What's the amount of anime you must have seen to consider yourself an anime expert...

>100 good shows,of course you could add some shit but
>Quality>Quantity
How do you know if those shows are quality if you haven't seen a large amount, though?
You should finish at least 300 anime before posting thank you.

Doing research along with watching a great number of anime certainly gets you there.

>How do you know if those shows are quality if you haven't seen a large amount, though?
if i like them they are quality

Expert is a pretty high goal.
I think 100 seasons of different anime is a good starting point to become a journeyman.
Different shows because you don't really learn much watching something like OnePiece in its entirety.

Once you have reached that 100-season point each new season you watch only adds 1% or less to your portfolio.

Becoming an expert isn't something you can force by watching all the trash you can and accumulating hours; so it varies a lot from person to person.
Could become one having seen 2500 h of anime, could still be a pleb after 10000 h.

I myself havn't even watched those 100 seasons to reach journeyman rank.

The minimum point is when you finally realize that keeping track of how many shows you've watched is pointless.

Man I wish kept track of the amount of anime I've watched so I can shitpost with you guys but it never occurred to me all those years ago at the start and it's too late now.

you have to fucking watch loli porn and go on the fbi list to be a anime expert

There are people who have watched 500 anime, 80% of which are adaptations of manga, and consider themselves "experts".

0, but claim you're an anime veteran with 1000+ shows under his belt. Ey Wallah, you're now an expert

I wish you wouldn't post

Just watch the classics and you are good.

Tracking goes hand in hand with taking notes. If you don't take notes, or at least have an IQ of 150 to make up for it, there's no way you'll remember your specific thoughts on a given work 5 years down the road. Probability is pretty high that you'll be unable to address almost anything in a more elaborate manner than the simplistic summaries you can find in wikipedia. Also required for rewatches and to understand your own prefenrences. This obviously is referring to the work you're not constantly exposed to or make up your personal top 50, but even then more detailed analysis tends to get lost.

The very first thing I started doing when I got into anime past the "watch whatever is dubbed on TV" was create an AniDB account, so that I could track stuff I have downloaded, where have I stopped in a longer series, and what I have watched and when. Being able to look up how many hours/titles I've watched is just a side effect.
You don't become an expert just by watching. No do you become an expert just by reading about animation techniques and creator personalities.
If you want hard numbers, 50 is a bare minimum, though I'm not sure you put every exemplar show depicting every distinct school of japanese animation in just 50. If you include direction and storytelling techniques, number can't be lower than a 100.

What, are you writing your graduate thesis on anime or something? Sounds like autism to me.

>Tfw you will never be El Especialista

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>he will never be an expert
Heh.

>You'd have to be willing to watch any anime
Yes
>and not drop them
Nah. Mistakes happen. Sometimes the shows you thought you would enjoy are just not delivering this for you. Watching what you are not enjoying turns into mundane and spoils all the fun, especially the fun of going into something blind, like I always do with ongoings.

>If you don't take notes, or at least have an IQ of 150 to make up for it
Feels good not to be a brainlet

What would you wanna be an anime expert? Wow fucking loser, get a life.

>1000+
>You'd have to be willing to watch any anime
Should have said 5000+ then. Cause watching everything will get you to 1000 within 4 years of just watching annual releases.

In my view 1000 shows is a good low bar these days (counting movies, second seasons, non-full-length shows, etc.) if you want someone competent to discuss the full range of anime, especially stuff from the year 2000 onward. It also depends on how you define "expert", since you can watch thousands of shows and yet know very little about the technical aspects of anime excepting what you can simply see as a viewer.

When you complete and enjoy your first anime (not gook, chink, etc shit) that isn't listed on AniDB, MAL, Anilist, Anime-Planet, etc.

> anime expert
It's just entertainment bro. It's not knowledge or skill. Get real.

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Numbers don't matter. I've watched over a thousand shows probably, but since I view it as a disposable, just-to-pass-the-time media, I only remember the details of around 25 or so.
Most everybody here has likely taken thousands of shits, but that doesn't automatically make you an expert.

You'll probably need to have watched at least 10-20 shows (counting movies) from each season for the past 25 or so years, and then maybe another 3-500 shows, OVA series, and movies on top of that to properly capture the period from the 70's to today. The lowest number would be 1300, and the high number using that calculation would be almost double that at 2500.

After that many shows you'd probably be able to thoroughly and competently discuss anime regardless of era or topic.

