Out of all anime (if any) you have rated a 10, whether series or film, which is the lowest rated by the general public and why?
FullyCharged said: I'll put all SAO entries in one, otherwise I would just list all of them on this list (shame on you if you rated low!) 0) All SAO series (7.05 and above) 1) Grancrest Senki (7.30) 2) Pop Team Epic (7.32) 3) Accel World (7.44) 4) Darling in the Franxx (7.45) 5) Mirai Nikki: Redial (7.51) 6) SukaSuka (7.81) 7) Gate S2 (7.85) 8) FGO Learn with Manga mini series (7.85) 9) Kokoro Connect (7.89) 10) Kokoro ga Sakebitagatterunda. (8.08) 11) Angel Beats! (8.24) 12) Shelter (music video) (8.39) 13) Kiseiju (8.47) 14) Steins;Gate Movie: Fuka Ryouiki no Déjà vu (8.53) 15) Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu (8.68) 16) One Punch Man (8.67) 17) Gurren Lagann (8.70) 18) Clannad After Story (8.98) 19) Your Name (9.08) 20) Steins;Gate (9.14) Those are all my 10/10s, from the lowest average score on MAL to the highest I hail and applaud your thoroughness, sir or ma'am. I didn't consider doing this previously when I created the thread topic but I believe I'll throw mine into the ring as well. Very simple and effective way to put all the figures together and represent the magnitude of the disparity. All my 10s in ranked descending order from lowest rated to highest: *Tally of user votes included on anime for which the numerical figure is otherwise indistinguishable from another listing 1) Koi Kaze (7.20) 2) Inuyasha the Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island - 7.56 3) Inuyasha the Movie 1: Affections Touching Across Time - 7.60 4) Inuyasha the Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler - 7.82 5) Inuyasha - 7.86 6) Haibane Renmei - 8.01 (with 70,116 user votes) 7) Serial Experiments Lain - 8.01 (with 148,997 user votes) 8) Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - 8.04 9) Inuyasha: The Final Act - 8.27 10) Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai - 8.29 11) Usagi Drop - 8.47 (with 169,750 user votes) 12) Kenppu Denki Berserk - 8.47 (with 188,639 user votes) 13) Spirited Away - 8.88 None of the ratings actually really surprise me. We're only talking about a one to 2 1/2+ point disparity here. Even the highest rated works of art in existence can never receive universal acclaim and approval. There will always be some disagreement and dissent. In some cases, I'm surprised some are as scored as high as they are actually. Lain and Haibane are not appealing to typical mainstream preference for content and the former is particularly inaccessible because of how slow, abstract, and disjointed its narrative style is. If anything, it's a testament to its quality in writing, art direction, and some revolutionary ideas and concepts it brought to the screen that it's rated and generally praised as highly as it is. Higurashi seems tame after the era of torture porn and borderline snuff/exploitation films in Hollywood in terms of gore, firstly because it's animated which always downgrades how off-putting it should be to folk, and second because it isn't all that explicitly gory for most of its runtime compared to some more known and popular film titles which are very graphic. But it does have a lot of disturbing material like body horror, mental illness, mass murder conspiracies, etc., so I just think anything with that and horror and thriller titles in general are going to never appeal to a not insignificant bloc of potential audience. Koi Kaze is the one most sad to me. I've never heard any serious or detailed criticism in any capacity of the writing or the music, which is top-knotch. The worst criticism I've heard of it on the technical side is from people who don't like the animation style because of being older compared to modern stuff and watercolor + some artistic choices like hazy backgrounds and less detailed faces with white in orifices in drawing style. None of that would be egregious enough or create enough widespread opposition to lower its rating that much. So most of the grievances are as expected, with the content of the story itself. And for that all I can say is that it seems few common human ethical principles and mores, which seem to be very subjective, relative, transient, and vary radically ideologically from person to person, country to country, and time period to time period are as far-reaching and commonplace as the age-old taboo against (specifically sibling or parental) incest. It seems to span and traverse the boundaries of a majority of human societies in recorded history, and I would argue is on par in terms of universality with the support for some form of prohibition against murder in the legal code, and even exceeding opposition to infanticide. So like anything which challenges overwhelming majority of society's assumptions, pretensions, and sense of self/identity and portrays narratively, visually/aesthetically, and musically in the most beautiful manner something which most people consider uncompromisingly, unspeakably, almost instinctively ugly, it will never receive that wide acceptance. Its rating would sadly probably only fall even lower if its audience were larger, and that's a sad fact of human nature. |
| Mine is Koi wa Ameagari no You no with a score at 7.59. I guess it is so low because of the fact that it centers around a 17-year-old girl falling in love with a like 46-year-old man which kinda deters people from it |
| Highschool DxD has the largest disparity between the popular score and my 10 score. It happens that I sort Ecchi and non-Ecchi intended shows so that means Highschool DxD scored the highest amongst the Ecchi I watched. If the purpose is lewdness and I achieve the lewd enjoyment, therefore, the show served its intended purpose so it is 10 score for me. Of course, the plot was big. |
