High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! MyAnimeList, often abbreviated as MAL, is a social networking website. The site provides its users with a list-like system to organize anime and manga. It facilitates finding users who share similar tastes and provides a large database on anime and manga. Recently it suffers from database issues, slow loading times, and other various website related issues, however the creator "Xinil" and the team behind the website are constantly resolving issues.