| I notice that people here tend to be on the older side, usually older than me. That's usually the opposite of a problem for me, but I worry that there won't be a new generation to continue or traditions here. What causes this? Are younger fans not using MAL? |
| Well, this is the only decent website for discussing anime left in 2025, so it isn't so much a retirement home.....it is the only decent anime forum left in 2025 tbh. |
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| I am 30 years old and love that MAL has older people. But Forum Games board is full of Zoomers. You wouldn't know that 'cause you don't post on that part of MAL. Most of these Zoomers don't care about preserving genuine anime culture, which is why I relentlessly promote it in FG. |
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| I thought it was a nursery, but a nursing home makes sense too. |
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I thought it was a nursery, but a nursing home makes sense too.
| @Tirinchas it's a place for nurses either way. One of my favorite yuri visual novels is Nuse Love Addiction. uwu |
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| Youngsters are Discord addicts who blindly accept any terms of agreement just so they can stay connected with their collection of social interactive (private) islands, governed by single individuals that love feeding their powerhungry illusions by striking and banning anyone that doesn't fit their mental narrative. It's always a cozy friendly place when it starts in the baby cradle, but once mods are chosen and the community swells up to unbearable numbers, corruption always seeps in, rules are always invented and expanded. Those who love being part of a hivemind, do not mind at all. What causes this? What has always driven youngsters in the past? Peer pressure, mixed now with the hyperinflated modern version of FOMO. MAL is not an island, it's a continent. Albeit a sinking one, but it's still standing... for now. Once digital ID will be enforced globally, you shouldn't be surprised many old people will stay of the internet. We grew up without it and many of us can continue the rest of our lives without it. So enjoy our company while you still can *old man cough* :D |
| I can't wait to play as Rex in Ace Combat 8! YEEHAW! About F time! If digital buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing |
| No, every place outside of MAL is an insane asylum. |
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I thought it was a nursery, but a nursing home makes sense too.
| @Tirinchas I think this is the only decent anime forum left (in 2025). All the others are very bad (forget about Reddit, that site is horrible because of the karma system). |
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| I've seen more younger fans in the clubs here, using the app on their phone instead of desktop mode. In general, though, there are a lot of older fans on the forums, as that is a feature that has stayed the same over the years. |
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| Eh. I'm 16, and ive seen a few younger people, so they do exist, but a lot of people here seemed to be older. I discovered the site from looking up the title of an anime, so it's not like its fully closed off or anything. |
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| how rude, I'm not old. take it back or I'll cry. |
| 馬鹿げた倫理 全部ガラクタで |
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| mal itself is 20 years old, mal is an old website and is a classic for anime tracking/database website, back then (late 2000s and early 2010s) when there were many anime ddl and non english fansubs websites easily found on google, they always link mal as the "more info" of their anime, so mal was the only one i knew and probably a lot of people here were just like me for a while now anilist was more popular than mal, and i think this is because of anichart, i can say that a lot of us use anichart for looking at seasonal charts, and people who never have any tracking account would just make anilist because of this, there is also anitwt too, there most of them use anilist so people who discovered anime community through twitter probably will just make anilist as well, the newbie anime fans these days enter the anime routine of seasonal checking and tracking through anilist and anichart however recently i see many new young people on mal here, i feel like this website is getting a comeback, anilist is now less popular than mal, and i think this is because mal have better profile customization and it has official event badge that truly feels official because you have section in your profile dedicated for badges only unlike anilist and AP, mal is also the one that doesnt rely on patreon, mal started as any other websites with a guy making it but now mal is owned by a japanese company and have japanese manga/anime partnerships, and for these reason mal isnt gonna die, it will keep running and new members will keep coming because they migrate here, also this is an unpopular opinion but apparently mal have reputation of having anime elitists and maybe these young people are here for that, if they dont want to mingle with casual anime fan they just come here looking for more aside from that, there are even older people in anidb, i saw 54 years old guy still active on anidb ~_~ anyway sorry for rambling |
Reply to Slowdownn
Eh. I'm 16, and ive seen a few younger people, so they do exist, but a lot of people here seemed to be older. I discovered the site from looking up the title of an anime, so it's not like its fully closed off or anything.
