| imdb ratings are more for the mainstream while mal is more for the ones who actually watch a good amount of anime. imdb ratings are probably more accurate to how the mainstream feels but mal ratings would be more accurate for weebs |
| I would say MAL is more accurate because of the sample size especially for stuff that released post 2010. For example Rezero has 9k votes on IMDB but +1 million votes on MAL. |
| don't know about you but i believe that because of those data, IMDB seems more accurate, imagine that MAL will use popularity to rank the anime, death note would be 1# since it have 2,338,260 members in their list while FMAB only have 2,031,239 members, i'm actually going to rock the MAL ranking a little bit, death note have this kind of stats: 10 30.6% (502822 votes) 9 29.0% (476676 votes) 8 22.7% (373127 votes) 7 11.1% (182738 votes) while FMAB: 10 50.4% (652542 votes) 9 28.1% (363534 votes) 8 13.8% (178118 votes) 7 4.8% (61774 votes) i actually calculated it, it means that between 7-10 for death note it's:1,535,363 for FMAB it's: 1,255,968 though FMAB have bigger numbers on 10 than death note, if we will add the popularity, meaning, death note have 2,338,260 and FMAB have 2,031,239, for death note to have half of the members to vote 7-10 is 1,169,130, but it have 1,535,363 more than half to like the anime, while FMAB to need half is 1,015,619.5 only 200,000 above half while death note have 300k+, if we go calculate like this every anime, forget FMAB, other anime will be better. since MAL is not calculating by the rate of people having it on the list but by the more score they have, it's lacking seriously matter that IMDB has. edit: just notice that to make things worse, rather it's nobs or not, FMAB have 1 0.6% (7858 votes) while death note only 1 0.2% (3245 votes) figure it yourself out |
| aniDB probably has the least bad ratings but they still suck. IMDB is Kitsu levels bad, painfully uncreative trite garbage is praised on all databases but it's the worst on those two. |
| MAL has more underrated things in the top, as IMDB is more of a popularity contest when it comes to their ratings. |
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Unalina said: seems you read my whole post for nothing, my entirely meaning is that the numbers of the members don't effect the score, the score is divided only by the highest score there is, and not by popularity+per the other scores, while death note maybe lost the 10 it's actually higher on 8 and 9 than FMAB in numbers of members, and while FMAB is #1 death note is only #59 because it's only have higher votes on 10 while having less members overall.User-Name said: don't know about you but i believe that because of those data, IMDB seems more accurate, imagine that MAL will use popularity to rank the anime, death note would be 1# since it have 2,338,260 members in their list while FMAB only have 2,031,239 members, i'm actually going to rock the MAL ranking a little bit, death note have this kind of stats: 10 30.6% (502822 votes) 9 29.0% (476676 votes) 8 22.7% (373127 votes) 7 11.1% (182738 votes) while FMAB: 10 50.4% (652542 votes) 9 28.1% (363534 votes) 8 13.8% (178118 votes) 7 4.8% (61774 votes) i actually calculated it, it means that between 7-10 for death note it's:1,535,363 for FMAB it's: 1,255,968 though FMAB have bigger numbers on 10 than death note, if we will add the popularity, meaning, death note have 2,338,260 and FMAB have 2,031,239, for death note to have half of the members to vote 7-10 is 1,169,130, but it have 1,535,363 more than half to like the anime, while FMAB to need half is 1,015,619.5 only 200,000 above half while death note have 300k+, if we go calculate like this every anime, forget FMAB, other anime will be better. since MAL is not calculating by the rate of people having it on the list but by the more score they have, it's lacking seriously matter that IMDB has. edit: just notice that to make things worse, rather it's nobs or not, FMAB have 1 0.6% (7858 votes) while death note only 1 0.2% (3245 votes) figure it yourself out you lost me on the: "i actually calculated it, it means that between 7-10 for death note it's:1,535,363 for FMAB it's: 1,255,968 though FMAB have bigger numbers on 10 than death note, if we will add the popularity, meaning, death note have 2,338,260 and FMAB have 2,031,239, for death note to have half of the members to vote 7-10 is 1,169,130, but it have 1,535,363 more than half to like the anime, while FMAB to need half is 1,015,619.5 only 200,000 above half while death note have 300k+, if we go calculate like this every anime, forget FMAB, other anime will be better." part and out of curiosity what would be the highest rated then? |
| Both sites' ratings suck and none is more "accurate" than the other. |
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| AniDB ratings I find to be more accurate to the quality of a show, they also have a much wider point spread than on MAL. Though as someone else said, least bad might be a better way of phrasing it. What's most interesting about aniDB ratings is that they offer two different ratings (three if you include review ratings). They of course provide the raw 'Average', but more useful is what they label as the 'Rating', which is a weighted average using a secret algorithm taking into account each individuals average ratings. I find this rating to be the most accurate, and I wish MAL would come up with an equivalent. It even helps to alleviate the problem of fake ratings. |
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| Trust me never consider IMDB for anything anime related it is meant more for tv shows and movies. MAL is one of the sites where you can refer completely for anime and it is the most popular ones. |
