| Thread vastly rewritten to remove personal storytelling. So I was watching episode 10 of Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku where two students from different schools are studying together: One from Kikyo, a prestigious girls-only private academy, and one from Chidori, a low-bar public school. The student from Chidori gets surprised by the thickness of the other school's schoolbook, and shows her theirs, which is very thin, and then she thinks to herself that she used that very same book... in middle-school. That scene gave me a bit of an uncomfortable sensation, a sensation of inferiority, of "It's so over". In these forums, a lot of people have numbers way bigger than mine, so sometimes I get myself thinking "Uhm, if only I started watching stuff while I was a kid", "If only I watched more stuff during high-school", etc. Are you happy with your current numbers or do you feel you have to "compensate"? |
| I don't really care much about my "anime progress" thewiru said: ๐Thread vastly rewritten to remove personal storytelling. |
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| I'm happy with my anime progress, but I don't obsess over it. And I most definitely don't feel disheartened by looking at other people's stats being higher than mine, it just means that I still have an opportunity to watch a lot. Heck, I'd even say that when I get to that point where I have 300+ days of watched anime, I'd feel a bit melancholic because I'd have watched most of the "big shots" at that point, so I'd have lesser excitement to watch more naturally. |
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| It's not the size that matters, it's how much you enjoy it, never forget that when you think to yourself, "I wish it were bigger" |
| and people say my threads are stupid |
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| I mean you're not getting paid to watch anime so why stress over numbers? It might be cool if someone has 1K+ shows but that doesn’t make your experience less valid. At the end of the day maybe focus less on stats and more on real life stuff like getting a job or building new skills or just enjoying things without turning them into a scoreboard |
| I'm not happy with my anime progress when there are times i have trouble find new series interesting enough and end up find most of them average. |
pileofshitSep 13, 4:22 AM
| I don't watch anime for numbers, but I would lying if I said that my number till now didn't feel me with some kind of pride [along with the diversity in genre's and era's] So yup, I'm really happy with my current number :D, but that's what I get for being hyperfixated on anime for over 9 years now and not going out much [peak introvert here] |
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| Yeah I am fine with it. I want to watch even more mecha anime, more retro shows, and get more into magical girl anime; however, everything else I am pretty satisfied with all things considered. If anything I have watched enough, to a point, where I want to prioritize more re-watches (which is what I have been doing), actually finishing/catching up on older shows and other media, where I feel less content. My feelings on live action films, and novels, are basically where my feelings on anime were, when I made this account. Manga is another space, that I probably need to explore more of. Still going to occasionally jump in and watch something new, however, it has become less of a priority. At least, at the moment. Finally while there is still notable works, I need to get around to, I haven't been hitting the same consistency of amazing works, like I was in the late 2010s, which spurred me to watch as much as I did. I think in 2018 alone, I read Kingdom for the first time, watched LOTGH, March Comes in Like a Lion, Mushishi, Ping Pong the Animation, Mob Psycho 100, Ghost in the Shell, Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 etc as well. That is a ton of my favorites. I don't think I will see a year like that again, so I do try to not go overboard in trying works "I know I will like". Though if you don't watch those often, you hit more "fine" works (it's rare for me to "hate" anything I pick), that don't capture you. So I am trying to do that less now, and just enjoy. I am not worried about running out of good media, like I used to. thewiru said: Thread vastly rewritten to remove personal storytelling. thewiru said: Why did you have to word this question in the most awkward way possible lol? The thread title was enough. Are you happy with your current numbers or do you feel you have to "compensate"? |
BilboBaggins365Sep 13, 2:25 AM
| lower numbers just means more opportunities to dig through the rough to find the gems. I personally liked seeing my completed count go up at first, and it's fun to track milestones. It's kinda like collecting mounts in wow for me, don't exclusively play wow to collect mounts, but while I'm collecting mounts seeing a random number on the screen go up +1 gives a dose of dopamine. As for the impact other people's list / anime count has on me? Never thought about it to be honest, and I don't really understand what there is to compensate for. You can have 3000 completed anime or 5 completed anime I'd probably still talk to you the same way. |
AmbeonSep 13, 2:12 AM
| I do regret not watching as a kid, but not because of the numbers, because i missed such great things as a child and only discouverd them later on. I think i'm happy with my numbers, i'm trying to archive 1000 completed but that has time. |
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| I do not care how big or small my numbers are. I only care that they are accurate. |
| I do feel like I could have watched/read a lot more than I have up until now, but also during some of those years I was moving from house to house and some of these didn't have internet so I couldn't have. Also I was gaming & reading books much back then, it's only the recent few years that I've been dedicating more time to Animanga. But yeah...I do kinda want a bigger number than I currently have. |
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| Yes, I'm happy. I focus on the quality of the anime rather than the numbers. |
| I'd rather not have that many completed maybe, I should have dropped more anime, but oh well, I most likely wouldn't be the viewer I am today without that list on my back I guess. |
| I've been watching anime since 1993 and basically marathoning it every day the last 20 years. Were I to fill out my so-called numbers on this ridiculous account of mine it would literally break this site. But I won't because it's a meaningless thing like amassing facebook "friends," serving no purpose but showing off to people who don't care. You need a real hobby if this sorta shit is what concerns you. |
| It takes no skill to watch anime, so you can just go directly to the good shows and save time by skipping the bad ones. I watched anime since my childhood, and have probably watched less than some people that started binging shows full-time in 2020. I have a job and other hobbies. My only goal in the anime hobby is getting through my Plan to Watch and On Hold shows, but I'm constantly getting sidetracked by new shows and other hobbies. But I kind of get what you mean. I got into playing TTRPGs in my mid-twenties, and only started really getting into (playing in more than one group and running games) it when I was already 30. When people talk about how much they played during their childhood and teens, I get a bit jealous and regret not having started earlier. I felt like I needed to catch up and had five games a week for a couple of years, at some point it felt like a chore, so I toned it down, and I stopped caring about the quantity. |
Reply to Zarutaku
I don't really care much about my "anime progress"
thewiru said:
Thread vastly rewritten to remove personal storytelling.
