| Not really, but it feels great seeing the stats go up gradually sometimes. |
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| Yeah, it's cool to see all the stats getting bigger and bigger. |
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| Yeah, honestly. I like to get the MalGraph awards. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| Yes, but maybe not as much as I used to. I used to really enjoy seeing the number of anime I had completed increase over time and that slightly motivated me to keep watching more and more (that was probably when I had less than 100 completed anime), but nowadays, I find myself not focusing on that too much. I go at my own pace (which has been pretty slow over the last few months). |
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| I am very proud that my anime list is growing every day. It is the most relevant thing I have ever done in my life. |
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| I used to care a lot about this, honestly. But now, life has truly caught me and watching anime is nowhere near as important. |
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| No I don't like watching the shame number increase |
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| No I really don't care, I don't see how that matters |
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| I do enjoy seeing my list get bigger and seeing all of my stats go up. So yeah, I do care somewhat. I don't make it a priority though. Consuming ani/manga just to make your stats bigger is a waste of time. |
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| Not that much the only thing I like is when I meet IRL a random person on a convention or a bar and the topic is about anime I like to see their reaction on my list, that's all. |
| Sometimes I do care. Sometimes I don't. I think it's my autism that I sometimes will hyper focus on the number and set a goal to watch for a month or a year. And it bothers me so much if I can't reach that goal. I didn't set a number goal for this year like I do sometimes, but I did set one for this month. Luckily I already met the goal I'd set (to complete 10 anime this month. Thank you seasonals lol). |
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| No i don't care about the size of my list, i just use this site to talk to people not to keep track of anime i watched. |
| Took me a whole year to find and search for all the Anime I have watched since 2000s |
| If you want to reply to my posts, come up with valid arguments instead of ad hominem HIGHER LEVEL THINKERS ONLY |
| Not at all, it is just a control tool that I use to not get lost in what chapter I left or series I want to watch. |
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| Yeah it is satisfying to see how many different animanga you've experienced up to now. I even keep screenshots of my stats monthly or at milestones. Randomly scrolling down your list can feel like a trip through memory lane, "ah I watched this a year ago, I forgot about it but yeah that was nice" and so on. |
 Pls don't write animeS or mangaS >.< // + <50 man(g/hw/hu)a not in MAL. // Join my >manga club< here! |
| I don't really care about it being big or not, but I think it's great when I look through my list and see what I watched or read till now. Like a little catalogue of experiences regarding a hobby. |
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| i care about how big my ptw is, but not anything else. |
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| It's just feels nice when the number of our stats increase. |
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| It's the most important thing in my life. If I hear a song and it's in the database, I add it. If I watch a promotional video, I add it. If I watch a video summarizing an anime, I already consider it watched and add it to my list as well. |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
Phosphophyllita said: I remember scrobbling on last.fm since 2008 and it was interesting at first, but after a while you realize it's a waste of time and very OCD-like. Anime, on the other hand, is a bit trickier since it's handy to know what and when you have watched something. Then again, I never used a similar site for video-games and I've played them more than I watched anime. It's the most important thing in my life. If I hear a song and it's in the database, I add it. If I watch a promotional video, I add it. If I watch a video summarizing an anime, I already consider it watched and add it to my list as well. |
| Sometimes it feels good and 1 it's interesting what kind of anime ( and from what genres ) you have watched 2 nostalgy 3 Just looking at the numbers make me feel proud. P.S: By the way , don't you think black bullet is kinda underrated ( and/ or its rating is too low)? |
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| Unfortunately yeah, I do like seeing the numbers go up, and I've gotten into the bad habit of refreshing my profile page every two episodes or so to see the stats increasing. In the long run though it's not that relevant at all, I've yet to see someone on this site say "Well I disagreed with you at first, but then I saw that you saw/read 100 more anime/manga than me so I'm changing my opinion". And people on the outside probably don't care at all. All that said, it is my dream to make it to 400 anime one day. |
| The more completed the better, I say. |
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| Not really. but when it comes to people who have a broad brush opinion like the classic "all anime exploits women"... thats when completed numbers really matter. |
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| I quit caring after it hit 1000. Either way, I prefer longer series over short stuff to bump up the number. |
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| If i think about it, i guess i do care in some way. It'd be nice if i reach 600 by this year and eventually reach 365 days watched lol, that'd be funny to see |
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| I think it's fun to see the days grow but still like the tracking system a lot. + I'm in love with profiles, i think it's fun to create laylouts and it helps me easy click on favorites if i need to recommend them to someone. But I think watching peoples profile is one of the most important things when it comes to if they is coming out with some wierd statement. Thanks to that we have the tracking system I can easy see if the guy knows what he is talking about or not. Especielly when it comes to trolls thinking they are elites etc and acting big. |
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| I mean, it's probably one of the best things about MAL anyway, to organize your list, both anime and manga, and make it bigger and bigger. I don't really care about milestones tho, but it's fun to follow your own stats. |
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| When I first made this account yes, but nowadays? Not at all, I don't watch anime that often like I used to. |
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| It just feels nice updating my list. It's like I'm doing something productive. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| It's this feeling you get. Like watching anime, isn't just a pass time. When you add it, with all the trimmings (score, dates, priority and others), it suddenly gives off this "yeah I care about this shit, enough to put in the time, not to just watch it, but think about all kinds of things around it". It's a sense of accomplishment, like there's purpose and stuff. In the end it just shows that we aren't kids just watching for kicks. |
| I cared more about it before but now that I have cared about it I now find it hard to not care about it. I still can't shake the mentality of wanting my lists to become longer. I still avoid longer shows, often watch really short anime like music videos, care more about milestones than I realistically should, worry about not watching enough anime in a year (I see 250 as being the bare minimum that I should complete in a year), and very rarely rewatch. I'm sure this will continue whether I want it to or not. |
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| I want shared anime affinity with my friends. So I have to watch more. |
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| I guess a little, but I'm also the only one who's ever gonna look at it |
| If it means I get to keep experiencing new things, then let it keep rising. I don't mind. |
| Don't let others ruin things for you. Even if a toxic fan pisses in your cereal, you could just get another bowl of cereal. The 50 Anime You Should Watch Before You Die |
| Watching disposable mass entertainment is not an achievement of any sorts. |
| Not at all.. I care about how many days I can go without stepping outside my home. |
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| Not at all. I do it for myself, not for someone. |
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| don't care that much although it's fun to see stats get bigger and more broad. i would like to make time and watch more, but you can only watch what your schedule allows :D |
    “A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.” ― Corina Abdulahm Negura |
| Yes and no. Even tho I do kinda like seeing the number go up, I still watch at my own pace. |
| Gintoki and Sugita's birthdays are 1 day apart. |
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