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Been watching anime basically my entire life - first was Tonari no Totoro in 1998 at age 4.
Lived in Japan 2010-2011. Actually was a pretty solid experience in moving me away from viewing Japan as a source of media, and has done a lot to shake up how I view anime and manga.
I get into and out of anime in a neverending cycle of fits and starts, so my tastes over the years have been a bit all over the place, and I have a lot of series I've left behind unintentionally. If a series is on-hold, it's probably because it was on an old hard drive and has since become inaccessible to me, but don't worry, I'll eventually maybe catch up? Some shows have been on that list for about fifteen years now...
Manga list is extraordinarily incomplete, thanks to my old public library having a metric fuckton of manga boom-era series from Tokyopop/ADV/whoever that I've either forgotten about or are very hard to search for on here. Plus, expect a lot of incomplete manga thanks to licenses getting dropped, me catching up and then forgetting to stay on top of serial reading, and/or the aforementioned childhood library not having all of the volumes.
Don't expect my ratings to be the most internally consistent (a lot of the time, I have genre-specific standards for stuff like OVAs, movies, TV shows, short film anthologies, music videos etc), but here's a unifying approximation:
10 - Flawless (or at least durn close), and good enough to both directly impact me, and forever change how I view anime as a medium. A SHINING BEACON TO PERFECT TASTE.
9 - Excellent. Maybe the tiniest of flaws or pacing issues that keep it from a perfect ten, but I'd gladly rewatch it and wholeheartedly recommend it even to people who wouldn't normally be into that genre. A SPOTLIGHT OF QUALITY.
8 - Really good. A few minor quibbles but solidly enjoyable, and something I'd recommend to most anime fans without hesitation (unless I know they're just really not gonna pick up what it's putting down). STANDS OUT FROM THE CROWD.
7 - Compelling enough that completing it doesn't feel like an obligation. Competently made throughout, but a handful of flaws. PRETTY DARN GOOD.
6 - Competently made and enjoyable overall, but enough pacing or plot issues that I'll probably only recommend this to you if I know it's a genre you're into. THE GOOD KIND OF ALRIGHT.
5 - Feels incomplete, or too dry, to be anything but mediocre. THE BAD KIND OF ALRIGHT.
4 - Deeply flawed, with perhaps a minor amount of redeeming value. PLAIN OL' BAD.
3 - Not only deeply flawed, but so bad that any goodness in there really has to work to stand out before the show inevitably plunges into badness again. Sword Art Online, I'm looking at you. REAL BAD YO.
2 - I might actually judge you if you're into this. A HIGHWAY SIGN TO THE ABYSS OF BADNESS. LET IT STAND AS A WARNING FOR ANIME TO COME.
1 - Wretched to the point of being irredeemable as a work. THE WORLD WOULD BE BETTER IF THIS DIDN'T EXIST.
Also, I do regularly submit my list to personal review, especially as I get a better feel for my own rating scale. So if a show ever changes in score, it's no huge deal.
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