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VivisQueen

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Since I saw a thread that promoted MAL, I thought I'd plug my own favourite website thus far (I hope this is allowed - if not, I apologise profusely and of course expect this thread to be deleted).

The site looks like this: http://www.anime-planet.com/ It is a US website whose main purpose is allowing users to generate recommendations with reasons given in easy to view boxes. Other nifty features exist, including:

NEW - badges that you can earn by doing things around the site! They've got nifty colourful designs and show up on your profile so everyone knows what an anime monster you are. Lol.

- profile list of all your anime and manga, which you mark as watched/read, watching/reading, want to watch/read etc, and can rate (you can also compare your list to others etc, there's whole bunch of crap you can do with your list)

- large database of high-quality, amusing reviews by selected writers (I'm currently inactive there but half the active site reviewers are British). NOTE: ordinary members can write reviews in a separate feature

- all users can write blogs

- all entries for anime have synopsis and screenshots taken from the show

- custom signatures with literally hundreds of images to choose from, and you can make it display your watching list etc (I was going to use mine here but apparently it's not allowed)

- choice of website themes

- character and staff database with hand-written bios

- friends functionality with comments on each other's profiles

And a bunch of crap. To see the key concept of the rec system, click on this Eden of the East entry. Synopsis written and screenshots taken by yours truly, and the site review is also by yours truly: http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/eden-of-the-east

The forum is very active, has easy-going but highly organised mods, and also friendly and usually interesting discussion. Just watch out for the guys who like everything to be RANDOM. Anyway, I'm posting this with the assumption that it is permitted, and AP deserves a bit of shameless plugging for all the work that goes into it.
 
I'm already on anime planet.
It's pretty awesome. However every time I look at my timeline I wonder how I find the time t watch as much aime as I do.
 
'tis indeed a very impressive looking site. Almost good enough for me to overlook your shocking under-rating of Eden of the East. ;)
 
kippy666 said:
I'm already on anime planet.
It's pretty awesome. However every time I look at my timeline I wonder how I find the time t watch as much aime as I do.
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I don't look anymore. It hurts too much.

ilmaestro: Oi, oi, oi. 7.5 is a very good rating indeed. I'm one of those anal people who gives 8+ ratings only when my life depends on it, and then it's usually through gritted teeth.
 
Actually looks surprisingly good, but I don't think it will be regularly visiting it - especially since everyone I know uses MAL.
 
MAL is better, and I'm too lazy to list all my **** again on a shittier website just to please some random internet female. If you looked somewhat attractive, I'd be more willing to play nice, but you probably don't, and that's a big problem for me. Right now, all I've got to go on is the 'I'm like that spoiled bitch from Monster!' thing to go on, and that's a turn off.

You can do pretty much everything you mentioned on MAL, btw. I review(ed) on MAL, I blog on MAL, I have a purdy forum sig on MAL. The problem is, the MAL review rating system/Swedish women are out to get me, no-one reads blogs on MAL (most not knowing of the existence of the blogging system) and the forum users are too dumb to appreciate the wonders of my signature.
 
VivisQueen said:
ilmaestro: Oi, oi, oi. 7.5 is a very good rating indeed. I'm one of those anal people who gives 8+ ratings only when my life depends on it, and then it's usually through gritted teeth.
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Hehe, fair enough. Eden was one of my top 3 shows of last year, that's usually worth a 9 from me.
 
I see you're still going for the 'be nice to internet womenz, find love' strategy; 'laughing' a lot over nothing and generally being a lot more friendly than are to the male newbies you ignore. Well played.

I'm sticking with my own tried and test 'be an ******** to womenz, find love' strategy, though. It'll work, and the best part is I don't have to act nicer. Win-win.
 
How embarrassing. There seem to be several errors in your post before last, so I generously went and amended it:

That-Bastard-Bad-Guy-Aion said:
MAL is bigger but has lower quality ****, and I'm too incompetent to import my list with an easy-to-use feature on a better-looking website with excellent content. Admittedly, my juvenile objections stem from feelings of inadequacy once I recognised your intelligence and superior wit (which I suspect are matched by a beautiful face), and that's a big problem for me because I now have to live with the knowledge that I could never play in your league.

You can do pretty much everything you mentioned on MAL, btw. I review(ed) on MAL, I blog on MAL, I have a purdy forum sig on MAL. What is interesting is that AP addresses the crap that MAL has, such as a better review-rating and user rating system, people reading blogs (most being aware of the blogging system), and the forum users being active, fun, tolerant, having a higher IQ average than fans in most fora, and being fond of discussing all things anime/manga just like me. So, why am I not joining anime-planet immediately? Because I'm a contrary fool with questionable tastes, of course, and for that I apologise.
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You might as well go ahead and list your **** on a Excel document if you don't use MAL. MAL has dominated the anime-list-making market and any other attempts are futile. It's bigger for a reason, it started small and exploded.
 
