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Unfortunately, MAL does delete entries. You can see some of them here and the mod deletion and denial thread. Sometimes it is necessary (e.g. duplicates, Letterboxd has this problem too), but there have plenty of bad deletions as well - things which did qualify at the time of submission, but later became ineligible due to new “guidelines”. I find this unacceptable, since it means that ultimately, nothing in the database is safe, which is especially discouraging to those of us who do contribute. Once your guidelines allow something, it should always be eligible, except in very rare circumstances. You can make the guidelines more inclusive over time, but you should not be able to make them more restrictive. Anyway, all to say, MAL has the same issues everywhere else does.

I was actually an anime DB mod at Anime-Planet for a bit, so I did quite a bit of contributing there, including working on their guidelines. I also add some things on Rate Your Music, since I’m a fan of all types of music videos, and the process is relatively streamlined with the browser extension. I've only added two films to Letterboxd actually. It's nice that you don't need to have entries approved, but I really hate the poster dimension restrictions. Eventually I may submit some more things, but first I need to fully tag my films so I can add short films, which are currently just tracked in lists (I want to be able to filter them from features, like I can on MAL with tags).

That's just my (hopeful) speculation with them opening up to more co-productions/countries, but for all we know, they may never change, or even get worse. I will note that works from Taiwan and North Korea used to not be allowed and are now, so at least they did something positive.

I’m not exactly sure what you mean by the last question? I try to keep track of most things I can on MAL, Letterboxd, Rate Your Music, Trakt, and Goodreads, but of course there are things missing in these databases, so they'll either get added eventually, I'll track them in some note or a playlist, or not at all. It's impossible to share everything I've come across, since it's scattered about in different places and extremely disorganized, and honestly, there's a lot I've lost and forgotten about. Also, a lot of stuff I've come across I have yet to watch (I'm sure you can relate). So I try to archive what I can and get help from other users, but ultimately have to accept that some things will be lost to time because there's only so much you can reasonably do.

It took a while to sort this one out, but I think I covered everything. It's in the DB now:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/60776/Cassis_to_Arles_no_Monogatari
https://myanimelist.net/anime/60777/Francois_CMs
It ended up not quite at 38, since some of the videos reuse animation or are compilations, but it did have a good run for a commercial series. I really enjoyed watching them, so I'm glad you convinced me to finally check them out.

Aside from the other anime DBs (AniDB, Anilist, ect.) and general-purpose film/TV DBs (Letterboxd, IMDb, Trakt, ect.), there are a few out there just for animation. The biggest English-language one I know of is BCDB (https://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/), but its not really comparable to MAL. In terms of sheer size, Slocartoon (https://www.slocartoon.net/) is probably the best I know of. It's astonishing how much they have documented for such a small community (and mostly run by one person if I understand), but the website is a bit difficult to navigate and it's not well-known globally. Bangumi (https://bangumi.tv/anime), while not strictly an animation database, is probably closest to what I'd have in mind for MAL, where they have a specific section for animation that you can track everything in one place, while still being able to easily filter between different counties/continents if you only want to see Japanese works for example.

I think with the increase of co-productions, MAL is going to have to reconsider their guidelines at some point. Excluding Scott Pilgrim and The War of the Rohirrim is not really a promising sign of things to change, but if even more popular works come out, especially if their marketing team tries to partner with MAL for some promotion, they may be forced to add them. Realistically, I don't think MAL is ever going to open up to everything, but it would be really cool if they did and would certainly set them apart from the competition. I know it would take a lot of effort to backfill all the works which are missing, which is why I think its better to go about this gradually, for example, starting with being more lenient on co-productions and then open up to more of Asia. After all, there is still lot of stuff out there which does qualify and isn't documented yet, and I'd argue it's better to have a good database for your specialty, than an open, but largely lacking one.

I'm really happy to hear my stack is reaching the community, thank you so much for your kind words!!!

Maybe you're thinking about Anime-Planet? I don't believe these have ever been in the database, and there is no good reason why they would be denied. I do work with some other users for sources and research, but I end up doing a lot of the submitting here, which I am happy to do for these.

You mean the Minimini CMs? Don't worry about it man, lol. Discussion is a good thing, as I have been wrong about things too, and as long as you're not actively submitting corrections that mess up entries, no harm no foul. Which by the way, all of the them have been found now if you wanted to watch them (sources in the thread).

I'm glad it's helpful! Researching and documenting works is a hobby of mine, so as long as I'm not fighting with the mods about some guideline, I enjoy it. Please feel free to send anything else you find my way or whatever it is you want to talk about. It's good to see from your Letterboxd that you appreciate animation from around the world. Now if only MAL would follow suit...

Thanks for follow me on LB ! :)

Thanks, I'm not a fan of that band but it was cool watching it, although nothing much happened, just some cassette futurism.

Some anime music videos I like are
https://apocalyptichead.blogspot.com/2023/08/ken-ishii-extra-1995.html
https://apocalyptichead.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-bluetones-4-day-weekend-1998.html
https://apocalyptichead.blogspot.com/2024/03/mylene-farmer-peut-etre-toi-2006.html
https://apocalyptichead.blogspot.com/2024/03/flying-lotus-more-2019.html

I was going to link Dawid Podsiadło - Let You Down but I see you already watched that one. I have a bunch of those videos saved and from time to time I post them
Here's a list of what I posted so far (all kinds of animation, some very poor, though) https://apocalyptichead.blogspot.com/p/cartoons.html#Cool%20animated%20music%20videos

In their wiki there is a list of shorts they aired, but I'm sure there was way more stuff, because they had different daily blocks just for alternative animation, it was very cool.

Ah, I had watched and read a lot when I was a kid, and on my mid-late teens and early adult hood I barely watched/read anything, but for the last few years social media became unbearable with stupid politics and culture war stuff so it was great for me to step away from it, there were always a lot of stuff I wanted to watch and read, and I do that instead of mindlessly scrolling through some banality feed

I saw your recommendation and saw that you like alternative stuff :)
Glad that you liked the blog.

I love animation, and MAL has such a great community, I wish we had something similar for animation coming from other countries. When I was a kid I had this channel called Locomotion, they had a show just for short animations, stuff from all around the globe, nowhere to find them anymore

Lmao i just watched, can't wait hahaha

Heyyy i've heard of look back before, isn't he the one who created chainsaw man? (sama author), actually i kinda interested with this one

Yes!!! it's the best Christmas movie ever!!!, such a remarkable dramedy. they don't make move likes this anymore

You're welcome!

Your welcome, and tysm! you have great taste too, also we have similar favorites ginga eiyuu, mob, yotsuba to, fma lol, also glad to see another person loving ginga eiyuu lol

Thanks for the request, and glad you enjoy the videos! Already see some awesome picks in your favorites, LOTGH enjoyer. 🙏

Um believe it or not I've been watching anime since I was like 5 and then my first non toy anime was SAO in 2017 when I was 11. My journey to weebdom was slow though. And I'm loving it most of the time.

Also variety! Anime can tell all kinds of stories and I love that.