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

Approximately how many Anime have you watched so far?

Jul 16, 2025 7:34 PM

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1171

In 2014 I still didn't follow seasonal anime, I usually made lists based on recommendations from other people or lists from the Internet as a whole. If you want, also comment approximately how many years you have been watching anime!

ReMightyRonJul 19, 2025 11:14 AM

Jul 16, 2025 8:03 PM

LiSu8279

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Nov 2024

169

I watched anime since 2015 but that was when I was a casual watcher and a little kid; only watching the show because of the show and not because it was anime. Examples being: Pokemon, digimon, yo Kai watch, bay blade burst, Yu Gi yo, etc. I then grew up and started watching main stream anime that was on Netflix like one punch man and demon slayer. Then came the summer of 2023 where I then became an otaku and started watching anime all the time after discovering the aristocrat’s otherworldly adventures and isekai anime. And here I am, having watched over 300 anime (I only rate anime I want to hear discussions and topics about so my mal list would be way bigger if I rated all the anime I watched). So I watched anime for 10 yrs but am an otaku for 2 yrs.

Jul 16, 2025 8:12 PM

Alfilfieratore

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Aug 2023

I recently started my 142nd anime.
I count anime with multiple seasons as just 1.
Otherwise more than 300.
(watching since October 2022)

Jul 16, 2025 8:16 PM

Vouvoh

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Aug 2024

Slightly over 100. And I’ve been watching since January 2024. Anything that has multiple seasons or if it’s a movie, I count it as one. Unless that movie is an extension of something etc.

Jul 16, 2025 8:55 PM

Timeline_man

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Apr 2024

896

you know you didn't have to post this under a series, right OP? There's a general "anime discussion" board

Dreams are worth fighting for

Jul 16, 2025 8:56 PM

deg

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Jan 2009

109197

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you know you didn't have to post this under a series, right OP? There's a general "anime discussion" board

@Timeline_man must be a mobile app user and they make up 55% of the users here source https://myanimelist.net/advertising

Jul 16, 2025 8:58 PM

RIRT2334

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Jan 2023

Since I count animes with múltiple seasons as just one, i hace seen 643 and counting, of course MAL counts it as a lot more

Jul 16, 2025 8:58 PM

Otakupervert890

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Oct 2019

3273

1049 different series/1760 entries from 2014 with some that I remember from my childhood (early 2000's).

Jul 16, 2025 9:04 PM

neverthepeace

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Nov 2020

like over 1000 according to this platform? I wasn't actually keeping track on all of them so yeah, I missed a few I guess

Jul 16, 2025 9:09 PM

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WestOnAndrewAve

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Jul 2022

686

Almost 1800 entries on MAL hard to tell how many individual series. Started summer 2022.

Jul 16, 2025 9:19 PM

#11

ilusatus

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Nov 2017

253

Just over 300, actively watching anime around 2016.

Jul 16, 2025 9:20 PM

#12

baymaxemon

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Feb 2022

561

Started watching anime with AOT in ramadan (apr-may) of 2021. Became a seasonal fan in spring 2022.
So far I have watched 352 different animes (not counting seasons/movies etc). I watch almost any genre except bl, shoujo/josei, cgdct.

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Jul 16, 2025 10:20 PM

#13

Jojolion8

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Jun 2025

around 60 anime so far😭😭

Jul 16, 2025 10:39 PM

#14

kookool17

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Jun 2023

Watched ~150 animes with 370 entries on MAL.
I don't watch many 12 ep animes.
Started September 2022.

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Jul 16, 2025 10:58 PM

#15

EmotheViperette

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Dec 2016

I have watched 1514 anime 😤 and I’ve been watching anime since the early 90’s before the big boom in the west

Jul 16, 2025 11:00 PM

#16

Varbavahe

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Aug 2023

completed 972 and watching 34 at the moment

Jul 16, 2025 11:06 PM

#17

CosmicTornado777

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Nov 2023

132 Series
49 Movies

Jul 16, 2025 11:08 PM

#18

MeherabHB

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Apr 2022

136

I have watched 235 anime, no more no less. I always update my list

Jul 16, 2025 11:11 PM

#19

ReMightyRon

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Jan 2020

1171

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you know you didn't have to post this under a series, right OP? There's a general "anime discussion" board

@Timeline_man Yes, I know that, I even thought about doing it, but I thought it would be interesting to do it with Shingeki.

