MAL SECRET SANTA THE GREAT REVEAL! First of all, A BIG THANK YOU to all of our SECRET SANTAS. Annual Stats ♫ 1,861+495 initial sign-ups for the Rec Edition ♫ 230 initial sign-ups for the Image Edition ♫ 1,592+346 (↑749) Secret Santas for the Rec Edition after confirmations ♫ 114+123 (↓72) Elf Gifts for the Rec Edition ♫ 209 (↑46) Secret Santas for the Image Edition after confirmations ♫ 1,808 (↑674) unique Secret Santas ♫ 265 (↑38) Secret Santas that participated in two events ♫ 38 (↑13) Secret Santas that participated in all three events ♫ 2,384 (↑719) Secret Santa & Elf gifts Participation got a boost this year, likely due the new badge (which will be coming sometime in the next week or so). It was really great to see many new faces with <5 posts or returning Santas that I remember participated once a few years ago but didn't continue. Things were hectic this year in Santa's Workshop but we hope you enjoyed the experience in overall. Thank you to everyone for your patience as we tried to get all the gifts ready to go, and to those who participated for the NINTH year in a row (there must be some!). I hope to see you all back for MALentine's or Easter~ Second of all, please take the time to give A BIG THANK YOU to all of our ELVES. Elf-pyon ♫ Dancho—team leader, 7x elf ♫ Graviity—3x elf ♫ lumarel ♫ Treeky_ ♫ beeped5 ♫ Chop_in—3x elf ♫ Decoice ♫ fluffycow17 ♫ miaxnder—2x elf ♫ Redth_SA—3x elf Elf-chama ♫ cesars—team leader, 5x elf ♫ GanSan—team leader, 2x elf ♫ coffeedrops ♫ Everything-Fan ♫ Legends_of_anime ♫ -Masuko-—3x elf ♫ Guanimero Elf-hime ♫ Kineta ♫ DeadlyRaven—3x elf ♫ nozomemee—2x elf ♫ Suanke—2x elf ♫ Timcampy118 ♫ cheerio38010 ♫ ImperfectBlue—4x elf ♫ Mikaytama13 ♫ Natsuaki—5x elf Elf-tama ♫ rogueandtasty—team leader, 3x elf ♫ ferrepls ♫ Hyperion_PS ♫ pokemonvortex—3x elf ♫ Annarella21—3x elf ♫ Conde_Mohr—6x elf ♫ Dot4447 ♫ Aidan—3x elf ♫ Leahiel ♫ Shuuka Elf-tan ♫ tingy—team leader ♫ awarii—3x elf ♫ stardew—5x elf ♫ Daucus—2x elf ♫ Furl ♫ Haptism93—3x elf ♫ MelissaWolf—3x elf ♫ RaviDavi ♫ HallowsIvy—6x elf Elf-rin ♫ firefractal—team leader, 6x elf ♫ Nate—6x elf ♫ Tensho—4x elf ♫ Shinah—2x elf ♫ Annie_Law Our elves took the time to compile all of the lists, painstakingly try to match them so everyone would get a user they could gift to, send hundreds of PMs, organise all the gifts, send hundreds more PMs, give advice on images, write elf notes, quality check and improve gifts where necessary, and generally suffer through the chaos created by running this event during the busy holiday and final exam season. Without all of them, we would have gone stark-raving crazy trying to put this together. Finally, please be sure to: ♫ Pass your Secret Santa(s) a big thank you, and possibly, some feedback on your rec/image. Please remember that it's near impossible to get a gift 100% to your liking from a person who knows nothing about you; I'm sure your Santa tried his best! ♫ Post in this thread, telling us what you thought of the event! See you all next year~ |
KinetaJan 5, 2022 1:58 AM
TenshoJan 5, 2022 3:33 AM
| Event was fun, would 10/10 join again to ask in a roundabout way to get someone to clean up my ptw lmao. |
| The only thing that I hated was that my fellow FG regular immediately revealed they’re the santa for me on Images lol But overall, loved it heh, even with the delays @Kineta I just changed name from Xeltol to Kylinity. If ur gonna give the badge in the next following days, then here I am lul, former Xeltol |
KylineJan 5, 2022 10:12 PM
 I hope no one I know irl sees my secret account~ Anyways, do I look cute in this outfit?~ |
| Guess I'm not doing it again next year lol thanks for the gift btw and lol the bot notified me AFTER I already saw the thread and also, wow so many of the naughty santas are fg regulars...what? o.O |
3miLJan 4, 2022 11:46 PM
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| This was an awesome event :) Thank you for everything |
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| This event was pretty fun. However, while I understand that images are hard to make and that's why it was mandatory to make one as well, I still think there should have been the Elf option or at least a profile badge for participants. |
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| Thank you for such a cool event! Thanks for taking time to create this. |
