Why are manga so slow to get approved ?

Less mods maybe. Besides, there are far more manga and manhwa etc out there as compared to anime. The list is far far bigger. We do need more mods to make the approval procedure faster. Also, there are certain rules for a manga or manhwa or hua to be added here. Mods will probably take more time to look into the information to make sure the approved manga fulfills the requirements.

Anime is a priority here, I hear AniList is faster when it comes to manga.

Don't know, they have separate mods for each though. Only someone from the team can answer something like that I think: https://myanimelist.net/staff


There is more manga entries than anime overall. There's over 70k manga entries, but less than 30k anime ones

I guess because manga have a lower approval priority, because anime are more popular on MAL so pending anime entries probably get approved first.

How do you know it hasn't been rejected?

@Lucifrost Because usually I receive a message to inform me that it had been rejected. I though it was always the case, is it not ?

@piroriparopirira
I didn't know that, as I have never gotten a rejection message. I suppose that could mean none of my edits have been rejected, but quite a few have yet to be implemented even in the anime database.

@Lucifrost I see, the rejection messages are always followed by an exaplanation for the rejection indicating the rules that the entries breaks.
In a recent forum someone gave a link for the unapproved (and other) MAL entries, maybe some are from you : https://purarue.xyz/dbsentinel/

@piroriparopirira
Ah, but I have never tried to submit a new anime. I've only made changes to existing pages.

And who wants manga to get approved quickly? You ever considered that?

Sometimes anime do sit for a while, but there are a couple reasons why they are generally approved faster:
1) There are way more pending manga than anime, so the mods have a lot more to review. Multiple manga are approved every day, but the queue is already massive and there's never a lack of more to submit with how many exist and continue to be made.
2) In some cases, anime entries require less to review than manga. Think about the music videos you submitted: if you provided the main details, there's really not a lot you need to check.
3) Mods are either anime or manga, and there are about the same number of each, but it's not just about the number of staff, but the quality of them. There is one anime staff member in particular who I have to thank for reviewing almost everything I've submitted.
Note: While Anilist does have more manga on their site, they do not allow Korean MVs, so MAL certainly has its advantages.

You can try messaging the mods about titles, but your millage will vary. Generally though, just asking for something to be approved doesn't go so well, especially on the manga front where there are over 7,000 titles in the queue. If everyone did this, it would quickly become overwhelming.

Sometimes anime do sit for a while, but there are a couple reasons why they are generally approved faster:
1) There are way more pending manga than anime, so the mods have a lot more to review. Multiple manga are approved every day, but the queue is already massive and there's never a lack of more to submit with how many exist and continue to be made.
2) In some cases, anime entries require less to review than manga. Think about the music videos you submitted: if you provided the main details, there's really not a lot you need to check.
3) Mods are either anime or manga, and there are about the same number of each, but it's not just about the number of staff, but the quality of them. There is one anime staff member in particular who I have to thank for reviewing almost everything I've submitted.
Note: While Anilist does have more manga on their site, they do not allow Korean MVs, so MAL certainly has its advantages.

You can try messaging the mods about titles, but your millage will vary. Generally though, just asking for something to be approved doesn't go so well, especially on the manga front where there are over 7,000 titles in the queue. If everyone did this, it would quickly become overwhelming.

Not to mention the rules expanding to allow even more content in the manga database. How do the admins think their mods can catalogue every novel and webtoon when they can't properly catalogue Japanese comics?

@Lucifrost
Because they can't afford not to. They're extremely popular, so if they don't track them, people will move elsewhere.

@Kwanthemaster
Then why not add American cartoons to attract even more users?

Only months? In my experience it takes years.
I gave up trying to add stuff to the Manga DB. And I only use it to track a few of the titles I read.

@Lucifrost
I'm talking about people moving to other anime databases like Anilist or Anime-Planet (I know people who were using these sites to exclusively track these works not on MAL). They already allowed manhwa/manhua and novels/light novels, they just changed the requirements for what makes them qualify. A lot of them have official English translations, which they seem to like to prioritize. Maybe someday they will open up to animation and comics from more countries.

@Estefan Damn I'm sorry to read that.
Do you also use other sites, write them in a notebook or do you remember them ?

@piroriparopirira Well, I usually just move the finished stuff into the "read" folder of my ebook reader.

Is it worth messaging a mod about this? There are two pending titles I’d really like to see approved, 1 of them essentially I don’t understand why it hasn’t, but I wasn’t the one who made the request so idk if there’s anything I can do or worth doing