| I dont think i ever seen an anime with lower than 5 score (maybe like 1-2 idk ive seen having 3) Anyway, why do yall refuse to use the 1-10 scale and instead rate on 5-10 scale, its at the point when you see a 6 average score you know its gonna be a 3-6/10 at max Are anime fans just to generous or something ? MAL might as well at this point force a 1-5 rating system and even then i believe lowest rated stuff will be 3 at max ... I know it really doesn't matter, in the end u watch what u fell like, but it would be nice to have a more accurate representaion of a shows public opinion so you know at least what type of quality your getting into without having to think "Hmm this is rated 6.3, probably a 4/10 show at max" |
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| dunno. Maybe most people are like me and they drop bad anime without rating it. Which leaves only the people who like it or think it's okay to decide the final score. |
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| If you actually look at the anime with a 1-3/10 average compared to the ones you think deserve that score, you'll truly see there's a huge difference in how bad those are. |
| I know a lot of people with an average rating below 6. But based on my experience, maybe people just don't watch something that is capable of causing them such a strong dislike in the first place. |
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| How I look at it is that people generally watch what they like and can usually tell if they are going to like something. So, people's scores generally lean positive. There are plenty of sub 5 anime out there. For example, this stack: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/3480 |
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| when a series is a 5 or below, the exact number doesn't matter. if we were forced to watch every anime and value it, that would maybe make it worth. but since i wouldn't watch anything with a 5 or below, what would be the point in giving the bad series different values? |
| most people only use the top half of the scale, and to be fair, most people won't sit through a 1-4 show show so they never show up on their lists. Definitely people overrate things systematically for sure but then again numerical scores are kind of pointless anyway so I don't really care all that much. |
| Yea in a lot of peoples eyes a 6/10 is a bad score, goes for anything, not just anime. |
| i have no idea what you're talking about, there are so many anime with an average score below 5. my lowest rating is a literal 1 too, but okay |
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Roevhaal said: that's why 5-star rating systems are better. For some reason, a 3/5 seems like a good score while 6/10 seems like a bad one.Yea in a lot of peoples eyes a 6/10 is a bad score, goes for anything, not just anime. |
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| For most people on here I'm assuming that anything they rate from a 1-5 is "trash", a 6 is "bad" a 7-8 is "average", 9 is "good" and 10 is "really good" to "masterpiece." |
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| I haven't watched that many anime, so it would make sense that the ones I have decided to watch have not been too bad up until now. Otherwise, what would be the point in watching anime? Also, if I generally don't like Isekai anime, I am less likely to give a new Isekai anime a try. Therefore, only people who are generally interested in a series/genre/theme will be the ones watching it, and as a result the score will overall be higher. Scores on this site are not representative of what the average anime watcher watches anyways. epidemia78 said: dunno. Maybe most people are like me and they drop bad anime without rating it. Which leaves only the people who like it or think it's okay to decide the final score. It's also this. If I watch 1 episode of an anime that I think is bad, I quit watching it. I am not going to bother giving it a 1, since I think that's quite unfair after having watched only 1 episode. |
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| Well, the lower half of the scale is only useful if you choose to watch bad shows, and I'm just talking about personal enjoyment, so it should be easy to avoid them. The real issue is that there's no weighted scoring, it's just an average score, where everyone's vote counts the same, but someone who watches only the anime classics and someone who watches nothing but trash, probably shouldn't have an equal say. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| I prefer to rate in accord to mal's own keywords: if the show is good I rate it as 'good' (7), if the show is bad I rate it as 'bad' (4) etc. quite simple really |
| Am I a good person? No. But do I try to be better every single day? Also no |
| I personally drop anime that I don't like (and I do mean "I don't like" because some anime I drop are actually good but they're just not for me). the lowest score I gave an anime that I have completed was 5. I only watch shows that I'm interested in so eventually my average score ends up being around 7. |