Jul 16, 2025 11:14 PM

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jawad1105

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Oct 2023

Alfilfieratore said:
I recently started my 142nd anime.
I count anime with multiple seasons as just 1.
Otherwise more than 300.
(watching since October 2022)

Same here i have watched 174 anime and count multiple seasons as 1 anime

Jul 16, 2025 11:14 PM

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ReMightyRon

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1171

Reply to deg

@Timeline_man must be a mobile app user and they make up 55% of the users here source https://myanimelist.net/advertising

@deg I'm actually too lazy to use MAL on my PC, I've always been faster using it on my mobile, I rarely open it on my PC

Jul 16, 2025 11:16 PM

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ReMightyRon

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1171

@ossuary no, my real count is on Aniplanet I have my reasons for adding 20k here

Jul 16, 2025 11:19 PM

#23

berserk2022

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May 2025

136 anime
and i watched first 3 anime in 2022
those were death note,dbs, school days
and then re start watching anime in 2024 aug

Jul 17, 2025 12:09 AM

#24

__Beatrice__

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Feb 2025

1602 completed entries - started 6 years ago

Jul 17, 2025 12:10 AM

#25

aDamas_46

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Jan 2020

i should be at 160/170. I count anime with multiple seasons as a single series. Otherwise it's more than 400.
My top 3 is JoJo no Kimyouna Bouken, Monogatari Series, (Persona 3-4-5 but mostly videogames) and Steins;Gate.
I'm following Gintama and I strongly thing it could reach that top 3 once finish it, I'm loving it

Jul 17, 2025 12:14 AM

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CheliosX

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Dec 2022

2895

Been watching anime since 15 years ago and I started using MAL 3 years ago. My MAL profile says 895 completed but since I started watching anime, I've seen over 1k+.
This season, I dropped 2 shows already (Ugly Girl with Bouquet something and Fermat no Ryouri) while I am watching/plan to watch about 37 anime or so.

Jul 17, 2025 12:20 AM

#27

TVofWizdom

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Jul 2021

1951

One-thousand, eight-hundred and thirty-nine completed entries.

Jul 17, 2025 12:57 AM

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Miry4316

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Oct 2022

135

Mal says 130 entries but since I count multiple seasons as one I'd say slightly over 100. I've been watching anime "seriously" probably for 5-6 years, starting with One punch man after my brother introduced me to anime. Then I moved straight up to Jojo lol, following my brother's recommendations, and I still don't get how I liked it SO MUCH at such a young age but hey, now it's my favorite anime of all time :).
One of the first anime I encountered when I was little was probably Inazuma Eleven which I love till this day, I'd like to rewatch it one day.
It's weird because I don't like soccer as a sport itself but soccer with powers? Hell yeah. I loved watching it when I was little, good times.

Jul 17, 2025 1:53 AM

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DeityNyxCiara-_-

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538, started during corona and was in hostel from 2022 to 2025 otherwise I'd be in 1000's.

Jul 17, 2025 2:37 AM

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kenegda

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Dec 2010

I have over 650 completed according to Mal, but I think it counts seasons and ovas individually so it's probably somewhat less. I've been watching anime for over 20 years, and admittedly I don't watch much these days.

Jul 17, 2025 2:42 AM

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Alex_the_reaper

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Apr 2021

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1000 +
MAL says 1260ish but that's also considering ovas so the real number is likely on the 1100ish but anyways, i like anime, its like my favorite form of entertainment, I watch series and cartoons too but im just so invested in anime that no other format of media gets me that excited.
And ik its a permanent cycle because while i wait for the s2/3/4 of a show i rly want studios will end up dropping some original masterpiece out of nowhere that will get me hooked up too.
part of the reason the count is high is because i always give a chance to any show, only then will i know if its for me or not, none of that stupid mentality of "all isekai is trash" "all sol is boring" "all bl/gl is predatory" "its bad because its old", every show is a show amd deserves an opportunity to give me a good or bad impression.
one thing that i take from it is the sheer amount of shows i can name from top of my head and characters i can recognize from edits/wallpapers/tatoos, etc. still i like to stay truthful to my list MAL doesn't award u from having more or less shows watched, if u mark a show as seen but cannot remember it nor have at least an opinion on it then its liking you're farming exp on a clicker simulator 😅

Jul 17, 2025 3:26 AM

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lazyberlin

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Miry4316 said:
Mal says 130 entries but since I count multiple seasons as one I'd say slightly over 100. I've been watching anime "seriously" probably for 5-6 years, starting with One punch man after my brother introduced me to anime. Then I moved straight up to Jojo lol, following my brother's recommendations, and I still don't get how I liked it SO MUCH at such a young age but hey, now it's my favorite anime of all time :).
One of the first anime I encountered when I was little was probably Inazuma Eleven which I love till this day, I'd like to rewatch it one day.
It's weird because I don't like soccer as a sport itself but soccer with powers? Hell yeah. I loved watching it when I was little, good times.

