MAL Yearbook 2021

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  • 10 billion percent exhilarating!

    C0rrekT

  • I really gotta watch more anime this year

    Xp_raygon

  • Promised Neverland is by far my favorite culinary anime!

    shutired

  • “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

  • The lockdown wasn't so boring

    Sch4n

  • Please don't ban me for having the word tiddy in my name, please. Thank you for a great year!

    TeiraTiddy

  • 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

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

    Kaylof

  • If you'll please excuse me, I still have 10,000 episodes across 120 titles to finish before next year's releases. I must prepare.

    AtisutoMeru

  • genki ii ne... nani ka ii koto demo atta no kai?

    Dazonwraith

  • 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

  • "People die when they're killed"

    KaguraFireCosplay

  • 2022年以降のアニメを本当に楽しみにしています

    Neko_ipoi

  • "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

  • "........" 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

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

    Trekker10

  • watching animes is a healing haha

    amykasa

  • "I can forgive you 1000 times … but only trust you once"

    Snipez69

  • You aren't doing it wrong if you don't know what you are doing

    angelgrozd

  • “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

  • Muy buen año

    MIKEBRIST

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

    Almaazmi

  • Why fall in love with people when I can fall in love with fictional characters

    _virara

  • Bury me with Hyrum Smith glasses.

    Nero_nan

  • 2021 was full of surprises!

    mashirinon

  • Komi-san the most overrated anime ever. Manga might be good but the anime just not it chief. Fight me. Ogiwara Sayu best girl! Horimiya and Higehiro best animes of 2021 hands down.

    nightmarelegend

  • gotta say the anime were pretty good last year

    aturtlzzz

  • I have watched so many animes with different storyline and still can't decide which one is my favourite. Hat's off to the people who work hard making wonderful animes. Love from India -️

    NotMito11

  • Stop looking down for once, and just look up and smile; so I can take your yearbook photo!

    PokeProX

  • My anime list gets bigger every year.

    mistillyy

  • Regardless of how weak you feel No matter how hard you are hit. Keep your heart burning. Grit your teeth and move forward. If you stop and hide the flow of time will not stop for you. - Kyojuro Rengoku

    Blank_Equinox

  • Don't wish for it. Work for it.

    sujini

  • This was unbelievably one of the best events I came across!!!

    priyanka2411

  • 10 billion lovely person

    Expertul25

  • “Everyone starts from zero. If you mess up, just try it. Figure out why, and try again.” Miyamura Izumi from Horimiya

    YukiTakashi

  • Another wonderful year of anime

    Zertop

  • May we all awaken to a better dystopia.

    snarky-san

  • Odd Taxi was great!

    gabotinus316

  • 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

  • Even though the year has been hard for everyone I’m glad I have the awesome anime and manga community to keep me company! \(>~<)

    ShinseiNeko

  • "Where’s my smile and my will to live? Gone" —Uramichi Oniisan

    Morpeeko

  • "Eat, sleep, anime, repeat"

    _-ShiroNeko-_

  • yall slept on heike monogatari

    akyrdfxhv

  • Its not like i want to be in the yearbook or anything.... Baka

    Pandasiar

  • "Knowing you're different is only the beginning. If you accept these differences you’ll be able to get past them and grow even closer.” – Miss Kobayashi, Dragon Maid. Much love everybody!

    MasterZinc

  • The Greatest joy tht i've never felt....

    SAHILxTANJIRO

  • Live life don't let it live you!

    Galador_Silva

  • Wonder Egg Priority and Death Parade need more content so I can prove to my boyfriend that they're the best. Please and thank you.

    Hadles2043

  • Nuuuuu! Vampire Dies Community was the friends we made along the way!

    Froz3npancake

  • Back in September of this year I started getting into anime, starting with MHA, (which I still have a soft spot for btw) and the most recent anime I've watched was Bleach. At the beginning of this year I decided to take a break from anime, but Akira is next. Keep watching anime!

    Activeonspotify

  • "Give up on your dreams and die." —Levi Ackerman

    Indigo_123

  • You can't move forward without saying goodbye to the past.

    sk7rpion

  • There'll be always a moment of peace, to spend time just to watch anime alone. Maybe reading a manga or/and light novels, if people or an individual really want to immerse themselves further more than just anime alone. And of course, without the "noises" from the social media.

