What's an anime you thought you'd give a high score at first but ended up giving it a low score? Or something you thought would be low but ended up getting a high score?
| It's a 2 part question. 1) An anime in the first couple episodes you thought you'd give it a high score but by the end, you gave it a low score. 2) An anime that at first you thought you'd give a low score but progressively got better and you gave it a high score. Mod Edit: 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. |
DBXApr 18, 2022 5:26 PM
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
| Thought i would like banana fish a lot more than i did, the story is good but idk there was something i didn't like about the execution of it? i may read the manga eventually didn't think i'd like azumanga daioh very much, but ended up giving it a 7, it was fun :) |
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| Even though I didn't rate aot a low score, I did think it would be higher. I don't really have anything I thought would be low but ended up being high. |
| 1. Railgun s3 (9→8), the second part of the season is not that great, and Charlotte(9 or 8→7), because of its rushed ending. 2. Dr.stone s2(8→9), the last two or three episodes made it even better. |
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| 1) Seven Deadly Sins. I don't even know why i had high hopes for this one. 2) 86. I'm not into mecha anime but this one became one of my favorites. |
| 1. Just this season with Sabikui Bisco. Fun start, but that's where the compliments end 2. Gal to Dino, especially when the live action scenes first appeared. But by the end of the series, I rated it a 9 XD |
| 1) Serial Experiments Lain. I thought I would give it a 8 or 9 but the anime didn't made sense to me. So I gave it 6. Hunter x Hunter. I thought it would be great as claimed by the elitists but that anime sucked after Yorknew City Arc. If the pacing had been done well, then I would have liked the show but instead I slept while watching this anime 2) Great Teacher Onizuka. I actually hated it at first but then as I saw more development in this show, I ended up liking it and gave it a 8/10. |
| surprised that noone mentioned promised neverland yet. s1 raised expectations so high but then what s2 delivered was so far beyond (or rather so far below) anyone's predictions on the other hand my first impression of nagatoro was not very good. I honestly considered dropping after ep 1. good thing I decided to give ep 2 a chance and the show kind of redeemed the initial impression pretty quickly |
| Am I a good person? No. But do I try to be better every single day? Also no |
| 1) The Day I Became a God. It was going well, and the thing that was supposed to be the "factor" was coming; in my opinion, it would have been an 8-9... then the ending came. 2) Null Peta. I thought it would be another series of the term "something to watch" and would have a score of 6. The incoming plot twist was amazing, in my opinion. It ended with a score of 8. |
| 1. i though parasyte would be better, but i didn't really like or didn't really get it 2. i thought zombieland saga would be an average, but i was actually impressed by it |
| 1. Code Geass - it has so many elements I like but it turned out to just have too much going on and it came across as a mess for me. I gave it a 4. 2. idolish7 - I was expecting a generic trashy anime with pretty boys (which I enjoy from time to time but never expect to be any good) but I actually loved it! I got really invested in the characters and storylines and I can’t wait for the next season! I gave it an 8. |
| I don't know... maybe something like Paprika? I really thought I would love it and give it a 9/10 or 10/10 because I heard great things about it and I loved Satoshi Kon's other work, Perfect Blue. I just thought it was just 'okay'. 6/10 (it's not really that low, but it doesn't take away the disappointment. I probably should've gone into it with an open mind). I remember being completely underwhelmed by Ghost In The Shell the first time I watched it (I think I gave it a 4/10) but I recently rewatched it and I liked it way more. For what I thought I would give a low score but was actually high, probably The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (I didn't get the hype around it until I watched it), Ghost In The Shell 2, Serial Experiments Lain (my sister would always complain how it was a load of utter nonsense), and Kanon. |
SaiteiDaOretteMar 31, 2022 6:21 PM
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| I thought that Cautious Hero anime would get a good score from me, it was hilarious and entertaining, and then they threw all of it away on a horrible twist. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| Hotarubi no Mori e :- Had high hopes for this one cuz it was rated 8.3 on Mal but it was just a dissapointment. People overrate it too much Corpse party:- I thought it would be trash like Pupa or something but it ain't that bad. I mean isn't something too good either. For me it's a decent 5/10 |
