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Jul 30, 2020 6:52 PM
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If the anime has more than one entry, such as: Monogatari series, add the option to associate it with another anime on the list, transforming 13 entries in the monogatari series, as an example, into one.

The same for OVAS
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Jul 30, 2020 7:07 PM
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I could see this being helpful for some anime, but a pain for others. I don't understand why you'd want that for OVAs, though.
Jul 30, 2020 7:28 PM
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Man, would this ever be a disaster. Thankfully MAL has no intention of ever doing this. Some sites actually do combine entries, though, like AniDB. If you want to have entries open back up after half a decade and be forced to watch the sequel so you can reclaim completeness of it and be forced to watch shitty OVAs and non-canon sequels just so you don't have to call an anime dropped then please, be my guest.

One thing I would like, though, is for split cours to be combined. It seems silly for something Japan had considered to be a single two cour season that simply aired over the course of 9 months with a 3 month section in the middle where nothing aired to suddenly be treated as two seasons instead.
Jul 30, 2020 10:16 PM
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Jul 30, 2020 10:33 PM
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maybe you mean the repeated suggestion of franchise grouping?

like on MALGraph or AnimePlus? for example mine https://anime.plus/deg

Jul 30, 2020 11:41 PM
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zombie_pegasus said:

One thing I would like, though, is for split cours to be combined. It seems silly for something Japan had considered to be a single two cour season that simply aired over the course of 9 months with a 3 month section in the middle where nothing aired to suddenly be treated as two seasons instead.


I agree, especially if it's planned as 2cour ahead of time (Re:Zero S2, AoT S3, Valvrave, GATE, SAO Alicization War of Underworld - The two parts of Alicization make sense being separate though since they are considered separate seasons in most places).

Though, the only way would be to do it retroactively and make it apply to 3-6 month breaks at most. Reopening old series wouldn't work though (IE Index with s3, FMP with IV) since users would have long since "completed" the anime seasons already out and those series had 5+ years between seasons.
Objectivity? In my anime scoring? Of course not...
Jul 31, 2020 12:21 AM
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Honestly I think that would lead to more inconveniences than there are currently.
Jul 31, 2020 5:23 AM
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I believe you’re the 3rd user this month to make this suggestion. So no, you’re not the only one who wants it.
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1851012
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1855402
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Jul 31, 2020 5:29 AM

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deg said:
maybe you mean the repeated suggestion of franchise grouping?

like on MALGraph or AnimePlus? for example mine https://anime.plus/deg

That I would be down with. It would be especially good for series like Monogatari, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, and Kiniro Mosaic where the sequel name comes before the series name, cutting up the franchise when listed in alphabetical order.
Jul 31, 2020 2:42 PM

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MALgraph already has that
And this is a terrible idea
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Jul 31, 2020 7:17 PM

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You can go to chiaki.site to see every franchises sorted by their aired date.
You can also click on a title to show relations of other titles to the selected one.
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Jul 31, 2020 8:02 PM

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This would be awful, except for the case of Gintama. I guess you can merge the first 3 seasons together, but idk. It's a desperate attempt to decrease the number of Gintama entries on the Top 100. As baseless as it sounds, having 20 Gintamas on the Top 100 is straight-up annoying, even for someone who loves the show like me. Just perish. 1 Gintama at the 3rd place is enough, and I believe everyone should be happy?
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Jul 31, 2020 8:09 PM
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Preachee said:
This would be awful, except for the case of Gintama. I guess you can merge the first 3 seasons together, but idk. It's a desperate attempt to decrease the number of Gintama entries on the Top 100. As baseless as it sounds, having 20 Gintamas on the Top 100 is straight-up annoying, even for someone who loves the show like me. Just perish. 1 Gintama at the 3rd place is enough, and I believe everyone should be happy?

I meant the option to merge within our own list, not in the myanimelist database, that goes for everyone who apparently got it wrong.
Jul 31, 2020 8:13 PM
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It's a good idea, but I don't think I agree.
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People tend to rate OVAs and Specials way lover than the TV series, so that would fuck up the entire scoring system. Also there is a bunch of cases where some seasons are better than the others (Nanatsu no Taizai, Tokyo Ghoul, OPM, etc.).

Something like MAL graph would probably be useful tho.
Aug 4, 2020 8:19 AM

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No, what if I want to rate each part of an anime a different score
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I also wouldn't want this as I want to have the different covers and synopsis to show for each and it's easier just to tag shows I want to appear together.
https://myanimelist.net/animelist/ShaggyZE?status=7&tag=Monogatari&order=-14

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