I was searching around the interweb for "Top 10/50 animes" list and I found a link leading to MAL. So hard to find decent shows from random sites but thanks to MAL I've found and watched sooo many new and awsome anime shows. Super lucky I'd say *nods*
I was looking for anime on animea.net when I noticed a thread on the right margin asking how much anime the community had seen, which contained links to MAL profiles.
I don't even know. I was at Instantz and one day I randomly decide to click the affiliates button at the bottom and decided to register her. Come to find out I already had an account her with my usual username, password, and email address. Maybe I found this site earlier and forgot to book mark it, maybe someone just happened to us my usual info, maybe it was luck, or maybe its what I like to think, some how I was using MAL to my advantage in my plot to destroy the world, alien sensing this decided to erase my memory of this site and my evil intention for it. One day those aliens themselves can take over in the future. O.o
Don't recommend me something that is still publishing, unless its close to being finished. Don't recommend me anything that isn't licensed.
DeathfireD said: I was working on an anime scoring site when I happen to do a search I found MAL. Then realized there was no point in continuing my site :(.
This fool right here :P Posted the link on a message board we both frequent.
throught a forum friend on a4. We're talking about what anime we should recommend to one another and he told me about this site. I was shock! I couldn't believe I didn't find this site sooner. I love this site! xD
Dunno. I'm thinking it was probably through a forum sig. I was lurking for a year or so before I created so it's been a long time since I've known about MAL.
It was during the final days of German occupation in France, I was working with the underground to smuggle out intel on enemy movements to the Allies. It was dangerous, thankless work, but we struggled on with grim determination day after day.
My contact in a chateau used by the Germans as a base, "Gorge Profonde", came one day with news of a secret plan the Germans had been working on to scramble Allied communications during the imminent invasion. I knew there wasn't much time, and I wouldn't be able to get this information out of the country before the coming invasion. I had to do something, and I had to do it now.
I waited till nightfall in the city. Earlier in the year we had discovered a sewer line leading directly underneath the chateau that had been bricked over. We had spent countless weeks taking down the old barricade and slipping the bricks out one by one so as not to raise any suspicion. The fruits of that labor were about to pay off. I slipped into the Quatrechan sewage line that led to either salvation or death. I carried a knife and a Walther P-38 wih a single round. The knife was for any guards I may encounter, the pistol was for me in case I was discovered.
We had set a series of mirrors in the tunnels to reflect ambient light down the path. This was less noticeable than a bright electric torch, and did not give off the odor ofburning fuel that a flame would. The light, however, was barely sufficient. The night was overcast, and the weather unseasonably warm. More than once did I stumble, banging my head, knees, sides, fighting the urge to cryout, which would give me away as the sound echoed down the lonely, dank corridor.
I inched along for what seemed to be an eternity, sure that I would arrive only to see the coming of dawn, jumping at every sound,sure the Germans had dispatched stormtroopers to intercept me. I envisioned what they would do to me, what lengths they would go to extract information from me. It took all my willpower to force myself forward, my body only wanted to flee in the opposite direction. Sweat was pouring from every pore in my body, and a cold chill running up and down my spine caused me to shiver uncontrollably in that suffocating route to hell.
Then I heard it, the sounds of muffled, far away party. Music, laughter, singing, it became my beacon, my source of power. How could these men revel in war, when all around them were innocents suffering, starving, dying. My anger rose, I shook off that chill, and my steps quickened. Ahead, I could see the light of the moon piercing through the gaps of the grate that seperated me from the yard of the chateau. I reached the grate and steeled myself for what I must do next.
Slowly, deliberately, using my knife to silently dig away the built up earth of a hundred years from the edges of the grate. A sound, the grate shifted, success! I slowly lowered the grate to the ground, and prepared to make my run across the naked yard to the cover of the tool shed. The clouds had passed, revealing the moon in all its glory. I had no cover once I entered the yard, and the bright light of the moon would ensure death by a hail of gunfire if I was spotted. I chanced a glance out of my hiding place, and my heart froze in terror at what I saw...Oh wait, you were asking how I found MAL, sorry. I Googled anime videos.
My stupid half Korean buddy showed it to me. I went from having only watched Elfen Lied and FLCL to being a huge anime fan. And it continues downhill from there to this very day!
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my full story? i was googleing "friend networking sites." I clicked on the first link, which was, of course, Wikipedia. I looked through all the sites, mentally going "heard it, never heard of, etc." Until I came up across this one with the description "Anime themed social community." So I checked it out and got hooked.
My friend showed me his profile in school, so I asked what the sites main principle of use was, and he told me! Thus I decided to give it a try and have been loving it ever since, brilliantly contstructed site! So glad I was shown it!
Heard about it from my sister. I joined a day before her 'cause we were playing around my account first to check stuff out. My sister heard it from her guy friend who had joined a little more than a month before we joined.