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| Tenkuu no Escaflowne is only rated a 7.72...Probably it's age has something to do with its low rating or the fact that it's an isekai. Then again I probably was a point or two too generous with that one. |
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| My lowest rated 10 is Shisha no Sho (MAL 6.06), also my highest positive difference from the MAL average. My most negative difference is Violet Evergarden at 2 (MAL 8.62) |
| Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World (8.37) Probably because of the main character's role, acting as an observer throughout the series, I guess it pisses people off that even though the main character could help some people along its journey its prefers not to. |
| Voices of a Distant Star or Hoshi no Koe. I honestly have no idea why it is rated at 7.29 maybe cause its length and how its feels open ended compared to the manga adaption? |
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| texhnolyze, ummmm. well it is disliked by the mass majority. just watch a few episodes its a hit or miss |
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| sarazanmai is the most underrated anime i’ve ever seen just because people dropped it after seeing the first episode without taking the time to continue and experience the pain of crying till you literally flood your house |
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Just_A_ManBOi said: texhnolyze, ummmm. well it is disliked by the mass majority. just watch a few episodes its a hit or miss Do you mean to say that the episodes themselves are a hit or miss (some good and some bad) or that whether a particular person will like the show overall is very hit and miss? I ask because I'm always thinking about it on and off since I've delayed watching it for a while. |
WatchTillTandava said: Just_A_ManBOi said: texhnolyze, ummmm. well it is disliked by the mass majority. just watch a few episodes its a hit or miss Do you mean to say that the episodes themselves are a hit or miss (some good and some bad) or that whether a particular person will like the show overall is very hit and miss? I ask because I'm always thinking about it on and off since I've delayed watching it for a while. more like the whole show in general. I can grow on u tho. It just felt like a masterpiece and just never dissapointed. If u do decide to watch it i suggest reading ep discussions after every ep for a better and clearer understanding. |
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| 3-gatsu S2 with .96 deviation, but that also happens to be my only 10 so that might be why. |
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| There are only 5 anime I’ve given a 10/10, lowest-rated on mal being https://myanimelist.net/anime/7720/Ookiku_Furikabutte__Natsu_no_Taikai-hen 8.09 That’s a very comfortable score, but in my eyes, this sequel did everything it needed to do and hit it out of the park. It’s the only one that I gave a “masterpiece” score after a rewatch, although the series as a whole I’d give a 10 if it were 1 entry. It’s a character drama revolved around a boy with anxiety and his playing in realistic games of baseball. I think viewers expect something more intense, more “hype,” with ridiculous exaggerations of the sport (I say that lovingly) similar to its genre-brothers. The protagonist has a lot of self-doubt and the pace is slow so yeah, people will have preferences. Other than that, teammates other than the central 4 could be hard to differentiate due to similar designs. With that being said, me, still, in the year 2020: I hope Ookiku Furikabutte gets a third season Other 4 and their ratings, lowest to highest: Princess Tutu (8.18) ~ TBH the only one I consider an actual, literal masterpiece in anime thus far) Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou (8.60) Natsume Yuujinchou Shi (8.70) Hunter x Hunter 2011 (9.12) |
| Boogiepop wa Warawanai, the one from 2000, with a score of 7.18. I guess I can kinda see why, it's a little older and is probably pretty confusing to most watchers. Idk, but it's one of the best anime i've come across. |
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| I haven't checked because I'm typing this in my math class right now but I think Hoshiai no Sora has a score of 7 or something. Many people didn't like it because it's not complete yet or they found it boring because they were touching on real life situations/youth struggles. I personally found the anime as a masterpiece because I can somewhat relate to it and no anime has really focused on bad parenting and the effects it has on the kids. Or some people may not even have watched it but I highly recommend. It's not complete, only half the anime has been released but the first 12 episodes are really good. |
| Isekai wa Smartphone at 6.51, It's pure escapism to the point of being disgusting sp I'm not surprised people get repulsed by it. It also throws a giant middle finger to anyone who enters it looking for some ''cool action'' as it always solve everything in the most anticlimatic way. It's actually a very unique series in that way. @guych It's actually Amagami SS+ Plus at 7.52, Hoshiai no Sora is at 7.58. |
RoevhaalFeb 14, 2020 11:25 AM
| All of my 10s are from 2014 but the one im most ashamed of is black bullet,idk if its the lowest rated(but it should be). |
| Akage no Anne for reasons I have yet to encounter. People probably don't appreciate well written and thought provoking dialogue, intelligent and loving slice of life or good charaters in general. |
