How important is MAL score to you when deciding what to watch?
DarkShame2 said: Yeah I always look into what I am watching - I got real lucky early on with shows like Wolfs Rain, Ergo Proxy, Fate/Zero all being right up my ally. Then I suffered through Witch Hunter Robin. Nowadays I have a little more restraint before jumping in blind - at least look up an opening, or read the synopsis rather than 'oh Re;Zero sounds great'. AnimePedestrian said: Pretty much the same here, but I do keep it in mind though. I generally do some research and such before picking up a show if it'll be enjoyably or not.I don't really take MAL score into consideration when picking a show. So long as it looks interesting then I'll give it a shot. |
Sometimes it takes a real man to be best girl. Gilgamesh is also chad.   |
| I'd rather avoid checking my PTW, but yes I do watch quite a bit, will give from 1 to few examples of each completed entry: 10/10: Bleach: The Sealed Sword Frenzy Lost Song Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita IS: Infinite Stratos 9/10: Uchi no Shishou wa Shippo ga Nai Ikebukuro West Gate Park 22/7 Koi to Uso Absolute Duo Kantai Collection: KanColle Fate/stay night TV Reproduction 8/10: Juuni Taisen Gamers! Jikan no Shihaisha Shinmai Maou no Testament Burst Aki no Kanade Strike Witches 7/10: Godzilla: S.P Akanesasu Shoujo Ange Vierge Comet Lucifer Servamp Galilei Donna 6/10: Jouran: The Princess of Snow and Blood Kyuukyoku Shinka shita Full Dive RPG ga Genjitsu yori mo Kusoge Dattara Bem Active Raid: Kidou Kyoushuushitsu Dai Hachi Gakari Genmu Senki Leda Tokkou 5/10: .hack//Sign 11eyes Asu no Yoichi! Glamorous Heroes - Idk if it still is but it used to be on the last page as the shows of being worst rated in overall at Mal 4/10: Ai Tenchi Muyou! Fate/Extra: Last Encore Toaru Majutsu no Index III Nanatsu no Bitoku Cop Craft 3/10: Aki-Sora Bikini Warriors Futsal Boys!!!!! Platinum End Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall 2/10: Bikini Warriors OVA To LOVE-Ru: Multiplication - Mae kara Ushiro kara 1/10: Shitcom Bikini Warriors Special Battle Athletess Daiundoukai ReSTART! Estab-Life: Great Escape |
| So, 85% of people here are fine watching trash, I barely value my time, and I have higher standards than that. lol |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
Zettaiken said: I'd rather avoid checking my PTW, but yes I do watch quite a bit, will give from 1 to few examples of each completed entry: Seems like your list is similar to mine when it comes to those entries. At least the ones I know are also harem/ecchi or just a movie/ova/special. And then there's "Slime Taoshite 300-nen, Shiranai Uchi ni Level Max ni Nattemashita" again, I still don't know why people dislike it. LostSpectre said: So, 85% of people here are fine watching trash, I barely value my time, and I have higher standards than that. lol Well I wouldn't call it trash, most people just don't care about score. But I've never found a good anime below 6/10, so I can see where you're coming from. |
LostSpectre said: So, 85% of people here are fine watching trash, I barely value my time, and I have higher standards than that. lol I mean some "trash" according to MAL might be good and some "good" things according to MAL might as well be trash too. I do use some of my time watching trash tho, but I don't think low score in MAL means that the series is bad and vice versa. |
Ionliosite2 said: I couldn't disagree more, there's going to be a much larger percentage of trash for shows rated 6.5 or lower than there are hidden gems.LostSpectre said: So, 85% of people here are fine watching trash, I barely value my time, and I have higher standards than that. lol I mean some "trash" according to MAL might be good and some "good" things according to MAL might as well be trash too. I do use some of my time watching trash tho, but I don't think low score in MAL means that the series is bad and vice versa. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
Gator said: Since MAL scores are already inflated, anything under a 6.5 is quite likely to be bad, or at the very least, an inefficient use of your time.LostSpectre said: So, 85% of people here are fine watching trash, I barely value my time, and I have higher standards than that. lol Well I wouldn't call it trash, most people just don't care about score. But I've never found a good anime below 6/10, so I can see where you're coming from. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
LostSpectre said: Gator said: Since MAL scores are already inflated, anything under a 6.5 is quite likely to be bad, or at the very least, an inefficient use of your time.Well I wouldn't call it trash, most people just don't care about score. But I've never found a good anime below 6/10, so I can see where you're coming from. Likely yes, but I have one 8/10 anime below 6.5 and a few 7/10 shows. So there are some good anime there imo, the question is if they are worth going through all the other no-so-good ones. I guess it depends how much time you have ^^ |
| I really liked Fate/Extra (it was Nasu first time) and despite it flaws I liked the story, animation, art and character designs. And that show got a 6.2 so it goes to show their is value in those shows caste into the below seven's. And same goes for Lunar Legend - if I followed MAL score I'd have disregarded it but I gave it a chance and found a pretty decent romance story. |
Sometimes it takes a real man to be best girl. Gilgamesh is also chad. |
| I'm numb to ratings, ever since I watched Clannad After story. |
  𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈, 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊. - 𝑅𝑒𝒾 𝒦𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓎𝒶𝓂𝒶   |