| @Slowdownn is mal your first anime tracking website or did you have anilist/ap first? |
Reply to Coaghim
Youngsters are Discord addicts who blindly accept any terms of agreement just so they can stay connected with their collection of social interactive (private) islands, governed by single individuals that love feeding their powerhungry illusions by striking and banning anyone that doesn't fit their mental narrative. It's always a cozy friendly place when it starts in the baby cradle, but once mods are chosen and the community swells up to unbearable numbers, corruption always seeps in, rules are always invented and expanded. Those who love being part of a hivemind, do not mind at all.
What causes this? What has always driven youngsters in the past? Peer pressure, mixed now with the hyperinflated modern version of FOMO.
MAL is not an island, it's a continent. Albeit a sinking one, but it's still standing... for now. Once digital ID will be enforced globally, you shouldn't be surprised many old people will stay of the internet. We grew up without it and many of us can continue the rest of our lives without it. So enjoy our company while you still can *old man cough*
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What causes this? What has always driven youngsters in the past? Peer pressure, mixed now with the hyperinflated modern version of FOMO.
MAL is not an island, it's a continent. Albeit a sinking one, but it's still standing... for now. Once digital ID will be enforced globally, you shouldn't be surprised many old people will stay of the internet. We grew up without it and many of us can continue the rest of our lives without it. So enjoy our company while you still can *old man cough*
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| @Coaghim Well said; I was also recently joking with the idea of a "digital ID" in a sarcasm manner, while at the same time thinking to myself that I was being a little bit paranoid. That will be a sad day when all online freedom is overly scrutinized to abide by the political correctness. I hope all the censorship and controllership will backfire one day. We need a revolution! |
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Reply to mayoiko
mal itself is 20 years old, mal is an old website and is a classic for anime tracking/database website, back then (late 2000s and early 2010s) when there were many anime ddl and non english fansubs websites easily found on google, they always link mal as the "more info" of their anime, so mal was the only one i knew and probably a lot of people here were just like me
for a while now anilist was more popular than mal, and i think this is because of anichart, i can say that a lot of us use anichart for looking at seasonal charts, and people who never have any tracking account would just make anilist because of this, there is also anitwt too, there most of them use anilist so people who discovered anime community through twitter probably will just make anilist as well, the newbie anime fans these days enter the anime routine of seasonal checking and tracking through anilist and anichart
however recently i see many new young people on mal here, i feel like this website is getting a comeback, anilist is now less popular than mal, and i think this is because mal have better profile customization and it has official event badge that truly feels official because you have section in your profile dedicated for badges only unlike anilist and AP, mal is also the one that doesnt rely on patreon, mal started as any other websites with a guy making it but now mal is owned by a japanese company and have japanese manga/anime partnerships, and for these reason mal isnt gonna die, it will keep running and new members will keep coming because they migrate here, also this is an unpopular opinion but apparently mal have reputation of having anime elitists and maybe these young people are here for that, if they dont want to mingle with casual anime fan they just come here looking for more
aside from that, there are even older people in anidb, i saw 54 years old guy still active on anidb ~_~ anyway sorry for rambling
for a while now anilist was more popular than mal, and i think this is because of anichart, i can say that a lot of us use anichart for looking at seasonal charts, and people who never have any tracking account would just make anilist because of this, there is also anitwt too, there most of them use anilist so people who discovered anime community through twitter probably will just make anilist as well, the newbie anime fans these days enter the anime routine of seasonal checking and tracking through anilist and anichart
