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>I've experienced the exact same thing, anon (well, in some way, assuming you mean that you can really only do input well but not output), I've been spending years and years doing vocab cards on Anki without really FORCING myself to actually do things in Japanese all that much. What made that change was recently starting to watch a lot of anime with Japanese subs or no subs at all and using sentence cards (and it actually feels like everything is sticking)
This is what I've been doing from the beginning though and yet I can't think in Japanese. I met a Japanese person for the first time at an anime convention last year (my first ever) and I just couldn't say anything to her and it sucked so much.
>How many different anime
About 400 shows, although I don't know how many of them were before I learned Japanese, some manga, some games, some whatever shit that I'm reading and a bunch of RTK cards which I add to my learning que as I see fit.. Some VNs in there as well, it's pretty random. I'd like to start another visual novel since it could actually force me to get more consistent.
I have some 2500 cards in my mining deck, which are cards I made myself from media and I've deleted a bunch of them over the years to save time.