Do you prefer mal to keep seasons and ova's as seperate series or would you rather them all be combined into one?
| Let's say a show has a sequel series or some kind of 1-2 episode OVA. Mal will usually count these all as seperate series. Do you prefer it that way or would you rather have it all be combned into 1 series. And why? |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| I like them separate because that way I can rate different parts of a show, because there’s been quite a few series where a certain season was a lot worst than others - or vice versa |
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| There would be no reasonable point to combine the main anime and Ovas together, that would end up in so many people having so big amount of anime unfinished because not everyone watched ovas and some ovas are really difficult to find Same for sequels, many people watch just some seasons, not necessarily all of them |
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| I'm totally fine with them being separated, it just can be a drag when I have to update every single individual season sometime, but I don't mind it. |
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| It should be all together. When you'll recommend an anime to someone, you'll say. "Hey, you should watch xxxxxxx (insert a name here)" and not "Hey, you should watch xxxxxxx season 2 part 3 episode 7 minute 18 second 51" And with all season together, we wouldn't have something like Gintama with 8 different entries in the top 20 |
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Perhaps, this is hell. |
| I prefer seasons and OVAs separated as I feel they are more organized this way than combined. OVAs are typically bonus episodes (non-canon) which are inconsequential to the overall plot of the show. |
Karinara said: There would be no reasonable point to combine the main anime and Ovas together, that would end up in so many people having so big amount of anime unfinished because not everyone watched ovas and some ovas are really difficult to find Same for sequels, many people watch just some seasons, not necessarily all of them I mean, it feels like padding to me, when i watch a series and there's a one episode ova, so i basically added 2 series to my Mal. And sometimes i don't realize it was counted as a seperate series. Awhile back, I watched a series that was only 12 episodes, but the site i watched it on had 13 listed. THe last one was an ova and it didn't mention it. So i just added the series and didn't add the ova, because i didn't think it was seperate. It took me 3 years before i noticed that 13th episode was an ova. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| Unless there's a major discontinuity in the story or several years between episodes, just combine them. There's no point in having 2 Code Geass, 2 Fate Zero and UBW, or 5 different Food Wars and AoT and god knows how many Seven Deadly Sins. I like my old anime with 100+ episodes Is all arbitrary anyway. The pacing is adjusted and content is cut or padded to fit the standard 12-13 episodes needed to sell a season, allowing it to last long enough to create an audience and renewing it if it's good, but keeping a safe margin to discontinue it if the ratings are bad. Production > Story. About combining regular episodes with OVA, usually not a good idea nor necessary, but maybe you could do it in some cases. In my list the only situation when the combining should be obvious is with Wolf's Rain that have 26 episodes that don't end the story and 4 more OVAs that have no beginning. The time gap between ep 26 an 27 was quite large if were watching weekly in the first airing (6 months) but nothing too crazy, DVD/B-R boxes don't sell them separately and streaming services list all 30 episodes together. If more clarification is needed, add it in the "Background" portion of its page. |
| keep them separate, as always. thanks mal |
| Separate. Different parts of a show can be vastly different in quality and content. |
| I like to rank a show in it's entirety, I dont want to have to remember if I liked the ova or a certain season. |
| Why would I want to combine season 1 OVA episodes with season 2 OVA episodes for X show? I think it'd be more difficult to keep track of OVA episodes if you combine them all, and you have to consider how MAL adds entries and keeps track of them. |
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| It is better to keep them seperate. In that way i can rate them properly. Sometimes the OVA is better than series. |
| It would actually be better to have the option to rate anime titles by episodes rather then by complete series. Mainly because sometimes users don't completely finish a complete season of episodes. As an example I don't add a series like "One Piece" to my list because I dropped this series after only watching a little over a dozen episodes when it 1st aired in the west. So being able to score OVA's separately from a complete season is more convenient and serves to be more practical since sometimes OVA's won't exactly air right after a season of a series ends. Plus some users might not invest the time to watch an OVA to a series that they don't wish to continue watching. |
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| Separate because it also allows it to more easily track the release days. Also it would inherently suck to have something stuck in the watching list as still airing because an OVA is going to release 6 months later on blu ray. Especially since some specials may never be translated so being unable to finish a series due to circumstances beyond my control that could be easily avoided by having them as separate entries is just dumb. |
