HorizonFox said: literally the same. well aculyI've known MAL not sure for how long but was initially from searching random anime titles on google and MAL is always popup in the top 5 search result with the most info presented, after times i considered the site to be a reliable source. Since then i would visit MAL to research new titles when needed but didn't join as i keep my watchlist on a txt notepad, until one day strucks me that my drive maybe failing and MAL has that one thing i need, now i'm using it more than ever and even got on the forums. physical notebook, I joined mal bcz HXH |
| On my computer I had a folder, in it I had a picture and the title of every anime I had watched. Of course every image was pilfered from Google. I numbered every anime and I still do, even if I use MAL, I in fact registered in 2008, but started using it in 2011 when I became a seasonal watcher. |
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| By searching for new anime to watch and I thats the same time I got into anime. |
| In the beginning there was no need to track my anime because it's was easy to remember 20-30 titles. But somewhere in 00's they went over 50 and it was a bit harder to remember them or not be confused by the mixed usage of english or written in romanji japanese names by the media or members of the fandom. So I started tracking in two files - AnimeList.txt and MangaList.txt. Also had a spreadsheet file but only with a formula to calculate how many minutes, hours and days have I spend on anime. I knew about MAL for years (have heard from many people about it) but preferred using AniDB as anime info search engine. Around 2011 I decided that having my anime and manga lists putted in such database will have some advantages like - immediately accessing information about certain title from the the, also making comparisons with other's users lists. MAL was the more practical choice because its interface is more simplified (too many clicks and unnecessary information for me on AniDB). Sadly in 2018 my original account get locked (some anti-spam campaign that forced me to send confirmation through my e-mail...and when I putted my e-mail address it said that there isn't any user with that address...but I was absolutely sure in it...and when I tried other e-mail addresses of mine it told me that I am making too many tries to activate my account...). So I created a new account, imported my last export, entered the last 2-3 weeks by hand and started using it. I also created a backup account in AniDB. |
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| I found MAL rather fast after discovering the existence of Anime. Before I knew meaning of Anime I watched only some of them on TV and once moved to PC, watched for a while Naruto DUB and then after I caught up with that specific site with dubbed episodes (think around 1xx was at the time) .. I ended up googling for more Naruto episodes and thats pretty much when I discovered meaning of Anime and moved from dub to sub. Around the same time discovered MAL and started logging stuff. |
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| I had only seen a few shows before MAL, so I had them all in my memory, but other things like OVA's or some movies I bookmarked in kissanime on my account. |
| Help the industry and buy Blu-rays and DVD's. Noragami is the best anime ever.  |
| I keep track of my list in google excel spreadsheet. MAL is only an additional backup. |
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| wrote them down in a word document, what i could remember at least... before that i'd occasionally forget what episode i was on, and actually didn't finish a few shows due to that people on Allisbrawl , which doesn't exist anymore, who knew i watched anime, kept telling me to join, so finally i did, only to add like 150? total XD i knew about MAL like 2-3 years prior to joining, but was too afraid for both adding anime taking to long and people knowing what anime i was into XD |
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| I had a word list where I rated every show i watched and wrote down the shows I wanted to watch, and in january this year I discover MAL and sent my list to the trash because this page is a lot easier for everything |
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| A friend told me one day and I decided to make one bc it seemed so useful. I got some on a notebook but many just in my head or forgotten ( still some I'm pretty sure especially old show :( ) sometimes I start watchong one and I'm ike oh I already seen this and most of teh times it was true when I continue the episodes lol ) |
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| I used to jot down all the shows I've watched into my phone and rank them according to how much I enjoyed it. I realized MAL existed, but I didn't really take it too seriously until like 4 months after I properly started watching Anime. |
| Even before using MAL, I [vaguely] knew about MAL. Just from googling to try to find sites to watch on (before Kiss became a staple). I used to keep all the anime Ive seen listed on a note on my first iPhone. Would rank them with a 5-star system using "*****" after the title. Then I busted that iPhone. By this time, I had my own laptop, so I figured it would make more sense to track what Ive watched on a website. I always have my list sorted by start date, so making up a rough timeline of when I watched the titles was a pain; but at the time I only had 30 on my list, so not too difficult to transfer. |
