How many anime must I watch to become anime elite

one (1), boku no pico

>>281216477 (OP)
You must watch exactly 3% of all anime.
Any less than that and you're a newfag. Any more and you have no taste.

>>281216477 (OP)
I don't understand how some people have watched some outrageous numbers, like 400-500. There aren't that many good anime, so most of what you are watching by that point is just shit. Why?

>>281218024
On what basis do you say this if you haven't watched much? Internet approved curated lists by random people?

people who track animes they watch are disingenuous

>>281218205
t. Watchlet

>>281216477 (OP)
300 should be enough. As long as at least 10 of those are 100+ episodes.

>>281218024
>I only watch the top 100 movies of all time.
>I don't understand how people can watch 400-500 movies.
>There just aren't that many good movies.

>>281219148
There are way more good movies than good anime

>>281218024
from what I can tell, the people that claim to have watched that many are watching any random slop that is released every season, nowadays by 2x speed or such, and they have literally no life and just watch anime and shitpost on /a/

>>281219515
>they have literally no life and just watch anime and shitpost on /a/
Where do you think you are, faggot?

>>281219515
I've seen almost 400 anime (and read a similar amount of manga) and maybe a dozen or so are series I watched while they were airing. If you regularly watch ongoing anime you'll likely have more than 500 anime watched after a while.

>>281216477 (OP)
only the one you posted

>>281216477 (OP)
Quality, not quantity

>>281218024
>>281219515
Even ignoring the irony of posting on the board for anime hobbyists and being shocked by people engaging in their hobby, having that much watched is not much of a feat.
Lets presume the following about a person with 500 anime on their watchlist:
>10 Six Episode OVAs = 60 Episodes
>40 Movies = 120~ "Episodes" (based on typical anime film runtime)
>200 One Cour Anime = 2400 Episodes
>150 Two Cour Anime = 3600 Episodes
>50 Three Cour Anime = 1950 Episodes
>30 Four Cour Anime = 1500 Episodes
>20 One Hundred Episode TV Anime = 2000 Episodes
This is a basic breakdown of what people watch most often now compiled into broad groups.
To break this down further, that is roughly 11,630 episodes. Running at 24min/episode, that becomes 279,120 minutes of anime. We'll round that to 280,000 minutes to account for errors with the OVAs and movies section.
As hours, that becomes 4666.5 (rounded to nearest), which in turn becomes 194.5 days.

That sounds like a lot, but let's assume you only watch 3 hours of anime a day. You could watch all of that in 1555.5 days.
That's only 4.2 years.

If you're a massive faggot and don't watch OPs/EDs though, we can cut this number down again, as that 24mins/episode becomes 20mins. That drops the total minute count down to 232,600, which we'll round to 235,000 (again, accounting for errors).
That becomes 3916.5 hours, which becomes 163 days. Watching anime at 3 hours a day makes this possible in 1305 days, which is only 3.5 years.

If you started high school watching 3 hours of anime a day, you would have finished 500 anime at a total of 11,630 episodes either shortly after finishing, or half a year before you would leave.

Stop being so weak.

>>281216477 (OP)
50 is ok if they're well-selected and you have general knowledge of at least 200.

>>281216477 (OP)
all of them. it is a long and difficult path

It's the biggest piece of dog shit that I've ever watched

>>281219465
Debatable but even if true, it's only because there are a gazillion times more movies. In terms of good/total ratio, anime is the superior medium.

Wtf is everyone a casual now

>be casual who doesn't engage in cyclism or going outdoors
>kick everyone from cyclism boards and /out/
>"I can't believe you don't stay indoors! What matters is the quality of that one time I went outdoors."

>>281216477 (OP)
at least more than me, because I don't consider myself elite

>>281219091
>you must watch 10 different shonenslops
"no"

>>281219938
Oh yeah, to illustrate just how much anime this is-
You could watch all of Detective Conan's TV anime and STILL have over 10,000 episodes left over.
You could watch every Gundam TV anime and not even crack 10% of that remainder after watching all of Conan. Two MASSIVE decades spanning franchises and you're still left with that much.
Maybe if you people sat down and WATCHED anime instead of talking about how you know what anime is, you watched Toonami once, this board wouldn't be filled with retards who barely know anything.

