How do you guys list what you're watched?
I'm a pleb so I have a single notepad document named "Anime List" that lists everything I've seen, what I'm currently watching, and what's still on the list.
I have a memory so I just go with that.
>>135283868
/thread
>>135283868
I bet that you not even completed 50 shows.
>>135283714
I use MAL
>It's one if those threads which have been asked to death
People either use MAL, some form of notepad application or neither at all.
I have a mal for what I've watched, and a .txt for things I plan to watch. Why do we have this thread yet again?
I made the horrible mistake of never taking a list of what I've watched, so I don't even know what the fuck I've watched until someone mentions it or I just get a need to listen to the into.
>>135284067
intro*
I use iCloud. Can access it anywhere.
>>135283714
taiga
>>135283994
Somewhere north of 100. If you didn't have a list would you start watching shows you've watched before without realizing it?
>>135283994
I completed over 500 manga and about 100 anime.
I'm more of a manga guy.
taiga
>>135284325
It's taken up to an episode before, yes.
>>135284348
I bet most of those are movies too. 750/150 here.
>>135284358
This.
>>135284014
It's ok if you just use it for note tabbing. Unless you join their shitty forum.
I don't.
>>135283714
I just use notepad++ to write it down
why do you keep making this thread? are you trying to force a culture?
Excel.
I keep track of show, studio, episodes, year & season watched, year & season aired, sub group, and short notes.
A companion text file contains about 13,000 words worth of longer notes.
>>135283714
I made one in Excel so I can sort them by Genre or rating.
>>135283714
I use something called brain, you either have a faulty one or you are just missing it.
>>135284406
Mangabros where we at? Filthy animeonlys pls go
>>135283714
I use pic related.
I use MAL each year to add like 5 shows i've watched until I get sick of doing it and wait til next year.
>>135283868
>memory
carl pls
>>135284518
Those manga days are completely fucked. They overestimate the time for reading shounenshit, while underestmating the time for reading anything with any kind of words. Reading speed varies a lot depending on what you read.
>>135284581
It's like 10 minutes per chapter, which I find works pretty nice as an average.
But it's not like the number of days is that important, the only thing it's there for is to look nice, since there'a counter for the anime list.
I keep a spreadsheet. I use it to track completed anime and the season/episode for non completed anime.
>>135283868
When you've watched hundreds of animes over the course of over two decades, memory just doesn't cut it anymore.
>>135284627
I'm not sure anyone who reads Bleach for instance these days would spend more than 10-20 seconds a page. Multiply that by how many chapters, it adds up. But your point is valid.
>>135284671
>animes
>>135284738
I knew I would get someone.
>>135283714
MAL, Bakaupdates, notebooks, etc.
>>135284360
That's really upsetting. I'm sorry.
>>135283714
just keep track of what I read
mangaupdates works fine for that.
>>135284671
>When you've watched hundreds of animes over the course of over two decades, memory just doesn't cut it anymore.
I've done the same, and I assure you, it does. It's rarely more than a matter of
>Have I watched this before?
>Oh yeah, I have
The End.
I really see no reason to list the anime you've watched unless you simply enjoy listing things.
>>135285004
>unless you simply enjoy listing things
It's a useful autism actually.
>>135283714
mal
>>135285004
Well, I do enjoy listing things but I have an amazingly shitty memory, too. More than once I've downloaded and something because it looked interesting only to realize I've seen it before after a few minutes.
I have one HDD with the folders
>completed series (series I enjoyed and may be inclined to rewatch go in here)
>currently airing (series from that season)
>currently watching (series from my backlog that I'm watching)
>to watch (a selection from my backlog)
And then I have another HDD to dump everything in, even if I never plan to watch or rewatch it.
I don't watch enough anime to have trouble keeping track of it just dumping it into folders. I'm more into manga, so I have a spreadsheet for that. The manga spreadsheet has categories (ongoing, currently reading, complete, dropped, unread) and a priority system for the backlog so it's easy to pick something new to read.
>>135283714
I memorized everything.
