Welcome to MAL's annual Valentine's Day event! This year, short story skills meets anime/manga.
Part One: Submissions
You are tasked with taking manga panels (or anime screenshots) and changing the text bubbles (or subtitles) to say something completely different than the original text. Your MALentine story can be romantic or funny.
ใ♥ Maximum of 4 manga pages or 8 anime screenshots.
ใ♥ Please try not to use images with major spoilers!
ใ♥ Your image or story (or both) should refer to some kind of Valentine's theme: romance, loneliness, chocolate, etc.
ใ♥ You need to make your own story, you can't just take the same story where the image(s) come from.
For image editing, you can use online editors like paint.net, photopea, Canva, Imgur, or a desktop program like GIMP (free) or Photoshop.
Part Two: Voting
Once we collect all of the entries, we will curate them for the best submissions, and then create a voting thread/form where the community can vote on their favourites. Even if you do not make a submission, you can still vote.
ใEveryone who looks through the submissions and votes will receive a profile badge for participating.
ใNo spamming the form with nonsense >_>
ใEven if you do not make a story, you can still vote!
After voting closes, we will then rank the MALentine stories by most votes!
Creators can aim for first or last place in these rankings ;) The only prize offered is, as usual, bragging rights~
Story Submission Deadline
Monday, Feb 12th, 11PM PST You must send in your Valentine's story before this date!
Voting Opens
Wednesday, Feb 14th Once the thread is posted, you can check out the entries!
Join Us
If you need help or want a place to chat, you can use our Discord server.
ใ♥ First, join the MAL server by using this link: https://discord.gg/myanimelist
ใ♥ Read #rules and follow the directions in #verify-mal-acct
ใ♥ Go to #bot-spam (under Miscellaneous), type /asar join and select malentine โก
This will give you access to a special MALentine channel.
Frequent Questions
Can I use fanart instead of anime/manga?
No. The idea is to re-tell an existing story in a new way (and possibly get the readers interested in checking out the original), rather than to create a new story.
How many stories can I create?
A: If you want to do, say, 3 one-page stories and combine them as short-stories of one entry, that's okay. But otherwise, one submission per person.
Can the pages/screenshots be from more than one manga/anime?
Yes.
Do the anime panels have to be completely connected from a single scene ? Or can we pick a little more freely (sporadically) to have our story make more sense ?
Do the anime panels have to be completely connected from a single scene ? Or can we pick a little more freely (sporadically) to have our story make more sense ?
@animebaby_00 pretty sure it doesn't need to be from the same scene
Damn.. the "story" I have, an actual incident and it fits the manga I wanna use.. but rather too akin to the plot of the same..
Well I'll try another time.. the number of pages and screenshots is reduced too ๐ฅ