| A lot of reviews that I've seen are divided into 5 subcategories: STORY, ART, SOUND, CHARACTERS, and ENJOYMENT. Why is that? There are a lot of other things that can be considered and are actually vital and does not fit into this categories such as editing, script, tone consistency, etc. Sometimes, the art and the music are used to tell the story and are much more important, but the reviews just averages it all out. Sometimes visuals and music doesn't match but if they look beautiful and sounds beautiful, they still give it good reviews due to separating it to two other categories. It doesn't even describe the anime as a full product since it just divides it into parts and not how it all works together. Who started this format in the first place? Why don't people just write full reviews without it? |
| Because thanks to those categories literally anyone can write a review. If it is good or bad, is up to the readers. |
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| because mal encourages you to do so in the "write a review" interface see: https://myanimelist.net/myreviews.php?seriesid=437&go=write |
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| Because when you write a review, MAL forces you to rate those aspects of the anime... You can click the score to find that out. People just explain those ratings in detail in their reviews for clarification. |
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romagia said: because mal encourages you to do so in the "write a review" interface see: https://myanimelist.net/myreviews.php?seriesid=437&go=write Oops. I didn't know about that haha. I just like reading reviews not writing one and I'm just weirded out that a lot of people seem to follow that format. I didn't see that it was a suggested format by MAL itself. LOL |
| ? Script is basically story + a little bit more. Tone consistency can be said in the review since consistency doesn't always equate to good. How would you even rate editing? Your final score doesn't even need to average your scores for each part. What you're proposing is even more difficult for anyone involved. |
Shion said: Because when you write a review, MAL forces you to rate those aspects of the anime... You can click the score to find that out. People just explain those ratings in detail in their reviews for clarification. Who said you absolutely had to? Some users don't even bother with those numbers, and plenty of us just put their numbers in there for the reader's convenience and actually write & rate based off of our own criteria. Go ahead and use whatever system you want (or lack thereof, though I find they help a lot). If the reader wanted just numbers they'd stop at the anime's rating. Why you gave the number(s) you did is what makes your review worth checking out. |
| The format is stupid, especially the Sound and Enjoyment because those two are extremely subjective. I occasionally read reviews and if I do, I usually take those reviews regarding Sound and Enjoyment with a grain of salt. |
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| Because no one would probably write a review based on its fappability, waifu affinity to the reviewer, fanservice/EP Tennouji said: The format is stupid, especially the Sound and Enjoyment because those two are extremely subjective. I occasionally read reviews and if I do, I usually take those reviews regarding Sound and Enjoyment with a grain of salt. So reviews should be objective? I didn't know that until know... I must be living in a cave. |
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KiritoBestGurl said: script, tone consistency Those all fit into story. Editing maybe fits into art? Are you meaning post production editing? KiritoBestGurl said: Why don't people just write full reviews without it? They can, the categories are there mostly for who doesn't have experience in reviewing, since it's who writes a review for the first time who needs some directions, to make an analysis with some structure. |
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_Ako_ said: Tennouji said: The format is stupid, especially the Sound and Enjoyment because those two are extremely subjective. I occasionally read reviews and if I do, I usually take those reviews regarding Sound and Enjoyment with a grain of salt. So reviews should be objective? I didn't know that until know... I must be living in a cave. I didn't mean it that way and I don't think I even mentioned being "objective" as I hope you should aware given I lurk here on MAL long enough that I already nothing is objective. But I believe anyone can write a review regarding story, characters, and art(Maybe?) that anyone can agree with it. Meanwhile, sound and enjoyment are completely based on peoples' taste. |
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| I don't like that format either. It makes the anime look more like a mere sum of its parts rather than a whole. |
KiritoBestGurl said: A lot of reviews that I've seen are divided into 5 subcategories: STORY, ART, SOUND, CHARACTERS, and ENJOYMENT. Why is that? There are a lot of other things that can be considered and are actually vital and does not fit into this categories such as editing, script, tone consistency, etc. Sometimes, the art and the music are used to tell the story and are much more important, but the reviews just averages it all out. Sometimes visuals and music doesn't match but if they look beautiful and sounds beautiful, they still give it good reviews due to separating it to two other categories. It doesn't even describe the anime as a full product since it just divides it into parts and not how it all works together. Who started this format in the first place? Why don't people just write full reviews without it? Because it's a basic structure that gets covers major aspects of anime. What it tries to tell you, what it looks like, what it sounds like, how good are the characters and how much the viewer enjoyed it. As far as editing goes average viewer won't be able to give you a good rundown of it, I wouldn't even bother to listen about editing from someone who's familiar with it but doesn't know the intricacies. Overall it's an insignificant aspect for a normal review that doesn't aim to breakdown the show and people normally only bring it up when it impact the pacing and coherency and storytelling, both of which can be covered in the writing segment. Script and tone can also be covered in the writing, the latter is directly interlinked with art and sound but when tone is inconsistent it usually bears the most impact on the story on how it's perceived so once again writing can cover it. The point about art and sound is valid but unless the show relies on that alone the visual or audio storytelling can be mentioned alongside story. As far as describing anime as a full product I don't see your point. It's already obvious to anyone that anime is a package of every element coming together much like any movie or video game for example but you can still discuss elements of it separately. Even reviews that break away from the structure usually still have some sort of separation between talking about the story and talking about the music, you can make your point more poignant by effectively juxtaposing different elements but even if you don't the reader can gather information and see the whole picture. I don't think it's a complex thing where to get a full picture you need a review that flows from one point to another. A lot of prominent reviewers in any field, be it literature, music or anime will usually follow some sort of structure to coherently express their thoughts about each of them because in doing so they are highlighting a part of the whole, not ripping it apart and judging it on its own. I think this whole thing is too vague without more concrete counterarguments that would prove using having a structure to be a bad thing. |
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| Those 5 categories are more than enough to review an anime. How would you even review scripts? Isn't that just the written version of the episode? We don't have access to it anywhere and no one reads the script after watching the anime. And tone consistency. That's just a part of the Story right? If it stays consistently funny for a comedic anime or leave suspense hanging in the air for more serious ones, we can simply mention that as part of the Story category. But I agree that there are categories that are more vital than others, and that reviewers should go into more details about them as they are the more major aspect that built that certain anime. And just remember that this is an anime site, not a writing site. The majority of reviews out there will be written by fans just saying things they enjoy. I rarely see the more professional reviews outside of the most helpful ones. |
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| Writing reviews is actually quite difficult. You need to take a viewpoint, explain it, justify it, bring reasons and maybe evidence and perhaps address possible counter-arguments. Basically, almost like writing a short philosophical paper. This division of subcategories helps many beginners. |
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