>>135284325
dumb sakuraposter
>>135285004
>you enjoy listing things
It's a combination of that and just wanting to have a list so you can occasionally look back and reminisce.
The average /a/ viewer is a lot more emotionally invested in their hobby than, say, the average TV watcher. So not only will they watch a lot more shows on average, but they will appreciate each one more. It's enjoyable to look back on the shows I've watched over the years.
I still use aniDB
>>135283714
The only people who actually track what they watched are literal autists and people who think it'll help them seem big on the internet.
As someone who has probably seen more shit than you, I can promise you that having a list is irrelevant.
If a show was really good, you'll remember it (maybe even buy shit).
If a show was really bad, you'll remember it.
If it was neither, then it'd probably not be worth remembering anyway.
>>135285090
Well then don't assume every body else has the memory of a goldfish like you.
>>135285160
I don't.
>>135285203
Yes you do.
excel97
>>135284047
You can put things you plan to watch on MAL, you know.
>>135285240
What? I do not. I'm well aware that my memory is shitty and I would never assume anyone else's is as bad as mine.
>>135285260
excel 2013 pro ultimate desu edition
I primarily use hummingbird - but the interface is slow as shit.
>>135285160
I assume that people would rather bother using their heads for something more productive than keeping track of an anime list they only refer to once in a while. It's also more reliable.
I am a hipster faggot and use Hummingbird and the Tenpenchii app for android. MyAnimeList sound so cringey so I went with something else.
>>135285260
>No excel 95
Enjoy your bugs and freezings.
What's with all this mal reddit-tier bullshit? Excel is all you faggots need to note down your anime. Sitting at 137, though I'm not sure what the number would be if I grouped them separately instead of as whole series.
>>135283714
By keeping it stored on my external HD
>>135285062
>zeta higher than 0079
>>135285522
Faggot didn't even watch 0079 properly.
>>135285522
>Mirai Nikki higher than Paranoia Agent
I don't, I just type stuff I plan on watching/reading onto .txts or sometimes write it down.
>>135283714
What to do once you have watched all the anime and your list is full? What that list is going to help you with?
>>135285356
I'm sorry I can remember things without straining my brain like the monkey you are.
>something more productive
Thanks for the laugh.
am i the only using anime planet here?
>>135285683
Remembering all the Pokemon in order was something I did as a six year old.
>>135285747
You know what else I also remember? Your mom's phone number.
>>135285772
The point was that it was childish and pointless. Like you mom jokes are.
>>135285772
I don't even remember my mom's phone number, good on you.
There is literally nothing wrong with soley using MAL to keep track of what you watched and plan to watch.
>>135285802
Remember if you've watched something before is pointless? Then what's the point of watching it in the first place?
>>135285881
>the only reason for doing anything is so you can remember that you did it
>>135285772
>Your mom's phone number.
I honestly never thought I would see that as a serious comeback for the rest of my life.
>>135285911
Like I said, stop being a braindead monkey, most people can remember it with doing anything excessive.
I bookmark Mangaupdate pages. Anything that is completed or I drop I just forget about unless it was actually good.
>>135285592
Both of those shows were mediocre. I gave them 5 and 6.
>>135285522
Nice meme.
>>135285950
*without
>>135285848
>to keep track of what you [...] plan to watch.
How people do that?
My list would be insanely long and I watched anime for years.
When I tried, I usually ended up starting shows that weren't in the list and I forgot at first. The list just kept growing.
>>135283714
Taiga lists it for me without having to give a fuck manually.
>>135283868
If you can remember every single series you watched, you haven't watched enough anime to post here.
Also how the fuck does this thread stay up but old school copypasta isn't allowed anymore?
>>135285950
Good for them, I guess. Everyone is different and has their own strengths and weaknesses. My weakness happens to be memory. Yours is apparently that you're a douche.
>>135286065
herp derp
>>135286043
>plan to watch list
Why is this even a thing? If it's on your backlog you should have it downloaded already.
>>135286082
I got triggered when that faggot got all high all mighty thinking his precious brain is too god for anime.
