MAL SECRET SANTA THE GREAT REVEAL! First of all, A BIG THANK YOU to all of our SECRET SANTAS. Annual Stats ♫ 1,305+252 initial sign-ups for the Rec Edition ♫ 175 initial sign-ups for the Image Edition ♫ 1,121+228 (↑636) Secret Santas for the Rec Edition after confirmations ♫ 154 (↓155) Secret Santas for the Image Edition after confirmations ♫ 1,233 (↑332) unique Secret Santas ♫ 238 (↑117) Secret Santas that participated in both events ♫ 32 Secret Santas that participated in all three events ♫ 1,503 (↑205) Secret Santa gifts ♫ 124 backup gifts, 75 elf recs, and 287 elf notes created by our elves, for no-shows or users who needed a bit more help Numbers are compared to 2017 (not 2018) due to the lack of proper advertisement last year. As you can see, participation in the rec event was at an all time high this year (up 636 registrations) while the decrease in image participants meant our total matches/gifts only rose by 205. The difficulty level of rec matching is much higher than image, so our team of elves really felt the extra burden this year. Thank you to everyone for your patience, to those who participated for the SEVENTH year in a row (there must be some!), and also to all of the new faces who joined this year! It was super exciting to see so many registrations with less than 5 posts. 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 ♫ Conde_Mohr—team leader, 4x elf ♫ lHououinKyouma ♫ Seshi_ ♫ TlkanAbuto ♫ ImperfectBlue—2x elf Elf-chama ♫ HallowsIvy—4x elf ♫ Cesars—3x elf ♫ stardew—3x elf ♫ Annarella21 ♫ Chop_in ♫ Sekushi_Dhoppio Elf-hime ♫ DeadlyRaven—team leader ♫ Natsuaki—3x elf ♫ Vongrak—2x elf ♫ Panni2000 ♫ Redth_SA Elf-tama ♫ Dancho—team leader, 5x elf ♫ Masuko-Senpai ♫ pokemonvortex ♫ rogueandtasty ♫ xHorrorGirlx Elf-tan ♫ tingy—team leader, head elf ♫ awarii ♫ Daucus ♫ Haptism93 ♫ MelissaWolf Elf-rin ♫ Tensho—team leader, 2x elf ♫ FireFractal—4x elf ♫ Nate—4x elf ♫ Skittles—3x elf ♫ SpectralPoison—3x elf ♫ Mimurona 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! And possible ideas to change things up for 2020. See You All Next Year~ |
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| Thanks to those in the Elf-tama team (sorry for the tags but I'm thankful) @Dancho @MasukoSenpai @pokemonvortex @rogueandtasty @xHorrorGirlx The rec this year was so up my alley that tbh it was the best one from all these years I took part (almost didn't join thanks to the previous disappointment!). It was a really good match and laughed so much with the flavor text that I'm definitely watching them all during the year. So thanks a lot to @ridojiri ! And oh boy is that a surprise!! xDDDDDDD oh man, now it all makes sense xDDDD big thanks! I had so much fun reading the gift that it made it worth it to join. I haven't been able to start them due to several things going on, but I'm def watching them! [edit: idk who's MasukoSenpai, sadly it's written wrong above @Kineta ] ======= As suggestion, try to start it a bit sooner next year! |
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| Thanks to all the elves! There were s many participants, and it was really kind for you all to help out! This was my first time participating in this exchange, but I really enjoyed it! Both the Anime and Manga reccs I got were my types. I could tell they both spent a lot of time trying to figure out the right series to recommend. Because of this, I absolutely look forward to any other future exchanges, and hoping to participate as well! Thanks again for arranging this, you guys did an amazing job! |
| Holy damn, that's a shitton of participants. As always, thanks to all the super hard working elfs! Big boi/grill elfs and smol boi/grill elfs! I'm really happy with the rec I got this year, too. Got paired with someone that looked at my genres and I also had such an easier time recommending something myself! Thanks for that @YayakoChii ! |
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| A big shout out and Thanks to all the elves! This was my first time participating, and I really enjoyed it! (cannot wait for more events like this!) Both the Anime rec and Image I received were great... @HallowsIvy Thank You for the great rec, and message I received...I'm now hooked onto my rec @ZzRoninZR Wow...The Profile Set you made me is simply astonishing Thank You for the time and effort you put into it! |
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| Oh I though the secret santa were gonna be revealed in DM, good thing I'm checking here Thanks to all the elf that made this possible ! |
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| I will also chime in with special thanks for my elf note from @Conde_Mohr. They turned what would have been a poor gift into something memorable, and did so on top of running their whole team at that. I'll be making your gift into my 1500 Complete milestone, which is definitely a place of high honor in my mind. |
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| Of course, big thank you to all the elves that helped make this possible. However, I also deem it necessary to give a shoutout to all the santas that participated. Thanks for making this such an interesting event. |
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| Thank you to all of you guys for this beautiful event^^ Next year I will apply as an elf too, as a show of appreciation to all of you :3 |
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| Thank you so much to everyone who participated in this event and all of the other people in the elf team! This was my first year working as an elf and it was quite a lot of work but seeing all of the people enjoying it felt rather rewarding! Plus, I got to meet a lot of wonderful people through this event! And all of the great gifts I got made me super happy~ (just look at that Rohan signature, isn't it lovely??) Looking forward to next year, perhaps I'll be free to help then too~ |
 « If you want to be yourself, then you must become strong and beautiful. » - Vil Schoenheit |
| thanks everyone for making this possible!! looking forward to participating next year too <3 maybe next time i'll do all 3!! also would it be possible to talk to whichever elf left me the note on my gift?? i'd like to chat honestly, lol |
fizzytasticJan 4, 2020 11:42 AM
| Big thanks to the Team Elf-Tama and happy new year ^_^ 🎆-Dancho 🎆-MasukoSenpai 🎆-pokemonvortex 🎆-rogueandtasty 🎆-xHorrorGirlx |
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| Being on the other side was such a different experience. It was a ton of hard work, but also really fun. The elves are a bunch of cuties and I hope all the recipients enjoyed their gifts. <3 Time for me to message my own santas~ |
