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The event is now over! You can see how you placed here.

Welcome to MAL's Annual Easter Hunt!





Complete Easy and/or Hard route before
Sun April 27, 23:59 PDT

  
to receive ONE of these profile badges!

(chick=easy, egg=hard, both=both)


Story

MAL's Easter Bunny works really hard every year to hide eggs and share joy.
However, with increasing costs and last year's visit to the higher ups in heaven, he realized that he's not paid nearly enough!

When expressing to his boss his request of doubling the amount of carrots he's been getting,
he was met with a rejection, because "he lacks the qualifications"—whatever that means.

Easter Bunny realized immediately what he had to do for his advancement up the corporate ladder: go back to school!
He bought notebooks, he scoped out different classes and applied to everywhere he could.

Finally, the time to join his new classmates learn as much as possible from his teachers' wisdom and knowledge arrived...

Please help him find the 16 chicks (easy route) and 18 eggs (hard route) so he can pass his exams and score that raise!
You may work alone or with 1 trusty partner.


Easy
_ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _
( 5 / 5 / 6 letters)


Hard
_ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _
( 4 / 4 / 7 / 3 letters)




How to Play

1. Choose a route: Easy or Hard.
If you're new to the event or do not have a lot of time, do the Easy route. The hunting skills you learn during the Easy route will help you tackle the Hard route (later or next year).

2. Solve the hints to find the anime/manga/character entry.
We are not expecting you to have seen/read all these anime/manga! Searching a few keywords along with "anime" or "manga" will bring the entry up in Google and/or the MAL search box.

Easy route: The keywords you need to search will usually be given to you directly in the hint. The difficulty will be selecting the right keywords.
Hard route: The keywords will often not be given directly. Answers to the hint or oddities within the hint may be the keywords you need to search.

Reminders/Tips
  • Use incognito mode to improve search results.
  • If you aren't getting any relevant results on Google with your current search terms, try rearranging the word order!
         Attempt #1: libraries at war anime
         Attempt #2: wars in libraries anime
         Attempt #3: library war manga
         ...etc.
  • Remember the theme! If the hint is leading to an entry that's not related to teachers, classrooms, and/or schools, then you are most likely in the wrong place.
  • Remember the hint! Just because an anime appears in your search result does not mean that the anime relates to the hint. Please think about whether it makes sense or not.
  • Just being a student is not part of the theme. There must be a memorable teacher and/or the story's setting is predominantly in a classroom for the entry to count.
The first hint is given to you at the top of this thread.

3. Find the chick/egg and letter in the Pictures of the correct anime/manga/character entry.
Easy route: You will be looking for letters inside a chick outline, like on the Gudetama picture.
Hard route: You will be looking for letters inside an egg outline, like the Toshokan Sensou picture.

Make sure you write the letter down!

The images with the chick/egg will always appear on the last picture of the image gallery in a database page: Anime, Manga, Light Novel, Character. Chicks/Eggs will never be placed on second seasons or spin-off OVAs or mini-character anime. They will always be on a main entry OR on the character IF the hint relates specifically to that character.

 


4. Find the next hint in the same anime/manga/character page you found the chick/egg.
Hints will be visible on one of the tabs of the entry that you found the chick/egg, excluding: Stats, Reviews, Recommendations, Interest Stacks, Featured, MAL x Japan.

Clickable hints should be clicked!

Hints will not be inside other related database entries unless the relation/link text itself is a clue. Look for anything unusual.
  • If you're on an anime page, the hint will not be inside a character/people/manga entry, unless the link title/picture itself is weird.
  • If you're on a character page, the hint will not be inside the anime/etc. entry, unless the link on the character page is weird.
  • Spoilers on a database entry do not need to be opened, unless the spoiler button itself is weird.
Sometimes Easter words (e.g. egg, rabbit, bunny, usagi...) or Story-Themed words (e.g. teacher, classroom, school, ...) will be included to help you see what's a hint, and not legit info.




5. After collecting all the letters, unscramble them to get the hint for the final anime/manga/character entry!
You will need both the scrambled and unscrambled phrase for the Google form, so don't delete it!

There are tools online that can help you unscramble phrases. Pro tip: We usually include an Easter or Story-related word in the final hint.


Finally, doing the hunt will look something like this...





Submit Your Answers

Use this Google Form to submit the chocolate's location before the time runs out!

Closes: Sun Apr 27, 23:59 PDT
(Your Timezone)


Join Us!

During the event, you can ask for hints and help (not solutions) using either this thread or our Discord server.

First, join the MAL server using the link below. Verify your MAL account as per the instructions.
Then go to #bot-spam (under Miscellaneous), type /asar join and select easter.

Discord




KinetaMay 4, 3:53 PM
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Apr 18, 9:32 AM
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Here we go again, one of the hardest mal events
Apr 18, 9:34 AM
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yay!!!

