| For me, my main reason is of course to watch it for entertainment. I want to enjoy myself and watching anime is the way to go, BUT.. I do admit that once I joined MAL, I started getting interested in completing as many anime as possible. But that is ultimately only a second motive, a fun hobby on the side. I still mainly try to start watching only shows I think I will enjoy or shows that I am interested in. But I do watch all the OVA's and Specials and they give me those sweet sweet +1's on my completed list, so that's cool I guess. To prove this point, this year I have almost only rewatched my favorites and completed very few new anime. I had 25 rewatches on my list at the start of this year, now there's a lot more. |
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| people who watch anime just to complete it are not anime fans. If I know why I hate an anime and its not tolerable I just drop it without any care. I can always pick the anime back up later if interest sparks back. Also this is mal we are speaking about, dont expect too much greatness. |
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| I like watching anime. I've re-watched many anime, some of them many times. Similar to OP, I don't bother with listing re-watches because I'm not in competition for how many days worth of anime I've watched. I keep track of which anime I've seen already because I've read so many Synopsis. I don't always remember if a show sounds familiar just from that, or from actually watching it. |
 You're never too old to watch anime. If I ever stop watching anime, check my pulse I'm likely dead. I wake up with coffee & anime, I go to sleep with coffee & anime. Sorry if my sarcasm is bad, it's not my first language. |
| I've ever thought about doing that, but i quickly denies that by simply asking myself "why should i?" I watch anime for the sake of enjoyment, and because its my hobby. If i don't enjoys it, i will drop it. If i enjoys it, i will continue it. |
jarring said: To touch on this. I actually really love looking at the numbers for what i've watched, especially using Graph's analytics, it gives me a lot to think about. I compare and contrast my ratings between shows a lot, try to define my tastes more and think carefully about how i feel about certain themes. In general it's made me more conscious about myself, i enjoy things more, and i also hate things more.I just don't get the appeal of this site other than the forums. It just seems like a kind of pissing contest for weebs. |
 I don't believe in the Devil. You should. He believes in you. |
| I have no qualms of dropping anime. I'm not going to sit through something I dislike or doesn't have me interest just for completion. If I start doing that, watching anime will just turn into a chore, instead of an enjoyable hobby. |
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| For me it kind of depends on the series. I'll rarely ever finish an anime series I find myself absolutely hating, but sometimes when I watch anime I find myself wanting to sit back, relax, and more or less shut my brain off for a few hours. When I'm in that kind of mood I'll continue watching an anime even if it doesn't particularly interest me, sometimes even if I dislike it. It's pretty much the primary reason I've watched shows like Date A Live or Irregular at Magic High School, both of those being shows I consider pretty bad and boring. That's just more of a personal thing though rather than wanting to "expand my list" or anything stupid like that. |
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| It's you who is making "watching anime" a contest. If not, you wouldn't have created a thread about it... Makes me think if you actually make everything around you a contest. Like watching movies, playing games, etc. I watch anime for entertainment, and I do drop shows if I really dislike them. |
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| I also think that many users of MAL see their anime just to catalog as much as possible and not for entertainment. Particularly, I watch for entertainment. After more than 15 years watching anime, I did not even see 200 ... |
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| nah i dropped anime if i do not like it, fortunately i do not have a OCD when it comes to completing anime shows and it took me years (until now actually) to list all the anime i have watch since my childhood in the 1990s, like i just add some random anime each time i remember that i have watch it in the past |
| I used to, tbh I just did it compulsively cause I was depressed and there's something kind of inanetly comforting to me about stats and anime. however this is a terrible thing to do, my reluctance to drop shows burnt me out on anime a couple times. now I make sure to drop shows once I realize im not enjoying them or don't care about what happens. there's a ton of good anime out there idk why I was so determined to waste so much time. still enjoy the stats tho. I've been keeping this list up for years so it's pretty satisfying to progress. |
