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Your MAL score is a love language

500 completed, a mean score of 6.8 that proves you are honest, and a 10/10 for a show with 3,000 members. That is more revealing than any bio.

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How it works for anime fans

Connect your list. MyAnimeList, AniList, Kitsu - we pull your completed shows, scores, favourite studios, genres, and manga lists. Your list stays private. Only taste signals are used for matching.

The matching engine understands anime at multiple levels:

Niche shows are the real signal

Both watched Attack on Titan? So did 3 million people. NicheWeight for a show with that many members? About 0.12.

Mainstream
Attack on Titan
Members 3.5M → NicheWeight 0.12
Niche
Mononoke
Members 85K → NicheWeight 0.91

Scores matter. Both completing a show is presence. Both scoring it 9+ is genuine love. If you scored Mushishi a 10 and they scored it a 5, the overlap vanishes. The algorithm uses score alignment as the sentiment factor.

What gets scored

Shared completed shows weighted by member count - obscure series with under 50K members score dramatically higher
Score alignment on shared shows - the sentiment layer filters out where one person loved it and the other dropped it at episode 3
Genre affinity - not just "action" but specifically mecha, psychological thriller, iyashikei, josei, avant-garde
Studio loyalty - shared love for Shaft, Trigger, Science SARU, or MAPPA says something about your aesthetic sensibility
Manga overlap - reading the source material shows a deeper level of engagement than anime-only
Shared drops and low scores - both dropping the same hyped show or both scoring a popular series below 5 is a real compatibility signal
List size and mean score - watching 500+ shows is a lifestyle; your mean score distribution reveals how critical or generous you are

Your compatibility arc

"You share 42 completed shows, 8 of which have under 50K MAL members. Your score correlation is 0.87 across shared titles, your genre profiles overlap 76% on psychological and slice-of-life, and you both have Shaft in your top 3 studios."

Not "you both watch anime." The actual list data.

The algorithm understands weebs

It knows the difference between someone who watches seasonal hype shows and someone who digs through the 1990s OVA catalogue. Both are valid - but they are different levels of engagement, and the weighting reflects that.

MAL affinity scores already exist. Ours goes further by layering niche weighting on top - two people sharing a 9/10 on a show with 5,000 members is a stronger signal than a shared 9/10 on a show with 2 million.

Integrations

MyAnimeList
Completed list, scores, favourites, manga list, statistics
AniList
Watch history, scores, activity, favourites, manga progress
Kitsu
Library, reactions, favourites, streaming activity

All opt-in. All revocable. Your list is never shown to matches - only the compatibility signals.

Affinity Atlas is in development

No matching is live yet. If you think MAL compatibility should be a dating signal - or you have opinions about how niche weighting should apply to anime - get in touch.

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