Gator said: from a purely scientific perspective, of courseromagia said: i do care and also watch everything.. i feel unrepresented in the poll 5.xx shows tend to be more wild stuff 6.xx tends to be just extremely mid.. also for really obscure shorts and ovas.. 5.xx is kinda the expected rating.. should be treated totally differently from a 2010+ full length seasonal rated 5.xx I feel like that's contradicting. If you care about scores, but watch the show no matter what score it has, how do you care? caring is a word with too wide meaning... |
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| I don't care about the opinions of other people when it comes to picking out a show to watch. If I read a summary of a show and it sounds interesting to me then I will watch it. |
| Just cause they like it does not mean I will |
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| I mean I have watched stuff rated with 4 that I personally liked a lot (Mostly avant-garde shorts but still). One of my 10s is in fact something rated below 7. Scores do influece a bit on my expectations though. |
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| I could care less about what a shows score is. This community have a thing against close to everything. I watch what i watch and normally pick it by the coverpicture. https://myanimelist.net/anime/49163/Exception https://myanimelist.net/anime/49164/Make_My_Day but we have shows like this, it's enough to just watch the trailer to understand you will be experience something freaking horrible. But I watch like everything and i dont really care about what the meanscore is of the anime i watch. Normally when it comes especielly to newer seasons a low score show there is bad. ( i watch mostly every tv show and one thing i have learned is that japan loves to release as much garbage as possible and lower the quality of a Anime as much as possible ) ^but this is rather new only been going on for the last 10 years or so. But when it comes to shows from 2010 -> and older. This shows should not be judged by the score in my view. |
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LostSpectre said: Ionliosite2 said: I couldn't disagree more, there's going to be a much larger percentage of trash for shows rated 6.5 or lower than there are hidden gems.I mean some "trash" according to MAL might be good and some "good" things according to MAL might as well be trash too. I do use some of my time watching trash tho, but I don't think low score in MAL means that the series is bad and vice versa. You must watch cuties that has an almost 0% audience rotten tomatoes score but almost 100% critic score over stuff like black adam, batman v superman, venom, ant man 3. Mal scores are just turning into rt critic scores. |
icefirestone23Mar 13, 2023 7:09 PM
| some of my favourite anime or just anime i really enjoyed have relatively shit scores (binchou-tan 6.94, alien9 6.71, kokoro toshokan 6.52, seikimatsu★darling 6.32, malice@doll 6.00, kiki to lala no papa to mama aitai 5.82, rayca 4.67, kitty to mimmy no atarashii kasa N/A, etc) and i have hated shows that have high averages or big fanbases, so they dont matter much at all to me |
| Mal ratings feel manipulated vs imdb and rotten tomatoes now. Look at the new demon slayer movie https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/demon_slayer_kimetsu_no_yaiba_to_the_swordsmith_village https://m.imdb.com/title/tt26537229/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt Vs https://myanimelist.net/anime/54591/Kimetsu_no_Yaiba__Jougen_Shuuketsu_Soshite_Katanakaji_no_Sato_e Mal seems to remove a ton of 1 star ratings for popular anime |
| I've seen plenty of anime with a MAL score of lower than 7/10...because sometimes the world lies to you. |
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| i tend to look at the score for a basic idea of how people enjoyed it but it wont stop me from watching it just because its below a 7. or even a 6 |
| Objectively, most shows don't deserve anything above a 7. Scores are subjective though so realistically people will watch what they like, not because it has a high score and that goes for me as well. Though a high score does help incentivize me to prioritize watching it over a show with say a 7. |
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| MAL users are some of the most generous scorers on earth, so an anime has to be a different level of terrible for even them to not be able to rate it a 7 |
| Anything rated below a 6 on MAL tends to be trash, but some things rated at 6 are fairly decent so I do watch stuff rated below a 7, but not rated below a 6 (if I can help it. I do have several that were rated below a 6 in my list. That's why I know below that is trash. From my first hand experience. There's only been maybe two exceptions to that. Maybe). |
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| Yes, I don't trust MAL scores at all. |
| Who are you and why do you show your hostility towards a complete stranger whom you've not once spoken with before. Are you seriously asking to get blocked? Well, if that's what your intent is; to tempt me into throwing hands with someone as lowly and insignificant as you, then i may grant your wish provided you articulate yourself a bit better when trying to spite a person of my wavelength. |
| Most of the anime rated around 6 I watch are just ecchi |
| I wouldn't say I don't care about MAL score at all, since I do think it's useful to get a general grasp of how the show was percieved by the majority of viewers. That said, I know my own tastes often differ a lot from said majority, so that alone is not a deterrent from watching for me :) |
| I watch everything what somehow sounds interesting. But thats sometimes a big flop too xD |
  𝕳𝖔𝖜 𝖉𝖔𝖊𝖘 𝖎𝖙 𝖋𝖊𝖊𝖑 𝖙𝖔 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖊𝖝𝖎𝖘𝖙? Mei Misaki |
| Yes I do, I've watched several animes with a note around five and I liked it. |
| Wait...aren't Threads discussing MaL-Ratings beein closed, usually? What's going on? |
