We've released a small change to Anime/Manga database pages today to make frequently-clicked related entries more visible by including a thumbnail for each prequel, sequel, and adaptation. Along with this modification, the type of the related entry is now included. All other relations will be listed on one line each as well, for readability. Since this will make the Related Entries section longer on the page (particularly for huge franchises like One Piece), more than four relations will be collapsed under a More/Less accordion like OP/ED themes. For now, Manga <-> Novel relations will be still be listed under Alternative Version (without a thumbnail). In the future, we'll be making it possible for these relations to also appear rightfully as Adaptations, and will migrate the existing data. We also recognize that although many anime are adapted from light novels, the manga versions or "comicalizations" of these titles are often still more widely read. Thus, we plan to make it easier to move between Anime <-> Manga entries of Light Novel sources in the future, as well. It's a small update, but we hope this will make it easier for new and existing members to move between related entries in our database. Please let us know of any issues you may encounter. |
| good change |
| I can finally say this is a somewhat welcome update! We can finally properly read the many related entries without trying to figure out where it starts/ends lol Question tho, when you say " frequently-clicked related entries ", based on what? By tracking what was the previous page before visiting an entry? Or do you mean just what is assumed to be what people check the most (prequel/sequel) without any real regards to the side stories and such? Another question, is there any hope now to finally get our status per series here? Similar to how we get the little tags (cw, cmpl, ptw, hold) on the seasonal page, VAs pages, and so on. And finally, why did the episode videos get pushed so far down? They are now below the OP/ED section.... |
SheyCroixMay 23, 7:13 PM
Reply to SheyCroix
I can finally say this is a somewhat welcome update!
We can finally properly read the many related entries without trying to figure out where it starts/ends lol
Question tho, when you say " frequently-clicked related entries ", based on what? By tracking what was the previous page before visiting an entry? Or do you mean just what is assumed to be what people check the most (prequel/sequel) without any real regards to the side stories and such?
Another question, is there any hope now to finally get our status per series here? Similar to how we get the little tags (cw, cmpl, ptw, hold) on the seasonal page, VAs pages, and so on.
And finally, why did the episode videos get pushed so far down? They are now below the OP/ED section....
We can finally properly read the many related entries without trying to figure out where it starts/ends lol
Question tho, when you say " frequently-clicked related entries ", based on what? By tracking what was the previous page before visiting an entry? Or do you mean just what is assumed to be what people check the most (prequel/sequel) without any real regards to the side stories and such?
Another question, is there any hope now to finally get our status per series here? Similar to how we get the little tags (cw, cmpl, ptw, hold) on the seasonal page, VAs pages, and so on.
And finally, why did the episode videos get pushed so far down? They are now below the OP/ED section....
| @SheyCroix Kind of, but seems like the whole purpose and the main point was to add a larger ad section in the middle of the screen  |
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@SheyCroix
Kind of, but seems like the whole purpose and the main point was to add a larger ad section in the middle of the screen
Kind of, but seems like the whole purpose and the main point was to add a larger ad section in the middle of the screen
| @hacker09 The ad spots were not changed. They've been there for 5+ years now, if not more. |
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@hacker09 The ad spots were not changed. They've been there for 5+ years now, if not more.
| @Kineta Oh, then I'm clearly wrong. Sorry! My Ublock Origin showed a big white space only today... It could be a bug then? I'm sot sure |
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| like this change but there should be an optional decision to be able to revert to the old setting |
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| I noticed that some scores suddenly went down (to the exact score of few months ago) in all Sorcerous Stabber Orphen anime after this update, wtf |
Reply to fudish123
I noticed that some scores suddenly went down (to the exact score of few months ago) in all Sorcerous Stabber Orphen anime after this update, wtf
| @fudish123 I started a thread last week to ask why so many anime scores have been going up. And now they've all gone back down! https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2159991 |
| その目だれの目？ |
| That seems like that could be useful. I only have a miild concern of cover images of follow up seasons being potential spoilers in some cases though the images show up when doing a search anyway and they are small enough you cant get much off of it so it's not that big an issue. |
| hell yeah, this is a useful change |
Goodnight, Punpun |
| Thanks for the update. It’s nice that the adaptations are visually separated and organized better; I remember I was kind of having a hard time with that during the Easter event… I also like that each related anime entry has its own row instead of being grouped together into a confusing clump. |
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| Good change. |
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| Enjoying this change a lot on the mobile website |
| Unnecessary change. Please include an option to revert back to old format. |
| This is great, so much more clear now! Hopefully this can also be added one day => https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1817297 |
 plz @ me |
Reply to Lucifrost
@fudish123
I started a thread last week to ask why so many anime scores have been going up. And now they've all gone back down!
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2159991
I started a thread last week to ask why so many anime scores have been going up. And now they've all gone back down!