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| Like everyone else (pretty much) is saying, this was a very entertaining event! Thank you @Sapis and @Daisuki for making recommendations for me; I will try to get to them as soon as I can! Special thanks to all the elves for arranging this event. As cheesy as it sounds, all this couldn't have been possible without you. Also, I know I'm 5 days late, but happy new year everyone! |
| Thank you to all the elves at Santa's Workshop. Seeing the number of participants, it was a grueling task. On the flip side, I had a great time as a Secret Santa. You're welcome and I'm great to hear you enjoyed the recommendation, @IrrelevantGuy! Thank you to @chibiandreea for being my Secret Santa! I will be checking out the first two volumes of your recommendation. Here's to a good 2022! |
 "to the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." -a magnet |
| Glad to be apart of this event again and can't wait to join in at the end of this year. Thanks to the elves for the hard work as always. Oh and Late Happy New Year. |
  『ᴅᴇᴍᴏɴ-ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴊᴜᴅɢᴇ ᴏꜰ ꜰɪʀᴇ』 Then her jaw slackened as she muttered out. [I... am the bi◼️?] ☽ † ☾ - ᴅᴇʟɪᴠᴇʀɪᴇꜱ- ꜱɪɢ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ʙʏ ʜᴜᴍᴀɴᴛᴡɪɢ |
| Sorry for being naughty during the events. Thank you all for the hard work. |
Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody. Help! You know I need someone. Helpppppp!  |
| First off, thank you to all the elves and santas that make this event possible each year. We truly appreciate all your guy's hard work. I almost didn't take part in Secret Santa this year due to some personal issues, but I'm incredibly relieved that I did. On that note, massive thanks to @3miL for my gift. I love it, and will be leaving another thank you comment on your profile soon! Also my recipient, @apoostrophe, I hope you are satisfied with my work. Please don't hesitate to speak to me if you wish to share any feedback, or if there is anything else I can do for you. (＾▽＾) Overall though, I am once again very happy with this event. I loved being here a second time, and if @Kineta or The Workshop needs extra elves for the next Secret Santa, I would be ecstatic to help. Looking forward to 2022! |
Xerxes126Jan 5, 2022 1:05 AM
    "Ehehehe.....I did my best!" - Pururut |
| @SherlyCat25 I've sent you pm but thank you again ! :D <3 and All elves who help sending gifts thank for your hard work ! ;) This is my first time joining event like this, and I love how everyone did their best especially my santa and elves. Happy New Year !! |
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| A massive thank you to the organisers and all the elves - it must have been a ton of work. This was my first time participating in such an event, looking forward to more! |
| This was so fun, will definitely join next year. Thanks to everyone : D |
| I honestly loved it and waited very excited every moment of it Hope we will see each other again next year with even more people participating Congrats to everyone and happy new year <3 |
Ushiromiya Battler, right now, on this island, no one exists except for you. You're the only one alive in this island. However I'm here right now, and i'm about to kill you. Who... am I? |
| First time joining an event like this. It was pretty fun going through and trying to figure out what could surprise people! Getting a confirmation for sending the gift out would be a nice touch though. Even though I knew I sent my gift, I like the reassurance that I've completed the task. Hope to try other annual events like this in the future. Thank you to all the people working behind the scenes and to my secret santa! |
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| Happy New Year to everyone! I hope the holidays were wonderful for all filled with anime and manga and great recommendations! I'd like to thank the elves for making this event possible again this year. I was looking forward to being a santa again this year (I only found the event last year but I hope it will have a long history in the coming years). I like that we get recommendations a bit after Christmas, so the family and work/school responsibilities are not overwhelming at the moment of recieving and since the new anime season only starts a few weeks later, we have plenty of time to look into the anime/manga we got recommended. I also like that the santas are revelaed at the end and we can start a conversation based on similar likes. Hoping to see you next year too! Until then, have fun! |
