| So, i usually end up dropping a series if i don't like it. I'll watch at most 7-8~ of a series in hopes that it'll redeem itself, in my eyes anyways. What I've seen, though, is that people finish an entire series, sometimes a 2-cour with 26 episodes, to rate it a 2 or 3. Why do people put themselves through such misery if they think a show is that bad? I never understood that. Why invest time in something that you don't enjoy? I mean, if it's that bad for you already, then there's a very likely chance you won't like the way it ends either. I never really understood it. |
| "A samurai doesn't need a reason to take action. If something needs saving, all you have to do is grab your sword"-Sakata Gintoki |
| I continue to read Fairy Tail even though I think it's shit. I still gave it an 8/10 because it's fun to read. So for shows I truly hated like Pupa and Diabolik lovers, I just wanted to see if it got any better (or worse). |
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| Thinking something is shit ≠ not enjoying it. |
| So they can judge it. |
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| Malgraph gives you a cute little achievement for not dropping anime You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. |
Kagami_Hiiragi said: Idc if you think its weird, I have a life and friends and an income of money. |
BlackSabotage said: So they can judge it. This, and to increase your power level I don't drop shows, how else am I going to have the most elite taste and bragging rights if I can't even complete something that might be "bad" such as [insert your favorite show here] <- 'cause that shit was horrible |
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| Completionism and because even if you rate it somewhat low, that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it. And of course if you watch a bad show and then a good one, you enjoy it more. |
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| Because some people don't want to drop that many series. |
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| Why not? It's not your time. |
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skyzblue said: Malgraph gives you a cute little achievement for not dropping anime You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. Yeah dude you have to finish at least 4000 anime to get that illusive Platinum Trophy. No lie. |
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| Because we don't want to drop any anime, even if we don't like it. It's our pride, don't mess with it. |
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skyzblue said: Malgraph gives you a cute little achievement for not dropping anime You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. Pretty much this. I mix in bad ones in between good ones to not run out of good ones too quickly. |
Yhuuro said: skyzblue said: Malgraph gives you a cute little achievement for not dropping anime You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. Yeah dude you have to finish at least 4000 anime to get that illusive Platinum Trophy. No lie. How much for a bronze, if there is one? |
| "A samurai doesn't need a reason to take action. If something needs saving, all you have to do is grab your sword"-Sakata Gintoki |
| I thought Shinsekai Yori was absolutely terrible, but continued watching it because I thought it would get better. It didn't. |
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| They want to be able to heavily critique it and some people just do it for humour. |
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Soren333 said: I thought Shinsekai Yori was absolutely terrible, but continued watching it because I thought it would get better. It didn't. You are the devil. |
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skyzblue said: Malgraph gives you a cute little achievement for not dropping anime You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. I still have that achievement. Awesome~ |
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pLaguE_ said: Soren333 said: I thought Shinsekai Yori was absolutely terrible, but continued watching it because I thought it would get better. It didn't. You are the devil. Indeed. |
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| bad things can be entertaining Strike Witches for instance. |
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| I should probably watch some bad shit to appreciate the good stuff more ... but theres sooo much stuff that actually looks good that i still need to get on. Damn you, anime. |
| I like watching fail videos and things crashing and stuff... I like building LEGO just to demolish it... and I like to watch anime become a trainwreck. |
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KingKongShrest said: Yhuuro said: skyzblue said: Malgraph gives you a cute little achievement for not dropping anime You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. Yeah dude you have to finish at least 4000 anime to get that illusive Platinum Trophy. No lie. How much for a bronze, if there is one? 1200 but you only qualify if you watched at least the tortured abominations that are called Pupa, Mars of Destruction, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Skelter Heaven. |
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skyzblue said: You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. Senpai with words of knowledge! |
Mullegun said: Now you're just being MALicious.skyzblue said: You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. Senpai with words of knowledge! |
Ckan said: Mullegun said: Now you're just being MALicious.skyzblue said: You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. Senpai with words of knowledge! That was disMAL |
