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Feb 11, 2008 11:55 PM

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I should probably vote that I don't really care about recommendations or reviews...
Feb 12, 2008 12:23 PM

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Asako said:
That sounds a bit minimalistic. Given how rapidly this site is growing, even 'lesser' series each season have 1000+ viewers. The only stuff with < 500 is going to be older things pre-digisubbing, that hasn't aired on US TV, probably.


I think the older series that few people have seen will have more reliable reviews and ratings since only the well-informed anime fans have seen them. IMO choosing newer animes seems to be shots in the dark what with the balkanized fans of the shows drivng the reviews and the rankings.
Feb 12, 2008 1:36 PM

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recommendations for sure, I found some of my favorite anime thanks to em ^_^


Feb 12, 2008 3:15 PM

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characters
Feb 12, 2008 6:13 PM

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characters + reviews is prolly on top. recommendations prolly lowest imo. recommendations could even be added to reviews really..
Feb 12, 2008 10:08 PM

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Quick suggestion? If you're revamping the details page for animes anyway... maybe consider adding (#) next to the link for "More Recommendations" like there is for "More Reviews"?

That was tangental, I guess.
Feb 12, 2008 10:19 PM

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For me, after the synopsis should be the characters/seiyuu info. The rest is nice, but isn't the prioritary information when first reading about a series. Besides that, people who already knows the anime usually look for info on the voice actors.
Feb 12, 2008 10:46 PM

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I vote recommendations ... usually I just go with the amount of people watching the anime D:
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Feb 13, 2008 8:05 AM
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The biggest problem with reviews, is thus far almost every review you encounter on the site will do the following:

-Give the anime a 7,8 9 or 10
-Either vehemently recommend it, or sort of recommend it
-Give no reasons why one should avoid an anime in the first place.

As such, I feel it to be far less effective to see the reviews here, and far more useful to see recommendations, and characters.
Feb 13, 2008 1:44 PM
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I voted for characters
BUT
I think the pages work great the way they are. I would actually recommend no change at all.


If you must change, bring the characters up a little, and have more of the art on the first page since character design and art is a major selling point of anime (to me at least)

Feb 13, 2008 2:16 PM

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Definitely characters and voice actors.
Feb 13, 2008 3:25 PM
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Voted for Reviews, though quite often I just want to watch it despite quite bad reviews, than I like to compare my view.
Recommendations are quite useless, many ppl do some retarded ones :f

But that is before making a decision, when anime is completed than, Characters and seyiu, honestly I can't see how someone can decide watch or not, based on characters? (I can understand seyiu, somehow).

Feb 13, 2008 4:26 PM

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Faust721 said:
I say characters. In my mind, the first thing I want to see after I read the synopsis of an anime is to see the characters. Then again, I find reviews and recs useless because I'll watch regardless of what other people say and make the judgement myself.


nothin to add~

I jus look up the genre following by the style/art - fin
Feb 13, 2008 7:04 PM

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animation and what its about<== reviews are also helpfull for that.
I love good animation, it gets my attention.
Feb 14, 2008 9:18 AM
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I find the Recommendations the most useful option of the list. When you saw something great and you want to see something similar, you can easly look up to the recommendations and find a new anime that you'll enjoy for sure.

That's it.
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Feb 14, 2008 1:12 PM

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The characters and voice actors.

A good anime needs to have the following:
good animation and characters
in-depth story
and very well-known, nice-voiced seiyuus.



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Feb 15, 2008 12:10 AM

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I think the pages are just perfect as they are, so I'll vote for characters, definitely. Arigatou~
Feb 28, 2008 1:27 PM

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Recommendations!
Mar 12, 2008 12:29 AM

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Characters - My vote:
Characters are the most important thing for me. I like checking what the characters look like. The best thing about this site is being able to see a picture of the main and supporting characters. I think voice actors needed to be a separate category for the poll.

Reviews and Recommendations:
I wouldn't check reviews as the first thing. I actually rarely read reviews. The synopsis is enough to indicate whether I will watch a certain anime. I'll try watching the 1st episode of the anime regardless of what others think of it. This is mostly to shape an opinion. As for the recommendations, I might glance at them but I won't read them in detail. Even though, the reviews and recommendations are on a deeper level, they sometimes can be irrelevant and dim-witted. Also scrolling down does not indicate the level of interest. There are other ways to find information on the anime. I usually use the tags to find about an anime with the similar tag. Well, sometimes, the anime
turns out to have no tag. But that is still fine.

Overall:
Anyway, the layout is very good as it is and needs no changes.
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Mar 24, 2008 9:45 PM

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characters cuz they are the main thing in anime

Mar 25, 2008 9:13 AM

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I most value the Characters/Voice Actors


Mar 26, 2008 9:38 AM

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1. characters/voice actors
2. reviews
3. recommendations

why?
1. well, characters/voice actors are definitely in the right place right now - they are the most important part of the series
2. reviews are treated more seriously (well, at least some of them...), I mean people put more effort into them and in some cases they're really helpful
3. hmm... there's not much to say: most of them are just plain silly...

PS personally I have nothin against the current layout, but if you're thinking about modifying it a little, that's my suggestion
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