>>281216477 (OP)
I don't think its about quantity but quality. Try out many different genres and get experience. Watch less shonenslop and more josei. Check out some nice OVAs from the 80s.

>>281220880
>He claims to be an anime expert but hasn't watched shoenslop

>>281216477 (OP)
There is no such thing as anime elite. Around here, we measure your power level based on how fucked your reputation would be if normalfags found out what it is that you watch. That is the only number that counts.

>>281220995
I've never taken my girlfriend to my apartment because I have Mitsudomoe DVDs

>>281218024
Watching the shit ones sure makes me appreciate the good ones.
500 anime to post on /a/. No less.

>>281219091
>>281218024
>>281221129
Holy fucking casuals, 300-500? Are you trolling right now? I have 1,097 completed and I consider myself barely a real otaku. I know plenty of japs with over 2k watched and they don't even catalog that shit like westerners do. You faggots need to stop posting on 4chan and watch more anime because this thread reeks of casual normalfags. Anything under 800 is a casual nowadays. 500 has barely just lost their virginity to becoming an otaku. I'm a zoomer by the way so don't say I'm some oldfag millennial from 2004, I started watching anime in 2015 and I almost drop nothing and watching anime at 2x speed doesn't count as watching btw. I didn't realize/a/ has THIS many casuals, Jesus Christ.

>>281220995
Do you go outside?

>>281221287
Meant for >>281221188
You don't go outside

>>281219938
tldr

>>281221188
Tracking your anime with such precision is a clear sign that you're a poser busy watching anime with glassy eyes instead of thinking and living through it. I've absorbed each an every piece i've seen into my soul, developed neuronal pathways who changed my vision of the world. And that's why i'm not counting, the only thing i'm counting are the years i have left on earth with a mind nourished by anime. You famished throughbag! How hungry must you be to consume so much?

>>281220954
I watched DBZ on TV as a little kid, I've seen the original FMA, BnHA S1 and Frieren. I think that's enough.

>>281221188
validation seeking poser faggot

>>281221188
What is the best anime ever made anon? Was it worth it?

>>281221445

>>281221445
You're right.

>>281216477 (OP)

>>281221549
>mfw I see shounen

>>281221445
Your waifu a shit.

>>281221287
Not really
>>281221437
>>281221445
Massive cope from normal faggots who don't watch anime but shitpost on /a/ all day in their retarded generals. Watch more anime and get the fuck off my board you fucking casuals.
>>281221539
Rail Romanesque

>>281221594
That's a tautology.
"Your waifu" is always "shit", same as "your taste", no matter who says it to whom.

>>281221445

>>281221668
Your tatology a shit.

>>281221662
>Rail Romanesque
I couldn't think of a worse answer if I tried.
You pick the pathetic attempt by a porn company to erase their porn history and go clean as "the best anime ever made"?
Everything about Rail Romanesque, from the very inception of its brand name, is disgusting.

>>281221662
>Rail Romanesque
What is this, train girls?

>>281221739
>>281221739
>>281221744
I like maitetsu a lot, it was never going to get a full fledged H adaptation. Maybe one day we will get real animated hachiroku sex.

>>281221662
wait so your idea of "elite" (as opposed to shounenshit) is porn?

How highly do you rate Strike Witches?

None because anime sucks and is only loved by social outcast degenerates

>281221188
If you never drop anything, that means you've wasted time watching through like 900+ bad anime (It would be generous to say that more than 10% of anime is watchable) that you could have spent on much more worthy pursuits, such as becoming educated enough to realize that you were wasting, cumulatively, hundreds of entire days of your lifespan watching crap anime

>>281221885
If only that were the case.

