When rating anime seasons do you view it as "standalone" or a continuing point?

kklao said:
Shows like One Piece, Bleach, and Detective Conan for example are blocked in one so rating per season is impossible while Attack on Titan, Haikyuu, and Gintama have their separate sections. I don't know why that is so...I can understand with Gintama because of the name difference..is it the long gap in release dates perhap?

kklao said:
Anyway to the question how do you rate the show that have separate sections? Do you rate it as standalones or do you take into account what the past season has given especially if it's a continuation of the story? Is it even possible to view 2nd seasons and so forth as something separate especially if it's a serial and not episodic?

Thigh_Tide said:
I rate a season as only the content within, but taking into account the presence of the preceding season. As in, the sequel can get away with not explaining the world and plot, or not introducing the returning characters.

Noir_Alchemist said:
Idk but for animes with several season MAL reslly should try to add an AVERAGE /OVERALL score too, like REAL SERIES DO... that way you can have

Example : aot season 1 ... 8,48 ... amount of users 1,715,339
Season 2 ... 8,44 ... amount of users 1,003,285 ( - 712.054 users)
Season 3 ... 8,59 ... amount of users 748,520 ( - 254.765 users)
S 3 pt 2 ... 9,10 ... amount of users 700,075 ( - 48.445 users in same season )
S finale ... 9,17 ... amount of users 276.010 ( - 424.065 is airing so i asume will increased)

Average /overall = 8,756 ... so the score will include all season.

Now why you asked, cuz is a whole show with a continuity ... like GOT, and all series with seversl season on idbm , you got GENERAL SCORE OF THE SHOW AND then i dividual rating ... episode rating will be asking to much from mal staff

They have so much issues avoiding voting brigade . Why do i use AoT as example, to make it short cuz im annoying on how they act that their score is better than any show WHEN IS HAS SIGNIFICALLY less users than other shows, will lead in increaisng of the RATING, which is an ilusion since only loyal fans stay voting 10/10 and people who drop it didnt review, look at the ampunt of people who have drop this show. If is such a masterpiece, why many people leave it ???

Casual viewers who cuould rste this show 7 or 8 also leave, avoiding to low the score BUT ANYWAY, WITH ALL THIS FACTS, REAL PROOF AOT fans blame full metal alchemist fandom for their scoring decreasing , DUDE BE REAL, MORE PEOPLE WILL WATCH IT LATER, THEREFORD score itsome will find it good and score it 7, who knows, i never seen such an entitled fandom before, that instead of realising for all people will score 10/10 they blame it on OTHERS and their

Conspiro paranoic delusion that MAL is rigid or benefic a 1 year old show that score 9 in japan last year of most BELOVED MANGAS EVER... 12 year old manga , respect your elders hahahah

You dont have to like it but score it 1 out pf 10 is ridiculous and just show how inmature in general are tye new users of this site, they are making so hard fpr general public to believe in the scoring system.

Nefelupitou said:
I rate only the first season, that score represents the whole show. However, when something is so appalling that may affect the rest, I score separately, as already mentioned here, Psycho-Pass first season is great whereas the second is horrible.

keragamming said:


I accept your challenge!

First read this post https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1886517&show=0#post36

Now I will make a counter argument to what you said, fmab and hxh for example, if we separate them into 12 and 25 episode seasons, those seasons would be way lower and its true, when these series had like 30 episodes airing they were not even above 8.30 at the time, but as more episodes are released the score users change their score and increase it.

I think its unfair to say snk rating as a collection would be 8.7 if we combine all seasons, why? Because it would only give completed series a big advantage, like hxh and fmab for example, hxh and fmab wasn't a 10/10 for most users in the beginning or even in the middle portion of the series so series like hxh and fmab score wont drop because its only single entry. The users that were giving hxh and fmab a 7/10 when they were at episode 30 for example score wont be included, why? Because they have changed their score to a 9 or 10 once they have reached later arcs or have completed it, so no records of those previous score are saved, but for snk, they have the records of the earlier arcs because of the series having seasons, so you see my argument here?

You didn't thought of that didn't you? In the end if hypothetically speaking, if snk was a series like fmab and hxh, it would probably be close to the score it is now, because users would eventually change their score as they watch more episodes.

hxh 2011 score jump from 8.60 to over 9.00 after the chimera ant arc, snk jump from 8.50 to over 9.00 after the basement arc aka snk season 3 part 2, in truth being a sequel make them have the same playing field.