| twas was nice, big respect for the elves that put up with the massive workload |
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| The anime I got recommeded were ones that I wanted to watch for a long time but never did so that was nice. Though I finished watching one of them a few days before recieving the PM. |
   StoryGraph x Spotify x Instagram “Whether we die or not isn't really that big a deal." — Suzuya Juuzou |
| Fun Secret Santa for this year, I got 2 anime I'm gonna add to my PTW list. This will be great :D |
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| Thanks for the event! It was amazing! I will definitely participate next year Thanks to @sydandstars for the great recommendations! |
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| fun event but quite anxiety inducing lmao |
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| first time in event, it was pretty tense since I had to resubmit and it took so much effort lol would try again ~~ I didn't get a rec from my secret santa but it was good to rec an isekai fan as secret santa |
ST63LTHJan 5, 2022 1:42 AM
| It was a great event. I loved my gift and loved making one for my recipient. Looking forward to doing it again next year |
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| This was my first Secret Santa event and now I'm wondering why I kept passing it up each year. It was an enchanting way to add a bit of Christmas spirit to the simple & regular business of recommendations. I found it really fun to add that extra bit of sensationalism with the Santa letters and coming up with a recommendation to gift was the best part. Big thanks to my Santa and also a round of applause to the elves who volunteered such precious time to make this a success. It was very cozy to lurk in the fireplace chat and watch this event unfold in real time. |
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| First off all. I will say thank you to all Elf and Santa for make this become a very great event. Thanks to @coffeedrops and @Mumflr for good recommendations Merry Christmas 2021 & Happy New Year 2022 |
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| Thank you to and @Hagstroem and the staff behind the event. It was a lot of fun ^.^ |
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| Thanks elves I also had a lot of fun. though my elves "quality check and improve gifts" could have been slightly better, the funny thing is my secret santa contacted me in secret on discord just to ask what I was expecting even though he could have just thoroughly read the post, but failed to notice I had already completed the first recommendation. Elf note: This elf notices that you've already seen Hataraku Maou-sama! (and given it an 8)! However, your Santa did a great job writing this recommendation, so this elf couldn't bear to take it off the sleigh! This elf thinks you'll like your Santa's second recommendation, though! and I do agree it was very well written and mistakes happen, however, the second recommendation is a mecha which was on my post of dislikes so again not great at improving gifts, but...I admit 86 is better than I thought it would be, and even though I had heard of it before and just didn't have the motivation to watch it due to it being a mecha, I ended up binge-watching it and scoring it an 8, so thank you @syntack for the recommendation! |
ShaggyZEJan 5, 2022 2:28 AM
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| Great Event! Really enjoy it. Hope there are lots of event like this in the future :) |
| This was a great event for my first participation in it, with some great recs from @KainiusTheGreat. I'll make sure to watch all of them at some point and in fact I watched flip flappers in the days after reading your rec. It wasn't something I'd have chosen to watched myself yet I thoroughly enjoyed it. 8/10. Thanks for the recs and have a good 2022. |
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| Thank you for this event. And a big thanks to team Elf-hime who spotted the gifted mistake, quickly fixed it just in time for Christmas♥♥♥! Thank you @Timcampy118 for fixing the gift ♥♥♥. Better luck next time @Near1267.  |
exosfeerJan 5, 2022 2:35 AM
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