That's the same argument as saying 'Internet Explorer has dominated the internet browsing market and any other attempts are futile.' Not that I intended to start some sort of competition. I'm just shamelessly plugging a website I happen to enjoy very much. Of course, constructive critique of websites are always great, but simply stating 'don't visit any other site but MAL' just leaves one with that 'Nazi' aftertaste.
 
Jayme, bro, you shouldn't seriously argue against 'them'. Act like you're listening/reading, then talk/type over them - that's the best way to handle these situations. Trying to express yourself to a creature without the capacity to understand logic is a pointless exercise. In, out and gone.

MAL got the anime/manga listing train going, and moving to a new site that looks ugly to my MAL-adjusted eyes would be totally pointless. I no longer review (due to the ignorant masses not appreciating me), I only blog to express myself every now and then, I care not about there being a large amount of children/idiots on the MAL forum when children/idiots are everywhere (see Maes) and, basically, I'm happy with MAL at the moment simply because the listing and profile functions are working perfectly.

...Oh, yes, and if you want to, feel free to show your boobs and prove to me you aren't all talk. I say 'boobs' rather than face 'cause that's all guys see, and in your case I'm willing to bet you're flat. It's always the type-happy, strong-minded type who cannot compete with Tifa-chan. (You're not out of luck with me since, in my opinion, smaller>larger, but the point remains.)


<3,


- Aion / D.A.R
 
Okay, I'm more than happy to try out a new site then but what does this do that MAL doesn't? Firefox displays sites correctly and has adds on, Chrome is light-weight - what makes this so vastly different to MAL? What makes MAL the Internet Explorer? With social networking, I've always figured its best to flock to where the most are. I don't use FaceBook, but if I wanted to check out what someone's doing I'm not going to head on over to Bebo.

The fact that MAL is big helps, it's character database is probably as big as you can get, it features animators, musicians, seiyuu's and everyone who's involved in anime in some capacity, whom you can also add to your "Favourite People" section. It doesn't have website themes, but that doesn't bother me as much as some. Screen-shots? They are under the pictures section of selected anime and also in club's.

I've made an account now anyhow, but I find it absurd the forum section needs another account to be made.
 
See, that's better. If you'd just said 'Okay, I don't really see why I should because of this and this', then I would have just kept my mouth shut. I won't dispute the fact that MAL has cornered the market, and once a company does that, it's hard for others to catch up. My intention was simply to plug anime-planet for anybody who might be interested. I can address a couple of your points, though:

The creator of anime-planet likes everything to be of high quality. So design, content, functionality, specs and the like. Take the screenshots example - MAL, as far as I can tell offers any old picture you can get available online; AP, on the other hand, displays original screenshots taken directly from the show so you know what the animation looks like (not to mention synopses are original, whilst MAL copy-pastes from others).

I think AP's key problems are funding and relative speed. This is someone's pocket money, not their profit-making business, not to mention that content is always original work submitted by members and monitored by staff. Finally, it only fairly recently decided it wanted to be competitive as opposed to just a fun place (despite having been around as a recommendation site since about 2001, I think). This results in AP playing catch-up when it comes to certain features. However, there are more substantial things that make it stand out.

- comprehensive recommendations database (the site precedes MAL and these are actually monitored for quality)
- again, I emphasise, well-written, amusing reviews by people who know the fundamentals of English grammar (in fact, we compete well with other top anime reviewing sites)
- a better forum community than most sites

The difference between facebook/bebo and MAL/AP is that, with the latter, people usually try to make online friends rather than necessarily keeping track of their real life friends. As such, it is easier to switch websites or even have multiple accounts in various places.
 
Now it starts to sound quite sweet. I'm going to have to look around a bit more, and probably won't post on the forums but if the reviews, recs and screenshots are as good as you say, I'm all for it. MAL is very much a user-generated site and AP appears to be the very opposite of that, so... thanks for the rec - I guess.
 
No problem. I'm glad you at least gave it a browse. Since One Piece is your favourite anime, you might be interested in its entry as an example of how it all works.

Anime entry: http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/one-piece

Character entry (Monkey): http://www.anime-planet.com/characters/monkey-d-luffy

Site Review: http://www.anime-planet.com/reviews/a207.html

Example of blog entry about One Piece: http://www.anime-planet.com/users/Sunagan/blog/2171

All this info is easily accessible just from the anime entry. You just tab along the sections such as 'Characters' and 'Reviews & Discussion'. And if anyone wonders why I care so much, you don't want to know how many long nights I've pumped into this website...
 
I see why people are saying that it is more or less similar to MAL, but i think i may prefer anime-planets layout. I'll need to get a good chance to have a look around it of course, and may sign up at some point, but that'll need to wait until exams are done at least. May give me a chance to review/blog and such again.
 
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