Approximately how many Anime have you watched so far? Only 100 or more (poll)

is it only for completed shows? do shows i started but never finished count?

The jump from 5,000 to 10,000 is quite steep, lol, but I'm currently at 8,000+. I do try to say "8,000 entries on MAL" and not "8,000 anime", because this means different things to different people (even with just series, do you combine multiple seasons as one show?). It's hard to estimate how many if you're excluding short stuff, but significantly less, as evidenced by my days watched.

@ReMightyRon

Which are? You know you can add everything to your list without setting it to complete. What's your AP list?

@Kwanthemaster This list is not even close to being complete yet. I haven't even added half of it (I don't have time to do that). I started adding it at the end of last year. I'll send you the link someday when I'm done. I'll save your profile in my notes. But I've watched approximately 7,000 anime (more or less, like 7,300 or 7,500), counting TV, OVAs, ONAs, Movies, Specials, MVs, and if you consider the seasons separately, and everything that can be called anime that was made in Asia. But as an example, I've watched practically all the animations in TypeMoon's FGO game, but I don't count these separately. I also consider PVs and CMs, as they are separate media from regular anime. Besides, there are many incredible animations made as CMs, like commercials for anime animations with food or other products. I prefer to do it this way, and I think it better justifies my time spent with anime over the years. I think I managed to explain everything!

Do we count only Anime or also Ova, Special, Movie etc ?

If we count everything i'm at 2453 and if we only count anime I am at 815.

@Tsumikiss how can you have 693 entries more that me but I have 48 more days watched?

@ReMightyRon @Kwanthemaster The reasons are simple: I have a lot of free time and I just wanted to make this profile a database with all the anime, everything that has already been completed should be considered completed, everything that is being released should be considered as being released, everything that has not yet been released and so on... and the mangas I mark as just, manga only complete and reading.

I started watching anime in 2006 the first anime I watched was bleach the funny thing was I never intended to watch it I was looking for something else and accidentally pressed on bleach yet I got hooked from the first episode I,v been watching anime ever since for 19 years in my opinion as fellow Otaku I feel the anime industry isn't the same as in the past and what I mean is the creativity is quit lacking in the past every one or two years a masterpiece is created yet now there isn't much sure there are good series and bad ones ( excluding AOT,SAO and the other famous series) but it's rare to find something that pulls you in from the first episode a story that makes stop everything and just focus on it and gives you the excitement and a true enjoyment.

5590 anime, 2819 manga.
310 Japanese live-action movies
745 Japanese live-action drama.
I must be the number one viewer of Japanese media in the world.

Bro, no way some people are at 10000 lol. I’d be somewhat surprised if that many actually existed
And I’m 400+ entries if you include titles dropped midway, 300+ completed
Got helluva lot of rewatches in there though.

I actually have no fucking idea, I've been watching anime for over 25 years but only started keeping track 3 years ago and still discover series (like Amanchu! which I streamed simulcast, both seasons) that I never had listed. Most everything during 2006-2016 I've lost track of apart from favorites.

Honestly, at first I thought you would run out of decent shows to watch. Didn’t know there was such a large backlog before the 90s