| Bad anime =! I-don't-like-it anime =! dropped =! indefinite on-hold I have some shows which I gave 1, 2, 3; But I'm still able to finish it anyway. But I also have those 4, 5, 6; But I'm dropping it. Why? Fun or no fun is what actually matters. |
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| Depends, for me, a 5 means average, and therefore a 4 doesn't mean its that bad. As someone who enjoys anime, I enjoyed most of the 4-rated anime in my list, but obviously not as much as the higher rated anime. Anime 3 and under were pretty bad, but either I was extremely bored at the time or I just wanted to finish it. |
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| Because MAL users need to do this in order to achieve their well-coveted low mean score. |
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Kagami_Hiiragi said: KaniowskiKun101 said: What if it's actually so bad that it's unwatchable and makes you want to punch a hole in the wall? Some series are "so bad it's good" while others are "so bad that they are unwatchable and pure shit". If you're going to punch a hole in a wall because a show is unwatchable then that person may need to go to anger management. Like I said, the 1 - 3 ratings were created to be used and not as a design. Not using them at least sometimes seems like a bad call in my opinion. You know you can drop AND rate?  |
| Because it might get better later on, although with some anime I have watched that's not the case |
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kiotsuga- said: Because an empty drop list is important for some people maybe? Saw a guy with over 3000 anime in his watched section and 0 in his dropped list. A true anime warrior if I've ever seen one. |
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| Nice responses guys. I feel a little more informed now :) This thread was totally not made to try and find out why people complete Sword Art Online, give it a 1 and then proceed to watch Sword Art Online II, as illogical as that sounds. |
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pLaguE_ said: You appreciate the better anime if you watch shit. |
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| Lost a bet so I was had to watch Boku no Pico. Some anime were a torture to finish when I think back, for example Nurarihyon no Mago. I desperately hoped it gets better but it didn't. I may try to second season someday. When I really cannot stand it anymore and don't have the patience to finish it, I drop it. |
| Mainly because I feel the Anime has potential to get better. For example, I kept hoping Black Bullet would get better because I saw elements in the show that I actually liked or felt I could have liked if handled correctly. If I don't think the Anime has the room to get better I'll just drop it. |
WaltzpyAug 6, 2014 7:29 PM
| Because I don't know why they are so high-rating. Such as Steins;Gate. I should have given it up at 5 or 6. |
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| Sometimes, I actually enjoying watching shows that I think are shit. |
| I must finish an anime once I start it. I don't choose to watch anime that I haven't researched a bit so that I'm not disappointed when i finally decide on something |
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| Watching a shit ton of bad anime made me have a change of heart about SAO. And I'm not just saying that it looked good by contrast. It actually helped me to see the good in the show which despite its flaws was surprisingly a lot. I thought the romance in the show was badly executed. Then I saw Mirai Nikki which helped me to see all the things they did right in that regard. I thought Kirito was a massive Gary Stu. Then I watched Mahouka and realised that I didn't even know what the fuck a Gary Stu was until then and had basically just been parroting what other people had said. I found the incest to be disgusting. Seeing a lot of genuinely disgusting portrayals of 'inter family relationships' since then I realise that it was actually handled very maturely and never really fetishised despite what people would have you believe. I blindly threw around the term 'wish fulfillment' before realising that shows like Highschool DxD fit the bill a million times better. Not to mention that it's just a lazy criticism in general since you could just slap that tag on every second show that isn't completely depressing. Basically, seeing how much better executed it was in comparison to a bunch of other shows I'd seen helped me enjoy the show more. Thus I was a bit more lenient and took it for what it was. Of course the obvious flaws like the horrible pacing in the first arc and the endings to both arcs still remained but there was also some great world building and character relationships, a lot of interesting themes the show explored really well and generally more than competent execution. Oh, and I agree with all of this. IntroverTurtle said: 1) Not knowing how the anime finished would bug me. 2) Even though I know deep down that it won't most of the time, I have a slim hope that it will get better (and it has I might add on occasion). 