| At one point I wanted to be kinda a completionist but realized that's too stressful. I list what I watch because I want to remember all the small stuff and don't harp myself to watch stuff I don't like anymore unless I truly feel like it deserves my bad score. |
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| I like when I press the "+" and the pop up comes out "set as complete" and when you click complete the green stripe turns blue. |
| You are making way too many points and not all of them correlate with each other. Grab a snickers, live and let live. I started watching anime this year alone (before that i watched like 3 i guess). And i find this site to be amazingly useful. I have a list of all the books i have readed (nothing special just a wordpad file with the names so i kinda like MAL and his options) and this website makes it easy for me to remember which animes i liked, which ones i watched, which ones i dropped, my reviews or what i care about an anime or what i used to care about animes when it came to reviewing them and it all is as easy as making a few clicks. Unless you watch anime 24/7 and you have so many damn animes to update, add and rate i honestly cannot believe that you could think that using MAL is in any way troublesome. For your hate. Yeah stop caring about those people too much... |
| I never lie on the internet. What's the point of it... the chinese noodles ad is an anime and avatar isn't! triggered Check out my taste and my profile. |
| What's wrong with watching anime in 90s? I started watching anime when I was 5 and yeah I still remember some scenes of Speed Racer but no, I don't mark it as completed because I barely even watched 10 episode fully. Those childhood anime fill my dropped list because I only estimate how many episodes I watched based on how many years I followed them. Most my completed list are anime I watched post 2010 which are basically anime that I have collected until now in my hard disk (about 650 series). I am not fluent in Japanese, but I used to learn Japanese. No, it was not through anme, I learnt it using Minna no Nihongo books. Yeah, watching anime isn't a contest. |
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| I just wanna remember what episode I was on. |
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jarring said: While it's not 24/7 i do spend the majority of my free-time watching anime, but yeah, it is troublesome. i generally keep up with about 30+ at a time these days.. ... Jesus christ. That's... holy cow thats a lot of anime... |
| I never lie on the internet. What's the point of it... the chinese noodles ad is an anime and avatar isn't! triggered Check out my taste and my profile. |
| Completing a series is a big part of watching them and for the most part I enjoy most shows I watch and I almost never have issues with tolerance. But a key part of that is I tend to go into series blind, and almost at random, so it's pretty easy to convince myself to finish the series most of the time. I'd also say if tolerance is an issue with most series than a person is probably taking a series way too seriously and is probably losing the enjoyment factor. I aspire to be a completionist with most of my hobbies and at least with anime in particular it's rarely a test of patience, I also like to just be able to say if I ended up hating a series I gave it the best possible chance so nothing and nobody can change my mind. Then I never have to watch it again under any circumstance and can immediately watch something I enjoy vastly more. As mentioned I also find looking at numbers and statistics to be really satisfying. |
GamerDLMSep 22, 2018 9:24 PM
| I've been documenting the anime I watch for several years by way of an "anime journal", aka a Word document that contains the start/finish dates and a kind of stream-of-consciousness-review where I write about whatever's on my mind regarding each show. But I've found that in the year or so since I started keeping up with my MAL list, I've greatly expanded the number and types of shows I watch. By giving shows a chance that I normally wouldn't, I've discovered a lot of gems I would never have known about. In other words, my tastes have evolved and expanded as a(n in?)direct consequence of keeping a public list, likely because I'm more inclined to hunt down more obscure shows, and to give chances to genres I had dismissed before as "not my kind of show", instead of just coasting along on the most popular ones in my favorite genres like I had been. Which is not to say that I'm going to magically like a show I would have hated before, but I'm not just turning my nose up at shows anymore just because they're not what I usually watch. MALgraph actually tells me that Sports is my 6th-favorite genre by weighted score (and 5th by mean). I hate