Gaudiy Inc., the new owners of the database on anime and manga and the Myanimelist social networking website (Mal), promised to make the right by his fans in a public declaration shared by a main administrator of the site.
It was announced at the end of March 2025 that Media Do Holdings sold all its actions in Myanimélist in Gaudiy, an AI and Blockchain company based in Tokyo. Sudden confirmed Today, the previous shareholders of Evil have now transferred all the actions, making Gaudiy its only owner; However, Gaudiy also raised 10 billion yen from Sony Group Corporation and Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. in a third -party sharing allowance.
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In a press release shared by the main administrator of Mal “Kineta”, the co -founder and CEO of Gaudiy Inc., Yuya Ishikawa, said that “the use of technology in a way that goes against this goal, or to do everything that would upset or disappoint fans, this is not what we – or the Gaudiy team – would not intend.” The administrator’s position has also said that Gaudiy’s objective in the future will be to fully implement new features that have been introduced in recent years, but remain incomplete, such as expanded profile statistics and batteries of interest, fantastic anime leagues, better mobile medium and more.
Seeking to appease fears involving changes to be made with the potential implementation of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology on myanimmelist, the post has also declared that “a large part of the community feels one or more of the following: NFT are scams, an AI genetive kills artists that I do not say that opinions are not opinions. Because a parent company explores the use of these technologies.
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Addressing the future of the myanimmelist after the acquisition, the post of administration continued: “Gaudiy is the fourth company to acquire evil. What makes this acquisition unique is that we will not lose the growing pain that we have had to acquire during past acquisitions … With new owners and new investments, we hope that we hope to be able to proceed with experiences in terms of users. In the history of evil, it is therefore too early to say definitively what will be tackled first.
The poor administrator position ended by questioning the users about improvement No. 1 that they would like to see the most after the acquisition of Gaudiy; During the editorial staff, the members responded with tastes of mobile support and improved statistics, adding animations “which are generally not considered anime according to the standards of evil – such as Castle And the new from Netflix The devil can cry Series – and not to “start at Shilling NFTS”.
Source: Myanimmelist