| that's completely subjective, but my anwser would be at least 75~100 days worth of anime |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VCkq0e2920 well I consider myself as a newbie but maybe this wiil help ? |
| I would say when you start to don't be surprised by things like ecchi scenes, I mean when you stop to say "wtf why there are tiddies in a chinese cartoon?" |
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| I'm not sure, and why does it matter? |
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| When you actually want to fuck 2D characters and make your own harem. |
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| Usually newbies tend to limit themselves to the mainstream so I'd say once you get over that and dive deeper. Once you get to the point where you know every trope in the book you can consider yourself experienced I guess. |
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supernicolasman said: I'd say it's really dependent on you feeling like you're actually able to talk to someone about anime.Hi, I was just wondering when you stop being considered a newbie in the medium of anime? I also wanted to know if anyone knew the different stages/levels of anime fandom and what they represent. Thank you for your response. And this in turn depends on who you want to talk to, and what you want to talk about. "Anime" isn't one monolithic solid thing. It's actually a bunch of different genres, each of which has a bunch of shows, each of which has a little fandom, but these fandoms are united mainly by convenience because everyone to varying extents likes some Japanese pop culture and it's mutually beneficial to share info on it. If you do hang around anime news sources for a while you will pick up on industry trends, which in turn can tell you about the industry and perhaps the fandom as a whole, but that's not necessarily going to tell you much about individual franchises and genres, which fans are generally more concerned with. Similarly, if you watch a franchises or genre for long enough you'll become quite familiar with that. You really shouldn't concern yourself too much with this question of whether you're a "newbie". Because it doesn't matter all that much, unless you plan on wading your way into internet arguments where people would try to press each other to prove that they're not "newbies"...which is a bad idea because getting involved in arguments on the internet is a bad idea anyway. Otherwise, there's generally no need to present yourself as an "experienced anime fan" (or whatever the antonym of newbie is) -- just talk about the anime itself, rather than using it as your token for social posturing. As for "stages", there's at least one youtube video about this -- Gigguk's "Life Cycle of an Anime Fan", which someone else already posted -- but it's a very satirical video and not really representative of everyone's path through the fandom, but just people who interact/socialize with it in a specific way. I'd say it's more like this: 1. Most people start off liking one or a handful of specific shows. 2. Then they talk to other people about those shows, and find out about more shows like those. 3. Assuming they keep going and end up watching all those shows, they'll gradually build up a list of assorted shows they've watched, and also find themselves talking with people about the broader topic of anime more often. 4. If you're talking about "anime fan" as a whole rather than just a specific series fan, then there's some point at which the person starts recognizing that they basically have too many different shows they've seen that they can't keep track of them in their head, and if they care enough, then they'll start doing things to help jog their memory...such as making a list of what they've seen. This is risky, because it can make individual series start to feel like "one of many" rather than "a special thing to me", but this point is also arguably the point at which a person starts seeing the entire anime medium as a thing that they think about categorically, rather than just about individual series. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| 1 - My personal opinion is +350 shows, there usually most people should understand what anime is about. 2 - This is subjective so there is no real anwser. 3 - Some people need less or some more, it depends on how smart they are. 4 - The most valuable thing that you can get from experience is knowing what the cliches are, getting jokes about other shows and apreciate art and animation better. |
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| I would consider under 20 days new to the medium. 20-50 days you start to become knowledgeable, then 50 and above you are basically an anime connoisseur. |
| I would say people move on from being a newbie when they finished around 50 anime. |
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DaCraziGuy said: 1 - My personal opinion is +350 shows, there usually most people should understand what anime is about. I have been watching anime for ten years now and it feels like I watch it regularly (2-10 episodes per week) and spend a lot of time with it (considering how much free time I have), still I have finished just 257 anime until now. It seems funny for me that I still have to watch five years worth of anime in the same pace to consider myself not to be a newbie. |
IshitatesoMar 15, 2019 11:37 AM
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I second this, was going to link it as well XD. |
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There are several factors and most of them are connected with how much time someone spent watching anime. 100+ days is the magic number for many, naturally lots of different genres. |