Roevhaal said: Isekai wa Smartphone at 6.51, It's pure escapism to the point of being disgusting sp I'm not surprised people get repulsed by it. It also throws a giant middle finger to anyone who enters it looking for some ''cool action'' as it always solve everything in the most anticlimatic way. It's actually a very unique series in that way. @guych It's actually Amagami SS+ Plus at 7.52, Hoshiai no Sora is at 7.58. Thank you for searching it for me! I'm in history right now and I was just about to look it up lol |
| Zero no Tsukaima with 7.43 and Sunabouzu with 7.46 because it's ecchi I guess |
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| The “worst” 10 I’ve got is melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya at 7.92. This score was way higher in 2006 though. The show kinda revolutionized the high school, comedy, geek genre because of its high production value which was previously only reserved for action-drama shows. The score has deteriorated because of two reasons: Infamous second season and aging badly. The second season featured eight consecutive episodes with the exact same plot structure, resulting in a big scandal known as “endless eight”. The show got a worse reputation, resulting in lower scores. The show hasn’t aged very well, because of its inherent structure. Most high-school dramas from 2006-today draw heavy inspiration from this show. However, modern high-school shows feature more developed themes and draw more effectively from the target audience’s subculture. While Haruhi has common anime themes, like “moe”, “deres”, and computer geekdom, modern shows use more matured and relevant versions of these themes. Despite all this, Haruhi is noteworthy for being one of the first shows to fully embrace otaku culture, which is why the show was so beloved back then. When new viewers watch this series now, they might find the show to be ironically unoriginal, because new shows drew so much inspiration from it. This is sad, because this show features the best writing of any high-school show I’ve seen. I really connect with the characters though, which is the main reason I love this show. |
| Cossette no Shouzou is on my list as a 10 and I think it's sitting at around a 6.9 |
| Out of all anime I rated a 10 (exactly one) Haibane Renmei is currently at 8.01 |
| Out of all of my 10/10 rated anime the lowest rated one publicly is Aquarion Logos with a 5.8 MAL rating. I think it's because........I have no idea why. I don't even know if it is actually a 10/10. I watched it a long time ago. If you guys need help figuring out which anime of yours is the lowest rated Use this https://anime.plus/ |
| Texhnolyze, it has a 7.76. It is probably because it is a 22 episode series of constant pain and discomfort. |
| Shingeki no Kyojin S1. I know it is still has a pretty good score (8.47), but I really feel people should treat this season with way more excitement and praisement than it receives. It basically does everything perfect in order for the viewer have a blast while watching it. Right from the start the show already make you care with the characters, their motivations, the world, and most important, it makes you actually scared (and angry) about the titans. With all that just in the first 2 episodes, the show only carries those emotion with perfect direction and soundtrack and a extremelly well made screenplay. Almost every episode you feel on edge with the amazing action sequences, the extreme high stakes and unexpected events. After you finish, all you can feel is the need of going online to see other people praising the fuck out of this show, but then... There isn't that much praising, specially nowadays. Aparently it became cool to imply the first Season was the weakest because it was extremelly popular back in 2013. In the end, S1 still is by far one of the best things I've consumed in any media, and why it is not treated as a masterpiece is just beyond me. At least Season 3 Part 2 is getting the recognition it deserves |
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| Ride Your Wave (Kimi to, Nami ni Noretara) has a decent rating of a 7.48, but I easily gave this a 10. The main problem with this movie is the TRAILER. Yeah, the trailer kinda spoils the movie so much, that it pretty much makes it twice as boring for most people. Highly recommend this movie if you go in blind without reading the description or watching the trailer. |
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| Daily lives of highschool boys. Probably rated the lowest because its a comedy and comedy is always subjective. |
horridhendy said: Thank you for saying this because sometimes I think I’m crazy for how obsessed with Inuyasha I am. I honestly cannot think of a show that’s had as great of an impact on me ever (maybe Buffy, but it’s not the same). I can’t exactly put my finger on why necessarily but literally every aspect of that show just clicks for me. I love the action, I find it hilarious, I LOVE the characters, the animation, the villains, just everything. I think one thing I like that makes it stand out from other shows is that it has all the advantages of a long running show but without the drawbacks. By that I mean it has an overarching plot. It’s not episodic and although it has arcs, they are all encompassed into the main plot. But being a long running show that you really get invested in the characters. People have complained about filler episodes but honestly they’re my favourite part so for me, there were enough of them. I especially love when Inuyasha goes to