3) If I drop it I have a get a sense that I'll have been defeated, and no shit anime is going to defeat me! <- that's my childish reason right there. 4) I do like complaining about shows often. The best example I can think of was Infinite Stratos, on the forum I usually frequent we had a lot of fun pointing out how stupid it was. In the end I actually enjoyed watching it. 5) Often, shows go past the point of being unpleasant to watch because it's bad to being good to watch because it's become even worse. Take Symphogear, much as it was a pile of turd, towards the end I loved it a little. 6) It helps me learn about the different things that make an anime work or not. I have a much better understanding of good and bad writing and such because I've seen so many examples of good and bad side by side. It's sometimes hard to spot things like good writing until you see something where it's missing. 7) This links to my last point, but it helps me appreciate good anime more, stupid as that sounds. For example, when Girls Und Panzer came out, due to my experiences with moe blob shows I was expecting something poor (I've found that trying to convince people who haven't watched GuP that it's a genuinly good show is nigh on impossible), but it totally blew me away with how you could actually be a good anime out of a format that usually has only produced repetitive and banal shows. In general as well, I can appreciate when a good show does something right. 8) I don't want some twat saying "ergh, you're opinion doesn't matter cause you only like watched 4 episodes like amiright??". 9) Each anime, no matter how good or bad, adds to my experience as a whole, and unless it was really boring I have never regretted keeping an anime up to it's conclusion. Even if it's bad, I can usually take away something positive from it. 10) Watching bad shows makes my rating distribution look better. 11) I'm sometimes really bored. |
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| I'm going to be a bit harsh, but I'd like to make it clear that I'm not upset. Don't misread. Also, this isn't aimed at the OP poster specifically, but at users who asks such questions in general. Okay, first of all, what's wrong with using a 4, 3, 2, or 1 rating? What is with the irrational fear of low numbers? Not everyone rates the same, and those who try to rate more objectively tend to use the whole list, rather than sanctioning off and making half of it unusable. I don't try to force others to rate the way I do, so don't try to force me to rate the way you do, okay? Second, bad quality =/= not entertaining. For example, I purposefully watched Mars of Destruction recently, knowing it was going to be utter crap- but guess what, I actually had fun watching it! And I rated it a 1! Can you believe that?! Entertainment value is (usually) a small factor in my ratings. I enjoyed Angel Beats! a lot more than I did Trigun, yet I have AB! rated at 6 and Trigun at 8. Acting like lower scores are taboo is silly, especially if you don't know how the other person is rating. Third, even if I'm not enjoying the series, and even if it's not objectively good, I might be hoping it will get better, or I may simply want better closure (read: the ending). I really dislike dropping shows, so it has to be pretty horribly bad/disappointing to get me to drop it. Either that, or I know it's just not my sort of show (even if it's objectively good) and I'm not going to get anything out of it. Fourth, why should anyone sugar-coat their ratings for you or stay mute about the show's problems? Really, why? If you honestly can't handle hearing the negatives, or if you can't handle hearing a differing opinion about, say, your favorite character, why don't you just skip the posts you don't like? Nobody is forcing you to read them or acknowledge them. Nobody is trying to make you accountable to them like you are to everyone else. That's you projecting your controlling attitude onto other people. Don't establish a dialogue if you can't handle one, and if someone is actually legitimately trolling/baiting you, ignoring them works. The saying goes "Don't feed the trolls" for a reason. (On that note, don't announce that you're ignoring someone because they're trolling. One, you're still feeding the troll by saying that, and two, you'll make yourself look like an idiot if you're mistaken.) Fifth... sometimes watching something you "know" you won't like either surprises you (and broadens your horizons in the process) or helps you to better understand what you do like. And lastly, voicing your misgivings about a show can help you to enjoy it more. Or, well, it helps me to do so, at least. Your mileage may vary. In one case I did skip posting in the episode discussions (Attack on Titan) to avoid the inevitable, absurd storms I would have probably started (or rather, the more extreme fans would have started in reply to my posts) if I actually criticized the show. Unfortunately, it's a lot less fun to watch stuff without discussing it, so I probably won't be doing this much more in the future. tl;dr: Because I want to. Also, nice loaded question you have there. |
TripleSRankAug 6, 2014 7:45 PM