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| I thought I'd give Ousama Rankings a higher score but the second half wasn't as good as the first half. It's a shame. For the anime that I gave higher scores when I thought I'd give it a low score, I have a few in mind. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz comes to my mind cause with how shitty Wing is, I thought the movie would be the same, but it's a complete banger. Senki Zesshou Symphogear XV also comes to my mind because the other seasons are just consistent with its tone and story, but XV blows my mind so much that it's not even close. |
 I wasted all my time in rewatching to the point of my rewatch total is higher than my overall anime total lmao |
| I really thought I was going to give Kiznaiver a high score but it was just mediocre at best and Aria the Animation and all it's seasons I thought was going to be boring as shit despite its high score and boy, now i understand why it has a high score! |
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| Madoka Magica went 9 —> 7 for me with the ending. Wrapped everything up too neatly in a sort of bullshit way. Would have liked if they could have done something more bittersweet. |
| Before watching though: Mob Psycho 100. Ended up giving it a 5 (not terrible imo). I’d seen all the super good parts and expected more from it, but for a lot of it it’s kind of bland, boring, and just an inferior version of One Punch Man. Ended up liking Devilman Crybaby a lot more because the ending hit like a truck. |
Bruh69XDMar 31, 2022 7:28 PM
TheBlockernator said: What's an anime you thought you'd give a high score at first but ended up giving it a low score? Or something you thought would be low but ended up getting a high score? It's a 2 part question. 1) An anime in the first couple episodes you thought you'd give it a high score but by the end, you gave it a low score. 2) An anime that at first you thought you'd give a low score but progressively got better and you gave it a high score. Originally thought "Sonny Boy" was going to be good. Even though I didn't rate it till I finished watching it, I thought it was going to be a great Anime. Over all it was extremely boring. It was interesting at 1st but as the story went on I found myself falling asleep several time when binge watching it. Ended up giving it a less than stellar score because of this. When I 1st started watching "So I'm a Spider, So What?" I thought it was going to be lame considering how rushed the animation looked. After watching a few more episodes I started to enjoy the story finding it entertaining. I still didn't like the way the season ended but over all it was entertaining to finish. |
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| I never gave any filler movie a 10/10, even most canon movies are not worth a 10/10 IMO until recently when I watched the YYH 2018 Two-shots, it was really well made. Thought I'd give it a 9/10 at first but changed my mind into giving it a full score. I gave AOT and DS a full score as they were few of the first anime I ever watched, but I eventually decreased them to a 7/10 as I watched more deserving anime. |
AV_SINGHApr 4, 2022 9:57 AM
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| 1. Samurai Flamenco. The first 6 or so episodes led me to think it'd be a 7 or 8 series, but then ep 7 hit and it went on a downhill slide to a 4. 2. Shoukoku no Altair. I thought it'd be a 5 or MAYBE a 6 series because of the first few episodes... but it finally hit it's stride and hooked me after episode 5 and it's an 8 in my list. |
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| 1. Yakusoku no Neverland S2, i'm had some huge expectation on this one, since the first season was good, in the end it's was terrible tho. [9>3] 2. D-Frag at first i just thinking D-Frag was just another Comedy anime like the other ones, but after rewatching it several times then i realize D-Frag was Awesome. [6>9] |
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| Expected HXH after starting out pretty mid, and getting better with york new to end even better, but instead it fell off the cliff it climbed up |
| 1: Kado: The right answer The ending betrayed what the series was. A more comonly known show would be Steins;Gate. Liked the first half much more than the second one. 2: Battle spirits Bashin Dan Half way through, I finally had hopes for the show. |
| 1) Sword art online (Expected 7,Got 2) 2)The disastrous life of Saiki K (Expected 6,Is now one of my favourite series,10) |