>>135286065
>old school copypasta isn't allowed anymore
Mods can't listen to the odd reasonable argument that was propagated for a reason without being aggravated.
>>135284494
manga is the superior format
>>135286137
>triggered
I think you belong in tumblr.
MAL is pretty useful desu.
>>135285004
>>135284325
No, you're both retarded. Memory isn't about completely forgetting or not. Being able to recall the list of every single anime you have ever seen instantaneously isn't the same as being able to recognize an anime you sevants.
MAL is fine. the cancer comes from the community, not the datebase.
>>135286712
The database is shit too.
>>135286620
Not to mention the fact that if you don't remember watching something, you might as well watch it again.
>>135286620
Under what circumstance do you need the list of every single anime you've ever watched?
>>135286918
If you like lending your rating to online databases.
Taiga master race
>>135286918
It's almost as if you don't read what I'm responding to. People want a reliable way to see all of the anime they have watched in the past. People say they just "memorize it" which is possible but after your list grows there is a higher chance of you not recalling everything. The point is that everyone has a method to do this and others are trying to show-off because they can do something useless.
I use MAL for convenience, but my primary method has always been a text file in diary/log form that I update with a new entry every time I watch something.
Pic related. 15 years ago this week when I finally dropped VHS for good.
>>135287069
So you're saying they do it just for the sake of doing it.
Excel like everyone hello
Taiga, hooked up to MAL
>>135283714
I don't because im not some hipster autist kawaii desu
Taiga a shit
>>135287095
>diary
That sound cool as fuck.
Maybe doing a private blog, where, at the end of the day, you write down what episodes you've watched and a little comment on the episode itself. With tags you could come back and read what you've liked episode by episode of a show.
Has anyone here ever watched a show twice without even remembering they've watched it once before?
>>135287190
I don't really know. I also don't know why it upset me. Maybe it's the fact that people are lamenting over something that is so small and insignificant that I find annoying.
>>135287461
Sometimes i watch the same ep twice, just to be sure you know.
>>135287461
School rumble. I honestly have no idea how I forgot everything in it, it's bizarre.
>>135287461
I once watched the final arc of TTGL on Adult Swim years ago on Adult Swim and forgot I ever watched it.
Tried to watch it from the beginning but it was shit.
>>135287277
So you watched all of the original Naruto run, including the 2 years worth of fillers, yet you rated it a 2. Why would you watch 220 episodes of something you really don't like?
>>135287707
Why would I stay married to my wife after she got fat and angry?
Because I'm fat and angry too and we deserve each other.
>notepad
Fucking plebs
>>135285062
Looks like solid taste
Are you just a Gundamfag though or are Unicorn and Zeta legit 10/10s? I haven't gotten into Gundam myself yet.
>>135287461
Yes, more than once. Not the entire anime, but a few episodes in I usually realize it.
>>135287797
Unicorn is mediocre
Zeta is bad
>>135287707
Watched it back when I was a newfag to anime and the only anime I knew existed was Naruto, Bleach, Cowboy Bebop, and Fullmetal Alchemist.
I always had an interest in what happened next at the very least and it worked as a time sink.
>>135287821
And you stopped just because you realized you already watched it?
>>135286132
People have backlogs with 100s of titles in them, though
I and many others put in our backlogs anything that we're interested in watching at some point in the future, not just shows we're about to watch
>>135287423
It was actually more of a matter of necessity than anything else. Before broadband was widespread, releases were very irregular and you might be stuck on a particular episode for months.
Without space on the hard drive to hold it, and without a service like MAL, the only way for me to remember progress on multiple series was to actually write it down in some way (or get out the CDs/DVDs to see what the latest one was.) The regular release schedule now has eliminated that need, but I still do it anyway.
Although to be honest it's a bit depressing to look and say, "I wonder what I was watching 10 years ago tonight," and then you see stuff that your thought was 7 or 8 years ago. Pic related.
I like MAL's achievements.
http://graph.anime.plus/
>>135286520
>only 1 show in half your list under 5/10
>not even SAO is < 5/10
dat score inflation though. 5 is "average", you know?