| People here are expected to like anime, so they'll naturally rate the anime they watch pretty highly. There's no point watching media if you prejudge it and decide to dislike it in advance, because that will obviously end up negatively impacting your perception of it. There's also a tendency to scope out premises or qualities about an anime that users here are interested in advance. I don't think most watch completely random anime with no sort of selection process. A 5/10 rating is completely neutral; it only looks "bad" because there's a justifiable trend to look for media you think you'll like, rather than media you think is just passable. |
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| i'm not sure why that is. i for one use every score. |
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| From reading synopsis and looking at art you can get the broad idea what show is about. If it is sounds like not for me the I just do not watch it. Only sometimes synopsis or people's recommendations are so misleading that it makes me watch show I end up hating and rate low. I do rate shows I drop, but not yet shows that I only read synopsis, saw art or heard on internet about. |
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| Because highly rated anime tend to be popular and vice versa, and no one really wants to talk about low-rated anime that's why you rarely see it. Also many people here also use score 1-5, usually for dropped anime that is. |
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| Why is this a problem to anyone? "God, these Anime fans do like their Anime a bit too much, I feel. They generous or something?" xD So weird, reading through Threads like this one. |
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| Most people choose anime that sound like they would like them so of course their average score is above 5. |
| You can use AniDB, the scores there seem to be closer to what you are looking for. |
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| After 40+ years of watching anime I have a knack for avoiding shows I will not like. |
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HAJOKESONU said: Similar to quoted for me, but I try to watch every series. Pokemon is the only one that broke me.My rating 1 - dropped 2 - watched a few episode dropped 3 - didnt care for the anime 4 - finished didnt like it or liked plot 5 - average. didnt like didnt hate 6 - liked more but will forget about it down the years 7 - okay. remember plot and stuff might rewatch 8 - liked the anime. probably rewatch every season if no good anime shows up. 9 - love the anime. definitely rewatched multiple times 10 - nothing is perfect so no anime should ever score a 10 |
| Many users gravitate towards higher rated shows because they know it's worth more of their time, compared to a much lower rated show. I guess not many people have gotten to the point of actively seeking out the lower rated shows yet. I think there's easily 1/3 of the entire anime DB that hasn't gotten a score yet. Also people barely watch all the side entries to a main entry of a series. |
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perfectionFound said: -I don't rate anime that i dropped because it's unfair. No it's not. If the anime didn't want to be dropped and rated low it should have done a better job at being entertaining. |
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| 10 = masterpiece 9 = great 8 = good 7 = average 6 = bad! lowest score 6 except for mangas got 4 that was really trash that i regret watching xD |
| It already been answered above, but obviously people are more likely to check out shows they think are good, thus a lot of anime, even one that are relatively bad, have high scores because most people who watch it are fans of that genre. Watching anime or any hobby for that matter is an investment of time, and most people don't have a lot of free time so they have to be particular in how they choose to use it. For me personally a "5" is average, so if someone was being perfectly objective in both their scoring and completely random in their choosing of which anime to watch, their mean score should be around a 5. However that is almost never the case. In my opinion even a "4" isn't that awful, it's a bellow average show that has enjoyable moments but the bad parts outweigh the good. But that's just my take on it. If you're looking for anime with an average score of bellow a 5 look no further than here: Bottom 40 TV/ONA Series on MAL - Interest Stacks - MyAnimeList.net Lowest Rated (Actual Anime) - Interest Stacks - MyAnimeList.net |
Quanda1eDing1e said: That's accurate, in fact when you look at the statistics, "7" is by far the most common score given in both anime and manga. (see here: Global statistics - anime.plus). I realized a lot of people (not just MAL users) seem to think 7 is an average rating. I remember my friend asked me what I would rate a particular video game and I said 6/10. He was like "DAMN was it that bad?" like what??? 6 is above average but generally people think it's negative. Aside from that, a lot of people have this "all anime is good" mentality, so this probably a reason as well. Giving it some thought I think it's a consequence of the school grading system a lot of people expireience, a 80% or B grade is considered good but not extraordinary, a 70% or C grade is considered average, anything bellow a 60% or D is considered failing. Maybe that's why so many people consider a 6 or a 5 to be a bad score even though according to the MAL guidelines that's actually supposed to be the average. |