however recently i see many new young people on mal here, i feel like this website is getting a comeback, anilist is now less popular than mal, and i think this is because mal have better profile customization and it has official event badge that truly feels official because you have section in your profile dedicated for badges only unlike anilist and AP, mal is also the one that doesnt rely on patreon, mal started as any other websites with a guy making it but now mal is owned by a japanese company and have japanese manga/anime partnerships, and for these reason mal isnt gonna die, it will keep running and new members will keep coming because they migrate here, also this is an unpopular opinion but apparently mal have reputation of having anime elitists and maybe these young people are here for that, if they dont want to mingle with casual anime fan they just come here looking for more
aside from that, there are even older people in anidb, i saw 54 years old guy still active on anidb ~_~ anyway sorry for rambling
| @mayoiko Funny you say that: I think I started using AniList in 2019 when MAL was out for a while. On r/anime I did use my AniList in my banner because I thought that, at the time, it was less popular and thus will make me appear as a more hardcore fan, while having MAL would make me seem like a normie that doesn't keep on with the latest trends. Nowadays so much people there use AniList that I came back to using MAL. |
| i actually feel the opposite. as someone who is in their early 30s, it feels like a lot of posters are much younger. there's so many posts about school and parents and getting their first job etc. i wish i felt the sense that most people were older. |
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i actually feel the opposite. as someone who is in their early 30s, it feels like a lot of posters are much younger. there's so many posts about school and parents and getting their first job etc. i wish i felt the sense that most people were older.
| @GANCH More than half the users in this thread made their accounts ten or more years ago. |
Reply to thewiru
@mayoiko
Funny you say that: I think I started using AniList in 2019 when MAL was out for a while.
On r/anime I did use my AniList in my banner because I thought that, at the time, it was less popular and thus will make me appear as a more hardcore fan, while having MAL would make me seem like a normie that doesn't keep on with the latest trends.
Nowadays so much people there use AniList that I came back to using MAL.
Funny you say that: I think I started using AniList in 2019 when MAL was out for a while.
On r/anime I did use my AniList in my banner because I thought that, at the time, it was less popular and thus will make me appear as a more hardcore fan, while having MAL would make me seem like a normie that doesn't keep on with the latest trends.
Nowadays so much people there use AniList that I came back to using MAL.
| @thewiru i also made an anilist account in 2019 simply because i found a manga that isnt on mal but is on anilist and i was trying to get into anitwt and just put anilist on my profile because i dont want people to know my mal, but both anitwt and anilist are boring and filled with.. how do i say it, "tourists"? so i deleted them lol (i end up using mangaupdates for manga), well if you want less popular then i think its kitsu or animeplanet or anidb, but in term of hardcore its gotta be anidb because a lot of encoder and fansubber groups are there, they also still use IRC which i personally never used myself.. well in the end what really matters in term of being "hardcore" is i think your stat instead of what website youre using |
| At my age it certainly feels like it for how long I have been here. XD |
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@Slowdownn is mal your first anime tracking website or did you have anilist/ap first?
| @mayoiko MAL is the first one ive used |
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| I was a teen when I joined, pushing 30 now. Sadly millennials scare off anyone young. Millennials are creepy. |
| It also doesn't help that anyone remotely interesting or mildly controversial usually gets swiftly perma banned from these forums. It is a problem considering that zoomers on average are much more radical and provocative than the previous generations. Hence almost everyone left here is either a boring, pearl-clutching millennial or some kind of "minority". Cracks me up that they assembled a small army of mods just to monitor forums that have less activity in a day than, let's say F95, in a couple of hours, not to mention zero content that requires moderation. |
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It also doesn't help that anyone remotely interesting or mildly controversial usually gets swiftly perma banned from these forums. It is a problem considering that zoomers on average are much more radical and provocative than the previous generations. Hence almost everyone left here is either a boring, pearl-clutching millennial or some kind of "minority". Cracks me up that they assembled a small army of mods just to monitor forums that have less activity in a day than, let's say F95, in a couple of hours, not to mention zero content that requires moderation.
