MAL Yearbook 2021

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  • Another year, another quarantine. BUT WITH MUCH MORE ANIME. Thank you anime for making it so much more bearable.

    NummyNummers

  • Hope all my bitches and bros and non-binary hoes has a blessed and safe 2022!!!

    MelixBan

  • I have learned absolutely nothing this year, but I will not lie, it was a fun one. Watching anime has definitely been my favorite time waster. If this gets put in the year book, just know, to anyone reading this- There was no mistake when we discovered anime.

    Midori126

  • Fun things are fun!!

    Ringosfire

  • 2022年以降のアニメを本当に楽しみにしています

    Neko_ipoi

  • Best thing for me after coming back from collage is to watch anime and get rid of all the tension.I hope anime universe get bigger and better as time passes by.

    eNikhil

  • I hope I have more free time to finish "plan to watch" the anime 2021.

    _yozora_

  • "Precisely where one can fail, unimagined possibilities lie dormant" —Sōma Yukihira

    Ginxkun

  • Anyone has a choice/option to choose but that doesn't mean that you will pick any of them because they look good in our eye's or they have a advantage among all choices/options the one that we must choose was where our hearts will be happy.

    Kimirato

  • sad bcs no sonny boy :(

    Godspeeeed

  • Sir Isaac Newton once said: "Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my favorite anime is Inferno Cop."

    NotSkulls

  • Girls are just temporary but anime are eternal and forever!

    Dark_Phoenix13

  • This year i finished over 200 animes! *yes i have no life* but ive learned things good and bad, watched amazing animes and plain awful ones. But you know what? Its been a great journet from then till now, and i cherish every moment of it.

    Art3misuwu

  • This year absolutely blew my mind

    Evilhunger

  • Bury me with Hyrum Smith glasses.

    Nero_nan

  • No Senpai, this is our fight

    ikkew

  • This year was absolutely amazing for anime, And then there’s the arm I broke up with…

    ChunchunmaruZcat

  • The world isn't perfect. But it's there for us, doing the best it can....that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

    devilgod431

  • My Life is non-fiction.

    Tachi_Kun

  • 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

  • Don't wait for it, do it now because time is fast and never stopping.

    ojou_san

  • "I'll never stop watching anime."

    -Meru

  • Muy buen año

    MIKEBRIST

  • 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

  • I came. I saw. I MAL'ed.

    Shibuya109

  • Imagine thinking I would even consider protecting anyone over my best boy Bojji

    Chizzie

  • 2021 was stacked

    jamaicanelmo

  • I used to be normal, then I spent three years in Japan

    SoggySlopster

  • "All the anime realised this year was amazing as expected from Anime " Some horable mentions 2021:- Re zero second season, Dr stone stone war, Vivy ,To your eternity, Takt op destiny and Demon slayer entertainment destrict.

    Aryak1410

  • Good year for anime lovers.

    NERo0o

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

    CBPman9001

  • Don't underestimate me I know more than I say think more than I speak and notice more than you realize.

    FakeReality

  • If you ever feel bad, just remember that Ex-Arm exists. Then feel worse. (:

    Math082r

  • this year will be excitement to anime watcher and manga reader just like me.

    anike_love

  • Anime and chicken nuggies at 3am is the bomb

    TheWeebPound

  • This year I watched anime and nothing more

    rilip1

  • Always found what I search on MAL ^^

    Tiara A.

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

    Anime_Emotion

  • “I've got good news. You see, there's no need to wonder where your god is! 'Cause he's right here! And he's fresh out of mercy!" —Kazuto Kirigaya

    OmegaBanjo

  • Year 2021 is a very memorable year for me for it's the first time that I've watched anime of the certain season. I've watched almost all anime of 2021 and even participated in FAL and for me, it's the year that I've enjoyed watching anime more than ever before!

    Mhar-sama

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

    Kanekikenblackre

  • Sure I graduated, but how will this affect Guts’s legacy?

    Lennyzard

  • As the year ends, another starts and when another starts; more isekai and titties to come.

    heyhoeudoin

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

    OOOFFFED

  • I am small. I have no money. Yet I’ll still find the money for manga.

    GeekFood

  • There is no greater happiness and peace than sitting on the couch with a cup of tea and watching this year's anime with your loved ones, creating memes, even crying sometimes but also admiring, learning and being enchanted ...

    _swh_

  • I have achieved another goal this year, which is to get married! married to my job.

    AngelHana

  • Look around Eren, at these big ass trees.