>>135287903
rewatching is a vvaste of valuable time, anon
>>135287903
Well, yeah. After I had remembered the ending I was also reminded of most of the plot. There's not really much point in watching it when I now remember all the highlights. I think my time would be better wasted on watching something I haven't seen before.
I use hummingbird
>>135288062
Rewatching an anime you love is a good way to break out of a streak of bad shows.
>>135287953
We're pretty similar.
>>135288237
>400
>a lot
casuals
>>135288772
Casual is 200 according to MAL.
I don't know what's the number for /a/, though. Sometimes I see people saying that you need 100 to post here but I like to believe that the average anon has seen way more than that.
>>135288909
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the average anon hasn't seen that much anime, it's just that they've lurked so much that they have a general knowledge of a bunch of different anime that they didn't watch.
>>135288909
>>135289028
This.
Im sure the majority of /a/ have not even seen 100 anime.
>I've seen over 300 anime!
>I have a productive, successful adult life.
Pick one, losers.
Create a shared folder on network on main pc.
Every time you finish a download make a COPY in shared folder.
Watch on whatever device or PC.
When finished DELETE the COPY in said shared folder.
You still hold onto the original in case you want to keep it for rewatching.
>>135288909
It's seriously casual though, considering there are more than 10 thousands anime out there. And also anime is short not compared to some tv series.
>>135283714
With Wordpad.
http://pastebin.com/2YBcuNBt
I haven't watched anime in 2 years. I don't know why I'm still here to be honest.
>>135289095
I pick both.
>>135289189
Manga, H-manga, duh.
>>135288909
>Casual is 200 according to MAL.
And no body gives a fuck about MAL.
>>135288909
>>135289059
I can't imagine having watched less than 100 anime and being able to post on /a/ everyday.
I'd imagine people with less than 100 anime, just come for the one piece and SnK general.
Hummingbird. I like the way it looks.Maybe one day I'll add the manga I've read too.
>>135289249
Newfag.
>>135289378
My best guess is people who hype the shit out of average to above average western-pandering anime or action heavy anime in general (Cowboy Bebop, TTGL, OPM) and unironically say moe is killing the anime industry.
I use MAL.
I only have one friend on there, haven't talked to him in years. Never participate in the forums, either. I have /a/ for that.
>>135283714
By not using proprietary software for sure.
>>135283714
Notepad
>newfriends thinking MAL for purly listing purposes hasn't always been accepted here
If you haven't seen at least at least 300 TV anime, why would you even bother posting here since you clearly know nothing about anything?
>>135288909
I've watched about 100 anime but around 850-860 manga. Anime is shit.
>>135289736
At first I didn't use anything, then I started using notepad, then I moved to MAL but didn't like it, so I created a spreadsheet like program in C# to manage all the new shows I watch.
It works pretty well for me and I can customize it the way I want.
I don't make a list.
If I haven't watched it in so long that I've forgotten that I've watched it, I may as well just watch it again.
Good and bad shows leave impressions so I know to re-watch/avoid those, but I know I've re-watched shows that didn't leave an impression on me and found them to be much more entertaining on second viewing.
>>135289975
I remember when I started posting here in 2009 and I'd barely gotten over 100. I still feel like back then I'd watched more than most people on /a/ and especially now with 300 under the belt.
But there are still those oldfags that always show up with 500+ or 800+ and I just think they've either watched everything or are just lying to look cool and shun newfags into lurking more.
>>135289975
It's about the manga, not anime, doofus.
Anime
King of the Hill
thats it
>>135284324
why didn't taiga update this season anyone know? ive been waiting for a thread to ask this
>>135290144
I didn't know what /a/ was back in 2008 yet I still had over 150 anime watched. You sound like MALdittor
>>135290144
I'd seen like 200 in '08 and felt like I had seen much less than everyone else. It's funny how quickly the culture can change.
>>135290247
>You sound like MALdittor
Never bothered with either so I wouldn't know.
I don't.
>>135290144
>posting
>didn't even have 100+ watched
Neck yourself. You should have lurked up until at least 300 anime AND manga
MAL
>>135283714
Whenever someone makes a thread about it, my mind goes "i've watched that," or "i haven't watched that."