| @queenofautism what do you mean by radical and provocative? i feel like its quite the opposite, its always the zoomers to complain about anything they find to be offensive, like they go out of their way to find and nitpick anything to be problematic and make a fuss out of it, then demand a new normalization and change, the performative activism is more like zoomers thing to do, is it not? |
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It also doesn't help that anyone remotely interesting or mildly controversial usually gets swiftly perma banned from these forums. It is a problem considering that zoomers on average are much more radical and provocative than the previous generations. Hence almost everyone left here is either a boring, pearl-clutching millennial or some kind of "minority". Cracks me up that they assembled a small army of mods just to monitor forums that have less activity in a day than, let's say F95, in a couple of hours, not to mention zero content that requires moderation.
| @queenofautism what is your definition of controversial content? Please give me examples. You mean like lolicon and shota discussions? |
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@queenofautism what do you mean by radical and provocative? i feel like its quite the opposite, its always the zoomers to complain about anything they find to be offensive, like they go out of their way to find and nitpick anything to be problematic and make a fuss out of it, then demand a new normalization and change, the performative activism is more like zoomers thing to do, is it not?
| @mayoiko Every zoomer is either some kind of gender-fluid catboy with a hammer and sickle in his profile or a literal nazi that wants to genocide the entire third world. I am obviously somewhat exaggerating, but it's definietly a much more fun generation than millenials, Gen-X or boomers, at least from my experience. And fun people aren't allowed here. @DesuMaiden Yes, loli and shota discussions among many other things. |
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@mayoiko Every zoomer is either some kind of gender-fluid catboy with a hammer and sickle in his profile or a literal nazi that wants to genocide the entire third world. I am obviously somewhat exaggerating, but it's definietly a much more fun generation than millenials, Gen-X or boomers, at least from my experience. And fun people aren't allowed here.
@DesuMaiden Yes, loli and shota discussions among many other things.
@DesuMaiden Yes, loli and shota discussions among many other things.
| @queenofautism its their version of emo phase lol, millenials had emo and metalcore and now they have they/them commies and nazi, i personally find it funny and endearing, the source of the phase is all the same really, its just loneliness and lack of parental love/attention, modern parents are busy either working or be narcissistic, im afraid this cycle will keep going on in future |
| yeah i feel like ive been the youngest user on the forums for years atp (besides like one person i met that had their account deleted) but this forum generally feels like it mostly has millennial and gen x users. With ig a few gen z users here and there, and I don't think I've ever seen a boomer or gen alpha user on here lol. There are some people my age here too (searching with the age range thingy in the community section of the site) problem is like NONE of them have even touched the forums I definitely feel like with social media there is less incentive to join forums, but at the same time LITERALLY LOOK AT THE SPACEHEY FORUMS!!! i've been there a few times and the ratio between Gen Z and other generation users is like 2:1 😭 All bc it kinda got popularized through tiktok. I feel like if the forums here were just more exposed to people BY social media and stuff, the forums genuinely COULD probably be much more alive with gen z users and stuff, but for now it's practically unknown by most people lol. |
| MAL is a mental asylum, as proven by OP many other of its members. |
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@queenofautism what is your definition of controversial content? Please give me examples. You mean like lolicon and shota discussions?
| @DesuMaiden I miss your old maiden pfp :(. Though, Neptunia is cool. |
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@DesuMaiden I miss your old maiden pfp :(. Though, Neptunia is cool.
| @StarlaFox I think Neptunia is the best video game series. I own many Neptunia video games on PlayStation. |
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@StarlaFox I think Neptunia is the best video game series. I own many Neptunia video games on PlayStation.