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| I was on other forums and MAL was mentioned a few times. That was what I did before MAL, use other anime forums. I was on the now defunct "A4" anime forum mostly....that site was a cybernetic disaster zone, very nonfunctional. |
| Made my account in 2011. Before then just wrote everything on A4 paper and most of my knowledge came from animenewsnetwork |
| I used ANN to keep track of anime, still do, but they don't have all of the titles I've watched and sometimes they just make 1 entry for group of movies which can get annoying. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| I found about MAL thanks to YouTube. Before I didn’t have a list, I just check YouTube and google for recommendations. |
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ProGoddess said: I keep track of my list in google excel spreadsheet. MAL is only an additional backup. It's actually the opposite for me. When MAL was down for the whole summer last year, I lost a lot of data and I didn't have a backup. So once it came back up I immediately copied everything to a Google Sheets (name, score, date(s), and tags), but I still use this is my primary site because it's easier to update with the MyAnimeList app. Additionally, I made an account on AniList so in the event that this site ever goes down again I can just export everything from my Google Sheets to that site and use AniList as a backup MAL. |
| I didn't keep track before, but after some time I started rewatching shows I had already watched and dropped, or I didn't remember which chapter I was on therefore I just drop those shows, etc. Because of this I looked for an anime tracker and MAL was the first option that came in so here I am now. |
| Well, I was just not listing shows I watched. It was a pain in the ass to remember all of the shows I watched before tho. |
| At first when started watching anime, didn't keep track at all cus I barely watched anything but asked for recommendations on animesuki and they linked to sites like MAL / Anime-Planet, registered in both, decided to use A-P because I thought MAL was too complicated for me. (I was just retarded honestly) Few months later went back to MAL, it was better for me in terms of socialising and I liked to keep track of when I finished/started something, A-P doesn't have that. |
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| Keep it a hundred and not do a thing, no need to note down what i watched and rate em'... that's pure degeneracy |
| Luckily the only thing I watched before MAL was Naruto and maybe like 2 other anime, very easy to remember to add them to my list after actually having MAL |
| I memorized it. I only watched like 5 anime before joining MAL so it wasn't that hard. |
 "Do you know why snow is white? Because it's forgotten what color it's supposed to be." - C.C. |
| I dont think I ever recorded anything I watched before I got MAL which was like, 2 years? didnt watch a whole lot so it wasnt too hard I think I just found via information look ups? Google a series, MAL comes up, realize I can record series with it, profit |
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| I just discovered it by accident while looking for best anime lists and I didnt track anything before, though I have to say that the site I used to watch stuff on did track watched episodes without me having to do anything |
| I used to just write down the series i watched in a notebook. I ended up watching so many that it got tiring though so i just searched "anime tracking site" to see if there was any and found MAL |
  "If you want to change the future, you only need to choose now. Now, believe in yourself and break the egg." 🌻 Anime|Manga|Last.fm|Letterboxd |
| Got into anime in jule 2017,had no clue what anime really was (i just thougjt they was cartoons since i watched a lot of it when i was a kid) i just found in on netflix and the genre and continued searching “top 10 anime” until i found out alot of anime i was getting redirected to was on mal! Before that,i also just thought that id be nice to keep track of anime,so i wrote it down a note book,i was quite shocked mal had this type of system |
"those who aren't able to find a more miserable person than themselves turn to the internet and call others losers,even though they've never met"- Satou from nhk |
| I had just started watching anime (not counting anime I watched as a kid like Pokémon and Yugioh) shortly before making a MAL account. I just remember looking things up about anime I like and finding threads for them on this site and after a little while decided to make an account. I think I had only completed around five anime around that time, so I did not have much to keep track of. |
| I don't really remember how I found MAL But I used to keep track on my "watching" anime by adding them on my favorites (on the internet browser). I didn't keep note of the completed ones, so sometimes I still start watching things that I already watched xD |
