| So we all know about the MAL rating system (probably) - that being said, there's a lot of times i've rated a highly rated show under it's rating just because it didn't suit my taste. Personally, that rarely happens (one example of such was Dororo, I've only watched a few episodes and i'm going to give it more of a shot before completely dropping it, but it's rated quite low for me) but I think it's happened for everyone at least once. Another example is long-running shows or shows with a lot of episodes, they kind of dominate the top 100 since the barrier to entry is seeing the previous animes, and if someone doesn't like the first season, they're going to be inflated as a result. That being said, no ranking system is perfect and in my honest opinion, MAL's does a pretty dang good job overall, how often do you folks think a show is over or underrated? |
Pitunov said: For me it's the manga ratings though. There's a lot of hidden gold manga that only got scored between 6 to 7 that not a lot of people talk about because of the low ratings. For instance Back to the Kaasan, perhaps? windaeris said: how often do you folks think a show is over or underrated? Usually when the show is 1.5 points below my rating, I think it's underrated; when a show is 1.5 points above my rating, I think it's overrated. Examples: Kemono no Souja Erin, Cross Game, Hibike! Euphonium etc are underrated. On the other hand, SAO, Boke Dake, GATE etc. are overrated. From this season, Kaguya-sama is underrated. |
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| "How often do you disagree with them?" Never as I don't care about any form of ratings. |
| Nothing wrong with rating things lower than their score here on MAL. Most people rate way too high, imo. I kind of run with a middle-of-the-road system. I don't like abusing the high numbers because I like to have a clear line that differentiates the impact of the anime I've enjoyed. Typically with series, it goes like this: 10: Completely perfect. I've only ever given one "10." 9: Brilliant, and impacted me on a personal or emotional level. 8: Loved it, would totally rewatch it. 7: Liked it, but probably wouldn't rewatch. 6: Decent, but bored me a little. 5 or lower: Mediocre/bad movies, shorts, OVAs, specials, or stuff I dropped. With this system (even though it's still rather generous imo), I still end up rating most shows I watch lower than their score here on the site. It's all preference and personal taste, as well as what value you choose to assign to the numbers you give. At the end of the day, though, I usually stay away from shows that have a score lower than 7 on MAL. |
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| I look at the reviews and synposis, if it seems interesting it goes on my PTW list. I don't take note of MAL ratings but the ratings MAL gives for shows I dislike are vey disagreeable, elfen lied does not deserve 7.72 |
| Pretty often probably, but I never think about it much. |
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| Quite a lot frankly, there're a lot of titles I think are scored way too high and others way too low. I have to admit it was something that bothered me, but only at the beginning when I joined here, now it's like.....whatever, since it's pointless to feel troubled for something so frivolous really. |
| MAL scores are a joke. They mean nothing. |
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| More often than not I feel like the scores are too skewed towards the high end of the scale. A lot of the scores are concentrated around the 7-8+ range and not enough around the 5-6 range for "average/fine" on the scale. Which brings up a question of what differentiates an "average/fine" show from a "good/very good" show based off the score scale? But then again, I don't really worry about scores since my scores are the only ones that matter. |
Reina_OrikasaMar 26, 2019 10:59 AM
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| I never disagree with the ratings. A rating of how good someone thinks a show is or how much they enjoyed said show, is completely objective and everyone one will see it differently and therefore rate it differently. The rating is simply the accumulation of these individuals opinions and then displayed as an average. The average rating doesn't effect my individual rating, and my individual opinions and enjoyment level of the show. So I can like or dislike something more than the average, but its hard to say the average is wrong or disagree with it because it's essentially taking into account everybody's opinion/rating. |
| I use MAL ratings as a factor for determining whether I'll watch a show or not. If I then watch a show and, like you said, it didn't suit my tastes or I just thought it wasn't as good I'll give it a lower rating. So for me there will always be overrated and underrated shows. It's just a general figure to give you an indication of a shows popularity imo. |
TaloraelMar 26, 2019 2:46 AM