| Cause I like to give things a fair chance through and through, the only thing i am willing to drop are really long shows such as gintama or one piece, thankfully I dont want to do that for either. |
Immahnoob said: Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit, tokiyashiro said: Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me |
| ^@ TripleSRank No disrespect but entertainment value should be the biggest factor in your rating. Anime is for entertainment. True though people shouldn't need to sugar coat their rating just because of terrible annoying fan base... |
 *Checks SetsukoHara favorite list.* has one piece as favorite in manga section. Confirm op fanboy. Tries to change subject because I'm talking negative about his favorite series. One piece fanboy logic detected. |
NenuserZodiac said: I might even say, anime is entertainment. Basically.Anime is for entertainment. |
| Proud founder of The Official Anti-Ging Freecss Fan Club Join now! Kellhus said: GuusWayne said: there is a limit to the suspension of disbelief And it's the fan that did it. Not the smoking porn reading rubik cube genius rape ape with a magic boat. |
baki502 said: Kagami_Hiiragi said: If you're going to punch a hole in a wall because a show is unwatchable then that person may need to go to anger management. Like I said, the 1 - 3 ratings were created to be used and not as a design. Not using them at least sometimes seems like a bad call in my opinion. You know you can drop AND rate? Of course I know that, but I would never take the rating of a dropped anime seriously because you just haven't seen the whole anime. I could see if it was currently airing and you had a score as a place-holder, but a dropped anime rating usually isn't a place-holder unless you decide to finish it. Though, in that case putting it on hold would be a better option. |
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| I finished FLCL and Shinseki Yorai even though i gave them 2s they had so much hype and praise that maybe there would be redeeming ending (like school days) turns out there wasnt I trhink i also gave anu no haka a 3. |
NenuserZodiac said: ^@ TripleSRank No disrespect but entertainment value should be the biggest factor in your rating. Anime is for entertainment. True though people shouldn't need to sugar coat their rating just because of terrible annoying fan base... Why? Because you say so? That's the exact controlling stuff I'm telling people to ignore. Rate how you want to rate. I'll do likewise. I rarely watch anything for blind entertainment. (That knocks out a lot of Western shows, unfortunately.) Maybe I'm just too lazy to read a book, but anime manages to be more intelligent at times. Plus, I get pretty visuals and nice BGM. ;) I rate as objectively as I can both because I want to, and because that's what I'd like to see if I was checking another person's list. They may not do it, but it'd be hypocritical of me to expect it of someone else and not do it myself. |
TripleSRankAug 6, 2014 7:55 PM
| @IntroverTurtle Pretty much agree with everything there. Every time I think about quitting a show, and I rarely do, I think about Chrno Crusade. Personally I thought 90% of the show was boring and generic as hell, but boy was I glad I stuck through to the end. Probably one of the most depressing endings I have ever seen in anime. Not sure if it was worth it, but it was definitely an experience. |
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TripleSRank said: NenuserZodiac said: ^@ TripleSRank No disrespect but entertainment value should be the biggest factor in your rating. Anime is for entertainment. True though people shouldn't need to sugar coat their rating just because of terrible annoying fan base... Why? Because you say so? That's the exact controlling stuff I'm telling people to ignore. Rate how you want to rate. I'll do likewise. I rarely watch anything for blind entertainment. (That knocks out a lot of Western shows, unfortunately.) Maybe I'm just too lazy to read a book, but anime manages to be more intelligent at times. Plus, I get pretty visuals and nice BGM. ;) I rate as objectively as I can both because I want to, and because that's what I'd like to see if I was checking another person's list. They may not do it, but it'd be hypocritical of me to expect it of someone else and not do it myself. So you watch anime only to analyze it? My god that sucks. I guess sports and music is your entertainment then. |
| *Checks SetsukoHara favorite list.* has one piece as favorite in manga section. Confirm op fanboy. Tries to change subject because I'm talking negative about his favorite series. One piece fanboy logic detected. |
