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Sep 28, 2025 6:46 PM
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I was a dumb dumb and overwrote this with Spring. I'll fix it soonTM.....
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Sep 28, 2025 7:21 PM
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Thanks for posting this, Kineta! It's so fun to see what everyone picked! Most of my team was in the top ten of this list, but I do have one outlier, so I'm interested to see how things play out.

Good luck to everyone! Happy FAL season!
Sep 28, 2025 8:44 PM
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:( please give us winter and summer FAL next year

Idk why this time there’s less turnout

I’m glad though that my picks are among the top; let’s see how they hold out
Sep 28, 2025 10:18 PM
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Do people not know how to participate or is it that they are here just to keep track on their anime/manga stuff ?

Its so wiered that so many MAL users but so less participants .

Well idc i enjoy events always ! and excited for FAL also <3
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Sep 28, 2025 10:36 PM
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Do people not know how to participate or is it that they are here just to keep track on their anime/manga stuff ?

Its so wiered that so many MAL users but so less participants .

Well idc i enjoy events always ! and excited for FAL also <3
Seeing 10k+ signups still takes me by surprise as I got used to playing with a much smaller group of participants years ago.

Good luck to everyone.
Sep 29, 2025 12:39 AM
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How were the figures before covid. Most anime places are haemorraging users and being replaced with bots. I have a hard time believing real teams picked the titles at the bottom
Sep 29, 2025 1:32 AM
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Thank you Kineta for sharing this data, it's really cool to see!

A bit sad that FAL participation numbers are dropping, but with how weak and unexciting the shows this season are I guess it shouldn't be too much of a surprise.

What is a surprise however, is the fact Ranma was picked more than Saigo. You'd expect that people would gravitate towards the picks with the most PTW first.

Ginpachi-sensei being over 50% is also quite scary for me, but I guess it also makes sense - at the end of the day Gintama is still one of MAL's favourite shows and it had quite the high PTW.

A lot of the regulars on discord, me included, have been very excited for this season. Team building this time around wasn't obvious at all and there was a solid pool of 14-15 shows that could all end up being optimal. Hoping that the rest of the season itself will play out nicely, it could be quite the hard one where strategy matters more than ever.

tokomata said:
I have a hard time believing real teams picked the titles at the bottom

There are quite a lot of people competing for last place every season. There are also people who think it's funny to pick some bad shows and see how they'll do with them. The numbers check out.
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Sep 29, 2025 2:22 AM
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Seeing 10k+ signups still takes me by surprise as I got used to playing with a much smaller group of participants years ago.

Good luck to everyone.
@Leah ic a veteran guy .. welp for 2025 ig this is very short no. compared to how big the community is
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Sep 29, 2025 5:07 AM
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I'm happy with this additional post stats. Sad with the decrease of player as well tho, hopefully its just a temp. More posts about fal always welcome into my book. So yeah, keep em alive!
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Sep 29, 2025 7:24 AM

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Thank you Kineta! It's sad that there is less participants. MAL is important to many of us and news like that always makes feel little scared, you probably know why... Anyhow what is this – why none else has chosen the same ones I have whatttt
Sep 29, 2025 8:15 AM

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I’ve got a few in the top 10 too, curious to see how it goes. By the way, when I click the link it shows a 404 Not Found — the page doesn’t exist.
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Sep 29, 2025 8:38 AM
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Thanks for sharing the stats! The decrease in FAL participation can probably attributed to the overall decrease in audience activity—you've likely noticed the significant slump in viewership growth in the past 2-2.5 years. So relative to the anime viewership, it probably didn't change dramatically, but overall there's not much we can do to return to those COVID-era times.
Sep 29, 2025 8:57 AM

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Wish there was more hype for Kingdom; the fifth season was a little lackluster in my opinion but the show is still very solid. I don't follow FAL too closely but it is a fun thing to do, hope more people join in the future.
Sep 29, 2025 10:59 AM

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I’m fairly new to the FAL, but I’m really enjoying it. Yeah, this season, it felt like there was a big pile of choices with similar scores, rather than the “big few” of the past seasons. That might make it more fun and competitive. Love this list so much, a real eye opener! Thanks so much for doing it!!!
Sep 29, 2025 1:23 PM
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FAL is the best thing about MAL, how do we get the word out?
Sep 29, 2025 2:30 PM

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Interesting stats! Without the last second changes I made, I would have got my 8 animes within the first 11... but I decided to risk it and changed 2 animes. Well, we'll see.
Sep 29, 2025 5:41 PM

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Crazy to see Kina say only 18k sign-ups when I was used to playing when we were lucky to break 1500 teams. Odd to see Ranma Remake S2 so high up though. Mid-card sequels rarely do very well in FAL. Meanwhile Fumetsu no Anata e s3 is only on 10%??? Must be a lot of new folks not doing their research lol.
Sep 30, 2025 3:21 AM
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Crazy to see Kina say only 18k sign-ups when I was used to playing when we were lucky to break 1500 teams. Odd to see Ranma Remake S2 so high up though. Mid-card sequels rarely do very well in FAL. Meanwhile Fumetsu no Anata e s3 is only on 10%??? Must be a lot of new folks not doing their research lol.
@NTAD it's in the restricted pool so it's a pick between Fumetsu s3, MHA s3 and Tondemo Skill s2.
Sep 30, 2025 3:50 AM

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@NTAD it's in the restricted pool so it's a pick between Fumetsu s3, MHA s3 and Tondemo Skill s2.
@Antagonized Oh wow. Joke's on me for lack of research I guess. I didn't even think it would be on there this many years in.
Sep 30, 2025 10:09 PM

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Presuming the members counts don't update throughout the season, this is going to be a fascinating post to look back on and see which shows outperform or underperform their initial "Plan to Watch" numbers.

Personally, I expect the shows in the top ten "Plan to Watch" to experience significant churn over the first few weeks. Looking at the selection numbers, it looks like a good portion of players agree and aren't putting a ton of stock in the initial counts.
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Oct 2, 2025 1:46 AM

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my rank was 911. i'll take it. next time <100

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Dec 28, 2025 11:04 PM

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Tomodachi no Imouto ga Ore ni dake Uzai was such a lame mispick :/


I was really close to the top 100 at some point but eventually ended up as 190th.

At least I did manage to successfully Ace all 8 of my picks, first time, yay! :D
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