How low do you think the score will go?

sandrashw said:
That’s completely true, the manga readers are just butthurt. The show is still good and I think they shouldn‘t be alowed to rate season two with the expectation they had. It‘s clearly stated that it would be anime original. To rate it bad just because they wanted it to go the manga road isn‘t fair. Season 2 is for me an anime only still good! They should learn to separate anime and manga, like that’s the reason why this two are seperated on here anyways.

Nostalgik said:
You guys really seem like you refuse to read the hundreds of legitimate criticisms made over the last 3 months to this second season.

Well hopefully you already finished the story, because after that last episode there's not much else to defend.

Sakuta002766 said:
Probably 6.50(i think)

SweetieSquad said:
I can see this going sub 6, possibly 5.50. There's no substance here and corners were cut when they didn't need to be. It doesn't deserve any praise and only highlights its faults. The biggest being that insult of an ending with not only a rushed montage of 30 chapters skipped like they were afterthoughts but a timeskip to boot.
I think a lot of people feel insulted, myself included. Hate is a pretty strong word. I think it's justified here.

kuroos_hoe said:
lmao it's 6.12 now. the last post from 9 hours ago said it was 6.15. it dropped a whole .03 in less than half a day. that's insane. I've been keeping track of the scores throughout the season so I'll put them here:

jan 19: 8.39 (rank: 165)

feb 7: 7.77 (rank: 893)

march 1: 7.15 (rank: 2973)

march 8: 7.05 (rank: 3468)

march 16: 6.92 (rank: 3880)

march 27 (now): 6.12 (rank: 7742)

Sakuta002766 said:

My prediction was correct, just the position of 0 and 5 changed

dannymctavish said:
This show doesn’t deserve the low rating its getting. Its not getter than season 1 but its still good. Honestly i think the manga fans are hating on the show because it didn’t copy it but thats just me.

KuroNekoAlchemy said:
reminder that 5.00 means "average" and this show is definitely not "average", it's bad in every area except for opening and ending song, which doesn't account to much

Gippy said:


That's not how it works in reality. Many people who hate shows will simply drop them before completion, and thus their lists will average in the 7.xx range.

For MAL scores, I've given plenty of good scores to 6.xx shows. Some of them aren't mainstream popular, but fit a certain niche. However, 5.xx shows I've seen are just bad in almost every conceivable way. There are actually relatively few full 1-cour 25-minute shows that are scored below 6.00, and those that are tend to be infamous, like Glasslip, Hand Shakers, King's Game, Gibiate, and Ex-Arm.

KuroNekoAlchemy said:

if it's bad why rate it as high as 5?

Gippy said:


The people who think this show is BAD in all caps are actually a vocal minority. When you look at stats, 51% have given this show a 7 or higher.

sandrashw said:
That’s completely true, the manga readers are just butthurt. The show is still good and I think they shouldn‘t be alowed to rate season two with the expectation they had. It‘s clearly stated that it would be anime original. To rate it bad just because they wanted it to go the manga road isn‘t fair. Season 2 is for me an anime only still good! They should learn to separate anime and manga, like that’s the reason why this two are seperated on here anyways.

Gippy said:


The people who think this show is BAD in all caps are actually a vocal minority. When you look at stats, 51% have given this show a 7 or higher.

Ventus_S said:


Do you know only hentai / kid show got 5.xx in Mal?

ScottMerica said:


You are entitled to your opinion of course, if you enjoyed this season then that's awesome. But the criticisms are much more than just manga readers being butthurt. First off, this season isn't anime original at all. There are anime original scenes sure, but they are merely there to tie together arcs that are present in the manga that need new context since so much is removed. All the major story beats (reunion with Norman, his plan to genocide demons, Isabelle saving the kids, them reaching the human world, etc.) are all from the manga.