modern day Japan. He’s so adorable, trying to protect Kagome from volleyballs <3 As for the movies, this is going to sound really stupid but I have been spacing them out because I know they are the last little bit of Inuyasha content that I have. So I haven’t seen the 4th one yet. That’s dumb isn’t it? But of the movies, the 3rd one is definitely my fave (but we’re talking about the difference between a 10 and a 10). I preferred the 2nd one to the 1st but only just. It had more Inuyasha x Kagome romance, the visuals were stun and it wove well into the series plot without affecting it. But I can see why you liked it less, it was fairly convoluted. So glad that someone else feels the same way about this series I do! Because being scored less than 8 on here feels like some sort of crime against humanity to me ;) I spent the day I had finished Inuyasha back in December of 2016 kind of in a stupor of shock and awe, and I swore up and down to myself that "Yes, the TV series was incredible and I just completed such an epic journey and media experience unlike any other I've confronted, but I'm not going to jump into those films right away. There are several and I need to take a break." I thought I'd watch some other anime series and return to them perhaps several months down the line. That didn't even last a week. I think within three days I jumped on them. I am weak. Particularly so before the alluring powers of the Sengoku jidai. So I don't consider it stupid or silly to attempt to space the movies out and savor them - it's more like I can only stand in astonishment at such resilience. And long since I've completed the series I've stumbled upon some online watch guides posted on various forums intended for newcomers to this world and I didn't realize this on the first go, but the movies can actually be placed directly between specific numbered episodes for the viewing experience with tightest/most accurate and consistent chronology. Like the first one comes after episode 54 of season two and the battle with the dragon daiyokai, Ryūkotsusei. Which makes sense considering the sword's enhanced techniques being featured in it. I don't remember off the top of my head the episode numbers correlating with the second and third right now (but the guide is easily accessible online), but the fourth and last one comes after episode 167, or the last episode of the original series run before the hiatus and last season (The Final Act). As I said though, I didn't know any of that until after the fact. And quite right - A long serialized show where you actually care deeply about the nuance of every little thing that happens and is said, whether funny, endearing, tragic, desperate, etc. is what produced an unparalleled experience. Such a long serialized show not bogged down in the monster-of-the-week formula (people criticize it for this for any of the episodes that aren't about the primary conflict with Naraku directly, not recognizing or appreciating that the character moments in those episodes are just as important to the overall plot as the martial conflict) is a dream come true for those who have the patience and attention span to open their minds/hearts to it. I stand by that sentiment. I'll say this about all the folks complaining about all the "filler" episodes (I don't really believe this term has much legitimacy and feel it's overused, as "filler" is technically just anything that doesn't appear in the manga, even if it's important for the show-only watchers and takes an inherently dismissive attitude toward the anime show watchers just because of deviations from the source material. On top of that, some of the more relaxing character-building episodes are not original material but manga-sourced canon anyway) - They just want a neat and streamlined 12, 13, 22, 24, or 26 episode series which condenses everything down to its essence and trims out all the nuance and detail and sense of the passage of time conveyed over the course of a longer work. I see that as the constant throughline in all their reviews and criticisms of the series on this aspect. And there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that preference, but it's fundamentally different from what I want from an artistic marvel I can truly get invested in from inception to finale. If you just shave the show down to the height of the shikon and Naraku conflict, like a playlist of its greatest hits, then it can jump from thrilling plot development to plot development with no breath in-between. And also no life in-between, in my view. It's certainly not what I want. One more point - I believe we're in agreement about some of the show's greatest attributes coming from its showcasing of introspective character moments (heavily InuKag, but Kikyo, Sango, Sesshomaru, and even Naraku and Kohaku get this in subtler fashion) as well as their interpersonal relations with one another. I question myself how much this derives from Takahashi-san's creative influence. And since I haven't seen and don't feel attracted to trying out most battle shounen as of yet, I wonder if it's because the soul of the series lies in the middle ground of Shounen + Shoujo. And that's also why it seems like such a rarity both of its time, but also ever since. |
WatchTillTandavaFeb 14, 2020 6:51 PM
