MAL Yearbook 2021

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  • Anime/manga can sometimes be the best medicine for a lost soul.

    Just a weeb

  • Yay, Anime!

    Maryca9

  • It's been an awesome year for me just because of these anime. Many no, so many! things changed in these few years but am glad! these 2D, fictional characters have always been my therapy.

    lilymiii

  • Baji (From Tokyo Revengers) is a real one.

    TinyGraape

  • Attack on titan is the truth of my life and everyone else life i have been waiting all this year's to know the truth but now I don't wanna end it but i have to because i need to know the truth aot is a masterpiece

    Eren_Jeager_24

  • This year was crazy for sure, lots of really good new and returning anime.

    White_Wuf

  • Life is meaningless till you get up and give it one

    Mr_Gopnik

  • 2021 has pretty decent animes...

    dddenji

  • I think this year has been an amazing year for anime. It's been a long while since we've had a year where everyone can find something to watch, where every season has something that someone might be into. I'm really excited to see where we can go from here!

    strydderXD

  • I like to quote a saying said by Rider from Fate Zero. "Whatever you do. Enjoy it to the fullest, that's the secret to life"

    Fun_Dragonfruit

  • I haven't watched much anime for last 1 year but I will if I had some free time?

    tejas-san

  • Tatakae

    Animexcode

  • Better than crunchy roll award winners probably hopefully maybe

    RenderingUser

  • "........" said Komi-san. I am also speechless. I have nothing to say. But let's do our best to connect with people. I am also bad at it.

    therefore-I-AM

  • Everything is amazing with its quantity and quality. While I haven't seen many productions, the ones I have seen were great, and my anticipation of the episode itself was a lot of fun (and impatience). Thank you to everyone who has worked hard to make this year so amazing!

    akafterskvr

  • GINTAMA AAAAAAAAAAAAA THE FINAL AAAAAAAAAA

    Vai03

  • 2021 was an amazing year of anime and I am glad I lived through it.

    Welf06

  • Thank you everyone for a great year in the anime community

    Diamond1580

  • justice can be cruel

    hooman_matt

  • Sate Sate —Meliodas

    ShadowOnyx01

  • DAMN, that was some hardest decisions of my life??(´ε` )

    Mangriam

  • Sometimes reality can be annoying but if I can escape to another world I would do so, That's why anime exist.

    Elijah235

  • “Take the blue and the red and make purple to win the game”

    Raccoonbro

  • I hope more people can come to know and enjoy anime in the coming year as well~ but most importantly, let's all have fun watching it ^^

    Shikkakku

  • yare yare dawa

    jolynxx

  • I enjoy watching Japanese cartoons.

    TQRL

  • Nothing burns like the cold

    DreamYC

  • "Listen! Your biggest audience is women. And women have a shrewd eye. Kouka fans want a dreamlike fantasy. A beauty they could never hope to obtain." Kageki Shoujo!!, Ep 2

    Amy-hakase

  • this year I watch a lot of Anime and I really enjoyed and the next year new anime released and i will watch and hope watch many animes

    AnosVoldigoad985

  • Idk but we had a great 2021 in anime terms and we are going to have an amazing 2022 too so Im excited!

    Faceu77

  • I watch Anime. Just Anime.

    Oliver2085

  • Tatakae Tatakae

    Franklin1-N

  • "It ain't a warcrime if there is no war" -Sun Tzu, 'The Art of War'

    Alfadog500

  • Last year was amazing ? for anime followers, and i wish it becomes more amazing this year -️

    Aniket1542

  • One of the best year for anime fans-

    Golden_Name

  • It saddens me that there are people out there who are oblivious to the joy that anime brings!!

    Anime_Emotion

  • Good year

    Simy45

  • I finished Sword Art Online and I'm crying!

    CattyLeonhart

  • Watching anime feel to me like reading a lot of books. I can travel, imagine and visit new worlds through Anime.

    Hakiro_cr

  • “Takemitchy, listen this whole time, there’s been poop stuck in your hair” —Mikey, Tokyo Revengers

    Grizzly69er

  • Hello mom! I'll still watch anime when I'll be at my 50s...?

    Jimomapas

  • "Don't judge book by its cover" —Miko Yotsuya

    gotthea

  • MAL, please start your own Anime Awards. They'll be much better.

    Pre_Yum

  • you guys have forgotten the best anime of 2021, Higehiro :)

    NicholasEvan

  • I watched as many of these as there are in the second digit of 2021

    Sailor_Sakka

  • Unbelievable

    BRUHLAS

  • Traveling across the world for entertainment is the idle mind's greatest pleasure.

    Skyetifaeger

  • Akhirnya tahun ini gua nonton wanpis sampe di arc Wano ?

    LuciferrKid

  • Simply a stupendous year! Senjougahara negs tho

    Verhexen

  • “If you can’t do something, then don’t. Focus on what you can.”

    MTLourenco

  • I want more and more people to watch anime

    ab_Sami

  • MyAnimeList has a better Anime Awards section than Crunchyroll, unironically.