 I'm level  on mal-badges. View my badges. |
| I misread and thought we were comparing aniDB not IMDB. IMDB is probably only helpful when it comes to anime movie ratings, I wouldn't take the other ratings too seriously. Comparing aniDB to MAL would be a more apt comparison. |
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| There will probably never be an accurate scoring system. Everyone has different tastes and some fanbases are more dedicated on other places. |
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_Neferupitou_ said: I don't like ratings because they set my expectations for something, I wish there was an option to hide them. There's a way to hide scores on MAL using some browser extension. Or even adblocker. Like this:  |
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| IMDB gives the respect they deserve to DBZ and Naruto that MAL doesn't so that makes it immediately a better top. |
| Since that incident with Ishuzoku reviewers, I no longer trust the MAL rating system, there are many trolls ... I do not know about imdb, but I think there is the rating of the critics, which in my opinion is much better |
  Humans may have two eyes, but we can only see one thing Don't use the scores to see an anime ええい！ なんでも やって やる |
| neither of them have actual relevance. |
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| Does it matter what the ratings are on some website? At least, there is still a forum on MAL. The same cannot be said about IMDB. These forums is the ONLY reason I still use MAL tbh. |
| I use IMDB quite a bit (https://www.imdb.com/user/ur107632777/). I changed every picture for the akudama drive episodes and added dozens of pictures to it, and pretty much wrote and made the entire mars red page on imdb. So, here's my 2 piece. If you think mal Is a popularity contest, you have NO IDEA. I won't get into the movie side of things, because the way western movies are rated literally makes 0 sense to me. Like they are absurdly stupid and for some reason have the opposite of sequel bias. But as far as tv shows go, IMDB is like THE popularity contest website. quality is like 30% of the importance. IMDB also has a MASSIVE biased towards shows that start good and turn into shit later, vs shows that start weak but become amazing. Case and point, the promised neverland and black sails have the same rating. And to hammer down the popularity thing as well, stranger things is above both of them. I think a huge part of this is because when it comes to popular shows, a LOT of the people who rate them only go for 10s and 1s cause they don't give a shit about it being their actual opinion. This is a problem on mal too... but mainly just with second accounts. Since MAL has a built in list, when you rate a show, the rating is there for everyone to see, and for yourself to be constantly reminded of. So you are a lot less likely to give something a rating that you don't agree with |
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| Death Note deserves to be at the top not even second position does justice to it, and Eva needs to be high as well. So I prefer IMDb ratings |
| I don't really care about IMDB or MAL ratings. I only care about my own personal scores. |
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| I am an active user and recently became a fairly well-known semi-popular user on IMDB. I can vouch that IMDB is more addressing Film media as a whole and Anime is just another segment. On that site, there is a more flexible range of openness and willingness as people do tend to watch tons of shows of different types and lengths of various genres. Probably common knowledge, but since MAL is exclusively just for Anime and Manga, you could sort of expect the ratings to tend to be from people who are much more focused on this type of entertainment Ratings are just ratings, while they can be useful, it's always better to take the initiative and see for yourself. |
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| Both are equally worthless. Whether or not the same assortment of mainstream series are alternating top places on these sites is inconsequential. |
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| MAL is more for anime vs mixed on imdb as previously mentioned. But that means the stakes are higher on MAL because of the anime only databases |
| @ST63LTH you definitely have at least one character in your Favorites that would be good at Butt Sumo, and therefore one that would be bad. Why aren't you posting in my thread? https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2165027 |
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@ST63LTH you definitely have at least one character in your Favorites that would be good at Butt Sumo, and therefore one that would be bad.
Why aren't you posting in my thread? https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2165027
Why aren't you posting in my thread? https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2165027
| @IpreferEcchi that's wildddd lol can't think of any apart from some unintentional fanservice tho |
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@IpreferEcchi that's wildddd lol can't think of any apart from some unintentional fanservice tho
| @ST63LTH It's a SPECULATION thread. You're supposed to speculate which character in your Favorites would be good at Butt Sumo. Post the answer in my thread. |
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| Ratings never mattered anyways. That much is obvious. |
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