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More Popular

Which displayed entry has more people listing it on MyAnimeList? AniMoredle determines the winner using the stored member/list-user count. The larger count wins.

Members are different from a user score

Membership measures how widely an entry is listed, rather than how highly its audience rates it. It is not a count of people currently watching and should not be treated as a complete count of everybody who has ever watched the anime.

The count belongs to the specific MAL entry. A sequel season does not inherit the first season’s members, and AniMoredle does not add a whole franchise’s counts together.

Why the reveal shows two numbers

After you answer, the card shows MAL popularity rank first, then the member count. A lower rank number generally describes a more popular entry: rank #100 is ahead of #500. The game’s factual comparison still uses members, where a higher number wins. Rank is provided as useful context, not as a separate answer rule.

For example, when one stored entry has 900,000 members and the other has 600,000, the 900,000-member entry wins, regardless of which one you personally know better.

Popularity moves over time

New seasons, renewed interest, and changing lists can alter these values. The numbers used in a question come from the synchronized catalog and may differ from a live MAL page. The two member values must be present and unequal before the matchup is accepted.

Read Higher Score for the rating-based category, or report a data issue if the displayed entry appears incorrect.