MAL Yearbook 2021

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  • What a great year to be an anime fan! Greetings to Jump, Jhofran, Diotmar and José Viva Venezuela Nojoda ??

    LuchoTG17

  • I love all the anime and I really like to have one to myself... Give us more of this!

    Iruken

  • If you spend your 2021 without watching 86, then you have a one miserable year.

    Raizu_Ji

  • "For love and for peace" —Vash the Stampede

    Dukino

  • I will continue to bury myself more with anime.

    Jafet_Alfaro

  • Filled with disasters from Covid to Ex-Arm, 2021 has come to an end :). Although filled with some nasty flops and disasters the "Face" of Bojji, "Mehness" of Odokawa, "Animation" of Mushoku Tensei (and KnY) and much more has lifted up 2021 to another great year for anime :)

    lollipOOOp

  • 2021 was a great year for anime. People have found themselves free with more time to be introduced to anime and with the added help of social media and anime content creators, anime itself has become mainstream and more socially welcomed. T'was a truely welcoming year for anime!!

    WakandaMan4Lif

  • "None but you can determine your own worth" —Kiriha, Tsugu Tsugumomo

    TheRiper

  • 2021 was such a beautiful year for anime and by that I mean how many beautiful animes have been released. God that I'm thankful that my friends introduced me to it several years ago. Have a nice year

    Homosapiens-sama

  • Found my freedom! Eren could never

    Celineeekh

  • Mushoku Tensei is anime of the year. If Arcane was an anime, then Mushoku Tensei and Arcane is anime of the year.

    Touch_Me-sama

  • Anime and chicken nuggies at 3am is the bomb

    TheWeebPound

  • Slowly mal evolve into something very nice. Hope this get great each year with more category spread on it and more great event coming along with expo. At least its need to reach 1 months long!

    Vvivvcv12

  • Anime is laifu cuz waifu is waifu.

    Sallachi

  • Hello everybody, my name is Markiplier and welcome to Five Nights at Freddy's, an indie horror game that you guys suggested, in mass, and I saw that Yamimash played it and he said it was really really good... So I'm very eager to see what is up.

    AaronTheBaron

  • Many masterpiece anime in this 2021 but it's will be more masterpiece anime in 2022

    Atha_5

  • 2021 was great, hope we can have lots more fun with coming anime in 2022!

    WoughtFighter

  • "That" -She

    hitogoroshii

  • Learn, grow, enjoy and live your life-️??

    bosskeyx

  • My name is Yoshikage Kira. I'm 33 years old. My house is in the northeast section of Morioh, where all the villas are, and I am not married. I work as an employee for the Kame Yu department stores, and I get home every day by 8 PM at the latest. I don't smoke...

    Harun69

  • Promised Neverland is by far my favorite culinary anime!

    shutired

  • yall slept on heike monogatari

    akyrdfxhv

  • Me ? I read manga. Yeah yeah And I watch anime too, ofc. No I don't regret about the time invested in it. I'm happy with this Myanimelist ? Eeeeh it's a good site ! Let's say : It is in fact so useful. You can do many things on it ! Score , search, comment, review... Trully good

    Kadhel

  • anime will not leave me i won't leave anime

    Fuyu-

  • "Sekai wa zankoku da sore demo kimi wo aisu yo"

    GleefulViolin

  • Anime is my way to escape from this harsh reality.

    noir_blancc

  • "Embrace the heartache and become a good man, Gugu!"

    tropika

  • Dont let it go that deep, just breathe.

    iDevil360

  • Simply a stupendous year! Senjougahara negs tho

    Verhexen

  • A bad year for me but anime and manga helped me get through it like a train passing through a thunderstorm .

    RyuzakiKen99

  • "If God closes a door, you can climb through the window."

    Daruchev___2923

  • Another wonderful year of anime

    Zertop

  • Demon Slayer Entertainment Arc Episode 10 for Episode of the Year :)

    SkillSwap

  • Cool year. Also, piano goes slurp.

    ZeldaFreak69

  • Most deaths - Natsuki Subaru (LMFAO)

    GFLMA

  • 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

  • Mushouku Tensei is the real anime of the year

    Witra

  • Anime teach me to survive...???

    Fuyuki_Hashime

  • “Let’s get ready to RUMBLE!!!”

    Sora126

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

    Grizzly69er

  • My Life is non-fiction.

    Tachi_Kun

  • 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

  • Good year for anime.

    CHEZARE

  • Eat. Sleep. Anime. Repeat.

    Ava_and _Anime

  • Oh I actually love so many of the animes that came new in 2021 and I’m so clad that I found this app I really appreciated because it makes my life so much easier and more comfortable

    Annamrfm

  • I hope in the future have anime from my country Malaysia.