>>281216477 (OP)
start with the Greeks

>>281221885
>dear di/a/ry
>today at work i was cringe all day long
>please don't unsubscribe

>>281221870
Yes porn is the end and rail Romanesque has none unless it's eroge. I like strike witches just like I like gup. I don't really rate things but most of everything I listed would be in my top 50. If you want a boring normalfag answer I love Haruhi, Saekano and School-Live the most.
>>281221909
I am N2 but I haven't finished college so you are right about career accomplishments but I did get to an at least barely passable level for my nip all thanks to starting with genki and anki.

>>281216477 (OP)
It depends, anime elite among which who, which group of people?
Late zoomers and gen alpha don't even watch anime anymore, they watch tiktok edits and if they loved the edits they will then watch it on Netflix at X2 speed.
Want to please millenials? They're all jaded 30+ people you'll NEVER please because you were not there in 2010 to talk about the thing when it aired.

Just watch what you love and don't try to please anyone.

>>281221539
nta but the best anime ever made has got to be Symphogear

>>281222239
millennials are joyless spiteful losers. the only chill microgeneration are early zoomers like me :^)

>>281221188
>1,097 anime
I don't see a point to watching that much anime, sure some mega otaku do but by then almost half of what you watched has to be shit because their isn't enough good anime to sustain that number. Have you considered branding out to other genres beyond anime?

>>281222239
>They're all jaded 30+ people you'll NEVER please because you were not there in 2010 to talk about the thing when it aired

Man, samurai flamenco was a WILD ride

>>281221939
It is the case though. Contrary to popular belief, anime is still seen as a taboo outcast hobby. The only big difference is that the battle shounen genre became more popular with normies. That's about it. You'll still get weird looks if you're seen watching something like Lucky Star or Konosuba in public.

>>281222563
>the battle shounen genre became more popular with normies
More like Shounen that feels somewhat "adult" (by having a realistic look or being edgy)
Death Note, Onepunch Man, Attack on Titan, KnY etc

>>281222563
man I just wish I didn't have to share my hobby with annoying failed normalfags who ostracize actual outcasts in their own spaces

>>281221539
Bang Dream MyGO

Aside from casualization I feel there has been some sort of miscommunication. 300 was to get your foot in the door. It's nice that it isn't just a novel interest or boredom but it's just a start.
People who say there's only x good anime (or x good anything) disgust me so much it overflows to bewilderment. Who are you trying to emulate? Even the most snobbish buffs watch their favorite artists' personal favorites, artistic inspirations and industry contemporaries (entire body of work of the initial artist is a given, what kind of halfbrained fuckwit would have a favorite show and not try to find more of it).

>>281216477 (OP)
At least 1000.

>>281222531
I would say I've only seen 200 bad anime, most anime is just fine. It's not hard to have cute girls and a semi interesting premise even if that premise often falls apart midway. I don't think you should force yourself to watch anime you aren't enjoying just to complete it, the only reason I don't drop 99% of the shows I watch is because I don't really mind, if you think some popular top 500 anime is shit you haven't seen real shit anime. Don't get me wrong, unwatchable anime does exist but most anime is perfectly fine. I don't dislike any genres. Shojo is the only genre I sometimes avoid not because I hate it or anything but because it doesn't really appeal to me.

>>281222710
you WILL watch censored anime with no sexy fanservice of women and especially minors! this is the future normalfag chose for you

>caring about your MAL numbers AND your JLPT level
>watching "1,097 anime" but being bad at Japanese
This is deeply disordered

>>281222754
Japanese is way harder than english and the anime characters don't do things on screen to showcase what they're talking about so i have no frame of reference to decrypt any meaning. The language is not sinking in, i don't even care are about writing it.

>>281222754
I don't use Mal or any website

>>281219938
Watching is not a hobby

Anyone who tracks the number of anime they've watched is a MAL user, in virtuality if not actuality

>is a male user in virtuality
What do you have against cataloging what you like on to a note pad and sometimes writing on that notepad why you liked or disliked it which no one but I will ever see.

>>281223126
But everyone has a rough idea of how many they've seen within a 200 bracket.

