| in the grand scheme of things, scores mean nothing. you enjoyed the stuff that might've been rated below 8 here, and you may not have enjoyed most mainstreams rated 8 and above, etc.. scores may mean visibility on the ranks and if they score higher they get to be seen by more people looking for a quick recommendation (with the thought process of being highly rated means it's good/popular) but it's definitely not the endgame of what shows have substance and what shows doesn't. |
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| Probably just hinting me how much I can expect from the show, but when I give the scores, my expectations won't take part anyway. |
Hrybami said: mono_mer said: People: Score doesn't matter. Everyone has different tastes. Also people: Why is my favourite anime rated below X anime? Y anime is trash and overrated because it's more popular than my favourite anime. Excuse me what? Y is overrated because it's more popular than X? Are you fucking daijoubu? Hrybami said: mono_mer said: People: Score doesn't matter. Everyone has different tastes. Also people: Why is my favourite anime rated below X anime? Y anime is trash and overrated because it's more popular than my favourite anime. Excuse me what? Y is overrated because it's more popular than X? Are you fucking daijoubu? Doesn't matter. Z solos both verses. |
Anime was it's best 20000 years ago, when cavemen drew art with real depth. Modern anime is all garbage. I miss great old days of anime. |
| High scores reminds me of Ishuzoku reviewers lol |
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| The higher the score, the less complicated reasons people have for liking it. I'll pick something up regardless but at least I have an idea of how others reacted to it. |
| series that I've seen getting a 9 or 10 are usually the ones that have a really good story or characters or just has art that completely blows other competitions out of the water so I'd usually check those out so if im looking for a good series that I can thoroughly enjoy I always check out the ones with high rating or praise but if I'm just looking for hot garbage that i know is hot garbage but can't put down because of how much of a guilty pleasure it is, i usually check the 4-6 range |
   𝘚𝘰, 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 |
fluffycow17 said: From my experience, MAL scores don't correlate with my personal scores. I like and dislike anime with all kinds of MAL scores. So, for me, a high MAL score doesn't mean anything big to me, but I'm curious what you guys think about this. I agree with you. I'll be honest—during my early days on MAL, I had the mentality that anime with high scores on this site were considered great and therefore were probably objectively good. It was probably due to some of my favorite anime and manga (e.g. Madoka Magica, Angel Beats!, Spirited Away, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Twin Spica, Kitchen Princess, etc.) getting decently high scores. I was aware that some of my favorites were lower-rated, but I wanted to think it was just because not enough people had seen them. Then I watched some seriously underrated gems (Uta∽Kata, Air) and some admittedly pretty dull shit (Beyond the Boundary, AnoHana) that changed my perspective on that forever. You know what they say: there's no accounting for taste, or rather, one man's trash is another man's treasure. |
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| They don't matter to me. I kinda just watch whatever. |
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| They simply mean that a show appealed to an important number of people, which means it cannot be complete trash and even if it's not my cup of tea or is overrated, there's still something that I might enjoy, which makes me curious |
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| They mean absolutely nothing to me, like any other sites’s scores. |
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| Absolutely nothing. After all lots of mal user adore series that I found to be crap. |
| I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die. |
| They're either good or very pretentious anime. |
| That I'll definitely check it out sometime and that it's most likely going to be good. |
| > scores don't matter > almost all their favourites are rated above 8 Higher Score = higher probability of being good. There might be shows like Demon Slayer that are overrated because they're being watched more by inexperienced audience, but there are also others like Monster up there for good reasons. |
| It means that most people who watched the anime ended up liking it, so the chance I'll end up liking it is statistically higher as well. But it's just a chance, not a guarantee. |
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| The idea that any particular anime is good or bad because MAL users believe it is is silly. |
| i think i will probably try anything 7.5+ thats all what i can say |
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| Lets say the top 100 shows in this forum based on the score. For me it dosen't matter much, as JoJo, FMA and FMAB is rather highed scored and are something I rather say away from. I have come to this point that I have watched most of the top 100, but do I care about what score they had or will have no, not really. The only thing I don't want to accept, is that for 3 month's ago the score of shows was rather wierd. Thank's to the amount of bot account that was playing around here. That's rather wierd. And FMAB fanboi's loved to play around with FAKE accounts to lower the score of shows that came close to raise above FMAB. I'm not a fan of idiotic like this, please go and buy a brain, if you ever did this. |
