MyAnimeList

MyAnimeList
Type of site
 Anime, Manga, Social networking, Social cataloging application
Available in English
Owner DeNA[1][2]
Created by Garrett Gyssler[3]
Website www.myanimelist.net
Alexa rank Increase 428(Global, August 2018)
Commercial Yes
Registration Free
Launched April 6, 2006 (2006-04-06)[4]
Current status Active

MyAnimeList, often abbreviated as MAL, is an anime and manga social networking and social cataloging application website. The site provides its users with a list-like system to organize and score anime and manga.[1] It facilitates finding users who share similar tastes and provides a large database on anime and manga.[3] The site claims to have 4.4 million anime and 775,000 manga entries.[5] In 2015, the site received 120 million visitors a month.[1]

History

The site was launched in April 2006 by Garrett Gyssler and maintained solely by him until 2008.[1]

On August 4, 2008, CraveOnline, a men's entertainment and lifestyle site owned by AtomicOnline, purchased MyAnimeList for an undisclosed sum of money.[5] In 2015, DeNA announced that it had purchased MyAnimeList from CraveOnline, and that they would partner with Anime Consortium Japan to stream anime on the service, via Daisuki.[6][2]

MyAnimeList announced in April 2016 that they had embed episodes from Crunchyroll and Hulu directly onto the site, with over 20,000 episodes being made available on the site.[7]

In April 2017, MyAnimeList added The King's Avatar, its first Chinese anime to the site's database.[8]

On March 8 2018, MyAnimeList opened an online manga store, in partnership with Kodansha Comics and Viz Media, allowing users to purchase manga digitally from the website. The service originally launched in Canada but later expanded to United States, the United Kingdom, and several other English-speaking countries.[9]

MAL became inaccessible for several days in May and June 2018 when site staff took it offline for maintenance, citing security and privacy concerns.[1][10] The site operators also disabled API for third-party apps, rendering them unusable.[1] The moves were done in efforts to conform to the European Union's GDPR program.[1][10]

Features

MyAnimeList lists Japanese animation, Korean animation, and Chinese animation. Similarly, MyAnimeList has information on manga, manwha (South Korean comics), manhua (Chinese comics), as well as dōjinshi (fan comics) and light novels. Users create lists that they strive to complete. Users can submit reviews, write recommendations, blogs, post in the site's forum, create clubs to unite with people of similar interests, and subscribe to the RSS news feed of anime and manga related news. MAL also starts challenges for users to complete their 'lists.'[3]

Scoring

MyAnimeList allows users to score the anime and manga on their on a scale from 1 to 10. These scores are then aggregated to give each show in the database a rank from best to worst. A show's rank is calculated twice a day using the following formula:

Where stands for the total number of user votes, for the average user score, for the minimum number of votes required to get a calculated score (currently 50), and for the average score across the entire anime/manga database. Only scores where a user has completed at least 20% of the anime/manga are calculated.[11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Orsini, Lauren. "MyAnimeList Passes Third Day Of Unexpected Downtime". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  2. 1 2 "DeNAとACJ、海外アニメサイト「MyAnimeList」に日本製アニメを提供". CNET Japan (in Japanese). 2015-07-16. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  3. 1 2 3 "Why Some Fans Watch Anime At Double Speed". Kotaku Australia. Gawker Media. 2018-01-11. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  4. ↑ "myanimelist WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS.
  5. 1 2 "CraveOnline Buys Manga Social Net MyAnimeList". CBS News. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  6. ↑ Hale, Daryl Lee (July 18, 2015). "DeNA Confirms MyAnimeList Buyout". Anime News Network. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (April 9, 2016). "MyAnimeList Adds More Anime From Hulu, Crunchyroll (Updated)". Anime News Network. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Famous Chinese animation The King's Avatar picking up steam among anime fans around the globe - Global Times". www.globaltimes.cn. Global Times. Retrieved 2018-06-18.
  9. ↑ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (March 15, 2018). "MyAnimeList Opens Manga Store With Titles From Viz, Kodansha". Anime News Network. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  10. 1 2 "Wait, What's Wrong With MyAnimeList?". Comic Book.com. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  11. ↑ "How are top anime/manga scores calculated?". My Anime List. MyAnimeList, LLC. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
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