Remove all donghua from the site

@Richard_drizzle
>Anything I disagree with is ragebait.

@Archean-Return >the twelve
more like millions, Donghua is on anime database sites for a reason, it makes money. In recent years it is surpassing anime in popularity in China. If Japan do not step up their game I got bad news...

Donghua is here to stay, get used to it.

It is crazy how weebs have so much love for Japan in their hearts but so much hate for China and Korea.

Nope. I've said it before on numerous occasions and I'll reiterate it again here, but while I have a number of pretty firm and intractable disagreements with certain policies on the website including the way some anime are labeled (genre tags), certain forum rules, and so on, this is not one of them. I'm basically fine with MAL's treatment of other non-Japanese northeast Asian anime as anime (and it would be likewise fine even if it were to be expanded further to encompass all of East Asia like Thai, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Burmese, etc. animated media to the extent it exists). And have adopted its usage and incorporated it into my own outlook on what constitutes anime.

Because East Asia is a unique and distinct region of the world (as all are in their own ways to different extents) with a lot of shared cross-cultural influence. The Japanese animation industry has heavily influenced the Chinese and Korean industries and there is huge market share overlap. They've outsourced so much there and are increasingly even collaborating on more and more officially-designated joint productions. Geographically, culturally, historically, this is a region which is very much a world unto itself and the development and advancement of animated film and television as an artform in different parts of it has been closely linked.

And that's true in a way which it simply isn't and cannot be compared to animated works from elsewhere in Asia (South Asia, West Asia/Middle East) or to Europe or North America or anywhere else.

I watch a Chinese or Korean anime (seen very few Korean though due to availability issues for what I most wish to watch) and I feel the same as when I watch a Japanese anime - that I am indeed watching anime, which is something I only feel and receive from East Asian animation and not any Western or other cartoon. Even the art styles are basically shared and have morphed as one (or really, the Japanese heavily determined the evolution of the others as they were by far the largest and most popular/prominent and successful first).

And another reason why I'll always oppose calls for its removal is even more simple and straightfoward than that: It harms absolutely no one whatsoever in any way, shape, or form by allowing it to continue to remain here and be viewed, logged, sorted, treated, discovered, and interacted with as anime by those like myself who wish to consider and include it as such. But removing it does cause that harm. There are people who never would have discovered certain series if they weren't here present on the website. Whereas how is someone who dislikes them, dislikes their inclusion here, and doesn't watch them being harmed by their inclusion in any meaningful tangible way? No one can answer that question with any kind of meaningful answer. At least I've never to date seen anyone answer it with anything logical or coherent. So it remains a silly position.

Just don't watch or list yourself what others choose to. To me it's spiritually akin to and the same line of reasoning which those who oppose lolis and loli fanservice or any other subtype of anime are following when they call for their removal from websites (be it database websites, streaming platforms, or any others). Just don't watch or otherwise deal with what you don't like and aren't interested in and let everyone else do whatever they want. It's petty to try to micromanage this for others because like most issues, it's obviously a completely subjective matter on which they'll never ever be any universal agreement.

I prefer having everything in one place so it should stay - still for people with a huge dislike of them, there should be a filter, that's it.

rename My Anime List as My Donghua List instead

@Old_School_Akira Rename your username to ccp_agent

I think we should remove the Japanese ones instead since anime are Chinese cartoons.

I think we should remove the Japanese ones instead since anime are Chinese cartoons.

Bro you really said 'anime is Japanese' while MAL has The King's Avatar (Chinese), Tower of God (Korean), and Noblesse (Korean) in their database 💀.
Either purge all non-JP titles or quit gatekeeping. Pick a struggle

I love all animation and donghua is as part of it as any other. MAL’s already deprived of outstanding works like Arcane, The Witcher animés, Love Death & Robots, Final Fantasy, the early Disney movies, countless incredible USA+European works bcs snobby weebs & clueless kids put it in their heads that animation is Japanese. Guess what,
1) animation came from the WEST;
2) the word animé comes from “animation” which comes from “animated films” or “animated drawings” as they were first thought of: drawings given life, animated.

If this happened, many of us would go somewhere truer to the soul of animation. What used to be by, and for, free spirits is now overrun by mainstream & normies who think they’re rebels but are just clones of each others. We were following animation b4 it went “trending” and only then did you pop up. I love MAL and having all in one place so cool your witch-hunting urges and your cancel needs and pipe down.

Besides if you think animé is any higher effort than donghua you have another bad thing coming, it’s as much computers as any other, just different graphics. Or did u think they’re “lovingly hand-drawn frame by frame”? 😂 It’s just 2D software work, much of which is translated from manga by yet more software.

@Asuna_Shiraishi anime is japanese. Chinese and korean are inspired stuff. If someone from north america or south asian countries like India or African countries made an anime inspired show then will you allow it on mal?

I love all animation and donghua is as part of it as any other. MAL’s already deprived of outstanding works like Arcane, The Witcher animés, Love Death & Robots, Final Fantasy, the early Disney movies, countless incredible USA+European works bcs snobby weebs & clueless kids put it in their heads that animation is Japanese. Guess what,
1) animation came from the WEST;
2) the word animé comes from “animation” which comes from “animated films” or “animated drawings” as they were first thought of: drawings given life, animated.

If this happened, many of us would go somewhere truer to the soul of animation. What used to be by, and for, free spirits is now overrun by mainstream & normies who think they’re rebels but are just clones of each others. We were following animation b4 it went “trending” and only then did you pop up. I love MAL and having all in one place so cool your witch-hunting urges and your cancel needs and pipe down.

Besides if you think animé is any higher effort than donghua you have another bad thing coming, it’s as much computers as any other, just different graphics. Or did u think they’re “lovingly hand-drawn frame by frame”? 😂 It’s just 2D software work, much of which is translated from manga by yet more software.

This coming from those that raise bloody blue murder if anything is slightly censored from their ecchi and hentai...SMH

Is this supposed to be a controversial take in 2025 lol?

Thankfully Japan ain't as close minded as the weeaboos in this thread. MAL is a database of Asian animation, what you gonna do about it?

Bruh, you just started the wrong debate. I know some donghua are trash, but there are still good ones like To Be Hero and DLOIMK so they should stay. There’s nothing wrong with keeping them.

If you really wanna remove stuff, focus on doujinshi that’s a whole different issue. But removing donghua ? Not happening.

Or better yet, instead of removing things, why not push to add more non-Japanese anime to MAL ? Start a poll for stuff like Shadow Slave, TBATE (LN adaptations), or even Devil May Cry anime. Break the guidelines if you have to, but don’t come for donghua just because some are bad

@NightmareWare anime is not a Japanese creation nor a Japanese word nor even Southern or Southeastern Asian. Animé comes from, and is short for “animated” films which is what we used to call them before someone came up with the hyped short. As in “images given life, animated, given animistic (living) traits”. Animated = animation = animé. If there is a Japanese word for it it’s not even close and if it is, that’s because they took it from this one which is Western which is where animation came from.

No, donghua shares enough similarities with anime that it deserves a place on this site

@Cristina_G Anime is a japanified version of the word animation. It makes it japanese. The word anime is japanese. Anime just means animation but when people say anime they usually mean japanese animation because there is no differences between 2d animation produced by countries of this world. Of course 3d is a little different but still it is animation and there no difference between 3d animation as well.They should either add all kinds of animation which will even include indian and african animation or they should add stuff from a country that has a big animation and comics industry like china japan, korea, france, america etc. Or they should only add japanese stuff. And if they are adding everything then why is this even my anime list? It should be my animation list.

@Spunkert Atleast what op said makes sense. Can't say the same about you.