MAL Yearbook 2024

Anime section

Don't Let Your Dreams Be Dreams!
Anime with the most inspiring journey towards a goal/craft

Tiktok Edits' Darling
Anime with the most meme potential

Charming Romance
Anime romance that made your heart squeeze

What a Fever Dream
Anime so surreal, it was like an intense dream

Cozy Paradise
Anime that was your go-to relaxation button

OP/ED section

Character section

Best Glow-Up: From Zero to Hero
Character who started at the bottom... now they’re here

Comments

  • MAL - Many Awesome Lizards (Shout-out to all the lizards 🦎 🙌)

    snasralla

  • Lived it, loved it👍

    Kingu_Satan

  • amazing

    Miles0206

  • You are never too old to watch anime. It's perfectly fine in your 20s or even 30s! Just enjoy yourself!

    Mimeiko

  • Who was the one who chose the categories? zzzz

    therulgr15xd

  • Another great year for anime.

    Hiplo5

  • No Makima in 2024, but the anime year still kept me on a leash... kinda (8/10)

    Gow_Gow

  • Looking forward to another year full of wonderful events!

    Spaceable

  • Meat, Fruit and Fish! We eat every dish!

    TheSeagullKing

  • All was incredible :-)

    Kitsune_Minaro

  • What is Anime to Me? just a hobby.

    YasNON

  • Cheers to a great 2025 and even greater series!

    altarizz

  • Regrets are for losers

    Kamado_DC

  • So far, 2024 is the best year this decade for me. Looking forward for 2025!

    ReynaldyKwok

  • The anime this year was great. hopefully more anime of this quality are to come!!

    Zorake

  • Y'all need to add more good stuff in this voting phase...

    Enviousfelicity

  • Isekai fans were eating good this year

    RandomPaddy

  • I like anime

    Kaushik257

  • Give new tanja the evil season !!!

    JBGTM

  • Yumiella is funny, but Barou has the AURA!

    Pafon

  • I can never think of anything funny to say in a yearbook.

    Shadeaux

  • OwO i'm happy that i started to watch anime when i was 12

    _Freyah_

  • Just watch whatever you want dont lett other people’s opinion sway you from what you really want to watch.

    Slubb

  • most anime I. have seen in my time so many new genres character and probably this year I have cried the most over characters death and backstories honestly I really like the year

    HURJ

  • We are made up of star dust. In a sense, we are the manifestation of the universe to experience itself.

    HarusakiYorokobi

  • Although No Game No Life never got a season 2, we all still cling to hope that one dream, and that dream will show all. The day that everything changes and the world values itself more than anything else. That day will soon come, we all anime fans wait forever and long to see it

    encendrome

  • Blue Box is Goated

    Jmcr237

  • 2024 was the year of peak

    Sp3ckle

  • I'm very ghostly

    DarkHikaru

  • From the screen to the ring, to the pen, to the king Where's my crown? That's my bling Always drama when I ring See, I believe that if I see it in my heart Smash through the ceiling 'cause I'm reachin' for the stars Woah-oh-oh This is how the story goes -Aristotle

    Spas_03

  • Even the power of friendship couldn't save me from the finals...

    Aegidrom

  • I don't wanna work, I don't wanna study, I don't wanna play. All i wanna do, is to watch Anime.

    KingOfBrawlers

  • MIKU IS IN FORTNITE BOYSSSS

    Marco2863891

  • "A simple word, yet so heavy—meaning. Is it truly essential? Do we need meaning to act? And if so, should we avoid the meaningless? But if everything requires meaning, then what’s the meaning of life itself?"

    bobbyact2

  • I love MAL

    Aiiizz

  • To another great year of gushing over anime

    Supato

  • This year there were a lot of good anime released, but there were also a lot of weird ones. However, that doesn't take away from the fact that it was a pretty impressive year. I hope there will be more good anime to come and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

    Kaizozero

  • TuduTumru was here, watching anime

    TuduTumru

  • Hmmm... it seems like someone cooked here

    Jaskadz

  • Dirty deeds done dirt cheap

    Rasputinrw

  • Rentt Faina lost his everything even his body, so he cant talk to his friends while being skeleton (no tongue btw) he cant go back to home but now it looks like he could become a Mithril class Adventurer, which he normally would never be. 0 to Hero Sora is one and only companion

    CrazyDiablo

  • In my opinion number 10 is kinda weak for "hero" meaning :/ Any of this five wants to be a hero? I guess

    Maffcio

  • Once you decide where you're standing is the peak, you stop moving.

    chocomilkonly

  • Thanks to all of you guys that are working on MAL site, you are providing so much for anime community i know i wouldnt be into anime as much as i am right now without you, u helped me a lot to understand everything i needed to know as a beginner whilst becoming 'pro' anime guy.TY

    Andrija0069

  • Vinland Saga season 3 doko?