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| It means it's most likely lowest common denomenator garbage, uninspired and uninventive. |
| I guess it would mean the majority of the anime community think it's a good show and there's a good chance that I may be part of that majority. |
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| it only means that the anime is popular, and a lot of people with no experience or taste have seen it. |
| 馬鹿げた倫理 全部ガラクタで |
| It means that there's a higher chance of it being "good". The lower the score the lower the chance of it being good. You have to take more gambles, use your intuition and so forth. |
| All it means is people like it, it says nothing about how good it is |
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| Depends on what "high" is, but especially if it's a new anime that has a high score, it will most likely not be for me. I've seen far too much anime to get impressed by most of these shows anymore. |
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| I kind of use the MAL score as a baseline to figure out what other people generally thought of the show but beyond that, I don't really care much. I look at it to get an idea of what I'm getting in for but if an anime caught my eye it caught my eye and I'm gonna finish it. I've watched a lot of really good anime I would have missed out on if I had followed the average score, and vice versa watched a lot of anime I didn't care for that MAL says I should enjoy. Now that being said, there are obviously times like with Fullmetal where my score lined up with basically the average, but those are few and far between. |
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| Taking personal taste out of it, a high score always means the show is at the least really good. But I think the average user's personal tastes are less likely to line up with the scores as one might think. End of the day it's a popularity contest. And while very popular stuff tends to be high quality, those shows also tend to be kind of... I'm not sure I have a single word. They tend to be inoffensive. Their appeal tends to be broad, as opposed to deep. So you might have a 7.50 rated work which is fantastic, but simply doesn't appeal to a large portion of people. I hesitate to use the word "niche", because of the connotations that depend on your definition. Niche is about more than having a small range of people to whom a work appeals. Sometimes a show is actually just bad, and sometimes it's genuinely niche. A niche work which reaches it's small fanbase in a deep way, having a huge impact on those people, might get a lower score than something which pretty much everyone who watched it merely "really liked". Which is the better work? There's no right answer to that question because it depends on philosophy your to art. Personally, I value niche experiences. Different, taboo, controversial, weird, bold... all these things can put off a large portion of watchers, and lead to a lower score, even though they are huge plus points for me. At the same time, there are a lot of common tropes which I like also, so it's not as if everything I watch needs to be breaking some new ground. So there some shows which don't get high ratings because of being "generic" which I rate highly. So yeah, MAL scores are an OK indicator of quality. But that quality is within a narrow range of expression. The interesting stuff is often to be found in the 7.5-8.0 scores. Or if you're really out there, you might even get a 10/10 experience with a work in the 7.0-7.5 range. |
| “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Aggregate scoring is bad for the anime fandom |
| At first I cared about them but at this point I've found that the anime watching community in general takes itself a little too serious for my liking. Certain shows are going to appeal to different people. Like the one dude on page one that shit on Kokoro Connect. I personally love the show and love the characters. He on the other hand felt strongly the other way. That's okay but I find people who dislike things tend to be louder than those that like things and that reflects in MAL scores. The only time I truly take MAL scores into account now are when they're below a 6. Chances are if everyone is shitting on something it's not going to be worth the investment. Like School Days. That 5.75 is well earned. I've watched plenty of 6 point somethings though and found enjoyment in them. Sometimes it feels like certain groups of anime watchers need something to be a clear 9/10 or better to even find enjoyment in it. 7/10 experiences are still good experiences at the end of the day. "A score above 8 nine times out of ten means that it's primitive entry-level trash appealing to the lowest common denominator, which, since we're talking about anime, means literal children or mentally equivalent to them manchildren. In other words, the show is either a battle shounen, or a crybait melodrama, or a baby's first "serious" story. A score between 6-7 ten times out of ten means the show has gore/nudity and seven times out of ten means it's too complex, original, or thought-provoking for a child/manchild to appreciate it. In other words, actually worthwhile shows suffering from pearls before swine phenomenon. A score between 5-6 means 5 min episodes." This is what I'm refering to when I say things like the anime community takes themselves too seriously btw. It works the opposite way as well but I don't listen to MAL scores specifically because of people like this. That hipster mentality of "I dislike something that a large group of people like so I'm smarter than them" runs rampant in this community. Do yourselves a favour and just watch something for yourself. Ignore the scores. You might find something you really like that other people don't. That's a good thing. |