>>281222239
>jaded 30+ people you'll NEVER please because you were not there in 2010 to talk about the thing when it aired.
this , but its a good thing

>>281223074
Watching anime is, in fact, a hobby if you're actually ENGAGING with it, and based on what most of you are saying, none of you engage with it either.
None of you want to watch anime or actually discuss anime, you'd prefer to talk about the issues "plaguing anime" or "ruining anime discussion", issues you have no say in because you are part of the problem.

Seriously, where do the people going "Yeah, but there's only 100 good anime so there" get off? How the hell would you know, you've barely even seen any.
It is so easy to watch anime and engage with it. In the time it has taken some of you to shitpost in this thread, you could've watched most of a one cour series. If you've been browsing 4chan since this thread was posted, you could have FINISHED a one cour series and started on ANOTHER series.

This thread is a coping mechanism for faggots who don't watch anime.

>>281223280
nvke

>>281223074
then why do people say that bird watching is a hobby?

>>281222531
Do you just move from medium to medium, consuming the few things people consider the best, and then move on?

>>281223280
God i could have. An entire anime unwatched. How to see anime.

>>281222531
Yes and you're a retard just like that anon wasting his life watching 1000+ anime, you just consume slop at this point because you love slop.

>>281222531
>almost half of what you watched has to be shit because their isn't enough good anime to sustain that number.
You're only making that assumption because you don't actually watch much of anything and have already mentally protected yourself from the idea that you might ever be missing out.

MAL says I'm up to 726 TV series watched. Started watching seasonal stuff in 2011 and didn't stop.

>>281223434
For you, the retard slop consumer >>281223527
You probably have never read a book in your life just like how that anon thinks moelolishit is the pinnacle of anime.

You have to wait 10 years before you're even considered an elite

Why are /lit/ fags on /a/, kys

>>281223579
>You probably have never read a book in your life
Since you used my post as an example here, I feel the need to respond.
Have you read a book in your life? I know I've read the majority of the Harvard Classics, I read plenty of Wells, Ellison, and Asimov as a child, and certainly I have read Japanese novels like the Kosuke Kindaichi series.
But do you read books? Do you raise this point about reading books as a way to show that, instead of watching anime, you consume literature? Or is this another shield to hide behind, that instead of theoretically watching anime that might be bad, you could be theoretically reading books, which are always good because... they're books! (Books, fiction, non-fiction, genre, literature, any of them, they all have a higher predisposition towards being of lower quality compared to possibly any other medium outside of 'youtube videos', for what I hope are obvious reasons).

>>281223689
It's shouldn't really be a big surprise that people who watch anime also like reading.

>>281223746
The person talking about reading books has literally stated that they don't watch much anime.

At least this many.

>>281223579
I don't read actual books often recently but I've read plenty of books and especially in high school spent most of my time reading books, excluding the mandatory stuff. Most recent book I read was the Hobbit. Inb4 >genre fiction bullshit. I also read the Bible in its entirety fairly recently as well as some other religious and philosophical texts. And some history stuff.

And I've been reading some LNs in Japanese. That's actually current and not something from earlier this year or last year.

>>281218024
i read manga and i have 150 entries on my finished list, and around 170 on my current list, and i don't even read that much
however op is a tremendous faggot, who gives a fuck about some "anime elite", and on fucking /a/ of all places. most anime watchers are absolute plebs with shit taste, the fuck would anyone would want to be an elite of cheap mass media equivalent of a clown car?

>>281223859
>I don't like or engage with this medium that much, so listen to me

>>281216477 (OP)
Watch everything that has at least 9 or 8 score on mal (and wasn't released in the last decade or so), but make sure it's on the lower side of popularity (so no AOT for example) and some shit from the 80s, optimally completely random, unknown to most people even here. Do that and you'll get the genuine seal of approval of the council of /a/nime gatekeepers and a license to post the "normie filters". And for real: who the fuck cares? Watching anime or reading manga should be a hobby, and not a means to get validation from random strangers on the internet to cover for your own securities or whatever you wish to achieve.
Tl;dr who gives a fuck, just watch to enjoy. After a several years you'll achieve your goal before you even realise it.