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| GameTrailers was my stomping ground for shitposts between 2007 and 2011 (give or take a year). My MAL profile was just a list until late 2012. |
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ISOQuorra said: ProGoddess said: I keep track of my list in google excel spreadsheet. MAL is only an additional backup. It's actually the opposite for me. When MAL was down for the whole summer last year, I lost a lot of data and I didn't have a backup. So once it came back up I immediately copied everything to a Google Sheets (name, score, date(s), and tags), but I still use this is my primary site because it's easier to update with the MyAnimeList app. Additionally, I made an account on AniList so in the event that this site ever goes down again I can just export everything from my Google Sheets to that site and use AniList as a backup MAL. Yea, it's always good to keep a backup in case one site goes down, there is still another one to spare. Additionally, not all sites are permanent. There will always be a tendency that a particular site may shut down due to whatever reasons. So if one of them got kaboom, there is another for backup. It is like our computer that we need to have a backup system. I like to use google excel spreadsheet due to the fact that I can keep track of everything I read or watch, and make notes to them by creating multiple columns for different purposes, by which it is beyond MAL's capability. |
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| I use to use the bookmark button to know which episode I last watch. lol how times has change. |
| Oh yeah how did I? Can’t remember how but I think I did when I was reading manga for background on topic.... but I never knew how I found out but did and really like it since (that also mean MAL need bring API back 🤦🏻♂️ But I leave that for another day). Otherwise I would have been doing my tracker via Word application. Where I was more Manga reader (still do but haven’t read it lately....🤦🏻♂️) to now Anime zone 🤦🏻♂️ D’oh. |
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| I found MAL when i was watching Zero No Tsukaima. It was my fifth anime overall. Basically i used to search bout information on shows on google and i saw that this site was always on second place after wikipedia. So i started using MAL for knowing bout different anime and in the end i made an account on it. |
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| Jeez..I wasn't clever enough to come up with a notepad, excel sheet or anything. I was at a site called tv.com where a few users directed me here for anime lists instead of general tv shows. I used my memory? watched the shows and just remember them. It was difficult so this place was really handy. |
| "In the end the World really doesn't need a Superman. Just a Brave one" |
| 1) I caught up with One Piece after a long break from it and searched for stuff similar to it. Google showed me the "Recommendations" tab of One Piece on MAL and so it began. 2) Before finding MAL I only watched stuff pretty unregularly on German TV and One Piece with subs. There was no need to keep track of anything. |
| i had turned 13 and realized i had been watching so much anime that i couldnt remember them all from the top of my head anymore. this lead me to finding mal and using it to track anime. that was all the way back in 2014 :') |
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| I didn't watch enough anime to bother keeping track before I had mal, which granted was like six years ago. Mal back then and now helped me find most of my favorites. |
| well i first found out about MAL then i started watching anime for real in 2014...before that i only watched popular shows that everyone was talking about it like death note. in 2014 i watched attack on titan and decided to watch anime for real so i searched and asked about a website that can help me with that and i found out about MAL, i remember that i created an account at first but forgot about its password so last year i made this account and still using it hopefully lol :D |
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| Don't really remember.. I started watching anime frequently (and also in japanese) in 2012, I joined MAL in 2014. I think that I just had the list on my mind and started to looking for everything that I've watched on MAL back then. |
| "Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear |
| 1) I dont really remember, but it was when i started watching anime more frequently (untill then, i had only watched a few on a portuguese channel Like Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist etc. 2) I didnt needed something to keep track of what i already watched since i had watched only a few animes. Without MAL, i wouldnt do anything, i can remember most of the animes i watched, OVAS, speciais etc are another story though. MAL helped me a lot by making my life easier, i always check MAL before watch an anime and is where i find new animes to watch. |
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| I don't remember how I found the site nor do I remember why I started using it, but I kept track of my anime on paper before MAL. |
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