>>135287977
Nah 5 is something that is shit but watchable, ya feel me?
>>135287953
>>135288237
guess anon with more than these 400 or even more series watched even bother making a MAL accounts? please someone prove me wrong
https://github.com/anime-plus/graph/blob/master/achievements.md
>>135283868
This. The only way it's inferior to recording it down somewhere is when you need to produce a physical list to share with people, which in that case you can take that facebook shit and fuck right off.
I Google doc Anime I'm watching, I finished, and what I should watch later.
>>135290412
Meh, it seems that the more I read/watch the less I post on /a/ and just lurk. This place was a lot more fresh and exciting back thenor maybe it just felt like it at the timebut now it doesn't feel exactly the same.
Don't get me wrong, /a/ is still the best place to discuss anime when you get passed all the waifu wars, what the fuck did I just watch threads, and the occasional shit posting. Just seems like things have changed over the years is all.
>>135290610
But what if I follow 250 ongoing manga?
>>135290698
The OP explicitly says "watched", i.e. past tense. Personally I download all my shit, which I expect from you lot as well, so just looking at my files and folders is enough for me to keep up with what I'm currently following.
>>135290686
There was a lot less moderation and a lot more shitposting, but it was mostly kept humorous instead of obnoxious.
>>135290801
>it was mostly kept humorous instead of obnoxious
/a/ is still full of the funniest sons of bitches and I still laugh every time I come on here to this day, but yeah it was way funnier before without getting into obnoxious territory.
>>135290765
>Downloading manga
>>135290765
Read more newshit animepleb
The amount of people watching moe and post 2000 anime in this thread is disgusting.
>>135290887
Contrary to what people think, the elitism of /a/ made it change the least.
>>135290949
How fucking new are you?
>holy shit what the fuck dude /a/ is heavy on moe what the hell man every other anime community just love the mainstream garbage like OPM what the fuck man
>>135284482
I've been thinking of doing something like this for a while now. Collecting data is super fun, and I could make graphs and charts and shit.
Being the pleb newfag I am, I've seen only about 65+ anime. I don't really know if I could put down stuff I've seen last March.
>>135287797
Unicorn and Zeta are legit 10/10. The best of the Gundam franchise also, along with 0080.
>>135290949
Moeshit shouldn't even count as number on how many you watched, it's fucking oversaturated.
>>135290955
>Contrary to what people think, the elitism of /a/ made it change the least
Even with all I've said I still think the elitism is a good thing. There are other things that I think elitism isn't good for but /a/ will always be my exception.
>>135290944
You literally cannot list more than 20 ongoing manga worth following. Keyword here is "worth".
inb4 "I follow literal shit just so I can add it to my MAL and circlejerk with my anime facebook buddies".
>>135283714
Lol, how funny, I use notepad. I thought I was the only one.
I have a section for shows I'm currently watching, shows I've finished, and shows that I want to watch. No software, internet, and literally no memory used. It's great.
I don't. I've got no problem remembering the few anime I really like, and I don't really care if I forget about some 6/10 show. It's not as if I'm some anime researcher.
I useMALfor anime, manga's a clusterfuck since I read so much I stopped updating and gave up adding series, so I just try to keep track of that in my head.I've made two forum postskillme
This Taiga thing looks neat though, will check it out when I get home.
>>135291073
Off yourself animepleb
>>135290986
>65+
My fucking case and point. At least he acknowledges he's a newfag piece of shit and should lurk more.
>>135291148
I rest my case. Keep memeing and thinking it makes you superior on an anonymous imageboard kiddo.
>they don't note which anime they've seen on clay tablets using highly efficient cuneiform
...and you call yourselves mongolian tapestry fans
Seriously though I just have a .txt file, I can't be bothered to spend hours and hours keying things into MAL.
>>135291139
did you use mangaupdates?
>people unironically say moeshit
What the fuck happened?
>>135291224
Not to log what I've read. I only use it as a searchable database and updating releases.
