| I've been watching anime for 5+ years, but only recently joined the site. I can't seem to remember all the series' I've watched before. I mean, if I saw it, I would remember it, but I can only recall 30ish right now, but I know for sure that there are waaaay more I've seen. So my question is, how the heck am I supposed to remember the animes I've watched years ago? |
| Over time, you'll remember them...unless you have a crappy memory, unlike myself ^_- |
| I had a list before adding it on MAL. But I have series where I've no idea if I completed it or not. Like seasons in pokemon, digimon, dbz, db, inuyasha, hell gundam seed, etc. The list I had was all the anime I've seen in fansubs. The ones where I'm not sure, are all the ones on TV, where sometimes it's not even airing in chronological order. I just end up not putting that in. I know for movies, where I never had a list, I had no idea what I was adding on IMDB. I just gave that up after 20 movies or so. |
| I actually remembered a ton of old stuff I watched thanks to this site. I just browse around other people's lists and clicking on strange names that seem vaguely familiar. |
| I've only been watching watching anime for two months before I joined this site. I guess I got lucky. |
| i went through the list in mal to see which animes and mangas i've seen. i'm still not done and some of them i remembered so i just added. |
| I did it all based on memory then kept adding to it as I recalled them again later on. |
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| I really... don't remember them. My list should be larger than it is, but I can't recall all of them. |
| I used to have a .txt document of all the anime I watched, so it was a piece of cake for me. Tachii said: Me too :)But I have series where I've no idea if I completed it or not. Like seasons in pokemon, digimon, dbz, db, inuyasha, hell gundam seed, etc. The list I had was all the anime I've seen in fansubs. The ones where I'm not sure, are all the ones on TV, where sometimes it's not even airing in chronological order. I just end up not putting that in. |
Earth gets angry after a kick in the face. |
| I mentally recalled them. There were some which I didn't initially remember, so I only added them to my list later on. Come to think of it, there might be a couple more which have completely slipped my mind. |
| I added all I could remember at first which was missing quite a few. All else came to mind over the course of months as I used the site/talked with friends/read other peoples lists/etc. |
 ...even a saint needs a soldier to do the dirty work. |
| well you can search by the alphabatical order .. if you see an anime that you have watched just add it :D it may take time but its the easiest way :) |
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| I used my feelings. XD |
| Click on this. I dare you. | MAL Fantasy Football League | Currently Watching List RWBY Club. RWBY is anime. Deal with it. |
| I got bored at school one day and decided to make a list of all the ones I could remember in one of my notebooks. Once I found this site I just added the ones from my notebook then went through the entire list of anime shows to find ones that I might have forgot. |
MischiefMaverickAug 28, 2010 7:53 PM
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| I didn't watch that so many... |
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| I've been slowly recalling them for a while. I hadn't watched a ton of anime before I found this site, though. |
| I had only seen maybe 5 or so things before I actually joined, so wasn't really hard -_^ |
| I had backups. |
| I went through the list that myanimelist had of anime, and picked out the ones I had watched. Im really weird in that I don't have a hard time remembering a story once Ive read/watched it. It's the same way with books. sometimes I have 3 or 4 books (or more) that Im reading at one time, but I never seem to lose track. There are some anime that I know I havent finished that I couldnt tell you what ep I left off on exactly, but when I see a pic and a summary, I can go, "yeah, Ive seen that" or "no I havent" and at least know if I finished it and have a pretty good grasp on what happened with it. Now if only I could remember where I left my keys, or what I walked into a room for.... -_-;;;; |
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| Simple, I joined the site pretty much when I started watching anime. Makes things a whole lot simpler. |
| I couldn't tell you if I had watched the full series or not on some of the anime that I have marked as stalled or dropped, but I mostly remember them from the synopisis that I've read, or I own the anime. This site has actually helped me realize what other anime I want to own! |
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| I've been watching anime for close to 10 years, but I remembered I'd say most of what I've watched. I know I'm forgetting a bunch, but I'm fine for now. Every once in a while I'll come across a title I remembered I watched, and I'll add it. |