OtakuManChildOct 3, 2020 9:13 AM
DaijoubuKirameki said: fluffycow17 said: From my experience, MAL scores don't correlate with my personal scores. I like and dislike anime with all kinds of MAL scores. So, for me, a high MAL score doesn't mean anything big to me, but I'm curious what you guys think about this. Do you watch stuff rated 5 or lower?! Not really, I usually find anime through word of mouth, and no one talks about anime that low. |
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| Higher scores generally mean it's more easily accessible to a wider audience. Monster girl shows for example are typically around a 6 because it's a divisive genre, whereas Shounen is generally more highly rated because it's easy to turn your brain off to and just enjoy the action so as long as it has good amounts of sakuga it's golden. So more often than not I don't take ratings into consideration when deciding what to watch next. |
| It's probably very popular, but people often mistake an anime they liked for a really good one |
| After coming this far I must say it means little. I think recently I mostly pick anime randomly or on instinct, never bothered to check up what's it is about or what hype it has to give myself the most natural and comfortable experience possible. Like if you let those score, review, and anticipations getting on your mind too much there's great chance things will go south and then it's all worthless in the end. |
| MAL scores are a weird clusterfuck of general opinions of quality, accessibility, age and popularity. |
| Absolutely nothing. There's plenty of shitty anime rated very highly. Hunter x Hunter, Haikyuu, Demon Slayer, etc. Generic garbage with nothing going for it them but animation, yet so highly rated. I've seen shows rated less than an 8 that completely shit on shows rated higher than 8. Scores are irrelevant. |
| When something is above 8, I assume that it's at the very least good, and go into it with a little bit of expectation. But I don't let the MAL scores affect my own judgement (scores) on a show after watching it. Very often I also just put random shows with 8+ ratings in my PTW list, since it's almost always a guarantee that they'll be great. Key word: ALMOST. |
Amoh25Oct 3, 2020 10:19 AM
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DaijoubuKirameki said: fluffycow17 said: Not really, I usually find anime through word of mouth, and no one talks about anime that low. if someone recommended some shows rated 5 or lower, would you watch them? If I trust the person, then why not? I do find more anime through memes rather than actual recommendations tho. |
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Mystogan14579 said: It means absolutely nothing just because lots of other people rated it high or low doesn't mean you'll hate or like it. For real, sometimes people rate low after only a couple episodes too so I feel like it isn't a good way to base things off of. |
| a high mal score means that other people enjoyed it but my score can be different and i don't rlly care |
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| A high score literally means it's popular. Anything near 9s or 9+ clearly have had at least one period of hype that caused a lot of accounts to be made to rate them 9 or 10. A high MAL score for a bad anime simply means that it's 'amazing' in the mainstream. |
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| I usually don't care what the rating of it is. The overall rating on it would depend on everyone else's opinion on the anime. And having nothing to do with your own yet, because of course you haven't watched it yet and been able to form an opinion. |
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| High MAL scores means something when it isn't airing or fresh anime. When score is stabilized it can help a bit. If series has score above 8.00 it usually mean that it's in some way good. Shows over 8.50 are mostly very good but it doesn't mean that all of them are. In the end enjoyment depends on personal preferences not MAL score. |
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DaijoubuKirameki said: fluffycow17 said: If I trust the person, then why not? I do find more anime through memes rather than actual recommendations tho. Any why do you think no one talks about anime that low? I guess most anime in that range don't have much to talk about in the first place. I can't be very sure about this though. I only watched Skelter+Heaven and an anime where a girl sleeps for 8 hours. As I said, I haven't watched much of those shows. |
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