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Mar 19, 2017 2:07 AM
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By today, I mean 2017 of March...... The last forum about this topic was 5 years ago and I was wondering if I should ask about this today?

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Mar 19, 2017 2:16 AM
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I'm sure there is a more recent thread about this, but it either got deleted, or it used some unusual wording in the title since i couldn't find it either. This is edited from a post of mine in an unrelated thread.

It doesn't come up more often because you can just go to the Top Anime page to the last one by changing the url with a bit of trial and error -> https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?limit=12600

Some notable details about how the top is ordered:
Tenkuu Danzai Skelter+Heaven, the infamously lowest rated anime, is "Ranked #8341".
This is the amount of non-hentai anime, with at least one episode, and 50 ratings.
After that, the anime with less than 50 ratings are ordered alphabetically.

Zumomo to Nupepe is the last anime with a rank, at #11187. (there is also Zunda Horizon, but that one will certainly get more than 50 ratings soon)
This means there are 2862 non-hentai entries with less than 50 ratings.

And between Zumomo and the last page, there are ~1400 hentai and "Not Yet Aired" anime.


And the second part of that post of mine from from another thread about why the ID in the URL for recent anime are in the 30k range:
romagiaMar 19, 2017 2:27 AM
Mar 19, 2017 2:22 AM
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I don't know if this is correct, but if you go to the summary page for any of the currently airing shows, there's a number in the URL. My hunch is that that's the amount of titles recorded in the database, which is a bit over 33k.
Mar 19, 2017 2:29 AM
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Ericonator said:
I don't know if this is correct, but if you go to the summary page for any of the currently airing shows, there's a number in the URL. My hunch is that that's the amount of titles recorded in the database, which is a bit over 33k.
This would be incorrect, just as romagia said, since that 33k is including about 100 Cory in the Houses and even more Avatar the Last Airbenders. Rather than counting how many times people have requested an anime to be added to the database it would be better to count how many anime the database has accepted, which is around 12k anime.
Mar 19, 2017 2:33 AM
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zombie_pegasus said:
Ericonator said:
I don't know if this is correct, but if you go to the summary page for any of the currently airing shows, there's a number in the URL. My hunch is that that's the amount of titles recorded in the database, which is a bit over 33k.
This would be incorrect, just as romagia said, since that 33k is including about 100 Cory in the Houses and even more Avatar the Last Airbenders. Rather than counting how many times people have requested an anime to be added to the database it would be better to count how many anime the database has accepted, which is around 12k anime.


Ah, I see, thank you for clarifying.
Mar 19, 2017 2:46 AM
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I see.........................................................................

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Mar 19, 2017 2:48 AM
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according to malgraph, i have completed 342 anime which is 2.71% of all anime.
by that numbers, i calculate it with my math skill and found total anime in mal db is 12619.99
Mar 19, 2017 4:22 AM
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Thank you, Romagia. I had wondered about the number myself.

Nurlela said:
according to malgraph, i have completed 342 anime which is 2.71% of all anime.
by that numbers, i calculate it with my math skill and found total anime in mal db is 12619.99


:thumbsup: :naruhodo: :clever:


*darn, using my right hand is off-limits for a while. Typing with my left hand only is ... eww.*
Jan 24, 2019 9:24 AM
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Oct 8, 2019 3:42 AM

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There are less than 16k anime. It's hard to know the exact number tho.
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Tista said:
There are less than 16k anime. It's hard to know the exact number tho.

Gotta watch 'em all lol. I've got a pretty long way to go.
Oct 8, 2019 3:56 AM

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Now that i remember there's an user here who has all the anime entries in his list but i really don't remember his username. Gonna come back here in 15 mins after i find him.
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Tista said:
There are less than 16k anime. It's hard to know the exact number tho.

Gotta watch 'em all lol. I've got a pretty long way to go.
Same here. It's gonna take quite some time lol but we should never give up
Oct 8, 2019 3:58 AM

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https://myanimelist.net/profile/lanblade

This is the user I was talking about. He is one of the few legitimate people who has seen all these anime.
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Tista said:
https://myanimelist.net/profile/lanblade

This is the user I was talking about. He is one of the few legitimate people who has seen all these anime.

I get amazed by things like this. Some would mock the person and say they have no life and make jokes. But the way I see it, this person is just as amazing as anybody who strives to be No.1 at something.
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D8cbeidnd7dne said:
https://myanimelist.net/profile/lanblade

This is the user I was talking about. He is one of the few legitimate people who has seen all these anime.


Actually there are users with more entries, the one with the higher number of completed anime I've seen till now is Spacecowboy : https://myanimelist.net/profile/spacecowboy


But, (as for now) in mal there are 17510 anime if we count hentai too https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?limit=17500
May 6, 2021 7:20 AM
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Today they have 17800 in the database

Day: 06/05/2021

https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?limit=17800
May 6, 2021 7:56 AM

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WhiteBear8749 said:
Today they have 17800 in the database

Day: 06/05/2021

https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?limit=17800


I need to watch lots of anime. Since i haven't even watched 10% of it.
May 31, 2021 9:08 AM
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Even the spacecowboy didn’t watch it all from anime

https://myanimelist.net/profile/spacecowboy
Apr 1, 2022 9:44 AM
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I found the numbers are different in ALL ANIME and MOST POPULAR, respectively 19661 and 19665. Why?
23795 in MOST FAVORITED.
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As this moment there are 24 517 anime and 63 793 manga in database if I counted right

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