I'd say there's a few prerequisites to being an expert, even though that's kind of a dumb thing to be.
1) Watched at least one anime in its entirety. This is the first step, obviously.
2) Watch at least one obscure/hidden gem anime. Can't be a FOTM, hentai or one that's popular in Japan but not anywhere else.
3) Know at least one anime on an autistic level which includes reading the manga. Doesn't matter which one.
4) Can start to recognize artists and voice actors. Akira Toriyama doesn't count.

I dont ever want to consider myself an "anime expert" you obnoxious fucking faggot.
>ywn break into OP's home, stab him in the eye socket and get away with it

I've been watching anime since 1985 and regularly since 1993. I think I've watched 700-800 series. Maybe more, never tried to count.

1000+
At least 500 to know what you're talking about on Yea Forums.
I'm approaching 2000 and there's a lot of classics I haven't seen yet.

I've barely seen 150 shows/movies and I'm an utter casual compared to most people here
I'd say 500 at the very least

> I think I've watched 700-800 series.
How? With internet so good?
I'm regularly watching since 2007 and I'm already over 1800 without trying hard.

>series
Sorry, I'm retard

i've been browsing Yea Forums since 2006 but i only started watching anime in 2018, i'm not sure why but i find knowing a lot about anime, the culture, the industry, etc. sometimes more entertaining than actually watching it

>bro, funposting!
Leave.

>calling yourself anime ""expert""
No thanks, I'm not a loser.

It's not just about amount.
Hardcore /m/fags who make a point of tracking down obscure robot series from the 70s or 80s OVAs might have watched a lot of stuff and sure could learn a lot about general Japanimation storytelling, evolution and techniques, but I wouldn't call you an "anime expert" if you've never watched SoL or mahou shoujo or mystery stuff.
Same for romancefags.

>I've barely seen 150 shows/movies and I'm an utter casual compared to most people here
Given the current state of the board, you really aren't one anymore.

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being an expert on anime is like being an expert on ass scratching. i hope you autistic niggers are proud of yourselves.

The moment important question has yet to be answered: Are there any anime experts left on Yea Forums? And if so, where can I find them? 3x3 threads used to have some legitimate autists. What other options exist?

>internet is the only way you can watch anime.

hello it is i, the anime expert

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Finally, you've arrived just in time.

Did Trigger save anime?

>all these newfags

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You need to have written a book on the subject.

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Internet is the most honest way to watch anime. All the mediocrity, trash, and niche shit are preserved along with all of the classic recs and hidden gems, unlike the past where the requirement for physical releases or catching a TV rerun means you were at the mercy of whatever someone thought was profitable enough to bring over.

every time i watch a new anime i forget an old one, brain can only hold 20 anime

The real question is why you would want to be an anime expert, unless you make a career out of it.

Don't get me wrong, you can watch anime as a hobby if you want. But some people ITT seem to hold the belief that you need to force yourself through thousands (!) of shitty anime series you won't enjoy, just so you can consider yourself an expert. And I have to ask, what's the point.

There's only 1 person in this thread who said that you can't drop anything. If something is truly bad it should be dropped, period. Even if it's mediocre and has no standount characteristic one could make the argument that it should not be finished. Unless it's trash you enjoy, of course.

To brag about it on an anonymous imageboard.
Honestly though, I think the generally agreed upon number of anime a person on Yea Forums should've at least watched was 400 back in the day and 200 in 2012 or something.

Do Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Dragonball GT, and Dragonball Super all count as seperate series?

Actually, shouldn't the number of episodes be more important? What if someone watched 3 TV series, with 12 episodes each. But someone else watched over 900 episodes of Detective Conan. I'd consider the second guy more anime-savvy

For Yea Forums current userbase? 50 is already asking way too much so I would be happy with that.
I'm already over the 10.000+ mark and I have never forced myself to watch anime, I still enjoy it to date.

>I'm already over the 10.000+ mark and I have never forced myself to watch anime, I still enjoy it to date.
Of course, when someone has no standards they can watch whatever.

Who even wants to be an anime expert lmao pathetic have sex

I have a better question.
What's the amount of animes you must have seen to apply to become the next anime pope?

50

I didn't ask for the amount required to be an expert on Yea Forums.

I count by number of series because once you've watched, say, 500 or so, it all kind of averages out and doesn't matter anymore.

>anime expert

>and not drop them
based only plebs drop

Honestly, unless you're fluent in Japanese, you are nowhere close to being an "expert" in anime. Fluency in Japanese is the bare minimum.

Can someone explain to me this "no standards" meme? What is it wrong about watching something like Hachigatsu no Cinderella and simply enjoy watching it?