๐Thread vastly rewritten to remove personal storytelling.
| @Zarutaku Same. I don't care that much, if at all, about my "anime progress" as it is described in the original post... thewiru said: ... that's, more or less, what I wrote before the previous thread got deleted and I saw an error while trying to send my reply, lol.Thread vastly rewritten to remove personal storytelling. |
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@Zarutaku Same. I don't care that much, if at all, about my "anime progress" as it is described in the original post...
thewiru said:
Thread vastly rewritten to remove personal storytelling.
... that's, more or less, what I wrote before the previous thread got deleted and I saw an error while trying to send my reply, lol.Thread vastly rewritten to remove personal storytelling.
| @Adnash Same. I feel im older until now in this comment section and seems that most have more "progress" then me in here. I admit when i discovered MAL and started to know what Anime is (keep in mind i started to use internet at home when i was 14 and discovered MAL after being 20) i had some "pressure" to watch some shows. But that was it and also that tends to do with the fact, despite the "western" Anime comunity being small and Anime a hobby you dont talk in public with people who dont watch in some social circles, i feel there was a section of the community that was very... "Elitist", "oh you only watch shounen? You didnt watch the "X" masterpiece? You call yourself a fan?", stuff like that. In the end of the day, i watched what i liked over the years. But to be honest, wished i watched some 80s/90s shows that i missed out (now slowly watching them, love that era of Anime). But, i think no one should feel pressure to have a big list, because we watch because we love it, not for competition, if not, would take all the fun of it. |
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| Honestly, I’ve never cared much about my “anime numbers”. Sometimes I peek at other people’s stats and think, “Whoa… that’s a fucking lot”, but unlike the OP, I don’t need to write a mini-essay about feeling inferior over a middle school textbook metaphor. Looking at this thread, people run the spectrum... Some don’t give a shit at all and just enjoy the shows (Arkham, AnimeEnjoyer2357, _ohara), some get a tiny dopamine hit from milestones or numbers ticking up (Szczelajo, Ambeon, ApfelMyName), some regret not starting earlier or missing classics (XMGA030, Viriathus, zitronentee), and some focus on quality over quantity, savoring the gems instead of racing through a checklist (Jackson1333, BilboBaggins365). And then there’s the small group here laughing at how the OP somehow made a casual hobby sound like a self-help seminar (Catalano, BilboBaggins365 again). “Are you happy with your numbers or do you feel the need to compensate?” Honestly, that shit reads less like a question and more like a midlife crisis disguised as anime commentary. Anime isn’t a scoreboard, it’s supposed to be fun. I’ll just stick to enjoying my own ride, occasionally discovering new shit to watch, and let people like the OP worry about their imaginary compensation points. lol |
ColourWheelSep 13, 7:04 AM
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I see you've been reading Calvin & Hobbes again. |
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| i dont really care, quality over quantity.. |
| I mean watching anime isn't like 100% completing every aspect of an RPG. I've long since come to the realization that there are just too many anime to watch in my life...and that's ok. I try to do research from time to time to see what older anime are out there that might be interesting...that list is quite long meanwhile new anime is coming out fast and furiously...so I'll just go with the flow and hopefully I will catch some true gems and avoid the truly terrible ones like Re:Zero and I Shall Survive Using Potions. |
The Matrix has you... |
| I don't watch anime for the numbers, I watch it for entertainment. |
| Anime progress? What is that? Can you spend it? Certainly not something someone can proud of. |
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| Watching anime is not an achievement or a skill. There isn't really "progress" to be made. Ignoring your usual weird wording of things relating to anime as a hobby, I'm happy that I've watched a lot of the shows that I was really wanting to get around to recently. Still got some bigger completed ones to get through (Silver Spoon, Chihayafuru etc.) and some rewatches of stuff I watched back in the 90's (Outlaw Star, Captain Tylor) but am hoping to have fewer seasonals next time around so I can catch up a bit. |
| I basically don't even watch anime anymore, so what are we even talking about ๐ |
| Anti-aliasing enthusiast |
| I beat anime ten years ago. Now I'm doing NewGame+. |
| Quality over quantity. One Nausicaa manga or Love Live Superstar S1 is worth 100 mediocre shows, and in the time it takes to watch that many shows, I can learn a lot of song covers from awesome Japanese artists. Meanwhile, the time I watched Naruto Shippuden, not even in sequence at that, is time I'm never getting back. |
   Time...it will not wait...no matter...how hard you hold on...it escapes you... |