you have watched 70 animes

Jul 17, 2025 3:28 AM

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Miry4316

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lazyberlin said:

you have watched 70 animes

Ah well my bad, I guess I'll get there

Jul 17, 2025 3:53 AM

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Sainda

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196

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@LiSu8279 on a different note, I think you're really based to have all your fav characters be MCs

Jul 17, 2025 4:06 AM

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DragyG

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Dec 2018

1462

MAL says 341 but I don't know whether it includes dropped ones or no.

Anyway I just watch what seems fun from the trailers and the animes that include my favourite voice actors / actresses. I'm not the kind of person to watch all animes in a season just to say I rate 3/4 of them under 3/10.

Jul 17, 2025 4:08 AM

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SoloNecromancer

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Anime Rules the world

Jul 17, 2025 4:11 AM

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SoloNecromancer

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941

my profile says it's 572 Anime's
some i might have forgotten to add them to my list!
my first anime after i grown up was Princess mononoke ❤
it totally blew my mind

Anime Rules the world

Jul 17, 2025 5:21 AM

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Jul 17, 2025 5:24 AM

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UberBat

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In terms of completed it stands at 572 (including seasons and ovas) but I'll definitely be hitting over 600 by about October or when the current seasonal shows start to finish.

Jul 17, 2025 5:25 AM

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Zarutaku

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"Approximately how many Anime have you watched so far?"

Over 1000

*kappa*

Jul 17, 2025 5:31 AM

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DesuMaiden

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Jul 2013

14380

I don't know the exact number of anime shows I watched. But I don't typically list the shows I watch on MAL. It is not worth the effort listing what I watch on here.

I have approximately 1 terabyte of anime on my computer.

Jul 17, 2025 5:44 AM

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LiSu8279

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Sainda said:
@LiSu8279 on a different note, I think you're really based to have all your fav characters be MCs

Thx man (30 characters limit: If they feel like they’ll be my best friend or a
superhero then they’re my fav)

Jul 17, 2025 5:48 AM

#43

Atromentina

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Apr 2023

440

If we count all the anime shorts, commercials and music videos that are listed as individual entries on this platform, I could easily get to 400 to 500 entries I guess, but I'm too lazy to add them to my list and also I think they'd "clog" it with pointless garbage, so counting only the important stuff I'd say that I've watched about 250 anime.

Jul 17, 2025 7:51 AM

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AakBan_Pochi29

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332

I've actually watched more than 200 but I've forgotten the names of some I watched a long time ago. my first anime was Shinchan and I was around 5 or 6 then. but after that I didn't watch anything cause I couldn't connect with the Japanese culture.
it was only in 2021, first year of college, going through a pretty bad depressing phase that I got into anime. Found Barakamon. inspired me. and then it went on. I would like to add that anime made me appreciate small things.

Jul 17, 2025 8:06 AM

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zombie_pegasus

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15921

I've seen over 4000 but less than 5000, and it seems like I'm the only person in the poll with that many so far. Most of mine are shorts, though. I've only seen about 1000 TV anime.

Jul 17, 2025 8:38 AM

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Shawn-20

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Alfilfieratore said:
I recently started my 142nd anime.
I count anime with multiple seasons as just 1.
Otherwise more than 300.
(watching since October 2022)

I also count anime with multiple seasons as 1 but I still watched 300+, anime like mha, towono quon which has 7 movies i counted it as 1

Jul 17, 2025 8:39 AM

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Shawn-20

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WestOnAndrewAve said:
Almost 1800 entries on MAL hard to tell how many individual series. Started summer 2022.

and you've already wat he'd 1800? stop ur fucking lying unless you REALLY REALLY don't have a life

Jul 17, 2025 8:41 AM

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Shawn-20

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RIRT2334 said:
Since I count animes with múltiple seasons as just one, i hace seen 643 and counting, of course MAL counts it as a lot more

it doesn't, you gotta add the others for it to count if you just add mha season 1 the rest isn't gonna be added

Jul 17, 2025 9:39 AM

#49

KimDokjaCompany

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Oct 2021

🤓Uhmm actually here. Over 100 and over 4000 is technically the same thing.....

@NoIdea

Jul 17, 2025 9:46 AM

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LegacyDaKing

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Aug 2023

Only like 50ish some and I started watching back in 2019 so… yeah I’m lazy😅

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