| I started watching anime around summer 2016 so almost a year. When I made this account was when I properly started to watch lots of different series. |
| I'd seen more than a good handful of shows. As a matter of fact, I'd say I was at the height of my weebdom. Was watching anime every single day and it was most of what I thought and talked about. |
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| i used MAL for almost a decade before i finally made an account, because i never thought about keeping track of what i was watching...and i started using it about 6 years after i really started watching anime...so i honestly have no idea how many shows/movies i've watched and forgotten before i made an acc lol |
| Depends when it started, if Pokemon and Dragon Ball counts, then at least 16 years. |
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| my first account was made in 2019, so 4 years later. i wasnt too big on watching anime until 2018 though so i didnt have too much to add to my list |
| Not counting the childhood anime, about three years into it more or less. But my list was small anyway. I was already more into manga than anime, I used to spend more time re-watching my favorites and I didn't track diligently so I forgot and just skipped adding some of the series I watched before and for a while after I created the account. |
| I had seen a grand total of 30 anime when I made my list. Glad I started so early because if I had gotten into it later it would be a lot more difficult. That was over 10 years and 4000 anime ago. |
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| I was very much deeply immersed in my bikini armor research. |
| Had watched around 20 anime at the time, and was in the middle of watching Toradora I think |
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| i had barely started watching anime when i created my account on MAL (i had watched around 8 shows) my taste has definitely changed a lot since i started using the site, watching the shows people used to praise around here during 2018-2019 really shaped me into the person i am today |
| 75 to 80 days worth of stuff watched prior |
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| I had been watching since I was a kid, around 08-2012. That said it was very casually. I mostly watched battle shonen, some rom coms/sports anime here and there though I never really dived more into the medium, than that. I was content re-watching One Piece and Naruto episodes. It wasn't until 2016, where I started just watching everything I could find. So honestly, I started becoming a more hardcore fan around the time I made this account. |
| I'd probably seen 30-something anime before first making a MAL (that first account is long gone, though), so not very deep at all; that being said, those 30-something shows were spread out over a couple years, so I guess I was a few years in. Maybe 3-4? I remember I'd recently turned 13 and I was getting more into anime so I wanted somewhere to keep track of what I was watching. |
| Been watching since 5, but joined MAL at 13. |
| I am a Completionist. All Anime/Manga will be watched/read. All FILLERS will be enjoyed :) Join my discord - https://discord.gg/CwhqqfGmHw :) |
| MAL only came to my attention in 2019 or 2020, which is when I made my account. I just added any shows I can remember watching since I was a kid, be it from Free Local TV, Cable, DVDs, and streaming sites, prior to those year. I've actually been away from Anime for about 7 years prior to joining MAL (except for Gintama, which I tried my best to be updated with all those years) due to entry-level jobs eating time out of my life, so shows like KnY, MHA, Fire Force, and a few 2019/20 seasonals were some of my first Anime from that/this era. It wasn't until 2021 or 2022 that I entered the seasonal realm. |
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| around 2 years after being introduced into anime. I was already tracking movies I watched, it was only natural I'd seek a method to track anime once I realized I was hooked to this medium |
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| I forgot how I first found MAL and why I decided to make an account, though I was already used to keeping track of my progress on books with Goodreads so I guess that aspect appealed to me, but it was around two years after I started, after I'd already watched the most popular anime/manga that was recommended (One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note, Soul Eater, Cowboy Bebop etc. so those entries don't have start/finish dates on my list because I didn't keep track). I know the first anime I ever added as 'currently watching' was Parasyte, as it was the first seasonal anime I ever followed and I had an account by then. |
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| Got into anime in 2011, so about 2 years in. |
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Been watching since 5, but joined MAL at 13.
| @AllAlone8 i totally believe you have watched 1000+ days of anime. |
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| I had been watching anime for about 10 years. I didn't know the website before. It's not very famous. |
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I started seriously watching anime around late 2019 and earl 2020, if you ignore watching pokemon and inazuma 11 as a child, but I made my MAL account in 2024 cause I wanted to find a way to keep track of the anime I was watching.
otakupro68 said: I started seriously watching anime around late 2019 and earl 2020, if you ignore watching pokemon and inazuma 11 as a child, but I made my MAL account in 2024 cause I wanted to find a way to keep track of the anime I was watching. Same, but started watching seriously mid 2023 and made account to track stuff in 2024. |
| Almost three years in and still what I would consider as toward the beginning. Just like the middle or end of the beginning phase rather than the pure beginning beginning, if you know what I mean. Apropos of that Churchillian WWII-related quote of neither being the end nor even the beginning of the end, but perhaps the end of the beginning. I started in September of 2016 and joined MAL in June of 2019, so mid-year, a few months before the three year mark (though had started lurking the forum and on and off occasionally referencing the individual anime series' webpages in the database a while before that, since it kept recurring in appearances as a prominent resource toward the top of the first page of search results). But in 2016 from September through the end of the year I only watched six series and between 2017 and 2018 I only watched a handful as well. It wasn't actually until March of 2019, right on the heels of finishing an Inuyasha rewatch, that I began watching series regularly back to back. And then in 2020 dipped my toes into seasonals and then due to life events became a regular seasonal watcher in 2021, but still watched older/finished series in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. In 2024 and this year of 2025 though I've basically been seasonals-only so I need to really switch things up and get into my massive and ever-growing backlog. |
| I was there. I was there when Toonami first started. Not the one with Tom, but when Toonami was hosted by Moltar. Been MAL'ing for almost a year now. I probably seen more anime but I added everything I can remember on my list. Anything I can remember and can rate. |
| I had been "officially" watching anime for about 4 and a half years before joining MAL, with around 251 titles completed. So by title completion, I was 6.9% of the way along, and by time, 19.4%. |
| I started watching anime in early 90ties but I guess I started being serious about it in around 2005 or it was 2006. I found MAL when I searched on google some anime titles but I was using it for a year without registering. I opened account here when I decided that it would be a little bit more easier to keep track series than my excel list. |
| About 14 years, from 2007 when Naruto was airing on Toonami, though I only seriously started watching around when I made this account. Before it though I mostly watched casually, probably watched about 50 or so different series. It was kind of a struggle to remember everything I watched when adding everything actually, but I think I got basically everything worth remembering. I think I heard about MAL way before though, or at least visited the site, but never felt compelled to make my own account until my friend showed me her list and I thought it was actually pretty neat. |
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