Any other Retro Anime watchers only?

I get people like cel animation, but it's not coming back for various reasons. I hate to say it, but sooner or later you gotta either accept it or move on. It's not like there's an infinite amount of older anime and on top of that, there's bound to be some older stuff you aren't going to be into. I don't see the point of limiting yourself like that.

@FanofAction Half of the reason I watch anime is for the animation. I will keep watching a show I'm not really into if I like the animation. I can't do that with digital. Same thing happened with Pixar and Dreamworks movies. I just couldn't get into them because of how they looked. They didn't appeal to me at all despite being considered revolutionary CGI.

But yeah I do understand even if I watch every 80s and 90s release I will eventually run out of stuff to watch and then be forced to enter then 21 century if I want to continue.

I tried to, but curiosity keeps getting the better of me. I still barely keep up with modern stuff, though. But I get you. Once you get past the initial fear of how anime have aged (Which there are a lot of anime from every decade that aged poorly, but those are usually the minority), you find the good stuff.


The first scene from the first episode of Ashita no Joe, a very early '70s anime that's still incredibly gripping despite the age.

My soft limit is anything from before 1968 (For TV anime), though one day I'll break that.

@Zarutaku Doesn't matter. Like I said, that number decreases significantly if you discount everything you have no interest in. This only applies if you're willing to sit through literally everything regardless of how much you like it, which op basically told me they are. Most people would skip or drop things they have no interest in.

My favorite time-frame for anime is mid 2000's-2010's. There's tons of stuff that came out during those years. I'm not going to watch all of it though, because I have preferences.

@FanofAction Even then there would enough left to watch for many years.

The issue with watching only retro anime is that within 5-10 years, you will probably just straight up run out. and you run out of the good ones even sooner. There aren't THAT many pre 2000s anime out there, I can't imagine there being more than 1000 or so.

@APolygons2
Zarutaku's earlier post said there are well over 5,000. But I expect the good ones number well under 1,000.

@Lucifrost 5000?! that is WAY more than I thought. How? every season from like 70s and before has like 1-3 new anime. and before 60s that number is basically a few per year at most.

So the vast majority of these have to be from 80s and 90s, and I have a hard time seeing they can result in 5000 anime!!

It's not that I don't believe you, I just have a hard time imagining how these 5000 shows are split between the years.

@Lucifrost 5000?! that is WAY more than I thought. How? every season from like 70s and before has like 1-3 new anime. and before 60s that number is basically a few per year at most.

So the vast majority of these have to be from 80s and 90s, and I have a hard time seeing they can result in 5000 anime!!

It's not that I don't believe you, I just have a hard time imagining how these 5000 shows are split between the years.

@APolygons2 Actually, considering now there's close to 60000 anime entries on the database, that sounds like quite little, even considering that over the years there've been more anime released per year

@DigiCat What? where did you get that number?

There are exactly 13316 rated anime on mal as of now: https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?limit=13300

And this include Chinese animations as well, so it's not even all anime.

I guess there are anime that are so unpopular that they don't have a rating, but are you telling me the number of unrated anime is about 4 times bigger than all of the rated anime on the website?

That just doesn't sound right.

I simply watch both retro and new anime

@DigiCat What? where did you get that number?

There are exactly 13316 rated anime on mal as of now: https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?limit=13300

And this include Chinese animations as well, so it's not even all anime.

I guess there are anime that are so unpopular that they don't have a rating, but are you telling me the number of unrated anime is about 4 times bigger than all of the rated anime on the website?

That just doesn't sound right.

@APolygons2 @DigiCat

There are 26657 Anime entries right now (including unreleased ones): https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?limit=26650

Thereof 5138 are pre-millennial (including a few ongoing shows like One Piece and Sazae-san):

@APolygons2

Despite what people might be claiming...

MAL database is deceiving because any entry that is added to the database without any release date added to it automatically gets shifted to the very end of the database (most of it is Chinese garbage and just general 2000+ kids shows mixed together before the turn of the century). So these entries act like they existed before the very 1st Anime ever produced in the Database. Compounded with the fact there is over 3 pages alone of Anime tagged as Hentia, there are also music video entries, random shorts, one shot OVAs, specials, Movie releases, etc...

There is not nearly 5000+ Anime to watch before the turn of the century.

A more realistic number would be anywhere between at most around 500 - 800 of actual Japanese Anime titles released before the turn of the century and this is given it the benefit of the doubt when excluding entries in the database that are completely lost media where about a quarter to half of shows in the database before the turn of the century technically have never had a legit official physical release before.

@ColourWheel @APolygons2

Those dateless modern Anime are already excluded from the advanced search I performed, there are still over 5000 pre-millennial entries.