Has using MAL made you enjoy anime less?

I experience anime like it’s meant to be. as a joyful experience, not a excel spreadsheet.
I never understand The obsession with ratings and rankings which have turned some fans into haters before they even finish the story. It’s like watching people treat anime like a financial report instead.

I'm vibing with Ayase_seiko, MakiZenin , letting the dommy mommies hit me raw, while everyone else is pausing mid-episode to ask, “Is this an 8.3 or an 8.7?” It’s wild.

Watching Anime isn’t a competition, or running a business.. Anime is about escaping reality, mood boosters , a hopeful memory of ideal upotia, a moment that I will take to my grave.
In the final moments of my life, you bet I'll be thinking of anime getting reincarnated as a keiichi Nakagawa in my next life.

I discovered more thanks to MAL but recently it been hard to find anime I enjoy to watch expect one or maybe two per season. so instead, i kinda started making my own story, like directing a light novel using ai.

anyone else feel like the more you watch, the harder it gets to find that “wow, this is special” feeling again?

@XzaR if course, it's just natural process, the more you watch - the more you have experience and it more and more harder to impress you. Plus quantity of great/good anime isn't unlimited too.

@Stanis150
yeah totally, i get that. feels like i’ve seen everything already lol. but once in a while something random just clicks again and reminds me why i love anime. any shows that did that for you recently?

No. I like tracking shit and that increases my enjoyment

I enjoy the same as before. I do feel I've become more critical, but that's a consequence of watching so many anime.
Before MAL, I used an Excel sheet to do exactly what I am doing in MAL (including the rating system 1-10).
MAL made me more organized and provided me with a lot of info I was lacking at the time (and didn't know where to look).
If anything, it made me more motivated to watch anime.

@XzaR Last great anime what I watched is probably Master Keaton. Long time I ignore it because it looks like "possibly boring" and because it episodic format, but it ended to be amazing show. You may check first 2-3 episodes, if you will like it - you will like all of them.

Also, Fantastic children was (ha-ha) fantastic. For my taste, there was one of the best directing/storytelling at all (mystery) anime in general. Plus emotional part of the story work very well too.

And I watched many old OVA recently, so most what I like is:
- Phantom quest corp. - amazing MC and comedy in general.
- Fight! Iczer-one - I was surprised how great quality it was in general and how cinematic it was sometimes
- Dominion tank police (only first ova is great) - it has great director too and surprisingly deep story like for so much absurd comedy.

P.s. sorry don't have time to check what you watched, so hope not all this rec. would be irrelevant)

@Morphun ahh, you just reminded me of the excel document I created of all the animes I was to watch as new seasons, and the ones to continue hehe

Yeah master keaton is such a gem — I didn’t expect to like it that much either. it’s slow but in a really grounded, thoughtful way. those little “human moments” are nice.

Haven’t seen Phantom Quest Corp or Fight! Iczer-One though, sounds like my kind of old-school charm. and Dominion Tank Police — yeah, I think i watched the first ova ages ago, wild mix of chaos and satire lol.

Do you usually go for older series like that, or just mixing them in between new stuff?

@XzaR I don't have any strong preferences, it just happened that recently I mostly watch older shows. From recent anime, I really enjoed Yatagarasu and Girls Band Cry.

Rating anime helps me have a better understanding of my taste, and enjoying a low rated anime makes me feel that the masses are too dumb and naive to see it's appeal and I love doing numeric shit, lists, tier lists and everything related to that. And interacting with people, polls, cute little events, conquest makes me enjoy slope shonens aswell... Like Tougen Anki and i love badges and certificate collection in relief... so it is addicting like a gacha... i have always been an ambivert and will see the anime as pieces of art and comparing characters, focusing on their writing makes them more enjoyable...

@Stanis150

Hi, okey.

if you like those older series, i’d totally recommend Musekinin Kanchou Tylor (Irresponsible Captain Tylor). it’s one of those shows that looks like pure comedy at first, but underneath all the chaos there’s a weirdly thoughtful tone. tylor’s kinda like GTO’s onizuka thrown into space — reckless, charming, and somehow always right even when he shouldn’t be.

it’s got that Patlabor humor mixed with Legend of the Galactic Heroes seriousness, just wrapped in this easygoing vibe that sneaks up on you emotionally. definitely one of those “is he an idiot or a genius?” type of shows, and that’s exactly what makes it fun.

Have you seen it?

By the way I am watching Fight! Iczer-on right now :) thanks for the recommendation.