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Seasonreaper said: Simple, I joined the site pretty much when I started watching anime. Makes things a whole lot simpler. Pretty much the same. After my first anime, I discovered MAL while looking up stuff about it and joined. I know I definitely wouldn't have watched as much if I hadn't joined MAL. |
| I put everything in notepad. |
| I just have a good memory |
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| Most of the old anime I've watched are fandubs(which really sucked) most were replays/rewinds. I guess it's because of the recommendations and with the crappy memory I have. If I remember an anime that I've finished but haven't put in my list yet, well, I add them. Can't remember all of it though. |
DrakeWants2Speak said: Over time, you'll remember them...unless you have a crappy memory, unlike myself ^_- This ^-^ Until now I can still not remember all the anime I've watched. |
| They'll come to you. I'm probably still missing a couple, but by now I think I got most of them. Look at other people's list and see if you left something out. |
| I went through all the anime titles in the Anime News Network Encyclopedia. I examined every anime title I had on CD, DVD, Tape and LD to see how far I watched up to (ones I wasn't sure about). I looked at my calendars from 1997-2001, 2003-2008 to see what I had listed as being watched that day. I looked through my folders of hand written anime episode summaries. I went through most of my anime postings that I did on all the message boards that were still up. I erased the episodes I couldn't verify seeing. Sometimes I thought I had seen the entire series, but an episode was missing so I couldn't verify and be sure about it. Those were cut out. Figuring out the dates was more time consuming. EDIT: Oh...I forgot. I also went through my four e-mails looking for information. |
Terence_TSep 1, 2010 1:56 PM
| When I joined MAL I had only been watching anime online for about a year or so so there were only around the 50-100 range of anime that I had to add so it wasn't all that hard. And overtime I remembered random little anime I had watched before so I added those on as well, so I guess that my list should be pretty accurate right now. xD |
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| It comes back over time. You either get suggested something you have already watching or someone asks for a specific anime and that one comes to mind. However, I must admit most the anime I have seen has been categorized now, it is just an eventual process |
 Where there is no imagination there is no horror. || Arthur Conan Doyle || Happy Halloween! |
| added most of them right away though memory and those that slipped my mind i found by looking into recommendations from time to time. Other than that just picking off the small few that i forgot over time. |
   It won't give up it wants me dead god damn this noise inside my head |
| I had lists on other sites, so when I joined this site it was a simple matter of just looking up everything on those lists. Plus what ever anime I download I usually burn to dvd. So even if I didn't have a list I can just look at the burnt dvds and the store bought dvds and try to remember what I seen on tv. |
| I have the list of all the anime I watched in my laptop so its was easy to list them here ^^ |
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| Fortunately for me I didn't watch that much anime before I found MAL. When I started to watch more of them I was only keeping track of series I was watching. Plan to watch I would just put a bunch on a Notepad document. And would remember and recall completed series as I added them to my list when I found MAL. |
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| Use the Force.... Actually there are alot old school Anime which I am too lazy and shy to put in my list. |
| Lucky for me I kept a text document before I joined. (not that I had much to remember, but whatever) |
| all those pokemon movies & series I have to remember :O |
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| Go through your own anime Series, go to anime websites and look up their lists or just recall them |
Mariella said: I put everything in notepad. Same here.... |
| Most anime I watched before I never truly finished so I decided not to bother adding them unless I watched them fully. Thank you Cable TV for being so erratic when showing anime. That said I do remember most of them so I may add them eventually. I usually remember all shows I've seen fully, or pretty far in. |
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| Before I joined I hadn't watched that much anime so I remembered almost everything. Browsing through other profiles / the top list / the forums can help you remember the anime you have forgotten :) |
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| I looked into my sister list, which it helped me a lot :) |
| I had everything downloaded so i could see what i had watched pretty easily |
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