What's considered a low Mal Score, I don't watch below 7.5. Im willing too though?, What's your cutoff score?
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| Honestly I don't really care about the MAL score. An anime with a 7 rating might be a 10 for me. An anime with a 8 rating might be a 5 for me. It really doesn't matter |
| I will try a series at any score; sometimes I find enjoyment out of shows that everyone drops prematurelyーlike Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc to Renkin no Kishi. |
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| I don't have a cutoff score, I don't really care about the ratings on here, since I know there are a bunch of troll accounts and some inflated scores. It's better for me to decide what to watch based on the anime itself, its genre, studio and so on. Since each one has a different way of using the score scale, I think it's the best way. |
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| what a clusterfuck thread from an alt.... Anyway the cutoff is when the PV doesn't have kawaii big titties onee-san... That's when I know it's going to be shit. So I don't watch it. |
| Below 6 I guess, never tried anything below that, Not that I necessarily wouldn't but why would i when there's hundreds of much higher rated ones I haven't seen yet? 6-7 can still be enjoyable, like RobiHachi for example. |
| I think that's too high. I liked Citrus a good bit but it's in the high 6 range. I'd say if it's below 6 though it will likely be pretty bad. 7.5 is definitely too high I think the minimum you should consider low is below 7.0. Yeah I'm guilty of rating everything a 7 if I enjoyed it decently. I should probably explain my ratings in my bio like some people do. |
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Qbeus said: As I still am a beginner, I'm still careful with watching anything below 8 or 7.90 You're not a beginner you've watched almost 100 animes. |
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| i don't care about low score most of my list is between 5.0 and 7.5, so an 8+ doesn't do anything for me excitement wise |
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| Having Anime standards purely based on Score is pretty dumb; If you look at the score of an anime on different platforms, you will get different results. I just watch what seems interesting and it's even more interesting to watch that way because sometimes you can find a critically acclaimed series or a "not that high rated" anime that will change you forever. For example, i didn't like Your lie in April but i love the Original Gundam series. A score is just here to tell you how most people feel, it's like degrees, one can say 100 °F is unbearable whereas someone from Africa say its okay. The original Gundam series is the favorite gundam show in japan, in western countries it would probably be something like Gundam 00. Maybe japanese people find enjoyment in different ways (Story? War? Love? Robots?). To conclude what i mean, It's all about perspective. |
Zawarudo0079May 17, 2019 4:22 PM
| Why would you let a bunch of random people decide for you what is good and what not? You should watch what catches your interest, and seeing a low score on a fucking website should never stop you from it. This is just some bunch of opinions, with majority on this site having very little experience with the medium, being unknowledgeable about it, going together with the circlejerk, and most of all, most probably have completely different taste and value different things than you. So no, I will not ever decide against watching a show based on a MAL score. Nor will I watch a highly rated show if nothing else interests me about it. That is not to say a mass collection of opinions like that is completely devoid of value and meaning, because people can only be so different and like different things, but I would never treat it as any sort of guidance. If something interests you, give it a try. Even if its rated super low. At worst you will just drop it and waste an hour or so. You can judge whether you're gonna like a show and find it good pretty accurately with as little as 1 episode. I've seen enough absolute horseshit scored in high 8s and very solid stuff below 6 as to not care for MAL score further than "oh this thing is rated super high/low, I wonder why?" again. It should never be "oh, 5.5? I can't watch that, it must be trash because people on MAL decided so!" |
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| To be honest, I only watch shows that catch my interest no matter the score. But I prefer a score of 7. |
| The lower the score, the higher the chances of that show actually being enjoyable. |
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| Someone who trusts mean scores and lets it decide things to watch for them is probably someone who fails at understanding how statistical mathematics works. The short version is that it's unreliable. it's amalgamating the individual unquantifiable opinions of thousands of users (not all of whom are even legit, there are dual accounts, troll accounts, bots, etc.) who don't even use the same rating scales which is not going to match your individual taste exactly. In my case it results in a few hits but most of the stuff that floats to the top of the list are my equivalent of 7s, 8s, and some 9s. They are not what my top 100 would look like. I strike gold faster by reading plot descriptions and watching trailers. |
KruszerMay 17, 2019 5:17 PM
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| Everything with score 8,4*+ is not worth for me even to watch (most of them are just too over ranked without anything interesting for me) only few are worth it and best are between 6,7 - 8* |