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| The only thing on MAL I don't use to determine whether or not to watch a series is the score, especially for newer shows. With how all of them are scored a 7 would actually be an average show. The only times when a score properly reflects the show is when the show is fairly unknown or older. Instead what I use is the reviews, I always look at a longer written review with a score ranging between 5 and 7 as those are usually the most representative of the series as a whole discussing flaws and good points both. |
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| I think Geass, OPM S1, Erased, AoT S1, and Tokyo Ghoul S1 are overrated (especially Geass) |
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| I just started watching Hanasaku Iroha because I was looking to watch a SOL with a kinda rural setting~ish, something like Barakamon, and Flying Witch. The show has an MAL rating of 8. Ep 1 and 2 my rating would have been an 8, but going past that it dropped to a 6 and is now somewhere between 6-7. (I'm currently on ep 6). So this might be one case where my rating disagrees with MAL rating. To give an idea of how i rate shows, If it's a 7 - I watched most of the show with interest and found it good. 8 - I really liked the show. 9 - I really liked the show and found it extremely engaging or entertaining. 10 - It's fukin great! 6 - Spent most my time contemplating why I am watching this, or just dropped. |
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| https://graph.anime.plus/Sai-B/list,anime Pretty often, but then again, I use 6/10 as average instead of 5/10. I avoid underrating good shows that I don't like in two ways: 1. If I don't enjoy something I tend to drop it, and I don't rate dropped animes unless I've watched at least 50% of the episodes, so if there's a good anime I don't like, I'm likely to drop it before I get to rate it. 2. I rate animes with three factors: Enjoyment, Story, Characters - if there's an anime I don't enjoy, I can still acknowledge that it has a good story and characters but just isn't compatible with my tastes. |
blueArgonaut said: I just started watching Hanasaku Iroha because I was looking to watch a SOL with a kinda rural setting~ish, something like Barakamon, and Flying Witch. The show has an MAL rating of 8. Ep 1 and 2 my rating would have been an 8, but going past that it dropped to a 6 and is now somewhere between 6-7. (I'm currently on ep 6). So this might be one case where my rating disagrees with MAL rating. To give an idea of how i rate shows, If it's a 7 - I watched most of the show with interest and found it good. 8 - I really liked the show. 9 - I really liked the show and found it extremely engaging or entertaining. 10 - It's fukin great! 6 - Spent most my time contemplating why I am watching this, or just dropped. This is why MAL should switch over to the 1-5 scale. |
| I don't pay attention to them at all so I can't say. |
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I agree, it would make rating shows a whole lot easier and also reduce the effects of hate rating. |
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| Disagree with them every time, to the point I don't even judge an anime by that score anymore. It doesn't even provide a clear cut interpretation of the result, to the point that people mix the quality of an anime with popularity. I sometimes think that the bland discussions people start over silly ratings would be a lot less with a 3 point Like/Dislike/Neutral rating system (in other words : Like > 5, Dislike < 5, Neutral ==5 ). As an example : "Why don't more people like this show ?" as opposed to "WHY DID THE SCORES DROP BY 0.01 " The simpler choice of the two is obvious. The simpler choice also has a better chance of having a fruitful discussion (arguably an oxymoron on MAL, lol) |
KreatorXMar 26, 2019 4:48 AM
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| All the time, but I think that's because I'm not afraid to score shows lower than 6. |
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| More often than I would like to. First, everyone rates differently. Some have their own rating scale which is completely different from MAL's. Ex: I give pretty much anything I enjoy 7+ whereas some might rate it a 4-5 but still really enjoy it. It all depends. Popularity also affects it a lot. Rising of the shield hero has a really high rating, due to it's popularity and push by advertisers. Whereas you look at anime shorts (roughly 15 or less minutes per episode) and they are rated below ~7 more often than they should. It may be rated 6.7 but it could be really good, and it can be rated 8.4, but be really uninteresting. You should pay more attention to if the anime sounds interesting, rather than what the rating of it is. |
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| Well, talking strictly in numbers I mostly have a rating kinda close to the average. But if you take the context comparing them to certain shows or how the community thinks about certain shows I would say I mostly disagree. For example I'm gonna say Myself;yourself: Me liking the show - 7, Average - 7.3, A dude that made just a review hating the show - 6. No fucking sense in that context !!! |