I use an abacus
>>135291239
Normalfags, narutards, mainstream anime, crunchyroll, animeme, twitch meme, twitter, facebook, reddit, /v/ and battle shounen fags happened.
>>135291239
People grow up you know, I'm 25 and now I only watch mature anime for mature gentleman like myself.
>>135291239
blame Umaru and OPM
>>135291292
Sent you a friend request ;)
>>135289059
If you include hentai, that number can go up a lot
>>135291391
Thanks anon.
>>135291292
>http://myanimelist.net/profile/JebusMatoi
>more anime watched than manga read
Tripfags really are cancer, regardless of how long they've been here, after all.
Do you guys count anime by franchise or season or something else? For example, do you count the Monogatari series as one series or multiple series?
spreadsheet friends can you make cool graphs and stuff?
I need to learn excel someday
I use mal but as good as their database is I find they're often missing things
>>135291966
multiple
I use anilist because I am fucking retarded and thought it was MAL.
>>135291031
In my opinion elitism is only a bad thing when it's forced upon others. There isn't anything wrong with keeping a place generally full of passionate people of that hobby that way.
>>135291966
If I want to show off, everything including OVAs and specials.
If I want to be more accurate, days watched.
Is anidb still alive? The quality of its database is supposed to be better than MAL but I never see anyone on /a/ use it.
I used MAL for a fair few years but eventually stopped caring.
For on-going OVAs and upcoming movies I just note down the relative date in a text file.
>>135291139
>2011 + 4 almost 5
>not being an anime researcher and lecturer
Hox, when will you learn?
>>135283868
This, but I need to start keeping track somewhere else. Every time some asks me what some of my fav shows are I forget a bunch
>>135292754
>anidb
Yeah, I can't really compare it to MAL because I've always just used anidb, but it works well for me. The only problem with it is when you search you'll get a bunch of duplicates
>>135284014
I get really autistic that their scoring system only uses 10 points
>>135287977
7 is average
5 is watchable
>>135293222
>rating anime
fuck you for reducing the value of art to a mere number
>>135293294
>moe
>art
pick 1
>>135293294
>unironically calling anime art
Fuck you for reducing the value of my /a/ to mere shit.
>>135293294
Think A is better than B
Assign A higher value than B
???
ProfitI get pretty autistic about what better means
Who /aiming for 500 before the new year here/
I started using MAL for my backlog, and then to keep track once I started watching more than 15 series a season.
>>135284014
Same. Wish we had something similar for comics.
>>135293222
Hummingbird using only 5 stars is why I can't switch.
Only started watching anime seriously recently. Used to have 1 .txt file for progress and 1 for recommendation/stuff I downloaded.
Needless to say it was getting tedious to organize it like that, so I just made a MAL account when I found out about Taiga.
>tfw it's FOSS
I'm not that sophisticated
>>135283714
I used MAL since it keeps track of how many days of anime I've watched which I honestly think is a more useful indicator than going by the amount of series. I wouldn't use it for manga though.
>>135291298
examples of "mature" anime?
I use MAL and notebook in case the site goes down
>>135296508
Evangelion
>>135289095
You can easily finish 24 episodes in one weekend, only spending 6 hours of your 16 hours of free time a day, leaving you with 20 hours for other activities that weekend. It would only take someone 3 years, assuming just watching 12 episode series, to reach the 300 mark.
>>135297705
>only started "seriously" watching anime 3 years ago
>500 finished
>including long running shows like gintama
i really am a loser
Use myanimelist you faggots
>>135283714
I download the op of the anime and save it in a playlist
Custom program.
>>135297952
Can u share it?
>>135297838
>MALI'm not sure though
>>135293779
>Wish we had something similar for comics
Your new is showing
mangaupdates.com
I keep all my used up torrent files in a folder so I'll know everything I ever downloaded.
>>135283868
This
>>135283994
500+ series over the last 20 years, and the only list is in my head.
If I really can't remember though, I check my hard drives because I never delete a series, and back up everything.
>>135297838
>Use MAL
And after that we can all get gaia avatars and chat about our favorite subreddits.
