| So there was a forum I found interest in. A forum stating if mal is used to decide what anime gets made. Normally I would think no since japanese producers likely avoid english websites in general. I think the real power of mal is the marketing of series with absolutely no marketing elsewhere. Creating forums to discuss series and ways to track seasonals helps establish some series that would never be discussed irl. How big of an impact do you think mal has on a series success? Any series you picked up purely based on using mal? |
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| "Do you think mal influences what series succeeds? Does mal impact the anime industry?" Not very much tbh. |
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| No, mal doesn't any influence whatsoever. |
| I think if you go outside to your balcony and start shouting something, you have a better shot of influencing an upcoming anime than anything you type on MAL lol. |
| I don't think so. A lot of people use MAL but I don't think it does anything towards marketing animes with a couple of exceptions (maybe something like Frieren had a little bit of help because of its rating on MAL but even that is a little far fetched imo). |
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| No not at all & it is best to keep it that way. To many woketards like to stir things up here. |
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| MAL sure has a bit of influence and impact on the industry, but it's probably not noteworthy. |
| Nah, I don't think MAL have any impact on the anime industry but you never know. |
TheBlueSpartanOct 4, 2024 11:27 AM
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No, mal doesn't any influence whatsoever.
tchitchouan said: No, mal doesn't any influence whatsoever. Agreed as it's money and probably streaming is what influences things/stuff in the anime industry TBH. |
| MAL is no more active as it used to be, and site must be way more world-wide known to have any impact. |
| crunchyroll has 120 million users right now myanimelist has 16 million users right now so nope crunchyroll has more influence than myanimelist |
| Not at all. Maybe in the past it did have an impact but not anymore. The only impact MAL has on the community is fanwars. |
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| No, not in the least. Most people will just judge the anime for what it is. |
| Maybe slightly within the Western community, but even then, the vast majority of those who are interested in anime casually far outweigh MAL's user base. Globally and from an industry standpoint, I think MAL's impact is very minimal, if not non-existent |
We know that at the very least Toho was paying attention to the MAL performance for Frieren and Apothecary Diaries, because they cited MAL rankings and stats for both in an internal presentation for investors. |
| Maybe? I mean even if does it's barely noticeable imo. |
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We know that at the very least Toho was paying attention to the MAL performance for Frieren and Apothecary Diaries, because they cited MAL rankings and stats for both in an internal presentation for investors.
| @FrierenSimpKing That reminds me of how metacritic scores can often mean bonuses in the gaming industry. |
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| I don’t think so. There’s no way, lol. |
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| I wish an anime studio would look at my profile and make sequels based on my favorite anime lol. Eromanga Sensei deserves to be reupped for another 1000 episodes. |
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We know that at the very least Toho was paying attention to the MAL performance for Frieren and Apothecary Diaries, because they cited MAL rankings and stats for both in an internal presentation for investors.
| @FrierenSimpKing That's super interesting, thanks for sharing. I can't help but think that MAL ranking is a terrible way to gauge "international success," but maybe it's the best metric they could come up with. |
| Many people use MAL, but the majority are from the West. A large Japanese industry wouldn't care. |
| No. Simply because it's more complicated than that. But MAL is owned by a Japanese company and is cooperating with various Japanese companies. To which extent they use data MAL provides, I don't know. |
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| I thought most user here are pirates? How do you influence something when you don't even pay for it. |
| Anime makes more profit from western customers than from japanese customers, and the gap keeps widening every year. But to answer your question: no, MAL doesn't influence what series succeeds, and there's a very simple reason for it. Anime industry in Japan makes most of its money from sales of expensive physical media and merchandise. Anime industry in the west makes most of its money from subscription services. |
| No. That's it. That's all there is to say. |
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| I highly doubt so. I don't imagine many japanese producers/directors/creators hanging around there or asking their co-workers what MAL users think of their work. |
| we starts seeing safe space anime these days so mal does hold it's own weight. it's not entirely on mal cause they just enforce what's coming from top management. basically if people taking steps to create more website listing that makes community becomes more decentralized maybe it would help to make anime obscure again. i'm probably part of problem too instead of just moving on. |
| I think it has some kind of impact in regards to the public consensus of anime, but in the industry itself i doubt it has any impact whatsoever. |
| >OP is DYEL opinion discarded tbhfam |
| Partly yes, I read that MAL have some connections with industry. |
MemoreOct 5, 2024 7:47 AM
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| Maybe a tiny bit in the west, but on the industry as a whole? MAL has absolutely zero weight. |
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