NenuserZodiac said: TripleSRank said: Why? Because you say so? That's the exact controlling stuff I'm telling people to ignore. Rate how you want to rate. I'll do likewise. I rarely watch anything for blind entertainment. (That knocks out a lot of Western shows, unfortunately.) Maybe I'm just too lazy to read a book, but anime manages to be more intelligent at times. Plus, I get pretty visuals and nice BGM. ;) I rate as objectively as I can both because I want to, and because that's what I'd like to see if I was checking another person's list. They may not do it, but it'd be hypocritical of me to expect it of someone else and not do it myself. So you watch anime only to analyze it? My god that sucks. I guess sports and music is your entertainment then. No, not "only" to analyze it. I do enjoy analyzing it, though. Not everyone is like you, alright? So don't try to make them be. I'm not trying to make you be like me either. If you don't care to dissect things into tiny parts and examine the pieces, I'm fine with that. xD I'm not into watching sports, but playing them can be fun. I like music (duh?). Video games can be fun too, since they're interactive (aka a puzzle/mental challenge or skill/dexterity challenge). Still, it's not like watching anime isn't enjoyable for me. Lol. I just enjoy it in a different way than you do. |
TripleSRank said: NenuserZodiac said: So you watch anime only to analyze it? My god that sucks. I guess sports and music is your entertainment then. No, not "only" to analyze it. I do enjoy analyzing it, though. Not everyone is like you, alright? So don't try to make them be. I'm not trying to make you be like me either. If you don't care to dissect things into tiny parts and examine the pieces, I'm fine with that. xD I'm not into watching sports, but playing them can be fun. I like music (duh?). Video games can be fun too, since they're interactive (aka a puzzle/mental challenge or skill/dexterity challenge). Still, it's not like watching anime isn't enjoyable for me. Lol. I just enjoy it in a different way than you do. Why couldn't you be a one piece fan? |
| *Checks SetsukoHara favorite list.* has one piece as favorite in manga section. Confirm op fanboy. Tries to change subject because I'm talking negative about his favorite series. One piece fanboy logic detected. |
NenuserZodiac said: TripleSRank said: No, not "only" to analyze it. I do enjoy analyzing it, though. Not everyone is like you, alright? So don't try to make them be. I'm not trying to make you be like me either. If you don't care to dissect things into tiny parts and examine the pieces, I'm fine with that. xD I'm not into watching sports, but playing them can be fun. I like music (duh?). Video games can be fun too, since they're interactive (aka a puzzle/mental challenge or skill/dexterity challenge). Still, it's not like watching anime isn't enjoyable for me. Lol. I just enjoy it in a different way than you do. Why couldn't you be a one piece fan? Uhh... I am? I have it on-hold. The pacing got to me. What does that have to do with this? |
| so you can rant it on the internet |
| Most of the shows I rated bad felt like they had potential to redeem themselves, but I was wrong. |
| Because we are all a little bit masochist inside. |
Kagami_Hiiragi said: Idc if you think its weird, I have a life and friends and an income of money. |
| Most one cour shows are almost over by the time they pass the point of no return in redeeming themselves. In which that case I too will have reached the point of no return from time commitment standpoint and finish it anyway. |
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skyzblue said: Because we are all a little bit masochist inside. I mean... After watching Inferno Cop, I knew I'd never watch an anime that looked good by comparison... so I just kind of bide my time, hoping Inferno Cop 2: Better than Perfect comes out soon. |
| It's natural for a person to deny he's a failure as a human being. That's why he searches for somebody who is more miserable than himself. That's why so much animosity exists on the internet. Those who aren't able to find a more miserable person, turn to the internet and call other people losers, even though they've never met. Just to make themselves feel superior. isn't that pathetic? There's a sense of security that comes from speaking badly of someone else. But that isn't true salvation. — Tatsuhiro Satou YandereTheEmo said: The only thing more pathetic than quoting someone you know nothing about, is quoting yourself. |
baki502 said: You know you can drop AND rate? If I remember correctly you have to have watched at least 1/3rd of an anime in order for ratings to count on MAL. |
IntroverTurtle said: Taken from Infinite's blog, I basically agree with this. Though this thread has been done many times. 1) Not knowing how the anime finished would bug me. 2) Even though I know deep down that it won't most of the time, I have a slim hope that it will get better (and it has I might add on occasion). 3) If I drop it I have a get a sense that I'll have been defeated, and no shit anime is going to defeat me! <- that's my childish reason right there. 4) I do like complaining about shows often. The best example I can think of was Infinite Stratos, on the forum I usually frequent we had a lot of fun pointing out how stupid it was. In the end I actually enjoyed watching it. 5) Often, shows go past the point of being unpleasant to watch because it's bad to being good to watch because it's become even worse. Take Symphogear, much as it was a pile of turd, towards the end I loved it a little. 