>>135289028
I'm at 84. I started watching anime more seriously back in March, before that it was just Gundam, some random mecha, and whatever mynow ex-gfwanted to watch.
I have a OneNote folder for my anime. A page for what I've watched, and a page for what I need to download after clearing more space off my HDD (which has about 1.1TB of anime).
>>135283714
If i can remember all the stupid fucking boulders and routes that i successfully sent in the last 10 years think i can remember a few thousand gook toons
>>135298163
Sure, but I won't provide tech support for retards.
https://github.com/darkfeline/animanager
>>135283714
I buy external hard drives to keep all the anime I've watched in-case I want to re-watch something
WordPad.
I used to keep a list but I quit after I started to feel like "I need to watch this" and I couldn't enjoy watching
>>135289028
I'm somewhat in that category, I've definitely seen more than 100 but I can't say if I've completed that many because I drop shows really quickly. There has been so many times where I've watched a show all the way to the last episode then just don't watch it.
>>135285143
>aniDB
Only one actually usable since it's database of anime AND releases. And I guess plebeians are still complaining about how "user unfriendly" it is.
>>135291139
How about manga, Hox? Answering questions, no one wants the answer to.
>>135283714
I mostly use my memory.
It's harder with manga because I've finished a lot more of that, so I made a word document for the weird ones that are hard to remember.
>>135292754
> The quality of its database is supposed to be better than MAL but I never see anyone on /a/ use it.
AniDB is legitly the best animu database because it's anime and releases database. There are some things that make it harder to approach than user-friendly rest. For instance it's easiest to manage it through IRC if you know proper commands.
The only actual downside to the database is that it's open now. General users can add and modify data which on one hand is pretty good, on the other and is pretty bad decision. For instance mods have been neglecting the shit and are just approving other people additions. Lately I have been filling almost 40% of the database shit because not many people really bother with it anymore. Also, some people who do create false data, wrong entries and provide mis-information. Also, often it can be quite painful when communicating with mods when you want to correct some false info even if you're providing original source of the correct information since they cannot really read Japanese.
AniDB is still the best database and as long as few of us will keep the database up to date with correct info it won't fall from the first place but I'm honestly worried that it will grow over our heads at one point and somebody will quit.
>>135283868
This, if I watch a good anime I'll remember it fondly. If it was bad or I didn't enjoy I toss it out of my mind like trash.
>>135298613
I really don't see a problem with it as long as you use it for keeping a list and avoid the community
>>135283714
I look over my folders and see what the fuck I've watched or not.
There really isn't much of anything to prove by listing out exactly what you've seen, because
a.) there is always someone who has seen much more than you i.e it will not impress everyone and quite possibly the opposite.
b.) points out whatever you're lacking in experience; a surprising amount of people seem to have missed some very key shows even 300+ series in and they soon get called out on it
c.) it may demonstrate a really narrow / shitty taste for people to pick at
d.) there is not much to prove by just making lists because it's all honor system and can be abused for epeen / trying to support shit tastes by pretending you're an expert
My memory, it's good enough if I can remember things that happened 24 years ago and I'm now 25. Saying you haven't watched or read enough is silly since you can remember it if you dig deep enough and certain words/images/events might recover what you've forgotten. Or linking them to the genre, author, magazine, studio and seiyuu.
>>135286918
It's pretty useful if friends often ask you to recommend an anime to them because you are that one guy they know who watched them all.
>>135287916
That's exactly what I do too and I stand by everything I said.
HDD space isn't prohibitively expensive anymore.
Of course I can't remember all the hundreds of series I have taking terabytes but I don't see a need to do anything more to keep them in an unwatched folder.
Move them to a completed folder when done and then I don't even have to check Taiga to confirm it's something I've seen before.
>>135283868
>Using up space in your brain to remember useless shit instead if just using your HDD
I use MAL but I don't interact with anyone on there.
>>135301567
It still is a cancerous thing to do
>>135301622
How so? It's a pretty convenient site for keeping track. It's great for me as my memory is shit and I watch multiple animes at once.