Kagami_Hiiragi said: Idc if you think its weird, I have a life and friends and an income of money. |
InfernCup said: Thinking something is shit ≠ not enjoying it. But if you enjoy it, then it's not bad for you. It has a redeeming quality, which is that you enjoy it. Example, if you absolutely hate dogs, you're not going to enjoy playing/being with them. What you're saying is something along the lines of that you may hate it when cats scratches you but you still find them cute and want to play with them. I have little to no idea of what i just said, but it sort of makes sense. Just a little. |
| "A samurai doesn't need a reason to take action. If something needs saving, all you have to do is grab your sword"-Sakata Gintoki |
KingKongShrest said: InfernCup said: Thinking something is shit ≠ not enjoying it. But if you enjoy it, then it's not bad for you. It has a redeeming quality, which is that you enjoy it. Example, if you absolutely hate dogs, you're not going to enjoy playing/being with them. What you're saying is something along the lines of that you may hate it when cats scratches you but you still find them cute and want to play with them. I have little to no idea of what i just said, but it sort of makes sense. Just a little. Hating something is different than thinking it's bad. I think Nisekoi is bad for example but I don't hate it. I actually enjoy watching/reading it but I still think it's bad. My enjoyment is not indicative of what I consider to be good or bad. |
| Now I'm confused I thought most people said that they rated things based on enjoyment, at least that's what I remember from other threads. Now everyone is saying that low rated anime are enjoyable. |
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| With the OT in mind. It can also be that people watch an anime not knowing that is bad. After a couple of episodes people feel the need to complete it because they already invested their time in it? I can see some people act like this. |
KingKongShrest said: InfernCup said: Thinking something is shit ≠ not enjoying it. But if you enjoy it, then it's not bad for you. It has a redeeming quality, which is that you enjoy it. Example, if you absolutely hate dogs, you're not going to enjoy playing/being with them. What you're saying is something along the lines of that you may hate it when cats scratches you but you still find them cute and want to play with them. I have little to no idea of what i just said, but it sort of makes sense. Just a little. ^What you said about cats and dogs doesn't make sense.Look, I am going to make even more sense "You know maturbation?If you do it you will feel good.If you do it more you will feel even better.But just because it feels good doesn't mean doing it too much is good for your health." Same goes for some anime.Just because they are enjoyable to some extent doesn't mean they are good.I for example think MADOKA is one of worst anime ever made but I still enjoy it. gombo said: Now I'm confused I thought most people said that they rated things based on enjoyment, at least that's what I remember from other threads. Now everyone is saying that low rated anime are enjoyable. Low rated anime are enjoyable but high rated anime are even more enjoyable for them. |
Yhuuro said: KingKongShrest said: Yhuuro said: skyzblue said: Malgraph gives you a cute little achievement for not dropping anime You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. Yeah dude you have to finish at least 4000 anime to get that illusive Platinum Trophy. No lie. How much for a bronze, if there is one? 1200 but you only qualify if you watched at least the tortured abominations that are called Pupa, Mars of Destruction, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Skelter Heaven. I've seen all of those but Bobobo-bo-bo-bobo, though I have read a bit of the manga and it's rather random and bizarre. |
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| There's an arbitrary threshold of shittiness that a series has to surpass for me to drop it. >_> Some recent examples: Coppelion, Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil, Infinite Stratos Season 2. Sometimes I just finish the series that became terrible midway through just for the sake of completing it. |
| cause im a masochist and enjoy watching shitty anime just to see how bad it can get until the end. no..sometimes shows arent BAD from the beginning. |
Kerozinn said: cause im a masochist and enjoy watching shitty anime just to see how bad it can get until the end. no..sometimes shows arent BAD from the beginning. Hahaha this. What would you consider a bad anime? |
MotRin said: skyzblue said: Malgraph gives you a cute little achievement for not dropping anime You need to experience a few bad ones so that you can appreciate the good ones even more. Pretty much this. I mix in bad ones in between good ones to not run out of good ones too quickly. Same here. I'd guess the great shows are often marathoned, which I've done as well, but now I prefer to slowly savor them like some rich delicacy--mushishi. |
Evatallica said: Kerozinn said: cause im a masochist and enjoy watching shitty anime just to see how bad it can get until the end. no..sometimes shows arent BAD from the beginning. Hahaha this. What would you consider a bad anime? pretty much everything i dropped with a few exceptions (some shows are just not for me ..Sekaiichi Hatsukoi for example..its not bad but its YAOI ^^) its very subjective. many 4-5/10 shows that i have seen i consider bad to very bad (i only rate 4-10 on watched anime) i have 81.6% compatibility with you and pretty much liked every anime of your favs :) |