    MALILFS25

  • espero que nesse ano seja mais acirrando.

    filipelipes300

  • "I Wish I Could've Lived My Life Without Making Wrong Turns. But That's Impossible. [...] We Make Mistakes. And Little By Little, One Step At A Time, We Push Forward." Yuki Sohma Natsuki Takaya Fruits Basket

    duducomo

  • No matter the year, anime is always there for you

    Mashrafi_Rian

  • Anime's gay... I love it

    LandSwimmer

  • "I'm a weeb, and that's good, I will never be good and that's not weeb, there's no one I'd rather be then me"-wreck it Ralph alternate universe

    Ralph wreck it

  • To another year of great anime . KANPAI !!

    Riesho

  • All I gotta say, we truly live in a susiety. p.s: The manga was better

    KingVcg

  • Grateful for all the school fight cameramen

    BadBoy65t

  • Been a nice year The most unforgettable anime is of course AoT (Shingeki no kyojin) But there have been many more.

    no-more-tea

  • My first formal year in anime

    swabbie

  • You can always die. It's living that takes real courage

    Pritam_

  • "Catch me if you can, Holmes!" —Moriarty

    Rkashyap621

  • Reject reality, return to non non biyori

    pocketspaghet

  • I watch Manga and read Anime. - RealCrayfish, 0000-6969, Spoken like a true weeb.

    RealCrayfish

  • Tokyo Revengers was the best of the year

    VictorVS

  • It's a small year for an anime industry as it's a small year for me.

    sixtef

  • "Eat, sleep, anime, repeat"

    _-ShiroNeko-_

  • Anime characters got a yearbook before I did T_T

    SleepySera

  • 2021 was a banger! Here's to 2022 go above and beyond

    jujubeefrwin

  • “If you’re panicking, you won’t be able to win a fight even if you could’ve.” —Ken Ryuguji

    CBPman9001

  • To decide that I'm hopeless before I even begin is nothing but laziness

    KioSKa

  • If you see this, read Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso wo Kasaneru and bless Botan

    ShinoAlter

  • So much time, so little effectively used time.

    budrking354

  • One of the best seasons

    Kale_10

  • 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

  • "To ask is a moment's shame. Not to, lifelong. "

    OOOFFFED

  • Life is not a game of luck. If you wanna win, work hard.

    nzrnxshh

  • Never force main stream anime on the your friends. Let them watch whatever they want on their pace.

    Almaazmi

  • real men are tempory, anime men is forever

    nellya

  • Over the past two years, the world has changed indescribably. But one thing that hasn't changed - the warmth, the creativity and the talent of our anime community. Thank you for everything!

    kyon981

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

    Welf06

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

    Kyrioscist

  • 2021 was a year for anime

    chefpika

  • Have you touched some grass today?

    4esthetics

  • Introspection is the key to attaining success

    Leylin_Balvan

  • Anime/Manga Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna say goodbye.

    Kanekikenblackre

  • something creative and funny ...plz chuckle

    rem00kh

  • Opera Girl (Kageki Shoujo) is supremely underrated! Which is kind of ironic for how tall it is!

    Kaylof

  • WE'RE THE TOKYO MANJI GANG!

    SpiderBear-11

  • Some great manga got animated this year, can't wait for what the future holds

    Norami

  • I wanna give a shoutout to the MAL discord mods for soldering through all the spoilers and the sus comments You will all be missed

    VivavideoUser2x

  • ninomiya best prota of the year

    Gotai

  • This year was so good anime made it mainstream again and I’m so happy that a lot of truly beautiful and amazing show made it to screens this year so thank you

    Dazaikunbsd

  • (-‿--) Dear Weebs of MAL, you are sugoi. Whatever is going on in your kokoro right now, please know that you are kawaii and your story is not a filler. You are loved (-‿--)

    Otttoc

  • The year where I was able to watch each and every genre and was able to expand my repertoire about these vast genres.

    EnRyuu12

  • Here's to many more wonderful animes to come!

    Trekker10

  • Nice year...

    Llacerta

  • Cheers to another year of full of amazing shows! May the power of anime, be on your side!

    xTadx

  • "Listen well mon chaton" —Noé - Vanitas no Karte 2021

    Reed_san

  • "bitches, bros and non binary hoes" - wise words from Adam

    FRognomz

  • I don't care what other people think of me. I enjoy my life with my own rules

    Nikurumi

  • anime is life

    bgsOO3

  • "Sometimes it takes a real man to become the best girl" i hope more anime will get seasons 2

    meormuhammadnaim

  • Money, jobs, and best pals will come and go, family is forever.

    FenrirMythEU

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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