If an anime you liked was removed from MAL, but for a VERY good reason that makes sense, would you accept that?
| Last year there was discussion here on MAL over Twins Hinahima, which AniList refused to list. While I personally think it is correct for it to be on MAL, AniList's argument towards their decision made total sense. Likewise, I think it was last year that Rule34 decided to change it's tagging policies to only allow tags of stuff that was explicitly on an image. Once again, while I didn't like the end result, the reasoning behind it made perfect sense. Recently a certain gaming logging website removed a game from it's list with a rationale similar to if your alarm clock app didn't allow you to set your alarm at a certain time because it doesn't think you should wake up at that time. This got me curious: Has something like that ever happen on MAL? Pretty much every removal on Anime DB - Recent Entry Merges/Splits/Removals/Denials seems to be "Oops, it should've never been here to begin with". Closest would've been episode mismatches (e.g. Kyousou Giga (TV) Recaps not having episode 2 due to being live-action). On AMQ I'm constantly pissed that "Sonny Boy OST - サニーボーイ・ラプソディ" isn't accepted due to repetitive lyrics, but I do agree that rules like that are for the best. So I'm thinking: If MAL de-listed an anime that you liked, but had a VERY good reason that would be hard to argue against to do so, would you be fine with it? |
Of course i would accept that, this website isn't mine to decide. Its owners can add or remove whatever they want and none of us can say anything about it.  |
| I would simply move to a different cataloging site if I really hated it. But big chances are I would simply accept it. |
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| Idk most of my favorite animations aren't even on MAL i do think their rules on what gets accepted into the database are a bit silly like the site could be so much better if they allowed more things, but this is why i already use other sites for cataloguing. |
| No, Nami shouldn't have been removed. https://web.archive.org/web/20220820191932/xss.now.cc/anime/29949/Nami |
*kappa* |
| of course not, I am still on that hill defending iczer one movie to be added to the database and I will never give up, even in death, even after death |
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| I'd be glad entries that aren't anime are being removed. |
| その目だれの目？ |
| Well yeah if it's for a genuine reason I'd support the removal. Such as merging entries that don't make sense to be separate, happened a lot in the earlier days of MAL. But more often than not they remove things for very invalid reasons. |
"Most anime makers are basically autistic" - Hideaki Anno |
| Lets hypothetically say the payment processors wanted to 1984 mal. I would accept that mal is now a lost cause, and move elsewhere. Same with gelbooru if they banned loli. |
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| MAL already doesn't list a very large portion of webtoons I had read... |
*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧May the winds of change transform you entirely.*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ |
| I wouldn't really care tbh, but if they did that for multiple animes then maybe i would. |
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| I can't think of a genuine reason, since MAL tries to be exhaustive. A single anime isn't that big of a deal and you still can reference it vaguely on your profile if you wish to. I probably wouldn't notice for a long time, unless it's one of my 10 favorites. |
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| Never. They shouldn't have taken off Transformers and the movie. fuck that. |
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| Give me back my Penis. https://web.archive.org/web/20210926100825/xss.now.cc/anime/49726/Penis |
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| i genuinely fail to see what there would be to "accept". Am I grieving over the loss of a fav anime being in an internet database????? |
| There are no good reasons to remove any of the anime I like, so no. |
| I don't think I have much of a choice but to accept it, since I don't run the website. But it would be nice if RWBY where on here. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| I'd be pissed if there were similar cases treated differently. And it depends on what "good reason that makes sense" means, since I don't think that AniList is right about Twins Hinahima. |
| TV version of Garden of Sinners was removed long ago for some vague reason, yet I'm still alive. |
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| Yes, I’d be angry about this situation, but if there's a reason for it, it wouldn’t matter. |
| I mean, I'm already not fine with certain anime-style shows not being listed on MAL yet 3D stuff that isn't anime by any definition (not even by the "animation made in Japan" one) gets to stay. |
| MAL has removed quite a few entries from my list, though I'm more annoyed that there's no notification when it happens. I throw a fit then forget about it lol |
Reply to Piromysl
TV version of Garden of Sinners was removed long ago for some vague reason, yet I'm still alive.
| @Piromysl Wait it was ? What the fuck. The light novel isnt on here either. This clearly meets guidelines to be here so what the fuck. |
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| Still waiting for that awful Rick and Morty anime to be added. It meets every criteria for an anime, but still nope. But MAL adds non-anime stuff like donghua. Makes no sense. But if MAL removed an anime I like? I mean yeah I would have to accept it. Like wtf do you expect me to do? |
| I dont think there is any good reason to remove one of my favorites. |
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.  |
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