Retro Anime. This is a subreddit for fans of older anime and manga. It doesn't matter if you're a classic Toonami kid, a Usenet hero, or someone simply interested in the history of anime, everyone is welcome here. The focus should be on series and titles that were broadcast, or published before 2000, where older fans can gather and discuss the Usenet/BBS days, old school conventions, fan clubs, or whatever, and new fans can ask about those days as well as discussing anime itself. Founded 2014 · 142.2K members
143.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached
12K upvotes, which works out to
84 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/retroanime?
r/retroanime ("Retro Anime") describes itself this way: This is a subreddit for fans of older anime and manga. It doesn't matter if you're a classic Toonami kid, a Usenet hero, or someone simply interested in the history of anime, everyone is welcome here. The focus should be on series and titles that were broadcast, or published before 2000, where older fans can gather and discuss the Usenet/BBS days, old school conventions, fan clubs, or whatever, and new fans can ask about those days as well as discussing anime itself. It was founded in 2014 and has 142.2K members.
How many members does r/retroanime have?
r/retroanime has about 143.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 406 of its posts; the biggest reached 12K upvotes, which is 84 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/retroanime?
"Female characters from the 90s was the best" reached 12K upvotes and 253 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/retroanime.
What subreddits are similar to r/retroanime?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/retroanime?
Of the posts we hold, 48% are image posts and 20% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/retroanime?
Across 406 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 00:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 11:00 UTC (4.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 17:00 UTC (3.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/retroanime?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/retroanime has 5.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 30 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
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