Anime

From what release years do you have the most anime completed and the most hours watched?

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Fairly self-explanatory question that just crossed my mind as I was checking out my own “Stats” page. AniList shows users how many titles they’ve completed per release year, as well as how many hours they’ve watched per release year. What release years have the most of each for you?

For me, I’ve finished more 2012 anime than any other year, but I’ve watched more hours of 2011 anime. I think the latter owes largely to having re-watched HxH 2011 the whole way through, and the former to the overlap of my peak seasonal-anime weebdom with my “I like shorts!” phase. What about you?

Edited for clarity

Nerimuriya 4y
Both 2021 for me, didn't really start so long ago
Taro 4y
most anime watched - 2015 (idk why this year)
most hours watched - 2011 (hxh fucked this up)
Tohkana 4y
2014/2015, my stats page isn't 100% accurate as MAL didn't track dates reliably, and Anilist only autofill start date, I have to do end dates manually, so a lot is missing start/complete dates, but I can say without a doubt that it's 2014/15 as they're the 2 years when I was really into anime, been struggling to really get into anime since.
- CoconutLaCroix 4y
  Sorry, the topic question was less straightforward than I thought. The dates I was asking about are actually for when the anime themselves released (“Release Year”), not for when you watched them. Those dates should be pretty precise, excluding any possible database mistakes. For example, if you were to watch FMA03 tomorrow, it would show up under 2003, not 2021.
  Tohkana 4y
  I'm clearly misunderstood the topic, as there's 2 graphs, airing year and watch year, my bad.
  CoconutLaCroix 4y
  No worries! Watch year would be a good question, too, if not for the issue you pointed out—one which affects me as well. I have basically no idea what accurate start/end dates would have been for anything I saw before joining AL. I actually try to just delete the start and end dates for everything I watch now, because I’d rather have no graph than a wildly inaccurate one, but the joke’s on me because I still have dates on shows but no idea which ones, lol.
Unculture 4y
Most Titles watched - 2020

Most Hours watched - 2017
Funko 4y
i think like 2019 or 2018. After i found anime i got pretty much addicted to it and finished like 12 episodes a day on average for months. but i watch alot less anime compared to now and then
giraffesdontexist 4y
Apparently it's 2009 for most hours at 97 hrs. Fairy Tail inflated most of that. Since it's a long runner that spanned years, I wouldn't count it as accurate. As for most completed is 2016 with fittingly 16 titles. More than half aren't shows tho. 5 of 'em were movies, 2 shorts & 2 specials/ova.
Haris04 4y
2019 and 2020 at tie for me 9 each.
2006 is the year for hours gintama the reason probably.
FranceIsHot 4y
Most anime watched - 2021
Most hours watched - 2021

blame the seasonals

but if 2021 doesnt count:
Most anime watched - 2018
Most hours watched - 2009 and 2018
MoiragetesDiogenes 4y
The release year that I've completed the most anime from would be 2014 with 66 titles.

The year where I watched the most hours would be 1999 but a large chunk of that came from watching One Piece so I'm not going to count it. The second highest is in 2004 which comes from bleach and sgt. frog. Then is 2007 with Naruto Shippuden. In 4th comes 2014 with 327 hours.

Looking over the list reminded me of all the anime that had more than 24 episodes and I kinda miss that. I understand why they changed it to 12 to ~24 episodes a season and I'm sure many new/old anime fans prefer it that way.
Moonii 4y
most anime watched - 2015
most hours watched - 2015
NpSaber 4y
Most titles watched - 2016 (20 titles)
Most hours watched - 2009 (136 h)
PopularStats 6mo
this is my alt for anime stats i'm currently tracking every anime over 60,000 popularity which is just over 1000 anime

Most Titles:2021 (89 titles)
Most Hours:1996 (556 hours)

Even the 89 anime of 2021 cant match Detective Conan/Case Closed in hours
Jdouble06 6mo
This is the main of the stats account.

Most Titles:2022 (50 titles)
Most Hours:2019 (311 hours)

2019 only recently overtook 2014 on hours watched. Before 2014 it was 2004 because of Bleach.
Maus 6mo
most titles: 2025 (14)
most hours: 2023 (60)
im fairly new to anime and im a casual so fair
Sirix 6mo
Most Titles 2021 (41) lots of short stuff
Most Hours 2024 (84h)
Rinko 6mo
Highest by count... is 2023.
Even though I only started watching seasonals that summer, each succeeding winter has had at least one show that aired the previous year – 2024 winter notably having two two-cour 2023 autumn shows – and that autumn season... also netted one more than usual due to various circumstances.
And off-season watches are plentiful – Oshi, High Card, BokuYaba, Tomo-chan, Sugar Apple... even with the shockingly high number I've caught up on this year there's still so much from then I have on my planning too–
Yeah, not surprised.

With a count of 41, that's six more than second highest (2024) and... on the one hand, 2023's count includes a short and four movies, on the other 2024's count includes six movies of its own and two OVAs... I think watch time would go to 2023?
Yup, 205 hours from 2023, while 2024... is merely third (160 hours).
I thought the two cour shows would weigh in somehow, but both years actually have two two-cour shows and one single cour show that I have one rewatch on. It tilts one episode to 2023's favour...~ (28 + 24 + 24, versus 26 + 25 + 24)

Edit: Dammit I keep forgetting about rewatches first I remembered was the 2024 one I referred to then the 2023 one... then I remembered there was another 2024 one I already rewatched... aand though I don't seem to have forgotten any other rewatches, I forgot Niehime was two cour ^^' that... means the maths are 28 + 24 + 24 + 24 and 26 + 25 + 24 + 24.
still the same

Second by watch time is... sigh unsurprisingly as it is the home of two 13 episode seasons I have watched in full three times and a 15 episode season I have seen twice, 2020...~