| 1. Enjoyment 2. Characters 3. Story 4. Animation 5. OST/voice acting |
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| I just go with my overall opinion, I rate the sum of it's parts, not the parts themself. |
| Mine is: 1.Enjoyment 2.Characters 3.Music 4.Visuals 5.Atmosphere 6.Story 7.Others |
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| - Enjoyment comes first Rating by enjoyment doesn't mean lack of rationality. It means giving different weights to different aspects, case by case. The sound in a music anime, the hilarity in a comedy, the atmosphere in a slice of life, the story and the pacing in a plot-driven anime: they all affect enjoyment differently. When enjoyment is at the lowest, I won't give a higher score just because a secondary aspect is somewhat decent. I'm not trying to be objective. - My rating system 7-10) I like it and love it 6) I like it, but I don't love it 5) watchable, I would never drop 1-4) I dislike it |
| since there was a topic like this a week ago: · Story and script: 5 I care about the story, but I've seen so many that everything feels like the same plot points shuffled and recycled endlessly. I will always appreciate great writing, but if I were to rate anime based on it, I'd have given 3/10 to most I've seen. as long as there aren't any logical fallacies I'm fine. · Beginning: 4 I wanted to say this one is important to me, because a boring start fails to grab my attention. however I always watch 4 episodes before dropping a show. it's a habit I picked up because of lightnovel adaptations. the 4th episode is usually where the first arc ends so it gives you a good idea what to expect in the future. · The end: 8 this is where most anime fails me. I'm willing to put up with a lot, thinking the end will justify the means. too bad most anime never heard of closure. · Characters: 6 most characters don't resonate with me, they're just archetypes and stop there with nothing else going on for them. I don't ever selfinsert, and blank main characters are garbage tier. I feel the same way about characters as the story, I would've stopped watching anime a decade ago if I were looking for great characters. they should be likeable at least though. · Direction (shots, tone, pacing): 6 unlike the beginning, this one can be felt all throughout the runtime. I didn't want to give this one much importance, but then I remembered the Jo-ha-kyū "beginning, break, rapid" story structure which I just can't deal with. plus I enjoy interesting shots which is why anno's directing is appealing to me. · Art (color, drawing, style): 7 art is very important to me, I'm a visual person. I want things to look cool, hot and interesting. the reason I never picked up sao is because it looks bland as hell. it's so plain it hurts. probably fits the generic mmo theme but I can't be assed to stare at that for 5 minutes. · Animation: 8 no1. reason I puke all over the screen. I'd read manga or books if I didn't want to see things move. yet most anime are barely acceptable quantity over quality stuff nowadays. I know it's an immense workload, I know it's a hard job. have some dignity and pride in your work. I watch anime because amazing animators exist. · Sound (ost, seiyuus, op/ed): 3 it's there. I don't care. the VAs do a decent enough job in almost all cases that it's not distracting. same with soundtracks, it's rare to hear something interesting that sticks with me. eds are 99% slow and put me to sleep. current year ops are disgusting. I hope anime will grow out of this pop-club-rap period soon with the wohoos and yeaaaahs. · Enjoyment: 6 I'm fully capable of watching things that weren't aimed at me. personal enjoyment isn't that important for me, I don't expect to be pandered to. though for a 9/10 and 10/10 show it's an absolute must in my book. I can't just call anything a favorite. the points might be off but I hope the explanation makes sense. |
| 馬鹿げた倫理 全部ガラクタで |
| Here’s my criteria: Is it an episodic anime? If not, is it written REALLY well? If the question of either one of those is a “yes” then it has the potential for a 10, for anything below it doesn’t matter |
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| It's all about enjoyment. How much did I enjoy the story, how much did I enjoy the characters, the visuals and so on. Music and Voice Acting are the least important to me and I don't care if they are bad. Just copy-pasting from my profile: |
| Gonna be honest, I don't have a set list of criteria I judge each anime by. Although, I try to blend my enjoyment along with more objective things like pacing, character development, story progression, consistent animation, etc into my scores. For instance, if I really loved an anime, but it had some blaring issues, I probably wouldn't give it a perfect score. |
| 1. -> Enjoyment, nothing more, the more boring/weird (in bad meaning)/forced etc. the less score it gets from me. |
| Main things are story. The next is character, art/animation, music/sound and enjoyment. |
| My brain is like 'This deserves a 7 but 7 corresponds to good but it was boring so let's just give it 1 and move on.' |
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| I give the show one overall score, there wouldn't be any reason to break that down into criteria unless I was writing a review for everyone to see. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| Almost everyone rates according to their enjoyment. The source of that enjoyment differs from person to person, though. Some people just want to be entertained through simple action while others enjoy complex plots. But at the end of the day, enjoyment is the criteria. My enjoyment comes from good story, characters, dialogue, consistent plot, etc. Good OSTs, voice acting and animation are welcome too. Especially OSTs and voice acting. I don't care much about animation unless it is downright horrible. And lastly, it also depends upon how it stands up to other shows from the same genre. This is one factor that doesn't involve enjoyment. |
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| Surface level criteria: Deep level criteria: |
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| I look at the words MAL assigned to each score and pick the one that comes closest to my experience. Aside from masterpiece I guess which is just anime I consider to be my personal favorites. |