    ApolloCloud

  • Another year full of anime, another year of not having time to watch everything I wanted...

    Bell_cz

  • Anime has been a nice way out of real life for me the past couple of years. It brings so much emotion where nothing else could!

    Vincentevil

  • Anime: A piece of my heart.

    Seba3114

  • Just watch anime that you like... No body choose what you watch... It is your choice...

    As7sasi3

  • yeah, good year

    Ryan_Myzt

  • I'm too lazy to come up with something creative, so just let this be my yearbook quote I guess

    IrrelevantGuy

  • wonder egg deserved better

    lunanamu

  • Yare yare daze

    Tefumeku

  • This year has been a banger!!! Nonstop top-tier anime every season were just amazing.... Komi-San, Rudy, Miyamura, Rimuru and so so SO many amazing characters.... So many waifus.... It was just amazing!!!

    Goated_Weeb526

  • real men are tempory, anime men is forever

    nellya

  • My Computer Screen is brighter than my future.

    Taiga_Demon

  • Have you touched some grass today?

    4esthetics

  • Just imagine a world where all bananas turned blue over night.

    StephenBriggsby

  • This anime year was incredible but I hope next year we will look at this one and go: "man that was a bad year for anime compared to this".

    BunicuMarin

  • A great year of anime

    Sakib_Shahariar

  • I've watched many anime in my life, many good, many bad. Many that were wrong to the source, and some that out shined the source. From the years of struggling to find anime, to now it is everywhere. I am glad ^w^.

    Lisacat15

  • 2021 was a great year for anime and lets hope 2022 is the same Also oddtaxi and fruits basket are best anime of 2021

    Choccygamez12

  • "There's no such thing as a useless effort."

    Snow_Leopard123

  • Draken you will win

    K0NNA

  • I have fun watching anime this year. I found a new type of anime. Plus I do think that this year is an anime year for me. I really hope something big for 2022. So, Until then, we just have to wait for something that going to make our heads explode. See you next time !

    UMimOnigiri_

  • petition for white haired anime guys to stop attacking me, thank you

    hyewon

  • EREN YEAGEEERR!!!!

    yoitsHan

  • Loved this year’s shows!

    zelitta

  • Anime is life, anime is trash, i love anime, i have trashy taste.

    Kadaori

  • “Gon” —Hisoka

    Crispykitty55

  • Great season this year.

    koreyuchiha6

  • My first year watching anime, and it was a banger.

    barnabasdudda

  • "No matter how afraid I am, I have a job to do!" —Red Blood Cells (Cells at Work!)

    TheRiseofAnime

  • Draken supremacy

    Tikaas_m

  • Just started anime yes

    Erlho

  • It's been a awesome year with anime and MAL and I hope this year will be or more awesome than last year. -️ Excited for all the anime releasing this year ???

    DrakenXX01

  • The animes of 2021 were very good and quite funny, I hope that the anime industry continues to grow and continues to bring us new works as well as being able to rescue other works that were left behind

    Kokesr

  • Another wonderful year of anime

    Zertop

  • "People die when they're killed"

    KaguraFireCosplay

  • Whatever you lose, you’ll find it again, but what you throw away you’ll never get it back

    KnightOfAstoria

  • Where is MUSHOKU TENSEI! That's all I have to say

    Ashutok

  • Another year filled with yet more Isekais. I don't know whether I should be happy or be disappointed.

    UsamiMitsu

  • Best year of original waifus with Vivy at the top!

    limwin

  • Loved this year, so many great anime released and hoping for more isekai genre anime and manga to come out!!!

    Abdullahthegreat

  • HAPPY NEW YEAR WEEBS bring on the rumbling xoxo

    BenSpeirs

  • i can remember anime name's in japanese, but i can barely remember my own birthday.

    violettx

  • I just started watching anime last year!

    Lindor420

  • Let's see what we have this year!!!

    Kyrioscist

  • YEARBOOK QUOTE JANAI! KATSURA DA!

    Sidelink

  • I must say that there are couple of good anime this year, but the most anime I liked this year are not in most of the selection. Which I understand, not everyone has the same taste. The best anime that I enjoyed in the year of 2021 is Horimiya because I read the manga which enjoy

    PrimRose_20

  • My mama always said 'life is like a game of Russian Roulette, you never know what you're gonna get'. That was the last thing she told me.

    random_savage

  • With so many anime that, instead of pandering to trendy stuff, were more like passion projects, 2021 made me feel "Anime is getting good again". Oddtaxi, Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi, Sonny Boy and Heike Monogatari made the year much more enjoyable.

    Brottoy

  • Vivy was a masterpiece!!

    JokersRoyal

What is the MAL Yearbook?

MAL Yearbook is a new annual project where MyAnimeList members can reflect on the past year of anime and share what they enjoyed most. Using categories selected from the community and winners decided by you, we will create a special digital MAL Yearbook that we can enjoy in future years. Leave us your 2021 yearbook comment and vote for the nominations you think best fit those category titles.

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