Rokanax24 said: Man I just feel lucky I didn’t get a guy with like 1000 anime on his/her list We separated people depending on how many anime they watched (or manga for the manga event) so such a thing simply could not have happened. |
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| Pleasure thanks to all elves, thanks for the reccomendation. good work! and i wish you have nice days! |
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| Thanks @pokemonvortex for your really thoughtful reply and for so many recs! So far I've only started watching Tsugumomo, and I'm finding it really enjoyable, the animation is really nice too, plus I've read that there's gonna be a s2 soon, so perfect timing to watch it! |
| I'd like to give many thanks to Elf-hime and Elf-tan for delivering and bringing me my gifts! To @HylianFebo : I must apologize, I am already reading the Yuru Camp manga and was planning on watching the show at a later date, but it must have slipped my mind to even put it in my Reading list. My bad. That said, I personally agree with the recommendation and I know for sure I'll greatly enjoy it in the anime format as well. :) As such, I'm very interested in the few other recommendations you mentioned but didn't name. :D To @Avajou : Woah, thanks for all of these! As my elf kindly pointed out though, Tensei Kyuuketsuki was already on my Reading list, I've already seen the ReLIFE anime (and while it didn't leave a bad impression, it didn't leave a strong one either), and Akagami no Shirayukihime is on my PTW. I also should have put Yona on my PTR, and I'll get to it eventually, that was my bad. So now for the ones that I didn't know of or hadn't read before : - I gave Tamen de Gushi a try, and while it looks really nice, I can't seem to wrap my mind around the order of pages...The manhwa form is usually pretty straightforward but this one confuses me. Still, I'll get to the bottom of it, and it certainly looks promising. - I also tried Bokura wa Minna Kawai-sou, and so far I'm liking it. It looks like a fairly common trope and has a few walking stereotypes (as in, the MC and the OL mostly, but also the old lady) and some much avoidable fanservice in the form of one of these characters, but it's not like it goes over the line with those. I am definitely interested in the main girl and how she will be developped in the series. - Unfortunately I haven't had the time to check out Machida-kun no Sekai, but laid-back SoLs are right up my alley (I binged Danchigai recently and got up to date with Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge a bit before that), so I'm sure I'll enjoy it as well. Thanks again for so many recommendations! |
| Happy new year everyone!. Is always a pleasure to participate in this kind of events, every year especiallly the Secret Santa event. Big thanks to @Eldinis who made my gift. It's a pleasure to use personalized images and the time he/she took to make it. Also I want to thank the elfs who each year works hard to create this marvellous event. |
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Sorarin said: I'm really happy with the rec I got this year, too. Got paired with someone that looked at my genres and I also had such an easier time recommending something myself! Thanks for that @YayakoChii ! I hope that you will like it. :) And thanks for the recommendations @Mappington I will try to watch them after my exams, although not all of them. I definitely wont watch Clannad because I know how it ends. At least not in the near future. |
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| I was in the Anime Rec and the Image rec. First, thanks to the Elf-tama and Elf-rin for their hard work and pretty messaging! I still have all of them =D  I have not yet finished all my anime recs from @Meira_Eve's, but for now I am pleased to watch these! Thanks also to @Tensho for the forum set. It seems it's not his first and I am not surprised! The effect is spectacular at first but it lasts well in forum discussions. I did a kinda "Christmas theme" too for my images, but I'm thinking of changing a bit since we're getting in mid January soon. You can find the messages (black) and my thoughts here. https://myanimelist.net/blog.php?eid=830863 And, last but not least, thanks to everyone participating in this whole Secret Santa 2019! |
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| @piloswine I've watched the first two episodes of Gourmet Girl Graffiti so far, and it's adorable! And the animation is randomly intense at some points, I love it! Ryou and Kirin are so cute together, although I'll have to take my time watching this anime or else I'll start getting too hungry. |
| This was a great way to recommend anime. I really loved it. Happy 2020 to all. Thanks @SparkleSpoonie |
| Thanks so much @luply I really liked the edits. <3 |
rubylily said: @piloswine I've watched the first two episodes of Gourmet Girl Graffiti so far, and it's adorable! And the animation is randomly intense at some points, I love it! Ryou and Kirin are so cute together, although I'll have to take my time watching this anime or else I'll start getting too hungry. So glad you're enjoying it so far! It was a really cute show and the food looks great, haha! |
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| Thank you @Fario-P for the rec of Salomelic. It was a nice cute and short manga. To whoever my elf was, thank you for the recs. I was already aware of the anime versions of Wedding Peach and Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne but I hadn't considered reading the manga versions before so thank you for that. I look forward to reading them. |
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| @iSwitch15 Thank you for the recommendation, I will get to them pretty soon! Thank You! |
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Thank you to the Elves for all of your hard work!! @Amasted thank you for the amazing recommendation of Madoka Magica! I finished it already and I really enjoyed it. It fit so much of my likes and I am very glad I watched it. Thank you again! P.S: There is also a spin off coming out tomorrow that I am now very excited for! -Santi |
santitacoJan 4, 2020 2:15 PM
| Thank you so much for making this happen guys! I had a blast and it was an absolute pleasure to be a part of it. I'm really looking forward to next year's Secret Santa :) |
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| Thank you so much everyone in Elf Hime involved in arranging my secret santa. I had great fun & really enjoyed watching the show I was recommended over the Xmas holidays. |
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