Friday, March 6, 2020

How many anime exist?

From appearance of first commercial anime movies in 1917, passed over 100 years! In which amount of anime dramatically expanded. Now days anime exist in the form of TV series, movies, OAV (direct ti video anime), ONA (net animation), and also a number of more minor types (like specials, omake, music video). In order to understand how much anime do exits, its important to look at all of them.
By far biggest part of anime, is consists of TV series (roughly about 90% of anime, running time wise, belongs to it). TV series first appeared in 1961, with release on Instant History (1961-05-01). From which, amount of TV Series was only growing. Only about 70 series did began in 60s, about 200 did began in 70s, about 300 did began in 80s, and over 4000 did began in 90s. So in total from 1961 to 1999 there was about 1000 anime series (with about 15-40 new series per year, in 1970-1995 period). But then amount of anime series, started to grow very quickly. Because of that, in 2000-2009 period, appeared about 1100 anime series! With amount of series by year getting to 100 in 2003, and did not dropped below 100 since than (already reaching to over 170 series by 2006). And it did grow again in the next 10 years. In which, from 2010 to 2019 was appeared about 1900 series! While amount of series per year did reached 200 series (and almost get to 250 in 2016). So in total, amount of anime series did get to over 4100 (containing about 152 thousands episodes)! While this may seems to be huge growth, in reality things was not all that great. Since amount of separate episodes per series, did get smaller along with it (most of series now days, are only running for 1 season).
Second most important type of anime is movies. Which also happens to be the oldest type. Amount of them already get over 1800. Next we have OAV (Original Animated Video). Most of which contain 1-3 episodes (but some have a lot more). Which is separated in normal OAV, and hentai OAV. Normal OAV appeared in 1983, and currently there is over 1500 normal OAV. While hentai OAV appeared in 194, and currently there is over 1200 hentai OAV (which contains about 2700 episodes). Latest type of anime is ONA (Original Net Animation), which appeared only in 2000. And at first was pretty small. With lesser than 100 ONA appeared in 2000-2009 period. But since then it did grown a lot. To over 550 ONA in total. While there is other types of anime, they are too small, too change total amount for much.

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