MyAnimeList Comment Dataset (MALCoD)

This dataset, comprising over 130K comments from MyAnimeList.net since 2006, was gathered using an open-source crawler program MyAnimeList-Comment-Crawler. Each comment is tagged with ratings from 0 to 10.

Notice that the crawler is fitting the new version of MyAnimeList. The new version of this dataset can be found in MALCoDv2.

Unlike similar datasets like azathoth42/myanimelist and CooperUnion/anime-recommendations-database, this dataset focuses on comments.

Note: All information gathered here are publicly available, there was no need to be registered anywhere to access the data.

Content

1. animeReviewsOrderByTime.csv - Contains comments up until the first half of 2019 with details like comment ID, Anime work ID, Anime work name, post time, episodes watched at the time of comment, user, number of people who found the comment useful, various ratings, and the comment content.

2. animeListGenres.csv - Lists over 10K unique Anime works with details like Anime work ID, English name, synonyms of Japanese name, Japanese name, number of episodes, and genres.

3. animeList.csv - Contains the Anime work ID and its corresponding genres.

4. reviewsByWork.json - Provides annual summaries, including sentiment classification prediction values trained from another project GURA-gru-unit-for-recognizing-affect.

This dataset can be utilized for sentiment analysis, natural language processing, or to analyze Anime trends and genre popularity. An analysis on trends can be found in the code notebook analysis-trend-and-interest-with-the-tendency.

Acknowledgements

The dataset was independently crawled from MyAnimeList.net.

Citation

N. Lee, "MyAnimeList Comment Dataset (MALCoD)," Kaggle, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/natlee/myanimelist-comment-dataset.