Automatically Add Start/Finish Dates For Animes/Mangas + Helpful Buttons

Selecting Watching/Reading auto adds the start date, and Completed auto adds the finish date. Shows the actual Anime/Manga dates below the Anime/Manga image, that's updated every time you reload or click on Watching/Reading/Completed. Hover the mouse over the dates and click to reset them. This script adds 6 helpful buttons on the Anime/Manga Edit Details Page.

These are versions of this script where the code was updated. Show all versions.

  • v44 2023-09-12

    Now the script is able to add the finished date when a user sets a publishing manga as complete.
  • v43 2023-05-28

    Updated to have a better contrast with the new MAL default dark mode.
  • v42 2022-07-23

    Fixed minor bug that was making the script not add dates when an entry was just added to the list and had the status changed.
  • v41 2022-06-19

    Fixed bug that was making the script not work sometimes.
  • v40 2022-05-28

    Fixed bug that was showing the text "undefined" when the started month was not set.
  • v39 2022-05-27

    Fixed bug that was making the script not work on entries with symbols in their names.
  • v38 2022-05-25

    Fixed bug that was making the script not work when the entry was opened from the mini search bar.
  • v37 2022-05-21

    Fixed bug that was making the script run on any entry related pages, instead of running only on the entry main page.
  • v36 2022-05-14

    Now the script shows the month name instead of the month number.
  • v35 2022-04-28

    Version number updated
  • v2.0.0.22 2022-01-09

    Fixed bug that was making the script run on pages where it has no need to run.
  • v2.0.0.21 2022-01-08

    Fixed bug that was making the script not work when an entry link was opened from the history page.
  • v2.0.0.20 2022-01-08

    Fixed bug that was making the script not work when an entry link was opened from the history page.
  • v2.0.0.19 2021-12-22

    Fixed script icon.
  • v2.0.0.18 2021-11-27

    Code improvements. Now the script also works and add dates when anime was just added to list.
  • v2.0.0.17 2021-11-21

    Fixed bug that was making the script not add dates when Completed or Watching/Reading was selected.
  • v2.0.0.16 2021-11-19

    Improved match rules. Now the script also works when the anime/manga link is opened from the history page.
  • v2.0.0.15 2021-06-13

    Now if the number of added eps is 1 and if the entry has more than 1 eps when the + symbol is clicked (to add an watched episode) the script will auto set the anime as watching and will auto add the start dates.
  • v2.0.0.14 2021-05-01

    Now the script makes sure that the dates were really added or removed before displaying them.
  • v2.0.0.13 2021-04-22

    Script downgraded to v2.0.0.11, since MAL removed recaptcha of the website (at least on the pages that the script works on, so the script started working again.).
  • v2.0.0.12 2021-04-18

    Now the script won't work. (Temporarily till I fix it (if possible at all))
  • v2.0.0.11 2021-04-01

    Fixed bug 2 bugs:
    1 That wasn't showing the loading image on greasemonkey Firefox).
    2 That was making the script not always add the dates.
  • v2.0.0.10 2021-03-29

    Fixed bug that was making the script not work on manga entry pages
  • v2.0.0.9 2021-03-10

    Fixed bug that when reset all dates was clicked the script wasn't setting the start/finish dates if reading/watching or completed were selected.
  • v2.0.0.8 2021-03-10

    Fixed 5 bugs:
    1 When the page wasn't scrolled down the script wasn't adding the dates.
    2 If the anime was scored before being set as watching/completed the script didn't set the score
    3 If the anime had the seen eps increased before being set as watching/completed the script didn't set the seen eps
    4-5 If the manga had the seen volumes/chapters increased before being set as reading/completed the script didn't set the seen volumes/chapters

    Now the script shows the start / finish dates of the anime/manga only if/when the mouse is moved anywhere on the entry page, this fixes the bugs mentioned above.
  • v2.0.0.7 2021-03-05 Fixed bug that was showing an error message on the browser console when the anime/manga page was opened but wasn't yet added to the user list.
  • v2.0.0.6 2021-03-04 Script description error fixed. The script will now make fewer network requests and show the start / finish dates of the anime only if the page is scrolled. Now, if the "edit details" button has not been clicked, the script will add the start / finish dates much faster and make even less network requests.
  • v2.0.0.5 2021-02-06 Fixed bug that was showing an error message on the browser console, and a bug that was adding the finish/start dates even when 1 or more date values were already set.Now if the finished month or date or year is set, the script won't change anything on the finished dates, and this is the same for the started dates.
  • v2.0.0.4 2021-01-12 If the anime doesn't have any values on the started dates, the script will auto add the started date when "Completed" is clicked without "Watching" needing to be clicked, so both started and finished date will be identical. This is good and convenient for ovas, onas, specials and movies that are usually started and finished on the same day. Added script Icon.
  • v2.0.0.3 2021-01-01 Added icon. Code beautified and commented.
  • v2.0.0.2 2020-11-12 Now the script will make less network requests
  • v2.0.0.1 2020-11-09
  • v2.0.0.0 2020-11-09 The black background color of the loading image is now much more transparent
  • v1.9 2020-11-09
  • v1.8 2020-11-09 Match rule updated to be more strict and run only on the correct page
  • v1.7 2020-09-02 Code comment changes
  • v1.6 2020-08-21
  • v1.5 2020-08-19 Fixed bugs: When the user clicked on the buttons to reset started/finished dates the button 'Reset Started+Finished Dates' was not removed. When the user selected completed on a manga page the script didn't set the total volumes/chapters. -- Added Features: Now the script shows a loading page, so that the user won't click on anything else.Before if the user clicked on something else, the values would be at risk of being overridden and messed up.
  • v1.4 2020-08-18 Now the script can add start and finished dates automatically. https://myanimelist.net/ownlist/manga pages are now fully supported.
  • v1.3 2020-08-07 Now the script will always automatically click on the Show Advanced button.Since with this script,the need to click on the default "Submit" button is not really needed or used.
  • v1.2 2020-08-04
  • v1.1 2020-07-31
  • v1.1 2020-07-31 Now the script also works for manga pages, except for the 2 Reset buttons (I will probably never fix this bug), but at least now all of the submit buttons also work on manga pages
  • v1.0 2020-07-25