| I wanted to check what anime are kept in the Plan To Watch lists the most without being watched. A fast and simple way to fetch the data was the number of ratings / number of members. This is imperfect because some users finish without rating, or drop it without rating, but more granular data seemed harder to fetch, so this what we're going with. The cutoff is top 4500 most popular anime. So not the entire database, but almost everything you'd care about.
Ignoring OVA, ONA, Movies, Specials, Sequels, Reboots, etc. most interesting results I get are: Hyouge Mono — 17.2% members rated  Ginga Tetsudou 999 (TV) — 18.8% members rated  Master Keaton — 21% members rated  Baraou no Souretsu — 21.4% members rated  Urusei Yatsura — 21.5% members rated  Dirty Pair — 21.7% members rated  Oniisama e... — 22.3% members rated  Texhnolyze — 22.4% members rated  Devilman — 23.6% members rated  Kemono no Souja Erin — 24.4% members rated  Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu — 24.4% members rated  In top 1000 anime, Texhnolyze is the most shelved, and continues to be so until #2323. Have you been keeping any of these anime in your plan to watch? Are you surprised they were the most shelved? Do you like them 🙂 Comment |
AuronMay 16, 5:33 PM
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| Oh hey, this is something I've been interested in recently too, taking note of random series I find that have more people who've marked them as PTW than completed. No surprise that it's mostly older, longer series. |
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Oh hey, this is something I've been interested in recently too, taking note of random series I find that have more people who've marked them as PTW than completed. No surprise that it's mostly older, longer series.
| @erotardation Indeed! And the inverse is stuff you would never forget anyway with little point to put in the plan to watch, it goes AoT, Death Note, SAO, OPM, Naruto etc. lol |
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| A shame that people don't venture to watch Legend of the Galactic Heroes because it is so old and fairly long. It is such an amazing show that everyone should watch. |
| "Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness" - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)    |
| I can't believe 78% of people dropped dirty pair and urusei yatsura. |
| I don't think it's the best metric, since I myself don't rate some shows I've completed, but either way you shouldn't add the people who have PTW when calculating the percentage of those who rated the anime, but rather Ratings/(Completed+Watching+Dropped+On-Hold). By comparison, calculating like this, the number in Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu becomes 57.69% of it's members rated it. |
thewiruMay 16, 4:52 PM
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I can't believe 78% of people dropped dirty pair and urusei yatsura.
| @tchitchouan They didn't, the number comes from (Number of people who gave it a rating)/(Completed+Watching+On Hold+Dropped+Plan to Watch) |
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@tchitchouan
They didn't, the number comes from (Number of people who gave it a rating)/(Completed+Watching+On Hold+Dropped+Plan to Watch)
They didn't, the number comes from (Number of people who gave it a rating)/(Completed+Watching+On Hold+Dropped+Plan to Watch)
| @thewiru Oh i must have understood wrong, then. |
| If you're reading this and you still haven't watched Legend of the Galactic Heroes yet, please try it at least. Texhnolyze is a very tough watch so I definitely get why most people don't actually watch it. |
"Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!" - Bill & Ted´s Excellent Adventure Check my introduction to Char´s Counterattack interest stack if you´re interested in watching UC Gundam. Also check my Legend of the Galactic Heroes OVA Chronological Watch Order for LoGH info! |
| Never heard of requiem of rose king but I'm not going to watch galaxy 999. Too many off branching entries which fucks with me as a completionist. Tired of the other ones that will forever remain unfinished Watched the rest of the pictured post |
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| Fantastic Children, Gasaraki, Mawaru Penguindrum, Aria The Animation, Flag. All of these have more plan to watch members than completed. |
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Fantastic Children, Gasaraki, Mawaru Penguindrum, Aria The Animation, Flag. All of these have more plan to watch members than completed.
| @KitsuFrost Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV used to until recently, now it's nearly tied. |
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Fantastic Children, Gasaraki, Mawaru Penguindrum, Aria The Animation, Flag. All of these have more plan to watch members than completed.
| @KitsuFrost Fantastic Children is 24.57% and right after LoTGH, but I had to stop the MAL post somewhere lol. Penguindrum is at 35.7%, not that bad compared to the list. Aria the Animation is 30.81%. Flag didn't make the cut of the top 4500 threshold unfortunately, but it would have ended up 22.26% between Oniisama E and Dirty Pair! Likewise with Gasaraki, didn't make the list and would have been 25.44%, so would be beyond the 11 I wrote Before that we have Gallery Fake (24.63%), Shirokuma Cafe (24.67%), Boogiepop og (24.99%) etc. Really good guesses though! |
AuronMay 16, 5:29 PM
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| I have seen at least 6 of those and liked all of them. Kemeno I even gave a ten. I guess I will be the one to emphatically recommend that series of these options. Galaxy Express 999, Hyogue Mono, and LotGH are great too. Master Keaton is an overlooked Urasawa adaptation. |
| 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 |
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I have seen at least 6 of those and liked all of them. Kemeno I even gave a ten. I guess I will be the one to emphatically recommend that series of these options. Galaxy Express 999, Hyogue Mono, and LotGH are great too. Master Keaton is an overlooked Urasawa adaptation.
| @SignsOfSuicide Erin is truly a gem lost in time! I feel most see the cover and assume that's a children's show and leave it be, and the ones that don't have it collect dust in PTW oh well. Hyouge Mono I actually watched 3 episodes of just to see why is that the one least likely to leave its PTW status! It is quite fun, a little more comedic than I'd have preferred, but there is quite a bit of fun history tidbits that I appreciate 🙂 |
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@KitsuFrost
Fantastic Children is 24.57% and right after LoTGH, but I had to stop the MAL post somewhere lol.
