This show's rating is insanely high for what it should be frrr

momentie said:
I never knew this anime was so beloved until I started actively looking at the Mal fourms.

And your quite rigth, a few elements like the animation and some of the OST tracks are quite good but the narritive is a disater(and apparently butchers the source) the characters are completely flat, self contradictory and inedneering and the story goes no where.

It's a solid 6/10, maybe a 6.5. It fails o accomplish its mission statement, is a slightly above average production and is overall unremarkable.

I've got no issue with any one who does it enjoy it, nothing wrong with watching a show for some ligth entertainmebt but certainly not an 8 by mals high standards.

aightbet said:


Completely agreed. It's slightly above average and I believe it really had great potential to become a next assassination classroom type show if only it had an actual story lmao.

aightbet said:
I genuinely have 0 clue how this show warrants a rating pretty close to 8 which means a show is pretty damn good for MAL standards to be honest.

Like, this entire show was boycotted in Japan lmao. Everything seems pretty average and despite having 12 episodes it legit feels like the story doesn't progress anywhere? Like, I still am perplexed at what this story was actually building up to in the end. Almost every character has had marginal development at best if any, and MC legit hasn't developed one bit. And the animation has so many inconsistencies it's hard to understand if the animators even paid attention to what they were doing at times.

I understand that people are a sucker of the unemotional character type, like Hachiman. However one thing to note is that despite Hachiman's seemingly unemotional and energy-less aura, he still develops a fair amount in every season of the SNAFU show, whilst keeping his original character trope. With this show though, it's just... average right?

There are a few things that I like such as the art style, the very intriguing school system, the cool island survival aspect as well. However everything else just feels half baked really. With all that being said I just can't see how this show is rated this highly. In my mind it belongs somewhere like 6.5-7.1 area. Personally a 6 to me though.

Do you guys agree with this sentiment? Anyone feel this anime is undeserving for the score it has? Or have I missed something like what the whole point of the show is about or something.

RandomGuyScott said:
This series gets the score because it has a massive fanbase.
It might not look like it because it failed as an adaptation. The studio took too many liberties that the author and the fans did not appreciate.
You might see it as “Too high”, but in fact is “Too low”, considering that the LN’s are at the Top 5 scorers in it’s genre and it has 20 volumes so far never decreasing sales.
The anime just worked as a promotional (As always) without the real intention (Hinted due to lack of real commitment) to make something good or even get another season.
If you decide to check the novels you would realize that the story and execution is vastly superior.
Is not the LN’s fault but rather the studio. The score should be higher because the LN deserves it, sadly the series gets a low score (In the bigger perspective) because the adaptation is horrible for what the plot actually offers.
Hence your initial statement is yes and no. Yes, you miss the main point of the story (Because the Anime failed to showed it. No, you are not wrong, the anime side should get a score of 7.1-7.3 maximum)
The LN’s should have a score closer to 9 so you can have an idea of how much of a failed adaptation it is and not because the plot is boring and uninteresting.

Hot_Green_Tea said:
Anime wise you're on point. Since it was only to promote the LN they changed some stuff and executed the anime adaptation badly IMO, in the end I gave it 5.

GreiLugaj said:
This anime is just a promotional adaptation for the Light Novel, it changes lots of things from the source material. That’s why japanese fans did not like it. Either way I still enjoyed the adaptation, probably because I just loved the main character.

GreiLugaj said:

Because with the anime being bad, the fans are forced to pick up the Light Novel if they find the premise interesting. It’s a tactic used by many companies in Japan, especially manga companies.

Scordolo said:
Op I always see you just trashing on bad anime.Why don't you just find some good anime and talk good things about it?It looks like you're looking for attention.

filimaua13 said:
Yeah that's the problem with the anime adaptation. It changed quite a few things and not in a good way. Another problem with the anime is that the material they adapted was only the set up. They should have made the anime a 2 cour if they actually wanted people to read the LN's. The anime staff were hoping that the "badass secret Light Yagami type MC," the ecchi fanservice was enough to hook peope in to read the LN's when that's not even the reason its so loved.

Its the different dynamics in each class, seeing the different strengths of each character and how they're relevant to succeeding each challenge. Seeing how characters develop and show depth is a major part to the success of the source material. Ofc Ayanokoji being an OP badass is a major reason, but that alone would get boring.

Mr_Srijan said:
Lmao and do you guys remember that blonde dude? Wtf was he even there for? I remember that he did absolutely nothing other than running around here and there.