Context

MyAnimeList, often abbreviated as MAL, is an anime and manga social networking and social cataloging application website. The site provides its users with a list-like system to organize and score anime and manga. It facilitates finding users who share similar tastes and provides a large database of anime and manga.

MAL stores information about over 17.5k anime and manga and has a vibrant community passionate about the same. It has multiple reviews and ranking for anime and is the go-to for Otakus worldwide for anime information.

Content

This Dataset contains many different data attributes of the anime, such as:

• Rating, Popularity, and Score of the anime in MAL.
• It also contains information such as how many episodes have been aired, is it currently being aired or finished, and the genre of the anime.
• It also contains a summary of the Anime.
• 85k Reviews with ratings on different criteria.
• 45k Recommendations of anime from users.

All the animes have been scraped as of 15/10/2020.

Acknowledgements

Data has been scraped from the publicly available website https://myanimelist.net/

Inspiration

To provide further information in regards to the aspects that make an anime successful from a user or profit perspective, and it can be analyzed to understand how to improve the popularity of an anime. The Review data can be used to build a classification or sentiment analysis algorithm. The Recommendation data can be used to make a recommender model for anime.