    YoKitty

  • -My depression is chronic but the animes I watch are iconic-

    Sunny_Sun

  • I’m new but happy to be here :)

    Rhythmme

  • 2021's Year of Anime is very much akin to 2021 as a whole. It gave us moments of joy, of excitement and sometimes even moved us to tears! But most notably it had a lot of garbage that you could only really laugh about.

    BillyCx

  • Anime characters got a yearbook before I did T_T

    SleepySera

  • "Never giving up is my Magic!" —Asta from Black Bulls

    ShiinaMH

  • There's too much anime, I can't keep up!

    DominickFisher

  • "Keep Going With Your Hobby Even If Your Hobby Is Strange"

    AlexeiChern

  • The laws of space and time dictate that in 24 hours you can only physically watch 60 episodes of anime. That didn't stop me from completing One Piece in 3 days.

    ElqBell

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

    Jimomapas

  • Thank you.

    Nxiety_

  • Imagine being a weeb, totally not me.

    LeifK_

  • This year has been amazing and packed but my favourite anime of this year was "Tokyo Revengers", The theme of changing the present by going into the past and the fact that all this was done by a delinquent is just fascinating and Baji's passing made it better and more tragic.

    XxSinpaixX

  • There is always a better waifu (except for mine which u will never know)

    Mellowiam

  • I cant believe that we lived in an era the we got to see EX ARM. What a time to be alive!

    Jenga

  • Maximum Effort

    WorstEdition

  • This was certainly a year.

    Jhiday

  • Thank you MyAnimeList team for your hard work during 2021. Stay healthy and safe so that starting from 2022 you can be faster in approving a manga.

    labradorescence

  • Life is a wonderous spring of everlasting knowledge

    Stefy4545

  • Thank you٩( 'ω' )و

    malyama

  • Juuzou Suzuya is the Best.

    Suzuyadesuga

  • “The spring sky is bluer than I've ever seen. If only I could gift you this wonderful sky. No, I know what you'd like better. A cake with lots of whipped cream on top. ” —Izumi Miyamura

    Tamago_Senpai14

  • 2021 was an amazing year for anime and be remembered for decades to come.

    Baka_Otaku03

  • I'm still waiting on the hololive anime.

    LordKaelan

  • beyound the boundaries and far away

    zDenny

  • 2021 just might have made up for 2020

    Diemetradon

  • "There's no way we could meet. But one thing is certain. If we see each other, we'll know. That you were the one who was inside me. That I was the one who was inside you."

    LEVI_ARPIT

  • Anime is health, health is wealth.

    MagicSpectre

  • Tatakai Tatakai !!!

    joy_swifty

  • (-‿--) 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 of neverending ups. Each coming season was a banger.

    AdityaKanu

  • The year sucked but rocked. I watched anime till I drop. I think I'm dead but alive. I could become the definition of contradiction.

    raychanliyue05

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

    Just a weeb

  • "Tatakae" —Eren Jeager

    MrSuperElite

  • GINTAMA AAAAAAAAAAAAA THE FINAL AAAAAAAAAA

    Vai03

  • speedwagon best waifu

    FALZAP

  • Dodging these Ls like I’m Light!!?????-️??-️?‍-️?

    bersi4battery

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

    Snow_Leopard123

  • 86 beat all the competition this year. Change my mind.

    BucketBall

  • 2021: The year anime moved from being the thing that held me together against all odds to being the thing positively I lived for week after week.

    Plato-Senpai

  • 2021 was a blast

    midorichandesu

  • Wonder Egg Priority is good!

    leons106

  • "Hey Bitches and Bros and non-binary hoes" —Adam, sk8 the infinity

    Harold_Bean

  • It's been one hell of a year, though I can't really remember what happend since my memory sucks. It seems like sequels and isekai are the most prominent anime this year, but I'm not complaining, since I'm a sucker for fantasy anime. I just hope 2022 will be an even better year.

    Cxy14

  • Woof *in a French accent*

    CrustyMustard

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

    barnabasdudda

  • 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'm still a newbie in the anime community. 2021 really make me like to watch anime.

    AphroditeZ

  • It was a good year for isekai

    ltroyal

  • Oh gosh, some of my nominated category were there! Must protect, hell yeah! Alright, folks, the yearbook concept is great. Thanks for this great idea. Reminds me much to my graduation book. Its sure can be more great if this can be a yearly tradition. Mal expo here i come!

    badabass

  • no thoughts head empty only uzui tengen and his wives

    poesracoon_karl

  • Lena is best girl of 2021.

    BlueCassius

  • beyound boundaries, and higher

    zDenny

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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