| 1- Kill la Kill, I really don't like it. I loved it at first but close to the hallfway point I started finding it unbearable and a struggle to watch. And it just got worse, it's a 4 for me, I changed it to a 5 recently for some reason but I'm making it a 4 again. People were comparing it to Lagann back when it realeased, what an insult. 2- Kamichu! I remember specifically texting my ex bf stuff like "sorry babe I wanna finish this show, it's not even good it's like a 5..." and now I have it as a 9. It may lower to an 8 but even that's really good for a show I didn't like at first. Also Bakemonogatari, I really REALLY hated Senjougahara and didn't like the general tone/ comedy/ writing of the show. But it grew on me, even though I still don't like her I really began feeling like the show had something to it. An 8 |
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| 1) Terror in Resonance 2) My Hero Academia |
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| Horimiya was the disappointment. First 3 or so eps were really awesome. Then nothing interesting happened. Madoka was the pleasant surprise how good it got. |
| Zetsuen no Tempest Grand Blue Daily Lives of High School Boys Durarara!! All of them had the same reason.. first couple episodes were great and the rest wasn’t. I also thought I gave them a high score because their mean score is already really high like 8+ |
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| 1) parasyte, 6 isn't a low score but its the closest answer. 2) the tatami galaxy, i thought the first episode sucked but i loved it more and more |
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| I did not think I would like Kiki's Delivery Service as much as I did. When I watched this, I had already seen a few Ghibli movies and not been very impressed, failing to understand all the hype about them. I was expecting Kiki to be a 5 or 6, but I ended up giving it an 8. For the thought it'd be high but ended up being low, the obvious answers lie in some of my dropped animes, like Fruits Basket and Little Busters. For shows that I actually managed to finish, there are lots of shows that turned out to be average, but one show I was excited for was The Way of the Househusband, only to end up heavily dissapointed with the execution of the show. I ended up giving it a 3 whereas I was expecting a 7 or 8. |
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| 1. Shaman King 2021 and TPN S2. I expected SK21 to be better than the previous adaptation but it ended up being worse. TPN S2 was really bad. Both were a waste of time. 2. 86 and Steins;Gate. The first few episodes for these anime didn't impress me much when I first watched them. Both ended up being 10/10 anime for me. |
| Seitokai Yakuindomo. I thought I might be enjoying sexual jokes but I wasn't really., Nichijou. I was really expecting 10/10 but I was dissappointed. There were golden moments like deer vs teacher, mio loses it and dog bite but I didn't like that much I thought I would. Mairimashita! Iruma-kun. I wasn't really expecting anything and in first episodes I thought I'd drop it few episodes later. But I enjoyed very much in the end. I'm glad I didn't drop it. Log Horizon. I thought it could be one of my favorite shows but it felt pretty lackluster and all the girls likes the mc and wants him to all to herself. (Such a classic.) Bofuri. I was expecting something interesting and funny but it was just moe with isekai elements blended in. Magi series as a whole. I really wanted to like this series but didn't click for me. Felt like glorified shounen. |
FurkanTurin12Apr 12, 2022 10:16 AM
| I loved Odd Taxi most of the way through, thinking I'd give it a 9 or a 10. A couple of reveals in the final episode ruined it for me. I gave it a 7. |
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| demonslayer . when I watched the first ep I was really interested in the world and story but they did nothing. I read the manga and nothing good happened there as well.it just turned out to be another mid show with pretty animation. also when I watched mob psycho s1 I thought it was just a fun show but the second season made it one of my favorites. |
RBTHE1STApr 12, 2022 10:56 AM
| I had really high hopes for Tatami Galaxy but it sort of fell flat for me. I understand why people like it and I respect that but I didn't really enjoy it that much. On the other hand, I had low expectations for Shingeki No Kyojin but I ended up absolutely loving the series. |
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garlicdreab said: Thought i would like banana fish a lot more than i did, the story is good but idk there was something i didn't like about the execution of it? i may read the manga eventually didn't think i'd like azumanga daioh very much, but ended up giving it a 7, it was fun :) i really agree banana fish was really underwhelming in my opinion mainly because so many people said it would absolutely destroy me so i put it on such a high pedestal. I do actually want to read the manga though see if i can give it another shot |
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