ZarutakuMar 13, 2019 1:12 PM
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| :P well I was faster this time I guess :x |
Sachyan said: When you actually want to fuck 2D characters and make your own harem. this. if you don't want to fuck 2d characters, you've clearly not watched enough anime. (body pillows are a bonus.) |
AnimeFreak-San said: is this a male gender issure...human issue...mental illness perhaps? |
| There's many different kinds of experience and knowledge you can have or lack as an anime fan. Different genres, common tropes associated with them, knowing about the history and the industry behind anime, knowing about studios, directors, voice actors, animators, writers, and many other aspects related to anime. It's very hard to be experienced and knowledgable about every aspect of anime so it basically boils down to which aspects you value more highly in your definition of a 'veteran' fan compared to a newbie. Is it purely about how much you've seen in total? How much you've seen per genre? How many different kinds of shows you've seen? Or is it about how much you know about anime and the people making them? Who's more of a newbie, the guy having seen 500 anime but who doesn't know who Tezuka is, or the guy who's seen 50 but knows a lot more about the medium? A guy who's watched 100 ecchi harems but never any other genre or a guy who watched 50 anime but from all across the board? There really isn't any clear answer to that question. The best I can come up with is that the majority of anime fans are neither newbies nor veterans once they've seen at least a few dozen titles, but in some middle ground instead where they know some stuff based on what they've seen but there's usually even more things related to the medium that they don't know anything about (genres outside their range, older stuff, industry stuff etc...). |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| Dunno.. when you start searching for some specific Anime instead of just watching whatever is currently mainstream/popular ? Basically be not bound by "trends" and watch stuff unrelated to trends or age. And I guess the point where you are more used to all sorts of tropes and "weirdness" Anime has without reacting like some normie, who starts attacking "weird stuff" as it's end of the world whilst being unable to comprehend that it's fiction. TBH I have no idea what could be called "anime newbie" .... I discovered Anime, kept watching and watching. And still do... |
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| -It's when I stop judging every show I see -stop labeling everything out there as sh!t tier -watch them for enjoyment, not just for the sake of completing/collecting But hey, it's all completely subjective. Just tread in your own way. You'll be fine, and it's going to be fun as well. |
| Some people here have delusional standards shaped by MAL, at least in my humble opinion. Or think not newbie = dedicated fan for years. A newbie is someone who has just started out. Watch a decent amount of show's(preferably from different genres and decades), inform yourself a bit about aspects related to the industry and voilà, you won't be considered a newbie anymore. |
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| İ think you are not a newbie after you stop watching anime and give a break for the first time. |
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| newbie is relative if you talk to someone who things Shinsekai yori is obscure you will seem like a cool and experienced senpai, but if you talk to someone with a kilometric list its going to be the opposite |
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Kil-Kun said: Honestly, I think that this criterion is not so much "experienced fan" and more just "jaded fan".It's when you know all the tropes, get all the memes and refrences (Eg: "It was me, Dio!" or "Don't loose your waay"). This is the level you can find all the newer or casual audience and once beyond this, you can call yourself a true weeb veteran. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| It's subjective, but I guess it is after you got a bit more into the culture. Like, even if you haven't watched some shows, you still know about them. Idk, my friends consider me some sort of anime guru, while I might seem like a nweeb here or something. |
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| When you start trying to cheat in exam using your sharingan. |
Sachyan said: my number of waifu fucking is an ass long list :)When you actually want to fuck 2D characters and make your own harem. |
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| Once you know who Boruto's dad is. It's a long road ahead |
| imo a newbie isn't only unfamilar with anime titles, their genres, generic anime elements but also the culture within anime community, and the way anime impacted them as both a medium and a hobby I think I've stopped being a newbie anime fan since I got into psychological/thriller anime, and at time, I've watched enough anime and I was able to form my own opinions on different anime according to my own taste, standards and my affinity to these anime, or how much i can relate to them respectively, as I watch more and more anime, I began to understand more about anime culture and I've started interacting with other anime fans too, so we've been exchanging opinions, information and such as such, my critical thinkin skills (for reviewing anime and understanding different anime elements and anime as a whole) were bettered |
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