>muh I watch 1000+ anime
>muh I read books
>muh otakumoeslop is the best!
>muh casuals!
I bet you 3 are still virgins, enjoy consuming more slop, there's barely 100 anime worth watching. Wasting all that time on 1000+ anime is genuine mental illness.

>>281223426
You learn about birds and use tools

>>281224014
Thanks for recognizing my superiority.

>>281224014
>says this while wasting his time on /a/
If you don't like anime/manga then you're free to leave. Good riddance.

>>281224022
so if i learn about something from anime then it's okay?

>>281224014
Get off my board normalnigger

>>281224014
>I bet you 3 are still virgins
good. I don't agree with them, but I'd rather share a board with those anons than normalnigger trash like you.

>gets called out for not watching anime
>cries about books
>gets called out for not reading books
>cries about everyone having no life
>as he posts on /a/

>>281224014
>I bet you 3 are still virgins
Get out of here you un-virgin!

>>281221188
This. The only case where it's acceptable to have watched less than 500 anime is when you've also read 2000+ manga.

>>281224177
No because it's an inferior source for entertainment

I only watch and complete 2 anime a year

>>281224177
Only if it's a bird watching anime.

>>281224884
More than the usual dweller in ancient cgdct generals on /a/

>>281216477 (OP)
>How many anime must I watch to become anime elite

Your level of exposure to anime does not determine the quality of your taste. I don't care about the opinions of people who have never dropped anything.

I'd rather talk to some casual who's watched 200 anime but dropped like 10 instead of some turbotaku who's watched 1000+ but never dropped any nor rated any under 3/5. If you have zero discernment for anything you are uninteresting to talk to

How many have I watched? More than I'd like to admit, but I've also dropped a fair few

>>281223074
If you watch anime, but feel no genuinely enjoyment or attachment from watching it, the thing that makes you want to seek out and check out more, then no, its not a hobby, you are wasting your time for no reason.

>>281224014

I watched every anime made in 1991, so I can discern that about 20% of it was fun to watch in some degree. And 1991 was a luckluster year for anime, so I imagine in other years, the percentage was much higher. So the idea there is only 100 anime worth watching is wrong from my perspective.

>>281227871
I just watch the stream and follow up on the ones that seem interesting.

>>281216477 (OP)
enough that you get bored of anime.

>>281216477 (OP)
100 is a good start. Try to watch some from the 80s, 90s 00s as well as 10s on wards. Kyoani stuff is a must watch for elite status since they represent the pinnacle of the medium.

>>281216477 (OP)
Just Inferno Cop

>>281216477 (OP)
It doesn't matter how many series you've watched. If you got into anime after 2014, you'll never be a true fan. No, Pokemon and DBZ don't count.

>>281230021
>2014
lmao, that's like 10 years too late.
By 2007, you're threading dangerous ground already. 2005 to be safe, and 2006 if you want to risk it, but the risk/reward still kind of balances out.

>>281218024
Just a matter of time. In my 40s now and been watching since the day I first watched television. Grew up with Sinbad, Lina from Slayers got me into redheads. By now I have lost count, can't even remember the plot of certain anime I know I have seen (full metal panic has some sort of plot, but for the life of me I can't remember it).
All beside the point anyway, you watch it to enjoy it, otherwise you don't watch it. The number of shows you have seen is entirely meaningless. It is all "slop entertainment", like most films, series and vidya.

>>281230103
I'm sorry, but if you didn't grow up with Doreamon and watching NGE live when it aired during dinner with family, you will never really understand the magic of anime.

>>281218024
400-500 is a fairly normal amount if you've been watching consistently for about a decade. Most anime(s) are 12 episodes, around 5h of show. You can easily watch one a week and you'd hit 250 in about 5 years.
I dont keep track of what I've watched, so idek where im at. I've only been watching for maybe 3 years seriously, I'm probably at 75 or something like that when I include everything else I've seen before I really got into the medium. I'm not that serious of a watcher desu.

>>281232181
Truly here forever.

