| Just because something is bad or mediocre, doesn't mean it isn't entertaining. |
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| In most cases I just drop anime if I don't enjoy them (especially if they become boring), but sometimes I get too attached to some aspect of the anime that I keep watching to enjoy the parts that I like or in the hope that it eventually gets better. While I don't necessarily like bad anime, it's also not like I absolutely can't enjoy them. An anime doesn't have to be good to get me hooked, it only needs to be interesting. |
| There have been times when I saw an anime that I would need to rate 11 or even 12 in relation to how I rated everything else. As that is impossible, I did the next best thing and adjusted everything else downwards. The last time I did this was when I had less than 300 anime in my list, though. Then there are anime I used to enjoy, but the ending or rewatching ruined my impression of them. Sometimes I'm just forced by the situation to sit through something, when watching with other people. So yeah, there are probably plenty of examples for that in my list. (My list on MAL doesn't have even a tenth of the anime I've seen. I added a bit, but then it became mendokusai.) |
| I totally get this perspective but I have a good handful of completed anime I’ve rated under a 6 sometimes I’ll see an anime through for the sole reason of wanting to see the resolution, other times it’s because a show is considered a top tier anime and I just want to see why a lot of the time I’ve watched so much of it that I just want to see the end because I’m already in too deep these days I’ll drop a seasonal after one or a couple eps as to not end up in that position— but I never rate anime I drop early on because I think rating something you haven’t seen much of is pretty irrelevant |
| I have the same policy, I just drop stuff now when I don't like them or they're boring, but... Yes, I have things in my completed list that are rated 1-5, because of one of the following reasons: 1. It was entertaining until I'd already watched most of it already then it did something in the last half or the final episode that caused me to lower the score 2. It was something short like a movie or OVA that didn't take much time to finish 3. I bought it on DVD/BD so I decided I'd watch the whole thing to get my money's worth out of it. 4. It was something my college's anime club was watching and I was out-voted and had to sit through it in order to continue watching shows I liked. The first 2 reasons still apply but the last 2 are mistakes of the past that are not current policy. I don't blind buy anymore and my college years were in the 2000s. |
KruszerJun 16, 5:18 PM
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| MAL defines 5 as Average so it's not even like that's offensively bad. Plenty of rated 5 anime I watched that I don't regret even if I wouldn't watch most of them a second time. Most of what I've finished that's lower is part of a franchise I like such as .hack and Final Fantasy I felt compelled to finish or a movie even if it sucked. It's pretty rare I come across anything so bad I have to drop, but maybe that just means I'm decent at self-selecting what I want to watch. Latest 4 is which a show which by all rights I should've followed my gut and dropped after a couple episodes, but it weirdly climaxed mid-season all the stuff it was building up and I was curious where it was going to go. Turns out nowhere, but hey, it at least hooked my interest in a trainwreck kind of way. |
| Yes. Most of them were pretty short. My time is cheap, and I get enjoyment from bad anime too, so that is why. |
| Yes, theres quite a few of them, try to drop the longer 12 episode ones unless it is funny bad. I still find <5 better then a 6 because they already tell you is bad and not tricking you |
| A decent percentage of what I've watched is below the threshold because before I'd watch every seasonal show regardless of how bad it was. If not seasonal I probably felt entitled to finish it if it was least bit entertaining. Nowadays if it's below 5 most likely a drop. |
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| Yes, a lot of them actually. I just have an unhealthy habit of completing almost everything that I start. Though some anime really start off quite interesting and then introduce some unnecessary drama in the last few episodes. And at that point I might as well complete it if I have already watched 10 of 12 episodes. |
| sometimes you just want to know what will happen/how it will end or you don't have anything better to watch, or last ep was so bad it made your rating drop and many other reasons it's actually strange to see someone with no sub 6 scored anime in their list. |
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| Yes because I am a completionist, or rather I was. Now I have effectively stopped watching animes. Kinda shifted on to manga. |
 -Tohka is better than Kurumi. You can't change my mind. |
| idk bruh i just like completing shit unless its SOOO bad that i just have to drop |
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| I just watch shit anime at 200-400% speed to get through them quicker. I can keep up with dialogue/subs no prob. I don't like dropping anime in general (can't explain why logically, it's purely an emotional reaction). |
| yes but not many. the only reason i'd rate an anime under like 5 or 6 is because the anime is just boring or im not necessarily vibing with the artstyle; but then again i drop anime due to the reasons so its really just a matter of whether i like it. |
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| Over 40 that are 5 or under (only 9 were 4 or under). A 5 for me is "neither good or bad". A good chunk were boring (didn't hold my interest but maybe they had a character I liked which carried the show). Or like someone mentioned the last few episodes rubbed me the wrong way and a 6 ended up getting downgraded to a 5. In the case of the first two seasons of Aria (fell asleep multiple times, often a couple times an episode) I pushed through because I'd heard fantastic things about Origination (which turned out to be accurate). I'm not a completionist (21 drops) although I'm probably more tolerant than I should be, hoping for an improvement, etc. I also have 17 On Hold probably half of which will get dropped and the other half finished but relegated to the 5 bin. |
8oomerJun 17, 4:56 PM
| Avatar: Anzu Kadotani from Girls und Panzer. Sig by MissIntrovert.  |
| First of all, no drop policy. However with at least half of the 5s and under I assumed I’d like the show but it was just a big letdown - either boring, trash plot or flat characters. Sometimes I also like to intentionally watch bad shows just for the hype. And then there’s the most important thing - I like to keep my watch list balanced. I don’t like watching good shows only - it gets boring after a while. One or two trash shows spice it up a little and make me appeeciate the great ones (or above average ones) even more. |