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Sai-B said: Noooooooooooo ! It needs a 0 - 100 scale !!! Not less, more ! 1 - 5 is a really bad scale and it shouldn't exist anywhere. blueArgonaut said: I just started watching Hanasaku Iroha because I was looking to watch a SOL with a kinda rural setting~ish, something like Barakamon, and Flying Witch. The show has an MAL rating of 8. Ep 1 and 2 my rating would have been an 8, but going past that it dropped to a 6 and is now somewhere between 6-7. (I'm currently on ep 6). So this might be one case where my rating disagrees with MAL rating. To give an idea of how i rate shows, If it's a 7 - I watched most of the show with interest and found it good. 8 - I really liked the show. 9 - I really liked the show and found it extremely engaging or entertaining. 10 - It's fukin great! 6 - Spent most my time contemplating why I am watching this, or just dropped. This is why MAL should switch over to the 1-5 scale. |
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DaCraziGuy said: Noooooooooooo ! It needs a 0 - 100 scale !!! Not less, more ! 1 - 5 is a really bad scale and it shouldn't exist anywhere. The more you extend it the more abstract it becomes. |
Sai-B said: No, it lose meaning. There is always a one thing that you have to think, 1 it's the worse and 10 is the best and that applies to every scale. If you use a 1 - 5 scale you are going to have 1 and 2 unused, 3 or more would be what this kind of people would use. If you use 0 - 100 you are going to have the same issue. Also, if you have a rating system is not that hard to follow, I've used 1 - 5 scales with no problem, thinking that you "can" use another scale twisting the average score is dumb. If you have a system, use it.DaCraziGuy said: Noooooooooooo ! It needs a 0 - 100 scale !!! Not less, more ! 1 - 5 is a really bad scale and it shouldn't exist anywhere. The more you extend it the more abstract it becomes. Basically, the problem is the people, not scales. But the more precise the scalle the better you can explain yourself because you have more "tools" or room for expression. |
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| All the time. There are lots of Anime/Manga that I love, that have somewhat low scores. Not really low, but lower than I would rate them. Then, there's also Anime/Manga that I thought was "pretty good," but other people rate extremely low, and "RErideD" is a good example of that. Finally, there's Anime/Manga that I hate, and most of the stuff that I hate usually happens to be loved by many, and is ranked really high. It's a perfect example of how taste in media can differ significantly. |
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Hajime_Hinata said: Hahahahaa ty, when I saw that scene I had to take the screenshot !! But you know what is better?? The animu from where I got it, lol. (jk, I don't recommend that show actually. It's W's, aka hand shakers S2).DaCraziGuy said: Nice forum pic....................Well, talking strictly in numbers I mostly have a rating kinda close to the average. But if you take the context comparing them to certain shows or how the community thinks about certain shows I would say I mostly disagree. For example I'm gonna say Myself;yourself: Me liking the show - 7, Average - 7.3, A dude that made just a review hating the show - 6. No fucking sense in that context !!! |
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windaeris said: I don't think it's that great -- it's basically just a popularity ranking, but it doesn't really match my tastes well.That being said, no ranking system is perfect and in my honest opinion, MAL's does a pretty dang good job overall, how often do you folks think a show is over or underrated? As for how often do I think a show is overrated or underrated... https://graph.anime.plus/GlennMagusHarvey/list,anime If you click the "Diff" column header twice, you can see a ranking of how much my scores differ from the MAL scores. Naturally, most scores will differ somewhat, because MAL only lets me rate on whole numbers but reports average ratings to two decimal places. So "how often" I feel a show's MAL rating doesn't match mine depends on what you consider a mismatch. But you can look at the list and decide for yourself how many are mismatches. If we set our standard as >1.0 absolute value difference for overrated and >1.5 absolute value difference for underrated (because my rating scale doesn't go up to 10), then these are the shows I think are overrated and underrated (not including shorts or extra episodes), in order from most underrated to most overrated: * underrated: Beatless, Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within, Atelier Escha & Logy, Stratos 4, Umi Monogatari, Ao no Kanata no Four Rhythm, Rocket Girls, The Tower of Druaga, Vivid Strike, Haruhi, Kiddy Grade, Tales of Zestiria the X (first