Hit 500 episodes on my backlog tracker and I feel like I'm failing at anime

So I keep a list of anime I want to watch. Nothing fancy, just a notes app thing. Last week I counted and it hit exactly 503 shows and movies I haven't seen yet. That's like 3 years of watching non stop if I did nothing else. I honestly thought I was keeping up fine but somehow the list keeps growing faster than I can watch. How do you guys even manage your watch lists? Do you just give up on some shows or trim them down somehow?

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xena_rivera6314d ago

I read somewhere that the average person only watches like 10-15 shows a year, so 500 is basically a lifetime. Maybe it's just me but I think it helps to not treat it like a homework assignment. I just add stuff and forget about it, then randomly pick something when I'm in the mood.

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blair_davis13d ago

Figure out how many of those 500 shows are actually FINISHED series. That's the real kicker everyone ignores. I bet half of them are shows that got canceled after one season or just never got a proper ending. 500 unfinished shows is just a graveyard of cliffhangers and wasted time. That's why I actually track what I watch - not to make it homework, but to know if something is actually worth starting. Nothing worse than binging 30 episodes only to find out it got axed on a cliffhanger.