GamerDLMNov 21, 2021 5:33 PM
| I prefer the separated series, 'cause I sometimes don't watch OVAs or specials, plus it's better to score seasons separately rather than as a whole. Although I would like it if they didn't count OVAs and specials in the total anime watched. |
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| I would like a toggleable option to make it one or the either, there is positives for both. |
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| I suppose there's something to be said about the idea of combining everything into one, but it's also nice to rate seasons separately. |
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| Keep them separate. There's no need to combine them into one. It can confuse a lot of people, so don't be like this website (in this example they called the OVA episode 13 and mixed it in with the series lol): https://animedao.to/anime/do-you-love-your-mom-and-her-two-hit-multi-target-attacks/ |
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| seperate. Because some seasons are better than others and it's apain to rate them all |
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Phosphophyllita said: trust me bro no one rated gintama 10/10 / good scores just because previous were good.. each season earned its rating like every other show on mal..just because u don't like it doesn't mean its not badIt should be all together. When you'll recommend an anime to someone, you'll say. "Hey, you should watch xxxxxxx (insert a name here)" and not "Hey, you should watch xxxxxxx season 2 part 3 episode 7 minute 18 second 51" And with all season together, we wouldn't have something like Gintama with 8 different entries in the top 20 |
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| The only problem I had with separate entries for each seasons was counting how many anime I've watched lol. But thanks to malgraph which can count "franchises", that problem is gone now. Separate entries have some benefits like the opportunity to rate then separately. |
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| I think I prefer them separate as not all OVAs, Specials, or ONAs are sequels or prequels, but if they are they’re usually an in between episode (ie episode 13.5), beach (or something the like) episode and if they are a one episode sequel then either rate it as a stand alone, or give it the same exact rating as the season(s) it follows. |
| I like it saparate. But instead arguing about this. Let's just made "Franchise Leaderboard" so we won't see same season of the franchise in the Top Leaderboard. Like the person above mention about Gintama. |
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| keep them separate, it makes more sense this way. I wouldn't mind 13th episode entries worked into the main entry, and mha seasons as a single entry but aside from specific examples like this, the system works better as it is. |
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| Its better to keep them separate but it will be interesting to see if they merged them. Edit ova still should be separated. |
| It's better when they're separate because then you can rate each season,ova and special separately. A overall rating for a series with multiple cours seems vague to me. The only benefit I see from combining the seasons and ova is that you won't have to add each part separately(not a big hassle in my opinion). |
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| Have it all be combned into 1 series. Because then I would be inclined to actually watch it. |
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| Separate. There are franchises in which literally each season was done by another studio (Genshiken, Full Metal Panic, ...) and some where there are many years (up to decades) between seasons (Macross, Chiayafuru, ...). Lumping them together makes zero sense, leave alone that you couldn't keep records because staff and voice artists differ. It's a deliberate choice of the anime industry to walk away from the 52 and 26 episode format. MAL is just reflecting that, not creating the effect. |
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| I would prefer if MAL combined them, but is it actually up to them? Personally I hate it when there's a 1st season an OVA and a 2nd season. Because if the OVA isn't necessarily a "sequel" to the 1st season or a prequel to the 2nd, what's the point of me watching it. Same with the movies and Specials. I normally skip them if they're anything but sequels or prequels. |
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| I think it's better to rate everything separately. |
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SofiaBulga said: I would prefer if MAL combined them, but is it actually up to them? Personally I hate it when there's a 1st season an OVA and a 2nd season. Because if the OVA isn't necessarily a "sequel" to the 1st season or a prequel to the 2nd, what's the point of me watching it. Same with the movies and Specials. I normally skip them if they're anything but sequels or prequels. You know, i actually have no idea. There might be something making them do it. I always assumed it was their choice. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| Better to be separate so we can increase our count entry in our list. :D Just imagine if One Piece did this, but I guess it won't/didn't because there was never a break in the anime where we had to wait for another season since it was always running AFAIK. But it'd still be funny if it was broken into 20 entries, one for each season. |
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