Noir_Alchemist said:


Dude deal with it, i used available data, real facts, i just calculate the average score of all the season

why, JUST WHY, would you hipotetically make hunter x hunter or fmab a seasonal anime ??? Dude is a whole show , and is hardernto have a nice score when people who only saw 3 episodes rate it as they pleasednand left.

You are missing the whole point

keragamming said:


You clearly didn't read my the post of the link I sent you, so I will just give u a summary.

Even if all those users that gave snk season 1 a 1-6/10 returns that still will do little to affect the overall score(Also assuming these users don't give snk later season an higher score, but let's play your game) those are less than 5% of the overall score, most users on mal score between 7-10 which means those votes are the ones that decide the overall score of a season, the only difference between snk final season and snk season 1, is that percentage wise its getting more 10/10 votes than 8/10 and 9/10 votes, that's literally the only difference, Most users were not convince snk season 1 was a 10/10 anime hence why the percentage are so close each other for 10/10, 9/10 and 8/10 votes.

why, JUST WHY, would you hipotetically make hunter x hunter or fmab a seasonal anime ??? Dude is a whole show , and is hardernto have a nice score when people who only saw 3 episodes rate it as they pleasednand left.


Yes, and that is the very point, hxh 2011 and fmab don't have those available data anymore to be used against it in its earlier arcs either.

Your argument is that if we were to combine all seasons of snk then it wouldn't be rated so high correct? But the thing is many of those users don't see snk as a 6/10 or 7/10 anymore for example, so how is it fair to use old data of what persons thought of the series back then? There is no difference between a sequel or full series, its the same concept if snk was an ongoing series this the same way it would play out, people would give it 7/10 and 8/10 in season 1 for example but by time they reach episode 58, there score would change to probably a 9/10 or 10/10. The only difference here is that they are separate that is it.

You can ask many users, no users thought hxh 2011 or fmab to be a 10/10 from the get go, there earlier arcs were nothing special, but the later arcs got better, so there score was change.

My argument is that, having series getting separate entry is levelling the playing field with these completed series.

I can use the wayback machine as proof to show you that during the series airing, the score was no where close to 9.00.

Noir_Alchemist said:




No, no no you are the one who doesnt get it

Sequel effect is however a very logical thing. Even without using any data a simple logic will already reveal its existence.

Either way in short in spite of haters the latter seasons tend to have a lot more higher scores, because most (obviously not all) people that continue the series do it because they have some degree of like towards it. And besides a few trolls most people who drop a series because they don't like it don't bother rating latter seasons of said show with a low score. Therefore sequels will have much higher % of good ratings compared to bad ones than the earlier seasons do. At least as long as they don't mess up significantly enough to alienate people who liked earlier seasons. This is a simple psychology. I don't think that it even requires such a deep thinking to understand.


AOT S1

10 = 475,708 (26.2%)
9= (28.7 %)
8= (25.6 %)
1 = 4,894(0.3%)

AOT S3 P2

10 =323.910 (44.9%)
9 = (32.9 %)
8 = (15.2 %)
1 = 4,125 (0.6 %)


AOT season finale

10= 163,610 ( 60.5 %)
9= 58.878 ( 21.8 %)
8= 23,945 ( 8,9 %)

Full metal alchemist B

10= (49,7 % )
9= 27.9 %
8= 13.8


See the difference ... aot have fans voting it 10 that make the score a 60% of their votes, full metal has i that 49,7 % , the ones are not the issue , are the other percentajes specially the tens

Yet aot fans say is a conpiracy *facepalm* they got from a 26 % of 10s to a 60% of tens.

Numbers dont lie

keragamming said:
I think in truth it's continuity, but most users whether including myself whether we realise it or not score based on recency bias, so I will use hxh for example(and this is how I think most users score as well) so early on in hxh 2011 I rated it a 6/10, when the heavens arc was released I increase my score to a 7/10 and when I watched the Yorknew arc, I jump my score to a 10/10, so despite me rating the previous arcs 7 and 6 out of 10, I simple ignore those arcs and score it a 10/10 because the latest arv was just that good, unfortunately the chimera ant arc for me was really average and I had to decrease my score from a 10/10 to a 7/10, although my opinion is unpopular most users think that Arc is the best arc, hence hxh rating increase in the 9.00 range.



And if the seasons were joined as if, season 1 for that season was finish and just co time to season. 2 content, what would be the overall score then? I think you would have gave it either a 4 or 5/10, am I correct?