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Feb 5, 2021 6:52 AM
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I saw someone in a YouTube video bring this up and I saw it as a fair point. It's annoying having to look at the actual page for the anime to make sure you're adding the right thing to your list. Of course, this would be an option in your settings between the Romaji title, Japanese Hiragana/Katakana/Kanji title, or English title.
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Feb 5, 2021 8:11 AM
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There are plenty of scripts on greayfork that does this
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Feb 6, 2021 2:58 PM
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Or at least making the English names visible in the app. That alone is annoying.
Feb 7, 2021 12:58 PM
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sungoku77 said:
Or at least making the English names visible in the app. That alone is annoying.

Yes please. Give app users the option to toggle English names instead of Japanese ones. The names are already in the database, just load our settings on app load and swap the names out.
Feb 7, 2021 8:42 PM
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Full English titles would be amazing. I'm surprised this feature hasn't been added yet- it would make the website so much more useful!
Feb 9, 2021 1:46 PM
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I second this. I love Japan and their language, but I can't understand what the titles mean. I thought there was an option in our settings that allows us to change the default language, but that may just be on Anime-Planet and I'm mixing them up.
Feb 9, 2021 7:45 PM
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This please. I get needing the Japanese for new releases or by preferences, but I’m too much a filthy casual to know the original title. A region option would be lovely, any database should be able to handle such a basic need.
Feb 10, 2021 7:31 AM
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I would also like this. Like how AOT is titled as "Shingeki no Kyojin", but Fullmetal Alchemist isn't called "Hagane no Renkinjutsushi". Why? The inconsistency bugs me. Either all Japanese, or all English.
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Jun 8, 2023 11:11 AM
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Hope to see that feature any time soon. Anilist got it, and yes there may be greasyfork add ons but come on. If we would argue about anything like "there is a workaround for that, so let's not fix the problem/improve our product" we would still be in the stone age
Jun 8, 2023 10:22 PM

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Burokkoryuu said:
(...) and yes there may be greasyfork add ons but come on. If we would argue about anything like "there is a workaround for that, so let's not fix the problem/improve our product" we would still be in the stone age
Agreed. Scripts can exist and can be helpful, but we mustn't forget about the site's functionality offered without any workarounds.

It would be very nice to have that kind of feature on MAL (even though I wouldn't use it myself), but I doubt it will be ever implemented. Perhaps it'd take too much work to do it. Less demanding suggestions were pretty ignored, so why wouldn't this one be different?

mojito_ said:
I would also like this. Like how AOT is titled as "Shingeki no Kyojin", but Fullmetal Alchemist isn't called "Hagane no Renkinjutsushi". Why? The inconsistency bugs me. Either all Japanese, or all English.
Yeah, that's what annoys me as well. I am all for consistent pattern of naming shows, to avoid chaos and to simply make the site clearer to use, but why the heck some shows have their original Japanese title, and others have their official English title? That doesn't make any sense.
Jun 12, 2023 11:52 AM
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Agreed. Scripts can exist and can be helpful, but we mustn't forget about the site's functionality offered without any workarounds.

It would be very nice to have that kind of feature on MAL (even though I wouldn't use it myself), but I doubt it will be ever implemented. Perhaps it'd take too much work to do it. Less demanding suggestions were pretty ignored, so why wouldn't this one be different?


I said:
mojito_
On iOS I use "ManGo" as client and they got it implemented. The app is created and being worked on by a single person:D

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