Overall, do you rate anime generously or harshly? Why?

I try to be generous, which is why my mean score leans a bit high. But when I find a stinker...



...I'm not nice. This anime is literally a "drink every time there's an animation error" with a non-zero chance of hospitalization type of anime, btw.

I'd like to believe I rate most anime fairly, except for a bunch of shows which I loathe on the basis of their underlying ideology.

From the point of view of an average person though, my ratings are on the harsh side, because I'm mainly concerned with the show's quality of writing and fundamental worth as a work of fiction rather than its ability to pander to its target demographic and viability as a commercial product.

I only just started watching anime and I've liked every one of watched even if parts of it were bad. I tend to rate anime really generously because I think of the amount of work that goes into any anime. From the animation to the music, and everything in between, many talented people have worked really hard on it so even if it sucks I can't bring myself to rate it lower than a 6. Besides, it's not like I can even draw a single frame out of a show since it's so damn good so I have immense respect for the animators.

@Daviljoe193 You seemed to step on a landmine that time, my condolences to you :D

@iThink I see, you have your own principles, nice :)

You also seem to have no-drop rule, Are you alright when you have to sit through watching bad shows until the end? :D

I rate on a more critical and analytical (i know this sounds useless) perspective so I tend to be more harsh, though sometimes I’m generous because of the benefit of the doubt.

@Daviljoe193 I don’t know why but every time I see you dunking on Ojou to Banken-kun is hilarious to me lol

I would like to think i rate anime fairly and try to use all scores from 1-10.
I have been told i'm both though. I have no idea what that means.

One of the most harshest raters on Mal is me. I can guarantee if I have seen similar anime to some of the top watched anime people all 1's. NO lies

I used to be more generous but nowadays I tend to be harsher. I even went through my list and changed a lot of the scores I had originally given some anime.

I give anything that is watchable more than 5. I give relatively high scores to most anime.
Never understood the whole 'utilise all of the rating scale' point that a lot of people make. I believe that most anime out there is good and that's why my ratings are centered around 7.

I rate anime according to the descriptions (so 7 = good, 4= bad, 2 = horrible, ect.), which is apperantly quite harsh compared to the Avg. Scores.

Sometimes it's sad to contribute to a score I find too low but I need at least 10 diffrent categories to rate anime appropriately.

For example: Prima Doll and it's 7.13 score. It was a lot better than many shows with higher scores in Summer '22! But it just isn't good enough to get the same ranking as my 8's, so I only gave it a 7 myself.

Overall generously. Most anime that I do dislike I try my best to be constructive about it, even if it doesn't go that way every single time.

@Luchipher-Zen I see, did you actually enjoy watching the anime you rated 6?

@Psyzzy I see, since your list is restricted to be seen, mind telling me what is the lowest score you have ever given and what anime is that?

@haerina Probably that means you're harsh when you rate anime you consider bad and you're generous when you enjoy watching it, hence both ;)

@Horshu Oh my, such a low mean score ;)

I find it entertaining that on your Bleach TYBW note you said you loved it but gave it 6 anyway, as well as saying nice to Fate Zero but rate it 3 anyway :D

it looks like your 6 is other people's 9 :)

@Rinrinka Im hard to be satisfied to the point I believe that I will never find a 10/10 anime. The chances are slim however I am a masochist so it really depends.

@Horshu Even though it's still pretty early on, I kinda wanna see someone who manages a -50 affinity score with nearly everybody. Already it seems like you're on your way to hitting -50 affinity with me, which is kinda exciting, since the lowest I've seen prior was like -39.

@Daviljoe193 Wait, what is an affinity score?

@Horshu Basically on desktop, you go to someone's profile while logged in, and you'll see this on the left.



The higher the score, the more compatible someone's tastes are, and the lower, the less compatible. -50 is basically like being the Satan of MAL. I had to do the math by hand for my affinity to you, since we don't have enough shared anime that's also scored, but it's pretty deep in the negatives right now. :)