| As of 2/14/2021, This is the last page on MAL https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?limit=17500 Keep in mind that MAL still does not include all the anime in the database, as I can not find 3 of my watched anime. MAL also includes Chinese and Korean anime which are lesser known and also count towards the total amount. |
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| For mal database only, there's 17000-18000 like you said but for overall count, Maybe either a bit under 20k or a little bit over 20k? |
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| A lot. There are, like, more than 10 of them. |
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| Like Vegeta said in an english dub of DBZ, it's over nine....teen thousand...I guess. ...and to think I haven't even watched 3% of it in my entire life, my goodness ^.^ |
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| I'm not saying there's not A TON of anime, but the total number on MAL is kind of deceptive, since MAL's database is "padded" with things like bonus episodes (additional episodes of a series included on a BD release, or bundled with a manga, for example), and even includes things like anime commercials and music videos. All of these things get their own entry and count as a separate "anime," even if they're attached to an existing series, or are just a couple minutes long. So even something like this, this, or this count as "1 anime" in the database. MAL also separates seasons that are all part of the same continuing series, so a single show with lots of different seasons, like Sailor Moon or Haikyuu, occupies several entries in the database. If we eliminated the padding, and combined seasons of shows that are direct continuations of previous seasons, the total number of anime in the database would be so much smaller. |
palm-treeFeb 14, 2021 1:32 AM
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O_OSeeKing said: There are about 60000 anime, I think? When I searched https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?limit=20500, the limit was 20500. But I clicked one of the newest, and in the end, it showed https://myanimelist.net/anime/51988/Kitsune_Musume_no_Ecchi_na_Oyado So I think that there are around 60000 anime. But in Wikipedia, it is claimed that there are 4,4 million anime and 775000 manga. I guess there will never be an accurate number or even an approximate one. Do you have a link for where wiki says 4,4 million because that is a ridiculous number and I couldn't find anything remotely implying that on wiki. There's definitely way, way more manga than anime for obvious reasons (production costs etc...) so those numbers you allegedly cited from wiki have to be bullshit. As for MAL, there's not 60k anime entries. More like 21k. How do I know? Anime.Plus tells me my ~6750 entries are roughly 33% of the entire DB, so if we do the math we end up with ~21k entries on MAL. The ID numbers for entries are already over 50k (which I guess is why you estimated closer to 60k?), but that's because people add so much stuff to the DB that doesn't get accepted or is a double entry that more than half of the ID numbers actually stay empty after the submission has been rejected. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| Probably like 5-10k different franchises. MAL has like 50k entries including seasons, music videos, shorts, OVAs and specials. |
| But Has anyone really watched them all? I don't think so |
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ManWild said: For mal database only, there's 17000-18000 like you said but for overall count, Maybe either a bit under 20k or a little bit over 20k? Will you watch them all? I think you probably could |
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| While the number of existing anime is finite, it is getting close to infinity. It cannot reach infinity though, however it can reach the size where it would be impossible for any human to ever watch it all. |
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It depends a lot how you define "anime". Anidb has a different policy, they aggregate specials with the main TV show, and that makes a difference of over 3000 to MAL already. |
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| Like approximately 100.000 anime. |
| Based on MALGraph's stats there's 24k anime. |
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| - there are foreign ones that don't get to call themselves anime when clearly the style can only be anime - many make them and don't publish or release them - number may be too high depending if you count seperate seasons as seperate anime counter on final number or does entire seperate seasons count as 1 - some music videos are considered anime, or are they? depends on general concensus I guess All these factors and more will never give us accurate or close call number. My rarest anime on MAL is clocked in at 15'000 and some, so it can't be less than that |
How much anime exist? Much...  #geewizzdoctajonesdatzzawholeloddaanime.org |
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| It's kinda difficult to count in MAL because older series are 1 complete entrance, (e.g. Naruto / One Piece, etc) while newer series are put into several seasons (multiple entrances, every season you give different rating).. So Naruto you count as 1 series while Hero Academia has 6 series.. |
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| There are much more than we will live to be able to watch haha. :3 |
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| There are thousands of them, and the number will only go up as more time passes. |
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ManWild said:
For mal database only, there's 17000-18000 like you said but for overall count, Maybe either a bit under 20k or a little bit over 20k?
For mal database only, there's 17000-18000 like you said but for overall count, Maybe either a bit under 20k or a little bit over 20k?
Will you watch them all? I think you probably could
| @ryo-san That would likely not be possible because the database also includes lost anime. Many anime released before the 1960s are lost. |
| I don't know but if you use anime.plus you can find out how much percent of anime you've watched |
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| More than anyone can watch in their entire life. Sazae-Sanhas been airing for over 50 years with nearly 8000 episodes. Thats not even counting all the anime you will never be able to watch cause its lost media. |
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| A LOT. Imagine if you could live long enough to be able to watch every one of them. Also, imagine how low your mean score would be, lol. |
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| Had a hard time asking chatgpt this question so it's safe to say we're dealing well within the sub 100K range of titles alone (including remakes, second cours, seasons, movies, specials etc) |
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