Apr 18, 9:35 AM
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The hunt is on
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So excited!!!
My 2024 Candies: X19



Apr 18, 9:36 AM
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Here, I am. Let's go :D

ℓαυgнтєя мαкєѕ тнє ωσяℓ∂ ѕραякℓє!

» Yoko Honna - Country Road «
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Apr 18, 9:49 AM
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impossible imporsisble
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Done everything, see you next year and happy easter everyone!
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ready for our yearly rage quit 😇
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Apr 18, 10:04 AM
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this is too hard, yellow teacher cookie moon what?
Apr 18, 10:04 AM

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And how to participate? Please explain somebody.
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@Kittyful I'm in the exact same boat rn </3 I can't find the letter at all but I have no idea where else that hint would lead to

Apr 18, 10:07 AM

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this is too hard, yellow teacher cookie moon what?
My 2024 Candies: X19



Apr 18, 10:14 AM

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Am I blind or does the second clue from the easy route not so obviously lead to where I think it does? xD
Apr 18, 10:26 AM

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Got the first one, can't find the hint for no 2 and it says I can't join the Discord... Might not be my time this year eaither
Apr 18, 10:28 AM

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So excited!!!
Apr 18, 10:30 AM
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Leaving a comment so I can remember to do this over the weekend!!
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@Kittyful
Apr 18, 10:44 AM
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Reply to ChizuruFan23
this is too hard, yellow teacher cookie moon what?
Googling what you wrote + anime while incognito brought me to the relevant entry ;)
Apr 18, 10:44 AM
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And how to participate? Please explain somebody.
@Memore Please read the How to Play or watch the tutorial video linked there.
Apr 18, 10:45 AM
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Am I blind or does the second clue from the easy route not so obviously lead to where I think it does? xD
@KeksTheCrunchy This hint might make you think of two anime. If you can't find it on the one you're thinking of, trying googling some keywords from the hint :3
Apr 18, 10:46 AM
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Reply to Hyunhoswife
Got the first one, can't find the hint for no 2 and it says I can't join the Discord... Might not be my time this year eaither
@Hyunhoswife
Sometimes Easter words (e.g. egg, rabbit, bunny, usagi...) or Story-Themed words (e.g. teacher, classroom, school, ...) will be included to help you see what's a hint, and not legit info.
Apr 18, 10:48 AM

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@Memore Please read the How to Play or watch the tutorial video linked there.
@Kineta, thanks.
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Apr 18, 10:51 AM
Nostalgia Rules!

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Ugh! I've always had trouble trying to acquire this badge. I'll give it my best though. 😭
Apr 18, 10:57 AM
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@AnimeApple2001 I think we must be talking about different things here.
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@AnimeApple2001 I think we must be talking about different things here.
@kta_99 Possible I was talking about the first hint. You?
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@kta_99 Possible I was talking about the first hint. You?
@AnimeApple2001 I was directly replying to one specific issue someone was having. Which would be the second hint, or the hint for the third letter.
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I've found the 6th chick, but for the life of me can not find the next hint
Apr 18, 11:16 AM
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I've found the 6th chick, but for the life of me can not find the next hint
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Apr 18, 11:17 AM
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Ugh! I've always had trouble trying to acquire this badge. I'll give it my best though. 😭
@Retro8bit Remember you have a whole week! Just do bits at a time :D And sometimes doing it later when lots of people are available to help because they already finished can make it go faster haha.
Apr 18, 11:20 AM

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i'll try it again this year lol
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Here we go again ...
Candies 2k24: (x4)
Candies 2k23: (x4)

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My first ever easter egg hunt i can't wait XD

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I never do these. :3

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Yay, I'm super duper excited!


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I've found the 6th chick, but for the life of me can not find the next hint
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i've found the 5th chick but can't find the next hint, plz help me?
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i've found the 5th chick but can't find the next hint, plz help me?
@gap_py If you look hard enough you might be able to find a bunny
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i found the hint to find the 4th chick (i think) but i can't seem to identify the manga/anime it's referring to ://
Apr 18, 11:51 AM
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i found the hint to find the 4th chick (i think) but i can't seem to identify the manga/anime it's referring to ://
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@Kineta I have found it, you are a wicked woman Kineta
Apr 18, 12:03 PM

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Im starting to feel a little silly, the first Hint got me to the most obvious Character.
Which means the next hint, should be on the Characters page, right?
Can anyone give me a little hint.. to the hint..? xD

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Im starting to feel a little silly, the first Hint got me to the most obvious Character.
Which means the next hint, should be on the Characters page, right?
Can anyone give me a little hint.. to the hint..? xD
@Mikogamii
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tl;dr
I am just the admin of www.churro.club.
Apr 18, 12:26 PM
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