Second, this adaptation makes it pretty damn hard to separate it from the manga with that last minute slideshow. Until then I would've agreed with you, but that slideshow was such an obvious advertisement to the source material that it's insulting. They just showed us still images of skipped arcs from the manga with no context, giving even the most blissfully ignorant of viewers the feeling that there is much more story that is just straight up being skipped right in front of their eyes. As a youtube video I saw pointed out, it doesn't deviate enough to be its own thing (like FMA 2003) but it also deviates just enough to leave the viewer feeling like they're missing out and may want to read the manga. Which I'm sure were the committee's plans all along since for them anime are worth nothing without a corresponding manga.

sandrashw said:


Anime original means it’s going his own route. You can’t expect them to change everything, I think that’s impossible considering they followed the manga in season 1. Just look at Tokyo Ghoul. The comment about butthurt manga readers is due to the fact that always when they are mad it’s mostly because the anime didn’t adapt something from the manga. They can talk bad about the anime on it’s own how they want, cause there are some negative points which I agree with. Since season 2 is labeled as his own, they should see it as it’s own and not in sense of comparison to the manga. Just like the anime onlys. (First reply got lost I hope I didn’t miss anything writing this the second time, ugh)

nezumiku said:


why is it invalid for us to want something we loved adapted as is normal practice in this industry

Setsugen_no_ao said:
This should honestly have a lower score than EX-ARM.

sandrashw said:

I didn’t say you can’t „want“ it to be adapted like the manga. But it’s not fair to rate it badly just because it didn’t follow the manga since it wasn’t meant to follow the manga. And also they don’t have to adapt it like the manga anyways, as you said it‘s just considered normal to do so. Rate it badly on it‘s own, not only because they didn’t adapt it like the manga but also since it wasn’t suppose to be.

Gippy said:


The people who think this show is BAD in all caps are actually a vocal minority. When you look at stats, 51% have given this show a 7 or higher.

Scordolo said:

Lol have you even checked the average rating?It's 5 and most of the users consider 7 as average and 5 as trash. Those who think it's bad "ArE a VoCaL mInOrITy" seems like you haven't been on the internet for a few days.

sandrashw said:

I didn’t say you can’t „want“ it to be adapted like the manga. But it’s not fair to rate it badly just because it didn’t follow the manga since it wasn’t meant to follow the manga. And also they don’t have to adapt it like the manga anyways, as you said it‘s just considered normal to do so. Rate it badly on it‘s own, not only because they didn’t adapt it like the manga but also since it wasn’t suppose to be.

JoshsoJB said:
I think it's going to bottom out at 6.5 - 6.75. There are enough people rating this highly out of denial that it's bad to keep it from dipping below that. And there's the end-of-season boost that scores get too so there's that to consider.

Gippy said:


That's not how it works in reality. Many people who hate shows will simply drop them before completion, and thus their lists will average in the 7.xx range.

For MAL scores, I've given plenty of good scores to 6.xx shows. Some of them aren't mainstream popular, but fit a certain niche. However, 5.xx shows I've seen are just bad in almost every conceivable way. There are actually relatively few full 1-cour 25-minute shows that are scored below 6.00, and those that are tend to be infamous, like Glasslip, Hand Shakers, King's Game, Gibiate, and Ex-Arm.

HardcoreAnimeFan said:


This perfectly sums up my view on the whole rating system of MAL. Anything above 6 might be redeemable but anything below it is almost guaranteed to be awful. I have watched a relativly high amount of shows scored below a 6 and none of them had any objective quality to them. This is coming from a guy who has seen hundreds of shows to completion and only dropped 3 (30-sai no Hoken Taiiku, Redo of healer and Ueno-san). All this sad I was holding off on TPN S2 and even nowing it will be bad I will still watch it. If only to see a train wreck derail (I can always read the manga if I want).

nezumiku said:


as a big tpn fan i strongly recommend you read the manga first if you're gonna do both.

MacchiaStella said:
It's a 5.94 now... Is not even that bad. People being dramatic.

NickCipolla said:

you gave it a higher rating than clannad, your lie in april, death note, and many more LMAOO please never give your opinion again