season), Arpeggio of Blue Steel, Nanoha (first season and StrikerS), [Magic Knight Rayearth, Yosuga no Sora, The iDOLM@STER, Chain Chronicle, Dragon Crisis, Beyond the Boundary, and Rinne no Lagrange (first season)] (the [] shows are between >1.0 and >1.5 difference, so essentially, we can exclude those if we're using @shanimebib's standard of >1.5) * overrated: Pokémon the First Movie, Chivalry of a Failed Knight, Spirited Away, Naruto, Dragonaut, The Asterisk War (first season), Millennium Actress, Hundred, Sailor Moon, Gunbuster, Jinki: Extend, Yukikaze, Mai-HiME, AKB0048 Next Stage, The Sacred Blacksmith, Dragonar Academy, Guilty Crown, Minami-ke, Valkyrie Drive, Haganai, DearS, Lucky Star, Prisma Illya, No Game No Life, Date a Live, Madoka Magica, Humanity Has Declined, Assassination Classroom, End of Evangelion |
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| There're a fair amount of structural problems with MAL's rating system, so I've basically learned to ignore it when looking at a show. |
Greyleaf said: Nothing wrong with rating things lower than their score here on MAL. Most people rate way too high, imo. I kind of run with a middle-of-the-road system. I don't like abusing the high numbers because I like to have a clear line that differentiates the impact of the anime I've enjoyed. Typically with series, it goes like this: 10: Completely perfect. I've only ever given one "10." 9: Brilliant, and impacted me on a personal or emotional level. 8: Loved it, would totally rewatch it. 7: Liked it, but probably wouldn't rewatch. 6: Decent, but bored me a little. 5 or lower: Mediocre/bad movies, shorts, OVAs, specials, or stuff I dropped. With this system (even though it's still rather generous imo), I still end up rating most shows I watch lower than their score here on the site. It's all preference and personal taste, as well as what value you choose to assign to the numbers you give. At the end of the day, though, I usually stay away from shows that have a score lower than 7 on MAL. That's pretty much the system I use. I don't know if I'm just really generous with ratings or good at picking things I know I will like but my mean score is pretty high. Maybe a combination of both. |
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| I don't use MAL scores at all. Thanks to the crappy way MAL aggregates scores I statistically agree higher on shows I rate 7 or 8 than anything else since most people use the 5-10 scale when rating things and those are the medians (which is the only reason as to why Aldnoah Zero, a 7.55, has anything above a 1). This means my biggest disagreements would be shows I think suck but are popular and well-liked by most people as well as shows I love but most people find average or suck. |
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| I tend to disagree with them a lot of the times, as a lot of great shows have a rating that's lower than 7, which is low in MAL standards. |
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| Your Name is a garbage movie, and Gintama is an overrated franchise. Mushishi is awful. I Want To Eat Your Pancreas is a joke. Safe to say I disagree with the ratings. |
| Don't know because I don't really care nowadays |
| Not much honestly. Maybe because I'm tolerant at some point. But oh boy, when I disagree with them, I usually get mad (I know it's kind of stupid to be mad about this, but maybe it's because I trust most of the ratings of the site) |
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| Roughly about 50 titles out of top100 should be <7 |
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 Explain this shit, please. Overall, MAL scores hold no authority whatsoever. Overrated shit is getting high scores, while really good anime is getting low scores. It is becoming more apparent in the last few years. |
PiromyslMar 26, 2019 12:24 PM
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Peaceful_Critic said: Seeing how the majority of ratings seem to be 7, I'll say a lot. From this season alone, I already disagree that Neverland and The Quintuplets. I think they are rated too highly. Neverland is good(a strong 6/10), sure, but I wouldn't say it's one of the best anime out there deserving of a high 8. As for the Quintuplets, it honestly comes off to be near the same quality as Magic-Kyun. I disagree with it's high seven, I'm actually thinking of giving it a 3. Additionally, Laughing Salesman NEW is really underrated I scored it 8/10 compared to its current light 6/10 score(which is below average for this site). Anyway, my point is that most scores on MAL I disagree with. Some of them I can see like Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu and Erin where I see a great deal of quality, so, of course, being labeled a mid or high 8 seems deserving. However, in most cases, I have a strong disagreement with MAL's scores. The new hyped up shonen/show will get a higher rating than a excellent show that aired ten or twenty years ago, ALWAYS |
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