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Anime Watching Timeline

Unveiling my anime journey: thoughts and timeline

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By Param Rathour
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Anime Watching Timeline

Motivation

While popular platforms like Anilist or MyAnimeList serve as valuable tools for anime tracking, they love to repeat stuff. There are separate entries for each season, part, cour, movie, OVA, … you name it.

I want to keep things simple – one franchise, one entry.

Personal Insights

I am no critic, but who doesn’t like to share thoughts? To get a real deep dive into my experiences, I am sharing my two cents (mostly spoiler-free) on each anime.

Hover/Click on the comments icon to uncover these insights.

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These thoughts generally apply to the entirety of the anime, but in few cases, I have categorized my thoughts by seasons, especially where I felt a need due to varying opinions across each season.

A Dilemma of Dates

Determining the timeline for this anime journey poses another challenge – dates to assign. The date of completion seems like a suitable candidate. But anime suffers from a problem, most of them are not completed. For such uncompleted anime, a new season might be airing right now or it might be scheduled for later or it might never come. So, when do I actually ‘complete’ an anime?

Solution

Choose those dates when

  • I have finished watching a completed anime or
  • I am caught up with all existing material, with no new material airing at the time or
  • I have seen everything that I wanted to see ( ͡ ° ͜ʖ ͡ °)

The Forgotten Past

Back in 2018, I didn’t use to track these dates. Also while creating this timeline, I realised I have lost some random dates. To handle such cases, I have chosen the last day of the month I likely ‘completed’ the show.

Anime Grid

One last thing: Here are my favourite moments from each anime I have watched. Well, not quite all of them, as the number has been rounded down to the nearest perfect square to fit the grid. But don’t worry, these are spoiler-free to look at without context.

The closer an anime is to the center, the closer it is to my heart ε>

Anime Grid

If you are curious about how I created these high-resolution image grids, feel free to check out this little repository.

Timeline

I probably overdid my explanations. Anyway, with no further ado, here’s the timeline!

I will keep updating this timeline whenever I watch more anime.

Milestones

Here are my anime completion milestones. They are not special because of the anime, but because of the number it hits.
I have chosen Lucas numbers for the sequence, as, in my opinion, they are the most natural numbers one could think of. Lucas numbers are integers closest to integral powers of the Golden Ratio \(\varphi\), i.e., \(L_n = [\varphi^n]\) for \(n\geq 1\). While the presence of \(\varphi\) in nature is debatable, it pops up as the optimum answer to many of its problems. Also, it is arguably the most irrational number,1 in the sense that the approximations generated by its continued fraction (below), converge to \(\varphi\) very slowly.

\[\varphi = 1+\cfrac{1}{1+{\cfrac{1}{1+{\cfrac{1}{1+{ {\cfrac{1}{1+{_{\ddots }}} }}}}}}}\]

Alright, enough with the math; let’s actually check out the milestones :)

Completion Number Completion Anime
001 Death Note
003 Code Geass
004 Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
007 Hunter x Hunter
011 Parasyte: The Maxim
018 Elfen Lied
029 Vinland Saga
047 Ping Pong the Animation
076 Psycho-Pass

Special Milestones

Some other milestones that don’t fit the above sequence ;)

Completion Number Completion Anime Description
069 Suzume’s Door Locking 1st theatrical watch
100 The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, REALLY Love You 1st fixed point2

Tier List

Also, here is a tier list, just for fun (with no captions :) Anime Tier List

  1. The Golden Ratio (Why It Is so Irrational) by Numberphile ↩︎

  2. A fixed point happens when the completed Anime’s name contains its completion number ↩︎

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