sports IRL, but I stumbled across Haikyuu and fell down the rabbit hole. Lunilah said: I actually really love looking at the numbers for what i've watched, especially using Graph's analytics, it gives me a lot to think about. I compare and contrast my ratings between shows a lot, try to define my tastes more and think carefully about how i feel about certain themes. In general it's made me more conscious about myself, i enjoy things more, and i also hate things more. I wouldn't say I do it a lot, but I like to do that too. Besides the Sports example I gave above, MALgraph says there are several other genres that I apparently like more/less than I'd thought. And sometimes I'll look at the ratings I gave two shows and go, "Wait, but I liked this show better! Why'd I rate it lower? Gotta fix that!" Whoops. XD |
jarring said: I just don't get the appeal of this site other than the forums. It just seems like a kind of pissing contest for weebs. The main appeal of MAL forum is threads like this XD Srsly tho, I like keeping track of things I've watched, and MAL is the site to-go when looking for anime information for me. Though, I don't have somekind of milestones like some people here. I only keep track what I watch. I think I haven't watched any anime for months. The last anime I watched was BnHA S3 and now currently waiting for it to finish. |
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| Umh, no, I don't watch anime for sake of completing it. Although, I usually finish anime I dislike once I get past, let's say, 50% of it. I don't get burned out on it, I got good at picking up anime that I'm going to like so it hapens very rarely. And of course, if I didn't chose bad anime on purpose. It only happend a couple of times tho I had some anime that I completed just for the sake of having them on my lists, those were so called "must watches" but I was relatively new to the medium. |
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| I did that quite a lot during the last two seasons that's why I currently barely watch anime and only read manga. It kinda burns away your motivation to watch anime. |
AnimePixelz said: As most people have mentioned in this thread, I too also watch anime for enjoyment/entertainment since it's my hobby. I've fairly enjoyed the anime I've watched and re-watched some countless times. Also, MAL is the perfect site for keeping track of what anime I've watched, enjoyed, plan to watch etc. Plus, MAL gives anime recommendations too which I find useful. That's sad if you're just watching anime for the sake of completion and that you care so much about numbers. It's just losing the point and interest of anime at that point. I second this. I use MAL as a plaform for keeping track of anime, especially my favorites. I'm pretty forgetful at the times so MAL helps me in a way. |
| I don't drop anime shows but if I dislike them I'll just put them on-hold. |
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| I do agree that because of mal (and doing certain challenges), I've been watching way more anime than I ever used to. And that I definitely am obsessed with getting high stats. But at the same time, it makes it more likely you'll find something obscure but still interesting or entertaining (especially if you already know what kind of shows you're into). Also, I'm used to suffer so it doesn't bother me so much anymore. |
| It's a fair choice. I stop it eventually if I'm too done with it. |
| Nah, just ignored them dude, ignored them. |
| I'm waiting for another anime marathon thread to encourage me to complete more anime. |
| I watch anime because it's a fun hobby. When it becomes a chore, then you're doing it wrong. It's a big waste of time watching anime you don't like just so you can mark it as completed. I don't understand this "no drop policy" thing. You don't owe the anime anything, so i don't see why people force themselves to watch them. I do wonder how the people who've seen thousands of anime and are around the same age as me can find the time to watch so much though XD |
| I only completed a series if I find the anime entertaining and interesting. I normally dropped the anime if it's not my taste. Especially if the first episode is boring and unappealing. The only anime that I finished for the sake of completion and not because I like it are Bosou Renkin and Free!. |