    MusashiKarlsefni

  • "What are you stupid!?" - Asuka Langley Soryu

    -Crimson-

  • To seek what you yearn for, find the drippiest of cheese

    Erilsio

  • Hopefully in 2025 I can watch more Anime and hopefully this year and beyond will be even better.

    F4r12a17

  • No more slideshows

    SliceOfMelon

  • why the titles for everything getting longer and longer?!!

    purple_hyacinth

  • If I had a penny for every isekai anime of this year, I don't know how many would I have. But probably a lot.

    NitratoDeSodio41

  • It's orbing time!

    CrunchyCrobat

  • Ima be honest I didn’t get to watch half of these yet

    zinomon

  • Anime is the greatest form of entertainment!

    NicholasCP

  • You either die a normie or live long enough to see yourself become a weeb.

    tuhin69

  • Embrace the journey, cherish the friends, and never stop chasing dreams because every ending is just a new beginning.

    AcengFromMY

  • Dandadandadandadandandan

    firippu_san

  • "I've been leveling up this entire time" - Jin Woo

    Dehkoh

  • Pretty 👍

    Saint_Saiko

  • 2024 was a good year.

    CorujaNoturna-

  • solo leveling best anime of the year

    ciprianking

  • Over 9000? Hah! That was just the prologue. What comes next will rewrite the laws of reality themselves!

    yorita

  • Wonderful Year for Rom Com

    haaahim10

  • Puniru rules!

    Darielquinta

  • "Is it because there are too many stars that I am unable to find you?"

    Nitroglyzireen

  • Nokotan S2

    JamesYukiNoriaki

  • isekai is life

    KyleAxity_

  • Unpopular Opinion: It's not wrong to sip Masachika and Suou...

    Glixxy805

  • Just like in anime, life has fillers, but the main arc is always worth it.

    KingEggroll

  • No Rice, No Life ~ Yui

    Jurn56

  • All Routes Lead to Chaos (Character that is the sole reason for an apocalypse) is the most un anticipated vote since all of them are chaos generator.

    andylaode

  • "I am Kira."

    LittleLotte

  • If you play the 25th Ward, I will give you my Pokemon socks

    Enivlens

  • Need more "otome game" type anime

    akapinn

  • There should've been a flashback arc in Frieren where she spends hundreds of years addicted to heroin

    droLmuCehT

  • I havent seen 70% of these anime and I ve been watching anime everyday for the past 4 years. Do better

    Kurton

  • Still alive

    eyadtm

  • I WILL BE THE KING OF THE PIRATES

    Bananabananapie

  • next year should be better than the previous

    tigger222

  • " I AM ATOMIC"

    BlushOneChan

  • sky gingers to everyone! explain what happend to Labin, what have you done with him

    WiotkiHutas

  • Finally I end my journey of 5 years and become a doctor (dentist).. A occupation dealing with saving lives.. in my case it's teeth.. in this whole journey I was depressed a lot of times but thanks to anime i went through those times..

    Tonystark4-Otaku

  • I came looking for cute sister chan but I found cute mommy san

    Tooru48

  • I was here 2024!

    -FrankliN

  • I did pray today 🙏

    A-lil-weeb-dog

  • I am a cat just chilling out But in the night she's all I think about I feel so strong when she's around She picks me up when I am down

    _aeriss

  • God im getting to old for this shiz

    Zulch

  • Hatsune Miku in fortnite

    Aumachi

  • Nice year id say, but uh, maybe add the English titles to the yearbook, id it would be easier 🤷

    Hutch75

  • There’s always room for potential no matter what it looks like. The inside always grows and that’s the points that really counts!

    Yeltsin17

  • Frieren , these are not mere 10 years ; these are the 10 years that will change your life FOREVER.

    SGVC7

  • Really great anime year

    tirtharajroy

  • Thanks 2024.

    Azakami

  • Thanks Anime for making every year amazing

    Alsierra

  • Steins gate is the best piece of fiction ever created. anyone who will end up reading this message, if you haven’t already, please do watch Steins; Gate. El Psy Congroo

    avg_SG_enjoyer

  • ARISEEE!!! 🥶

    Yuu___otosaka__

  • fatale was most definitely on my top songs

    patriciaa-x

  • Livin' the dream

    LaCherrubs

  • —NOBODY GOT YOU THE WAY I DO

    Scaleon1

  • Dunmeishi Season 2 needs to come out IMMEDIATLEY!

    SausageOnBread

What is the MAL Yearbook?

MAL Yearbook is an annual project where MyAnimeList members can reflect on the past year of anime. Using categories selected from the community and winners decided by you, together we will create a special digital MAL Yearbook that we can enjoy in years to come.

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