my version of goodreads (well sorta I think)

Ah, yes. Welcome to my realm.

To be fair, I've never used Goodreads. My only exposure to it until literally just now was the rating in the google quick info box whenever I've looked up books. And after a cursory look through the site, it's quite similar to the site I use to categorize manga and light novels (they're kinda like the step between manga and novels, they're full prose but they read really easily and have a similar feel to manga despite being prose), myanimelist. It's got anime in its title because it started as just a platform to categorize and rank anime, but expanded to include manga, books, webcomics, some korean and chinese comics, and so on.

So here's my page:

It's a massive database, there's rankings out of 10, friends lists, favorites, forums, reviews, recommendations, and even its own digital manga store. I think they even host the first few chapters of a bunch of different manga for free.

A specific page looks like this:



Further down the page is background info, links to related series and adaptations, character lists, reviews, discussions, user made recommendations, links for purchase, and articles it's been featured it.

Specific characters have their own pages with bios, stats, and user favorites that are very similar to actor and author pages. A lot of this site is like a more specific version of Wikipedia in how it's built. For example, certain character pages can be super short:



And some can be long:



Like, really long.



And these differences mostly just come from exposure. If there's more people that know about the character, then there's more potential for some really enthusiastic person to pop off about a character they like and write up an essay for them.

I've noticed that mal is a lot beefier of a site than goodreads, but the most surprising thing was the lack of a top books list on goodreads. Like all I saw were the more specific lists of top 2019, and top from a genre, not just a general top of all time list. But I guess on the flipside of that, mal doesn't have many specific top lists, just break downs of major categories for of all time lists.



So yeah, the sites are pretty different, but still fill the same role. The differences probably just come from the demographic difference, like books are far more general while manga and anime are much more specific, thus resulting is more features over at mal.

So anyway, I'll end with my manga favorites list.