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Merve2Love said: Wait...aren't Threads discussing MaL-Ratings beein closed, usually? What's going on? You mean this rule? Rule #2 Expanded. We are seeing an increase in threads intentionally or accidentally designed to fuel wars around community scores and/or audience reception of titles. These threads do not encourage civil discussion and so have been added as examples to avoid their continuous creation. I'm not discussing the scores of any shows, I'm talking about scores as a tool to help you decide what to watch. |
| I usually don't finish shows which I would rank 5 or below (give them 4 episodes or so), or shows that are tedious or simply didn't pique my interest. MAL scores I see as a recommendation, wouldn't dismiss a show outright just because of a low rank, but usually very low ranked shows aren't interesting to me either. |
LostSpectre said: Wow, look at you only watching shows that other people gave high scores too, very cool. So, 85% of people here are fine watching trash, I barely value my time, and I have higher standards than that. lol |
| "Well, she's flatter than a pancake" -Mimi Alpacas |
| Scores matter a lot to me. At times maybe to much. But it's not the INTERNET's scores that I care about, it's the score I give an anime after completing it. |
LostSpectre said: As long as we have Samurai Flamenco with a 6 and Erased with an 8, I have no reason to trust MAL scores.So, 85% of people here are fine watching trash, I barely value my time, and I have higher standards than that. lol |
| Who are you and why do you show your hostility towards a complete stranger whom you've not once spoken with before. Are you seriously asking to get blocked? Well, if that's what your intent is; to tempt me into throwing hands with someone as lowly and insignificant as you, then i may grant your wish provided you articulate yourself a bit better when trying to spite a person of my wavelength. |
| yes back then when i still didnt know mal exist, and because mostly i dont like them now i almost never give it a try except for the cute gir slice of life anime cause i watch every single one of them |
| still having great time with my stuff |
Gator said: also i did actually not watch a lot of seasonals because of low score.. particularly 6.xx ones heh hehromagia said: i do care and also watch everything.. i feel unrepresented in the poll 5.xx shows tend to be more wild stuff 6.xx tends to be just extremely mid.. also for really obscure shorts and ovas.. 5.xx is kinda the expected rating.. should be treated totally differently from a 2010+ full length seasonal rated 5.xx I feel like that's contradicting. If you care about scores, but watch the show no matter what score it has, how do you care? |
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romagia said: Gator said: also i did actually not watch a lot of seasonals because of low score.. particularly 6.xx ones heh hehI feel like that's contradicting. If you care about scores, but watch the show no matter what score it has, how do you care? Haha so you don't watch everything after all then. Why did you not watch them, because of reviews? Or because you don't have time to? Were there too many other seasonals you wanted to watch? |
| I watch any Anime I want regardless of their score however since I always download and watch Anime I always download 1080P or higher quality if the anime has 8 or above score. Other than that the MAL score never stopped me from watching a Anime. |
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| Not really, no I enjoyed some anime rated under 7 but they were seasonals and they never exceeded 7/10 in my list, that's not high enough to push me to watch more anime rated under 7 |
Gator said: everything as in, every bucket of mal ratingromagia said: also i did actually not watch a lot of seasonals because of low score.. particularly 6.xx ones heh heh Haha so you don't watch everything after all then. Why did you not watch them, because of reviews? Or because you don't have time to? Were there too many other seasonals you wanted to watch? but arent there always too many seasonals to watch )) there has to be ways to trim them down also no i dont have patience to read reviews especially before watching.. just the mal rating alone if you can call that reviews time i have infinite but that is not the same as infinite patience to watch seasonals |
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-Ryu said: That Samurai thing has an abysmal rating on AniDB as well, so while I hated the ending of Erased, I'm not so sure about this one...LostSpectre said: As long as we have Samurai Flamenco with a 6 and Erased with an 8, I have no reason to trust MAL scores.So, 85% of people here are fine watching trash, I barely value my time, and I have higher standards than that. lol |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
Tropisch said: Thanks. I hope you feel fucking special now. LostSpectre said: Wow, look at you only watching shows that other people gave high scores too, very cool. So, 85% of people here are fine watching trash, I barely value my time, and I have higher standards than that. lol |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
icefirestone23 said: I don't give a shit about your opinion. Don't quote me in the future. LostSpectre said: I couldn't disagree more, there's going to be a much larger percentage of trash for shows rated 6.5 or lower than there are hidden gems. You must watch cuties that has an almost 0% audience rotten tomatoes score but almost 100% critic score over stuff like black adam, batman v superman, venom, ant man 3. Mal scores are just turning into rt critic scores. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| Anything below an 8 doesn't land on my radar, because even things >8 can't be trusted to be good. Three out of every four shows above 8 is usually either meh or crap the masses lapped up. I'm looking at you Steins; Gate 0. |
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