The first real anime I ever saw as a kid was Ginga Nagareboshi Gin, but the anime and manga that got me hooked on both formats was Inuyasha. The style stood out so well that I was fascinated by these foreing storytelling formats. The serious tone, the unique animation and art. It was obvious what my past time would consist of.
Welcome to club: Anime that Should Continue http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=37045
feel free to discuss about your favourite anime that you wish should't have ended. Infuriating and stupid cliffhangers are also a topic in question.
About my Anime list and ratings:
If you are wondering why I'm giving too good or bad ratings to animes that "don't deserve them", be sure to check the date I watched it. If it doesn't have one, you should know that this is the kind of rating that was based on my old criticising skills. I most likely haven't rewatched them (and in most cases, I have no such intent as of now) so I most likely haven't gotten a good perspective on them.
Animes with a date = most likely a score that is based on my current views Animes without a date = based on my old criticising skills and perspectives
There are also exceptions. I might have updated some of my old rating, but they are not accurate.
Score Description: (10-1)
10 Masterpiece: As said, a masterpiece. There is not a single thing that is wrong in this work, every minute feels like a new experience and it has an insane amount of new ideas that work. Everything feels natural. There can be a couple of failed attemps on performance, but not execution. By that I mean how something can be akwardly put, but the message and intention remain intact. Animation doesn't have to be perfect if it compliments the content and genre.
9 Amazing: Just a step down from a masterpiece. There is a couple of downsides that the anime was unable to shake off. These restrinct the performance, execution, pacing, etc. These downsides are forgivable and they aren't thrown at your face.
8 Great: Last place for the "masterpiece types". A place for anime that define one genre, contain great themes, introduce great new elements that can have a few downsides. These shows can have some undeveloped characters, but they replace them with some interesting character traits. Many times these compliment the story and other content.
7 Good: The highest "mediocre score". These shows have problems that are visible to most people, but the good sides mostly cover them. Some of the anime have to be forgiven for their bad execution and some downsides, but when this is done, they reach out to the masterpiece types such as 8 and 9. This is present in shonen genre, where pandering and fanservice are commonly there to please the audience it was originally directed to. This can be forgiven if it compliments the comedy and style of the anime.
6 Decent : An anime that has visible problems that are mostly covered by the good content but still leave you waiting for more. Possible plotholes that are many times covered. Fanservice and pandering are present and hurt the overall experience. This kind of anime introduces sub-elements that are not complete. They do give a more broader look in the world the anime takes place in. Characters get a good chunk of overview and the anime stays loyal to it's genre.
5 OK: The good things are present, the bad things are present and many things are either "unoriginal", ok, meh, neutral, "boring", slightly amusing, pretty clever, pretty bad, akward etc. When an anime has both, something amazing and something hideous, it has a good change of getting this score.
4 Weak: Classic case of awful practice being in the way of possibly good anime. This practice is in most cases the main element of the show. Either the genre is overused or it doesn't introduce anything remarkably new. Bad characters are always present. They don't add anything to the experience and they take the spotlight from the meaningful cast. They can be centered around by different character traits, but they don't add enough variety to highlight the genre that is present. In many cases, the story is very plain and boring. They don't use the elements that have value to their advantage enough. There is a lack of creativity and the anime leaves a lot to be desired.
3 Bad: Unpleasant to any intelligent viewer. More attemps on fanservice than actual valuable character traits or even development. The elements can be present, but they are executed so horribly that they might aswell not be in there. Jokes fall flat most of the time. There is awful inconsistency in the story or the character development is forced which only feeds the inconsistencies. There is possibly a couple of great elements in the show. They are, however, overshadowed by the overwhelming amount of bad ones.
2 Awful: Awful in almost every way. There can be a couple of things that have some value. A moral, ok comedy, some smooth animation or even likeable characters. The anime has to have a couple of these factors, so it could be saved from the lowest score.
1 Effortless: The absolute worst score to be given to an anime. There is not a sight of effort. There are no themes or they are awful in every possible perspective. The story is awful or unpresent and it is completely based on fanservice or "pandering". The moral is sick, the characters are sick and even the animation is awful and unpleasant to look at. There is not a single thing where the show stands out even remotely good ok. There are no attempt for a valuable setting or theme. The pacing is awful, the shots are awful and even the dialogue and acting is awful.
Drop section
2 Categories for dropped animes: 1. Dropped animes without a score.
A) Shortseries (most of the time) that hold no interest to me.
B) Different versions of one anime that I have already watched. 2. Dropped animes with a score.
A) Animes that gave a horrible first impression.
B) Animes that didn't have enough variety in the content.
I agree with you there that. However, I feel that there should at least be an honest review since everyone else is reviewing the series as a whole and not just the anime itself.
As you might see on my so far amazingly short list of Anime there are no other 10s. Because I do not like claiming things to be perfect. Even the best series out there have flaws. But School Days is perfect, it's the worst story ever told. There isn't a single redeeming factor about the entire show, it didn't even run on time. So School Days is the only series I've ever watched that is perfect, it's just not perfect in a good way.