| @DesuMaiden Neptunia series.... is a HORRIBLE series of video games. It's clunky as fuck, grindy garbage and bland graphics. Theey're meh games. They're fun and endearing though. I think Neptunia U and 4 goddess online are the best ones. I love Blanc. |
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| People older than 26 = Retirement Home? I don't think so. But sure, MaL is pretty Oldschool. |
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| Idk I miss old cool mal not whatever this is. @StarlaFox Neptunia Rebirth V3 is dope so opinion invalid. |
| MAL is a dead end. You either turn somewhere else or stay forever. Or maybe a crossroad, but it sounds way too religious to say out loud. I care about my reputation. |
| Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. |
| I would say... better to be some old guy than terminal online Twitter/X user who gets triggered every 5 seconds about some meaningless shit. Overall it doesn't matter how old you are. Just don't act like an ass. And if everything ends with us? Well... too bad. Like one wise man said. Even Mona Lisa is falling apart. Worth to note... anime tourists come fast and get out even faster. |
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| That's what I really love about this site tbh, all the other anime social media platforms have a younger audience, plus with how old this site is and how old it looks don't really think that many younger people would wanna use it at least imo. But you don't gotta fix what's not broken yk |
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| It depends. I think it's mainly because MAL is pretty much the last interesting anime discussion site that's still around? Like tbh i think that kids who watch anime aren't going to bother going on MAL, creating an account, and making a list (nowadays there are so lazy to do that ngl). I think they just watch anime and that's it. It's really different from otaku who have watched or read a lot of manga and have a long list of things to watch. I think you only open a MAL account when you're a real anime and manga fan and, implicitly, rather older... |
Reply to mayoiko
@queenofautism its their version of emo phase lol, millenials had emo and metalcore and now they have they/them commies and nazi, i personally find it funny and endearing, the source of the phase is all the same really, its just loneliness and lack of parental love/attention, modern parents are busy either working or be narcissistic, im afraid this cycle will keep going on in future
mayoiko said: @queenofautism its their version of emo phase lol, millenials had emo and metalcore and now they have they/them commies and nazi, i personally find it funny and endearing, the source of the phase is all the same really, its just loneliness and lack of parental love/attention, modern parents are busy either working or be narcissistic, im afraid this cycle will keep going on in future Interesting way to look at it. Gets tiring though, all the shit-flinging and politics. |
Reply to Coaghim
Youngsters are Discord addicts who blindly accept any terms of agreement just so they can stay connected with their collection of social interactive (private) islands, governed by single individuals that love feeding their powerhungry illusions by striking and banning anyone that doesn't fit their mental narrative. It's always a cozy friendly place when it starts in the baby cradle, but once mods are chosen and the community swells up to unbearable numbers, corruption always seeps in, rules are always invented and expanded. Those who love being part of a hivemind, do not mind at all.
What causes this? What has always driven youngsters in the past? Peer pressure, mixed now with the hyperinflated modern version of FOMO.
MAL is not an island, it's a continent. Albeit a sinking one, but it's still standing... for now. Once digital ID will be enforced globally, you shouldn't be surprised many old people will stay of the internet. We grew up without it and many of us can continue the rest of our lives without it. So enjoy our company while you still can *old man cough*
:D
What causes this? What has always driven youngsters in the past? Peer pressure, mixed now with the hyperinflated modern version of FOMO.
MAL is not an island, it's a continent. Albeit a sinking one, but it's still standing... for now. Once digital ID will be enforced globally, you shouldn't be surprised many old people will stay of the internet. We grew up without it and many of us can continue the rest of our lives without it. So enjoy our company while you still can *old man cough*
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| @Coaghim MAL is not an island, it's a continent. Albeit a sinking one, but it's still standing... for now. wdym by this; like don't get me wrong I totally agree that the ease and exclusivity of discord social groups and the such, set it up to self destruct due to how its fundamentally created but how is MAL a sinking continent. From how I see it, if anything the fact that its a covers multiple bases as a Forum, database & News Hub, etc for anything anime related means that even if one aspect is dead or slows down for a bit; Its still going to get users flowing in from other avenues. |
| I mean, there are many people on mal both young and old who likely just use MAL as a tracking tool instead of making it their main place for discussions. |
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| Honestly i'd say thats due to a mix of nostalgia and kind of wanting something new. Like ever since Covid Anime and "weeb" culture has blown up and with it has come alot of very passing surface level fans; which don't get wrong I think having new people interested in something is good. BUT the issue is I've noticed is that a lot of the convos and way that newer fans coming in from more recent popular series interact with the medium as a whole either feels very shallow or overly critical to the point where they lose all nuance. Ironically with MAL being less accessible due to the learning curve of the site; it lends itself to being more accessible to find people who have more experience with the culture and offers better convos (which in most cases tend to be older fans as they have been around longer). |
Reply to Numagami
mayoiko said:
@queenofautism its their version of emo phase lol, millenials had emo and metalcore and now they have they/them commies and nazi, i personally find it funny and endearing, the source of the phase is all the same really, its just loneliness and lack of parental love/attention, modern parents are busy either working or be narcissistic, im afraid this cycle will keep going on in future
@queenofautism its their version of emo phase lol, millenials had emo and metalcore and now they have they/them commies and nazi, i personally find it funny and endearing, the source of the phase is all the same really, its just loneliness and lack of parental love/attention, modern parents are busy either working or be narcissistic, im afraid this cycle will keep going on in future
Interesting way to look at it. Gets tiring though, all the shit-flinging and politics.