| This is off topic but I would rather like to watch 'completed anime' more than watching anime for 'the sake of completion'. Lol On topic, no, it's kind of idealistic to enjoy every anime you watch and mark it down as watched. My primary usage of MAL is to keep track of the number of anime watched, because I used to save the list on a .txt file before it got very cumbersome to handle. Then it just becomes a matter of using filters to distill the entire list and keep only the shows I enjoyed. Which in turn comes in handy when I want to rewatch a show years later and/or if anyone asks for recommendations. Furthermore, I don't watch any seasonal anime for the off-topic reason specified above. Too much effort to keep up with incomplete adaptations. I never get burnt out of watching anime as I tend to take pretty frequent and long breaks before binging shows stockpiled for about a month or so. Keeps the experience fresh each time, despite it being a game of patience. Then there are kids claiming to be fluent in Japanese after watching a bunch of subbed anime. That is classic 'i-only-like-sub' elitist banter. Wiener flapping never gets old between people behaving like kids. |
KreatorXSep 23, 2018 4:40 AM
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| I tend to watch anime that I'm actually interested in or that I know I'll enjoy. The only times I'll force myself to complete something I don't care for are if I'm already a few episodes in or for a challenge. Sometimes I'll be in one of those phases where I'm really into starting new shows, catching up on old ones, and re-watching. That's when I burn myself out and become completely disinterested in watching anything. |
| Sometimes I do watch animes just for the sake of completion, but only if it somewhat interests me and is a short series (like 12 episodes). If it's 12+ episodes and doesn't interest me much, I just drop them. I also watch animes from my "plan to watch" - just a few episodes - and if it doesn't interest me, I keep them in PTW list (maybe I will watch them in the future) instead of bringing them to Currently watching or On-Hold list. But yeah, I am not in a competition with anyone. I watch a series because I like it, because it makes me feel good, or maybe I feel relatable, or because I think that it's worth spending my time on. And not for just increasing the score count or days count on MAL profile. |
fancyjasper said: I do wonder how the people who've seen thousands of anime and are around the same age as me can find the time to watch so much though XD Same here lol, I also do wonder sometimes - just how! * Oh lord, now that I have seen your profile you also seem to be in the same bracket.. Damn you're younger than me! |
| So, among all this inflammatory reasoning that only feeds your ego and your superiority complex, haven't you thought about the slight chance that people complete shows because they like to complete stuff? |
| Personally if I don't like an anime I'll drop it, I don't watch for the sake of completion. In the past I would even drop an anime even if I had one episode left. There was even a time when I dropped an anime mid final episode lol. But now if I only have a bit left I'll continue it just because I hate having unfinished stories in my brain. But if I have a lot left then no I'd never sit through it because I could be using that time to watch something better. However I do agree that it is satisfying to mark an anime as completed and to watch the number go up. I think maybe people who watch for the sake of completion aren't necessarily 'competing' but perhaps they just find it reaaally satisfying. Either way I don't get it and it's not my thing. |
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srafayms said: fancyjasper said: I do wonder how the people who've seen thousands of anime and are around the same age as me can find the time to watch so much though XD Same here lol, I also do wonder sometimes - just how! * Oh lord, now that I have seen your profile you also seem to be in the same bracket.. Damn you're younger than me! Ahaha i haven't seen thousands though :3 I've been watching anime pretty consistently for about 9 years and i'm still no where near completing 2000 shows, like i've seen some users have. |
| Honestly, I'm not fan of ppl saying that they have been watching anime since they were 3 for same reasons as OP. I don't count those at all. For me I love making lists and started keeping track of what I watched on my comp since high school. When I found out about MAL, I just took my time logging them in. Also, if you look at my lists you know I'm not afraid to drop titles. Been in that game for a minute and three episode rule stands strong. |
| If I didn't enjoy anime I wouldn't be watching it in the first place. I follow a no-drop rule but that's because I like to see what a show can do with each episode and story/character progression. I use this site so that I don't have to memorize what episode I was on for every show I am watching. It's also fun to discover new (old really) shows to add to my ptw list. |
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| Lol, I just want to remember what episode I'm on in an anime. I have s****y memory so if I don't document it, I'll forget. The "completed list" is kinda just a trash can for me. It's easy to just dump completed stuff in there to get it out my way. It's also helpful if friends ask for recommendations. Anything else is kinda just trivial. |
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