What does it take for you to rate an anime 10/10? And what does it mean to you?

offmodel said:

That too, I've adjusted mine several times as I've filled out my list and really thought about my ratings. If you've been watching anime for awhile and are new to MAL it's a pain to just finish your list, let alone focus on ratings.

elevenletters said:
That score is exclusively reserved for Inferno Cop.

Toucanbird said:
I usually only give 10s to anime that...

1. Affected me so much on the emotional level where all i could think about was that series/movie. Where the movie/series so so engrossing that I felt the same emotions the characters felt. Clannad: AS, Angel Beats, Ef-a tale of memories/melodies comes to mind.

2. Make some sort of statement in regards to social commentary. This isn't necessarily a given, but I do thoroughly enjoy anime that make you think about the ethics of our society and the moral high ground. Shows like Shinsekai yori, Last Exile, and Zankyou no Terror are a few that come to mind.

3. Anime that are so ridiculously good on the production level and have a little mix of the first two points in there. This one is a little more limited, but I feel a series that fits that is Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

TheInnocentOne said:
For me a 10/10 is something that impacted me enough to have me thinking about it long after it's over. Something that left me in awh. Something that reminds me just how awesome anime is and why I original got so hooked in the first place.

Strum said:
I always felt as if it was better to rate with your heart instead of with an analytic process. No show will be perfect in a literal sense, so rating shows that way seems a bit flawed. I feel like people could rate more accurately based on enjoyment of all aspects instead of how well everything is done in an objective sense.

Praland said:
I liked it enough to give it a 10.

FireEmblemIke24 said:


no its really really really really really really really really good to get 10/10.

iNoto-san said:
I'd say that Higurashi is a 10/10.

gormiti100 said:
Even while using your rating system with 100 instead of 10 it doesn't make sense to give a anime wich you rate as a 94 a 10, it would make more sense to give it a 9 in that case. For example: 8=75-84 9=85-94 10=95-100

FireEmblemIke24 said:
MAL needs to change the ranking system from 1-100 with 90+ being great and 80+ very good and so on...

supracseduch said:
That's because in "zero-point" in MAL's rating system is 1/10, not 0/10, so some confusion arises. 0/100 translates to 1/10 in MAL. If we map the 0-100 scale linearly to MAL's 1-10 scale, the formula would be:

MAL rating = 1 + (9*(Percent Score/100))

So we'll get the following conversions:

0.00% - 5.55% --> 1/10
5.56% - 16.66% --> 2/10
16.67% - 27.77% --> 3/10
27.78% - 38.88% --> 4/10
38.89% - 50.00% --> 5/10
50.01% - 61.11% --> 6/10
61.12% - 72.22% --> 7/10
72.23% - 83.33% --> 8/10
83.34% - 94.44% --> 9/10
94.45% - 100% --> 10/10

You'll notice that the midpoint of the 1-10 scale is 5.5, not 5. So 50/100 converts to 5.5 on the MAL scale, and it really depends on your rules of rounding whether 5.5 should be a 5 or a 6. But since 50/100 is supposed to be absolutely average, then we choose 5/10 for it.