| @Numagami i think its because millenials had mtv and very early days of internet and not many are extremely online, so the youth culture centered around media at the time like music bands and stuff. but here gen z grows up when internet is already crowded, with many unpopular tumblr-4chan opinions getting louder on mainstream social media like twitter, insta and tiktok, and the melting pots of information online too, like the news and ideologies, thats why their personality is centered around politic, simply because thats what everyone they see is doing, its not their fault really, theyre just kids, i never see them having any original thoughts, no matter which side of politic theyre on, theyre just repeating talking points from someone older.. like if you look at popular political commentator influencer or whatever theyre called, most of them are old, theyre not gen z also lets not forget the fact that they cant avoid growing up online because of pandemic, so their personality is inevitably.. chronically online but yes it gets annoying when the talking point you dont agree with shows up, often times its the treating fiction as real and real as fiction thing that annoys me the most |
Reply to Asy_
@Coaghim
wdym by this; like don't get me wrong I totally agree that the ease and exclusivity of discord social groups and the such, set it up to self destruct due to how its fundamentally created but how is MAL a sinking continent. From how I see it, if anything the fact that its a covers multiple bases as a Forum, database & News Hub, etc for anything anime related means that even if one aspect is dead or slows down for a bit; Its still going to get users flowing in from other avenues.
MAL is not an island, it's a continent. Albeit a sinking one, but it's still standing... for now.
wdym by this; like don't get me wrong I totally agree that the ease and exclusivity of discord social groups and the such, set it up to self destruct due to how its fundamentally created but how is MAL a sinking continent. From how I see it, if anything the fact that its a covers multiple bases as a Forum, database & News Hub, etc for anything anime related means that even if one aspect is dead or slows down for a bit; Its still going to get users flowing in from other avenues.
| @Asy_ If I'm proven wrong, it couldn't make me happier tbh, I love this old style of forum. Back in the day these styles of fora were the standard everywhere. I simply get the 'feeling' (<- yeah I know, great measuring unit -_-') that the younger users simply don't like this format. So over time the population might dwindle, because of that simple reason. This assumption is comparable to any other teamsport out there, in order to flourish, you need the constant fresh blood injection of new young players. There are quiet some MAL clubs here, but if you take a closer look, they are not very active. These clubs migrated to Discord space. Why? I don't know, but like they say 'where there is smoke, there is fire.' |
| I can't wait to play as Rex in Ace Combat 8! YEEHAW! About F time! If digital buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing |
Reply to DesuMaiden
Well, this is the only decent website for discussing anime left in 2025, so it isn't so much a retirement home.....it is the only decent anime forum left in 2025 tbh.
| @DesuMaiden Not true, Anime-Planet's forum is still alive and well. But all the forums everywhere have seen a massive decline due to so many people using places like Discord instead. I honestly wonder where people would migrate to if Discord died. |
Reply to IpreferEcchi
@Tirinchas it's a place for nurses either way. One of my favorite yuri visual novels is Nuse Love Addiction. uwu
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