry it tastes like crap and I always get a stomach ache when I eat it... Still gonna eat it though. Because I like food in general, so I can still enjoy curry".
It's not really pride what I take in having so much of my life dedicated to anime, it's more like realism. I don't take pride in eating veggies, even though I like them a lot. Likewise I don't feel like I can be smug about watching lots of anime.
That being said, there are some titles I regret wasting my time on, mostly from the time when I used to force myself to complete everything I started, parroting silly deepities such as "I love the medium, so I can still enjoy bad shows". It was kinda like saying "man I hate curry it tastes like crap and I always get a stomach ache when I eat it... Still gonna eat it though. Because I like food in general, so I can still enjoy curry".
| Been watching anime since the late 90s/early 2000s as a kid and almost a teen with Pokémon and some others on cable TV. Then my friends will record some on vhs or watched some on there and copied over to CDs. But in the early 2000s, I didn't watch a whole lot of anime. Maybe 20-30 from when I started to around 2007 or 2008. I don't know but I was mostly playing video games instead. I still play a lot of video games, but when I wasn't working for a little while, I definitely watched more. I felt like in 2013 or 2014 is when I really started watching anime, sometimes all day long. I remember spending days watching One Piece or other seasons of anime in one day. @RentNoGirlfriend that's why sometimes number completed doesn't matter but days watched total is more important. I've seen someone with thousands of anime completed but days watched is in the 300s or 400 days watched. Then there's people with less completed but with 500+ days watched. There are a lot of really short anime entries, especially in the avant-garde category, where the clips are 10 minutes or less but counts as completed. You can easily rack up 500 entries with those alone. Meanwhile, someone can have 500 completed but most of the anime they watched are over 50 episodes long. |
| 9-8 years :3, I don't really regret any of my time spent on watching anime and I'm still going strong! |
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| If you watch 200 per year it will take five years. If you watch one anime movie every day that's already 365 anime per year, though. I don't really remember. Only milestone I do recall is the 10.000th anime added to my list, which was the Girls and Panzer movie which I watched 2016. That was about 10 years into the hobby. It was also when I ran out of anime to watch. I then switched to reading Manga/Manhwa/Manhua and later on to Xianxia novels. The kind where it takes longer than one year to complete one. |
| Around 10 years and another 10 years for 2, 000, and 901 in 9 years. So in another year I should be at 3000. |
KruszerJan 26, 1:23 PM
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| It took me 9 years from 2015 to 2024 to reach 1000 anime (excluding most OVAs). Definitely don't regret it as it led to me learning Japanese and studying abroad in Japan during college which was one of the best experiences of my life. |
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| Similar story to others; I started watching in my early childhood, but really became an anime fan in 2004. Many, many hours of enjoyment, so nothing to regret. |
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| Took me two years to reached the 1000th one. And I never really regret it, it was a fun hobby. I mean it did introduce me with different types of media, and is even the reason why I'm trying to write a story myself. |
| I'm not sure but around 12 or more years |
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| I don't even know how many anime shows I watched tbh. |
| In more than 10 years I have completed 2124 degrees, so it took me at least 4 or 5 years to reach 1000. |
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| JoinedDec 31, 2015 -> 1000th Anime Completed: UQ Holder (July 17th, 2018) -> 3000th Anime Completed: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai Sekirei (July14th, 2021) -> Completed 4009 (2025) |
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| Honestly I'm not sure. If I had to guess I'd say maybe 8 years? |
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| It was on my third year that I reached 1000 completed but I also watched 1000 anime in that year alone. |
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| Just watch what you like, shorts are quick, 12 episodes take longer probably around 200 - 300 days |
| I am a Completionist. All Anime/Manga will be Watched/Read. All FILLERS will be enjoyed :) I WATCH & READ THE LOWEST SCORED/RATED/RANKED ANIMES/MANGA ON MAL. Join my discord - https://discord.com/invite/aHrHTVQBBG :) |
| Probably 4 years or something like that. |
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