| My experience with giving scores was that by watching more anime, I could compare more and realized how bad some shows actually were. I bet there are a bunch of accounts with very few shows that all have a high rating. For example, my mean score went down from 7.5 to 6.6 since I started watching way more anime (which was Spring 2022, 8 months after creating my MAL account). A bunch of the shows I have at 2 or 3 now used to be 4-6 because I didn't know just how bad they actually are (in my opinion). I just didn't judge them so harshly because I didn't know the "standart". But that's only 1 factor. All the second seasons and shows with high episode count (as far as I know, the score is only applied if the user watched 1/5 of a show) are inflated. |
chronofantasy said: If you actually look at the anime with a 1-3/10 average compared to the ones you think deserve that score, you'll truly see there's a huge difference in how bad those are. I think that's a good idea. Challenge accepted! I picked one of the lowest-rated shows of all time, more-or-less at random, whichever artwork caught my eye (some flavour of generic fantasy), from this list: fluffycow17 said: There are plenty of sub 5 anime out there. For example, this stack: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/3480 I got Spectral Force (average score 3.60). I watched it from start to finish (it's only two episodes). My verdict: surprisingly entertaining. The first third or so of episode one was so disjointed that I didn't know what was happening, and all the CGI in that episode was downright terrible, but it turns out the show had a fun story to tell, and it didn't waste time telling it. Really, everything after the midpoint of episode one was a decent fantasy show with mediocre-to-terrible production value. The mercenaries were fun: I like it when characters have hidden depths of competence and courage. The demon princess had some touching moments. The main antagonist wasn't particularly well developed, though. The twist at the end of episode one was kind of neat, though they didn't really do much with it — don't worry, I won't spoil it for anyone looking to, uh, get into Spectral Force. In short, I enjoyed Spectral Force more than I was enjoying My Hero Academia when I dropped that show and gave it a four. Surprisingly, I did not see a huge difference in the quality of storytelling, though the difference in production value was enormous. |
| Once I got down the avant-garde shorts rabbit hole, I was giving away lots of 1-4 scores. Lots of shitty stuff in them |
| Give the OP a gift Finally, someone is questioning the idiosyncrasy of normies |
| If you want to reply to my posts, come up with valid arguments instead of ad hominem HIGHER LEVEL THINKERS ONLY |
| @perfectionfound wdym bro, 6 is considered good in my book and is 100% worth a watch that i didn regret, hence why its above 5 ?. Sure its not my favorite genre, but its definitely not a waste of time, you can find good stuff in genres you generally dont enjoy aswell. And even the show you mentioned that i rated a 5 is still considered decent in my book and not a waste of time watching |
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| Because MAL users are a bunch of idiots with no standards that just lap up any garbage that is put in front of them with no regard for quality. |
Natsu_dripneelJan 22, 2023 8:31 PM
| Over 90% of Myanimelist users are normies who only have like under 50 Anime on their list and they'd just unthinkingly give every one of them either 9 or 10. Just look at this stat, I don't understand what's wrong with 42k people: https://myanimelist.net/anime/39617/Yakusoku_no_Neverland_2nd_Season/stats |
| I believe it's due to how most users rate things. I'm not sure if I'm right, but I think that rating using the MAL system makes a significant difference between the options, and that's why people prefer the "5 to 10" scale more. And yes, I support the idea of a more simplified rating system, like "1 to 5 stars". |
 
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| You know, Its kinda harsh to rate most shows low when you mostly pirate all the time!!! |
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| People are lazy. Personally I greatly dislike the fact that 7/10 is the new average. But being to critical and objective, gets you nothing but self-satisfaction. You'll be called an elitist or asked why you still watch anime if you rate it low and apparently hate it. Sadly even so called anime fans don't care enough about anime, to seriously consider using the rating scale MAL has provided. In stead I think they'd prefer using emojis, to rate they're anime. |
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