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Jul 7, 2023 7:43 PM
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Why are the MAL staff such hypocrites regarding this?
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Jul 7, 2023 8:36 PM
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EndlessMaria said:
Why are the MAL staff such hypocrites regarding this?

Who said this was for western audiences?
Jul 7, 2023 8:39 PM
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A japanese production, therefore for both japanese or western or whatever audience that live, eat, breath air, and enjoy anime.
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Jul 7, 2023 8:50 PM
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I wouldn't want this in MAL database either, but there's no hypocrisy on staff's part in this particular case. It's Japanese production and isn't any different to something like this.
Jul 8, 2023 10:39 AM
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They already allowed cyberprank edgerunners, Great pretender, and gangsta. Just excluding this would be hypocrisy pero~
Jul 8, 2023 12:20 PM
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Being based on a Western property =/= made for the Western market. Look at the staff, this is clearly a purely Japanese production.
Jul 10, 2023 7:47 PM
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Because it was made in japan?

myanimelist.net/anime/38292

This is the franchise that originated from france, but it's listed on MAL. Probably because the movie was producted in japan.
Jul 15, 2023 12:47 AM
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don't complain stfu
Jul 22, 2023 11:41 AM
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Igreja said:
A japanese production, therefore for both japanese or western or whatever audience that live, eat, breath air, and enjoy anime.

It is made by Japanese studio bruh, of course it will be in My anime list
Jul 22, 2023 9:49 PM
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Because it is anime made by a Japanese studio. This is "My ANIME List", not "Purist Japanese Network". No need to complain about a non-issue.
Oct 12, 2023 7:29 PM
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How does it harm you, what problem do you have? It is not like if it is in database, you have to add it in your list. And it is MAL not youtube or insta that it will be in your recommendations even if this is not in your list
Oct 16, 2023 6:36 PM

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They already allowed cyberprank edgerunners, Great pretender, and gangsta. Just excluding this would be hypocrisy pero~
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None of those were meant exclusively for Western audiences, you people seem to not be aware that Netflix has an asian branch, and many of those shows were meant for it. Edgerunners was actually made to promote the Cyberpunk video game in Japan as they were hoping it would do better there after it bombed in the rest of the world at the time.
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Oct 17, 2023 10:51 AM

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@ChouunShiryuu
None of those were meant exclusively for Western audiences, you people seem to not be aware that Netflix has an asian branch, and many of those shows were meant for it. Edgerunners was actually made to promote the Cyberpunk video game in Japan as they were hoping it would do better there after it bombed in the rest of the world at the time.
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Nov 24, 2023 1:47 PM

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This is produced by a Japanese studio (like Scott Pilgrim Takes Off that isnt on MAL for some stupid reason). The bigger problem is that they allowed Chinese and Korea animation on the site.

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Dec 1, 2023 9:38 AM

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Anilist has Scott pilgrim, but I don't like it for some reason. Although people say Anilist is better lol.
Dec 1, 2023 6:56 PM

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This is here because it's anime. It's an animated series created by Japanese people, produced in Japan, primarily for a Japanese audience. It being based on a Western IP is irrelevant. That doesn't stop it from being anime.
Dec 2, 2023 5:48 PM
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Igreja said:
A japanese production, therefore for both japanese or western or whatever audience that live, eat, breath air, and enjoy anime.

they didnt include scott pilgrim despite the anime studio and staff being mostly japanese, the only real difference was the original vas were english, kinda petty reasoning
Dec 2, 2023 7:58 PM

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I want original RWBY is here too, the Japanese version is suck tbh.
Dec 3, 2023 8:43 AM
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People like you are just an embarrassment to the myanimelist community, find the correct information about this anime, stop being a crybaby and stop making discussions about nothing. Hurt child
Dec 3, 2023 2:37 PM
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EndlessMaria said:
Why are the MAL staff such hypocrites regarding this?

I don't get it either man. you have the marvel stuff on here for crying out loud Halo is on here. My guess is if it's made by a Japanese company then yes because they don't have like any of the castlevania's or anything like that on here, which I think is complete BS because Castlevania is based off of a Japanese video game and Halo is actually based off a western video game and Microsoft has never done anything in the japanese market.They've never been able to crack that market. but the anime was done by Japanese studios.
Dec 3, 2023 4:38 PM
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It shouldn’t matter what audience the show is made for, anime is Japanese animation and there’s no way you are arguing a made in Japan anime by wit studios isn’t Japanese animation. Therefore it belongs on MAL.
Dec 3, 2023 4:51 PM
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People like you are just an embarrassment to the myanimelist community, find the correct information about this anime, stop being a crybaby and stop making discussions about nothing. Hurt child
@Deibiddo01 wait bro, I think the op is referencing the situation that is happening with Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Dec 3, 2023 4:51 PM

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I am still salty about the Scott Pilgrim thing.
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Dec 3, 2023 10:07 PM
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what about the halo anime, it's on here. Yeah, it was made by a Japanese studio with Japanese people, but you cannot argue that it's for the Japanese market because of the fact that it's based off of a Western IP and that western IP is owned by Microsoft and Microsoft has had such a hard time breaking into the Japanese market that they're pretty much non-existent.
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who cares, it's gonna be complete garbage anyway
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Apr 14, 8:36 AM
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This is produced by a Japanese studio (like Scott Pilgrim Takes Off that isnt on MAL for some stupid reason). The bigger problem is that they allowed Chinese and Korea animation on the site.
@Technopunk That's actually true, how is Solo Leveling allowed on MAL if it's not manga?
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Another useless thread.
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who cares, it's gonna be complete garbage anyway
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