>>281226867
I'm a regular in Hidamari Sketch and Yuru Yuri threads and I've watched 11 anime this year. So far.

>/jp/ is full of secondaries
>/mu/ doesn't listen to music
>/g/ is tech illiterate
>and now /a/nons don't watch anime anymore
Every board is turning into /v/...

>>281232881
11 in 7 months
->
500 in ~318 months = 26,5 years

If you started watching aged 8 and are now 34, congrats, otherwise ngmi.

>>281232941
>dropped more than watched
My man, do some research, what a collosal waste of time that could be spent watching other stuff.

>>281216658
fpbp

>>281232941
What is this autism?
Why do you have an actual chart?
How do you have 120 shows on "hold", what does that even mean? How do you start 120 different shows and go "ill continue this a different time" 1 2 0 times? Like after doing this for the 119th time don't you go "might want to watch one of thosw 118 Ive put on hold before startinf 120"?
Why do you have 381 rewatched shows? Why do you even keep track of that?

>>281218024
Okay I'll bite. I have "560" seasons completed. That covers anything as low as 3 episodes to as long as HxH, so that's probably why it seems outrageous. Yes I drop garbage shows and irredeemable slop. I really don't watch much.

>>281233024
>I have watched only 11 anime every year for 27 years
I was just posting that to show that people who post in those threads do watch other things. And that's also not even including manga, which I'm more into than anime.

>>281233677
Ngmi

>>281218024
These people are peak consoomers. They live and breath product.
>>281220096
Anime have a very low good ratio.
>>281223280
>I have to consooooom
Anon, I give up on most anime because they are meh or bad. I don't "engage" with anime by watching mediocre shows, I watch good ones.
>>281232428
>a season usually has 2 or 3 good anime
>3 good anime per season, 12 in a whole year
>it would take 40 years to reach 480 anime

>>281233881
Back to your containment general normalfag

I really don't understand why people who hate anime bother posting on /a/. The whole "most anime is shit" retardation to rationalize barely watching any anime is both funny and sad at the same time.

>>281233948
Anime website.
>>281233968
>you have to watch every isekaislop relesed

>>281233968
Half this thread is normalfags coping about being casuals while posting on /a/

>>281233990
>you have to watch every isekaislop relesed
Who are you quoting?

>>281233990
Shonen spics are underage, shoo shoo

>>281233881
Your ginourmous fallacy here is in presuming people only watch current year stuff. Anime has been going for 40 years, by your very own logic there should be at least 480 good anime shows to watch as of this very moment.

Furthermore all anime is slop entertainment outside of about 10 peak shows that had major influence outside of japan and anime, that could be traced back to that specific anime. The rest? All slop that has as sole purpose to entertain our monkeybrain enough to hopefully make us part with money to buy the merch or underlying source material. No different to watching marvel or DC capeshit in that regard.

>>281232941
this is digibro's animelist you retard
dont ask me how i know that
at least post your own if you're gonna shit talk people itt

>>281216477 (OP)
When you watch a lot of anime you're still a baby
When you reach the point where you're watching 1-2 shows a season being generous because everything else is shit that you've seen a billion times, that's when you're elite.

>>281234567
cope. there's six decades of previous tv anime to explore.

All of them.

>>281222239
This is only true if you're an autistic poor-mans hire for diversity and you actively annoy fucking everyone around you.

>>281216477 (OP)
It is not an easy path.
To become elite, you must watch at least a dozen
>!episodes!<

>>281218024
I used to watch that much anime, but between a job, kid and gym, I barely have the time anymore.

>>281217242
kek

>>281216658
Fippy bippy

>>281216477 (OP)
I would say about 1000 (even though I'm just shy of 700 atm). It also depends on what you watch too. You should go back and watch some of the classics/popular shows of their time. I feel like it doesn't really count if you just stockpile a bunch of seasonal anime.

>>281233881
>I don't "engage" with anime by watching mediocre shows, I watch good ones.
This is an incredibly childish mindset, but I know that's just a cope to explain away why you barely watch anime.
The real reason is procrastination. After all, you're a CSMfag justifying why you don't watch anime on /a/, all while posting images from twitter. You clearly waste more of your time on this shit than anything else.