| Call it compensating, but lets face it, there is more media out there than I can consume in 3 life times. I need to cull/prune my interests. But I choose to just sort them and pretend I can finish all of them. All while I juggle the other factors of my life. So I can go self help book: Everyone has their own journey, their own personal story arch. There is the side of me "that looks yummy, I wish I watched read it" and then I go organizing to do it. As the hokkaido saying goes Boys be Ambitious (Girls too). If you say it is compensating accounting for the things you done instead, and thinking they were nice. If you compare at least change the outlook. Say I look at ColourWheel (No offense) and think "He is 20 years older than me. What can I accomplish in that time?" OP you asked in another thread about what can you make youtube videos off, I feel like your gen was thrown in a world where what exists and what is being created makes you guys consume shit desperately, not for fun, but to get on trends, so like the fox in fox and the grapes, people start culling things as mid and garbage OR they start pushing themselves to not cull and want to threat it as if it was an academic field they have to 100%, introduce, read a wiki on, read a summary, watch a "I watched this so you don't have to", hidden gems, and all this media sickness and twists. Older people are more relaxed on this, because they had more availability limitations since the beginning. But they will be trying to optimize too, so if they see that wicked city Laserdisc release has 3 minutes more footage than the blueray, they will waste 3000yen or more to buy the second hand of that. |
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| Answering your question, I am pleased with my progress, not in terms of numbers, but in terms of how much I have managed to reduce my PTW. For me, progress is partly about working to reduce the PTW and allowing myself the luxury of watching a particular anime just because I want to. Of course, those who start earlier or devote more of their free time to watching anime will have higher numbers. I think you shouldn't be ‘intimidated’ by other users' numbers; watch at your own pace. It's about enjoyment, not racing. |
| I don't care about others but I wish I got more times so I could have watch/read more. Like I brought Mushoku Tensie vol 13-15 for almost a year now and I decided I will read after I finish Monogatari. Well it's been 4 months since I finished it. And I yet to start it. I feel ashamed. If I don't before S3 airs I am officially a fraud MT fan. |
| I'm somewhat happy with my progress. I could always watch more anime every day, but I have obligations and other interests. I do get jealous of other people who have already seen all these interesting anime. They would've had more fun experiences than me and be able to engage in more conversations. I sometimes wish I got into anime earlier, but that regret often takes on the form of "I wish I could've used my time more wisely," and anime is pretty low on that list... Don't know what "compensating" means exactly and how you can even do it. |
| I won't be happy until I reach 1,000 days on both anime and manga. |
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and people say my threads are stupid
| @Catalano there is always a bigger fish. |
| I never stopped to think about it.. ¯โ \โ _โ (โ ใโ )โ _โ /โ ¯ |
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| It never seriously mattered in the first place because the myanimelist is more or less a tool for recording a personal metric of your progress in anime consumption. The keyword is personal because the list is fabricated and the way you go about creating it is what determines your satisfaction with it in the end I guess. But subjectively speaking, I'm pretty happy because I've enjoyed most of the shows I've watched. As for numbers, I assume I am at least above a casual watcher and in the 'solidly mediocre tier.' |
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| "That scene gave me a bit of an uncomfortable sensation, a sensation of inferiority, of "It's so over"." What's with the weeb anxiety? It's not a competition of who have watched more, but who had more fun. Like a 15 minutes short can give you more fun than 100 episodes of power fantasy which gets old and repetitive like an hour in. In fact the pilot for Little Witch Academia, which is like 26 minutes only, have fixed my bad mood through 2013. It gave my optimism. |
alshuSep 13, 3:56 PM
| Overall I feel I have watched a pretty good amount of anime nowadays BUT sometimes I do lament how heavily I was restricted from using any sort of device with access to the internet as a minor, causing me to only be able to watch anime on pretty rare occasions, despite wanting to... But it is what it is. I'm an adult now with all the freedom to watch whatever I want in the world. |
| You seem pretty obsessed with topics akin to this... |
| I'm happy with my current progress, there's no need to stress myself and watch a lot more anime just for the sake of numbers. Quality > quantity every time. |
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Reply to alshu
"That scene gave me a bit of an uncomfortable sensation, a sensation of inferiority, of "It's so over"."
