Anime Insanity: watch every single one
No really.
If you wanted to watch every anime that has English dubs or subs and at least 1 finished season, starting with those published in 2025 and working backwards (you'd never finish but could just see how far back in time you could go)... even including the ones not on crunchy, hidive, Hulu, prime or netflix...
Well how would you go about even making such a list?
You know...for science. :p
If you wanted to watch every anime that has English dubs or subs and at least 1 finished season, starting with those published in 2025 and working backwards (you'd never finish but could just see how far back in time you could go)... even including the ones not on crunchy, hidive, Hulu, prime or netflix...
Well how would you go about even making such a list?
You know...for science. :p
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Ultimately watching *every* anime would be near impossible, and the issue isn’t even the time commitment. It’s the procurement. Even if we ignore lost media, even sites like AniList are constantly updating with random short films from decades ago and you’ll never really get all of it.
To answer the question though, I think most people would not make it out of 2025. I give them 2023 at the absolute latest before they get bored
Assuming they average 26 episodes, and 25 minutes per episode, that would be 5200000 minutes, which works out at 10 years of solid anime watching, with no breaks for eating or sleep. So 30 years if you dedicate 8 hours a day to anime.
You do need some kind of filter here other than "I'll watch everything that was ever dubbed or subbed", since the vast majority of shows do have subs if you look around.
What I would do instead is shortlist a few shows from every year and watch them. You can start with the current season and work backwards, or you could pick some historic year and work forward.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/season
Personally if I was doing that I'd start with 1974 and watch Heidi, Yamato, Great Mazinger and Getter Robo.
https://myanimelist.net/anime/season/1974/fall
To give an idea of the scope, there's a spreadsheet with every series on MAL split up as franchises, the total number of hours of content works out as 88254 hours of content, which is surprisingly close to my guess above.
To pick just one series, "Fate" for example apparently clocks in with 109 hours worth of content. I thought that seems high but then i remember it includes Fate, Fate UBW, Fate Zero, Fate Grand Order, Fate kaleid liner Prisma etc etc. If you watch anime for 8 hours a day, this would take a couple of weeks of only watching Fate stuff.
2026 winter 79+1reruns
[https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=6212](https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=6212)
2025 fall 83+2 reruns
[https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=5947](https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=5947)
2025 summer 94 +7
[https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=27428](https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=27428)
2025 spring 89+17
[https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=26886](https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=26886)
2025 winter 72+5
[https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=26137](https://www.animatetimes.com/tag/details.php?id=26137)
total 417 shows
avg. 89.8
That’s roughly 471 shows last year, averaging 89.8 per season. Each episode is \~22 minutes, so that’s about 1,975 minutes, or 32 hours 56 minutes per season.
1,975 minutes = 32 hours 56 minutes per season.
Yeah, nearly 33 hours a week, which adds up to 127.5 hours a month. For comparison, most people work 40 hours a week. So this is over 3/4 of a full-time job just watching shows.
Frankly…....I’d recommend doing literally anything else. Go touch some grass, hang out with people, have a drink. Even if you’re stuck in a hospital or dealing with serious injuries or disabilities, there’s still stuff you can do draw, write, compose songs, stream games, whatever. (Sorry if this accidentally comes off wrong to anyone with disabilities, that’s not my intent)
Note: these are raw anime counts with no regard for sub or dub, but most of the recent shows should have subs. While not 100% accurate, it gives you a good idea of the sheer volume.