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Way of setting all titles to the English version by default

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Apr 9, 5:59 AM
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Essentially the option lists currently have but apply it to the whole website. The decision to give every anime/manga separate English and Japanese titles even when they usually don't is incredibly dumb in some cases. No one on the face of the planet calls it Shinseiki Evangelion. I just want to call it Neon Genesis Evangelion like the normal people.
Apr 29, 7:02 PM
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I fw this
Apr 30, 5:57 AM
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Actually a similar thought occurred to me (because I have the English title list setting turned ON) when comparing user profiles for affinity / scores and whatnot... the titles there are mostly all in Japanese and I am not used to some of them, so I had to do a back-and-forth to decipher each entry.

It would be cool if the list setting extended at least to the shared.php page.
S_h_a_r_k_93May 15, 3:37 AM
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Apr 30, 6:39 AM
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It would be fantastic if it were possible to use international titles universally instead of original ones.
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Apr 30, 8:03 AM
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Same here, I'm so used to the English titles for the Neon Genesis Evangelion movies.
May 1, 8:16 AM
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Actually a similar thought occurred to me (because I have the English title list setting turned ON) when comparing user profiles for affinity / scores and whatnot... the titles there are mostly all in Japanese and I am not used to some of them, so I had to do a back-and-forth to decipher each entry.

It would be cool if the list setting extended at least to the shared.php page.
@S_h_a_r_k_93 That’s why I’m surprised this function doesn’t exist already. You can already do it for lists, why can’t it apply to the entire website?
May 2, 2:15 AM
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Yeah.. that's just like for private (profile) notes which already exist, but despite public list notes are mostly used for private things (according to the poll in my signature), there's no setting to turn them private (whilst retaining a public list).

Did you know that your anime notes are public? :P Tell me in the topic below.
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May 2, 5:41 AM
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From my understanding, they're still working on this (I at least very much hope that this is not abandoned)


The lead admin talked about adding the option for changing languages on the entire site in February 2020: English Titles Added to Desktop; Moving Towards a Romanized/English Toggle
When we first began discussing this change, the development team also began actively planning the Main MAL Title/English Title toggle (that the community and moderation team has wanted for nearly 10 years), which would allow logged in users to change the titles they see across the entire site (e.g. Anime/Manga lists, Reviews, Recommendations, etc). For the moment, we are planning on only allowing these two options, but I think we can envision a future where official titles in multiple languages are tracked in the database and are also able to be used.

It took them almost 2 years until the end of 2021 to add the toggle for the anime/manga lists (List Title Toggle: Main Title, English, and more)
Now it's two and a half years since they added the toggle, and we still can't change titles for the rest of the site.

I think they just need more time, but I honestly have no idea what takes them so long. I wish they would give us an update.
May 2, 5:46 AM
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Oh that's a great find! Thank you for sharing it Vaturna; it's like... spot-on actually!
Yeah the issue boils down to the same old one: 99% of the topics here are unanswered.
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May 2, 10:30 AM

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skyblade743 said:
No one on the face of the planet calls it Shinseiki Evangelion. I just want to call it Neon Genesis Evangelion like the normal people.

I simply call it Evangelion or Eva, because that's included in both titles. If a common denominator exists, that's often how I call an Anime.
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