You can’t tell that 2015-2018 was my most depressed, so let’s watch every anime being streamed period from this, right?
The chart goes from 2006 up until 2024, but only shows the twelve most watched anime (in Japan) each year; I watched a lot more obscure series too. While I started watching anime regularly in 2014, I only started watching it seasonally the year after, Fall 2015 being the first season I did so. Almost a decade of continuous seasonal anime watching in other words. Those first few years I watched a shit ton of anime, because that what everybody does who is falling into the rabbit hole. Everything is new and interesting and you don’t quite know what you’ll like yet. Not to mention that there are decades of finished series to catch up on too. In hindsight though the sheer quantity of anime I watched in 2015-2018 was just abnormal even so; I may not have been quite my usual cheerful self.
One thing I noticed from this is that in the peak Covid era, 2020-2022, I seemingly watched less than in the years before, even though I had more time to spare what with being stuck at home for most of the period. I blame the rise of vtubers.
But there’s also a difference in the reasons for why I’ve not watched series, roughly before and after 2014. Series older than that not listed here I’ve mostly not gotten around to yet. Meanwhile many of the post-2014 series not checked here I’ve consciously avoided. No interest whatsoever in watching Goblin Slayer or Redo of Healer.
You can make your own version at anime-sedai.
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