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| at this point I have seen so many anime's that I feel like I am just way pickier and have higher expectations. I typically will just finish the shows I watch that are bad because I'm able to multitask with a split screen, but if I'm super engaged then I'll totally sit and watch the entire through |
| I refuse to drop stuff even if I do hate it. It feels wrong to me to quit. I have a total of 645 completes 5 and under |
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| Ye, a couple but one stands above all of them It's one of the most beautifully crafted cinematic masterpiece of an anime (look at my name and pfp) The first anime that felt like home to me β‘ Everything about it seems perfect, the plot, characters, music, animation |
 "It is only when a mosquito lands on your testicles that you realize there is always a way to solve problems without using violence" -Monke |
| Having hopes that it becomes better is the only reason why I have series in my completed list, which have been rated badly by me. |
| Because I realised I should use all of the score numbers provided, so about half of the things I watch end up 5 or bellow, since half the score numbers are 5 or bellow. This also means that half end up 6 or above. Scores are just rankings, more closer to the center (5 and 6, 4 and 7) and less further to the sides (such as 1 and 10 aka extreme cases) |
| Yes, I have several. And because they don't deserve more, because they are bad. The same thing happens with movies. Some last more than two hours and as the minutes go by it gets worse and worse, but that doesn't mean I stop watching it. |
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| Yes because it reflects my personal opinion. Some things are uninspiring or not entertaining to garner a higher rating than 6 |
| I do have some but only a few and its mostly other seasons of anime and I wanted to finish it, mainly nanatsu no taizai, I wanted to shut my brain and do something else while watching it, it was such a pain for me I put it at 3/10. |
If you like doors welcome to the club Door Lovers!  |
| No offense (to the OP). But I don't rate anime television shows. |
| Anything that I've rated a 3 was so bad I thought they were funny. Stuff like Mars of Destruction and Garzey's Wing. |
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Reply to Lost_Viking
Anything that I've rated a 3 was so bad I thought they were funny. Stuff like Mars of Destruction and Garzey's Wing.
| @Lost_Viking ratings never mattered anyways btw. |
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@Lost_Viking ratings never mattered anyways btw.
| @DesuMaiden I mean yes they do, ratings can help you find animes, most of the time I took up an anime of a low rating I dropped it, because it was pretty objectively not great. |
| If you like doors welcome to the club Door Lovers! |
| The ones I've rated very low are shows I watched with other people. It's funny how bad this sounds, but it's just that I will quickly drop a show on my own if I'm not enjoying it |
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| I stopped rating and caring about rating years ago. But I remember wanting to actually use the whole 1-10 scale compared to many other MAL users that used something along the lines of 6: bad - 10: masterpiece. So when actually treating a 5 as an "average" anime and a 4 as not necessarily bad. it piled up pretty quickly, espechially when u watch multiple shows each season - like I used to back then. I also rarely used to drop animes So having a slightly altered rating system and refusing to drop 98% of anime no matter the quality i ended up with 201 anime rated 1-5 |
| Yeah, I just had plenty of time back then that even if I didn't necessarily vibe with a show as much, I still wanted to finish it either way. Nowadays though I don't have really have the time nor do I care about ratings as much, so I just drop a show if starts to bore me. |
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| I watched like 90% of my completed animes scored 5 or less within group watching sessions, so at least we were entertained by chatting about how bad the anime was (or whatever other topic was handy at the moment xD ). |
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| Some people just can't put up with the fact that someone, unlike them, is able to divide anime they watched and enjoyed in ten different categories. They think everyone should use only 3-4 upper scores for everything like they do. And when they see a slightly more complex and more intelligent approach they start feeling uncomfortable and start coming up with weird ideas and wrong conclusions. Superficial snowflakes with 7.5+ mean score just can't comprehend the fact that people enjoyed shows they rated 5 and lower. They just assume we hate those shows and suffer while watching them lol. We don't. We enjoy anime a lot. I bet my 4/10 has more love and appreciation than OP's 8/10. |
Nemo_NiemandJun 20, 6:26 AM
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| I used to try and not drop shows so I would try and complete everything until it started to feel like a chore so I stopped doing that. Other factors for me is the anime started out good and then really declined in the later episodes like RE: Monster...I enjoyed the first half of the anime but then it just got really stupid near the later half of the anime. It's a shorter anime so by the time it started to decline for me there were not that many episodes left so I just decided to complete it. If it was a longer anime I would have dropped it. |
SevenJun 20, 6:33 AM
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| My logic is, why watch something if you either know that its bad, or it is while watching it? Back in my day we didn't have the luxury of reviews at the touch of a button. When it came to anime on TV, we didn't even have a synopsis sometimes. Sometimes we never had a clue what we were watching. Have you ever seen Odin: Photon Space Sailor Starlight? Or Ronin Warriors? Or Lensman? Back then we took what we could get and not all of it was Redo of Healer quality. |
“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad.” |
| Sure. 5+ is "alright" to me, so no reason to drop it. Below 5 and completed usually only happens on later seasons of shows I already love, so if, for example, the first season was AMAZING I'm gonna have hopes for the second season too, ofc, so even when it's bad at first, I hold onto that hope that this is just a little stumble, SURELY it will return to form soon, riiight?? Except sometimes it never does π₯² Or sometimes, the show itself is great UNTIL the ending and that is so bad that it undoes everything that used to be good, but it's not like I could know that before the end. |
| There are many anime which I did not particularly like even from the outset, but I was still invested in the story and wanted to see it through. |
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| I finish everything I start. That is all. |
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