Penguindrum is at 35.7%, not that bad compared to the list.
Aria the Animation is 30.81%.
Flag didn't make the cut of the top 4500 threshold unfortunately, but it would have ended up 22.26% between Oniisama E and Dirty Pair!
Likewise with Gasaraki, didn't make the list and would have been 25.44%, so would be beyond the 11 I wrote
Before that we have Gallery Fake (24.63%), Shirokuma Cafe (24.67%), Boogiepop og (24.99%) etc.
Really good guesses though!
Fantastic Children is 24.57% and right after LoTGH, but I had to stop the MAL post somewhere lol.
Penguindrum is at 35.7%, not that bad compared to the list.
Aria the Animation is 30.81%.
Flag didn't make the cut of the top 4500 threshold unfortunately, but it would have ended up 22.26% between Oniisama E and Dirty Pair!
Likewise with Gasaraki, didn't make the list and would have been 25.44%, so would be beyond the 11 I wrote
Before that we have Gallery Fake (24.63%), Shirokuma Cafe (24.67%), Boogiepop og (24.99%) etc.
Really good guesses though!
Auron said: Really good guesses though! Thank you! I initially thought about anime shows I see all the time in people's PTW lists and made a group of guesses. It's surprising how some of those titles have more "planning" than all the other options listed. And thank you for this thread too. It's one of my favorite topics regarding underrated shows. |
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| Well I'm of the user who doesn't score their anime because not a fan of but this one are underated good. |
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| I expected Legend of the Galactic Heroes to be right at the top... It definitely ranks the highest out of all of these on my personal list. I've checked out the first few episodes of Dirty Pair and Galaxy Express 999, they were cool but didn't exactly grab me, open to giving them another try. Didn't know about Hyouge Mono and Erin, they do look interesting (highly rated, too). Thanks for these. I wonder if these are just famous and respected enough for most people feel the need to watch at some point, but just obscure and unavailable enough to not feel peer-pressured into actually starting them. |
| My plans to watch list is full of yet to air anime and movies and lost media |
| I'm surprised by Texhnolyze (he says, having it in his PTW) tbh I personally have Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Texhnolyze, and Oniisama e... in my PTW, although I have considered watching the 80s Urusei Yatsura since I really enjoyed the 2022 UY reboot |
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| You should do this again except limiting it from 2010-now |
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| Interesting data, I did drop quite a few of them (Hyouge Mono, Master Keaton, Dirty Pair, Texhnolyze, Erin). My top 3: LoGH Baraou no Souretsu Oniisama e... |
| I'm surprised that Ashita no Joe doesn't lead this ranking, since it's ranked very high, but is also very old and fairly long, which is a turnoff for most people. |
| I have all of them in my planned list except "Kemono no Souja Erin" and "Dirty Pair" [as I'm not interested in both of them] and "Baraou no Souretsu" and "Onii-sama e.." [as I watched both of them] Still It's interesting to see which anime are in the "planned jail" the most |
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| Oh, you posted this :) yeah, I had Texhnolyze in my small PTW list for some months back in 2021, but none of the others (and nowadays I don't use PTW at all). That said, I'm interested in most of these (I've only seen Texhnolyze and LotGH), so if I had an active PTW, I'd have most of these entries added there, I guess. @Auron by the way, where is Casshern Sins at? :) The profile picture in this thread reminded me of it, but I don't expect some crazy results. |
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Oh, you posted this :) yeah, I had Texhnolyze in my small PTW list for some months back in 2021, but none of the others (and nowadays I don't use PTW at all). That said, I'm interested in most of these (I've only seen Texhnolyze and LotGH), so if I had an active PTW, I'd have most of these entries added there, I guess.
@Auron by the way, where is Casshern Sins at? :) The profile picture in this thread reminded me of it, but I don't expect some crazy results.
@Auron by the way, where is Casshern Sins at? :) The profile picture in this thread reminded me of it, but I don't expect some crazy results.
| @-YaoiBoy- It's at 33.82% 🙂 A better fate than the top contenders but by no means watched immediately haha. Zarutaku said: I'm surprised that Ashita no Joe doesn't lead this ranking, since it's ranked very high, but is also very old and fairly long, which is a turnoff for most people. It would have come up had I kept going, it is at 26.1%. After my post ends it goes, Gallery Fake (24.63%), Shirokuma Cafe (24.67%), Boogiepop original (24.99%), Gasaraki (25.45%), Mouryou no Hako (25.62%), Cutie Honey (25.78%), Maison Ikkoku (25.91%), Ashita no Joe (26.1%) |
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| I have almost all of these "shelved" or have read the source manga and thought of checking the anime later |
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Auron said: @-YaoiBoy- It's at 33.82% 🙂 A better fate than the top contenders but by no means watched immediately haha. I wonder how it'll change in the future :) I guess we'll see. |
| I don't even know what Baraou no Densetsu is, so that's a surprise I guess. The others are on my ptw except for LOGH and Texhnolyze, which I already watched. |
| Shelving Master Keaton, LotGH, and Dirty Pair should be a crime, unless we're talking about them being on my actual shelves. Watch them. |
KruszerMay 17, 9:09 PM
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| Interesting data. Mark Twain once defined classic as something that everyone wants to have read but no one wants to read. Perhaps those examples fit that definition of a classic. |
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I can't believe 78% of people dropped dirty pair and urusei yatsura.
| @tchitchouan my bad. In my defense, Im more of a Ranma and GS Mikami guy. |
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@tchitchouan my bad. In my defense, Im more of a Ranma and GS Mikami guy.
| @MichaelJackson that's fair enough. |
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