    Gumagala_Lang

  • 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

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

    TheRiper

  • Pain changes People

    Lone02Wolf

  • バスガス爆発ブスバスドライバー (Basu gasu bakuhatsu busu basu doraibā)

    ShihaiOkenja

  • Average anime is good! we have to start seeing anime from the story, basically what makes it good is the story! this year's anime is good, I like it!

    KenYuza

  • HAPPY NEW YEAR WEEBS bring on the rumbling xoxo

    BenSpeirs

  • It’s more satisfying to hear a single ‘thank you’ than a lot of ‘sorry’s.’ Re:Zero

    EnergyVirus

  • I hope i will be a better person next year!

    yokofu

  • "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" —Sherlock Holmes From the best duo "Moriarty and Sherlock"

    Blaze2317

  • Grateful for all the school fight cameramen

    BadBoy65t

  • Ex arm best anime

    ElMolaik

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

    anike_love

  • ninomiya best prota of the year

    Gotai

  • SPRING 2021 WAS THE BEST SEASON OF ANIME PERIOD.

    raryaryagi

  • This season was great but I'm still waiting for ice adolescence

    funanimelover13

  • I have learned that, if you ever read a summary for an anime and think 'Might be good/ maybe, but I do not know if it is for me' ... WATCH AT LEAST 3 EPISODES OF IT! I have found that some of my new favorites by following this guide line.

    Spinka T.K.

  • Anime was the most beautiful thing which I discovered in 2021.It truly changed my life in many different ways. Today I am able to think from a different point of view all thanks to the amazing characters. It made me laugh hysterically and at times it made me cry. Thankyou Anime.

    ___Chillhouse___

  • 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

  • this year was kinda bad I only watched the stuff that was already out, except for demon slayer because that was good rest bad ok

    FISHYGAMRZ

  • "Yongara is freedom"

    Almenir

  • "L!L!L! & L.W.A.S (Love! the Life! we Live! & Live with A Smile!)" - Two phrases taken from two songs title from my favourite series, Love Live!. The phrases that surely we hope in this year & future, we gain a successful & happy life. Just enjoy your life whatever you do!

    MrBluebear

  • "TATAKAE (fight)" by Eren Jeager

    madarainklove

  • Anime kept me a float after some...unfortunate family issues. And for that, I am grateful.

    animebaby00

  • 2021 has been a great year for Anime Tons of good shows aired, tons of GOATED shows announced a continuation Looking forward to this year of 2022. Let's wait for the anime hot takes of 2022.

    RenSuu

  • "Give up on your dreams and die"

    Ewaaaa

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

    Just a weeb

  • We're being tossed from the frying pan and into the fire this time around, mark my words!

    nikodragu3

  • If I were looking for something real, I would be watching documentaries and not anime.

    God_Slayer17

  • 2021 was rough but anime 2021 was lit. Thanks for helping with noting things to watch!

    TheMidnightWolf

  • Anime is laifu cuz waifu is waifu.

    Sallachi

  • Yearbook Janai, Katsura da!

    Iskarioth

  • 2021 was fire and hard-to-choose characters and 2022 will be more fire????-️ And I will miss 2021 anime seasons?

    Blackwolf1421

  • *pushes glasses up and smiles*

    SuperSass

  • To another year of great anime . KANPAI !!

    Riesho

  • "This isn't a popularity contest right?"

    Ice-cube

  • #2021 The Anime Year for generations to come, had everything from Attack on Titan to Ex Arm, from Komi san to To your Eternity. Glad I watched so many shows this year, but at the same time sad that I skipped so many gems( will definitely watch them).

    Ironaditya

  • Anime has had my back during this whole quarantine thing ?

    min_hobiii

  • YEARBOOK QUOTE JANAI! KATSURA DA!

    Sidelink

  • Just have fun lads.

    Kartin99

  • 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

  • Protect Bojji Ex-Arm is Hilarious Non Non Biyori Nonstop is Cute Isekai Anime are overused and needs to reduce Seriously stop there's too much isekai anime

    IanGamingX

  • watched slice of life because i had no life

    Jahshaka

  • "I am the cutest no doubt!!"

    aruuuimi

  • The frog at the bottom of the well doesn't know the vastness of the sea, but it does know the blueness of the sky :)

    Hirano_Hisashi

  • "hey nana, do you remeber the first time we met? i believe in things like fate. so i think it was fate" —nana komatsu (hachiko)

    vivy666

  • The stories might've not been rock solid, but I sure was.

    Sigima

  • I love anime, its openings are the songs that move my world and fill it with energy.

    BlackNeko1912

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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