>>281233990
>Anime website.
Your kind actively prove this site is NOT an anime website.
/a/, the board for anime, is filled with people who barely watch anime, who barely know anything about anime, and who continually justify why they don't watch anime. Through this, 4chan is not an anime website because nobody here respects, likes, or watches anime.

>>281234567
Dunning-Kurger

>>281239174
Polka my beloved, but yeah if you started anime in say, 2019 and watched majority of shows each season since, you've maybe accumulated 300 shows and it's all dogshit

>>281216477 (OP)
>under 200
Opinions invalid
>500+
Solid foundation
>1000+
Deep knowledge
>2000+
Otaku

Let's assume you're a newfag and started watching anime in 2015, if you watch 2 episodes, not even an hour, daily you would see an average of 55 cours of anime per year and would easily have reached 500 by now, and that's not even counting any movies. Even if you watch longer anime and no movies, 200 is absolute rookie numbers. And many people have been in the hobby for longer than 10 years.
Keep in mind that's not even an hour a day when many people have absolutely no problem playing mind-numbing video games for 2-3 hours a day. It's funny to me that the same people consider it extreme government overreach that China restricts children to a maximum of 1 hour of videogames daily. Retards on the internet spend 5+ hours daily shitposting, watching streams and playing videogames but god forbid you spend 50mins a day watching anime.

Since people are throwing around "good" and "bad" like it's something objective and not a matter of personal tastes. You could stick 5 anons in a room for 2 weeks and they couldn't agree on a single title.
So disregarding personal preference and just assuming your tastes align with the majority of people, if we go to a listfag site like MAL you could watch the top 1000 highest rated shows and you wouldn't even have seen shows basic shows like the original Gundam, Wolf's Rain, Ranma, Lucky Star, Texhnolyze, Eden of the East, Slayers, Urusei Yatsura.
Personally I think MAL Top 1000 is complete bullshit but it just goes to show that you can easily watch a thousand anime and still have missed out on so much worth watching. And that's ignoring how there are multiple reasons you may want to watch anime that the majority may consider bad, maybe it aligns with my personal niche hobby, maybe it's the early work of a director I like, maybe it's influential or representative of a specific era. Harmageddon is considered one of the worst movies ever made but was very influential for animation.
As for me personally, they could stop producing anime today and there would still be enough anime I want to watch to last me a lifetime.
People like you are just those who want to spoonfed what others consider good and aren't willing to try stuff themselves and develop their own opinion on it. The classic "anime fan" who talks about how they like x show because "it isn't your typical anime" (has only watched anime that was popular outside Japan) or "x is different from other mecha/mahou shoujo" (hasn't seen a single one).

>>281242057
>You could stick 5 anons in a room for 2 weeks and they couldn't agree on a single title.
Retarded take, anyone with some shows under their belt and knowing on the medium would easily agree on some shows like NGE having merit or Black Lagoon being one of the best action shows out there.

>>281242057
>"x is different from other mecha/mahou shoujo" (hasn't seen a single one).
The only people who get mad at statements like this one are Dunning-Kruger shitters who've seen their first Gundam and suddenly think they're above Eva fans.

>>281216477 (OP)
wrong.the real q is how many animes you must watch until you realize that they are repetitive and ultimately,just a waste of time.

But if you dont mind wasting time and have nothing better to do...go for it.

>>281216477 (OP)
shut the fuck up tranny

>>281242057
>Harmageddon is considered one of the worst movies ever made
No it isn't. Dumb meme.

>>281243131
I'm not gonna go full retard and say something like all art is equally valid and that shit on a canvas and the Mona Lisa are the same thing. But other than a few cases I find it really hard to objectively quantify much about anime at all.
What is an "objectively good" plot, what are "objectively good" characters? Sure you can point to extremes and it's pretty clear, but everything in the middle is muddy. I personally enjoy characters I can relate to, but what I can relate to is likely very different than what you do. Whose opinion is more valuable? Do we say a few "experts" decide, or is it democratic and it's what the most people enjoy. I think the majority of people are retarded so I definitely don't think it's the latter but I also don't have a good counterargument.
If something has a very narrow/niche appeal it will never get widespread acclaim, regardless of how well it is made. Let's say someone made the best anime ever about bird watching. As a huge bird watching fan I might consider it the best anime ever made, but I'm also not surprised if half the people say they didn't enjoy it because they don't give a shit about birds.

