MAL Thread

[Samus Aran]

You don't keep a mental note/write it down?

dude, my completed list is over a hundred long. i'm not going to just remember all that. i'd rather have it remembered for me in a way that i can show off.



and writing it down is sloppy and boring

[Kalahari Inkantation]

but why not use mal lol

[ME##]

If you have any iOS device, there's an app called scatter brain that would probably  help you in remembering your list.

but he'd still miss the features that i ~mentioned~ in my ~ignored~ post

[Samus Aran]

yeah there's no community in simply making a list for myself for nobody else to ever see

that'd be boring

[bluaki]

Look at this stylish fucking list:

http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Razziell

I didn't even know you could customize them to such a degree.

You can fully change the CSS as you see fit, I believe. MAL also lets you set the list's default view to only show one category at a time, which he uses and then styles the category switching buttons to have large pictures.
Though I know how to, I don't care for making mine fancy so I don't bother and just use the default dark theme.

If you have any iOS device, there's an app called scatter brain that would probably  help you in remembering your list.

I prefer to use plaintext files and a text editor over some strange app for keeping track of various lists like this

And like was said earlier, it's nice to be able to easily show off the list. Mine is even longer than Kaz's, at like 132 or so completed series and 8 currently watching.

Because you'd have to pause your anime.

Not at all, especially if you either watch anime in windowed (non-fullscreen) mode or have multiple monitors. You don't necessarily need to press the + episode count button immediately after watching every single episode either.

[don't let's]

Back when I first started readin' the manga online I just used to keep track of stuff I've read and completed with my browser bookmarks. I did that for a year. It was pretty horrible. But MAL is pretty good for having a database of everything you've watched/read or finding new things to watch.

[Nyerp]

snowy's just mad because if he actually made a MAL he'd only have like 10 in completed

[Andria]

for someone like me, who loves keeping track of what they've seen, it's ideal

it's also an ideal way to keep track of what i want to watch in the future. and it's just fun, i dunno. it's hard to explain my obsession.

IDK about everyone else but I have occasionally forgot the name of an anime I watched and then many months later went back and started watching it again only to realise it five minutes into the episode. With MAL I can check before I even start, and it also makes keeping up with the episodes I am on with multiple series a lot easier.

[KonohaShinobi]

regarding: http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Razziell

If I had the time and knew someone besides me was looking at my list, I would put the time into it for something as nice as that. I just use MAL as a list.

I dont use the MAL forums or anything so the community is pretty detached from me, but I know Kaz is on there pretty often and makes friends and stuff, people leaving messages on his wall... so I feel bad for that man.

[Samus Aran]

uh i may be on there often but i haven't made "a lot of friends," or any friends in fact, other than boyagers...although i have had some small talk with a few users who PM'd me or posted on my "wall" as you call it

but i also don't get a lot of posts on that, so idk what you're talking about

[Andria]

I have person leaving messages on my wall all the time on mal

[Blaze-Senpai]

My list is a bit more stylized but keeps the same table format as the basic lists do, but I changed most of what you can on it.

[KonohaShinobi]

whoa, just learned that this exists

http://www.malupdater.com/index.php

not sure if it works 100% but testing it now

holy shit, its pretty intuitive. I will never have to manually update again.

[Samus Aran]

whoa, just learned that this exists

http://www.malupdater.com/index.php

not sure if it works 100% but testing it now

yeah it's pretty nifty and i've seen people using it, but unfortunately it's somewhat useless for me because i only watch about half of my anime on my computer, if that

[Commander Fuckass]

http://myanimelist.net/profile/ThatKefka