What's with the weeb anxiety?
It's not a competition of who have watched more, but who had more fun.
Like a 15 minutes short can give you more fun than 100 episodes of power fantasy which gets old and repetitive like an hour in.
In fact the pilot for Little Witch Academia, which is like 26 minutes only, have fixed my bad mood through 2013. It gave my optimism.
What's with the weeb anxiety?
It's not a competition of who have watched more, but who had more fun.
Like a 15 minutes short can give you more fun than 100 episodes of power fantasy which gets old and repetitive like an hour in.
In fact the pilot for Little Witch Academia, which is like 26 minutes only, have fixed my bad mood through 2013. It gave my optimism.
| @alshu I mean, I explained it a bit more on the removed version of this thread: |
thewiru said: would've been SO BEYOND right now Or if you didn't had the experience which you have now, those would pass under your radar. For example in the 00s I tried watching Overman King Gainer and it came to me like a bunch of nonsense, thus I dropped it. But with more Tomino shows (with their weird dialogues) under my belt I tried it again and really enjoyed it. Similar case with Gundam: G no Reconguista - watching it years later I saw a system in its madness. thewiru said: but I feel that at the time those feats would surprise people and make others look up to me in grade/middle-school. I don't think teens from any generation would respect a dude who deosn't respect back the trend they are into and instead goes after obscure stuff. I mean you could try pulling a hipster pose or whatever, but still winning them would be hard. Point being Boogiepop was popular between teens in the 00s...but we are talking about teens in Japan. In the west it was liked mainly by the anime veterans. At that period in the west teens respected The Big Three and maybe DBZ (and maybe Saint Seiya in South America). Also nobody would respect you for simply enjoying stuff. thewiru said: Do you have a similar story? Closest thing being that I could watch some stuff earlier...but than again if I had watched for example Patlabor or Dirty Pair, when other bulgarian fans were parsing those to me, that would be with some horrible low quality VHS ripps, instead with glorious BD restorations (and yes, I lprefer those without the grains). Also fun fact - said people aren't into anime any more. |
Reply to alshu
thewiru said:
would've been SO BEYOND right now
would've been SO BEYOND right now
Or if you didn't had the experience which you have now, those would pass under your radar.
For example in the 00s I tried watching Overman King Gainer and it came to me like a bunch of nonsense, thus I dropped it.
But with more Tomino shows (with their weird dialogues) under my belt I tried it again and really enjoyed it.
Similar case with Gundam: G no Reconguista - watching it years later I saw a system in its madness.
thewiru said:
but I feel that at the time those feats would surprise people and make others look up to me in grade/middle-school.
but I feel that at the time those feats would surprise people and make others look up to me in grade/middle-school.
I don't think teens from any generation would respect a dude who deosn't respect back the trend they are into and instead goes after obscure stuff.
I mean you could try pulling a hipster pose or whatever, but still winning them would be hard.
Point being Boogiepop was popular between teens in the 00s...but we are talking about teens in Japan. In the west it was liked mainly by the anime veterans.
At that period in the west teens respected The Big Three and maybe DBZ (and maybe Saint Seiya in South America).
Also nobody would respect you for simply enjoying stuff.
thewiru said:
Do you have a similar story?
Do you have a similar story?
Closest thing being that I could watch some stuff earlier...but than again if I had watched for example Patlabor or Dirty Pair, when other bulgarian fans were parsing those to me, that would be with some horrible low quality VHS ripps, instead with glorious BD restorations (and yes, I lprefer those without the grains).
Also fun fact - said people aren't into anime any more.
alshu said: Also nobody would respect you for simply enjoying stuff. But what if I'm good at the stuff I enjoy? |
| What's stopping you from finishing 500 anime per year? In 2 years, you'll have crossed 1.4k anime. |
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| There's quite a number of fifty plus episode anime that I want to start watching at some point, things like Touch, Maison Ikkoku, LOGH, but unless I give up on seasonal anime or at least drastically reduce the numbers (which I'm doing more and more these days if one can believe it), they'll stay on the waiting list for who knows how many more years.... |
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and people say my threads are stupid
| @Catalano Two things can be true at the same time, you know? |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
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