| i don't really have a cutoff score and i don't really look at it? i'll watch anything if it peaks my interest when reading the plot |
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| Eromanga-sensei is below 7 and it's possibly the top series I've watched this year. However if I see something like a mecha anime that was probably made with really terrible CG in the early 2000, I might not be as willing to give it a benefit of a doubt. |
| I don't trust MAL scores one bit. Too much hype and fandom seeps into those scores too often, i just watch everything even if it has a low Score. |
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| I think shows under 7,8 are mediocre and under 7.6 are bad |
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| I don't have one, I watch whatever looks good, without looking at the score it's been given by others. I make my decision after watching it and finishing it or drop it after a few episodes. My score is based on my opinion of the anime, after I have finished it. Also I don't give scores to anime I haven't finished. |
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| Always remember that average score of animes on MAL is nearly a 7 when at the same time MAL itself defined 5 as average.. It's easy to understand why it is not a bad idea to forget the score for all ... |
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| Just watch what you want lol. What's stopping you? In my experience though, most anime scored along the 6 mark are bad for the most part. 7 is like the middle ground. |
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| I usually compare an anime's ranking to its popularity to determine how good it might be. If popularity is noticeably higher than the ranking, I proceed with caution. If the ranking is moderately higher than the popularity, I will be more inclined to give it a shot. If both numbers are relatively close to each other, I just determine my choice by if the show looks interesting. |
| If its finished airing then 7.20 is my cut off for current, recent, or old series unless the synopsis really catches my eye and I go for it anyways. As for classics from the 70s and 80s its more like 6.50 cause of the low userbase for those. |
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Bunsuke said: mal scores are a garbage way to decide stuff like this, honestly very few people use ratings under like 6 for some reason so scores are ridiculously inflated Probably the main reason scores below 6 are rare is because most people don't bother to rate shows unless they watch an entire season. If a show is bad, you know it within the first 3 eps or so, no reason to continue to subject yourself to punishment. |
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| Doesn’t matter much to me. I just check whatever looks interesting. |
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| As I find myself watch things with 5+ and rating it much higher... I think that's my minimum usually, if I look at this at all. But sometimes, when I'm uncertain if to watch of not, I think it's more like 6+ or even 7+ |
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| Anything below 6.50 That is where all the anime dumpsters are and you can barely find any good anime as many of them are just throwaway garbage. |
| I don't really care about MAL scores, but sometimes it can be an indicator if I have high or low hopes for the show or movie. |
| I don't think your deciding factor on whether you watch a series or not should be a score. 7.5 kind of seems like a pretty high bar. Some ratings for stuff I watched and enjoyed this past month: Renai Boukun currently sitting at 6.87 Candy Boy is just under 7 at 6.99 atm Sakura Trick is at 7.13 Happy Sugar Life is sitting at 7.04 I think if it's got a rating below a 6 I'd be more wary of it, but the ratings are just based on a consensus of other people's scores. You shouldn't let that form an opinion for you. People will give a bad review just because there's a theme explored that they don't like. |
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| I take MAL scores with a grain of salt but generally anything less than a 7 on this site tends to be like a 4 or under in reality. Artificial inflation due to people using 7 as an average instead of 5 for some bizarre reason, or from people either rating everything they watch a 10 or thereabout. |
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| at this point, I've seen enough shows to know that the MAL score doesnt reflect on my taste of shows. I take it into consideration if I'm not sure about watching a show, but normally I dont pay attention to the score at all. If the Synapsis is interesting enough I'll probably watch a show. If that leaves me indecisive I'll look at the staff and maybe genres. If all that isnt enough to pull me in, or push me away from a show I might consider looking at the score. Or just put it on ptw forever xD That being said there are next to no shows on MAL that are scored below 6 or even 7, so really whats the point? If you have seen enough shows you'll know whats to your liking and more often then not you'll see if a show is for you or not with the first glance. |
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| I really don't bother too much with MAL scores. At times I love stuff rated 6 here and there's anime rated 9 on Mal that I don't like that much. |
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| I don't really care to much about MAL scores. I'd rather watch something myself and see if I like it. |
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