| Probably around a year in. Urusei Yatsura, City Hunter, some Angel Heart, Yawara, Igano Kabamaru, and Jigoku Sensei Nube. I don't quite remember everything else, but I'm pretty sure I had these anime under my belt before I made my account. |
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| Not very deep. About a month from when I started. I realized that I can't track the anime I watched in my head. I also need a profile to build my taste for recommendations. |
| Ignoring the 500 or so eps of pokemon and most of yu-gi-oh duel monsters & GX that i watched over a few years when i was younger, it was around 3-4 years that i had been watching anime until i joined MAL. First started tracking anime thru my notes app (which I still do to note down series completion!) a few months before I signed up on MAL, but figured itd be more convenient to switch to an online tracker soon Living in a household that grew up on anime, it was pretty easy to get into it ngl. Pretty sure i was keeping up on a few seasonals (like BNHA s4 and Ahiru no Sora) well before I knew there were sites that tracked anime by seasons |
Made my first account back in 2013, so that's roughly 3 years after I got into anime proper. There's actually a snapshot of my profile on the internet archive from back then so these were my stats: This current one I made around the time I quit reading chinese and korean webnovels and got back into the medium after a 3 year long break. |
QQ3547Dec 10, 10:13 PM
| Well this is like my 15th account on this website (I hate this website but keep coming back because I am a masochist) :) My first account on here was sometime early 2022 and I started watching anime in February of 2021 so about a year. I use Anidb as my main account. |
IpreferEcchiDec 10, 3:57 PM
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| This site isn't particularly difficult to find for someone searching up anime btw...... |
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| I remembered all of it, so not very. . |
| I'd been a fan since 2002, but i didn't deep dive past Shounen and all that till 2016 and i made my account around 6 months later |
| 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 |
| I've been watching anime since 2016, but since my internet has always been slow and my pace hasn't been that low, I haven't watched that many. Anyway, I think I created my first MAL account in 2021, just when I was able to consume more anime/manga :) |
| Well when the Facebook discussion groups for anime get boring, then maybe you might create an account on MAL? |
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| I first used MAL in either 2009 or 2010 when I was looking for anime similar to Sailor Moon (I found Fushigi Yuugi). Then I would use it to find out about more anime every so often. However I never made an account until 2019. I've got 49 entries on here that I watched prior to making an account. |
| I started watching anime in the spring or early summer of this year. I created acc so I can not only track slop I've watched but also sent useless and boring replies to other people. |
mrBored0mDec 10, 5:07 PM
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| I've been watching anime close to 10 years when opening my account. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| I started regularly watching anime in 2012, and joined MAL in 2018. So it was about 6 years in for me. |
Magpareddi said: For me, I've only been watching for approx. 1.5years before coming to MAL. I was the same, with a bit over 100 completed entries. |
| その目だれの目？ |
| I had around 250 entries by the time I started a mal account. Most of them being longrunning anime. |
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| Around two years. Granted, I think that was only 20-40 completed anime, so very little. And I only REALLY started using it around August 2016, at which time I likely had already watched around 90 anime. |
| I made my account when I realized that I had watched so many shows that I needed a list to keep track of them. At that point, I had been watching for about 4 years, and had more than 100 titles completed once I finished filling everything out. |
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| A little over half a year. Started watching anime during my first semester of college in August 2015 and then joined MAL march of the next year. |
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| I joined MAL around 13 years after I got into anime. I started tracking my anime long before that, though. I had a list on another site from 2002 (ANN’s “My Anime” feature), and I kept a list in a Word document for a few years before that. |
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| Not very deep at all, just the tip. The very reason for making this account had been specifically because I was starting to watch more anime including seasonals, and wanted a more convenient way of tracking that. In terms of numbers, about six years and 180 shows. |
| Basically 6 months in. I started really watching anime midway through 2020 and I created the account on December. |
"Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness"  - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)    |
| Let's see...1st anime was c. 1965 when I was in kindergarten. MAL account was 2024. So 59 years. |
| Not too much ngl. Probably had watch 20-30 different series before creating one. |
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki I rate by enjoyment |
| Not very deep for my first one. Maybe, in 2011 with 70 finished? |
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| I've been watching anime well over 15 years before i even discovered MAL. |
| Pretty deep in already, mostly 90s and 00s stuff. I haven’t added everything I watched back then because of a personal rule: I won’t put it on my list unless I properly rewatch them and can log proper start/finish dates. Silly I know, but looks neat. |
| I've been watching anime since 2022. I created my account about a year ago. |
| Let's see this was 2008, so I had already have been watching anime for about two decades at that point. So yeah I was already pretty deep into the hobby, or should I say obsession! 😵💫 |
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| When I created my MAL account I had been watching a few shows in Japanese and a lot of shounen stuff on German TV. The Japanese stuff was what my brother was showing me: Death Note, Bleach, Evangelion. Else I had watched One Piece and Fairy Tail in Japanese. After I created my list I really got into watching more shows. |
| I only made a MAL account in 2012, but really got into anime in 2005. It wasn't my first listing site, though. |
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| I created account in 2021, watching anime and reading manga long ago before doing this. |
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| Maybe 20-ish shows in? I don't really count all the stuff I watched before I was really, specifically, into anime though. But yeah, I ended up on MAL, because keeping track of things in Notepad started getting chaotic. |
| I began watching as an adult in 2012 when I discovered anime streaming sites, Kissanime specifically, and had a kissanime a/c since then. I found mal in 2019 and moved my list here. I only had 147 entries when I started my mal a/c. I now have 1613. I'll credit a lot of that with starting and keeping up with seasonals in 2019, along with ofc covid and lockdowns when I spent a lot of time bingeing anime. |
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| I started watching anime in 2017, but I only created my first list on another site in 2019, and for the next almost three years I kept it there until I created it here. From now on, I have statistics for each year in my profile. |
| As my username is supposed to suggest, my actual anime list is elsewhere. I only added in a few of the anime I watched, which is also why my statistic looks weird with two peaks. Been watching for about 20 years. |
| I started watching anime on TV in 2003 and I was already addicted to anime at the point I created my MAL account, the only difference is that I slowly shifted to watching anime online after creating my account. |
| I had been watching anime for about 5 years when I opened a MAL account (but I've been using the site without an account for longer than that). |
| Only about a year when I came to MAL. I never thought about joining but honestly I'm glad I did. MAL is a cool place |
OTAKU/Weeb since Mid-1990's... Joined MAL in 2018; I Already Had an Entire Teen-to-Adulthood's Worth of Anime Experiences... Well Before i ever even Showed my face around here... |
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