6) It helps me learn about the different things that make an anime work or not. I have a much better understanding of good and bad writing and such because I've seen so many examples of good and bad side by side. It's sometimes hard to spot things like good writing until you see something where it's missing. 7) This links to my last point, but it helps me appreciate good anime more, stupid as that sounds. For example, when Girls Und Panzer came out, due to my experiences with moe blob shows I was expecting something poor (I've found that trying to convince people who haven't watched GuP that it's a genuinly good show is nigh on impossible), but it totally blew me away with how you could actually be a good anime out of a format that usually has only produced repetitive and banal shows. In general as well, I can appreciate when a good show does something right. 8) I don't want some twat saying "ergh, you're opinion doesn't matter cause you only like watched 4 episodes like amiright??". 9) Each anime, no matter how good or bad, adds to my experience as a whole, and unless it was really boring I have never regretted keeping an anime up to it's conclusion. Even if it's bad, I can usually take away something positive from it. 10) Watching bad shows makes my rating distribution look better. 11) I'm sometimes really bored. That's pretty awful. Some of it is sad.. |
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| It gives me a valid reason to state that it was shit, since many people like to use the argument that you've never seen the anime so you can't say shit about it. Also I like to mentally torture myself by watching shit shows. |
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| THIS. THIS TITLE. IKR. if you dont like it DONT WATCH,JUST DROP IT, WHY WASTING TIME WATCHING DMTH U DONT LIKE you are not forced to lol for me watching or not watching a shitty show is equal cuz i wont fucking remember anything from it |
| Either my friends asked me to and then they bring it to discuss or if its like BB 2 I want to see if it improves |
| To have an opinion on it, if it's still entertaining in some way. I just don't go around preaching that _____ is mediocre...that much. Then theres some of my friends recommending me stuff, and me just trusting them, or watching something thats popular. Aka, free time. |
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| I am very picky with what I watch and although some of it wasn't that great in the end, I've enjoyed all anime I've watched. Only anime I dropped was Naruto coz 2 lonk. |
tsudecimo said: Yes, going outside your comfort zone, maybe learning something, keeping an open mind, and expanding your horizons are terrible things. That's pretty awful. Some of it is sad.. On topic, it's like a spirit journey where by the end of the show you find out more about yourself. I'm completely serious about this to. |
ShrabsterAug 6, 2014 11:36 PM
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JD2411 said: because it might improve later on and you can't form an accurate opinion of a show if you haven't seen the whole thing |
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| Well watching SAO and Akame is only wasting 20 minutes of my life a week each. Well in the case of Akame, that shit is so boring it takes me almost an hour to finish that show, but that's not too bad. I get stuff done when I take breaks from it. I actually originally dropped the first season of SAO. I liked the first couple episodes despite their problems and continued watching. I had enough by episode 19. I then heard some good feedback about episode 22/23 and decided to catch up. I still thought it was terrible, but at this point, I was so far in, what was the point in not finishing it? Other times, I think a bad show is entertaining enough. I mean SAO season 2 is entertaining enough even if it's still terrible. It's just laughably bad some of the stuff it thinks it legitimately cool. The same goes for shit like NGNL. Mahouka is the exception. That's the worst show I've ever seen, and I'm morbidly curious as to how much worse a series can possibly get. In the case of stuff like Bleach and Fairy Tail which I don't really like, I used to be able to tolerate them and I used to think some of the stuff was genuinely cool. Of course in the case of Bleach, I'd always seen the negatives (which was most of it), but I enjoyed the action enough to keep watching. Note that I was ignorant of anime as a whole when I watched it. |
RandomChampion said: I finished FLCL and Shinseki Yorai even though i gave them 2s they had so much hype and praise that maybe there would be redeeming ending (like school days) turns out there wasnt I trhink i also gave anu no haka a 3. May I ask why you have shinsekai yori a 2. I haven't finished it but so far it is really good. |
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| Because sometimes it's so bad that it's good. |
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| its better to bash into a series after watching it so people dont hate you bashing into a series you havnt even properly watched is stupid |
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