Drop in quality? Or the bar became high in last 2-3 years!

Reviews made during the airing of the series are tagged as "Preliminary reviews", and have a lower priority over the final ones, so you won't see them after it finished, unless there is not enough reviews to fill the slots. Edit : Also, MAL changed its system for reviews. It now always shows 1 positive, 1 mixed opinion, and 1 negative.

As for the Score, the large majority of users are waiting for the series to finish to rate it. It almost always create a very visible fluctuation in the displayed Score.

Reviews made during the airing of the series are tagged as "Preliminary reviews", and have a lower priority over the final ones, so you won't see them after it finished, unless there is not enough reviews to fill the slots. Edit : Also, MAL changed its system for reviews. It now always shows 1 positive, 1 mixed opinion, and 1 negative.

As for the Score, the large majority of users are waiting for the series to finish to rate it. It almost always create a very visible fluctuation in the displayed Score.

There is that too, yeah. It's the 1/5 rule. (https://myanimelist.net/info.php?go=topanime)



Reviews made before 1/5 of the series (so before Episode 03 for a 12 episodes series) are not considered valid, and are deleted, no matter what is said inside of it. Looking at the saved states on WayBack Machine, there was not many reviews to begin with tho, and the most popular one was written by an user who deleted his account not too long after, deleting their review at the same time. They may also have been a purge, done against the spam accounts.

Lurker here, it was bad the last season too. I still remember the reviews back then. They were word for word similar to season 3 reviews. Even the score during airing was around 7.8 . After airing, all negative reviews where removed and the score immediately bounced up to 8.x. I don't know why that happened. The politics is now dumb , no world building is shown, side characters exist to praise the slime etc. As I said, same song.

@hozera7 Wdym no world building is shown? We are literally meeting new characters and factions almost every episode lol. And of course the people from Rimuru's side will praise him, but that's not true to the other factions, like the many antagonists and demon lords, they exist separately from Rimuru.

@Nori25 I mean show how the world works. Emphasis on the word show. Lizard men have webbed feet. Thats why they dominate the mash lands. They have a royal family structure and collect tribute from lesser monster communities. Everything I just said was never told but shown to me. There many examples of this in the first season of slime and very few in the later seasons.


Maybe its just me but the more interesting characters in slime where the supporting characters. They could have been protagonist in another series. After the meeting arcs they now seem more like yes man cardboards with one or two quirks to compensate.