| I have always had an appreciation for the very worst in art and entertainment. There are plenty of mediocre productions around; they are merely bad enough to be uninteresting. I avoid such things, and if I find myself listening to or watching a radio or television series (including, but not limited to, anime) that I would put into this category, I drop it unless I have reason to think that it might improve. On MAL, this would be a score of 4 - simply bad, but not spectacularly bad. I haven't yet watched an anime that I would put in this category, but I know they are out there. For me, this is the least desirable and least memorable sort of show and an utter waste of time. However, art and entertainment productions can be much worse than the ones I describe above, and this is where they can become a lot of fun. Something that is so horribly botched as to be memorable can be great fun to watch; there are few greater pleasures for me than watching something that is impressively terrible and so bad that it is hilarious. On MAL, I give anime in this category scores of 1 or 2 because they are truly worse than the bad-but-boring, mediocre stuff that I avoid. True masterpieces of awfulness are quite rare, and I am overjoyed when I find one. Discovering Mars of Destruction gave me a reason to celebrate; I seem to discover something this bad only once in a great while. I will remember Mars until the day I die, but I have forgotten even the names of most of the bad-but-boring movies, radio shows, and television shows that I have encountered in the past. |
| It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. |
KingKongShrest said: I have little to no idea of what i just said, but it sort of makes sense. Just a little. Nah, that made sense. Your saying that for someone to like a show it's redeeming value is that you like it. I usually finish bad shows cause some reviews are deceiving *cough* Yahari Ore no... *cough*. Also I think I have ADD, so its really hard not to finish. |
Red_Keys said: Basically I'm MAL's Jesus. I watch shitty shows for your sins.  |
| People's reasonings for defining something as bad really depend on how they correlate badness, objective quality, and enjoyment together. You'll have a lot of people around here refer to shows as "fun and enjoyable, but not good" and others say "it was so bad, I couldn't watch it". People have already said that badness ≠ enjoyment, which is generally true, though honestly, if something is providing meaningful entertainment for me, I have a hard time calling it bad. Actually, I'd go as far as to say those kind of comments are usually an injustice for the show, considering after all that the anime medium is meant to entertain people. I think certain people just try to correlate anime with "works of art" a bit too often, which is one of the reasons I refer to a lot of people on this board as a pseudo-critic. (The other being that they just tend to play mocking bird for other people and don't think for themselves.) For me, the only thing I can think of that I enjoyed yet referred to as bad was SAO's second half, and that's because the badness actually made it enjoyable as unintentional comedy. Everything else that I referred to as bad I either dropped, didn't think it was bad at the time (like mirai nikki), completed for the sake of completing (which I rarely do anymore), or watched simply for the sake of trying to figure out what is up and discuss with others. I imagine those reasons are some of the same reasoning that other people tend to use for watching "bad" shows. |
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| Bashing shows is more fun than enjoying them. -ultima |
| One must suffer in order to reach total enlightenment. |
Imperial_Thunder said: One must suffer in order to reach total enlightenment. Only then will you attain salvation. |
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Korrvo said: People's reasonings for defining something as bad really depend on how they correlate badness, objective quality, and enjoyment together. You'll have a lot of people around here refer to shows as "fun and enjoyable, but not good" and others say "it was so bad, I couldn't watch it". People have already said that badness ≠ enjoyment, which is generally true, though honestly, if something is providing meaningful entertainment for me, I have a hard time calling it bad. Actually, I'd go as far as to say those kind of comments are usually an injustice for the show, considering after all that the anime medium is meant to entertain people. I think certain people just try to correlate anime with "works of art" a bit too often, which is one of the reasons I refer to a lot of people on this board as a pseudo-critic. I agreed with some of this, but I think that Anime is just as much "art" as it is entertainment. So it should be considered in both accounts. So if people want to say that it doesn't achieve in the "art" department they have a right to. When I think of the quality (bad or good) of the show I think of it more subjectively, separating it from my enjoyment, so others can see if they will enjoy it for themselves. |
Red_Keys said: Basically I'm MAL's Jesus. I watch shitty shows for your sins. |
| ^To clarify a bit, I did say "a bit too often." There are some anime out there are referred to as "works of art" and rightfully so, but it's a mistake for people to set those anime as the "quality standard" to decide whether or not something is good or not. |
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| SAO was fun to make fun of with friends. |
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