>>281216477 (OP)
>watch a million anime
>still dekinai
noob
>watch one anime
>be jouzu in nihongo
elite

>>281232941
try /his/ if you want a board where not giving a shit about the central topic is not only common but celebrated

>>281230021
>started watching in 2013
Whew!

>>281243235
Anon you should watch your second mecha and magical girl anime already. I promise there's plenty of good stuff in both genres.

>>281245113
>"Actually, the story is not about mechas/magical girls": the genre
>I promise there's plenty of good stuff in both genres.
yeah, i don't think so

>>281243839
>Let's say someone made the best anime ever about bird watching. As a huge bird watching fan I might consider it the best anime ever made, but I'm also not surprised if half the people say they didn't enjoy it because they don't give a shit about birds.
It should theoretically be possible to create a great anime about bird watching that you don't have to be a bird watcher to appreciate. There are lots of anime I like where I'm not specifically a fan of the thing the anime is about, but the anime manages to make it interesting. For example I don't like sports and I don't watch sports, but I've seen more than one sports anime I would consider good.
But usually in these cases the anime is really about something else. Like an analysis of the human condition told through the lens of bird watching, or something like that.

>These people who watch a lot of anime are too elitist
>But also, there's only one hundred good anime, I know because I've seen one hundred anime
>Also, I don't know how or why people watch so much anime
Dude this board fucking sucks. Like, I don't think there is a single media board on the entire site where this behavior is as common as it is on /a/.

>>281245444
Madoka is good, because unlike other mahou shoujo it's about the characters.

>>281245444
>"Actually, the story is not about mechas/magical girls": the genre
This is what people who watch Eva and Madoka but then don't want to watch anything else in the genres say though.

>>281233881
>CSM anime
It all makes sense now.

>>281241337
Volume alone isn't everything.
I take more pride in having seen a single TV anime from every year since 1969 than I take in having seen 100 anime from 2024.

>>281246221
so it IS about robots and magic afterall?
that's lame as fuck

>>281246516
Absolutely, my post wasn't entirely serious. It would be much more sensible to say to develop a good understanding of the media you should be watching anime from every decade, ideally every year, of every genre, by different staff and studios, etc.
But I don't think anyone really starts watching anime with the idea "how do I get the most insight into the variety anime has to offer". Most people just start watching, skimming the surface with recommendations and highly rated, popular or current anime. In my experience those who've seen one or two hundred anime don't really branch out much and the desire to try out different things tends to happen with time. While not an exact match, I think it's fair to say that people watching a variety of anime does correlate to how much they've watched.
It's absolutely possible to remain an absolute retard while watching a shit ton of anime. I know a guy around 30 years old with 1000+ anime completed who has seen less than 10 pre 2000 anime. This guy has been watching for 15 years and simply just inhales every seasonal. He was telling me how anime from 2008 "look too old" and I nearly got an aneurysm. While I don't respect their opinion, I can understand why an 18 year old kid might think that way, but to hear that from someone my age really is something else.

>>281220040
tsmt

>>281246917
Older series are as much "not about the robots and magic" as Eva and Madoka. This whole talking point is retarded and only believed by people like you that don't want to watch anything else in the genres but still believe they have a valid and informed opinion.

>>281243839
I think you're going far too philosophical with it clearly. Middle ground is where our personal tastes make some shien for reason X when someone else has reason Y, but even then there are those good ones that can be objectified on common grounds.
As for opinion value, I don't know man, does it matter?

>>281244106
newfag

>>281216477 (OP)
alot

>>281233086
>>281238396
samefag

>>281216477 (OP)
yes