If you still have standards you aren't a real anime expert.

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>meme
Not a meme, shit-eater.

Good chart.

Implying number of anime watched = expertise.
As Bruce Lee once said, I fear not the man who
watched 10000 anime, but the man who watched
the same anime 10000 times.

This. You won't understand the subtle nuanced meanings and can thus never become a true coinnesseur

I truly would fear anyone who's autistic enough to watch the same anime 10000 times.

ITT: various people who are trying to cope
>10000 minumum lol just watch it all
>5 are enough just watch the same anime 10000 times
>bro, you gotta be fluent in Japanese to understand the subtlties, which 95% of anime don't have bro kanji puns XDD
Embarrassing.

Watch 1000 shit anime a makes you a shit expert.

You become an expert when you switch to visual novels.

Considering everything shit also makes you a shit shitter.

petition to switch the metric over to lain rewatch count.

I will never understand the point of threads like this. Dick waving, I guess.

Quantity > Quality, always.
The highest quality shows are always the most popular obviously, so everyone already watches them. You need to appreciate the monotonous, less impactful, less budget, less entertaining shows to comprehend the medium. For instance you can't watch Gabriel Dropout and consider yourself a SoL expert just because it was a good SoL. You have to understand there's boring shit like A-Channel out there, niche specific demographic targeted stuff like Acchi Kocchi, and older masterpieces beginning to be forgotten and left unseen like K-on.

>and older masterpieces beginning to be forgotten and left unseen like K-on
If it is a masterpiece then it won't be forgoten,not by the people that matter at least

>For instance you can't watch Gabriel Dropout and consider yourself a SoL expert just because it was a good SoL. You have to understand there's boring shit like A-Channel out there, niche specific demographic targeted stuff like Acchi Kocchi
>this entire part

When your taste stops being garbage. Some people never graduate even after having watched 300 shounen series.

I imagine having much of an elevated taste after viewing 300 shounen wouldn't be very probable, yeah?

Just trying to say the amount itself doesn't matter.

What?you expexted to be an expert by just watching good anime? This is a serious business

Classics and some stinkers. If you don't watch some bad anime then you won't be able to appreciate the good ones as much.

If you don't remember an anime 5 years from now then it was unremarkable and hardly worth taking notes on. The only anime worth remembering are the really good ones or the really bad ones and you should be able to remember them unless you're a brainlet.

Ackshyually, people with higher IQ tend to forget things more often.

0 - You can consider yourself an "anime expert" with any number of shows below your belt. That doesn't mean you are one, though.

It's not about forgetting the anime, but about forgetting the details. You can't seriously believe you're able to remember every single detail, every up or downside, whether the sound or backgrounds were slightly above or below average etc. after 5 years unless the work stood out by an immense margin. Remembering the basic is simple. However, that won't allow you take part in debates.

Well I watched almost 20 anime and am in fact an anime expert.

i'd say the essentials, like 50

and also graduated by doing a thesis on Touhou

Depends on what you mean by expert, but sheer number of anime has little to do with it. There are plenty of retards on MAL who have 600+ anime watched and still rate every FOTM with a 10 and have Elfen Lied on their favorites.
In my opinion to truly consider yourself an expert its more about consuming a variety of stuff from different time periods. For example influential mecha anime from the 70's like Mazinger or Gundam, classic Mahou Shoujo etc and also have a general idea of animation techniques, directors etc.

Do we know the average and standard deviation of for example, MAL, for viewing time?

>K-ON
>old
>being forgotten

Watch like 30 anime and you basically watched every anime in existence. I watched 7k episodes of anime and I saw the same shit 1000 times. It's not like we are talking about a diverse medium here.

Depends. I've met people who've only watched 230ish anime, but 190 of that was exclusively mecha anime which would make them experts for mecha standards.
Also the anime industry is so saturated that you can have 1000 separate anime under your belt without watching anything before 2010. Meanwhile you can have people who've only watched 500 anime but their tastes are extremely varied and spread across numerous decades and already have watched all of the essentials, are somewhat knowledgeable on classic and obscurer anime from most subgenre,
And then there's people who've only watched 100 anime, but it's all exclusively movies, which is impressive.

This implies 382 ratings per user. Doubt it's accurate. Could just pull the rough average through 12ep cours or something.
anime.plus/s/globals

That's just accounts that have been put through malgraph though right? I'd expect that to weight things towards longer lists

People have done various statistics stuff with MAL data directly but I don't recall this having been looked into specifically