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2159991
| @Lucifrost Yeah, I noticed that scores were rising up but it wasn't that much either. It was under 0.2 points anyway. |
| Now please update the search bar, it's so dysfunctional it isn't even funny |
 Looks great! 😍 Nice change ❤ |
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| love it! |
| Honestly, I really like the idea, but I think the execution is lacking. My main gripe with this change is the fact that it only seems to affect prequel/sequel relations as well as adaptations. With this it feels really inconsistent even though it isn't, because some shows don't have either of these relations and as such still have the same "Related Entries" section as always, while others look completely different now. The fact, that some relations are hidden now is also annoying, because up until now it was always visible and now I have to do an additional click for something that should always be visible. Because if it would look the same on all relations I think this change would be really great, I like what it does visually. I guess for now I'll have to get a script that unhides the hidden entries... Also, since some other users mentioned it, I'm glad to see something was done against the score botting. While I'm admittedly sad to see my favorite shows go down in score again, it's still a lot better to have actual scores than those artificially inflated ones. We wanna keep it fair here. |
| Personally I hate this change, In terms in readability I feel like you're changing something that doesn't need changing. Please add an option in the setting to revert this change. |
| I checked out a few of the more massive franchises and it seems to be much more comprehensible than the old system. Nice <3 |
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The thumbnails are too small to be useful, but the biggest problem is this typical scenario  If there is a related adaptation, prequel ends up on the right while sequel ends up on the left, which is unintuitive. I suggest Prequel and Sequel be separated on line 1 - prequel on the left. And adaptation can go below that or even somewhere else. For big sections it's a lot better since there are no thumbnails, but there is still a problem with sorting, where you can see the titles aren't sorted alphabetically or by type (series, ova etc), but by some hidden factor that isn't stated or obvious as can be seen here:  |
| This is an extremely annoying change, please give us an option to revert it in settings. |
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| Thanks for the changes, it becomes more convenient to use! |
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| wow I wished there was this a few months ago when I took my time to complete my list with ovas and special. I just think the thumbnails are unnecessary, just the type would be perfect |
RyushindaiMay 24, 12:13 PM
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| this is a nice update |
| Not a fan of the score update, it made the less watched anime score artificially goes down. I'm pretty sure it's because it became a weighted score and it makes me really sad because now less watched anime (older anime) have pretty bad score. Check Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou as an exemple (it's supposed to be ~7.88 from the score average but now it's 6.43, if I was just checking the page I would never even give it a try as of now) |
| If my portion of anime seen ever gets lower than 10% of the database, consider me dead. |
| Great update! I also like that the episode videos are not so high up anymore, but it would be great, if we could get the option to remove them. It is really annoying to have spoilers of a show that clearly visible. At LEAST make it so that the first episodes are shown and not the last since that makes spoilers much more likely. Same thing goes for the Videos tab. Please put the trailers on top an the Crunchyroll episodes at the bottom. |
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Reply to Aggnog
The thumbnails are too small to be useful, but the biggest problem is this typical scenario
If there is a related adaptation, prequel ends up on the right while sequel ends up on the left, which is unintuitive. I suggest Prequel and Sequel be separated on line 1 - prequel on the left. And adaptation can go below that or even somewhere else.
For big sections it's a lot better since there are no thumbnails, but there is still a problem with sorting, where you can see the titles aren't sorted alphabetically or by type (series, ova etc), but by some hidden factor that isn't stated or obvious as can be seen here:
If there is a related adaptation, prequel ends up on the right while sequel ends up on the left, which is unintuitive. I suggest Prequel and Sequel be separated on line 1 - prequel on the left. And adaptation can go below that or even somewhere else.
For big sections it's a lot better since there are no thumbnails, but there is still a problem with sorting, where you can see the titles aren't sorted alphabetically or by type (series, ova etc), but by some hidden factor that isn't stated or obvious as can be seen here:
| @Aggnog The sorting is very obvious and not hidden at all... The thing that aired first is at the top and the newest at the bottom. I don't think it should be different |
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| Can you please add an option to revert to the old way of displaying the relations ? Some of us really liked the old format more. |
| I liked the previous listing more but if this is permanent can the title/url of the related content and the relation description be swapped? It's more intuitive for the title of something to be above the description of it. |
Reply to flammeur
Not a fan of the score update, it made the less watched anime score artificially goes down.
I'm pretty sure it's because it became a weighted score and it makes me really sad because now less watched anime (older anime) have pretty bad score.
Check Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou as an exemple (it's supposed to be ~7.88 from the score average but now it's 6.43, if I was just checking the page I would never even give it a try as of now)
I'm pretty sure it's because it became a weighted score and it makes me really sad because now less watched anime (older anime) have pretty bad score.
Check Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou as an exemple (it's supposed to be ~7.88 from the score average but now it's 6.43, if I was just checking the page I would never even give it a try as of now)
| @flammeur The low scores are the original scores. They increased regularly over the past couple of months and have been returned to normal. It's possible bots were involved. I wish the admins would put out an official statement, because it's basically gaslighting if they pretend that nothing happened. https://myanimelist.net/stacks/44765 |
LucifrostMay 24, 8:52 PM
| その目だれの目？ |
| i think we should able to hide related entries with one click just as on the mobile website. What we to do when the series has too many side stories, movies and sequels? I just pretend not to see the new feature, i think it's more beneficial for the newbies. |
| I often check the Related Entries section. So it's nice, it's up now just after the synopsis. With or without a thumbnail, good change to move it up there. |
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| This is a bad change.. Can we have an option to change it back? |
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I would have liked something like this, why complicate the format?  |
CatalanoMay 25, 12:29 AM
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Reply to YoshiYogurt
@MysticalMagic
How the hell is it annoying?? it's not a gigantic mess anymore.
This is one of the best changes on this site ever.
How the hell is it annoying?? it's not a gigantic mess anymore.
This is one of the best changes on this site ever.
| @YoshiYogurt It is because now I need to click to expand pretty much every time just to see sequels/related content when it was fully visible before. |
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