| I rated the Kiss X Sis OVA a 10/10 but its score on MAL is only 7.07. I think its harder for animes that I'd consider to be "fun animes" to get really high ratings compared to intellectual/psychological or dark animes. I'm not necessarily deriding people for this, I mean, all the animes that I rated a 10/10 besides Kiss X Sis are psychological/dark animes. I gave Kiss X Sis a 10/10 though because its a fun anime that manages to be almost as compelling as those other animes are. The characters in Kiss X Sis were amazing characters, the comedy was hilarious, the ecchi was some of the best I've seen in an anime so far. I've gone back to Kiss X Sis and fapped several times. Kiss X Sis would've still been a very good anime without all the sex scenes but the sex scenes made it much much better. |
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| Mine is Yahari Ore No Seishun Love Comedy Wa Machigatteiru, or OreGairu, Season 2. It's rated almost an 8.30 by the rest of the public, so it's really not that much of a stretch, it's just one of those shows that I think resonates with a lot of people, but there is also a ton of room for subjectivity on the series, characters, and themes. I have pretty particular taste, my all of my 10/10's are pretty well-liked by the general populace. |
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| My lowest rated 10 is Aikatsu at 7.44 and I think that's because people have shit taste. It's an idol anime made for children and I think people just view it as that and don't really give much thought towards its themes. I also have much more of a taste for idol anime than your average Joe so the fact that I'm definitely rating it higher than someone with a purely objective standpoint would should definitely be put into consideration. |
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| Of the 3 10s I've given, Planetes is the lowest with an 8.33. As far as I'm concerned, this is a pretty damn high rating by MAL standards, especially for a more lesser known sci-fi from the early 2000s. As for why, I think it's mostly just because I fell in love with the each of the characters. Based on what I've seen, some people (very stupid people) tend to dislike Tanabe's optimism and are unable to differentiate disagree with a character and a character being bad. |
| People who put MAL stats in their sigs are losers lol |
| my lowest 10 its Hi☆sCoool! SeHa Girls with 6.55 on MAL, its a pretty low rating in MAL standards, and i can imagine why, its in 3D, its a short serie, but man, for me even the trailer got me excited about this anime, and how the things will occur, and in the end its a truly masterpiece for me |
| I guess that would be To LOVE-Ru Darkness (only one below 8.00 on MAL I have at 10). I will stand firm in that it is still the epitome of what ecchi/harems are capable of doing and it is a fantastic showcasing of how to do pretty much everything right within the genre (I have a stupidly long review of the manga here on MAL if you want all the details) But ultimately it is still an ecchi/harem and so naturally it will never be able to have mainstream public appeal and thus high MAL scores are nigh impossible to achieve, even if it does have a very dedicated fanbase |
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Dokatade said: and since you posted it in this thread I assume you rated it 10/10?papa to kiss in the dark was the worst rated by me , it's just so fucking bad and nobody should watch it ! it's not bc it's yaoi i am a huge yaoi fan but i juust .. yall better read the plot to understand |
| UTENA: 8.19 Which is already a pretty good score from the general public, considering its trippy, confusing, open to interpretation nature. Also, homossexuality. |
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| Nora to Oujo to Noraneko Heart.. It has 5.42 rating now, lol.. ;p It was just good shorts anime.. Got exactly, what I expected with show being tagged comedy and ecchi.. If you don't want these exact things right now, you just watch something else what you want, really.. Anime gave me lots of different emotions, it was very enjoyable.. Also it's shorts - 11 episodes, 3 minutes each.. ;p Also goat episode, if you know what I mean.. ;p You can find these statistics on user (on yourself or anyone) btw in MAL Graph, for example.. Like open graph, enter user, upload/update list, wait a minute or so for list to get loaded in, then go to "Anime list" section and sort by Diff (difference).. |
HybenWinther said: Mine is Koi wa Ameagari no You no with a score at 7.59. I guess it is so low because of the fact that it centers around a 17-year-old girl falling in love with a like 46-year-old man which kinda deters people from it I gave a try to that anime exactly because of the theme. What made me rate it low-ish is that they did nothing with the romance in the end, after lots of buildup. |
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FullyCharged said: HybenWinther said: Mine is Koi wa Ameagari no You no with a score at 7.59. I guess it is so low because of the fact that it centers around a 17-year-old girl falling in love with a like 46-year-old man which kinda deters people from it I gave a try to that anime exactly because of the theme. What made me rate it low-ish is that they did nothing with the romance in the end, after lots of buildup. it's kinda funny because I actually rated it as high as I did because they DIDN`T end up together in the end haha. But I get where you're coming from regarding the romance, but I guess that I personally hoped they wouldn't end up together from the very start so for me it wasn't really a letdown :) |
| Out of all the series I've given a 10 to, the one with the lowest average score would be the My Hero Academia: Two Heroes movie (8.03) I guess it might be because it's considered non-canon by some people? That, or maybe the plot of it wasn't as good as the main series. That's all I can think of. |
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