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| My ratings are my opinion about the show on how good or bad it was. I just sum all the bad and good parts of an anime and rate it. I don't like to use 10/10 score because there is no true masterpiece. |
| Just on whatever the anime is trying to sell + enjoyment. You know, good art show has to have good art/messages, good story has to have good story, good comedy has to be funny, blah blah blah. |
| 1. Enjoyment 2. Story 3. Visual 4. OST 5. Characters |
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| Nature, narrative, being, depth, whole, impact, storytelling, creativity, cause, spirit, dynamic, experience, connection, attachment, soundtrack, originality, flexibility, consistency, lore, aesthetic. These are all things that I consider in my rating. |
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| I rate anime based on how I feel about them. It's less a science and more of a magical process whose details I can't reveal because they're copyrighted. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| For me it would basically be random lol |
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| Just enjoyment sure the other things help me enjoy it more but I rate only off how much I enjoyed a show |
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| Just enjoyment and how much i'd want to watch it again. I don't really use a scale or anything, i just rate in the moment. I do use one for Hentai though. I give a score out of 5 for how good it is as a story (IE: Is it unique, is there a coherent plot at all) and how good it is as pornography |
| 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 |
| like 25% enjoyment, 25% story, 25% characters, 25% aesthetics |
| Whatever number I feel like sums up how i feel about the series, I give it that rating. My rating is pretty lax and not something to take as a serious indicator of how much I like something though, since I have a hard time figuring out and organizing my own ratings. |
 I'm level  on MAL-Badges. View my badges. |
| I don’t even know, I just give shows a number after 30 seconds of thinking once I completed them |
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Freaky-kun said: I think you missunderstand. I mean the elements everyone else is mentioning, I don't care much about them individually. The important part is how they work together and each anime also has different needs from them. For exemple the story can be super important in some series but nearly irrelevant in another. Roevhaal said: I just go with my overall opinion, I rate the sum of its parts, not the parts themself. so does that imply to seasonal anime or animes like jojo or what does that mean? |
| I just rate anime based on my enjoyment. |
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| do i wanna wach another episode immediately or it just feels like ewww? do i feel like rewatching soon after or never again? that's about it |
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| Definitely enjoyment, and if I dislike a character how much they appeared during the eps. I rarely score something under 5. If I don't enjoy I drop idc if it's the last ep. |
| I go with the flow and like to see how much anime avoids the general anime tropes in a show so if its filled with it and i enjoyed it to the fullest its 6/10 but if i didn't enjoy it but still thinks it was not a time waste its 5/10. But now if shows are totally taking the anime tropes and still failing to get in the enjoyment sector then its 2-4/10 for me. Now shows which are unique or are totally absurd to begin with good stories get 7-8/10 9/10 or 10/10 are for shows for which i am biased. Enjoyment was my top criteria but it was like 5-6 years ago now i look for some uniqueness as i watched too much of anime now most things don't surprise me so yeah. |
| 2025 might be the year where I will be happy. This year is not happy year. |
| First, the writing, story and characters. For me, good writing is automatically enjoyable unless its themes are really obscure. Second, its technical aspects like animation, OSTs, atmosphere and directing. Tho this one is not as important as the first. Based on this, shows that I consider average would be rated a 3. 7-10 means very good. 5-6 means good. 4 means fine or above average. 2 means bad. 1 means very bad. 1-2 are ones I dislike but not hate since I have found myself unable to hate anime mostly coz for me to hate it, it would have to emotionally resonate first. |
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| I rate on enjoyment, but that doesn't mean I just assign a number based on a vague feeling at the end. Throughout the show, there are numerous elements that I know through experience that I like or dislike. Like if a shounen character says something conventional or stupid, the rating goes down by 0.1 in my head. Or if there's a genuinely funny joke, the rating goes up by 0.1. And so on... And at the end, I take that tallied rating and compare it to the other shows in the same rating bracket to see if it fits. It usually does. If I'm not lazy (which I usually am these days), I then make fine adjustments. Like if this show is 6.5, and I have another 6.5 and 6.4, then I make a determination which ones are better. If the new show is in between the other two, but better rather than worse, than I assign it for example 6.47. Honestly, the whole story/characters/animation/sound thing needs to die. It just breeds vagueness. There's a lot more nuance and detail to all of these things, and they are all weighted differently. MAL just groups everything that people don't conceive to fit neatly within one of these categories as "enjoyment", as if it's its own separate thing. It's not. All these factors in the anime causes enjoyment. I can't enjoy anime that isn't caused by something within the anime. |
| My subjective reviews: katsureview.wordpress.com THE CHAT CLUB. |
| I don't have any and stopped rating a while ago, but I usually went with an overall impression. My score was probably most influenced by my overall enjoyment of the story and characters + the animation and music to a smaller degree. |
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